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Oral history transcript, Clifford P. Case, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

adoption of the House rules. Normally that's a routine matter but this time John Rankin had indicated that he was going to use that occasion to add, by a new rule, a special committee to investigate un-American activities, make it a permanent committee. I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Annette Ludeman, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

pretty much grown when they'd built the house, so it was just like a brand~new house; They could have bought tlie other halfofthe block and this house for $10,000. (Laughter) That was in 1922. G: Well, $10,000 was- L: My father didn't want the land
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Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

not exactly news. But to find them turning on CIA at that point, at a point when CIA was probably one of their strongest advocates within the American government. . . .But they were using it because they were dealing with the American government
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Harold Fleming, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1986, by Michael Gillette (Item)

then-new and unprecedented, for a civil rights leader, public opposition to the Vietnam conflict. He was invited, he really had to be, but he had no role in it; he was not invited to say anything. He was just there for the ceremonial part of it. G: Do you
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 2 (II), 6/1/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: And helicopters. G: And helicopters. T: Well, I'd forgotten about the armored personnel carriers. And some armored personnel carriers, I think. In fact, I don't recall them. G: Well, I have seen in various reports--I'm not even sure where now-the new M-113
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

battal ion; most local battalions have about three hundred and fifty people, so it's three hundred and fifty people," and so forth. But as they discovered new units, it suggested that the total number of Viet Cong was on the rise. Whereas when you
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

of the Select Committee on Small Business. In 1967, when so many new Republicans were elected to LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James W. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a young man who was going to stay with the law practice, or was the feeling around the firm that this was just a kind of transient position, until he moved on to something else? W: Well, I was so green and new that I probably really didn't know much
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Dorothy Territo, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1983, by Claudia Anderson (Item)

in addition to many others was to provide, as requested, service to members of the Congress in the paperwork management area. This would involve new members in the House and Senate or older members whose systems were not adequate and they were breaking down
; getting LBJ's staff to submit documents to the new filing system; promises made in an effort to obtain Senate Democratic Policy Committee files; Mrs. Rebekah Johnson and her desire for a family library and community center; planning where LBJ's papers
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 2 (II), 5/2/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to this day look upon Lyndon Johnson as a great liberal leader, not a great Southern leader. I believe that I indicated in my first interview it would have been extremely easy for a man from New England or from the North to support Hawaiian statehood. advocacy
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, was he your candidate for that post? 5: Oh, yes, and would not have gotten it had we not turned in some green stamps for him. You know, we clearly got that job for Hodges. It was to the benefit of the state; I said facetiously, although there's some
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. We had kind of an interesting little division compound which was made by the advisors just before me. There were little houses in a rather nice little area right outside the division command post. They were, you know, houses about the size
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cline -- II -- 13 we would set up a post to which DOI people were assigned, but in practice in an overseas station if this guy didn't get up to his elbows
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

forces commander, oh, engineer detachments and some psyops people, and medics. They were called Special Action Forces, and that's when counterinsurgency was brand new. We were all very naive. We did all the things that Americans know how to do, like build
chiefs of staff Richard Stilwell and William Rosson; working with Allied troops from Korea and Australia; DePuy's work with the First Division; DePuy's reputation for removing incompetent commanders from their posts; DePuy's view of press coverage
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

into the suite . [He] walked directly to the television set, I think without greeting anyone, or certainly without any conversation, turned it on and focused on the set . It warmed up ; and then very briefly Senator Kennedy appeared, or a news commentator
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Weinheimer -- I -- 7 Tom and I had to drive his new Lincoln home, which was very nerve-wracking for us, being very unfamiliar with fancy automobiles. Of course, I'm talking when we were much
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Josh H. Groce, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or another. So my recollection was that they just said that he was so unpredictable that they didn't want him. G: Was part of it to get someone who was not sympathetic with the New Deal or Roosevelt for fear that they would naturally lean toward LBJ since
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 12 (XII), 8/19/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to a movie, but sometimes I would go with women. There was a lot of intellectual fodder for us in those days. G: You mentioned reading books. Did you read many magazines in this period? J: There were weekly news magazines and sometimes to put myself
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 14 (XIV), 9/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XIV -- 9 conservative Jesse Jones and a young New Deal congressman on the other hand running for the Senate? J: No, I can't say that I do
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John T. Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

school at Montrose, junior high school at Sidney Lanier, senior high school at San Jacinto Senior High School in Houston. From there I went to the New Mexico Military Institute; I went there, I believe, in 1935. University of Texas. In 1938 I transferred
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of them--I'm sure I told Mr. [F. Edward] Hébert, "Oh, your New Orleans boys, I know them. met quite a number of them." And that Paris reminded a lot of the boys of New Orleans; we often talked about that. gentlemen was Mr. Mike Bradley. real sweet, funny
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the committee when you did, though, didn't he? S: The committee was disbanded. Roy Cohn didn't get along. Catholic. A new committee came up. Kennedy and Bobby was very anti-communist, a devoted He had discovered some things for McCarthy, about Chinese
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ed Gossett, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh GOSSETT -- I -- 8 sure, he was particularly interested in at that time. Being a new freshman member, I had to take what was available, and I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

