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  • INTERVIEWEE: FRANK PACE, JR. INTERVI EWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Pace's office, 545 Madison Avenue, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: You're Frank Pace, and your last full time government occupation was in 1953 \"lhen you retired as Secretary
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  • Oral history transcript, Frank Pace, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Frank Pace, Jr.
  • . INTERVIEWER: THOMAS HARRISON BAKER June 18, 1969 B: This is the interview with Whitney M. Young, Jr. of the Urban League. Mr. Young, do you recall when you first met or knew anything about Lyndon Johnson? Y: I first met Mr. Johnson when he was in the Senate
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  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
  • Young, Whitney Moore, Jr., 1921-1971
  • Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker
  • Whitney M. Young, Jr.
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh March 13, 1969 M: Let's begin, sir, by identifying you. You're Charles Diggs, a member of the House of Representatives from the State of Michigan, where you've served consecutively since 1955, I believe. D: Elected
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  • Diggs, Charles Coles, Jr., 1922-1998
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh February 19, 1969 M: Let's begin by simply identifying you. You are Alexander Trowbridge and 80 far as your government service is concerned under President Johnson, you were first Assistant Secretary
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  • Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr.
  • INTERVIEWEE: JAMES C. THOMSON, JR. INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Kennedy Institute of Politics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Tape 1 of 2 M: Let's begin by identifying you. You're James Thomson, and you held several different
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  • Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • James C. Thomson, Jr.
  • Committee. B: How do the older hands help a young Congressman in cases like that, once they've singled one out? M; Well, they see him in his devotion to his work in committee, which is vitally important, because for all practical purposes the committees
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  • a Republican area to begin with. Kennedy's religion just made it more difficult to reach them. So whether or not they were convinced by the Houston speech, they were still Republicans. M: I see. Then after Kennedy was elected and Johnson elected Vice
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  • to be That ' s when he went down to see J ohnson. M: When Bobby down . 0: Bobby di d , now with the fruits of all the bitterness that 1·1as alleged . He was sent do1
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  • Reuther had been in to see either Califano or the President somewhere in that summer, picking up an intimation of what was then known as Demonstration Cities. M: What was Walter Reuther's interest in this? W: Walter, in a general social concern, had
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  • became president was really an extension of what he did while he was the Senate leader. M: Could you estimate in numbers the number of occasions that you did see him through the Senate years? Or was this just a continuous contact? B: Sort of constant
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  • , 1984 INTERVIEWEE: SPURGEON H. NEEL, JR. INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: General Neel's office, San Antonio, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: --the use of chemical agents which created, I'm sure you know, a great furor at one time. CS or tear gas and CN
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  • Neel, Spurgeon H., Jr.
  • Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Ted Gittinger
  • Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr.
  • Then a young fellow named John Rielly, R-I-E-L-L-Y, came on board I believe at the time Humphrey--let's see, it might have been 1964; I believe it was 1964, before Humphrey went into the vice presidency. He was an academic person in the foreign policy field
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  • it; this I know. M: Did you see a great effort to sway the President's mind? W: No~ on. because I was gone during a part of the time that this was going I think that by the time I returned and it was first broached to me, he had already made up his mind
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  • , and reasonably systematic consultation and presidential participation. M: In the Quadriad, was there the interchange with lower staff people, like there was in the Troika? H: Yes, but not so systematized. systematic. You see, in the Troika it really
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  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: William B. Macomber, Jr. INTERVIEWER: Paige E. Mulhollan DATE: M: More on LBJ Library oral
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  • Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • William B. Macomber, Jr.
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: JAMES M. NABRIT (Tape #1) INTERVIEWER: STEPHEN GOODELL More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
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  • appointments; black attitudes toward LBJ; Hobart Taylor, Jr.; RFK, Truman, Humphrey and John Macy; Nabrit’s switch to Democratic Party in 1964; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party’s seating fight at 1964 Convention; advising President on civil rights
  • Nabrit, James M.
  • Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell
  • James M. Nabrit
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 15 I rcn:cr.,ocr buck t iJC m;}int:.:incd consto.nt conto.ct through the radio on the airplane the :"li te HO,lSC to see Here the:: ivin~s coming
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  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
  • been others, but I don't remember. G: I see. D: It was sort of to get the ball rolling. G: What precisely were you given to do in that position? D: Well, the first place, I have to confess I knew nothing about anything. I knew zero. G
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  • : Apparently, he was quite popular and respected among the members. Mc: Whom did you see as his close friends? F: His closest friends, I would say, from my viewpoint, were Sam Rayburn and Wright Patman. I'm sure there were others; he was quite friendly
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  • . B: Did you see or [lear any signs of presidential ambition, say, in 1956? S: I didn't. I was not that close to him. I was not in Chicago in 1956 \vhen Jack Kennedy almost got the nomination for vice president, so I really \vas not that close
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  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
  • ''m sure I must have gotten to know Lyndon to some degree at that time.. That would probably be the first personal contact I could recall. F: Did you see much of him in the next few y e a r s , or do you have to go down into the mid-fifties before
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  • of State, offering me the appointment of Vice Counsel to Edinburgh, Scotland. I was in a dilemma, so I went to see my good friend, the president of the college, Dr. W. M. Jardine, and told him about my indecision, and he fired me. He said I could come
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  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Collier -- I -- 2 intense person with pent-up energies, as he was throughout his life. I can see him striding through those old halls at Sam Houston, towering over everyone else as the hall corridors were
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  • the President to see the anguish on Featherston's face as well as mine. Shortly after that, he made the appointment. B: Incidentally, is this unusual, this spotting you at a social gathering and remembering your position and to discuss this kind of affair
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  • to Washington in May of 1942 from Pennsylvania, \"here I had been state m,anager of International News Service. ing to get back to being a reporter, I managed ~~ant­ to get transferred out of the administrative and back into the reporting business
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  • friendship to Lyndon, and Lyndon was then running for the vice presidency. When he came through in 1960 I got on the plane--let's see, it was an old Electra--and we were campaigning all over the South. At a certain point late in the evening, he said
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  • with the Peace Corps. I was writing some speeches for him on the Peace Corps and doing some traveling with him. I did go to see the Vice President and asked if he could help me get a deferral from active duty, at least until I finished my graduate studies
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  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: Hobart Taylor, Jr. (Tape #1) INTERVIEWER: Stephen Goodell DATE January 6, 1969 G: More on LBJ
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  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
  • Taylor, Hobart, Jr., 1920-1981
  • Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell
  • Hobart Taylor, Jr.
  • with me, he can get in touch with me ." McCormack turned to Rayburn and he- said, "I won't be seeing Jack Kennedy, but Tom will deliver the message ." McCormack, by the way, was LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
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  • Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr.
  • -- 2 down to see McCormack in his office on the Hill. I said, "John, I understand you've said no to Jim Rowe. John, I'm down here to tell you that if you don't stand in we'll have a great deal of trouble. Because you are who you are and have a unique
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  • of it in his guest box up there, and still had it look like a guest list. F: He even had Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. He probably wondered what he was doing there, but he was there .. Did you see much of him during the vice presidential years? W: No. F: Was he
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  • served with? T: Well, let's see now. I was elected to the Senate in 1954 and he became vice president in 1961. Although I became a member of the Senate on Christmas Eve, 1954, I didn't come here actually physically until January of 1955. From 1955
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  • before or afterwards? B: He always gave me the impression of having a hell of a lot of important things to do when I would go up from the paper and go by to see him as Senator . He'd always be glad to see you, but he'd give you the impres sion, "Boy
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  • 1954-58; memo 85th-93rd Congresses, 1st Dist. Minn.; memo com. edn. and labor. Recipient Young Man of Year award Minn. Jr. CofC, 1957; Distinguished Service award N.E.A.; Legislative Statesmanship citation Council for Exceptional Children, 1969
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  • /show/loh/oh Cikins -- I -- 4 Taylor became staff director later--and I of course had been very close to Rogerson--I realized that while Taylor and I are to this day very good friends and we see each other occasionally, I wasn't really his alter ego
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  • liked everything that Mr. Mannheimer had. Someplace in my correspondence there is a letter from Goering to Seyss-Inquart to me. Where it has disappeared to today, I don't know, but I'm sure, as you see how disorganized we are, we will find it. In 1941
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  • NSC structure. I was the deputy member of the planning board, so I had three years of seeing how intelligence linked up with policy and how the Eisenhower Administration formulated National Security Policy. unimpressed. I was rather I thought
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