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Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • by the name of Leon Gray, Colonel Leon Gray, and he was a Distinguished Service Cross winner in World War II, probably one of the top reconnaissance pilots in the business. In fact, he was. An incredible pilot, ex-airline pilot. And the First Fighter Group had
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1969, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • ?!! The interviewer referred to him a s a "grea t compromiser. II I told him that I would consider the term Itpersuader" more aptly to describe the man. That is more of what I meant a moment ago in answering your question. rid of him." No, people didn't give
Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • we reported this to Washington, and I think people from Washington came out and they iI/ere also briefed directly by Thompson. I think there was fairly quickly agreement that this was a sound approach in counterinsurgency. The U.S. military
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by T.H. Baker
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • mind, the type of mechanism that you could use to control this type of flow. And secondly, I had worked in the Office of Alien Property during the postWorld War II period, and still had a certain amount of knowledge of the statute. And as a result
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the newspaper business, magazine business, World War II service in the Air Corps, and, after the war, your own public relations firm. When in this process did you first meet Mr. Johnson? M: I saw him when he was running for the Senate in 1948. I did
Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , and when, and where did you go to school? I was born in Marlin, Texas, in 1923 . I attended the public schools here and then later attended, before World War II, Rice Institute and the University of Texas . [I] went into the Army-for four years
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • home he ca 11 ed me, and I sa i d, want to come out and talk to you." this to him. II I I went out and got out there about one o'clock in the morning to his house. ever met the man. I called I don't know whether I'd I sat down with John and his
Oral history transcript, Homer E. Dean, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • back here after World War II? D: Yes, I was ambitious. I decided a good way to meet people and build up my personal law practice would be to run for county attorney. The Lloyds wished me well and helped me. A strong character that was of great help
  • ; the duties of county and district attorneys in Jim Wells County; practicing law in the Army during World War II; turnover of Jim Wells County officials in 1946; George Parr's influence in South Texas; Dean's support for LBJ in the 1930s and during LBJ's 1948
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • II. There were two or three other-people. They were extremely good, but what Johnson said to Russell in effect is that you need someone with a somewhat different approach toward these. He thought that there was a sort of investigation in which I
Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and the importance that Father put upon it, and he was willing to risk it and felt that if he lost, it was a real setback to getting prepared for what he felt was an inevitable conflict. G: How about LBJ's World War II experience? R: When he went on active duty
  • of Congress; Jim Rowe; Abe Fortas; FDR's decision to run for a third term as president in 1940; FDR's opinion of LBJ's military service in World War II; Eleanor Roosevelt's opinion of LBJ; Roosevelt's work with civil rights legislation; the 1960 Democratic
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 3 (III), 1/2/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • which has been used by some of the opponents of our effort in Southeast Asia.To me it has little substance. For example, Lend Lease during World War II, which was massive in character, did not make mercenaries out of the British and the Russians
Oral history transcript, Edward P. Cliff, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Price Daniel, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • nebulous statement. Governor Shivers told him, II We 11 , let's get the cards on the table. What would you do if it were passed again?lI, and Stevenson said he'd veto it. So on getting that in \'/riting--I had heard that by telephone--when
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , you've just got to go out there." And the Vice President said, "ttr. President, I don't want to embarrass you by getting my head blown off in Saigon. But fi nally they di d make the tri p and he took the Smiths II with him--Stephen and Jean Smith
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • or perhaps early Johnson Administration, and it really is an exceedingly descriptive term. In World War II, the task force was put together out of an assembly of navy ships and marines and detachments of army and air force geared to take on a particular
Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 1y courageous ways. II And one of them, by the way, was Sam Houston, for his stand at the time of secession. At any rate he said, "So the Library of Congress has got several people over there working on the research, and we are sending it all down
Oral history transcript, John Wesley Jones, interview S-I, 6/8/1974, by Richard D. McKinzie (Item)
  • asked for a French- speaking past, I never got one . .· / That's the · only thing I ever did ask for. MCKINZIE: . Could you speak briefly about your assign­ ments during·World War II? JONES: Well, I was in Rome at the time of the ( \ declaration
