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Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 4 (IV), 8/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • it was the posture of a really great man. Anyway, Udall acknowledged that, but it wasn't as important to him as the package he'd put together. Then also that day I had lunch with Bob Cahn, reporter of the Christian Science Monitor, who had learned from Sterling
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , and successively you have worked for the Wisconsin State Journal, the Milwaukee Journal, the United Press Association, Christian Science Monitor, the International News Service and as Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Record. You were co-author
Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of a bitch Zorthian, how did he get down here so quick to tip off and leak it to the press?" What we didn't know was that in that hour we were meeting, in Washington, after the President's speech, George Christian had briefed the press and had said to them
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 3 (III), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the names of some of these fellows; I can see them in my mind. The fellow from the Christian Science Monitor. John Cooley used to come over a lot, and he 24 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there. (Interruption) G: In June, early June, the Christian Science Monitor published an article speculating on whether or not [Allan] Shivers would take on LBJ in 1954. R: Yes. G: Did he have any fear that Shivers was going to run against him? R: I don't know
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Jacobson -- II -- 13 G: How about Daniel Sutherland? J: Don't know him well enough to-- G: Christian Science Monitor. J: Yes. I don't know anything bad
Oral history transcript, James A. Shannon, interview 1 (I), 4/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JAMES A. SHANNON INTERVIEWER: STEPHEN GOODELL PLACE: Dr. Shannon's Office, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 2 G: This is an interview with Dr. James A. Shannon, presently the special adviser to the president
  • and unrest among university students; the problems presidents have when they choose to operate by consensus and not fight unpopular battles; Shannon's proposals for science and education; the role of the Board of Economic Advisers; the Office of Science
Oral history transcript, Robert M. White, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh December 3, 1968 M: Let's begin by identifying you generally for background purposes. You are Robert M. White, currently administrator of the Environmental Science Services Administration, and I believe you are the only
Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 3 (III), 1/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • was successful, to our knowledge, in detecting every launch that it was in a position to monitor, both in this country and over the Soviet Union. The future of that effort will be associated with the 949 program which will place the satellite in synchronous orbit
  • Nuclear/non-nuclear submarine and fleet vessels; developments in intelligence gathering; military-industrial complex; Office of Science and Technology; chemical warfare; Robert McNamara; Clark Clifford; Congress
Oral history transcript, Charles Fitz Baird, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • forces or committees other than in Naval affairs? B: Yes, I'm a member of the President's Commission on Marine Sciences, Resources, and Engineering, which is a Presidential commission composed of fifteen members. Only three of us have had--four
  • Biographical information; Contact with President Johnson; President's Committee on Marine Sciences, Resource and Engineering; Environmental Service Administration; Sea Lab III; travel as Under Secretary; Assistant Secretary position; impression
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • heeded George Reedy's advice, Reedy never saw himself as a policy maker. He saw himself as the press secretary. G: How did it change when George Christian took over? D: Well, there again, you had a--I think that George Christian had played both
  • regarding Vietnam; LBJ's efforts to keep the budget under $100 billion; LBJ's credibility gap and LBJ's claim that his grandfather fought at the Alamo; LBJ's visits to Australia; Bobby Baker; George Reedy, Bill Moyers, and George Christian as press
Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . Furthermore, earth orbit would have put us closer to a space station which would have allowed us to do earth observations in science and so on earlier . I think this is going to happen anyway, but it would have happened earlier the other way
Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the real estate business, managing apartment houses in syndication in New York City. I had gotten into interpreting quite accidentally, at first for the Carnegie Foundation; subsequently the Young Women's Christian Association, the national board
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 51 (LI), 8/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • we're back. I guess what this really reflects is--I just remember we got back in the business of-G: Monitoring the--? C: Then Johnson gets this letter signed, I guess, by just about every southern senator on May second, which--do we know what he did
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • undergraduate work, and after World War II, at the University of Texas for my Ph.D. F: What did you get your Ph.D. in? H: Political science. F: Whom did you work with? H: Emmette Redford, who figures in this tale, really, very much. Because
