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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
; campaign financing; the President’s reliance on Cabinet and staff, cooperation and coordination; a presidential transition 'institution.'

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

by Kermit Gordon? S: Kermit Gordon, that's right. Now there are a lot of different people involved in this story, and they all felt different parts of the elephant. I found from talking to people that it is very difficult to piece the story together

Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. He supported our effort in helping international monetary cooperation- -and later on I think he developed a real interest in it when he had more time. But that came, I guess, after I'd left. He was interested, became interested after his reelection

Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

nights later from Ellsworth Bunker, also at night, asking whether I could talk with the President about getting them to cooperate in this OAS operation and in the resolution . . . F: For the record, who was the President? B: Leoni, Raúl Leoni

Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

sense, and so therefore ~1e were not happy with the kind of leaders hip they were giv i ng in the United States Senate. He thought they were overly cooperative 1·1ith President Eisenhower and that they ~1ere not--this really goes to the Democra

Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

realize at that moment that what he meant was, IIThis is the statement I am going to read when I get off the plane at Andrews Air Force Base." He talked to us two or three times on the way back and was extremely cooperative, told us anything we wanted

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: CHES TER COOPER INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN DATE: July 9, 1979 PLACE: Mr. Cooper's office in Arlington, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by identifying you. You're Chester Cooper and during the Johnson Administration you served
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Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Chester L. Cooper

Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of the people of the United States and other nations"--it goes on to say, "to promote international cooperation for educational and cultural advancement," and this is the part that I particularly like--"and syllogism. ~"--it almost sounds like an Aristotlean

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in this program, they'd be well advised to cooperate on sending aid. That usually worked. It was very simple. We had a clear charter to lean on them hard and twist arms hard, and with LBJ behind you on this thing, it was very easy to be persistent and get tough

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

letter. At that time I was still invited by the Johnson Administration to be in the White House Conference on World Cooperation and a conference on education. I was invited to be in two conferences after I parted company with him. G: Another
Campaigning for LBJ in 1964; serving on National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy; disagreement about Vietnam War; letters to LBJ about the war; RFK; HHH candidacy; White House Conference on International Cooperation; Spock trial; civil

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

of the lack of cooperation. of this objective? Did the Model Cities Program obtain any LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
; naming the 1st model cities; working with the White House as LBJ’s power waned; Robert Wood; Vietnam’s effect on domestic spending; problems with progressing from plans to action; difficulty with appropriation of funds; working in cooperation

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

COOPER INTERVIEHER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN DATE: July 17, 1969 PLACE: Mr. Cooper's office in Arlington, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 M: We had reached, chronologically, last time right to the brink of 'Marigold,but there are a couple of things I wanted
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Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Chester L. Cooper

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: CHESTER COOPER INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN DATE: August 7, 1969 PLACE: Mr. Cooper's office in Arlington, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 M: It might be useful just to get a negative on that [Chester] Ronning thing; you said you were not involved directly
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Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Chester L. Cooper

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

cooperation, development of democratic institutions, the funding--he was a very strong supporter of funding of underdeveloped countries' development. So it was not just Food for Peace, but he had a concept for Health for Peace. One of the things he went

Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

the White House such as the Secret Service and so on. Gu: Is coordination pretty good? Cooperation, maybe, is a better word than coordination. is very good. Clint Hill. Cooperation I don't know if you have met Bob Taylor or not, or These gentlemen

Oral history transcript, Donald A. Williams, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Administration, President Johnson has continued his interest in and support of resources development programs. I think I should also mention that as a Texas rancher, Lyndon Johnson has for many years been a cooperator with his local soil conservation district

Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

retaliation, or the bombing at the time of Pleiku, or the troop buildup in 1965,would you normally be brought in? T: I would say only by kibitzing. I would kibitz on these later deci- siQns via what Chester Cooper would show· me from the take. And he

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

There was Governor Harriman, Bill Bundy, Ben Read. M: Chet Cooper. S: Chet Cooper and myself, and one or two other s I'm sure, I can't recal l them now. What we tried to do, under the guidance of Ambassador Harriman, was to follow up these various quiet e~dea
; the U Thant initiative; the Harriman group; the Chester Cooper mission to London

