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Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

It in her arsenals, the Air Force never did. He depended on ci vi 1ian industry to produce our weapon:sys tems. I thi nk thi sis much the best way of doing it. taxpayer too. We got a better product at less cost to the So we would give a proposal

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

an anthropologist--and he pointed out that there was some, at least in the public minds, impression of the confusions of purposes vis-a-vis the poverty program and the civil rights program simply because So many Negroes were involved in the poverty program. LBJ

Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, J. Roy White, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was not as close to the situation then as I became after he became vice president. F: Did you have to make some extensive alterations then when he became vi,ce president? W: No, I think that the greatest alterations to the house were done while he was senator

Oral history transcript, Jerre Williams, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

business have you got saying you won't come up here-because you're needed." And it kind of shook me, you know. F: That's a hard one to answer, isn't it? VI: Yes. He said, "Guys are over there in Vietnam. there, but they're serving their country

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of it or the result of it? R: None whatsoever, and I doubt whether too many people would because that would be something he would entrust rather personally to LBJ. G: Did LBJ in later years ever talk to you about MacArthur, particularly MacArthur vis-à-vis your

Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

conversations I had the pleasure of having with President Johnson . I remember distinctly that after the death of President Kennedy, the first time I saw him, when. we had disposed of what we'd been discussing vis-à-vis Great Britain, he asked me whether I

Oral history transcript, David E. Bell, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. position vis-à-vis, What about the administrator of AID's say, the secretary of agriculture in the case? You've got a lot of U S D A people out in these development programs -commerce people. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 2 (II), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for having done that story. So there was hostility vis-à-vis me, and the press corps was very apprehensive as to what the hell we were doing out there, and I never felt that we could say, "Well, we're here to go back and tell Johnson what the hell's going

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin and Harold Howe II, interview S-II, undated (Item)

, .:. : : ~~ gen era l aid dif fe rs g-..re atl y ~.'."!lo n g di ffe ren t E: ~_u ca. f tional gro ups . COn sti- .uct i o:n pro gram , OnC 8 Vi A sch ool \ GI Jed as 11 gen era l aid " in mo st peo ple I$ I eye s J: is cle a rly les s acc e pta ble tod ay tha n i

Oral history transcript, John Wesley Jones, interview S-I, 6/8/1974, by Richard D. McKinzie (Item)

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and that he wanted redoRe. I suppose from the po i nt of vi ew of the people do i ng it, it mi ght ha ve been unreasonable, but I've never seen him nasty to anybody, or vicious. Sometimes a little short-tempered. M: HoW did the NSC staff relate to the rest

Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

problems which this nation confront are prob 1ems I want to help solve through my own act i vi ty . II And as I 111 point out in a few minutes, there were, according to our last study, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

we can add that as an appendix. L: Yes. President Johnson--I went to see him in Palm Springs in the winter of 1964. thetic. He was vi siti ng there for a day or two. He was very sympa- He really had deep sympathy for people's illnesses

Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. Suggestive, I interpolate, of my growing conviction that he had made up 1ess than a vi ctory. II his mind to accept nothing LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Norbert A. Schlei, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: No, I can't recall any real problem, any failures on any of their staff members, and to this day General Bob Smith remains in my judgment a very fine individual. He was the associate, as I recall, and a very competent i ndi vi dua 1 . ~kNugh was 1ike

Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

background, I was born in Fort Worth, October 1, 1909. DM: Did ....you go to school here? HM: I went to the public schools here and also the private school here in the elementary and high school years. And I went to Vi-n, Virginia Military Institute

Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and the kinds of things that had kept the consumer philosophy so far removed from day "to day concerns of the average family--car repairs, package sizes, credit costs, et cetera. Of course, I ve always worked for my 1i vi ng. I farm. things. I I ve had a very

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 2 (II), 1/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in the draft legislation. In the end VISTA, or domestic peace corps, was one section in Title VI of the anti-poverty law. B; Were these men acting on their own in getting you to draw up this title just in the hopes that it could be included or--? P; No. I

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wil son -- I -- 3 vi: No. B: What were your first duties when you came to Washington with the Senator's staff? W: 'rJell, as an interesting

Oral history transcript, Marie Wilson, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

working in responsible to~ say, Walter Jenkins or someone? 1955-56~ were you Was there a sort of hierarchy on the staff? Who did you report to? VI: One, to Arthur Perry, and then right immediately above him vJOuld be Walter. It was really Walter

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, visit around, politick a little bit, but not always, in the afternoon. G: Make speeches or just vi sit with local s? J: Well, he did make speeches. He didn't like to drive and I used to-- I can remember there in just those first months driving

Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was the feeling at your level of how Johnson got so deeply invo 1ved in Vi etnam? Did they feel that thi s was a Americanis~ t~\/O-fi sted coming out, or that he just blundered in, or was he misled or he trusted the wrong people, or do you have as many

Oral history transcript, Sam Fore, Oliver Bruck, Dan Quill, & William S. White, group interview 2 (II), 1/20/1965, by Douglass Cater (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh GENERAL SEf.~VI CES ADMINISTRATION NATIONAL

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 2 (II), 2/18/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

--and that, in fact, the Paks were interested in aid from us for only one reason: to advance Pak interests vis-a-vis India. M: Which was not in our interest. K: Which was not to our interest, even though many people were quite sympathetic with the Pakistani

Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walter Mylecraine, interview S-I, 7/12/1968, by Jan Sofokidis (Item)

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Donald F. Hornig, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 3 (III), 2/27/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

might be interested in going at the. end of the semester after I'd completed my semester's work. So he had a vi sit to Austin schedul ed at about the end of January. He was going to come back to Austin and make a radio speech in favor of the housing