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- #3) INTERVIEWER: STEPHEN GOODELL March 5, 1969 G: This is the second session with Mr. Donald Baker, the general counsel of OEO. Today's date is March 5, 1969. I'd like to start today by asking a question which was partially covered last time
- that is scary ; it could have been somet hing more serio us · than paint -fille d ballo ons. I don't know how you deal with a Dalla s-typ e probl em. I dontt know wheth er you'r e inter ested in sidel ights on Dalla s, but I was down there some time after
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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- that as a preliminary. S: All right. F: How did you get involved in it, how was it broached to you, and what in effect were you supposed to do? S: At that time, I went up to Justice Department from Dallas the last of February 1965. So as you recall the Selma
Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
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- . Johnson happened to be in Austin at that time and was gracious enough to come down to the meeting. So I've known Mrs. Johnson through the broadcasting field, and [I met] the President, as I recall, at a meeting in New York. senato~ He was then U.S
- just strictly politics. You of course are a long-time Californian, and as you know, California was crucial in '60 to the ambitions of Lyndon Johnson, and again in '64, and I think in '68 also, so you have those quadrennial periods. begin, when did you
- discussion last time, Dr . Baker, one aspect of our two prior meetings has occurred to me that I thought I might make a matter of record . I have not undertaken any preparation for our discussions . I have not known in advance the subject matter that you
- Building, Washington, D.C., and my name is David McComb. First of all, I'd like to know something about your background. I know that you've been in Washington for a long time. You've been president of a prominent lumber and hardware concern in this town
- Macy; possibility of Home Rule; time spent with Congressmen; D.C. Committee; involvement in architectural changes; 1969 budget; working groups of Council; DC’s peculiar problems; commuter tax; Congressman Broyhill; Jack Nevius; Congressman Archer Nelsen
- government. In this picture, we were always walking a difficult line of wanting to assist the cities in their relief and rehabilitation, but at the same time not wishing to have the occasion of a riot made the reason for a city to get preferential treatment
- is in his office in the District The date is March 5, 1969, and the time is 11:40 in My name is David McComb. First of all, Mr. Fletcher, I'd like to know about the circumstances of your appointment as deputy mayor. F: that was probably the most exciting
- , and as a consequence, he was hospitalized and \.;1as in a recuperation situation until the spring of that year. And I don't believe that he returned to v]
- and civic affairs in 1960. And all during the fifties I had an association with the state government and served as head of the executive staff of the state government at one time and attended, I think, nearly all of the Democratic conventions from the time
- independence to union with Greece--which had been at one time the acceptable Hellenic goal--for his own interest. He wanted to, and we think he continues to want to be the president of the independent republic, of a full UN member state. So we think his
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell
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- INTERVIEWEE: FRANK MANKIE'"wICZ INTERVIEWER: STEPHEN GOODELL PLACE: Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 G: I think last time we were talking about 1967 and the last topic we discussed was your urging Senator Kennedy in 1967 to run in 1968. M: Well, I think
- for lunch in his offices in the Department of Justice Building. As we were about to sit down, a gentleman whom I didn't know at the time came in to just say hello to Tom Clark, and it happened to be Lyndon Johnson. He stayed for lunch and we had a visit
- /exhibits/show/loh/oh February 19, 1969 M: Let's begin by identifying you, sir. You're Edward Re, and you're currently since January of 1969 a United States Judge in the Customs Court. Prior to that time you served for most of the year 1968
- . He was born a freedman in Washington; thus the name Freeman was no coincidence. He looked around to find a dental school that would accept him in the l860-s, and there were about four or five dental schools in the country at that time. Harvard did
- during that time I was very friendly in my attitude and very supportive in my attitude towards Senator [Richard] Russell. I wrote all the editorials for this weekly newspaper and never passed up an opportunity to praise Senator Russell during
- . C: The first time I ever ran for public office was in 1961, when I ran for the office of mayor here in Detroit. Prior to that time I had been practicing law here in the city. F: You ran, I gather, pretty much as a lone wolf. C: Yes, I ran
- in 1954. M: Right. Is that correct? How well did you get a chance to know Mr. Johnson in the period when he was still leader of the Senate and you were a young Congressman? D: I had occasion to needle him many times because at that time he
Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- as to whether or not to deploy the Anti-Ballistic Missile System; a similar meeting recently at the time of the decision to suspend bombing totally in North Vietnam. And at the occasion of the using of Army forces in Detroit at the time of the civil disorders
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- and Reserve Affairs. Mr. Fitt, you were appointed Assistant Secretary of Defense by President Johnson and approved by the Senate on October 6, 1967, which is just over a year ago. Prior to that time, from '61 to '63, you were a Deputy Assistant Secretary
- : Could you date that information? B: That was a matter of a very short time after the legislation came up, which was in March or April, it would have been formed. G: You were aware of the activities of the task force--the early task force
- , but-T: By recollection is about three ,veeks. It could have been four, but roughly three '-lecks. F: So there's a lot of time to whittle and hone. T: That's right. And you'll recall that, at least the aftermath accounts indicate they uere r
- don't need this force very often. You'd have a large static force that would--if this were its training, and if this were its mission--they'd really have nothing to do most of the time. B: Obviously, the Pentagon and Washington itself, as you said