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Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Did you know Mr. Johnson at all in the period before you went to Washington? C: I knew him only to the extent as a big city mayor and as president of the United States Conference of Mayors and as president of the Municipal League. We would have
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . But the Michigan case is I had written a brief in the Supreme Court of Michigan--I worked on a brief in the Supreme Court of the United States. I had also been very active in public accommodations matters, and had been a guinea pig and established the right
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • at that period was in the role of advisers officially; [we] did not have full-scale army combat units there. But MACV was filling an advisory role to the Vietnamese military and, through the MACV reps in the province was carrying out something
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to be on a ticket as Vice President of the United States. It's hard to actually turn it down. He'd have been accused of deserting the party and leaving them in the lurch. If they'd have won, I suppose Kennedy would have been unhappy at his having turned him
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • - tant things that the United States could do was to send its young people overseas in programs like the Peace Sorps to get to know people in developing countries and to make friends. I'm not talking about making friends between Washington and Lahore
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the United States, was a very honorable man, but he was also very conservative and very isolationist. And so to me this was the reason for getting involved. Foreign policy was my professional field; I had spent my--up to that time it had been my life
Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • months afterward. They were unanimous in urging that we have one, that we hold it in Europe or somewhere outside the United States, and see if we could broaden it the third notch and see if we could possibly get the Chinese in. And if we had
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was dead but before Kennedy's body was removed, and nobody made any attempt to follow him, although he was then president of the United States. He left, actually, just minutes--my recollection is--before the death was announced. reasons. And of course