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Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the line of, ''When we get in, we wi 11 do this, you're included in the S: Surely. II and you just assume that '~e"? ''When we get in, we've got to move fast on wheat," or, ''We've got to move fast on feed grains and cotton." One simply knows

Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at the Rice Hotel, and I called home a little after six in the evening to call my wife, see how she was getting along, and she said, "Oh, have the newspapermen gotten in touch with yoU?" about?" I sa id II No, what Well, she said, "It's something about

Oral history transcript, Robert A. Levine, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

at the time of the Green Amendment determination, there was a big fight, there were hearings, and the mayor saying, '~e're going to run it ourselves ,II and the Cormnunity Action agency was fighting. There was revolt. It was one of the more radical

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Gerald N. McAllister, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

/show/loh/oh 18 P: That's true. We didn't have the most modern equipment. We were flying World War II crates around for certain missions, but it turned out that for a particular unsophisticated military environment in South Vietnam, they were just

Oral history transcript, Mildred Portner, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

later came back after the war and continued my education at Georgia Tech. I graduated from Georgia Tech as a bachelor of industrial engineering in September of 1949. M: What did you do during World War II? Y: I was in the Army Air Corps. I started

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to read a hawkish speech, read any speech that Franklin Roosevelt gave during World War II. Good God! You know, the comparison--Lyndon Johnson is like an appeaser compared to him. Like a fifth column Communist. Because Roosevelt was saying, "We're going

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in 1943 in the riot of World War II, which was incidentally much more of a race riot than the riot of 1967, which was what Pat Moynihan would call an untermenschen riot--a real explosion of the ghetto against the ghetto with whites almost a secondary

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, there was another aspect of it, too. One of the things that has never been sufficiently explored is the fact that after World War II it became unfashionable to be an isolationist. Nobody wanted to be an isolationist because the isolationists were associated

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

World War II. In those days he was a liberal. What developed, he could never get out of the House as a liberal. represented a very strange district in southern Illinois. He He himself was from Peoria, and that district was rather liberal

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, James A. Shannon, interview 1 (I), 4/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

sometime shortly after World War II and totally supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. So this is important background, because in supporting internationally some research activity, even on budgets that were rather rigidly controlled initially, one

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

true that there's not enough doctors. I've seen doctors operate thirty-six hours without even sitting down. The ship I was on in WW II, for example, had all these guys killed or wounded on it, and in the place we used to eat breakfast--the officers used

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Shriver -- IV -- 23 G: Since they were coming out of Title II of Community Action, did you have to get approval for Head Start

Oral history transcript, Rodney Borum, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, James Adler, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

they were U.S. army training manuals of about World War II vintage, translated into Hebrew. I don't know, but I just have to think that since he was at the Department of Defense that his influence--he LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that l'd thought of running for things, but nothing of long, involved conversations where there was advice involved because ii never reached that stage with me, where I was actively after a given job. F: Did he ever talk to you from the other side, as he

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and with World War II coming to an end, you had communities that really didn't have any housing. So while the real estate people were adamant in their opposition to it, they didn't have the clout to totally defeat it. They curtailed it, but not too much. G

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that the flight had been cancelled, and an unidentified plane, from their point of view, came into the air. It was one of the old flying boxcars of World War II, a plane that had been used by the Israelis for reconnaissance purposes; they thought

Oral history transcript, Henry Bellmon, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

start and you can stop me if you think I'm not doing it properly . I should say that my interest in politics grew out of World War II, but I won't go into that . political I'm not from a family or anything of this kind, but I have a genuine � LBJ

Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

i n a r y t h i n g s , but he kept hedging and hadn 'tmade any announcement. Well, I got a sign painter t o paint a sign to go o n the outside of the b'.lilding . . . II told him just to hold it u n t i l I gave him the word to put it up. Well

Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Tom and Betty Weinheimer, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

Oral history transcript, Roy Elson, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in regional considerations, and then some of the politics of it. But I think it was more later on even, perhaps when I was around there and, say, after World War II up through there, that liberal-conservative thing might have been a factor in some committee

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: They really worked together on that I gather. J: Yes, they did. There was quite a closeness between us and Symington for a good many years. G: Was his espousal of 70-group air force, do you think, rooted in his World War II experience, the fact that he saw

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 4 (IV), 8/25/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

," and his men said, "·Okay, 11 then it was a matter of whether the states said, "Let's do it. II F: Did you go talk to other delegations? P: Yes, we moved around as best we could to the delegations. Now, let me tell you! · It's not easy to move

Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of April [1965] the President removed the previous commander, Colonel [George J.] McNally, who had been in the White House since World War II. McNally was a former member of the Secret Service and had been transferred into this duty in telecommunications

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Vietnam in terms of World War II, realizing that we don't have popular support for the war in this country partially because we don't have a feeling of hate toward the enemy. In other words, Ho Chi Minh was never considered a Hitler or a Hirohito

Oral history transcript, Lawrence McQuade, interview 1 (I), 1/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: La~olrence Ii>TIRVIEHER: Paige Mulhollan DATE Ja,lUary 15, 1969 More on LBJ Library oral

Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1975, by Elspeth D. Rostow (Item)