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

immediately assumed that somebody had duplicated the key. Now in the case of Vietnam, I've always had the feeling that we reasoned from the analogy of our experience in post-World War II Europe. We looked at Communist China as though it were Russia; we looked

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Johnson had originally offered me a post on the Securities Exchange That's right. Commission in about '63 as his first appointment, but I just was not interested in that particular post. So I was asked--I think I saw Fortas and he said I should come
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

: You practiced in Chicago? W: Yes. I first became an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago and served there for four years, and then became a Special Assistant Attorney General to prosecute a large mail robbery case in which a post office
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 5 (V), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

thing I knew, Johnson was in the act saying, "You can't do this to Gene Cox. He's a fine man." So we started looking at the case and we held it for some time, and the FCC got annoyed about it, so they went over to the Washington Post. And I do remember
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Bird was taking journalism, she could be, you know, like what's her name with the Washington Post. And in that way Aunt Effie certainly was ahead of her time, I think. Her dream was not of Bird marrying and having a family. Bird to have a real career
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Whitney Shoemaker, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

we call Long News Service which is an independent Capitol News Service. We correspond for eighteen daily newspapers in Texas. Among them the San Antonio Light, Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Beaumont Enterprise, EI Paso Herald-Post, Texarkana

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the convention to an end without a riot and a split in the party. So I guess that's how it happened. behind the door. I'm not sure what went on But anyhow, I think Rayburn engineered it. G: Did you know Phil Graham, the publisher of the Washington Post? M
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

then was--I'm not sure whether it was late 1963 or early 1964, but anyhow in that time span, post-Diem coup. G: Did you receive any special instructions in the wake of the [Charlie] Mohr departure? M: No, only that the problem with Charlie had existed
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

by_ evaluated this situation. I'd Senator Russell called me and said, "I've I need somebody to fill my press secretary's post right away, and the job is yours if you want it." I said, "Well, I definitely want it, but I think it would
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was Dean Acheson at that time. We had adjacent offices and of course we got to know each other both in a substantive way but also socially. G: What special briefing, if any, did you receive before you were posted to Cairo? N: I had quite a long gap
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

this--in order to get to MAAG, we had to go by this big Binh Xuyen post that's right in back of what was then MAAG headquarters, which was down in the middle of Cholon. Xuyen were, manning the ramparts there. Here all the Binh We went in and we started
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ella SoRelle Porter and Mike Porter, interview 1 (I), 11/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that lie took tn.at position as simply a messenger boy position and parlayed it into a reasonably influential post. P: Do you have any recollections of that? No, I don't, but that's perhaps the most logical explanation of it that I've heard. He
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John Wildenthal, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, of the three partners of Powell, Wirtz, and Rauhut. Senator Wirtz brought him back. Senator Wirtz, of course, had been under secretary of interior, or some sub-cabinet post, and instrumental in getting the [Lower] Colorado River Authority established
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, Corps of Engineers projects, reclamation projects, small watershed projects, post offices, were just big time consuming items. As I said earlier, congressmen were always on the phone concerned and worried about these. There was always a natural
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

from transfusions or from the use of contaminated needles, went up. I think there's just a normal corollary to the increased sticking of needles in arms. G: Right. What about this phenomenon that's called post-traumatic stress disorder? How do you
Agent Orange; health requirements for returning to the U.S. from Vietnam; self-inflicted wounds; drug use among soldiers in Vietnam; post-traumatic stress disorder and related problems; the psychological development of people before they join
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, L. Wade Lathram, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, rolls of barbed wire were all across the street, and there was a police post right across the street from me, and I negotiated that and negotiated out to the main highway, and started down the main highway, and all of a sudden my CB came up and Public
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Thomas D. (Tom) Mills, interview 1 (I), 8/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: Did you get to go out to those islands on that one? M: I was on that trip. Yes. G: What was he like on publicity during the post-presidency years? I've heard reports that he was rather shy about photographers and so on. M: He was. He didn't care
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 23 (XXIII), 8/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

1-A. I was at one post during World War II where we had four or five men who were actually cripples. It was incredible. Those men could just get around, and the army took them into the hospital, performed surgery on them, got them all fixed up
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Alfred Rosenthal, interview 1 (I), 10/29/2010, by Claudia Anderson (Item)

