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Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • immediately assumed that somebody had duplicated the key. Now in the case of Vietnam, I've always had the feeling that we reasoned from the analogy of our experience in post-World War II Europe. We looked at Communist China as though it were Russia; we looked
  • Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • -American Affairs. Then during World War II I did a variety of jobs--the Board of Economic Warfare, the Foreign Economic Administration, the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey. In the State Department I had been director of the policy planning staff. P
Oral history transcript, Carl T. Curtis, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • by eighty-seven votes, I think it was, and they called him IILandslide Johnson. II With that memory tucked way back in there in my mind, I read with interest the statement by this election official or party official or Johnson organizational official [luis
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] '-1"- .'",';;;iI''ยข~'"'l-_~' More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ackley -- I -- 26 Usually, though, he was really just awfully sweet
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • responsibility for procurement. This involved the placing of a vast number of very large orders, and the reactivation of World War II plants that had been shut down--and various actions. Of course, we were in very close consultation with the Senate LBJ
Oral history transcript, Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Reserve during my time in medical school, the majority of which, of course, was during World War II . I was in the Navy for two years, during which time I was stationed at the Naval Medical Research Institute at Bethesda, where I did bacteriological
Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh 18 P: That's true. We didn't have the most modern equipment. We were flying World War II crates around for certain missions, but it turned out that for a particular unsophisticated military environment in South Vietnam, they were just