sobered up from that FDR binge." L: (Laughter) That's the way he wrote to him. B: So apparently LBJ was perceived as much more conservative than he had been when he was a staunch New Dealer in the late 1930s and early 1940s. L: Yes, he had to do
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lester Maddox, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that, you still had no response from the President or the White House staff? M: No, sir. [I] never received any response whatsoever. It was somewhat disturbing, knowing that every time you looked at the television and you read news reports about what
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Javier Baz Manero, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and I got the news and went back to the plane and told him. We had all the 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
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ben H. Powell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Harold L. Ickes, Senator t~irtz offered Mary Rather the position of being his secretary and going to Washington as a new experience. And she obtained the approval of my father and John Rauhut to take· LBJ Presidential Library http
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and things of this nature. Do you recall anything about his work on the West Coast? R: Not much, because I was so new in the office for one thing. I had enough to learn about how to do his office work representing the Tenth District. His committee work, his
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

protecting the hamlet, they treated the people well, had good relations with them, and that was the good news. The bad news was, though, that they said that security would be no problem if you didn't have these teams around, that by being there, the community
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

believe Paul Ylvisaker was the principal spokesman for the state of New Jersey at which there were also representatives from the city of Newark, I continued to play a coordinating role for the goods and services that were made available by the federal

Oral history transcript, Eugene R. Black, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. This was a presidential committee, and it was headed by Mr. Perkins, the president of Cornell University, and we were supposed to advise the President from time to time on various aspects of foreign aid. M: This is a new committee? committee
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Kathy Teague and Weeze Pollei Shumate, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

on the payroll. G: Just brand new then. I see. What had his background been? What was his professional experience? T: Whose? G: Mr. Teague's. T: He flew for Herman Heap here. G: Herman Heap? I see. T: And Continental Gas Pipeline in Houston, quite
(then) belonging to Emil Hartmann; the search for the plane; waiting for news of the wreck at the Teague home; events leading up to the plane's departure from Austin; Harold Teague's conversation with Homer Thornberry regarding the flight; the layout of the plane's
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 2 (II), 8/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, at quite an early age, like eighteen--how old would I have been then? Ten. He was sick, and he got what was diagnosed as TB [tuberculosis]. They decided the best thing for him to do was to go to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and he liked that idea. He had been out
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Margaret (Mrs. Jack) Carter, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the liberal journals of opinion. So I discovered the Nation and the New Republic in college and began to be interested in seeing the country come out of the Depression, so that the opportunities of many people were enlarged. (Interruption) M: Now, you were
Background in politics and participating in the New Deal; Democratic party state machinery in Texas; 1956 Democrat Party convention; role of Texas Democrats in national conventions and elections
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

this--in order to get to MAAG, we had to go by this big Binh Xuyen post that's right in back of what was then MAAG headquarters, which was down in the middle of Cholon. Xuyen were, manning the ramparts there. Here all the Binh We went in and we started
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ella SoRelle Porter and Mike Porter, interview 1 (I), 11/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that lie took tn.at position as simply a messenger boy position and parlayed it into a reasonably influential post. P: Do you have any recollections of that? No, I don't, but that's perhaps the most logical explanation of it that I've heard. He
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, L. Wade Lathram, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Lathram -- I -- 8 hell out of Saigon port, build their own new port further up the Saigon river. Which eventually was done, by the way, at great cost, but they built a beautiful port to do the job
the new name Civil Operations Revolutionary Development Support; the ability of the military to work well with civilian province chiefs; the Hamlet Evaluation System and its reliability; the lack of appropriate weapons and training for the Regional Forces
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Thomas D. (Tom) Mills, interview 1 (I), 8/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that was not working that he wanted to work, and they'd had a big diesel engine on it, and he took a mechanic down and had that repaired, and all the pipe in the well had to be pulled and a new pump put in the well, and [inaudible] say we helped with that. He took down
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

. There was an existing canal bringing the river water over there, so it was not an entirely new project with them. So Kuchel was opposed to the Udall decision at that point that imposed it after all these years, and he did hold hearings on it. Incidentally, Warren
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

issue? G: The Social Security amendment. H: The disability amendment. That was in the mid-fifties. G: Right. H: Johnson, you have to keep in mind in order to understand him, was a protege of Franklin Roosevelt. He always considered himself a New
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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