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Oral history transcript, Norman M. Clapp, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

not quoting this exactly but IIfrom the constant harassment over interest rates and political interference and allow that unique institution to get on with its business of providing low cost electricity to rural people of the country. II There have been times

Oral history transcript, Edgar L. Ball, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert Bennett, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

thirty-six years now with the government, most of it with the Bureau of Indian Affairs in various locations . The only time I wasn't in the Bureau of Indian Affairs was when I was in the Marine Corps during World War II, and also when I spent some time

Oral history transcript, Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Reserve during my time in medical school, the majority of which, of course, was during World War II . I was in the Navy for two years, during which time I was stationed at the Naval Medical Research Institute at Bethesda, where I did bacteriological

Oral history transcript, Myron R. Blee, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to Washington, when you come down to it . Farris Bryant and I had served together in World War II, and we had a number of occasions together . He was instrumental in getting me invited down here . F: Tell me a little bit about Johnson's coming down

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

ideas during your Administration? U: No, basically what we did was to continue to carry out the programs--what was called relocation. This came out of the experience from the Japanese, as you know, in World War II. The Indians who felt they were ready

Oral history transcript, Earl Warren, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

things to the Supreme Court, and they just didn't get here. But after we had World War II and the four Freedoms were announced and people all over the world were thinking in terms of freedom, it took hold of people in our country and they started thinking

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 3 (III), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was in place. It was in essence almost a World War II tax bill. When we took over, we still had 90 per cent tax rates. In 1960 the top tax rate was 90 per cent. Hard to believe, but those were 19 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

; the effect of World War II on Paris and London in 1956 and later; Philip and Katharine Graham; Rebekah Johnson's devotion to her children and their education.

Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- VI -- 7 of the generals in it. I think if you talk to people like Earle Wheeler, they were saddened by what had happened to him because apparently he was quite a good soldier in World War II

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or the Office of Emergency Planning during World War II. Johnson got to know them as bright, young people. He became involved in that part of the strategy. We got no reaction from the copper companies. They were not about to budge and I think they had no idea

Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, interview S-IX, 8/12/1969, by William J. Jorden (Item)

together, and there was as much dissensio:-i as there was, between I[arkin,i and the CIA, and the AID people and the Ambassador, aml othe,rs. And I thonght that we made a mistake in removing our Amba.ssa.

Oral history transcript, Eugene C. Patterson, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Mar ch 11 , 196 9 B: This is the interview with Eugene Patterson. Sir, let me summarize your career here, subject to additions and corrections. Born in Valdesta, Georgia in 1923; B.A. from the University of Georgia; army service in World War II

Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)

that. Things were always coming up. I was apartment hunting following World War II, and there was a vacancy--I've often wondered if I had humped a little and made it what it might have done--at 1901-B Dillman out there in the sort of West Enfield area, very few

Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of airplanes--Rayburn didn't like flying. He finally got used to it when his sister, Miss Lou, was dying of cancer. But he had flown with Eisenhower in 1945, right after World War II, when Eisenhower, who didn't know where he was born, finally was convinced

Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

have anything This is a case of going in---" IINo, but it's intervention, II You see, that bugaboo was there. The Mexicans also used to use that. F: To remain personal a minute, did the fact that you were not Catholic give you any handicap? L

Oral history transcript, William A. Knowlton, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, George McArthur, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan

Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

background and how I got started in Texas politics, I was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and came to Texas during World War II. As a relatively young man and with very little interest in politics, I met my wife in Austin, Texas and went to law school

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Laitin -- III -- 13 I think one of the reasons that, for instance, Yoichi Okamoto became his personal photographer was that during World War II

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the Texas home of Sam Rayburn; LBJ's friendships with people in the newspaper industry; LBJ seeking treatment for a skin disorder he got during World War II; Sid Richardson's home on St. Joseph's Island designed by O'Neil Ford; Christmas at LBJ's mother

Oral history transcript, Boisfeuillet Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

administrator, then regional administrator. You served as a naval reserve officer in World War II, assigned to the Bureau of Ordnance in Washington. In 1946 you returned to Emory as assistant to the president and assistant professor of political science

Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

civil servant category, as the French did after World War II when people like [Valery] Giscard D'Estaing went to the Institute there to become inspectors of finance, and gradually worked their way up. That's what Diem was in the process of doing

Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

? C: Oh, I don't think there's any question about the fact that justice prevailed in that case. During World War II in the navy before I went overseas I had served with Bob Smith, the 6 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, failed to show that there had been any previous incidents of homosexuality, including the time during World War II when he was the captain and commander of an all-black company of soldiers. So that pretty much is the whole thing. The incident wrecked his

Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the china shop, and you're walking through with flowers tied to his horns and hope he gets out without breaking. The two exceptions were William McCormick Blair in Copenhagen and Douglas MacArthur II in Brussels, one a career man, one a political appointee

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

down, left-over World War II antique with grass growing on it and I had the feeling- F: Bad enough at best. C --that our only real direction was a Secret Service man standing up tvith a sock in his hand to show which way the wind was blowing. F

Oral history transcript, Raul Castro, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the tax cut, including, among other things, attention to the special problems of the people passed over, left out, somehow remaining in Depression-like conditions you might say, even though we'd had this great period of prosperity after World War II. So

Oral history transcript, John Michael Dunn, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

-standing acquaintance with a number of the generals with whom he had associated right after World War II and he had married a Vietnamese-French girl, a very charming, intelligent girl incidentally, who greatly improved his own effectiveness because she

Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

" And I said, "No, sir." He said, "Well, I can guess who pretty good." it. did~': It's (Laughter) "Pretty good. Type it up and I'll sign II M: That's the way it went. F: That's the way it went. M: During that several months when the situation

Oral history transcript, Jule M. Sugarman, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

: Was there a correlation or a cause of correlation found at that time between poverty and these deficits that you speak of? S: Yes, certainly not a one-to.one ,correlation, but in proportionate terms, yes. G: You had said that under the Title II Community Action you

Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

is Senator--who's the first one on the roll call?--Aiken or whoever, all the way down. And I would say that it's a remarkable thing, really, that from the very beginning and after, say, ten days or so, he kep t saying, 'tyou' re go ing to los e . II