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Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

other countries--the Dutch were very much for it, and there were one or two-M: Very much for taking some action? B: For both the delcaration and for doing something. But there was a very real hesitation on the part of some of the other countries
Biographical information; contacts with Johnson; support of LBJ in 1960; Democratic Policy Commission; State Department informing Vice President's office; Potomac Marching Society; Kennedy Administration; working for Johnson; Advisory Committee

? And what were the circumstances? A: I recall meeting Lyndon Johnson one time when I was visiting thenSenator Humphrey in the United States Senate, and Lyndon Johnson was at that time a Senator and the Leader of the Democratic Majority

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

went on all during that period. But the degree to which he was active I think was somewhat limited; he was not particularly engaged in political pursuits at that stage although he was on the Democratic Study Group, or the Policy Committee I guess
Biographical information; contacts with Johnson; support of LBJ in 1960; Democratic Policy Commission; State Department informing Vice President's office; Potomac Marching Society; Kennedy Administration; working for Johnson; Advisory Committee

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, I guess this belongs over in the President's file, rather than my files." Of course, I wasn't suppose to see it--that it had been to all these guys. action. So that was my first It's very hard for me because by that time I was conduct- ing a lot

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

be President Johnson himself. I think that most campaigns are an amalgam of the leader's desires and the peculiarities of the situation. The Democratic National Committee played practically no role at all in the campaign. The way the campaign structure

Oral history transcript, Edward R. Fried, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

came in that de Gaulle had decided not to devalue the franc. That was a surprising develop- ment, but not ruled out in the briefing we had given him. didn't know what action he would take. statement that he would not devalue. we had a further

Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Abel--I--7 A: He had done it in the beginning. ~~ere he was--I suppose--technically right; blockade is one of a possible range of warlike actions. But to have said that a blockade was necessarily an act of war at that moment

Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and '64 and so forth and so on. M: What happens to bureaucrats who push an idea like that so hard and lose? What happened to the theologians? Did the President take some kind of action against them later? L: No, one of the fellows who had been

we got the Bulgarians' agreement just a couple of weeks after Dorset's departure. And then we signed the agreement itself early, I believe, in July, soon after the fourth of July. P: Did you see evidence of an independence of action in Bulgaria

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, they needed somebody to coordinate the action and honcho the thing along so that there would be a result of some kind in a fairly short time. That's the sort of thing that I was doing. However, you run into some very odd things. For example, Mrs. Cabot Lodge
people out of Vietnam in 1975 and Jacobson's regrets over U.S. actions toward the Vietnamese; lessons learned from the Vietnam War; Jacobson's view of author Frank Snepp; what Jacobson would have done differently in evacuating people from Vietnam

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Jorden -- I -- 28 M: What about the general point they make, and others make, that at times there were tactical actions taken that might have contributed toward making it more difficult, such as the bombing that took place during

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