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Oral history transcript, Solis Horwitz, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, and he wanted hearings before Thanksgi vi ng started. So Ed Wei sl came down the following morning, and with Cy Vance and a couple of youngsters and I started working with them. I sort of became chief of staff to Ed Weisl in getting things organized

Oral history transcript, John P. (Gen.) McConnell, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

appointment beginning in 1964 when you were called for the i ntervi ew and appoi nted vi ce chi ef? McC: Well, he asked me to come over and see him and he asked me if I was interested in the job of vice chief. I told him, "Yes." He asked me if I
McConnell, John P. (John Paul), 1908-1986

Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 21 M: I think it was entirely different. I think the thing that drew that to a head really was this association with the American University there in Washington, the way Paul Porter raised the money

Oral history transcript, Peter R. Rosenblatt, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in the mission. The chief tenants during the Johnson period were Frank Wisner and Paul Hare. When I first came to Saigon in 1966 and first met Frank, he was living there. 11 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to say, but it was such a boring delivery. Paul Douglas was a fine speaker, and people enjoyed-- G: Yes. How about Bob Kerr? S: Very good but more a pragmatic type. He was not a--strictly business. He was a good speaker, very forceful. A very forceful

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

times I would be--many times Paul Glynn or Ken Gaddis would be in there arranging his clothes and sometimes the butler would have brought in his breakfast . But generally he'd be propped up with television sets going to see the early morning news

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Armistice Day in 1964. He also went down with two appointments, as he later told me the story, two appointment problems. One was he wanted to make Paul Ignatius, who was then assistant secretary of the army for installations and logistics, the assistant

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

you'd have to say yes to that question. Also you have to recognize that no governor wants somebody killed the way that French reporter [Paul Guihard] was killed at Oxford, or the kind of shooting that went on down there. Wallace wasn't about to destroy

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXXI -- 11 J: I don't remember. Isn't that ridiculous? G: Do you recall who else was there? Senator Russell-- J: Jesse Kellam, of course, and I think maybe Paul Bolton might have been

Oral history transcript, Llewellyn B. Griffith, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/15/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

brought with me Nat Turner, who was my assistant, on the WPA, a.nd Paul Dearmin. Nat Turner later became a very eminent consulting engineer in the Houston area. He was the head of the Turner, Freeze and Nichols office down there for many years

Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

." That was a tangible kind of a thing. It was jus t like saying, ""We have a 10-s tory building to build; ,ve I ve already buil t t,vo stories, "_;vI: It cos ts so much dollars to build additional s tories-- R: Right! ~!at wasn't a difficult budget at all. I

Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 2 (II), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Weeks -- II -- 7 W: That's correct. G: Do you recall this arrangement and how it evolved and how well it worked? VI: Yes. Basically, from a management point of view, as OEO was being set up after

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

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

. It wasn't easy to locate him. He used to tell Henry, Gonzalez~ 11 Henry, I can get hold of t he Pope a lot qu i cker than I can find you, because Henry's hours are a li ttle erratic, believe me. la te and works late at night. from his room. 11 He reads

Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

go to some form of post-secondary school; in this state, we're still 45 per cent, and that's not just a black problem. When we accepted that consent decree in the Title VI litigations, a hundred million dollars was granted these five historically

Oral history transcript, Steve Martini, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a slight heart attack." "That's too bad. I hope she gets better." So the President said,· Well, the next vi s it to the barber shop Ann was with me, and the President said, IIAnn, how's your mother?" She said, "She's getting along much better, Mr

Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 3 (III), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

had other duties. [Paul] Y1 vi saker was in and out. because he was I guess looking after whatever it was for the Ford Foundation. The young man whose name I can't remember who worked for Governor [Terry] Sanford of North Carolina, in the North

Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. In West Vi rginia it became very , very obvious when Senator Byrd really took off after John Kennedy that he was being spo nsored by Lyndon Johnson . Our only concern at that moment, despite \'le had our own political pr oblems, was Bobby Baker . Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

with Paul Kilday and George Mahon--those in particular, I think. Mc: Did you become associated with Speaker Rayburn and the "Board of Education," as it is called? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

happened. G: Where were you when President Johnson came to Cam Ranh Bay to--? S: Where was I? G: Yes. S: I was on the road somewhere. A good friend of mine named Paul Gorman, who's four-star CINCSOUTH now, was a battalion commander in the Big Red

Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

neutralists who really believed that it would be possible for a coalition government to function. G: Ambassador Taylor, and I guess before that Ambassador Lodge, and when Secretary McNamara would come on his vi sits, it seemed to have been a LBJ

Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

headquarters were. As I said, this ran every day, and if there was a seat available, you could bum a ride out. But you had to have a copy of a letter from the chairman of the commi ttee.. So I screwed up courage enough to go to Carl Vi nson LBJ

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

of them were called up for votes. I, with a couple of Civil Rights Division people, had an office across from the Senate Chamber in Paul Douglas' office. We were available to provide to senators, who had questions or who needed to respond to proposed

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

in the thirty years since the Roosevelt Administration. I've only to mention some of the names to illustrate the point I'm making: Cy Vance, Ros Gilpatric, Harold Brown, Paul Nitze, Bill Bundy, Charlie Hitch, Alain Enthoven, Harry Rowen, Joe Califano, John

Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, H.S. Hank Brown, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

been defeated and this new man [Paul] Kilday certainly did not meet with our feeling even though I found out later that the then-president of the AF of L had supported and wrote every union member a letter asking for Maury Maverick's defeat because he

Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 2 (II), 9/15/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

wfl.ether you've got a questi on 1ater on on th i"s ques:tion--but one of tlie criti ci sms of Oi em was that ne took away the vote from vi 11 ages and appOinted officials for each village. lie were striving in those days to mak.e vill ages independent

Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

talking to on anyone of the lines. P: Are there any other things that you particular remember about this '48 campaign? T: And Paul Bolton was also there working on speeches, and the campaign manager--oh, his son is here now. P: Do you recall that name

Oral history transcript, Robert Vincent Roosa, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

-- 7 Galbraith and Arthur Schlesinger and Kermit Gordon. Then also, by virtue of having been a teaching fellow at Harvard just before the war, I met a number of the others who were interested in this Kennedy circle, including Professor Paul Samuelson

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. There were exceedingly earnest and frank discussions with [Paul-Henri] Spaak in Belgium. G: What did they say? Did you recall? N: They' discussed the Common Market, basically. actual formal meeting. I was not present at the That was one of the really

Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

was Senator Paul Douglas, who was pushing us very hard from the Hill. I can't believe, and never have believed, that Senator Douglas was doing anything more than feeling that here was a bunch of small ~eople being pushed around by federal bureaucrats

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 5 (V), 8/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

did occur that the ini- tiation of the investigation or the recommendCltion of individuals rested \vi th the Attorney General. Administration. this H,3..Sn I t peculiar to th,. NOH MyoId dear firend responsibility durirz; the TrU;O;2n ment

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

"iffeY'ent vi E'Vi of the s:uvernrnent process under reasons: Kennedy-Johil~on fot t\'tO a) I was at a substantially higher position and you get a different outlook on life than you get from a worm's-eye view. And secondly, it turned out, I think

Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

don't I think I had left by then; I had resigned and gone to Connecticut by the time [,lann was appointed. Because when I resigned, I resigned to Ed Martin, who was still ass i stant secretary at that time. * i~y own vi ew of thi sis