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Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

an adequate job of monitoring the delegated programs like Neighborhood Youth Corps, [those] run by other agencies? 23 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org

Oral history transcript, Floyd E. Dominy, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

beneficial to Arizona; the Secretary had his own people up there monitoring me to be sure I didn't commit the Administration in advance of having clearance from the President and the Bureau of the Budget and everybody. F: But this of course is wnat you have

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

were formed within the White House and without to constantly be monitoring the issues to see what could be done, whether ridicule was the answer, what the issues were, whether or not we should really play up the anti-Social Security stand

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

himself could write the answer, they'd ask the question over again. You just had bing-bing-bing-bing; they were asking questions as if they were sitting like you are asking me questions. G: Were you monitoring all this cable traffic? M: Sure. But I

Oral history transcript, Rutherford M. Poats, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

or so. So I'd say that this is probably the most inspected and audited and monitored program that we have anywhere. Even so, I don't say that it's not possible and doesn't happen that there are corrupt diversions or simple theft or Viet Cong seizure

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

well, and you would get telegrams delivered [at] all hours. .veyed to him. He wanted them picked up instantly and con- We had the assignment on several occasions of monitoring Drew Pearson when Johnson himself could not hear the Pearson broadcast

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

there would be an announcement. I monitored the press briefings. Nothing happened. Nobody saying anything. The next day, the next day, the next day, I was really up a tree. I said, "He told me he was going to do this." And day and day went by! Then one morning

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

a briefing at the State Department that started something like this. "There's a report in the Reuters News Agency this morning based on a monitored radio broadcast from Hanoi that the North Vietnamese foreign minister said, 'If the U.S. would do A and B

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 14 (XIV), 9/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

back the southern Democratic opposition in the old southern Democrat-Republican coalition. We used to carefully monitor our roll calls and committee action to see if we were making progress in that area. And we were. We were reducing, little by little

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

operational? O: It clearly was operational during some period, until the burglars were apprehended. I do remember that the problem with [Alfred] Baldwin and others who were monitoring my phone was a little difficulty in receiving clear signals.My phone

Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

irregularities. Does this mean that Shivers should have been more actively involved in monitoring some of the boards and agencies? S: No. No. The Land Commission was elected with the field. And he had no responsibility for other departments except- G: But he

Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 1 (I), 6/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Boatner -- III -- 29 But he did expect the reporters to be their own monitors of their news . I think reporters do tend

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

at the State Department that started something like this. "There's a report in the Reuters News Agency this morning based on a monitored radio broadcast from Hanoi that the North Vietnamese foreign minister said, 'If the U.S. would do A and B, there could

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or not." (Laughter) But we moved on everything. We started monitoring government purchasing. I'm sure if you go into the records you'll see we wouldn't even allow the government to go out and borrow money over a certain amount without a clearance from the White House

Oral history transcript, George McArthur, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, and the Poles, they held a swing, one way or the other. Now that commission would monitor very closely every U.S. military person or piece of equipment that came in or out of Vietnam. If I got some replacements out there I had to show by name, rank

Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

station KVET; Coke Stevenson; LBJ using a helicopter to campaign in 1948; monitoring the 1948 election returns; LBJ's kidney stones; Paul Porter; legal action surrounding the 1948 election and box 13 incident; the Democratic Executive Committee vote

Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

duties in LBJ's 1964 campaign in the Office of Regional Coordinators at the Democratic National Committee; monitoring public support at campaign headquarters; Crooker's nomination to membership on the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB); staffing Crooker's law

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

no great desire to and really needed to be at home because our maid was having problems at the time. So she asked me to monitor the wedding on radio and television, which I did. I went to have a visit with Monroe Bush, husband of Nancy Bush, who worked

Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

hundred feet or a thousand feet, and the aircraft's taking its commands from the navigation set, the flight controls are slaved into the course and everything else, and all you're doing is monitoring it on your radar. And as you approach the target, you

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

we had direct lines to the exchanges--Manny Cohen would be there and a couple of his people, I think Pollack was one of them; Larry Levinson was in for awhile on that; and we just sat there and monitored the market for a couple of days. And then when

Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

you been able to monitor developments in Vietnam while you were in Hawaii? H: Oh, yes. We had a little task force there. As a matter of fact we had a task force that was going into Laos if anything happened in Laos, and I was the commander. I had

Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

with the Community Action agencies we have. But there are many reasons that all have to be fitted into the context when you talk about this, because we have been held back in staffing; we can't put the people out into the field to do on-site monitoring

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 3 (III), 1/2/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with the delegation. That was the contemplation; regardless of whether they were delegates from their own states, they would literally live in the hotel where the delegation was located that they were assigned to monitor. So each morning for several days prior

Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)