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Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • as something more than just another newspaperman. A: Well, I was born in South Carolina and grew up there, graduate of Clemson College--it's now Clemson University. I started working on newspapers in my hometown of Greenville and was a Nieman Fellow
Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • budget, which I have published for many years, which the National Planning Association has published for many years, which some other organizations have published--that is an example of what should be in the economic report as the integral starting point
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • political science academies and associations, and you are a writer and a lecturer. If you would like to add anything to that, by all means please feel free. S: No, I think that just about covers it. G: I'd like to begin this interview if I can
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • who, I believe, sort of took Sherman Adams' place ; and I talked to Dave Kendall, who was special counsel to the President ; and I talked to Romer McFee, who was Dave Kendall's assistant . And they wanted to know if I believed in the free enterprise
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Hearst Newspaper Bureau, in May of 1968. So I came into this coverage of the presidency in what was the twilight of it. I covered the campaign, the Humphrey-Nixon campaign, and I covered Mr. Johnson as president during the 1964 presidential campaign
Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • got anywhere. The significance of the Bane Committee Report, I think, was that one of the Board of Trustees of the American Medical Association was a member and the chairman of their Council on Medical Education was a member. So their endorsement
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • newspapers . Do you feel that in these early years Mr. Marsh was more important than Senator [Alvin] Wirtz? B: There's no way to compare the two of them . � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the 1960s, when he was st ill a senator? W: No, sir, I had no personal association with him other than in 1956 I was delegate to the Democratic National Convention and was the platform representative from Alabama, and I got on the elevator at, I believe
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the print, the editors and publishers of newspapers business? Z: How much he did it I honestly don't know. At that time, as you know, there were occasional flare-ups of Johnson. Wasn't it that period that he called the UPI desk here in Washington one
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • remember at a dinner with Harry McPherson, who was another old friend of his and of ours . And I used to see him at larger parties every now and then, but it was not an extensive association . But I think it's fair to say that he regarded me
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that he could go directly to him for reasons, I guess, of just not knowing him that well personally. M: Did Mr. Johnson's, what the newspapers called his style--his provincial Texas background-- did this bother the sophisticated business leader
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • road right in front of your house, with delivery service for newspapers and everything else. In addition to that, of course, one living there would have the benefit of the Waldorf-Astoria tenants because they would have a place to park and free air
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , then know it was going to be surface-to-air missiles and all that it turned out to be . And we associated Kosygin's visit in early February, with sort of refo rmalizing good relations, good Communist-bloc relations, between Moscow and Hanoi . So
Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to you about his presidential ambitions prior to the convention? H: Never did. F: Did you st~ out because of your United Nations' association, or simply because you didn't want to take a stand on that? H: The minute I became an international civil
Oral history transcript, Donald A. Williams, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 30 years that I've been associated with the Soil Conservation Service. I think this fact is a great credit to those American
Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • would not go wrong in "talking from the heart." This was rather interesting because the President, during my close association with him during the course of the - confliat in Vietnam, frequently made known his views, his ideas, or his intentions to get
Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there I went to the United States Army with a commi ssi on and stayed in the mil i tary for about three and a hal f years, including two years in Europe. I came back and was given the opportunity to edit the weekly newspaper in Milledgeville. I think
Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOHN J. CORSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Corson's residence, Arlington, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with your association with the NYA. How did you get into the organization? C: I got into the NYA, to the best
Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • never was intimate with him or closely associated with him, even after that time. McS: Mr. Fountain, during those Senatorial years are there any things that stand out in your mind as far as either issues or legislation that you particularly think
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ; LBJ-Sam Rayburn relationship; 1960 convention; LBJ’s acceptance of VP nomination; Lady Bird campaigning in North Carolina; civil rights legislation; religious issue; Senate luncheon; LBJ’s trips
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 a good friend of the newspaper publisher in the area, Mr. [Eugene] Pulliam, and it seemed to me that my press
  • Biographical information; House Banking and Currency Commission; Sam Rayburn; Inter-American Bank; International Development Association; Hoover Commission; campaigns for Congress; Kennedy appointment to the Treasury; Chairman of the FDIC; May 1965
