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Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

know, in my position as under secretary I had a good deal to do with civil disturbance matters. I did see the President in his office last summer with Ramsey Clark and Joe Califano in connection with Mayor Daley's request for the dispatch of federal

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 2 (II), 9/13/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

juncture was not in our interest and we were not ready for. But subsequently, in January of the next year, within the framework and the context that we were ready to stop the bombing and, secondly, that President Johnson had dispatched a number of high

Oral history transcript, George G. (Admiral) Burkley, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 13 he wanted me promoted to Vice Admiral and he wanted it done with dispatch . This was about 5 :30 in the afternoon ; I was called by Mr, [Marvin] Watson around 7 :30 to say that the papers had

Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Senator from Idaho. He dispatched me as a Senate observer on a trip to the Argentine as a kind of indication of his new friendship and embrace. He intervened in my behalf to obtain for me a seat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, when I

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, we had the outline of an emergency program. I don't have any indication whether the President approved it or didn't approve it or not. But see, I'm suggesting he dispatch a federal team under Jack Conway to work with state and local officials to put

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the funeral in Australia that the President would go. So we immediately dispatched advance men to Australia, [Canberra]. Then we kept advance men in reserve because he had mentioned to Marvin that he might want to see the Pope. So we went on to Australia

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

of that I went out to California and was a free-lance writer for the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, various other newspapers, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and so forth. Then I gradually got into electronic journalism and did a lot of radio work. 1 LBJ

Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

they put the AP dispatches, and as I went by and as this one particular senator saw me, he said, "How in the hell could the people of Minnesota elect a guy like that to the Senate?" And, you know, I just felt sick, because I always worked on the basis

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the whole thing as the phones ringing and Joe Califano was sort of managing, was sort of the nerve unit. Jim Jones was around. Marie was around. Everybody was sort of dispatched to different jobs, taking phone calls and answering inquiries. Joe was actually

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

; goals for South Vietnam; reasons for LBJ’s unpopularity; flaws in LBJ’s handling of the press; inept press corps handling Vietnamese War; incorrect editing of press dispatches; LBJ’s abilities as a diplomat; peace negotiations 1966-1968; 1968 Paris peace

Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the White House. I didn't have that previous relationship; mine started with the campaign. Similarly with Lyndon Johnson, I had seen him around as the vice president here and there when he came to the White House. Sometimes they would dispatch Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

he had already deeded to some of the grandchildren and to his wife and perhaps others that he wanted to give something to. So they prepared this document, and I had been dispatched to go over and sit down with Mr. Taylor and discuss the document

Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

papers are your columns carried in now, sir? T: Twenty-two. I only send columns to the papers that I send news to. M: How often do you write a column, as opposed to sending news dispatches? T: Until recently about three times a week; but right now

Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

agreed to still stay on as chairman of RFC." G: But Jones realized that they didn't want him in there. R: Oh heck yes, surely. G: I understand that he would just dispatch reporters to write unfavorable stories about Johnson later, in '48. LBJ

Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, now dead, who was then the chief correspondent for the Post-Dispatch. He and I went there for lunch one day. We talked about everything and his dog, and finally, as we left, we were marching down the hall on that second floor and had gone past

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 3 (III), 1/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. Over five hundred of those letters were dispatched immediately, and we worked quite a bit of time on what would be said in those letters. B: Did those letters require an answer, some indication of--? P: No. They were by and large information

Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

possible ever, simply by reading news dispatches and having a general LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 7 (VII), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Murrey Marder, interview 1 (I), 5/25/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it is," and let it go. Eventually it wore you down. G: Of course, I don't have your dispatches that you filed, but I have read the stories and it seems to me that there's a tremendous amount of skepticism in those stories as they were published, until the U.S

Oral history transcript, Harold H. Saunders, interview 1 (I), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

right and looked pretty good, as he subsequently--at least to this point-has certainly been in Korea . At any rate there were major strategy meetings in late February of 1964 and early March just before Secretary McNamara was dispatched out

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Court decision in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education opened the door. Those people, the rabble rousers, the seces- sionists, James Kilpatrick--I think at this time he was the editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch--all these guys were advocating

Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

don't do something, and it is going to be devastating and very, very serious." We decided then and it was recommended to the President that he dispatch someone out there; various suggestions were made, I can't remember all of them--they suggested

Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, William M. Blackburn, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 it was. :H got out of France with dispatch and dignity. It really, I think, impressed the French

Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 3 (III), 3/9/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Washington with dispatch and clarity? 17 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 2 (II), 2/18/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

concerned, even though we had indicated that concern in a host of other ways, with statements and dispatch of additional FBI personnel. And then he said, 11 Well, I'm not going to see those people beca'l!se I just can 1 t have a whole parade coming

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, the dispatcher, the introducer- all of it for seventeen speeches and I had had it. Well, the Senator, to show his sense of humor, thought it was funny that I was trying to get away from him to get some sleep when he thought probably I ought to be worried about

Oral history transcript, Wayne O. Reed, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1968, by Broudy (Item)

, the design of the Vocational Education Act of 1963 was set in the recommenda tions of that commission, during President Kennedy's term and at his behest. He moved fast. But the final push cam~ from President Johnson. His dispatch, his sense of timing

Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)