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : In the first week of World War II? E: The first week of September; the ninth of September. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org G: More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh That left you expecting your
  • Engelhard’s family history; marriage to Fritz Mannheimer; leaving France for Spain to avoid testifying against Mr. Daladier and Mr. Reynaud; conditions and traveling during World War II; fleeing to Argentina and later returning to Europe; moving
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • undergraduate work, and after World War II, at the University of Texas for my Ph.D. F: What did you get your Ph.D. in? H: Political science. F: Whom did you work with? H: Emmette Redford, who figures in this tale, really, very much. Because
Oral history transcript, Frank Ikard, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • really know. You remember that these were the times when people who had had military experience in World War II were people who had some pretty definite ideas, I know I did, about NATO and about military assistance groups around, and-- F: Of course you
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 10 (X), 10/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you remember that? I don't know any details of the meeting, although I remember Mr. Johnson feeling that Truman, having headed a similar co111T1ittee during World War II, would be a person he ought to meet with. G: Do you think Mr. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • LBJ's involvement with the Naval Affairs Committee in 1943 and efforts to stop absenteeism in navy jobs; food rationing in World War II; how life in the United States changed during WWII; attitudes toward military service; German-American
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the campaign; Jane McCallum's support; "I Remember Johnny" story of LBJ helping a woman locate her soldier son during World War II; calling people and driving people to vote; LBJ's relationship with Dan Moody; Wesley West's ranch; Johnson City parade that LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the theater; socializing with staff, including the Clark Cliffords; the health of LBJ's family in 1950; LBJ's work on a natural gas bill; LBJ's interest in post-World War II rubber and tin industries; North Korea invading South Korea; Frank Stanton; childhood
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 3 (III), 7/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • didn't wish to be rude, but I knew that in the second World War, Australia which then, in the second World War, had only a population of eleven million, at one time had 340,000 troops in the various theatres of World War II. At the time we were there 5
Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • of his earliest gestures was to send me as ambassador to the coronation of Elizabeth II. "Why not the coronation of a woman to be attended by a woman," Clare Luce had asked. General George Marshall went as his personal representative. We were a good team
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , that in World War II don't think an American body was shown in newsreels or photos until months after the first casualties were taken. I don't think they showed you those bodies on the beaches in the Pacific for months after it happened. They were all censored
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this fondness for the Australians because of World War II and also because they did support us in Vietnam. But I think it was one of the high points of his trip because it was a place that the President could go where he could be welcomed, cheered by people
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Relations, which had previously been called the Detroit Interracial Committee. It was established following the race riots during World War II. When I came back out of the army, after finishing my degree I went to work for that committee in 1947. So I worked
Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • : Well, before that, before World War II, you see, I was in the dean of students' office at NC State, and I knew the dean here, and when I finished and passed the bar exam, I needed temporary work and he gave me temporary work in his office. I ran
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on the idea of the least government the better after eighteen years of rationing and Korea and World War II. , / F: We had a problem in there, as you will recall, of Rene Verdon (White House chef). C: Yes. F: Did that sort of thing pain Mrs. Johnson
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 5 (V), 7/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Herbert N. Blackman, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • countries to expand trade with the bloc really for economic reasons. I Also, there were some internal pressures in that same direction. guess it was during one of those stages of relative rapprochement with the Soviets, which I guess at a later point s~ii
Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : And when did Bates come in? J: I would say perhaps about six or seven years later. M: And then the Jaworski was added-- J: After World War II, after I returned. And I cannot even tell you the exact year--I'd have to check that--but it has been
Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • people still trying to have accepted those things I've already recommended. II And he said, "You, as a governor, know how pre- carious it can be, that if you press too hard you may lose the ground you've already gained. We've got to do