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Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that. The vote was taken and Johnson was But he was recorded in favor of the bill. He could have just been recorded absent, but he recorded himself in favor of the will, which Bob sincerely hoped for but hardly believed would come to pass. It was a senti
  • Senator Bob Bartlett's Washington assignments and positions during periods of LBJ's service; statehood movement for Alaska and Hawaii and role of LBJ in the controversy; the Tennessee Plan for statehood acts; events of the day when statehood bill
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: MRS. E. L. (BOB) BARTLETT INTERVIEWER: DOROTHY PIERCE McSWEENY PLACE: Mrs. Bartlett's home at 2343 49th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: This interview is with Mrs. E. L. Bob Bartlett, wife of the late Senator Bob Bartlett
  • Senator Bob Bartlett's Washington assignments and positions during periods of LBJ's service; statehood movement for Alaska and Hawaii and role of LBJ in the controversy; the Tennessee Plan for statehood acts; events of the day when statehood bill
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • However, there were people who had been grandfathered in on that as exceptions to lead me to hope that somehow it might be possible to achieve that combination. F: Could you explain for our future audience what "grandfathered" means? M: Well
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the United States like that. He said, "What are you trying to do, Bob Hope me?" (Laughter) The LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • precious gasoline we're sending to keep this war going?" I thought to myself, "If it's exposed that will lead to enough public sentiment so they'll stop it." He replied that he thought this was a reasonable request, and he hoped it could be done early
Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • attention on Indochina, my main effort was to avoid the whole subject, to hope that it would go away, and to have contempt for those who thought it was worth M: o~r national time of day. Was it still possible in late 1963 to avoid g~tting involved
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Komer's office, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 F: Bob, let's talk about what we were talking about at the end last time. We were talking a bit about Libya, and I wanted to get Libya sort
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was very cagey about making any commitments along that line other than to say that he hoped we understood that our speeches were being read in Hanoi and being circulated in South Vietnam and that they would make it very difficult for the American position
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Novak -- I --2 M: What did he hope to accomplish in sessions like that, do you think? N: He thought I was antagonistic to him, and I think he was trying to wear me down. He was trying
  • ; Bob Strauss; Novak's ability to separate his friendship from his ability to write critically about politicians.
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • real hopes of being a possible candidate of the party in 1960? M: Yes, and he always denied it, even to his intimate friends like Bill Blair and Bill Wirtz and me. But down deep I think he still hoped. He knew that this time it couldn't
  • Biographical information; meeting LBJ in 1955 on a visit to the Ranch; 1956 Democratic Convention; Stevenson/Kennedy campaign; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 convention and Stevenson’s hope for nomination; JFK’s consultation with Stevenson
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • existed with President Kennedy or with Bob. With President Kennedy I had only a few consultations; Bob Kennedy in the years since I've been here--on housing matters; Ted however has been a strong friendship and association since that time. Not a family
Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , somebody had neglected to clear it. Not that there would have been any clearance problem, but they just had neglected the protocol ,and I was told by our congressional people that they were quite put out about it. So that afternoon I went into see Bob
Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of figures that my shop had produced about the attrition of the Viet Cong side was really true. They were going downhill and they had to do something desperate; they did it at Tet. The Tet Offensive, they threw everything they had with the hope of creating
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ) quote, "government"--at least preserve the existing government in the hopes that in the future we could encourage as much democracy as possible--and that would preserve the South intact as a country. as that, as I recall. It was about as general So we
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the story of John Vann. I could tell stories about the man for hours, but I think there's no point in that, because soon we hope to have Neil's book, and that will outline Vann's involvement in everything from birth to death. (Interruption) LBJ
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : No, not in the slightest. I came down first hoping to get back to Lin- coln Center, where I was trying to build buildings for the Performing Arts in New York; and deliberately set up a very tight schedule for the investigation of the Bay of Pigs So that within a month
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • for John Kennedy, I thought Bob Kennedy a little shit. w~s We had almost had a couple of fist fights in the course of ten years, one being in 1960 when I wrote an article in the New Republic before the election saying, "Everybody's sitting around passing
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • visits. He asked me to come in and said, "Bob, I hope you're going to stay on because you're one of the guys I. like." I think he called Ralph Dungan and myself in [at] the same time and had us to lunch on the second floor dining room, which
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • the White House such as the Secret Service and so on. Gu: Is coordination pretty good? Cooperation, maybe, is a better word than coordination. is very good. Clint Hill. Cooperation I don't know if you have met Bob Taylor or not, or These gentlemen