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of books and a number of articles in public finance and social security and other associated areas. During this whole period, since I've joined Brookings, I've always been interested in public service, and largely through my friendship with Walter Heller
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • you have the idea you were W: Not at the time, I didn't give it much thought--in that area, an~~ay. F: How long did this association continue? W: It continued to the present time. F: So that any time he was in New York he was likely
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • associated with the New Yorker since, what, 1944 or thereabouts? R: That's right. ~1: And you are well-known as an author of numerous contemporary hi stor;cal type \;JOrks, Senator Joe McCarthy and The Genera 1 and the Presi dent, a fairly well-known list
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • what should I ask this fellow for?" He was trying very hard to help. G: You mentioned Israel. Were there any special problems associated with getting Israel to contribute something to the effort? F: Yes, with every country there was a special
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: RAY S. CLINE INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Dr. Cline's office, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 C: I suspect that I have a few vivid impressions of President Johnson that might be of interest to you that are not so much associated
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of the others, and particularly when they would put generals in the job, as they did two or three times, the press, and particularly the American press, was very alien to them. There were many of them who regarded newspapers, particularly the Vietnamese
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and back and forth, along with other problems. But anyway, I think that President Johnson simply associated me with the Vietnam problem, and he also knew of my newspaper back ground, and they had to have a spokesman, and there wasn't anybody else he
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • found a great interest in public service. had that interest ever since I was a young man. I've My father, who ran a weekly newspaper in a small town near Fort Wayne, was interested LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at a lot of the newspaper columnists' analysis of how I'm Lyndon Johnson's protege, not that I consider that not complimentary because I really do. I'm a great admirer of President Johnson's, but President Johnson did not really know me until after he got
Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • anxious to do anything he wanted. Of course I've always felt that, and I think subsequent events again have proved right, the newspapers did this to him. You know, Nixon has been in now while we're talking nearly two months. According to the press he
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1981 INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD HELMS INTERVIEWER: ' TED GITTINGER PLACE: Ambassador Helms' office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Ambassador, if it's all right, we'll start. H: Okay. G: How far back does your association with the CIA go? H
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • at that point, working with Mac Bundy, and he called me over a few days after I joinej the government just to talk. So that was the first time I met him. M: Turned out to be a rather close association, didn't it, as time went by? J: Very. M: Quite
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • trip to Asia. But he didn't want to get associated with a loser. Now, that reputation went out everywhere--that Lyndon wouldn't fight and take a licking, under no circumstances would he risk a licking. And that hurt him in a great many places. Then he
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • at a very delicate stage in our association just at that time on settling the claims, and the State Department--I speak of "the" Department as if it were an anonymous entity--which you do, you know, when you are in it--but actually by that time I really
Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , and comments in letters and newspapers and that sort of thing. But how or why I particularly came to his attention, I do not know. Incidentally, in this chronology I failed to note one of the more interesting experiences of my association with the President
Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : STANLEY KARNOW INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Karnow's residence, Potomac, Maryland Tape 1 of 2 G: Mr. Karnow, would you begin by sketching for us your professional association with Southeast Asia? K: It came rather late in my career
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the airplane, waving to the television cameras and so forth. G: Did you have any association with LBJ while you were at the Peace Corps? P: None. In fact, the first time I was ever in the White House was on November 22, 1963. I was working at the Peace
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • depended on the radio, newspapers and direct view t6 acquaint ourselves with appearances. And it happened that I had not seen Mr. Johnson until I came to Congress. Mc: What was Mr. Johnson's relationship with members of the Texas delegation? F
Oral history transcript, Willard J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of Transportation, were you opposed to this or favorable? S: I think that for, partly perhaps for sentimental reasons and the fact that the association with the Treasury had been such a long one and such a happy one that generally in the Coast Guard the first
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , graduated from North Dallas High School, then took a B.A. degree from the University of Texas and an LL.B. degree from Yale Law School. M: From what I've read in the newspaper clippings, you made some friends at the Yale Law School that later had some