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  • LBJ AND TRUMAN DISCUSS VIETNAM, COMPARE IT TO KOREAN CONFLICT; LBJ REMINISCES ABOUT LETTER HE SENT TO TRUMAN FOLLOWING OUTBREAK OF KOREAN WAR; TRUMAN PRAISES LBJ'S HANDLING OF EVENTS; LBJ INVITES TRUMAN TO COME TO WH TO MEET WITH HIM; TRUMAN'S ILL
  • Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
  • Telephone conversation # 6847, sound recording, LBJ and HARRY TRUMAN, 2/15/1965, 10:35PM
  • HARRY TRUMAN
  • BESS TRUMAN
  • "**WISHED PRES. AND MRS. TRUMAN A MERRY XMAS AND TOLD THEM (W/MRS. JOHNSON ALSO ON THIS CONVERSATION) WHAT WONDERFUL PEOPLE THEY WERE." ON ENVELOPE CONTAINING DICTABELT; LADY BIRD JOHNSON IS MEETING WITH LBJ, BESS TRUMAN WITH HARRY TRUMAN AT TIME
  • JOHNSONS WISH THE TRUMANS MERRY CHRISTMAS, THANK THEM FOR THEIR SUPPORT; LBJ TELLS BESS TRUMAN OF CALL TO CHARLES ROBB, PATRICK NUGENT IN VIETNAM, DISCUSSES THE MANY JOHNSON BILLS THAT BEGAN IN TRUMAN ADMINISTRATION, RECOMMENDS MISSOURI CORPSMAN DON
  • Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
  • Telephone conversation # 13821, sound recording, LBJ and HARRY TRUMAN, 12/25/1968, 5:41PM
  • HARRY TRUMAN
  • TRUMAN READS PORTION OF STATEMENT HE HAS WRITTEN SUPPORTING LBJ'S VIETNAM POLICY; TRUMAN OFFERS TO MEET WITH LBJ IF NEEDED BUT HIS DOCTOR PREFERS HE NOT TRAVEL; LBJ THANKS HIM FOR SUPPORT, OFFERS TO COME TO MISSOURI OR CALL HIM FOR ADVICE
  • Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
  • Telephone conversation # 6848, sound recording, LBJ and HARRY TRUMAN, 2/16/1965, 12:35PM
  • HARRY TRUMAN
  • "SUMMARIZED"; TRUMAN ON HOLD 0:29; LADY BIRD AND LUCI JOHNSON ARE MEETING WITH LBJ AT TIME OF CALL
  • LBJ OFFERS WH PLANE TO TRUMAN FOR HIS TRIP TO ISRAEL, OFFERS ANY OTHER ASSISTANCE TO TRUMAN; TRUMAN SAYS HE HAS POSTPONED TRIP BECAUSE OF HIS HEALTH, TELLS LBJ HE SUPPORTS VIETNAM POLICY; LADY BIRD, LUCI JOHNSON INVITE TRUMANS TO LUCI'S WEDDING NEXT
  • Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
  • Telephone conversation # 10405, sound recording, LBJ and HARRY TRUMAN, 7/5/1966, 10:11AM
  • HARRY TRUMAN
  • Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
  • Telephone conversation # 7349, sound recording, LBJ and HARRY TRUMAN, 4/19/1965, 11:42AM
  • HARRY TRUMAN
  • MEMORANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE. T u e s d a y , J u ly 2, 1968 WASHINGTON Page 1 L u c i 's 2 1 s t b i r t h d a y - - T u e s d a y , J u ly 2 - - w a s a fu ll b u s y d a y . In the i n o r n in g I h a d a m e e t in g w ith Sim one an d T o m
  • Luci Nugent's 21st birthday; Lady Bird works on narrative for "Crossing the Trails of Texas" film; 50 magnolia seedlings germinated from tree at The Elms; meeting about Latin American trip; telephone call to Luci; Lady Bird views Harry Truman film
  • restrictions contained in the donor's deed of gift 4/23/2014 m . Initials N A T I O N A L A R C H I V E S AND R E C O R D S S E R V I C E WITHDRAWAL S H E E T ( P R E S I D E N T I A L L I B R A R I E S ) FORM OF DOCUMENT it 13-Ca.bl-e- # 2 0 C ab le
  • r ' CLAUDIA TAYLOR JOHNSON WHITE HOUSE DIARY TAPES December 25, 1968 Wednesday. called Zephyr. Christmas Day. We slept late and breakfasted leisurely. Sammie is s t i l l desperately sick. I I talked to Matian na. Tony is to come out
  • ; calls to Hubert Humphreys & Harry Trumans; LBJ & Lady Bird make quick trip to Jim Rowe's open house; Christmas turkey dinner by White House Chef; "The President's House" in the theater; no room in the family Bible to record Lucinda Robb's birth
  • LIBRARY ? ' ^ N AT I ON AL ARCHI VES A ND RECORDS S ERVI CE -:ii Ip' WITHDRAWAL S H E E T ( P R E S ID E N T IA L L IB RA RIES) FORM O F ' DOCUMENT y /lla -m e m n - -w/-rep o r t- CORRESPONDENTS OR TITLE top ooorot (gp-3-)to Se cDe f from
  • , 1996 INTERVIEWEES: Harry Middleton and George Christian and LBJ School Students PLACE: LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas M: Max Sherman [dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs] says that he is not going to say anything
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  • Middleton, Harry Joseph, 1921
  • Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996
  • Harry Middleton
  • and things of that nature . So to that extent, the answer would have to be yes, but this constant carping about trying to invade the Highway Trust Fund is, in Harry Truman's phrase, a real "red herring ." And I'm convinced that a lot of it comes from some
  • See all online interviews with Alan S. Boyd
