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Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : June 1, 1976 INTERVIEWEE : CHARLES BOATNER INTERVIEWER : MICHAEL L . GILLETTE PLACE : Mr . Boatner's office in Fort Worth, Texas Tape 1 of 1 B: You have asked that I give you a thumbnail sketch of Lyndon Johnson . I hope it's a thumbnail
Oral history transcript, Chris Dixie, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to recount your reminiscences of that. D: Well, I'm sorry, I was not at the September convention in Fort Worth. The reason for that was that I was the lawyer for the steelworkers union and there was a big strike at the Lone Star Steel Company up in East
Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that we were having a terrible time in Korea. And we got reports that the French were not using our aid properly, that it was sort of being stacked up and it would arrive and it wouldn't be opened and wouldn't be distributed to the fortes, and things
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wasn't likely to make the front page. And I think the savvy correspondents out there knew this, where this was the case. There were cases of telegrams from home office, particularly in television, saying you haven't got enough battlefield material
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
  • Antonio Thursday, I'll get on the back-up, and we'll go to Houston, and from Houston, we're going to go up to Fort Worth, and then we're going on to Dallas. I'll see you next week when we get back to Washington." I said, "Fine, sir." And we took off
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • if I make a suggestion to you?" I said, "No." He said, "You shouldn't have paid me twenty five dollars." Well, I said, "I think that's worth it." And he said, "But you didn't examine it carefully. If you'd turned it around and looked on the back
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Antonio to Houston and Fort Worth to Dallas? W: lid been on the whole thing. F: Did it seem to be going as well as is generally reported to be? W: Yes, it did. We were all aware, however, of pulling and hauling back and forth between the [Governor
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • a series of other assignments without being related to intelligence, until finally in the early sixties, I took over as commandant of the U.S. Army Security Agency School and Training Center at Fort Devens, Massachusetts. The Army Security Agency deals
Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that they were actually election reports. that we bought those reports. I had a hard time convincing him They promised me--Sam Fore promised me--that he'd send me a telegram about the election at Muskogee, Oklahoma. When I got there about 11 o'clock-- F
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rather -- I -- 9 R: In every other town, in San Antonio and in Houston and in Fort Worth, we had arranged to have one reporter and one
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , they stop at the nearest village, they round up all the villagers. villagers. They put them in a column of two's and march them down the road. fort. They don't march them up close to this little They'll march them up within a hundred yards of it maybe
Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , it seems to me that the nature of the M-16 might discourage-- N: Yes, that may be one reason why we didn't have more of it; it wasn't worth it. Because you can't just barely shoot yourself with an M-16. You do shoot yourself. G: Another one
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in November of 1955? H: Well, I can answer that specifically. In 1950 I was with Headquarters Army Field Forces at Fort Monroe, Virginia, as deputy G-3. manding general was General Mark Clark. The com- A most outstanding officer. I went to Korea from
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 1965 I received a telegram from the White House--that was the way they did it in those days--inviting me to a bill-signing ceremony on the Public Works and Economic Development Bill, which was one of I guess maybe thirty-five or forty bills that DSG had
Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in Vietnam without a horse. But I went to West Point from the National Guard. Then I joined the horse cavalry at Fort Bliss and then went to the cavalry school in 1933. I stayed there for six years; I was an instructor after two years in courses there. G
Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • went . But then I came back by boat on the Lurline , and during that time the purge story came out . was a list sent as far as I know . I believe there I was then on the boat and I kept getting telegrams from friends who--one of them would say
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the Marigold activity. M: You'd only been there a couple of weeks earlier. c: Right. So basically it was a question of catching up. And then Wilson asked [David K. E.] Bruce if I could stay there through the talks. Bruce sent a telegram back
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of dollars and millions of dollars worth of sophisticated equipment, and we have thousands of civilians servicing the sophisticated equipment. We have Air Force generals, but not in uniform, running around advising them, and so forth. F: CIA. G: And I
Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that Westmoreland cancelled out the deployment of an armored reconnaissance regiment which was then at Fort Lewis ready to depart for Vietnam. He said, "I don't need them," you know, "The Viet Cong have screwed themselves up; I don't need them." But that only
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in Europe. So there were a lot of people being trained there. Well, this particular operation got blown, and I didn't have anything to do in the agency, so I got out of the agency, volunteered for the U.S. Army, was inducted at Fort Meade, went up
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh I did pick up all kinds of secondary reports on it, but nothing that would be worth recording . M: How much involvement did you have in your position at the Pentagon