. And that I did not know while I was trying to get them into Trinidad. And I succeeded. And this is a story completely different than that. It's a remarkable story. Remarkable story. I go to the post office in Port of Spain, Trinidad. The lady, the cashier
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Harold H. Saunders, interview 1 (I), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Saunders -- I -- 20 East, and Walt brought from the Policy Planning Council [William] Howard Wriggins to be the senior person on that area. In the spring of 1967 Howard was preparing to leave and go back to his academic post
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

-establish the Democratic Policy .. Committee, which was the major staff available to the Democratic · · Leader. And as Democratic Leader, he held all of the leadership posts . that in the Republican Party are divided among four different
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Administration on this? B: No, I have no recollection of that . F: Did President Kennedy offer you a Cabinet post? B: No, he never did, F: There was some rumor on that, you know . B: Never even suggested it ; never offered me anything, as a matter
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. an opportunity to form an opinion of me and as to whether, in his judgment, I would be suitable to fill the post that was available. I went to Washington, met in his office in the old House Office Building, and had a very thorough discussion with respect
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. G: Is he the one that Johnson got so mad at? C: Yes . He was a very controversial guy, but I forget where he left us . I guess he left us in--we were taking him out to his post, and I don't know which post it was . But Johnson got angry at him
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on the Hill? A: No, we did very little of that. We testified, you know, fairly .1 frequently for the Joint Economic Committee, and occasionally before Ways and Means on major tax legislation. I testified a few times on post-war reconversion--we were
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

research . In 1949 I went to the Johns Hopkins University and spent one year in post-graduate training in pathology. � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

entered public activity when I was appointed to become the assistant prosecutor of Hamilton County in 1939, where I served for three years, took a leave of absence to accept a post in what was then known as the Office of Facts and Figures, which
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

. You hit him in the head with a cedar post . G: B: G: Let me ask you some more about the--we could go in any direction . We're not getting down to any bases here . I know that . Okay . Let me ask you one more thing about that staff meeting which you
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

came through here to get his support. W: I imagine it could have been quite interesting. F: I think it could have been quite. Did you ever consider taking any post with the government? W: No. No. As a matter of fact, in, I think it was, December
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 2 (II), 2/18/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 22 to them. And of course all of the rest of us, who kind of like to read the thing, had to smuggle it in. And no offense to the St. Louis Post-Disoatch, which is a good newspaper, everybody who had been getting
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the clippings from the Ho us ton paper. Let me know how my health problems and everything are being reqarded down there. Go by the Chronicle and the Post and see what you can find and nose around a little bit. 11 This is early in the campaign. weren't off
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was a controversial post. You could be asked t o do so much in directing the affairs of the Senate that you'd have to neglect your af fairs at h6me. I think he felt at t hat ti me tha t he was in a good, strong enou gh position back home that he could risk it. I
Moody, and Magnolia Oil; LBJ's 1955 heart attack; first post-heart attack appearance at Whitney; LBJ excels as a rural campaigner; LBJ in the 1956 campaign; Price Daniel; the state 1956 convention; as executive secretary of the SDEC; "Dollars
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1975, by Elspeth D. Rostow (Item)

the nomination of John Connally as secretary of the navy. The President had given me full authority to recommend for appointment the individuals I considered best qualified for each of the major posts in the Defense Department. I searched the country for the best
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, and it dissolved. That's what a task force is supposed to do. Well, this post-inauguration group was to be an operational task force. Berle was given the title of chairman of the Task Force on Latin American Policy. He was given an office in the new State building
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sarah T. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-- Interview I -- 15 what you were doing and give it narratively. H: Incidentally I wrote an article for the Washington Post that very afternoon. I don't know whether you have a copy of it or not, but as soon as it happened I wrote it down so that I can send

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

started? J: Well, he had to get some decent committee assignments. G: Did he have help on those? J: Yes, I'm sure he did. Mr. Johnson did. I can't tell you just what, but he didn't go on Post Office and Civil Service. He went on Armed
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 15 (XV), 1/4/1980-1/5/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

person, somebody who could and would do a good job for the post office, for the government, and for the congressman. When you got ready to go home and make a speech in Lockhart or Luling, first person you wrote was the postmaster. He would set about
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

mother's estate, or anything, we would buy a good-looking dining-room table or chairs. One of the family jokes, which was much resented by Luci, was that in trying to date a picture that appeared on the Saturday Evening Post, a family picture of Lyndon, me
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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