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Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 defeated Senator Bill Knowland, who was then the Minority Leader in the Senate, the first time, and defeated Richard Nixon, who had defeated
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960 campaign; Cheryl Chessman case; National Advisory Committee; Democratic candidates; 1962 campaign against Richard Nixon; Cuban crisis; Rumford Housing bill; Jess Unruh; Western Governors
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD M. SCAMMON (Tape #1) INTERVIEWER: STEVE GOODELL More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • See all online interviews with Richard M. Scammon
  • Scammon, Richard M. (Richard Montgomery), 1915-2001
  • Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell
  • Richard M. Scammon
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Theis -- I -- 2 was about to leave he put his arm around my shoulder--we scarcely knew each other--and he said, "Bill, I spent the weekend up in New York with Dick Berlin." Well, Dick Berlin at that time
  • Biographical information; first contact with LBJ; LBJ's legislative talents; generosity; LBJ's support of Diem; 1961 Vietnam trip; India stop; camel driver incident in Pakistan; LBJ's relationship with Richard Russell; LBJ's relationship
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 3 (III), 12/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • badly for everybody in the hemisphere. P: What were your activities during this period when we committed our forces? N: In the Dominican Republic? P: Yes. N: The day was the day that Mr. [Richard] Helms was appointed director of the CIA
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and a possible future president. F: We're moving ahead. H: Yes. F: But did he ever express himself on Richard Nixon vis-à-vis Johnson? H: You mean as being elected president? F: Yes. H: No, not that I can recall. If he did, it was, "If Dick
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or not . But, for instance, when I'd been up there two or three weeks--we'd been to Berlin and back--finally one day he said � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , but when the executive producer, Richard Ellison, and I started thinking about that, nobody seemed to be interested in the subject. And we had great trouble getting money for our series, because of this lack of interest and because I guess in the eyes
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Biographical information; duties in Manpower & Reserve Affairs; civil works program; overcrowding at Arlington National Cemetery; McNamara; Project 100,000; Adam Yarmolinsky; Steve Ailes; Senator Richard Russell; Mr. Vinson; Operation Transition
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . Is that right? J: Something like that, yes. G: What happened next? J: I'm trying to remember when the wall went up in Berlin. G: That would have been about 1962, I guess. J: That was August, I think, August 5 or 6 or something like that of 1962. I
  • How Jorden got into foreign policy government service from journalism; going to Vietnam to assess the situation in 1961 and the resulting white paper; Jorden’s Berlin Viability Plan and trip to Germany; Averell Harriman; working group
Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to President Kennedy, I had briefed President Kennedy repeatedly before the inauguration, three or four or five days before the inauguration, on our nuclear plans, on the problem of Berlin, not very much on Southeast Asia, but to inform him what was going
Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • he was Majority Leader. B: Yes, the ' 5 0 ' s when he was Majority Leader; I'm sure that's when I met him. The first time I really was associated with him was in 1961 when President Kennedy called me up and asked me if I would go to Berlin
Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • true among the youth but all segments of the German population. The visit to Berlin, which was climaxed by the speech in the Rathaus Square--the "Ichbinein Berliner." speech--was really one of the most moving demonstrations I've ever seen. The Germans
Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • service to this orthodox creed . This came up again in July '61, which perhaps was Walter Heller's first very major substantive victory on the fiscal policy front . . There was this Berlin crisis add-on to the Defense. budget at that time, and a great deal
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • have fits that [George] Shultz or whoever it is has ruined everything. Don't worry. They couldn't ever do anything about Berlin. They put on that Berlin blockade for a whole year but we got the old planes out. We do pretty well when we're in trouble
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Johnson meet Mr. Berlin, the president of the Hearst Corporation, and got him to recommend that the San Antonio Light support Johnson for the Senate in '48, which they did. F: Did you ever meet Coke Stevenson, his opponent? \01: No. F: When it c~e
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • is free to go." "Now right across the Baltic on your doorstep, if some man on Christmas Day who lives in East Berlin wants to visit his old mother who lives over in West Berlin, what happens to him when he goes over there? They murder himl He's a slave
Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , higher than their place in the population, I believe. President Kennedy said at that time he was very worried about West Berlin, and that he wasn't about to complicate the situation of the Guard if he had to suddenly mobilize and send it to Berlin
Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • believe in 1961, to Africa and then to Europe, he asked Mr . Acheson to do a speech on European policy for him and I was then working with Mr . Acheson on some NATO and Berlin studies . Mr . Acheson asked me to prepare the speech, I did, and the Vice
Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the two delegates that attended that conference, and then General Clay, when he was the administrator of West Berlin, sent a plane for us there to visit. It is only the last twenty years, I would say, probably, that the labor movement became politically
Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • think it a fair thing to say in the psychological context of the time that it was not overriding. In '61 you had the Bay of Pigs, you had the Berlin crisis, you had the National Security buildup, you had the Laotian problem. Vietnam was very
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of America. The Russians in the various Berlin crises have responded the same way. There was thus reason to believe, again reasoning from experience and from analogy, that the North Vietnamese would react in that fashion too. They were smaller. They were
Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was not. M: Either to Vietnam or to Berlin? S: No, no. M: Your most famous association, of course, is the one that came in December of 1966 in connection with your visit to Hanoi. S: That's right. M: I know that you've written a full book as well
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . I remember Jack Kennedy called some reserves in over Berlin, and the Pentagon I think felt, "Gee, if we're going in this deep, we really ought to have some new troops called up and then we III get some more money and we can handl e th i ngs better
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, interview S-IX, 8/12/1969, by William J. Jorden (Item)
  • that you p~opl e have got to stand up the Chur chills of some steel, not be the Cham berlin s of your time but I said. And your time. And that was my thoug ht and that was what zine this week that's what it will show I said. And just like Life maga rm. Well
Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • important. What do you think it could be--Berlin?" The phone rang, and the Secretary said, "Mr. Deming, it's the President." So he picked it up and said, "Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, sir. it to George Reedy. What? Huh? Yes, sir, we've got it; yes, sir
Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , there was the trip to Berlin, but that was obviously a presidential assignment--was one that I believe George [Reedy] wrote for him on civil rights. He made [it] at Gettysburg on the Fourth of July, just before he became president. F: Yes. W: He just didn't do
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
  • for enrollment at the University and ended up going back to my home state where I went to school at Auburn. API, Alabama Polytechnic Institute; it's now Auburn University. M: Right. C: In 1948, I was recalled to the military service to fly on the Berlin
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the effect of the defense cuts which followed the Berlin buildup. There was a lot of worry about how defense cutback, and the end of the missile and space build­ ups would create unemployment and so on. This goes back to the late days of the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ? Are they going to try for Johnson, and where have they taken him? What's going on in Washington? Or has thi s even moved • . ..• are the Russ i ans tryi n9 to take over Berlin? You know. F: Yes. R: The imagination could run wild. And in that car, we heard