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • for about fifteen minutes when the news came through. This involved a number of people on the White House staff as well as Kermit Gordon, who was Budget Director, and myself, and members of our staff. There was Jerry Wiesner, who was the science advisor
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 4 (IV), 4/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Committee, a real nice guy named Dick Sullivan, work with us, not in the sense of helping us frame the permit, but in the sense of a channel of communication between the committee and us and the SCLC [Southern Christian Leadership Conference]. On the day
  • ; Congressman Ken Gray's involvement in issuing a permit; Congressman John Marsh's effort to stop a permit from being issued; Senator Robert Byrd; Congressman Wayne Aspinall; laws governing demonstrations in Washington, D.C.; Castro's and the Southern Christian
Oral history transcript, William Narva, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But I would guess most of the time we were in there, Paul [Glynn] and--I can't recall who the other valet was there now; they have two air force--Ken [Gaddis]. Paul and Ken seemed to be monitoring the thing, and we would normally whisk in and whisk out
Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • among White House staff; division of staff along philosophical and personal lines; George Christian and TV networks; CBS-Cronkite Show anti-administration material; William S. White; Joe Alsop; animosities over humor; "corny" criticism about Medal
Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 3 (III), 7/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . There were differences in detail, but I think the industry knew that it had a safety responsibility, and in the end, unless they did a good job, it would reflect on them. G: Do you feel that it was industry lobbying that led the monitoring to take place
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • happened to be at State--it was Dix Donnelley at one point, Bob McCloskey was press officer at another point--plus whoever happened to be in the White House, Bill Moyers, George Christian, so on. So I had four different people, all with a perfect right
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to Hawaii. M: Back to Hawaii, as chief of the production effort under General Phil Davidson, where I stayed for the next two years. Of course during that time we monitored the \O/ar as it continued in Vietnam, and although our interests were broader than
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to him. F: Did you have an opportunity to form any opinion of his general behavior at the time of the funeral or of his take-over of the Presidency? H: From what I could see on our monitors and through our cameras, there was no question he deported
Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • then, as they had finished, the President turned to me and said, "General, you tell them what you told me last night." was into the question of the local boards. That, of course, Obviously, I--it could be merely a monitor letting somebody present his story--but I
Oral history transcript, Myron R. Blee, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • concern for monitoring the response of the staff to whatever requests were coming currently and to try to get them more sen­ sitive to the direction and concern of the White House, that basically I was an alter ego, a deputy acting in his behalf when he
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with Carmine DeSapio and Mike Pendergast, and then addressed the American Political Science Association. R: Right. G: Anything on that? R: Number one, a rather amusing little sidelight. There was a proposal that he go out to a baseball game, which Wagner
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 5 (V), 11/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the practice of law a little bit before he came up, went back to Austin, and wanted to do what he was doing. George Christian, also, of course went back to his public relations work. F: Larry, incidentally, could probably have been chairman of our State
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : Cooper has been absorbed into Monticello), and you have a bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia, a Bachelor of Science, and a medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia in 1944. You were an intern and resident at the Medical College
Oral history transcript, M. J. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)
  • , Samuel Huston College [later renamed Huston-Tillotson University], was why I came to Texas, and then later on, and deciding that since I taught in the field of history and political science, I said, "Look. I'm going out here to get a political
Oral history transcript, John E. Stavast, interview 1 (I), 3/12/84, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that's occurred to me about electronic warfare. Were there any restrictions placed on what you could use against the North Vietnamese defenses? I'm thinking in terms of how much do we give away to the Russians, who are obviously monitoring this? S
Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • guys if we don't mention the others you mean. E: There were so many there that were so good. most loyal guy that ever v:as. loyal guy. George Reedy was the Christian was the same, a very Jack Valenti was the most loyal little peckerwood, as long
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org , : ' ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh j Connell -- I -- 27 on Johnson's staff with George Christian, before he
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Congress. We had enacted a lot of good legislation in 1965, but there was still a lot of unfinished business to carryover into 1966. I had brought in a staff person to be my deputy early in 1964--John r~organ, who was an American Political Science