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

INTERVIEWEE: ROGER HILSMAN INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Hilsman's office at Columbia University, New York Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by identifying you, sir. your last official You're Roger Hilsman, and position with the government

Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh APRIL 23, 1969 To start your recollections--let's get it on here at the beginning. You are Chalmers Roberts and your current title is chief of the national news bureau of the Washington Post, is that correct

Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was, believe it or not, by Alexander Jackson Downing . And Alexander Jackson Downing was a landscape architect who lived on the Hudson, up ; north of New York City . He was very young but very bright and he believed in the fundamental principle of the English
-and Merrill; Hirshborn Museum; Lady Bird’s intellectual curiosity; New Mexico Church of Los Trampos.

Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was, and I was aware that he was a supporter of the administration, that he had been identified with it. M: You went off to work for the New York Times, I believe, for a little while. W: I was a Washington correspondent to the St. Paul Pioneer Press

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 7 (VII), 2/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEW VII DATE: February 12, 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: [Let's begin with] the assassination. Did the fact that the assassination

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that Ambassador /Henry Cabot/ Lodge took under those instructions--which was, in effect, to go to the military and say if you want to start something new, we won't be against you--those had the effect of setting in motion all the thinking and so on that in turn

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

House staff, and with Bob Kennedy. The March on Washington civil rights thing came on the scene very quickly after I left the government, and I became deeply involved in that. represented ~Ja Her I Reuther on the committee, both in New York

Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 6 (VI), 10/31/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, 1995 INTERVIEWEE: J. WILLIS HURST INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: LBJ Library, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: You want to start with-- H: New Orleans. G: --with New Orleans. All right, sir, go ahead. He called you there on--I

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)

part of the White House rolls. I'll tell one story in relation to coming here. I had done some work in the campaign of 1964 as an advance man first for President Johnson in New York City in June of 1964, which was the first time I had done any advance

Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Carey -- II -- 3 instead, wholly new merchandise, intellectual merchandise, with almost no surrounding analysis [or] data. It was very, very raw stuff because of the nature of the brainstorming that was going

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

for gotten precisely when I b egan briefing, but I believe it was in August. B: What exactly is a briefi ng officer, briefing whom on what? C: The press office has two briefings a day for reporters--two news conferences a day--at eleven and four, at which

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

: Is that correct? Well, of course it had been in the mill for some time before I arrived, and the history of the Department of Transportation is not new. It had been proposed over a period of twenty or thirty or forty years by several presidents, but President

Oral history transcript, Leo Gehrig, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Gehrig -- II -- 4 G: So you were the bearer of news--? LG: We were the bearers of the bad news. like it. I would say I never saw anything Obviously both

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

crisis was of course involved in that era. T: I might say that my first involvement with President Kennedy was as a result of the Bay of Pigs. I was in private life in New York at the time and was called down two days after the Cuban Brigade

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

there was the MURA issue, the Midwestern University's Research Association, which was a proposal for a new and very expensive high energy accelerator to be built in Madison, Wisconsin, with federal funds as a consortium of about ten or a dozen midwestern universities

Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to see was ~don B. Johnson. I think he was senator at that time. F: He was elected to the Senate in 1948. H: I think he'd just been elected senator. But even as a new senator he still had unusual influence in the Senate. As I slW, he

Oral history transcript, William Dayton Maclay, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

conversation indicated that perhaps it would be best if you would outline for us the circumstances of the creation of this agency, which I understand is a relatively new development. You were telling me before the tape was on about the creation of the general

Oral history transcript, Harvey O. Payne, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

reminiscences about because it seems to me that that was a turning point in Mr. Johnson's career. Anyway, what was your capacity in this 1948 campaign? HP: Well, let me make a few little comments here. In 1948 in my opinion he introduced a new dimension

Oral history transcript, Thomas H. Kuchel, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

had that kind of support in debates and in moving things through the calendar. I know I've skipped over the Bob Taft period of majority leader and I really don't remember too much about that. I was brand new; I was really overwhelmed with the place

Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

12, 1971 INTERVIEWEE : ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI INTERVIEWER : PAIGE MULHOLLAN PLACE : Dr . Brzezinski's office at Columbia University, New York Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's just identify you for the beginning here on the tape . . B: Right . M: You're

Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

I was back as the general counsel to [W.] Averell Harriman in the Commerce Department, who had then succeeded Henry Wallace. They had made sort of a reasonably clean sweep of the top echelon of the Commerce Department, and I was one of Harriman's new