Oral history transcript, Rutherford M. Poats, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to ask for his advice, seeing that he had seniority? F: I probably did a few times, but if so, it was very rarely, and if at all, I assume it related to REA matters. It happened that the old Pedernales Electric Cooperative--which was close to his

Oral history transcript, William S. Gaud, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with President Kennedy, or with whether President Kennedy or President Johnson was in the White House. M: What about the cooperation in the field? embassies. G: No, Is there a chain of command problem there? not really. programs, You have people

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

to the Coast Guard to place in one federal agency the total ice-breaking capability of the nation. M: So if the Navy has an operation and they need ice-breakers, then you cooperate with them. S: We cooperate with them. That's part of the agreement

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

students apparently. Z: Sure. G: What role did CIA play in psychological operations? Z: CIA played a number of roles. cooperative. One, my relations with them were very Although there were those who charged I was a CIA employee LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

him around to the various senators who would be involved in his confirmation. We got that lined up so it went through without any trouble. F: Now, yours and President Johnson's relationships were always cooperative and harmonious I gather--as much

Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

increased during the '60's. A new and junior Congressman is not very often called for consultaion to the White House, perhaps unfortunately. M: Did you feel that Mr. Johnson lost much of his party support with his cooperation with General Eisenhower

Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 2 (II), 7/25/1985, by Charles B. MacDonald (Item)

disagreed with that. I think in that case there would have been some defections by South Vietnamese officials, perhaps not overt but tacit cooperation with the VC. Some few, of course, were in effect VC agents, and that would have increased. M: Did

Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of a bind. I found real cooperation from Bill Wirtz and from Califano and the White House staff. There was no problem really on that score, but there was always this psychological question mark. M: Was it simply the fact that the idea of the merger

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

not LBJ 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 18 get some cooperation

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

to cooperation with Eisenhower. I would say that Paul Butler was reasonably accurate. M: What would you say was the overriding motivation of Mr. Johnson's activities as Senate Leader? Was it partisanship, or personal opportunism, or just what? Mundt: He

Oral history transcript, Lester R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in, say, farm equipment or farm organizations, very often farmer associations of various kinds including commodity groups, farm cooperatives, and such. We attempt to use the entire array of resources available in this country--public, private, academic

Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Mongoose ~self, but I wrote down Chet Cooper, who was my assistant or deputy part of that time and was working into the White House in a staff circle to which he I think eventually went full time, was involved in some of that planning and he wrote memos

Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

cooperative and delightful. It's a real honor to get a chance to meet you and listen to you, and we certainly appreciate it. D: Listen, you could talk of Johnson . . . Some things should be made public. In some things it will be up to him, what he wants

Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

for cooperative activities, but that wasn't basically changed. I: You mentioned in one of your books how upset the Japanese were, particularly in the early part of our Vietnam escalation in 1965. Was there adequate consultation, or any consultation
Vice President Johnson’s limited involvement in Asian affairs; comparison of LBJ’s and JFK’s interest in foreign policy; Reischauer’s relationship with JFK; developing a rapport with LBJ; cooperative activities between Japan and the U.S.; Japanese

Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in the White House discussing the many problems that he was facing. Of course he was very anxious to have the full cooperation of the AFL-CIO, and I would say that he got that cooperation. I would say that at that point when he had the responsibility thrust

Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and supported by China and the Soviet Union, the extent to which we could obtain the cooperation and support of our principal allies in the area, Australia and New Zealand and so forth, the extent to which we could obtain like cooperation from our Western

Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

these liberal bills, at least to get them to the floor for a vote. We were able to do that on some bills the first year after DSG was organized. G: Was there a feeling that the leadership had been cooperating too closely with the administration? P: Well

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. We did get excellent cooperation from Secretary of S t a t e Rusk and Secretary McNamara, who understood the problem and knew that it had to be cured. They knew that it had to be cured, because if it were not cured, we'd be forced to redeploy our

Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with the Administration. He expected cooperation in return. I never remember an improper request for cooperation. anything that was even very major. He cooperated I never remember But he would expect little things. Often he would preface it by saying, "Now, I want

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