  • Boyd, Alan S. (Alan Stephenson), 1922-
  • Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1969, by David G. McComb
  • Alan S. Boyd
  • HARRIS INTERVIEWER: STEVE GOODELL May 19, 1969 S: This is an interview with Patricia Roberts Harris, presently with the law school at Howard University. Today's date is May 19, 1969. I'd just like to begin this interview by asking you to state
  • See all online interviews with Patricia Roberts Harris
  • ; LBJ’s speech at Howard University; Moynihan Report; race problem; LBJ’s release of Kerner Commission Report; ambassador to Luxembourg; protocol incident; re-ranking of spouses; Harris ruling; ambassador’s staff and running of the position; position
  • Harris, Patricia, 1924-1985
  • Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell
  • Patricia Roberts Harris
  • to the appointment. G: Who contacted you? S: I think Lou Harris. He had done, you know, the polling work for the Kennedy people in 1960. to me about it first. I knew Lou, and I think he was the one that talked Yes. Then I think one or two of the people who
  • Biographical information; Bureau of the Census; Lou Harris; Luther Hodges; 1960 census; invasion of privacy; survey techniques; Select Commission on Western Hemisphere Immigration; President’s Commission on Registration and Voting Participation
  • official involved, on the 6 S D F H & R X Q F L O and on the Marine Council. 6R I have to deal with problems dealing with the sea bed, with matters affecting space, but then primarily my work has been in the Russian field. To prepare I was told by Secretary
  • of our colleges and in putting taxe s on- -for education. I think I favored ITlore of that than Harry Byrd did, but I was with his organization, and as I say, I was six years in the State Senate and at that time was known as a liberal. I was one
  • ; General Douglas MacArthur; Harry Byrd; conservation; Civil Rights Acts; major changes in U.S. government in 35 years; accomplishments of the American people
  • and go on myself. There was also a German correspondent in Vietnam at the time I arrived there. M: A West German? S: Yes. He had come in like ten days or two weeks before r was there. Then, as you probably know . . . What's his name? Harry
  • s-__ --~­ _d_ 21£ Ll _,__,.."--V-- 7-L~ - La i / , ' I' I iJi>lease make two copies of this. Thank you. Mary Matheus ,_, ................ ___ fJll-184 00
  • candidate for president? Because as you know he was a lot of Democrats' choice in 1948 over Harry Truman. -7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org H: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Well
  • the Kennedy people, and the man who told you to do that--Harry Truman--Iearned it the hard way." I don't care how loyal they are to their country, when they get in ajob their feelings run that job. And McNamara was to me to most dangerous man we've ever had
  • understanding of foreign affairs; Melasky's efforts to educate the public regarding Vietnam; LBJ's vice-presidency; LBJ's familiarity with military operations; John Tower; Ralph Yarborough; 1964 election and campaign; comparing the economy of 1960's to 1971
  • 10: a. P=asidant Vietna~ I~s anc Anothe:: One is Kennedy, and Laos. has·been ~~a~ in te=ms deepened faction wit~ voices and ti.:e watt::::r tur:1ed whether the statec, "Was this •i:1 diC t~e role the of evils·?" US i~~ersion
  • -- 3 I can recall that I had to borrow thirty-five cents from my brother to pay for my dinner that night at Old Mexico. The purpose of the meeting was to get all of the President's friends in Harris County to write to everyone they knew in the Tenth
  • on the train and rode through North Dakota with Harry Truman and openly endorsed him. Yes, he was a maverick. He was a maverick, of the old--what's that league?--Non-Partisan League out there, really a farm bloc. That's what it amounted to. He was another
  • and the Medicare bill; Kerr's involvement in hiring an assistant for Jim Webb of NASA; the Bricker Amendment; Harry Byrd's work on the Finance Committee; Kerr's meeting with the head of DuPont, Crawford Greenewalt; Kerr's opinions on Social Security and Medicare
  • --this isn't necessary anymore and it doesn't even work anymore." And then he reminisced with me about when Harry Truman came to Texas in 1948. How he was one of the only, I think the only Texas politician that dared to get on the train with him when he
  • : I think it's a disingenuous book. I'm not disappointed because I kind of expected it, but also it doesn't read much like Lyndon Johnson. You read the Truman memoirs, and Harry Truman jumps out at you even when he's not telling the truth. Even
