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Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • this. There are several points about this that I'd like to ask you about. In the first place it says you were born in Mexico, and I'd like to know when you came to the United States. G: Well, Mr. McComb, I came to the United States when I was only about three and a half
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 3 (III), 8/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • from the outset, and I felt that it was a terrible mistake for the United States to take over as the press spokesman, the media spokesman, and so on, with absolutely no goddamn representation from the Vietnamese government. thought it was atrocious
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 3 (III), 12/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : I think it's true that both the experience in Korea and the experience in South Vietnam have made many people in the United States cautious about involving U.S. forces on the mainland of the Eurasian land mass, particularly the non-European part
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 3 (III), 12/11/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of Riverdale, NewYork do hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title, and interest in the tape recordings and transcripts of personal interviews conducted on November12, November23, and December11, 1968 in Washington
Oral history transcript, Jack Hood Vaughn, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : This was in La Paz? V: Yes. And this is a great operation, very inexpensive for us, and I think has enormous impact throughout Latin America wherever these centers are operated. I spent two years there and was transferred to Costa Rica where I did the same
Oral history transcript, David E. Bell, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • been separate until then, secretary of state for Latin American Affairs, administrator for AID for Latin America. of assistant and assistant When he took over from LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Patrick V. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of 1949, as amended (44 U.S.C. 397) and regulations issued thereunder (41 CFR 101-10),.I, , hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson
  • Biographical information; Mayor of Washington, DC Council and DC police force; recruitment; conflicting jurisdictions; coordination with government departments; intelligence unit; MLK assassination; Poor People's March and Resurrection City; 1968
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • decided to design it in conjunction with the large building where the School of Public Affairs will be, as sort of a single unit of buildings. So we made a study. We wanted to get architects who would do a fine design; who had an international
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • as a pretty optimistic book, certainly when compared to a lot of the rhetoric that one hears these days about slums and poverty and race and all the other capital letter dilennnas about America." magazine--that Hugh Sidey did this as a lead piece in Time
Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recordings and (per M. Gillette 6/17/81) transcripts of personal interviews conducted on December 3 and December 12, 1968, and January 7, 1969 in Washington, D.C. and prepared
Oral history transcript, Gerard C. Smith, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Gerard C. Smith of Washington, D.C. do hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title, and interest in the tape recording and transcript of the personal interview conducted on April 29
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 3 (III), 3/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Services Act of 1949, as amended ( 44 U.S.C. 397) and regulations issued thereunder (41 CFR 101-10), I, W. DeVier Pierson ,hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate. and convey to the United States or America for eventual deposit
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • are of adopting any course of action. And having done that, we then come down and recommend what we think is right. to follow is this: And I might say that the rule that we try If I were president of the United States, would I follow the advice that is being
Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of 1949, as amended (44 U.S.C. 397) and regulations issued thereunder (41 CFR 101-10), I, Luvie Moore Pearson, hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for deposit in the Lyndon Baines Johnson
Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Rockefeller of New York City do hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title, and interest in the tape recording and transcript of the personal interview conducted on February 21, 1974 in Dallas, Texas and prepared
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 8 (VIII), 4/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was not an attack on Nixon; it was an attack on America and on the--and not even on the vice presidency so much as on the presidency. We'd been at the point, almost, of going to war, with marines and everything else. The marines were on standby down there to go
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . And because the investigation was--well, although it was centered in Memphis where the shooting took place, the investigation proceeded to encompass the whole United States, Canada, Mexico, England, Portugal, and it basically was an FBI investigation. B
Oral history transcript, Leslie H. Gelb, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recording and transcript of the personal interview conducted on April 30, 1984 at Washington, D.C. and prepared for deposit in the Lyndon Baines
Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 2 (II), 7/25/1985, by Charles B. MacDonald (Item)
  • and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the transcript of the personal interview conducted on July 25, 1985 at Washington, D.C., and prepared for deposit in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. This assignment is subject
