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Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

throughout the world, they were not paid. So the American press didn't come back and say the Vietnamese ambassador refused to pay Madame Nhu's bills, they carne back and said, Madame Nhu jumped a hotel bill in Los Angeles. myself. I read that in the press

Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh August 19, 1970 F: This is an interview with Mr. John A. McCone in his office in Los Angeles, California, on August 19, 1970. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mr. McCone, you have served both the Republicans

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of business, then, over and even W: Above everything else. F: Did you go to Los Angeles? W: Yes, sir. F: What was your feeling of the climate when you arrived there? above~~? I'm not talking about the weather, lim talking about the political climate

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, of course, was very, very happy to do . By the way, I have a copy of the speech that I made, the nominating speech, on tape . F: You probably have it too, or you will get it . I would like to have it, yes, if we don't . Let's wind up 1960 here in Los

Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

it done without one single My next responsibility word of criticism on the floor of the House . was to see that the registers were voided so that the Democratic people who had not taken the examination because they felt, in good knowledge

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

airports of the state. if they were going beyond the state, it would be put on the trunkline aircraft and sent to Los Angeles or New York or Miami or Seattle. But if they were going to other parts in the state, then the plane coming in from that other

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

one of them--Anna Lord Strauss, the former president of the League of Women Voters, formerly a delegate to the United Nations. Mrs. Norman Chandler, the wife of the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, whom I hadn't known before. he had asked one

Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

you say before 1960? S: Before he became Vice President. H: The reason I was asking was because I made a basic personal commitment in 1960 that predated the Los Angeles convention. Had I thought anybody would listen to me, I would have supported

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

had been state executive director for Governor Stevenson's Presidential campaign in 1956. In 1960 I had served on Governor Stevenson's national staff for a period through his defeat in the Los Angeles National Democratic Convention. Mc

Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Carolina or, it so happened, Los Angeles in my own state, that I would help him. And his answer was, "I'll get no publicity out of Los Angeles." This was a few weeks before the Watts bonfire. And incidentally, I went out on that, on the President's

Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

immediately launched an investigation. this cable. He never could find Now this is just a sidelight, except for one circumstance. You'll find in the book which the Washington Post correspondent and the Los Angeles Times correspondent wrote about Marigold

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

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

interesting and I think moving show of this kind on television the other night looking at Los Angeles and really asking the question, 'Where is this Society going to go?" and making it absolutely clear to everybody watching that if we don't do something about

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ZORTHIAN -- I -- 26 incidentally, both in his News~eek days and in his Los Angeles Times days; Ward Just; Johnny Apple ~n his first year and a half almost; Frank McCulloch, when -he was both Time

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

had accepted? M: Well, when I got the news I had just-- we were staying at a little offbeat motel that had just been refurbished out there in Los Angeles quite a ways from the hall, and I was sitting around the patio with a group of members

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

known him before. I don't remember. In the late 1950's, I would think. G: Had you had much contact--? T: No. Then I saw how the cards were stacked in Michigan, and I didn't even try to get on the delegation for Los Angeles because Michigan has

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

O'Donnell and Godfrey McHugh were obsessed with the idea of getting the plane off the ground, because the county medical examiner had told them that the body couldn't be flown out without an autopsy, and they were determined to get that plane off the ground

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

. He gave it to the TV Guide people, and they gave it back to him after they'd used it, and then he gave it to--gosh, 1 think to the Los Angeles Times. I don't know, the latter is a guess. And again, in let's say September 1968--1 don't know what

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Of course, a lot of things have happened since then. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh But at the time that was certainly heralded

Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Communism in government. that there w a s The story that I believe to be true was a luncheon held across from the Mayflower Hotel at which there was a Catholic priest, a fired correspondent from the old Times Herald in Washington, and somebody else

Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

it in the Herald Tribune, but I didn't associate it with me. I mean, I never have sought any kind of office, any kind of political thing--any! show how he dealt. But I tell this to Now to prove it to you, when I went to see him and I told him, "Mr. President

Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

born in Abilene, Kansas, until, oh, at least bring it down to when you came to Johns Hopkins. E: Very briefly, I got my bachelor's degree from Kansas State University. During my senior year there, I took the Foreign Service examinations, partly

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

in Cleveland against the navy Blue Angels. We were in Mustangs and the Angels were in their Corsairs. It was quite a thrill for me to be flying over Lake Erie and knowing that Mary Margaret's family was down there watching and my family was down there watching

Oral history transcript, Willard J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

back and examine it, and I'm not sure about this; I have it in my notes somewhere, I think they actually hired a public relations firm in New York of which he was a representative, and this was going to put the insurgency on the map. And suddenly

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

will, and criticism of the press for the nature and content and direction and tone of its coverage. I get a feeling the networks and the major newspapers, that are to me the bell cows, if you will, of national coverage, did sit down and re-examine themselves to make

Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

aggressive which was wrong . Does anybody go back and examine that? 0: Well, I don't know anyone who goes back to '45, but certainly there are people who are examining whether the present premises of policy are sound . In the State Department

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Nitze -- II -- 5 P: Have you been involved in any of the decisions, either in meetings as the deputy secretary of defense or for the secretary of defense or in just examinations at the Defense level regarding our policy

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

than he did of his family. Those people had caused this office to have good organization. Well, then we would have examinations and we expanded and of course, on account of our Latin American population, we brought into our post office many Latin

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

otherwise. But within the CIA, was his reputation equally illustrious? H: He was well regarded in the CIA, but one must realize that those who were working side by side with him and examining exactly what was going on did not think that he was the hot

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, whichever occurs earlier or for a period of years or until .,-----years after the death of the donor, whichever occurs later be available for examination by anyone except pers9ns who have received my express written authorization to examine it. C. If you

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

, disturbed about what it would do to particularly Some of the larger elements in our marketing structure--marketing economy-and doubting its implications in terms of how much that marketing structure needed a new re-examination since many had examined

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that is being sent to the Library, which I happened to have examined in the State Department in the last three weeks . They show that when in late January you had the,/Nguyen/ Khanh coup--Khanh became the head and by a coup---we faced the decision whether

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

examine these reasons. One is that there was in all honesty an overwhelming sympathy both in the United States and throughout the world, particularly the Western world, for the Israelis and their position of sort of the underdog. The other reason that I

Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. 397) this material shall not, for a period of 5 years or until 1 year after the death of the donor, whichever occurs earlier, be~itable for examination by anyone except persons ~ho have received my express written authorization to examine it. 3

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

picked your brains and, I suppose, examined all of the facets of the problem, before he would make up his mind to do something. Now, I mentioned other decision-making times. I mentioned ear- lier the fact that lid been first struck by his insistence

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

William Bundy a long wi th John McNaughton and maybe Mike Forres ta l. C: Yes. M: What was the charge for that group? C: Well, basically to examine all options to see if we could get out of the apparent rut. Those options included, among other