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • worth in Honolulu and some more on the plane. It was a pretty good example frankly of how the Johnson Administration operated M: when it got into a-- It's consistent with some of the points you made last time, the way the decision got made. c: Yes
Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • as fast as we could. Added a group or two, expanded the groups that existed, and tried to have an element in the Pacific, an element in Central and Latin America, an element in Europe, the Tenth, an element in general reserve at Fort Bragg. I believe we
  • DePuy's work as Director of Special Warfare under Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans; forming special forces in the army; White Star Team operations; Operation Switchback; DePuy's work as Director of Plans and Programs under
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • up of people who knew what they were doing and knew how to work with each other . And that was just a black cloud hanging over everything in the latter months of 1964 . I guess we sent some of the most strongly worded telegrams--"Tell them to get
Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on, of course, and saw a number of other countries. We might stop this a minute and let's find out what we have in the files on this. I reported my talks briefly to the President and the Secretary of State. files. Those telegrams will undoubtedly
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • really had something to say or whether it was going to be a case in which I simply restated what has been said to them repeatedly, but we felt that it was worth taking a chance. I tried here to keep the press from building up my trip out there, and I
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was: "You will be named as a star witness to the political trial in Riom, which will bring your past husband into the trial as one of the first people who had lent or given money, bribed, if you want to use the word, the French government
Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of an ambassador's job in heading up a mission was not Ambassador [Henry Cabot] Lodge's strong forte. And they thought if they sent out a deputy who was experienced as a deputy, that he could somehow pull together the country team operations, which are normally
Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that they were there because--this is something, incidentally, which I don't think you've mentioned in your questions but maybe it's worth mentioning here. In carrying out the Taylor-Rostow recommendations and bringing in this new equipment and bringing
  • in 1963 when Nolting was on leave; attitude of presidents of Vietnam; Ambassador Lodge; telegram of August 24; Krulak-Mendenhall mission; John Richardson; the coup; Trueheart leaves Vietnam; David Nes
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : This was a program that went into very high gear in about Mayor June of 1964, and it was a program in which President Johnson himself was personally very interested. We literally got three telegrams a day from the White House giving his latest advice on areas
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • as a lark. At the end of my senior year, when I had received my degree, I was appointed as a youngster to the faculty with the privilege of taking graduate study. I had no sooner started this when I got a telegram from Charles Evans Hughes, the Secretary
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to be violated by any journalist worth his salt. But if he thinks you are using that as an excuse for other purposes, your so-called security just won't last five minutes. Establish ground rules in dealing with the press clearly and without any misunderstandings
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • was particularly enraged, I got this telegram telling me that the Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister's advice-which had been to me to let this man go quickly--telling me that this advice was right, and I was really furious to think that I would see the day when our
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , there was one episode worth telling. remember Buzz Busby. I won't You I thought Buzz was one of the ablest guys I'd ever met--modest unassuming fellow, just a very good mind--and he told it as it was--to LBJ, to anybody else, which I thoroughly admired
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . He said, "Why do that? Just go ahead and take your commission, and then you can come on my staff as my military aide." Which I did. I went to Fort Sill and did my officer's basic and came back to the Vice President's staff as his junior military
Oral history transcript, John J. (Lt. Gen.) Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of Foreign Intelligence in the Department of the Army in the Pentagon, from about 1957 to about 1961. Then I was transferred to the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland, where I was the Director of Production from 1961 to 1965; and then back
Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that the people were lazy, but not otherwise. M: Let's move to that August beginning of the final days or months of Diem and Mr. Johnson's interest in that. Does that begin with the events surrounding the August·24 telegram that Mr. Hilsman writes so much
Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 keep up. We assigned an officer to him who saw that he got reports and telegrams regularly. He took a great interest
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of thing that he and I would talk about. He never asked my advice on policy. Hell, he had four- star generals, and had [Robert] McNamara and later--what's his name?-Clark Clifford came in as secretary of defense. that he asked for advice about policy
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • had riots and destruction of millions of dollars worth of property in other parts of the country, and the killing and maiming of many people, and of course that didn't happen in Birmingham, thank goodness! B: Then later on that spring, in June