Oral history transcript, Kitty Mae Wirtz, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • forth, I, Mrs. Alvin J. Wirtz of Rochester, Minnesota do hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title, and interest in the transcript of the personal interview conducted on February 22, 1970 in Rochester, Minnesota
Oral history transcript, Lonnelle Aikman, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Chapter 21 of Title 44, United States Code and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth~ I, Lonnelle Aikman of Washington, D. C. do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest
Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 2 (II), 3/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , they started sending in their main force units and we were started picking up evidence of North Vietnamese regulars in the picture; and it became a very, very different ball game. M: Was there ever serious consideration of going up strong in the early part
Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Kennedy would never have been elected President of the United States. M: Didn't it cause you trouble within Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Javier Baz Manero, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 21 of Title 44, United States Code, and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Javier Baz t4anero of t'lexico City do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 2 (II), 7/9/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • -- Interview II -- 2 refer to as the Acheson plan. Do I infer properly that this was to be a joint United States-South Vietnamese announced program? B: As a matter of fact, there is a memorandum in there which is not mine. I should explain this. Let me get
Oral history transcript, John J. (Lt. Gen.) Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh March 7, 1969 M: This interview is with Lt. Gen. John J. Davis, United States Army. Today is Friday, March 7, 1969, and it is 2: 15 in the afternoon. in General Davis' offices in the State Department. We
Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended (44 U.S.C. 397) and regulations issued thereunder (41 CFR 101-10), I, Hale Boggs, hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for deposit in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therein by the authorities thereof, tapes and transcripts of a personal statement
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title, and i11terest in the tape recordings and transcripts of tl1e personal intervi.ews conducted with my father on July 26, 1969, August 20, 1969, and September 9, 1969, in Washington, D.C
Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • we call the rural South, in Texas, with its very strong views, which are sometimes reactionary. And it's difficult to exactly associate Mr. Johnson's position in the Congress and in the government of the United States with some of the views that his
  • Evaluation of LBJ's Senate record; political background prior to election as Mayor of Atlanta in 1962; work with President Kennedy and request to testify on behalf of Civil Rights Bill; civil rights programs in Atlanta; support of mayors of America
Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 2 (II), 11/9/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . That was the unfortunate part of it; in fact it was a terrible untruth, but that's the way it came out. So I think General Westmoreland and General Wheeler didn't think through what that impact would be in the United States. And that's what set the President to really
Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of America was that it described what was going on to the people abroad about the United States as honestly as it could. not thelOice of the administration. It was the voice of America, This happened to come at a time when there was some fuss going
Oral history transcript, John Brooks Casparis, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of all, can you recall the topic that you debated on? c: Yes. The first debate we had was Resolved: That the United States of America should join the League of Nations. Then another debate we had was Resolved: That the Monroe Doctrine should
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • talked to him about the small towns in America where the level of teaching was mediocre and certainly not competitive with the big cities, and how, if we had television stations serving those towns, films by acknowledged experts in the field could
Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • government and from the residents of Okinawa and the other Ryukyu Islands, for reversion of the island to Japanese sovereignty. This is of course a problem that still faces the United States government and may well come to a head this year. In any event, one
  • to Vietnam; McNamara's resistance to sending reserve units to Vietnam.
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 3 (III), 2/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • both in terms of widening the range of people that could come to the United States and study, who could listen to our Voice of America broadcasts, who could read our literature and our newspapers and our magazines, all of which were getting
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 6 (VI), 4/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • should be able to endure dilemmas and work ourselves out of them without necessarily taking it all out on the President of the United States, who inherited much of this problem after all. And hindsight is so easy to utilize. Where was this criticism
  • as a President; Secretary Udall; Lady Bird’s effort to make America conservation conscious; assessment of history’s judgment of LBJ’s presidency; LBJ’s interest in the space program.
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • have been there at that time. Was he already gone? J: I think he was gone. My memory is of Paul Harkins. In any case, at that point the MAAG was a very small unit, not heavily manned, not very competent. My contacts were mainly
Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Rice in 1920; and got a law degree from Texas in 1926; and then the following year, 1927, he was admitted to the Texas, Bar. From 1927 to 1930 he worked as a County Attorney in Nacogdoches and then1930-1936 he worked as an Assistant United States