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a career minister that I wouldn't have had the same freedom and the sane independence, you might say, to do what I thought was right, lacking clear-cut instructions from the Department. I wasn't afraid, or I wasn't worried, about my future. I can always go

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

sort of a leg man between the Department of State and the Vice President's office. I saw him during that period from time to time; I saw him in several periods when there were key issues on international affairs before us; he came to numerous meetings
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, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was on the national security staff of Mr. Rostow. Prior to that you had been deputy assistant secretary of state for public affairs from 1965 until 1966. Prior to that you had been special assistant to Mr. [Averell] Harriman. been on the Policy Planning Council

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 8 ambassador to Canada, and I had understood that this was a good probability. But apparently someone in the--I don't know who it was--in the State Department. perhaps. who had other

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

voted for a particular president or party I don't think really gets in the way. M: Your chief contact was the State Department public affairs people. How much of the administration's difficulty came from poor press operations in LBJ Presidential

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

/exhibits/show/loh/oh March 12, 1969 M: Perhaps the best way to begin is by identifying you. You are John Leddy and your position at the end of the Johnson Administration was Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs. Prior
bill; Greek Coup; mishandling of MLF; role of the State Department and the White House.

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

in, Bundy and Rostow called me up and asked me to come on over and be the first member of the so-called Bundy State Department. I was the first man recruited for the national security group at the White House, LBJ Presidential Library http
opinions to negotiate better politically; summarizing State Department briefings on foreign visitors for LBJ; problems between India and Pakistan; getting involved with Vietnam; the December1965 37-day bombing halt; George Ball and the Cyprus situation; LBJ

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

was as Special Assistant for National Security Affairs from the fall of 1967 until when? When did you leave the White House? F: Shortly after January 20. M: So you did stay on until the end of the Administration as far as Johnson was concerned? F: Yes. M

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

in the United States until 1961, when I returned to Vietnam and stayed until 1964. At that time, I switched over from the military, wearing a soldier suit, to staying in the military but actually working for the State Department. I went back again in 1965
Lodge got Jacobson a position in the State Department as mission coordinator; Jacobson's opinion of Graham Martin, Maxwell Taylor, Ellsworth Bunker, Creighton Abrams, and Frederick Weyand; Ed Lansdale's 1965 trip to Vietnam and the work of a group under

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (TAPE #3) Nov. 14, 1968 P: Mrs, Anderson, why have not more women gone into foreign relations or foreign affairs, and why weren't there any sooner than your appointment in 1949? A: I suppose one

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