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

a lot of the Vietnamese special forces. The Assistant Province Chief in Ban Me Thuot was a man whose name was Y Bham, Y B-H-A-M. I know you know all this. Anyway, Y Bham was the hereditary king of the Rhade, and because the Rhade were the senior tribe

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

on the Government Operations Committee with Frank Ikard from Texas, he was senior to me, and with six other members of Congress- F: I must say, Jack, you have a facility, though, for getting put on I committees kind of like being Crown Prince to the King

Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

the Vice President in Uvalde . As that ceremony was breaking up, classmate of mine named Tom King . I was with a He presently is an attorney in San Antonio, and he was from Stockdale in Wilson County, the county seat of which is Floresville . Tom

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

was rea lly su l king all through the trip in Texas . M: And not helpful. 0: He was against go ing to the ministers , as the Speaker 1•1as . The Speaker and I sat together and watched it on TV and he was stunned, because he was totally against

Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Ambassador during the build-up of the crisis? AG: Oh, yes, continuous. And more important, the foreign minster of Egypt, [Mahmoud] Riad who was here, and King Hussein of Jordan. TG: Were they cognizant of the fact that Israel could not sustain

Oral history transcript, A.M. "Sandy" Keith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to Kennedy. [Richard J.] Daley made his commitment. He was, as you know, the king of Chicago at that time, and a terribly interesting and able man. He made the commitment, and, of course, John Kennedy promised him everything from soup to nuts. Anything

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the process of legislation in case there was a King George III again. That's what motivated them. So Lyndon B. Johnson knew all of the places where you could falter as you went along, and he tried to push it along. He had good 18 LBJ Presidential Library

Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 3 (III), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

on King Idris, again aimed at money. The third, and least likely, is that he will heat up the Arab-Israeli thing. Not that he wishes to go to war, but he wishes 29 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 5 (V), 7/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and he's treated as such. It is, in a way, rather embarrassing to travel to another country under that type circumstances. It's almost like the king of the world moving in on some inferior country. Many of them just don 1 t understand it. I think

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. It reminds me of the lines from Idylls of the King, the one called "Arthur and Modred." One day, as Tennyson relates it, Arthur and Modred were playing on the sand, and Modred built a sand castle, and Arthur kicked it away, and Tennyson says, "And ever after

Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

been sort of the kings overseas, and they wanted it kept on that way. Eventually I think it was just economics that forced them out of it. ministry finally took over on the thing. true of Diem. The foreign I think, too, that was I've always

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

Connally. fvlc: Was Mr. Johnson's popularity affected by his association with the Kennedys? F: Well, I would assume that it would, in a manner of -~- spe~king, naturally. Your guess about that would, of course, be as good as mine. Mc: Did you pass

Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

suburbs of Saigon and he discovered a herd of Santa Gertrudis cattle which had been bred at the King Ranch, I guess, and been transplanted to Vietnam. So the photographers could get a picture of him, he chased those steers around this pasture within

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 4 (IV), 3/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the mileage separation. Now, what was the reason for that? In the first place, your greatest technical problem occurs near the mid-point. This mid-point, which was somewhere down around the King Ranch or somewhere in that area, was basically an area

Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Carl Hayden, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 them. Then when I was elected to the Senate, Key Pittman of Nevada and Will King of Utah, two Senators, said that the southwestern part of the United States had never been represented

Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that was going on. well know. F: He never stopped working, as you So we sat there quietly tal king while the party went on. There was no detail that you ever really felt you ought to skip, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Harold J. Russell, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

a complete evaluation of its vocational rehabilitation procedures, and some of these evaluations have not been completed yet. But I was up in New Hampshire just last week where the report was finished and presented to Governor King. It outlined obviously

Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

were. Some people say we trained them for the wrong war. What's your response to that? L: Well, I don't know what war they were tal king about. G: Well, they say we trained them to be a U.S. road division-- L: Oh, I don't think we did that; I

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

of the British parl iamentary system in \'/hich the executive branch, the agent of the king was kept out of the meetings. t votes or something. I think we got thirteen But Lyndon was very mad about it, he never did come. G: He regarded it as a defeat, I

Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

tried to do to their sorrow--a different ball player but the same old game. I think it was John King Fairbank who said "We're sleeping in the same bed the '~e're French did even though we may be dreaming different dreams." And this is true. Dean Rusk

Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

at other times he has leaned in the direction of his military advisors that the thing to do with the war is to win it quick and get it over with and give it the old king-sized, Texas-sized push and try to end it in six months. I think he has vacillated

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

really done nothing in the countryside in the way of village development, or anything that would justify any kind of popular support for the government, other than sort of residual loyalty to the king. The basic idea was to try to duplicate some

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

Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Washington's Farewell Address and then I gave my speech attacking Johnson. Some wag in the gallery said, "There were two farewell addresses today, Washington's and Proxmire's." And then Herblock had a marvelous car- toon, and the cartoon had King Johnson

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it is characteristic of all of them, and Roosevelt was no exception, that the king can do no wrong and you're supposed to say "yes, sir, yes, sir, yes, sir." You're supposed to think that even beyond his capacities as a political leader he is the quintessence

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 5 (V), 4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on the ballot, and he stayed away from it. He had a surrogate in that situation who worked with the Governor [John King]. I should remember his name, but I don't. He was an important man politically in New Hampshire who had been in the administration [Bernard

Oral history transcript, Daniel Boone Porter, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harold H. Saunders, interview 1 (I), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. But Everyone ·was v,ror-king very hard 3.t things and with Joh'1so:i as Vice President we saw a lot of George Reedy wh" were fully liked and fully accepted ctnd worked with the Kennedy 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

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

Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. advantage, I thought~ I then analyzed the that there wasn't It was too great an that went to Standard of California. And I must say that while the Congressman was from Texas, where oil and gas was king in a real, real sense, along with cattle

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

was with the so-called leadership of the Negro organizations--Roy Wilkins, Dr. King, Whitney Young, I think the head of CORE then was Jim Farmer- F: Philip Randolph maybe? W: I'm not· sure whether Randolph came. But why it is so sharp in mind is that I

Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in San Marcos. Remember, you stopped there on your way down to the King Ranch? You said it was a rather modest house, but do you remember [any details]? J: It was a modest frame house, Victorian, as I recall. San Marcos was a center where a lot