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Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of a bitch Zorthian, how did he get down here so quick to tip off and leak it to the press?" What we didn't know was that in that hour we were meeting, in Washington, after the President's speech, George Christian had briefed the press and had said to them
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Jacobson -- II -- 13 G: How about Daniel Sutherland? J: Don't know him well enough to-- G: Christian Science Monitor. J: Yes. I don't know anything bad
Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996 (Item)
  • , 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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  • use of the telephone and the Library's plans to make LBJ's phone conversation recordings available; how George Christian got to know LBJ; LBJ's strengths and flaws; LBJ's interactions with the press; how LBJ kept up to date on Congressional activity
  • Christian, George E. (George Eastland), 1927-2002
  • Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996
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Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • for about fifteen minutes when the news came through. This involved a number of people on the White House staff as well as Kermit Gordon, who was Budget Director, and myself, and members of our staff. There was Jerry Wiesner, who was the science advisor
Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • among White House staff; division of staff along philosophical and personal lines; George Christian and TV networks; CBS-Cronkite Show anti-administration material; William S. White; Joe Alsop; animosities over humor; "corny" criticism about Medal
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • happened to be at State--it was Dix Donnelley at one point, Bob McCloskey was press officer at another point--plus whoever happened to be in the White House, Bill Moyers, George Christian, so on. So I had four different people, all with a perfect right
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to Hawaii. M: Back to Hawaii, as chief of the production effort under General Phil Davidson, where I stayed for the next two years. Of course during that time we monitored the \O/ar as it continued in Vietnam, and although our interests were broader than
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to him. F: Did you have an opportunity to form any opinion of his general behavior at the time of the funeral or of his take-over of the Presidency? H: From what I could see on our monitors and through our cameras, there was no question he deported
Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • guys if we don't mention the others you mean. E: There were so many there that were so good. most loyal guy that ever v:as. loyal guy. George Reedy was the Christian was the same, a very Jack Valenti was the most loyal little peckerwood, as long
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ://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 j Connell -- I -- 27 on Johnson's staff with George Christian, before he
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Congress. We had enacted a lot of good legislation in 1965, but there was still a lot of unfinished business to carryover into 1966. I had brought in a staff person to be my deputy early in 1964--John r~organ, who was an American Political Science
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 4 (IV), 1/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to it that that is monitored and controlled by higher echelons; and that those things which do affect the interface between the military and other LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 3 (III), 12/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : Did you feel that that was an intentional thing--that we were perhaps getting a little too close in monitoring events of the crisis? N: No. The Israelis had surveilled our ship earlier in the day; they knew it was a U.S. ship; they had taken
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • really better sitting in Washington and watching a television monitor, and contacting their sources here about what's really going on. But the mystique of the news profession is that you've got to be at the scene of the crime and so on, whether
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of specific poverty-labeled programs, but that we were to be the spur and the monitor and the examiner, the critic, of the whole range of government affairs, to see that they become more poverty-conscious and do things that will contribute to the War
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • himself could write the answer, they'd ask the question over again. You just had bing-bing-bing-bing; they were asking questions as if they were sitting like you are asking me questions. G: Were you monitoring all this cable traffic? M: Sure. But I
Oral history transcript, Rutherford M. Poats, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • or so. So I'd say that this is probably the most inspected and audited and monitored program that we have anywhere. Even so, I don't say that it's not possible and doesn't happen that there are corrupt diversions or simple theft or Viet Cong seizure
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Boatner -- III -- 29 But he did expect the reporters to be their own monitors of their news . I think reporters do tend
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and the Poles, they held a swing, one way or the other. Now that commission would monitor very closely every U.S. military person or piece of equipment that came in or out of Vietnam. If I got some replacements out there I had to show by name, rank
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • hundred feet or a thousand feet, and the aircraft's taking its commands from the navigation set, the flight controls are slaved into the course and everything else, and all you're doing is monitoring it on your radar. And as you approach the target, you
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • we had direct lines to the exchanges--Manny Cohen would be there and a couple of his people, I think Pollack was one of them; Larry Levinson was in for awhile on that; and we just sat there and monitored the market for a couple of days. And then when
Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • you been able to monitor developments in Vietnam while you were in Hawaii? H: Oh, yes. We had a little task force there. As a matter of fact we had a task force that was going into Laos if anything happened in Laos, and I was the commander. I had
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • with the Community Action agencies we have. But there are many reasons that all have to be fitted into the context when you talk about this, because we have been held back in staffing; we can't put the people out into the field to do on-site monitoring
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)