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Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 2 (II), 7/25/1985, by Charles B. MacDonald (Item)

and the terrain, and Palmer was new to the scene. As an example, one of ffly more successful tactical moves was when I foresaw that the -:!nemy would try to take over the two northernmos t prov inces. As I saw thdt coming, we began on a priority basis to build

Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

here, that we were trying something new, things were going well, we certainly had our difficulties. G: Have you ever read Halberstam's book, One Very Hot Day? M: Yes. G: Do you recognize the people in there? M: No, not really, and I

Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, dumb, academic questions and finding out who knew what and so on. So I guess I was probably the first 001 analyst to go overseas, back in 1950. I went to London to set up the exchange of NIEs, the National Intelligence Estimates, which were new

Oral history transcript, Lonnelle Aikman, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in a sort of formal way we all went out into the State Dining Room and then there were news people there and they circulated and they interviewed other members of presidential families. That's why this got such wide coverage. We got around a thousand

Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

to change the system . The system was changed, and in thirty days thereafter a general election was held and I lost under the new system . wide plurality at-large election of nine men . It was a city Just the mathematics of the vote, the Negro vote

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 40 (XL), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

start to look at these papers, and now I look--you look at these papers, for sure going up there in 1966 with a State of the Union Message that I can tell you, I remember that night, [it] just blew their minds. A dozen or so brand-new programs. Nobody

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 12 (XII), 8/19/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to a movie, but sometimes I would go with women. There was a lot of intellectual fodder for us in those days. G: You mentioned reading books. Did you read many magazines in this period? J: There were weekly news magazines and sometimes to put myself

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 3 (III), 12/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. In 1958 you had a big Democratic majority elected in the Senate. How did that change the politics within the Senate? C: In 1958 there would have been a tremendous influx--I remember 1958. There would have been a tremendous influx of new Democrats

Oral history transcript, Jay Cutler, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1990 by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cutler -- II -- 8 watching them happen. It's hard to believe--the little boy who grew up in Brooklyn, New York, who didn't know there were supposed to be such issues. G: Now the bill

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to be intuitive judgment. He didn't seem to arrive at his conclusions from data garnered from recent issues of the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times. But somehow he knew; he seemed to have read widely and picked up much by ear. And it was often fun being

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

sobered up from that FDR binge." L: (Laughter) That's the way he wrote to him. B: So apparently LBJ was perceived as much more conservative than he had been when he was a staunch New Dealer in the late 1930s and early 1940s. L: Yes, he had to do

Oral history transcript, Perle Mesta, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

[telephone] I had friends here, I used to know the Gores very well. I used to visit the Gores. came here and then married in New York and we had an apartment here. I We lived in Pittsburgh but we always had an apartment here in the old Willard Hotel. F

Oral history transcript, Ben H. Powell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Harold L. Ickes, Senator t~irtz offered Mary Rather the position of being his secretary and going to Washington as a new experience. And she obtained the approval of my father and John Rauhut to take· LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: INTERVIEWEE: MICHAEL FORRESTAL INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Forrestal's .office, Shearman and Sterling, 53 Wall Street, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: You're Michael Forrestal. You were a Far Eastern expert with the National Security

Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 2 (II), 4/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

academic year, really ready to tell my tenant to get out of my house back in New Haven, and end my lease here and so forth, that I think Gardner made a stronger plea to the President for authorization to leave his job . It was during the week that Gardner

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

and here by the Federal Reserve ; the Treasury, of course ; Federal Reserve, by Al Hayes of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Mr . Combs handled the foreign exchange transactions for it . they met in Basel and other places in Europe . And It seemed

Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Relations Committee] which Humphrey chaired from about 1958, I believe, on until he left the Senate. So she was involved in foreign policy to that degree. handled that subcommittee. She She is now living in New York and keeps running for office up

Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, It was a navel thing in those days. Helicopters were quite new in 1948, and nobody had ever done that before. My own idea of it was that it was a stunt, but I don't know what anybody else thought about it, what Coke thought about it. G: You don't know

Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Reversing it slightly, but when you were secretary of the interior and he was a relatively new senator, did you all have much opportunity for a professional relationship at that time? c: Yes, we did because the Department of Interior is a conglomerate

Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Spot was a good spot into which to introduce new people into the Department of Defense. His concept of the General Counsel's office was as a sort of a utility infielder; that you could utilize somebody who had been legally trained in a variety of sort

Oral history transcript, William H. Darden, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or how much money to devote to it, but I think as far as the Senate Armed Services Committee was concerned, it was predominantly in favor of developing new manned bombers. G: It always seems to have been a question of the air force lobbying against

