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Folder, "Diaries [Transcripts of Tapes 1-10]," Papers of U. Alexis Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • was a banker. As such he was of course one of the prominent men in the community, and this was a farming community. In those days, you had these little towns scattered all over the United States, but in the Wheat Belt of Kansas each village was located
Folder, "Diaries [Transcripts of Tapes 11-20]," Papers of U. Alexis Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • career and my life. with it. I don't think that anything else could quite compare The Court at Saint James, or the Court at Tokyo, are all more or less well knownand mundane, but presenting my credentials as Ambassadorof the United States of America
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 13, 1968 P: Mrs. Anderson, in August 1965, you were named the United States Representative on the United Nations Trusteeship Council with the rank of Ambassador. A: Do you currently hold this position? No, I
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • urging me in the beginning to try to let him go. And I kept realizing the more I learned that this would be just disaster for him and also, I felt, for the United States because r felt that the Bulgarian government must know that we had him
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 and age when we have to communicate with the whole population, an ambassador today, in my opinion, an ambassador of the United States shouldn't just
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and in the United Arab Republic, in Syria, to a less extent in Yemen; they certainly have a vital interest in the area. They're also interested in Iraq. They have a vital 1 interest in that part of the area of the world and have been trying to c r e a t e
Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • correspondents who were with him all the time. I was then based in London, and I picked them up in Manila and went with them the rest of the way, including all the way back to the United States. But much of the time I was traveling on a press plane separate
Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to that, in the immediate past, you had served as Ambassador to OEeD and then prior to that in the Kennedy Administration, both as Director for the United States and the World Bank for a short time-L: Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • being moved out of Educational and Cultural Affairs, and he simply would not permit it. There followed nine weeks in which the question of what I was going 1 to do next w'as caught up bet'tveen the President of the United States and the C h
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the war to the North in the form of aerial attack and the second was to commit organized units of American forces to combat. M: Were you closely involved with the presidential decision-making in either or both of those cases? J. I was still
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in a logistics setup with respect to the MAAG [Military Assistance Advisory Group] that we had there then. But I was in Vietnam from 1954 to 1957. Then I came back to the United States. The Army insists that one go to school and so forth, and so I stayed
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • an instinctive feel for a lot of this stuff and everybody had told me, "God, watch him like a hawk, because here he is outside the United States and he won't know what to say and he'll put his foot in his mouth." I didn't find that at all. In fact, I found him
Folder, "Diaries [Transcripts of Tapes 21-24]," Papers of U. Alexis Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • it. However,we felt that the That is, it was hopeless for West Therefore, the best thing to do was for West Pakistan to cut its losses as quickly as possible. However,the President didn't want us--the United States--in any way to be responsible for what
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/1/1968 (Monday) (Item)
  • Latin America