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Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Ohio The Columbus Citizen-Journal and [the Columbus] Dispatch carried huge frontpage articles quoting Congressman Abele to the effect that I had twisted his arm trying to get him to vote for the War on Poverty. He claimed that what I did was unethical

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

movement and the legislation. But it's increasingly clear to me that we really left Morse out there to hang out and dry. G: This is a UPI [United Press International] dispatch, July 28. How was the administration able to facilitate the travel of government

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Sr., interview 1 (I), 1/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, F: You were the only boy left when he went off. T: That's right. F: Were you the baby in the family? T: No, my two sisters are younger than I am. F: Where did your mother come from? T: My mother came from Columbus, Texas. F: How did she

Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. to date. It's interesting to bring things up Later there was a man by the name of Sam K. Seymour from Columbus who served on the LCRA board for some thirty-six years. His wife was Welly Hopkins' sister and so stayed in some relationship with Welly

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that meeting was ceremonial more than anything else. The thing that was outstanding, the thing that stands out the largest in my mind is that the Fredericksburg newspapers had dispatched a case of fine Fredericksburg peaches for Jack, and I think that's

Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Anthony Buford, interview 1 (I), 6/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Any significant conversations during that time? Did you talk about the office and what he was doing? B: No. No. G: Okay. The St. Louis Post Dispatch was not always in his corner as a newspaper. Did he ever complain to you about the Dispatch or its

Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

as your dispatches, and you've testified before the Foreign Relations Committee. S: That's right. M: I don't intend that you duplicate a lot of what you've said then, but I think this is an important episode. Were there any special conditions of your

Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, when suddenly a messenger came into the room, a Soviet messenger, and handed some sort of a dispatch to Gromyko. LBJ was just in the middle of some sort of statement; I forget the substance of it. I was taking notes, and then he stopped and I began

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 3 (III), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, 1969 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES H. ROWE, JR. INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Rowe's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch for December 15, 1966, has an article on page 28A by Richard Dudman, which throws some

Oral history transcript, Jesse Curry, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

: So all you had to do was dispatch officers to help control the crowd? C: Right, and set up escorts and so forth and security at Love Field. But I think the visit that he made with Kennedy then was the next time that I saw him. LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

knew. He had me call the head of the maritime unions to get them to turn the screws on Bartlett. He knew that kind of thing. He had me call the editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch once, or the head of the editorial page, to get them to write

Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the South Vietnamese to the peace talks before the elections in order to help Humphrey. And of course there's the story that Beech's dispatch was misrouted and ended up in some isolated place instead of the Washington desk of the Chicago Daily News

Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 2 (II), 6/1/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that could be used, then? T: Oh, yes. G: It was a secondary advantage. . Did we get evidence in succeeding months after the dispatch of the . helicopters that this was working out? T: Well, I'll just say that for the year thereafter--we're talking about

Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Dispatch and then went back to St. Paul as the editor of the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch. I then went into the armed forces and then out and back to St. Paul as editor of the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch and then to the New York Times. M

Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 1 (I), 10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of CORE knew of its technique of sit-ins and urged them to give some help to these youngsters, and CORE then dispatched one of its two staff member-- B: It's two staff members? At this interval, one wonders at CORE having two staff members in 1960! F

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 3 (III), 9/14/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, turning points that you look back on and think, gee, I wish this instead of that? That you wish things had gone another way? T: Now it's all over, I would say that the following decisions and actions on our part are the most regrettable: a) the dispatch

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 4 (IV), 1/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and efficiently for an organization of this size. I have the impression that decisions are arrived at with better information, more accurately, more promptly, and with more dispatch and vigor in this Department perhaps than in any other agency of the U.S

Oral history transcript, Harris Melasky, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

? M: Quickly, yes, sir, with the utmost dispatch. Mc: For the sake of the typist, I need to know how to spell these names. You mentioned someone by the name of Rowsey. M: Rowsey. R-O-W-S-E-Y. Mc: And the Chevrolet dealer? M: McConchie. M-C-C

