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Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Kong, the more mature, older, some of the World War II and Korean [War] vintage correspondents out of Hong Kong, Tokyo, Bangkok, points east and west who would come in periodically to cover. Even Time magazine's bureau chief at that time, a fellow
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • for the White House--a highly improper activity. what in the world he was talking about. None of us knew So I walked by the ticker when Allott was testifying, and here it comes over the ticker that t:ley find that he had drafted the legislation
  • candidates; Fortas confirmation hearings; LBJ and RFK Commission on Vietnam; speech writing; legal work for President; Trans-Pacific Route Case
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that was translated into the specifics of economic policy. Let me modify that. War II we applied a lot of Keynesian economics. In World As a means of restraining purchasing power, we put in as many tax boosts as we could get through the Congress. of the war
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • there, and I wasn't quite sure, and so I said, "Seventy-seven." After we got through and finally after the nomination, we showed up, sure enough, with seventy-six. And all the press says, "My gosh, how in the world did you figure it that closely?" I never
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • the Second World War. I was in Korea and at various posts and stations around the world with the Marine Corps. I stayed in the Marine Corps until 31 July of this year, 1968, when I retired and then was retained here as a civilian. Go: Could you tell me
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
  • , Alabama. I was born and I was inducted, or about to be inducted, as a draftee in World War II and elected to go into the aviation cadet program. I was selected for that; went into the services; had my first assignment in Miami, Florida, for basic
  • on board presidential aircraft; maintenance and security for Air Force One; service as combat pilot in Vietnam; description of the 1967 round-the-world trip with LBJ
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of an obsession. That obsession was that Communism, China and Russia, were a monolithic combination determined to Bolshevize the world and that we had to stop them and that if we didn't stop them in Southeast Asia this would spread. If Vietnam fell then Laos
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and we worried lest both the kids and the faculties were becoming lethargic. F: Yes, I remember that complacent generation. It worried me as a history professor. M: After World War II, we always blamed it on World War II because you had a double
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • apparent that the aviation people, I think primarily airline, and aviation-oriented people in the Congress, and primarily Senator Monroney, would not accept a structure which permitted the Secretary to have control over accident investigations, even though
  • Biographical information; CAB appointment; Northeastern Airlines decisions; air congestion and stacking over airports; role as the Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation; contact with Vice President Johnson; maritime strike; establishment
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was vice president and made his 1961 trip around the world that pointed that up for me. on his plane. We were There were about twenty-five, I believe, correspondents LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • targets for years from Franklin Delano Roosevelt on through to Johnson's time--substantial numbers of these were passed. Slum clearance, housing, the poverty programs, the interstate highway systems, airline and airport legislation, and the development
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the world. So [when I was] at the age of four, my mother, leaving my father temporarily, went to France, where we were educated by governesses in Paris. Then in the summers we would go to Switzerland. We had a very safe and I would say spoiled childhood
  • Engelhard’s family history; marriage to Fritz Mannheimer; leaving France for Spain to avoid testifying against Mr. Daladier and Mr. Reynaud; conditions and traveling during World War II; fleeing to Argentina and later returning to Europe; moving
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • early on in November. G: That was the around-the-world trip, is that right? C: No, that was the trip to Asia where he met with the Asian leaders [and Ferdinand] Marcos, and then they had a meeting of the SEATO treaty nations. I believe
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of it as the world ; the three points formed by the con­ junction of the various curves remind some people of land, sea, and air . The triskelion itself, in a very abstract sense, with what I can identify after it was pointed out tome, looks sort of like a man
  • Biographical information; CAB appointment; Northeastern Airlines decisions; air congestion and stacking over airports; role as the Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation; contact with Vice President Johnson; maritime strike; establishment
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: NEWTON mNOW INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Minow's office, Chicago, Illinois Tape 1 of 1 F: Nr. f~inow, just to set the stage, let's identify you briefly--how you came to work into this world of national politics? M
Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • by the name of Leon Gray, Colonel Leon Gray, and he was a Distinguished Service Cross winner in World War II, probably one of the top reconnaissance pilots in the business. In fact, he was. An incredible pilot, ex-airline pilot. And the First Fighter Group had
Oral history transcript, Willard J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • served through World War II. Where was your duty then? S: My first duty was at sea in the Gulf of Mexico. flight training and became an aviator. Later I went on to During World War II, I served on both the west and east coast in anti-submarine
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh SCHULTZE -- II -- 24 from an economic, engineering and political standpoint, it is awfully hard to leave a dam half built. Now you get into World War II you could do it. I mean you just cut it out. But for something like
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : "And ask him if he could get somebody from the Palm Beach residence of the President to go over to the National Airlines where my papers are at the counter." And so he called and did not reach the Vice President then, but he must have reached him later. I
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • it out that way . M: Did President Kennedy live to regret your appointment? I'm referring especially to the Northeastern Airlines decision that made the newspapers and news periodicals . B : No, as a matter of fact, I always felt sort of bad about
  • Biographical information; CAB appointment; Northeastern Airlines decisions; air congestion and stacking over airports; role as the Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation; contact with Vice President Johnson; maritime strike; establishment
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Biographical information; CAB appointment; Northeastern Airlines decisions; air congestion and stacking over airports; role as the Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation; contact with Vice President Johnson; maritime strike; establishment