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to the annual race track event that Jim Auchinshcloss used to give in New Jersey, took a bus trip from the train over. Mr. Rayburn said, "I want to sit with you on the bus trip. I want you to help get this thing through when it comes back from the Senate. It's

Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: There again that was a close vote. T: A very close vote. against it. I spoke for it. [Clinton] Anderson of New Mexico led the fight And Lyndon helped to defeat it. G: Do you know how that defeat came? Who the crucial senators were? T: No, I don't

Oral history transcript, G. Preston Smith and Ellen Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Here's your picture in the College Star. S: I wrote articles of an editorial character and put them in the Star. I didn't go out and get news; I wasn't a newshound, don't you see? G: Yes. Now, in 1928 there was a drive to improve Evans Field. S: Yes

Oral history transcript, C.W. Price, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, the election judge took the returns down to the Alice News. G: And that was Luis Salas? P: Yes. He took them there, and I was standing at the desk when he gave the returns, if I'm not mistaken, at that time [to] a fellow named Cliff DuBois, who worked

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 6 (VI), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, but that they wouldn't get anything out of us that they'd like any better, and they'd better just go with State and with Navy. The reason we did this was because we wanted to keep our powder dry in the event of a new kind of question in a different context where we might

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

issue? G: The Social Security amendment. H: The disability amendment. That was in the mid-fifties. G: Right. H: Johnson, you have to keep in mind in order to understand him, was a protege of Franklin Roosevelt. He always considered himself a New

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 6 (VI), 9/16/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on New Year's. Do you recall that at all? J: Yes. And I certainly recall Aunt Effie. They were very close. Mrs. Johnson used to go down to see her and she was very close to Aunt Effie. Aunt Effie left her I guess some of the Alabama property. She

Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 2 (II), 12/6/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

else's mind, but I can just tell you that he was for the Strauss nomination originally. There were very few people opposed to the Strauss nomination. But there was one very strong opponent to that nomination, and that was Clint Anderson from New Mexico

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 8 (VIII), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to New York and back. And he asked me what I thought. I said, "If you're going back to Alabama and you're going to live there, you don't need this trip." He went, and I give him good for it, but I still think I told him right. But he ruled otherwise

Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of photos, talking about their completions of the Soviet world and so forth. It was something very new for me. But somehow--I don't understand even now--it was perhaps a matter of traditions in the family or something else, I don't know. But I opposed

Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1968, by William S. White (Item)

for Congress, and he was elected. So I began to see him then on the floor of the House and had a chance to appraise in a small way, what he was doing. I can't say that at that time we were very intimate. There were reasons for that, You see, in the New Deal

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 3 (III), 7/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (TAPE iP5) July 31, 1969 This is a continued session with Mr. Henry Fowler, former Secretary of the Treasury. The interview is in his office in Goodman Sachs and Com- pany in New York City, 55 Broad Street. The date

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 3 (III), 9/14/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Parallel in 1968. T: Well, I never felt in that period the bombing was doing any real good although it was better than no bombing at all. It was never really effective until the Nixon Administration, when our air force had their new bombs and much

Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 1 (I), 7/3/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)

do recall very vividly that he was a reporter for the Washington Daily News, the ScrippsHoward paper in Washington, at the time the billboard bonus law of 1958 was enacted and at the time it was amended in 1959. The Department of Commerce kept

Oral history transcript, Payne Rountree, interview 1 (I), undated, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

to El Paso and then what other places do you remember? R: Up through New Mexico, Deming, I believe it was. And then on out through Arizona. We crossed the Guadalupe River at Blythe. G: That’s the Guadalupe River? R: Yes. They ferried us across

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 6 (VI), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Committee. G: Do you think Johnson grasped the significance of the space program early on? R: I don't know whether he grasped it, but he knew it was a new vehicle and he wanted to grab it. G: Did he see it as a vehicle for political advantage? R: I

Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: That would have been some time, I imagine, in the late 1930's after you had moved to New York with American Air Lines. Did you have any close personal contact with him then, either social or political? S: I could not claim I've been an intimate, that would

Oral history transcript, Ralph Moreland, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

. Well, he drove us three men around the Ranch and showed us the Ranch, which was most pleasant, a beautiful site. At one point there, he reacted to a question of Nash Phillips' as to how he thought the new Administration's economic policies were LBJ

Oral history transcript, Milton R. Young, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

talk to the President after that second trip? V: Yes, I did. of that time. I was there three times. You might want to look through some of my news releases I remember I dealt with the Vietnam War. meetings twice with President Johnson. I attended