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Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • or confirmation of an ~as assig::.::ent I had had ever since the early days under President Kennedy. There had been an Interagency Committee for Narcotics. Ken~edy Drug President had convened in probably 1962 a Commission on Narcotics and A~~se. The head
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 2 (II), 7/9/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in its answer to the Seventeen Nations' Declaration. I stated that I could very quickly give him a memorandum that outlined a serious diplomatic possibility that we ought to consider. And he said, "All right, let me have it by the end of the afternoon
Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of the expediency of it, the convenience and the access to it, and the cost. But during my two tours there, it wasn't much of a problem at all, but then later when the national resolve began to falter and Vietnam became an unpopular war and the guys thought they had
Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • basis for a while, which we did. Then when it was deeded to the National Park Service, I worked there a couple of days a week. So now I have gone to work for the Park Service. G: How long did you work with Yolanda? M: I guess about a year, and then I
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • - national Affairs at Princeton on the expropriation of American property in Cuba in 1959. After the election and the inaugural in 1961, Bill and Sarge were very helpful getting me interviews with certain people I needed in the State Department for my
Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 2 (II), 3/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • and perhaps you are as well qualified as anybody to answer this. He said that the people \'Jho had put together the incipient Community Action agencies, the Ford Foundation, r,lobilization for Youth, "grey areas" projects, [and] the President's Committee
Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , I don't think. I think he was interested--like when Mrs. Johnson wrote her book, and we started a beautification committee here in Stonewall. So he helped us get that going and make money for it and do things in the community. When we needed a place
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 1 (I), 3/9/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • of the Security National Bank and a director of the Los Angeles--I mean, Southern California Edison Company and Union Oil Company of California. He was quite a prominent guy and he taught me a lot of things. One of the things that was most interesting and I've
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • of the Security National Bank and a director of the Los Angeles--I mean, Southern California Edison Company and Union Oil Company of California. He was quite a prominent guy and he taught me a lot of things. One of the things that was most interesting and I've
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 3 (III), 3/11/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • of the Security National Bank and a director of the Los Angeles--I mean, Southern California Edison Company and Union Oil Company of California. He was quite a prominent guy and he taught me a lot of things. One of the things that was most interesting and I've
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • of the Security National Bank and a director of the Los Angeles--I mean, Southern California Edison Company and Union Oil Company of California. He was quite a prominent guy and he taught me a lot of things. One of the things that was most interesting and I've
Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of military developments. F: And he'd been on the Naval Affairs Committee a long time. M: He'd been on the committee which had an awareness of military helicopter development that were involved in the Pacific Theatre during the latter part of the war. F
Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • they had a pacification one, which was the operational end of things. Each one had a French. or an American as chief of it and then the other nationality would De the deputy and then they were split down with membership one each. I was given
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • trips that somewhere--it might have been in the west lobby or in the Black Steer or in the National Press Club--somebody said, "Ye Gods, there's a credibility gap in the White House," and thus was born that phrase. And then it grew. Then everything
Oral history transcript, John E. Stavast, interview 1 (I), 3/12/84, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Histories Folder Title John Stavast Oral History Interview Box Number 1 RestrictionCodes (A) Closed by Executive Order 13526 governing access to national security information. (8) Closed by statute or by the agency which originated the document. (C) Closed
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 11 travel away from Washington, as any national from a Communist country is. But other than th at , they come in a nd cover the briefings and cover the news conferences. One time, when we got special permission for one
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the press by having some space for them at National Cathedral School and then at the various festivals. You know the people who are sponsoring it hope very much that they'll get some attention. F: That's what I'm getting at. You've got two motives here
Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that time the war begin to get sour. But I think if the mood of the nation had not deteriorated there that he might well have run. G: Well, if he could have come home in June of 1968 with that coonskin on the wall and said, "The war is over, and we
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • need for a close-in liaison. Normally, that was done--that all had to be filtered through the National Security Council in the Kennedy period, Mac [McGeorge] Bundy and Brom [Bromley] Smith, his deputy, and then the entire NSC staff, but they were
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • leaders. Now, President Johnson at that time decided to establish this review group, a committee, or whatever you want to call it, wh i ch \·./Qul d be headed by r~r. Cl a rk Cl ifford, who was then the secretary-designate of Defense, and which would
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • as he was before the congressional committees during his tenure, I think that the enemies of the intelligence community would have managed to wreck it even further than it was wrecked at that time. Of course, Colby was roundly criticized by many people
Oral history transcript, L. Wade Lathram, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Biographical information; McGeorge Bundy; William Bundy; Robert Komer; Vietnam; Bien Hoa; service on high-level review committee on Vietnam; Pleiku incident; Honolulu Conference; Ky; bombing halt; Harriman; Wilson; J. Blair Seaborn mission, 1964
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Committee for further study, and that was it. F: With no real hope of ever springing it out of there? C: No. F: Did [Stewart] Udall support the idea of a department of natural resources? C: Udall would have loved it, because he would have assumed he
Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • [National Security Agency]--but you have to be retired to belong to it; you can't still be active. G: Right. L: So I see General Timmes at those things. G: Excuse me for asking, but I don't recall the intelligence part of your background. L: Where
Oral history transcript, William F. Jackson and Lucy Ginter Jackson, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Donald Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the Appropriations Committee didn't. So we had money problems. In the second place, an awful lot of people in the Foreign Service were anything but enthusiastic about it. In the third place, you had a lot of crowing young turkeys in this building that felt
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview S-I, 6/12/1973, by Robert Hawkinson (Item)
  • had the impression that while many of the task forces were quite important in terms of policy-generating suggestions, that the committees, formal · advisory committees made up of professionals in the vartous areas, adjuncts to the Office of Education
Oral history transcript, Anthony Partridge, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that came along while our renewal legislation was pending in the House, and one day later the committee had given us the opportunity to override a governor's veto on this. I think Adam Clayton Powell reacted to this thing and put it in. So later on the power
Oral history transcript, Donnelly Bolton, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , or the Holscher Committee. The Holscher Committee was run by Leonard Holscher, who was a civilian deputy controller. And I must say, you know, I'm not really great on Department of the Army civilians, but General Decker, who had been a controller, and Holscher
  • Bolton’s military and educational career; the Holscher Committee; duties in the Congo; Gamal Abdel Nasser; duties in Vietnam; restrictions to fighting in Vietnam; reasons for failure in Vietnam; the 1st Cavalry Division; Attleboro; Ted Dessausure
Oral history transcript, Ralph Flynt, interview S-I, 7/23/1968, by Jan Sofokidis (Item)
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Oral history transcript, Harry Nachlin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, George G. (Admiral) Burkley, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . James Cain, who has been on numerous committees, has filled this capacity much more so than I have . THB : Another question, too, about which there has been and probably will be speculation. Do you have any knowledge of any health reasons behind Mr