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Oral history transcript, John E. Stavast, interview 1 (I), 3/12/84, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, either via the boats in Haiphong harbor--and Haiphong harbor happened to be another one of those things. Mining Haiphong harbor was not a new plan; it had been there since day one, whenever they started actual activities against North Vietnam. G: Right
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Irwin Wolkstein, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wolkstein -- I -- 8 W: The old Medicare legislation was in effect coverage of hospital benefits essentially, purely without the major addition of physicians services. That was the kind of form it had taken post-1960. In fact
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely (Item)

, telling political stories. So then the next morning--we were assigned different bedrooms or cabins--after breakfast he said, "Well, let's all go in the new office." It wasn't completed then; it was just being built. So we sat on the saw-horses and piles
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Julian J. Ewell, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

there until about March or April of 1970. So I was in Vietnam for two years, from post-Tet to just before the invasion of Cambodia. G: I see. What was the situation like, post-Tet? What did you find when you came in country and took over the division? E
Biographical information regarding Vietnam tour of duty; post-Tet to pre-invasion of Cambodia; Delta; Long An; Dinh Tuong occupations by Viet Cong; TO & E NVA units and Viet Cong main force; press and TV coverage of Vietnam War; body count; Hamlet
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Eugene McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and maybe not in the news. high at that time, 1952. Because Joe was riding pretty LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 2 (II), 7/25/1985, by Charles B. MacDonald (Item)

and the terrain, and Palmer was new to the scene. As an example, one of ffly more successful tactical moves was when I foresaw that the -:!nemy would try to take over the two northernmos t prov inces. As I saw thdt coming, we began on a priority basis to build
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 8 (VIII), 4/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the Department of Interior. Stewart Udall was the secretary of the interior. They waited until the day before Johnson left office and announced--and I think I'm right in this--without ever checking with the President that the name of the new stadium would
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 40 (XL), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

start to look at these papers, and now I look--you look at these papers, for sure going up there in 1966 with a State of the Union Message that I can tell you, I remember that night, [it] just blew their minds. A dozen or so brand-new programs. Nobody
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 3 (III), 7/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

--or some of them might have. I did know, and it is entirely possible that the President knew, that there was some new thinking on the part of at least some of them. I knew that Dean Acheson and McGeorge Bundy were in the process of reevaluation; that Tet
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 6 (VI), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Well, I see now what it was, some kind of multi-state group. So Oveta Culp Hobby, publisher of the Houston Post, intervened with the program committee and invited him out there to speak. It wasn't a dinner. He was speaking in a relatively small room
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 3 (III), 9/14/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

been fighting it in the North to begin with. ~ G: Of course, politically that's another story. T: Now don't bring in these details. (Laughter) G: .. Red China is not really a detail, I guess. T: Many times in post-war years in the course
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 6 (VI), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Committee. G: Do you think Johnson grasped the significance of the space program early on? R: I don't know whether he grasped it, but he knew it was a new vehicle and he wanted to grab it. G: Did he see it as a vehicle for political advantage? R: I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George Pazianos, interview 1 (I), 8/30/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

think of specific pieces of legislation, but a lot of the concepts were not brand new. They weren't fresh off the tree or anything like that. They had been around for some time. I think that the administration felt that it had the clout; it had
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, W. Evans Buchanan, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

new housing laws . Look at You've � 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
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

really better sitting in Washington and watching a television monitor, and contacting their sources here about what's really going on. But the mystique of the news profession is that you've got to be at the scene of the crime and so on, whether
Selection of the team to go to Paris to negotiate with North Vietnam; Averell Harriman; Cyrus Vance; Philip Habib; organizing the trip to Paris; failure to make serious progress in Paris; debates regarding “the shape of the table”; portraying news
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

a new Episcopal mission there. I spent about four and one-half years in Corpus Christi and then at the invitation of the Bishop to begin yet another mission, I moved to Victoria. P: What year was that? M: It has been about ten years ago now, so

Oral history transcript, Andrew J. Goodpaster, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

hy adminiscracion spokesmen at each critical stage of this development. f: Without getting i nto personalities, and relying to a certain extent on the news •tories, have you perceived a cha nge in t he people who came from Congress to participate
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Earl Howsam, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in that first day. G: When did you first become acquainted with Lyndon Johnson? Do you recall? H: I think it was soon after that, after we were in the Senate with all the new senators. I was over at the Committee of Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 7 (VII), 1/18/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, but Buzz was quite 1ate. They finally got a wire from him saying, 11 Snowbound. 11 The wire was sent from somewhere in Mississippi, where I don't think they'd had snow in a hundred years. G: (Laughter) Did Busby replace someone or was this a new position
Reminiscences of 1945 touching on the hiring of new staff, the Marshall Plan, 70-group air force; detailing LBJ’s decision to run for the Senate
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 3 (III), 12/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. In 1958 you had a big Democratic majority elected in the Senate. How did that change the politics within the Senate? C: In 1958 there would have been a tremendous influx--I remember 1958. There would have been a tremendous influx of new Democrats
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

had the pleasure Lyndon Johnson and his entire NYA state staff in establishing this new organization, working out their procedures, their accounting system and the whole works. We became fast friends in a hurry, because of our close working

Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was in in high school, and, of course, the Longhorn Band in those days traveled by train to most of the football games we attended, but a cross-country trip, spending a couple of nights on the train--that's what it took then--was something new. I 3 LBJ
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 14 (XIV), 7/19/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and then he'd have another period of despondency. G: Did you do anything during these periods to cheer him up? J: I tried to, or we did. We tried to tell him everything that happened at the office, all the good news, all the wires and letters and so
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Billy Graham, interview 1 (I), 10/12/1983, by Monroe Billington (Item)

to have the Bible read to him. B: Yes. G: I had several new versions of the Bible that made it simple. He liked that very much. B: He liked to refer to the Bible in his public speeches and all, and I got the impression he had a familiarity
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 3 (III), 8/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, and when I went out, obviously, I talked to a lot of old friends and new friends in the press business, and that was a major gripe. My recollection is that they were sending it through the telegraph office. I don't know which one, whether it was IT&T
McGeorge Bundy and the public affairs committee; Bill Moyers; press coverage of Vietnam; Dan Duc Khoi; Bui Diem; improving methods for transmitting news; American journalists from other countries; Morley Safer and Mike Wallace; Vietnam Psychological
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Reynaldo G. Garza, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, until we got two more judges. F: Now this put you in a new relationship with the now-Vice President Johnson, because you're not in a position where you can campaign anymore. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Keith Waller, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on the northeast coast-F: Yes, lIve been there. W: Well, he'd left there on a bombing raid over New Guinea. He'd spent some timein Brisbane, certainly a number of weeks, staying in a funny little country hotel, and he wanted to go back and see it, which he did
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 3 (III), 12/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

no action against it. And the problem was that they had a naval headquarters separate from their air headquarters, and a navy command post in Tel Aviv separated from their general staff headquarters. And as we understand it, due to a change of officers

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

your chronology here gives the reason, is Johnson's resistance to the idea of tax cuts as an antirecession measure. He was for big spending in response to recession, and part of that I guess is just the classic New Deal and southwestern, midwestern
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, yes. G: --which was first mentioned in the State of the Union [Message]. M: I was never opposed to it. What I wanted to do was to see if we couldn't balance the budget. I didn't want that additional money to be spent for new things, because he
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 18 (XVIII), 6/12/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, which had to have something by about three or four o'clock in the afternoon. So we developed a little technique. I, or anybody that I could get to do it, would figure out some sort of a news lead and write out about eight paragraphs, sometimes less than
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Anita P. Winters, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

at me all the time to be sure that [inaudible]. He fussed at all his friends, [inaudible] G: Do you recall when you learned he had had his fatal heart attack? How you got that news? MW: Television. W: Were we here? We were here at the house or were we
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

into a world of communication, rather new, and quite strange to me, I a must ask you, Paul, to provide and a reasonable modicum of lot of caref~l guidance to·me deletion from the finished proauct -- lest this become a ,biographical sketch of a lniversity

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

had an opportunity to ride with him up to Hyannis Port. So I got on the plane. He had a man from Georgetown and he had [Allen] Duckworth from the Dallas [Morning] News. Most of the agencies preferred to have their people at the various points to make
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

by_ evaluated this situation. I'd Senator Russell called me and said, "I've I need somebody to fill my press secretary's post right away, and the job is yours if you want it." I said, "Well, I definitely want it, but I think it would
Biographical information; Senator Richard Russell; LBJ’s decreased popularity and its sources; civil rights; LBJ’s relationship with Russell; activating battleship New Jersey; Russell’s criticism of LBJ’s Administration; editorial cartoon; growth
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

/show/loh/oh ...... PICKLE -- III -- 2 stalled for an hour or two while we scrambled around to get new typewrite rs and chairs. That was the kind of attitude that was . preva 1ent. But it did go on to the courts. Whatever they say about Mr
Moody, and Magnolia Oil; LBJ's 1955 heart attack; first post-heart attack appearance at Whitney; LBJ excels as a rural campaigner; LBJ in the 1956 campaign; Price Daniel; the state 1956 convention; as executive secretary of the SDEC; "Dollars
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to what in some ways seem like quaint days, in 1964--sometimes we forget how far we've come and how fast--James Farmer announced when he started a new integration drive that Chapel Hill would be his first target, and that's while you were still Governor
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, C.W. Price, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, the election judge took the returns down to the Alice News. G: And that was Luis Salas? P: Yes. He took them there, and I was standing at the desk when he gave the returns, if I'm not mistaken, at that time [to] a fellow named Cliff DuBois, who worked
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Archer Parr, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1984, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

from hunting up in Chama, New Mexico one time, out at the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation. George and I were talking about the 1948 election. He said, "You know, a lot of people have said this, that and the other thing, but you know I have never
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Reedsville, North Carolina with the Marshall Field enterprises up there. He had run for lieutenant governor two years before, and he was elected along with Umstead. Then when Umstead died in November of 1954, Luther Hodges was the new governor; he had two
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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