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Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

-Idaho] who has since passed away of Idaho, Senator Schoeppel [Andrew F. Schoeppel], who has since passed away, of Kansas, Senator Cotton [Norris Cotton] of New Hampshire, and his then associate, Senator [Styles] Bridges of New Hampshire. I believe
; African affairs; Rostow and Dean Rusk; reaction to LBJ joining JFK’s ticket; SJRes 12 Amendment; 3/31 announcement; comparison of LBJ to other Presidents; LBJ’s weaknesses; the press.

Folder, "January 24, 1968 - 1 p.m. Pueblo II - National Security Council," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

was being boarded. At 2354 (11:54 EST) the first SOS came. We ceased t6 hear from the Pueblo 31 minutes later. The President: Were there no planes available which were prepared to come to the aid of this vessel? Every press s~ory I have seen this morning

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

, that basis title. That job also carried with it the executive directorship of the World Bank and the International Development Association and so forth. Since then it's been changed. M: That's why I was confused. I knew that now those weren't the same

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, that is, in the years that I knew him and worked for him . Now, I had what you would call a casual acquaintance with him when he was in the NYA and when he was a congressman . Then our association started when he was a senator . G: Right . You had talked about
Head Start; domestic program; War on Poverty; contrast between John Connally and LBJ types; LBJ's frustrating life as VP; sale of Weslaco radio and TV station; death of Sam Rayburn; LBJ's problems with the press; LBJ's temper; Walter Jenkins; Bobby

Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to get the votes, they also would tell him. There was no double talk. There was no rather crude partisan politics between the three men. I think I could also say in the associations that I had both with the Speaker and Mr. Johnson it was exactly

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. That was, first place. my first real association of any kind with Lyndon B. Johnson. As you may remember, 1957 was the year of the first civil rights bill. F: Right. W: Which I was naturally interested in, as a southern correspondent. More than that. I went
Biographical information; 1960 “rump session;” Henry Cabot Lodge; campaign trips; Democratic ticket; Catholic issue; McCarthy censure; Watkins Committee; Vice Presidency; assassination; Connally-Yarborough feud; Dallas; funeral; Vietnam; press

Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

during my freshman year. I later became Rice correspon- dent for the Chronicle, and went on into journalism. went into politics. years. President Johnson Therefore we still had a close association over the We saw each other a great deal, communicated

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. So he began having continuing associations with Johnson, discussions about problem.s relating to that. But at the sam.e tim.e that that went on between them., I had a continuing relationship with him. [Johnson] on m.atters relating to the NY A. NYA
; Medicare; Helen Taussig; Advisory Council on Public Welfare Task Force on Income Maintenance (Heineman Commission); Advisory Commission on Status of Women; Esther Peterson; LBJ fixed associations between Wicky/Cohen/Social Security; Medicare; Mrs. Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, 1981 INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD HELMS INTERVIEWER: ' TED GITTINGER PLACE: Ambassador Helms' office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Ambassador, if it's all right, we'll start. H: Okay. G: How far back does your association with the CIA go? H

Oral history transcript, Willard J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

that he was extremely busy and hard-pressed with the many difficult problems, and I remember particularly well his arrival there. He flew up from Washington and came over from the airport by helicopter and landed at our field and we had an automobile

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)

, and he beat Mr. [Robert] McNamara in, which I believe was what his objective was! (Laughter). And therein began our association--mine with the Vice President, later the President. And I must say that it was a wonderful, exciting experience for me

Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: STANLEY KARNOW INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Karnow's residence, Potomac, Maryland Tape 1 of 2 G: Mr. Karnow, would you begin by sketching for us your professional association with Southeast Asia? K: It came rather late in my career

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, 1985 INTERVIEWEE: WILLIAM J. JORDEN INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Ambassador Jorden's residence, McLean, Virginia Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Let's begin by my asking you by what process you got picked to go to Paris to be the resident press man
to the press in the Paris negotiations; information leaks during Paris talks; private talks held in Paris; Madame Anna Chennault; results of the Paris talks after the Nixon administration was in power; writing for The Vantage Point; LBJ in retirement.

Folder, "Bernard Quint," Office Files of Yoichi Okamoto, Box 1 (Item)

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Press relations

Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

on this. Can't we just talk?" he knew Johnson a lot better than I did. But he knew his man, Whether it was for fear that he would be further put out to pasture or whether he just felt that it was not his prerogative to do it, he did not press the issue

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

for the signing ceremony, trying to bring in everybody we could think of in the various transportation interests including all of the modes, some of the suppliers, and such organizations as the Transportation Association of America and the National Freight Traffic

Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in seeing the Assistant Attorney Generalship filled promptly with a competent person. In December of 1965 I went to a meeting of the American Law School Association in Chicago to talk with LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

. In the associations I've had in the CAB and other regulatory agencies, I'm just absolutely confident the President, whether it be Eisenhower or Kennedy or Johnson, has stayed out of it . M: Did your decision in the Northeastern Airlines case stick, or did they get

Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

never was intimate with him or closely associated with him, even after that time. McS: Mr. Fountain, during those Senatorial years are there any things that stand out in your mind as far as either issues or legislation that you particularly think
Biographical information; first association with LBJ; LBJ-Sam Rayburn relationship; 1960 convention; LBJ’s acceptance of VP nomination; Lady Bird campaigning in North Carolina; civil rights legislation; religious issue; Senate luncheon; LBJ’s trips

Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, but very briefly and sporadically only, so that the contact was not,in any way of any significance really . M: You were associated on several occasions when the Teach-In movement began, after Mr . Johnson was President, and generally listed

Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: JOHN J. CORSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Corson's residence, Arlington, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with your association with the NYA. How did you get into the organization? C: I got into the NYA, to the best

Folder, "January 29, 1968 - 1:40 p.m. Pueblo 9 - Senior Advisors - McNamara, Rusk, Katzenbach, Lodge, Helms, etc.," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

be: What actions could be taken; how should the Congress be associated with these actions (the experience in the Dominican Republic and in Vietnam is pertinent). In presenting these questions to General Eisenhower I stressed that the discussion

Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with a Ph.D. in economics, but who was a Texan--told me of his problems, and I said, being the political animal I am, the first thing I said was, Vice President? '~ave you contacted the I'm sure he would be interested in associating himself with a project

Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 M: He left it up to us. I think he was pressed

Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

frankly, the association was always of this public nature. As I said, I've had conversations with both President and Mrs. Johnson, probably longer conversations with Mrs. Johnson. I suppose I've been on and off television from time to time

Folder, "[September 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)

available to the press. He read the papers, he said, and noted that Gov. fttnney had explained his Vietnam views by saying he 1d been "brain-washed" in Saigon. 'lhe President observed that an;y man "brain-washed" by diplomats and generals might have problems
Press relations

Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of business in this case? A: Yes, in some degree socially. M: What about his press relations in those days? very good. A: I seem to recall they were Is that your recollection? They were very good in the sense that he was much admired, but he
Early acquaintance with LBJ; how LBJ related to the press as a senator; Alsop's interactions with LBJ; Alsop's support of LBJ in 1964 against Goldwater; Alsop's and Philip Graham's role in JFK's selection of LBJ as the vice-presidential nominee

Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

as a general assignment reporter for about six months till the end of 1963, then went to Newsweek in early 1964, spent three years there as an associate editor largely in charge of the radio and television departments, otherwise just "swing writing
; department's speech drafts; review of speeches; "Rose Garden rubbish;" LBJ's sensitivity to press reaction to speeches' LBJ's relationship with the press; joke specialist on staff; LBJ as am accomplished storyteller and raconteur; LBJ's speech referring to his

Folder, "August 20, 1968 National Security Council," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 3 (Item)

: We really don't know? CIA Director Helms: Yes. General Westmoreland: Attacks are associated with major offensive in Northern I Corps and III Corps near Saigon. This is a prelude to a general offensive. I expect it about the 24th or 25th

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Vietnam, 1/29/1966, Volume 3, Tab 38," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

over Senators by merely citing numbers, but we can win them over by discussing our overall strategy. General Whe ele r: W e should resume the bombing as soon as practicable on infiltration-associated targets which we have advised on the basis

Folder, "April 30, 1968 - 1:25 p.m. Tuesday luncheon with Foreign Policy Advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 3 (Item)

in· long years of association with foreign policy c::.r-ic. il~ t:ei..--na tional rcla tions in and out of gov2:cn:-.~2nt > i~c~uding service as Coordinator of ·Inter-Am8rican - ,. . . . . 19 Lr 0 , ana tncrea~te~ , , ,.. " . At~airs starting

Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

association with the President, as of December 1, 1966 you resigned as chairman of the Board of Regents. Was this an anticipation of an appointment? H: Yes. I knew then that-- F: That something was coming. H: It was just a question of the timing

Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

. it caused trouble, as it should have. A stupid thing to do, and And while this was done at the campus level, it quickly got into the press and to the governor's office and the board of regents, and I was in the midst of that, including eliminating

Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

1955. You had been at Brown University since 1946, rising from Assistant Professor to full Professor of History in 1951. In 1948 you became Associate Dean of the Graduate School, and in 1953 Dean of the College. K: I also was Dean of the Graduate

Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to the press which finally killed it. before we had consulted the Germans. M: And this hurt him politically? Mc: Yes, it hurt him politically. M: What about Erhard? It was done It caught Schroeder by surprise. There were two meetings with Mr. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

? 0: Oh, it would come from any direction--internally generated or generated from the White House . into blocs . groups . It's hard to define . Let's see if we can break it One bloc of work was associated with some continuing interagency Probably

Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

supervised elections, whatever that might mean; it surely doesn't mean everything that it implies. But [it means] at least certain supervision of the fairness of the elections. Nevertheless, most of the press interpreted the elections as another

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Associate Director by prearrangement of the Florida Legislative Reference Bureau. I had a couple of years there. There was a link that's interesting in this Administration. One of the leading Senators of that time was Leroy Collins whom I worked

Folder, "Ex BE 5-7 Economic Planning for the End of Hostilities (Post War Planning)," WHCF BE, Box 40 (Item)

~ the Nation's • lingering bal3:nce-of-payments· problem, in light of t~e reduction _in foreign exchange drains associated with Government expenditures in Southeast Asia. . . a as RESOURCES AND PRIORITIES FOR THE LONGER RUN The chcii~esamong alternative

Folder, "[Manuscript] Chapters 1-9," Papers of William P. Bundy, Box 1 (Item)

and reasoned although because hand and who as well. for the United front, indeed as befitted a close of policy have been read into no positions, and Bundy through friendly. in 1939-41--and associated diffe·rent was largely terms, any

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