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  • INTERVI EWEE: THOMAS G. HICKER INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Wickerls office, Washington Bureau, New York Times Tape 1 of 1 F: First of all, I know you came out of Hamlet, North Carolina, which I think is a very happy place to have been born
  • it. F: Didn't have anything to move with. H: Didn't have anything to move with. Purely on a political side I think that the majority of people supported him in my own state. F: New York? H: We were concerned politically. We had every indication
  • campaigning in the early primaries against Kennedy. And so I pretty much stayed out of that one. I went to the convention as a correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune and did some writing. I did have the distinction of being the first reporter to carry
  • The President doesn't like your work, so for God sakes, be careful." I could, from time to time, sense a nervousness when Maggie Higgins was out there. She came out from the [New York Herald] Tribune and did a series of bizarre stories. She was only
  • a remarkable supposed to be talking about Vietnam here . We are Anyway, I had known him in the war together, Korea, and he had--Maggie Higgins and I were covering Tribune , and Joe's and Higgins was working for the [New York ] Herald attached himself
  • INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD H. NELSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE· PLACE: Mr. Nelson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with your association with the Peace Corps. How did you get involved with that? N: I had met Bill Moyers and Sarge
  • and Kennedy’s staff; Diem’s assassination; Vietnam; trips to New York and Benelux region; LBJ as president; transition after assassination of JFK; the 1964 campaign; civil rights meeting with black leaders; LBJ’s ethics and relationship with staff; Walter
  • : Durbrow, yes. L: Yes. G: Did you know about that? L: Well, yes, we had a fair amount of that kind of difficulty. something new. Here was Here was something new, ambassadors having as a part of their activities a military organization and so forth
  • 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
  • after 1960 South Vietnam might even be able to reduce its defense budget. But in 1964--and I'm referring again to the interview that you gave to the U. S. News and World Report-you said that when you left Vietnam in September of 1960
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Nay 13, 1969 F: This is an interview with Mr. Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., in his office in New York on Hay 13, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mr. Weisl, you're out of Illinois, right? W: Yes, sir. F: Tell us a little
  • . involvement. Then after that, because the war didn't end and because more and more people became conscious of it, there was the Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. Meanwhile, right around the same time in New York City--where I didn't
  • was another. M: Did any of them ever do it? N: No. The only successful effort came in connection with our Johnson book. It was rather widely syndicated in newspapers in installments. The [New York] World Journal Tribune, short-lived, was started in 1966
  • . They were real angry about it, especially John Taber of New York and Clarence Brown of Ohio, Wigglesworth of Pennsylvania [Massachusetts?], and so on. So, Lyndon Johnson helped me. with Sam Rayburn. That's when I really got acquainted And they helped me
  • with that library they built particularly. We looked at some of their commercial buildings--one I believe in Lincoln Center in New York; looked at commercial buildings as well. I remember Connecticut General Life--we looked at their building, Mrs. Johnson
  • Building of LBJ Library; Heath named Swedish Ambassador in March, confirmed April 1967; Russell Tribunal; three groups in Sweden: hard-core ant-Americans, Communists, pro-Americans; race and Vietnam both issues in Sweden; experiences of Tanzanian
  • Clements was also impressed with your independence and helped get the money from a source in New York or some place, a liberal source. M: They did raise some outside money, and I never did know or pay much attention where it came from. The Committee
  • Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh of his earlier experience with the New Deal--the early
  • . Here we were in Dallas and some reporters called New York, their home offices, to find out what they knew. I ran out into the parking lot and a cop was sitting there on a three-wheel motorcycle listening to all the traffic on the police radio. Maybe
  • everybody about it, and the Chicago Tribune did, and they damn near got their ass in jail. And they should've. But all the questions from the Congress, all the questions from the media, the answers sometimes are well known, but they are given
  • people are going to get hurt or killed. G: Did you have an opinion on the way that Hanoi was apparently able to convince some Americans that we were, in fact, bombing the civilians? Harrison Salisbury, I think, of the New York Times, was perhaps the best