  • See all online interviews with Robert D. S. Novak
  • Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Robert D. S. Novak
  • all, Harry Truman got the He followed an elegant figure, and he seemed much less up to it than Joh"nson did, and just as western or midwestern, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
  • secretary who was Harry McPherson who went over to the White House. Senator Fulbright got a copy of the policy recom,::len- dations of the draft and he had also apparently read other things of mine. We'd been on symposia together, public symposiums. M
  • place of friends and have lunch and things like that. F: On these Board of Education meetings, did they just sort of develop? P: They sort of developed. Say, Truman would some in--that's when Truman was President--he'd come over about 5 o'clock
  • of his own party who didn't want him to run and so on and so on. Wilson went through hell when he was trying to establish a sensible world order after World War L Roosevelt went through severe criticism. Harry Truman was going to be impeached
  • for John Kennedy, I thought Bob Kennedy a little shit. w~s We had almost had a couple of fist fights in the course of ten years, one being in 1960 when I wrote an article in the New Republic before the election saying, "Everybody's sitting around passing
  • that the family homestead was acquired in 1852 in a little place called Venado, in Colusa County, California. F: Was his name Shuckman? B: His name was Shuckman, that is right, S-h-u-c-k-m-a-n, although some people spell is S-c-h-u-c-k-m-a-n, and he came from
  • off by mentioning that Mr. Mort Stern is also in the room--that is M-O-R-T S-T-E-R-N, who has written a dissertation about Mr. Hoyt and the Post which gives a great deal of background information about this man. Hoyt and the Denver Post. The title
  • MacArthur defied [Harry] Truman. Truman hated him because MacArthur said, "We've got to protect the whole line here," and he went over and visited Taiwan. I had something to do with getting him to do it. G: Oh, really. J: Oh sure. G: Tell me
  • and everybody panicked. But Orval was one of the old populist boys, and he fancied himself as being kind of the Rayburn style of politican and was quite in good favor with Harry Truman. He'd come along with Sid McMath, who was a great favorite of Truman's
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  • Ashmore, Harry
  • Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Harry Ashmore
  • remember when President Roosevelt died; Harry Hopkins called the Cabinet together, and he said, I~e must all resign in..11ediately and insist on President Truman taking our resignation, because no matter what President Truman did, lve would always say
  • . Duckmanton) Critics such as Harry Ashmore dispute the genuineness of U. S. peace proposals. The President explained the Ashmore incident, stressing the sincerity of that U.S. peace proposal and others preceding and following. --------~--------- President
  • : It goes back to '46. B: Back to politics. Harry Truman signed that bill in '46. In the election of '64, as we mentioned awhile back, Mrs. Johnson did campaign in Alabama in that one. The train LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • a grant for Oral History of Eisenhower and Stevenson, and he said it would be nice if you did something like that for Harry Truman, and a couple of years later we got a good application and did. in keeping his hands off of it and so did his staff. But he
  • : What year was that? G: I believe that was 1958, yes, 1958. He managed to substitute a much milder bill by Senator [Styles] Bridges. Do you remember how he did that? T: I don t recall the detail s on that but 1 know he never di d want to 1 affect
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is an interview with Milton S. Eisenhower, in his office in Baltimore, Maryland. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Dr. Eisenhower, very briefly, let's run through your career from the time you were
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  • Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Milton S. Eisenhower
  • " members of the Senate, and if memory serves me correctly, and I think it does, he voted with those of us who were in favor of overriding the Presidential veto. Truman vetoed it, we had to pass it over his veto, and he was among those who resisted