  • Biographical information; administrative assistant to Jim Cross; duties at the White House; Bob Taylor; Clint Hill; Art Godfrey; overseas flights; Presidential trips to Vietnam; communication equipment on Air Force One; impact of jet age on office
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • remember one time Bob Taft, speaking against federal aid for education, said, into it, it would cost $3, 000, 000, 000 a year. II II II If we get Well, we haven't been in it very long, and it's costing more than that right now, don't you see
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , telling them that the U.S. government very much hoped they would see fit to do something to help Vietnam. I made a few trips not only to Bangkok to see embassies for countries that didn't have embassies in Saigon, but also went out to Iran and Paris
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the Mission's relations with the press. of that group. Arthur Sylvester was part Bob Manning was also there. He was then still assistant secretary of State for Public Affairs. in that group as the Saigon representative. I was included Colonel Bill
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • dumb. Kennedy never used this I'm sure that Eisenhower didn't. But LBJ frequently "Now, you know, you got me into this last time, Bob, but now what about this time?" Perhaps the most notable occasion of his forcing us to constantly revalidate
Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it by any means. My predecessor, Bob Hill, had a very good relationship with Senator Johnson, and sort of opened the door for me; and I continued a relationship that existed, I did not create it. themsel ves . But of course the principals talked a lot
Oral history transcript, Chris Dixie, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that was at the county level, or was it at all statewide when you were involved? D: It was at the county level in the beginning. G: Was it? D: It was at the county level. G: Was it primarily labor or was it--? D: No, it was liberals, too. Okay. There was Bob
Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • time, and while you were poor, you didn't intend to be poor all your life and you had hope. But the word 'poor' applied to you right then, wouldn't really have described whether you were happy or unhappy, because you were probably as happy then as you
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that involved the work of the Congress. Didn't involve anybody selling out his own viewpoint. But it was manifest then that Lyndon was a helluva guy to get a lot of things done. Now, I hope before you get through, you under- stand they undertake to compare
Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • set out to [get Johnson]? A: No, I don't think she could help herself, frankly. mean by the Georgetown group. I don't know whom you If you're talking about people who live in Georgetown and who are in the press, such as Rowlie Evans and Bob Novak
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • into the details, and said, "I think that it has a lot of merit, and I hope you wouldn't have a lot LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 2 (II), 6/1/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • about which we don't know very much. ray of hope. Secretary McNamara also included in this report a He said that a young man by the name of David Nes was about to organize the country team under Lodge and correct all of these ,faults. And about six
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the border back in the jungle, and when they deployed the Americans into our area, well, one of the first fights the 1st Cav got into was outside of Pleime because the NVA had entered the country and attacked Pleime, hoping to get the ARVN to come down from
Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and others. M: Robert Bowie. L: I'd always hoped that the SP would write a history of this thing because it was a rather constructive idea, but it was poorly handled in terms of congressional aspects and public relations and whatnot. Bob Schaetzel told
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . But with Martin, there was far less communication on an intellectual level. I love the guy; and there is no question about his integrity--that just sticks out allover him. is, I hope and I really think, a thing of the past. But that situation Even the Nixon
Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • again. about." I said, "Bob, I hope you understand what this was all He said in effect, "Sure I do, but let me tell you that on this one the Joint Chiefs are absolutely adamant." That's why I mentioned the chiefs. "They said no four-star general
Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • come see him. I voiced the hope that he might be interested in becoming NYA state director. If he was interested I would make an appoi.ntment for him to see Aubrey Williams when Aubrey returned to the city. My recollection is that he was obviously
Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and less on separate staff operations than perhaps Mr . Acheson and Mr . Dulles and Governor Herter . Even there, it's awfully hard to generalize, Mr . Dulles had a very close relationship with Bob Bowie, who was head or chairman of the Policy Planning
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 1 3 of the full committee . George and John Kluczynski, Bob Jones [Democrat] from Alabama, who
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • does he look to someone else to direct his difficulties and to remove his problems. somehow c a n He hopes that a third party bail him out. M: So they didn't suggest anything either? B: They didn't suggest anything. There was nothing new
Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that he wanted eventually to leave the job. I found, by the way, that in the meantime other people were being considered. For example, Ray Sherer, of NBC; Bob Fleming of ABC; Carroll Kilpatrick of the Washington~. Just before Christmas, Carroll
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ; Estes Kefauver; Douglas Dillon; Pierce Salinger; Joseph Laitin; Horace Busby; George Reedy; Henry Fowler; Bill Moyers; Bob McCloskey; Frederick Deming; George Christian; relations with the White