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Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

with the President was on the subject of our dependents. dependents. He was terribly worried about the American Even at the time I went over, he gave me a long talk--"I think we ought to get them out just as fast as we can. II I asked him to please let me get

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

there. M: But he said, II I have an appointment with Sall next week. I'll try to pursue that. Tha t' s worth fi ndi ng out about. '). ". Tell him that somebody said it; don't tell him that I did. M: Oh, no. R: I've seen him a lot since

Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, it looks to me 1ike you have written III i noi s off. II The answer came back over the phone, "You said it, I didn't." And I learned later that that was true. least, it was told to me as being true when I was on the plane At LBJ Presidential Library

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, but it was the kind of thing he did periodically, almost in exasperation as though-.to say) "Get away, I don't want to do it"--run--or·'.';i.t~s wrong, somehow. II political instinct in him that said he shouldn't run. Imean~ theJ;e was a deep Also, he

Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that we've prosecuted except for World Wars I and II, have been unpopular at some point or another within the United States and have placed the presidents who prosecuted them in very real political jeopardy . M: I don't ever know that the Council's the place

Oral history transcript, Harvey O. Payne, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

does, very \'Je II! PB: Harvey, I can appreciate that it was quite difficult to set up these helicopter landings in small towns and get him advertised, etc., and get a crowd out for the candidate, but when you went into a big town, your problems must

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 1 (I), 1/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, and I was involved in the litigations during the period of 1961 to 1964. B: I know that Attorney General Kennedy on occasions used what he called a "team approach II in various matters in the Justice Department where people, regardless

Oral history transcript, Ben H. Powell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

involved in any of the campaigns or anything like that? P: Well, when I returned from World War II and worked in the office with Senator Wirtz directly, I ran into Lyndon Johnson many more times than before the war, because he was coming to see Alvin

Oral history transcript, Henry Hall Wilson, interview 1 (I), 4/11/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and VJe won this thing by two votes. II He said, "Hhat four people?" He had not seen that memo, and he was absolutely furious with whomever it was in the office who did not give it to him. I think he was talking to McNamara or somebody of that level

Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

wouldn't be necessary, that in World War II they put the port out of commission by sinking an old tub in it and the Japanese couldn't use it for two years." could do that." I said, "You And he said, "Yes, but Admiral Sharp said also that it's a political

Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

have to say, to. G: 11 0h no, that wasn't what the deal was. That's not what you agreed II Is there anything else you would like to add in this session? you are pressed for time here. I know I hope we can get together again maybe this spring

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

decision to enter active military duty following the attack on Pearl Harbor; how LBJ's office was run with Lady Bird Johnson's help during LBJ's deployment; life in Washington D.C. during World War II; LBJ's involvement in the Naval Affairs Committee

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

How Rather went to work for LBJ; LBJ's work on National Youth Administration (NYA) projects on the West Coast before shipping out with the navy in World War II; Lady Bird Johnson's interest in photography, movie-making and drama; Rather's

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 7 (VII), 9/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that he did go to Europe at the close of World War II with Ed Hebert. R: What was that [for], to find surplus property? Well, I just have a faint recollection about that, although I didn't have anything to do with it because I was in Houston. I just have

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it, but I wonder with the forthcoming election if it's politically timely. II You know, he is such a wiseman that he considered all aspects of everything. it; there was no question about it. He was greatly in favor of It was the timing that he

Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

me if I'm wrong--I gather that very serious attention began being given Alaskan statehood in Congress after World War II. President Truman's message. Of course you've indicated This was of course almost simultaneous with Senator Bartlett's election

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 3 (III), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

been a little bit like the Battle of the Bulge in World War II in which they threw it all in one last desperate effort, and at that point they were on the verge of collapse. T: I think maybe if we had followed up what I believe was a military

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 3 (III), 12/11/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 17 (XVII), 1/5/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

orchestrated. There was none of that. His view was--and God knows, he may have been correct--his view was very simple, very patriotic, very World War II, very World War I. G: Mobilization. C: Mobilization, you go, and very simple, straightforward, apple pie

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

mean I was. I didn't laugh, I'll tell you that. Not as shaken. It didn't even actually--by that time maybe I had gotten jaded--it didn't bother me as much as you know, we've been through the meeting with Pope [Paul II] haven't we, when the Pope said

Oral history transcript, Victor Ferrari, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and I was an officer for three and a half years, an infantry officer in World War II. about how the machine works and how the mind works. I know something I know, for exam- ple, that as a young cadet and as a junior officer, I was taught what every

Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

hospital of Creighton University, so that I thought I'd go over there and take a look at Nebraskan fields. M: And then of course you went into World War II. G: That's correct. I volunteered as an infantry officer from Nebraska when I finished my

Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Thornberry--I--II F: Then you went over there, as I recall, with some regularity. You were his big domino convalescent partner. T: Yes, I went there, I think, practically every evening. I would go out there and we would

Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

an overall point of view, I think the number of deserters and people AWOL in this war are probably significantly less than in World War II and Korea. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

a particular lawsuit, recognizes it has done wrong and that the taxpayer ought to win. Perhaps that's the greatest moment a lawyer can have in representing the United States is to say, "We've been wrong. II It's not a privilege that's afforded pri- vate

Oral history transcript, Stanley Ruttenberg, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, [and] continued in that capacity except for a short time in World War II. Returning after World War II, I was the associate director of Research and Education for the CIO. By this time John Lewis had left the organization, so Murray was the President and also

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

hadn't ever But I always felt we got along. And then he said, 1 believe when I talked to him, that I hadn't supported him. 1 said, II We 11 , Senator, you ran in 1952--1 was running. In 1954 I didn't LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, William Lewis and Margaret Chase Smith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1975, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 2 (II), 4/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 2 (II), 4/15/1969, by David G. McComb

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

through the newspaper. In President Johnson's case, the same kind of thing happened, when we had the Titan II missile disaster at Searcy, Arkansas. guess that was 1965. I On August 11, I was out of town, and when I got back, my office was jittery

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and just didn't have the capability that the others had. I understand that General McGarr was one of the great regimental commanders with the Third Division all through World War II, and in my opinion and for what it's worth, I think that his great service

Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there all my life except for World War II and the years I spent in Washington. I have no desire to live anywhere else. Any particular point which you want to [start with]? G: How did you get into Senator [Robert] Kerr's orbit? R: When I got out

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as a correspondent; I was not in government. One was during World War II when I was head of the United Press staff covering the whole economic phase of the war effort. Then I came back during the Korean War as the chief correspondent for an organization called

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

had well over a hundred members at the University of Chicago, and when you figure at the University of Chicago the total student population was six or seven thousand, that's pretty potent. After World War II there was a period when Russia was fairly

Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

would not mean oblivion . Although we couldn't carry it all out, it fulfilled a very big function . The Germans could have fought for perhaps two more years if it hadn't been for that . During World War II, outside of the vague "four freedoms" we

Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

have said, we [retaliated]." II Yes , they hit us, so He couldn't conceive that they would have conjured up something and faked it. But then when you got into sustained bombing, heavy, heavy B-29-or whatever the hell we were using then--bombing

Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and booby traps, and here's why that's important. In World War II, for example, when we were fighting a conventional war, something on the order of 3 per cent of American LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)