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  • , 1990 INTERVIEWEE: HAROLD C. PACHIOS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Pachios' office, Portland, Maine Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: I think we ought to begin with you telling me how you went to work for the Peace Corps. P: I went
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  • relationship with the press; Hugh Sidey; LBJ’s fondness for neatness and 'experts'; Peter Lisagor; Bill Moyers as press secretary; James Moyers; Merriman Smith; LBJ’s secrecy; LBJ’s first trip to Vietnam and the 1967 around the world trip; LBJ meeting wounded
  • Pachios, Harold
  • Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Harold Pachios
  • the new President sworn in. What we were waiting for, we realized a minute later, was the arrival of Judge [Sarah] Hughes. Smitty--Merriman Smith--ducked into the booth there and got off a quick flash to the UPI and thereby managed to keep the UP ahead
  • . And it had been the subject of discussions in late 1966 with Horsky and Philip S. Hughes, deputy director of the Bureau of the Budget, Harold Seidman and Bob Prestoman (?) of the Bureau of the Budget, Califano, and [Walter] Tobriner and Schuyler Lowe
  • , but whether he was a White House correspondent, I don't recall. But there were a lot of very well-known Newsweek-Time magazine sort of people who had known Kennedy. Hugh Sidey, for instance, was another one. Hugh had covered the Senate, so he knew Kennedy
  • to my dispatcher downtown to see how things were progressing in the investigation. Shortly after that Judge Sarah Hughes arrived at Love Field,and I escorted her on the plane. I stood by on the plane while President Johnson took his oath of office
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  • Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz
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  • to the Attorney General, but I'm not aware of that. By the time I came aboard I think that probably the decision was already made. At any rate we determined that we were waiting for Judge Sarah Hughes to come aboard. At that point somebody said, "What's
  • when they left Parkland. That was at the time that they had telephoned Irving Goldberg and he helped locate Judge Sarah Hughes to come to the airport. I did not make any effort LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • Force One, with a low ceiling and banks of flourescent light, the lighting was adequate for a 60th at 4, or something like that, which is probably what I shot. So I was ready to go. Things began to shape up at that time. T.] Hughes, showed up right
  • civil rights vote. precisely the details. I've forgotten But it was, I remember, Hugh Scott [of Pennsyl vania that] brought it up. The idea was to embarrass the new Democratic leadership. Johnson was instrumental in quickly and efficiently moving
  • ; 1956 and 1960 Democratic Conventions; Walter Jenkins; Goldberg suggesting that LBJ take the oath of office in Dallas from Judge Sarah Hughes after the JFK assassination; appointment to Court of Appeals; Court of Appeals procedures from 1966-1969
  • enough to know that anyone can give an oath, even a notary public. and then she did it. He got in touch with Judge Hughes So we were really intimately involved with that. M: Maybe you can answer a question that's rather mysterious. seems to know
  • /show/loh/oh -12­ The last year I was there is particularly interesting . India had had a very big crop in '67--and '68, too, a hugh crop ;--following these two disastrous droughts . When I went back to Washington on consultation I was asked how much
  • a foreign policy person, from about 19--well, really from 1955 on there was a person who dealt with the State Department and who was his foreign policy assistant. G: Who was that? C: Well, the first one, who came aboard the same day I did, was Tom Hughes
  • Johnson, the step was made, and a black ambassador was sent up there, and really sent up there and was told that that was going to be. his name. Others on the list Frank Williams was not related to that, Pat Harris was one; I believe Hugh Smythe