Oral history transcript, William M. Capron, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

distribution. There were some other events that I recall, not in necessarily exact chronological order. There was a very important magazine article in the New Yorker--I'm blanking on the name. Do you know the piece I mean, that. G: Yes. Let's see, who wrote
involvement in CAPs of Walter Heller, Kermit Gordon, Dave Hackett, Dick Boone, Paul Ylvisaker and Mitchell Sviridoff; a December 1963 cabinet meeting regarding CAPs; the argument over whether to develop a new agency for CAPs; Capron's 1963 view of how a new

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 5 (V), 5/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] very interesting political news. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Those things were happening all over the country

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

it and trace it? M: I think the New York Times' version, which appeared a few days after Newsweek was published, is a better version, at least so far as I know. I saw Charles Roberts on the Friday before this piece was published for lunch. He had completed

Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Zorthian? Yes . it a little tough for him to do his job, doesn't it? Well, I had first known Alan Carter in New Delhi, seemed to be a pretty able guy . G: shall I say, That's another parallel, I think, India, too? He worked for Ken Galbraith
Cabot Lodge; the new regimes

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or July or when, because I did return to Austin later on. At any rate, sometime during the summer I went to see our old friend Dr. Will Watt in Austin and got the big news that I was, at last, pregnant. It was big news because from 1934 to 1943--of course
the war in 1942-1943; James Forrestal as secretary of the navy; the 1944 division among Texas Democrats; women in Texas politics in the 1940s; a woman's "I remember Johnny" speech about LBJ helping her find her son; receiving the news of D-Day, June 6

Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

[Mitchell] Sviridoff, who was running the New Haven organization, and Joe Slavet, the director of ABC in Boston. All of these organizations were organizations that had been initiated in various ways but they had some form of Ford support together with other

Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

or the appointment of a new one. In a business way, though, I've bumped into him perhaps half a dozen times, not on Defense matters, but during the period that I was General Counsel of the Army and in charge of the civil works program. Do you know what the civil

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

there. That's the first time that I had met him. I liked him very much. And then I replaced him; he had been gone a couple of months before I got there. I saw him in New York; we had dinner with him in New York before. Bill Benton gave me his apartment in New

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- I -- 3 about, were there at a small family dinner. I was very taken by the whole thing. I went back to Washington [New York?], and then he called me a week later, and I came back down. He said that they had done a background investigation on me
from diplomacy in current politics; the riots in Washington, D.C., following the assassination of Martin Luther King; LBJ's confusion over the riots, their purpose and leadership; being in New York City for the ordination of Cardinal Terence Cooke

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 3 (III), 3/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. Mulhollan PLACE: Mr. Bundy's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: This time the subjects I want to talk about--and for your time benefit I hope we can wind it up--are Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East, particularly. Suppose we begin with Latin

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the country and particularly the declining industries, like coal mining, where you were trying with the Area Rede velopment Administration to pump new skills into coal miners and the next generations. This was January. And I wrote a memo to the President

Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

for a short time. B: Of course, the surpluses diminished, too. J: Yes, the surpluses diminished, only in part, however, because of the food shipments, but also because of the acreage restrictions--the philosophy had changed under the new administration

Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh March 10, 1969 G: This is an interview with Mr. Herbert J. Kramer, formerly the Director of Public Affairs of the Office of Economic Opportunity, and presently consultant to OEO. Mr. Kramer was born in New York City in 1922

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 3 (III), 4/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. As one secretary said, "It's very nice to have the administrators announce the bad news and let me announce the good news." a decentralized system. You can do this beautifully under Yesterday we announced that the Secretary had given final approval

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 4 (IV), 7/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the chairmanship of Frederick Kappel, former chairman of AT&T, and he appointed three other members, and three members were appointed by the speaker, the Vice President, and the Chief Justice. That group submitted to the President recommendations for new salary

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

1968 when you were defeated for reelection. I'd like to begin the interview and just ask you what made you decide to enter public life and politics back in 19391 M: I had been a political writer on the old Oklahoma News, had covered a number

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

directors and advertising agencies that handle the media advertising. You know, when a fellow enters into a political race nowadays to run for a state office, it's almost like creating a new corporation and going into business. and a director

Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of Congressman Kleberg. Now those were the days--we were contempo- raries of a sort--where the young New Dealers around Washington congregated at all hours of the day and night, particularly at night. I came to Washington in 1933. F: You P

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, but one of particular relevance here, which was a conference in New York sponsored by an organization called Peace Without War. November I believe. It was last And there then that was all on the record. I gave a talk on the issues of press relations

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