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Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, who was the co-chairman--Woodrow is now a federal judge-was the leader of the liberal wing and certainly was a Kennedy man. think the Reverend [Herbert] think that's his name, was the one Meza~ I who proposed the idea originally. I Woodrow

Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was [Commander Herbert L.] Ogier, I believe that's correct--what did they know about the South Vietnamese operations? Were they told, "Don't go near here on such-and-such a day, you may get mixed up in something," something to that effect? M: No, I don't think

Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

about the only one he can talk to, in that nature, and as far as I know, well maybe the only one that didn't quite do it that way was Roosevelt at first with Herbert Hoover. But before Mr. Roosevelt got out of his office he was talking to Mr. Hoover

Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

talking about--went into people's homes. ments. We walked the streets at night. We went into block meetings of Negroes. extreme militants. [inaudible]. level. We went into apartWe talked to some We saw a good number of projects which were being

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

for eight hours or seven hours or whatever it was. So his background then, he started working in this field about 1954. And another person [who is] interesting I should put [in here], he had a fellow on his staff named Herbert J. Waters. Herb Waters

Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

order of battle, the official MACV order of battle disappeared. There's nobody left. This is reflected, and I now believe quite accurately, in Herbert Schandler's book called The Unmaking of a President. And I'm now going to paraphrase a quote which

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

of total amount. We had persuaded the Treasury that eleven or twel ve bill ion was far better than their two or three billion. What I'm really saying adds up to the proposition that the heads of economists were on the chopping block as never before

Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, who I thought was extremely valuable to me, was Bernard Fall, who only blocks from my house and was almost a neighbor and asking for his assistance . lived a few I remember of mine . going to see him, telling him that I was going to Vietnam

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

?" said, "Yes ." He said, "How come John's a member and I'm not?" I I said, "Well, John was born to it . He was president of the student body at the University of Texas ." We drove two more blocks, three more blocks over towards the Texas, and we

Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robinson Risner, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Risner -- I -- 27 everyone into the camp in downtown Hanoi, behind one wall, which covered almost a block, so that we were all together for the first time. G: You mentioned the so-called

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

felt very strongly we should have mined Haiphong harbor at a time when it was not used very often, and therefore ships that would have entered subsequently would have been coming in at their own risk, rather than having them already in and blocking them

Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

in Oregon, and I asked him if he would ask the Senator what he intended to do about this, that I wanted to know now whether he was going to continue to block it, or was [he] willing to try to let it go through. Within a couple of hours, I had word back

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 4 (IV), 1/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Nitze -- IV -- 8 Toward the end of his tour of duty, some of the Congressmen came to resent the fact that Mr. McNamara had been so successful during the preceding years, and began to throw road blocks in his

Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, we had blocked off part of the hall because we had feared that we wouldn't be able to fill the hall . We had called all the union people and senior citizens people to get them into the hall . We had to tear down the part of the partition that we

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 3 (III), 8/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

[Lodge] left, of course, in June of 1964, and I'm wondering if-J: To run for president. G: Or get Scranton elected or block Goldwater or whatever. J: Well, to take an active role in the campaign. G: And I was wondering if this in any way promoted

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

-- I -- 26 D: That high stuff ~"as a CIA province. They kept me informed and as a matter of fact on one occasion borrowed some specialized equipment to try to pin this guy within a given block. somewhere. They knew he was in there And I've heard

Oral history transcript, Chris Dixie, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to me and every door was opened. I had nothing but the green light, and my assignment was to take this enormous black population and get it registered and block walked and get it to the polls. And I did that with great enthusiasm. My partner, Bob Hall

Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

several of us, including--oh, I always block on his name, the man who had been co-chairman of SANE before me, editor and publisher of the Saturday Review of Literature--Norman Cousins. Norman Cousins was there at this two thousand-person conference

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of professional experience in the academic world. But I also realized that I was probably blocked by virtue of the rather loose rule of thumb in the Senate that a member could not be on the Appropriations Committee and the Foreign Relations Committee. enough

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

probably was one of the stumbling blocks in the fact that those men--they had an opportunity, in my view, where the Vietnamese people would have followed them anywhere, but the leadership just wasn't obviously there. G: Tell me about the opinions within

Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the Eastern Intellectual Block, and their growing dislike or disagreement with Mr. Johnson. You are of this element. K: No, I'm not. M: Only in that you come from the east and you have been at what is considered the Ivy League institutions. how this began

Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

be a meeting between Kennedy and Johnson at the Biltmore Hotel which was campaign headquarters. We would go from there directly to the television program, but it would give us an hour to talk things over and to get ready. I arranged for a block of rooms

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

just didn't think we could do it . But that suited me, because I didn't think we ought to . M: You mean the Congress would block it? B: Yes . Congress has a peculiar relationship with the regulatory agencies, which I think it wants to maintain

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

that we--I think it's a good question as to whether we might not have tried to do it sooner. P: Has this been an effective means to bring back negotiations? R: It apparently took away the major stumbling block to negotiations. negotiators Our became

Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

announced. At an interview done, I think, the week before I was there, Mayor Collins had said,"Lawrence O'Brien knows more people on one block on Pennsylvania Avenue than he knows in the whole of Massachusetts." LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the Soviet Union. That was supposed to please them. They must have laughed and said, "Those idiots in America." It's what saved the Communists. That's another whole story. They said they'd get out in six months but they didn't. They stayed there and blocked

Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, John J. (Lt. Gen.) Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

guide was run through the other departments, not for a sign-off type of clearance where I could have been blocked by anybody's disagreement with the location of a commna, but for comment and recommendation. We tried to go back and forth and explain

Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Johnson and thei r Secret Servi ce detail. private si ght-seei ng. We followed Mr. and Mrs. They \'/anted to do some Vie follO\'Jed them at a respectful di stance and parked a half block behind them when they got out to look at something. But we wanted

Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of that sort, no. think maybe that we had by recommendations written to the White House and to our members of the Congress about block grants and resolutions from the governors' conferences. But I don't believe that I ever talked with him directly about any