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

parents were coming, would think to call 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bonanno -- II -- 8 up Bess Abell and say, "Dispatch

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and the ear of the President all he wanted to do was to get to the President some complaint or some request or some piece of information and would be quite content to talk to me, knowing that the message would be passed along with dispatch. I think

Oral history transcript, Whitney Shoemaker, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

deal of it, a large part of it, is dispatched immediately from the mail section to the department or agency concerned. We are speaking now of anywhere from a parent who seeks an emergency leave for his or her boy in Vietnam because the husband

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, obviously, in the various techniques used in dealing with the pressin backgrounding, in giving the press access to military expertise, and in providing all of the facts and information collected. The press is going to file its dispatches. Far better it does

Oral history transcript, Toinette Bachelder, interview 1 (I), 2/11/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

knew best, because of our early association, and he was a hard worker. dent. He worked from the time he awoke; like any other Presi- When they wake up, the first thing they get is the newspaper or the dispatches. They can't even have breakfast like

Oral history transcript, Courtney A. Evans, interview 1 (I), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

have one dispatching unit; they don't need forty-four. They can have one records system, one laboratory. This perhaps will come first, and then ultimately we'll get around to providing society with units of criminal justice that are large enough

Oral history transcript, Najeeb E. Halaby, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, and by a young man who was president of the Chamber of Commerce Aviation Division who also was an ambitious young Republican politician. They handed me, as I got down out of the airplane, an AP dispatch from Washington that said, "Congressman Gonzalez asks GAO

Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

office and they notify their headquarters who notifies us here and so it is a double check. And we dispatch an agent to check- it out. M: The instance that came to my mind, I recall reading in Time one which, I believe it was the FBI declined

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

make that very, very clear, and the report of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to which I gather Draper had access, makes it very clear-and so did the dispatches of TadSzulc., who knew what he was doing. changed around the time that Mac Bundy

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 it was worded in a rather inexact and somewhat contingent manner. As we sat there, a telegram ,vas drafted in response to Governor Romney, and it was immediately dispatched--I think at about eleven

Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 2 (II), 12/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

getting a few letters jumping up and down about the fact that he wasn't in the trenches and we didn't have a congressman, either. I was under the impression that when he went out to the West Coast, that sooner or later he probably would be dispatched out

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, and they just wanted to establish communications because they didn't know whether they might have to call troops. Then beginning about 2:15 that morning, we began a series of conversations that resulted in the dispatch of federal troops. Actually, my

Oral history transcript, Roswell L. Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

their doubts and then the doubts became fears as to whether Diem could hack it. But I just never met the man; having only heard about him indirectly through seeing the dispatches from various quarters, I just didn't have a really strong conviction of my own

Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview S-1 (I), 3/26/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)

in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch which said, "It takes the Catholic Church three hundred years to beatify a saint, but Caro did it to Coke Stevenson in one chapter." (Laughter) What you could tell me first off is, do you remember when you first met Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of these on teleprompter. Then he wanted to know who wrote these blankety-blank lousy things. I very timidly timo- rously raised my hand, whereupon he told me that these weren't worth two-bits. So then he dispatches Bill Moyers and two other people that I don't

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

communications came back to me here at Washington at this office or at my home. aircraft. Of course I had to dispatch support In other words, we sent helicopters to Torrejon in Spain. We had to get people into Rome. We didn't really know where the President

Oral history transcript, Henry Hirshberg, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in addition to the four principals, as it were, except Malcolm Bardwell and my young brother-in-law Harry Martin. The young brother-in-law, as soon as it became apparent that we were to have a dinner party, was hurriedly dispatched out to my house

Oral history transcript, William Narva, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to that desire. So with Dr. Anderson's departure from the area--he was assigned additional duty to the preventive medicine units that were being dispatched to Vietnam to learn and manage specific preventable problems. He was temporarily assigned to a Marine

Oral history transcript, Marie Lindau Olson, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

had about two days to get these applications in to the Washington office for approval. When it was obvious we were running out of time, I remember Mr. Johnson dispatched me and Ray Roberts up to the highway department so our type would