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Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 3 (III), 8/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

[Lodge] left, of course, in June of 1964, and I'm wondering if-J: To run for president. G: Or get Scranton elected or block Goldwater or whatever. J: Well, to take an active role in the campaign. G: And I was wondering if this in any way promoted

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

-- I -- 26 D: That high stuff ~"as a CIA province. They kept me informed and as a matter of fact on one occasion borrowed some specialized equipment to try to pin this guy within a given block. somewhere. They knew he was in there And I've heard

Oral history transcript, Chris Dixie, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to me and every door was opened. I had nothing but the green light, and my assignment was to take this enormous black population and get it registered and block walked and get it to the polls. And I did that with great enthusiasm. My partner, Bob Hall

Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

several of us, including--oh, I always block on his name, the man who had been co-chairman of SANE before me, editor and publisher of the Saturday Review of Literature--Norman Cousins. Norman Cousins was there at this two thousand-person conference

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of professional experience in the academic world. But I also realized that I was probably blocked by virtue of the rather loose rule of thumb in the Senate that a member could not be on the Appropriations Committee and the Foreign Relations Committee. enough

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

probably was one of the stumbling blocks in the fact that those men--they had an opportunity, in my view, where the Vietnamese people would have followed them anywhere, but the leadership just wasn't obviously there. G: Tell me about the opinions within

Folder, "Diaries [Transcripts of Tapes 25-30]," Papers of U. Alexis Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Situation in Vietnam, 2/8/1965, Volume 3, Tab 29," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 1 (Item)

agains t an overt American attempt to fo rm o r acti vely support a govern ment against their liking. A !d · · - ::...; ,.... _ii i sm is a theme that is potentially e xplosive , and therefore tempt rn~ to tl1ost: y; !~0 fe e l that we are blocking

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

the Eastern Intellectual Block, and their growing dislike or disagreement with Mr. Johnson. You are of this element. K: No, I'm not. M: Only in that you come from the east and you have been at what is considered the Ivy League institutions. how this began

Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

be a meeting between Kennedy and Johnson at the Biltmore Hotel which was campaign headquarters. We would go from there directly to the television program, but it would give us an hour to talk things over and to get ready. I arranged for a block of rooms

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

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

just didn't think we could do it . But that suited me, because I didn't think we ought to . M: You mean the Congress would block it? B: Yes . Congress has a peculiar relationship with the regulatory agencies, which I think it wants to maintain

Folder, "JCS -- SIGMA I‑66, Game Documentation, 9/66," Agency Files, NSF, Box 33 (Item)

within present limits. He stated that without doubt, the ,~ - NOFORN A-8 {BLUE) Page 8 of 9 Pages S~-- NOFORN next step would be a Free World quarantine of North Vietnam and which would block all imports other than food, relief medical supplies

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

that we--I think it's a good question as to whether we might not have tried to do it sooner. P: Has this been an effective means to bring back negotiations? R: It apparently took away the major stumbling block to negotiations. negotiators Our became

Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

announced. At an interview done, I think, the week before I was there, Mayor Collins had said,"Lawrence O'Brien knows more people on one block on Pennsylvania Avenue than he knows in the whole of Massachusetts." LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the Soviet Union. That was supposed to please them. They must have laughed and said, "Those idiots in America." It's what saved the Communists. That's another whole story. They said they'd get out in six months but they didn't. They stayed there and blocked

Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol 7, Meeting Notes," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 49 (Item)

Folder, "January 31, 1968 - 8:40 a.m. Pueblo 13 - Breakfast with Congressional Leaders & Advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

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Oral history transcript, John J. (Lt. Gen.) Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

guide was run through the other departments, not for a sign-off type of clearance where I could have been blocked by anybody's disagreement with the location of a commna, but for comment and recommendation. We tried to go back and forth and explain

Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Johnson and thei r Secret Servi ce detail. private si ght-seei ng. We followed Mr. and Mrs. They \'/anted to do some Vie follO\'Jed them at a respectful di stance and parked a half block behind them when they got out to look at something. But we wanted

Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of that sort, no. think maybe that we had by recommendations written to the White House and to our members of the Congress about block grants and resolutions from the governors' conferences. But I don't believe that I ever talked with him directly about any

Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

so impede and block the conduit as to prevent the flow of men and materials to the battlefield? proven to be "no." make it more costly. You cannot. And I say the answer to that has been You can make it more difficult. You can But you can't

Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

program, and then he had been killed, and that there was some blocking of this program at the time of his death, but that Lyndon Johnson took over and moved this program through in 1964 and '65. R: Does this make sense to you? As I've previously

Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

not directed towards that type of war. G: Focused on Europe? S: Yes. G: Was there a counterinsurgency course or block of instruction? S: There must have been, but I don't remember anything about it. didn't make any impression on me. It See, I had been

Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

aircraft. But we let them know that they were not blocking us out of our rights of access to Berlin. He was afraid that on some of the rather sensitive incidents that we had with guards on the auto route, which is about 110 miles long, that someday

Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

think it's the job of any who's in a staff capacity--I tried to see that these things got into the President. I tried to be an avenue of access and not a road block for him, but I'm sure I wasn't a hundred per cent successful with him. Me: What were

Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

that shows that the 89th Congress was a "Rubber-Stamp Congress" and rushed things through. G: Let's take the '63-'64 session when, as you've suggested, a good deal of the Kennedy legislation had been blocked in the Congress. took some of this and added some

Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to have many, many meetings on the question of aid to primary and secondary education. And the major stumbling block, of course, was the First Amendment of the Constitution, separation of church and state. Though I think we were reading that provision