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Oral history transcript, John M. Cabot, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . in '56. This policy had been inaugurated by John Foster Dulles I think the first shipments were made in '57. The hope was that it would lead Poland to pursue a more independent and friendly policy toward the United States. It did not work out
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  • Biographical information; association with LBJ; John Gronouski; Poland foreign policy; policy of building bridges to the East; Battle Acts; most-favored nation treatment; Chinese Communists; Warsaw; Averell Harriman; Foreign Service officers
  • Cabot, John M. (John Moors), 1901-1981
  • Oral history transcript, John M. Cabot, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • John M. Cabot
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 3 (III), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1977 INTERVIEWEE: RALPH K. HUITT INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Huitt's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with what you were saying earlier about Johnson's relationship with John Foster Dulles. H: All right
  • of a 1958 labor bill supported by Senator John F. Kennedy; how LBJ would gain votes for other senators' bills; LBJ's ability to get Republican senators to vote in support of Democratic plans; Senator Bill Langer's vote; how opposing senators would help each
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [remark was]? Was it in connection with Quemoy and Matsu? G: Let's see. There is the . . . . B: I am sure that this was John Foster Dulles, who Eisenhower deferred totally to in foreign affairs. Chiang Kai-shek. John Foster Dulles' law firm
  • ; drinking among senators; Grace Tully; LBJ’s problems with kidney stones; Chiang Kai-shek; tax bill controversy; foreign policy issues; John Foster Dulles; Clinton Anderson
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to do of getting a plane, had to get Doctor [Tom] Mattingly from Walter Reed and everything. Jerry and I went over who he would call and who I would call during this half hour. I had to call the Vice President, Dick Nixon, and John Foster Dulles
  • leaders of free world after WWII; Little Rock and civil rights; Ike against forced bussing; states rights; Senator Joseph McCarthy; Ike and LBJ had heart attacks in 1955; Dulles and foreign affairs; 1956 Hungarian uprising; Israel and Suez Crisis; Sputnik
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of a hand at having Congress come down there and talk with him. strictly on foreign relations matters. and working was with John Foster Dulles. I'm talking So most of our negotiating He got along quite well with Dulles in foreign policy. G: How about
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  • Sparkman, John, 1899-1985
  • Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
  • John Sparkman
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Foster Dulles, a letter which, when it got into the public domain--how it did is not altogether clear. But he wrote this letter to John Foster Dulles taking a very strong stand on it. You know, I'm under the impression that Jim Rowe was the original
Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , without any warning to him, landed troops instead. Then that bloody French- Vietnamese war that lasted from 1948 until 1954 with terrible loss of life on both sides. The Geneva Accords, where [John Foster] Dulles first agreed that we would respect
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • or movies. I remember he did go to one and embarrassed me highly by crying. It was Grapes of Wrath by [John] Steinbeck and one of those highly graphic description of starving people. And about the Dust Bowl days in the depths of the Depression. And he had
  • for JFK for the vice-presidential nomination; Rebekah Johnson's declining health; international issues at the Suez Canal that kept Eisenhower from focusing on his campaign; John Foster Dulles; the Johnsons' trip to Europe, particularly Paris, in 1956
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • statesman the same way. You could send Adenauer thirty-seven embossed assertions of the policy of the United States and have them hand-carried by John Foster Dulles, but it wasn't half as good as one message through a private agent delivered over on a dark
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • it its coloration?" So he got Frank reluctantly to say we could release it, and he immediately called his brother [John Foster Dulles] over in the State Department and said, "I'm going to send you over something, and I think we ought to get it out
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Suez Crisis. or 1957? It doesn't matter. I'm Was that 1956 But I think it was either in 1957 or 1958 he wrote a letter to [John Foster] Dulles on the whole Middle Eastern question and the Israeli question, which had considerable impact. I'm a bit
Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and less on separate staff operations than perhaps Mr . Acheson and Mr . Dulles and Governor Herter . Even there, it's awfully hard to generalize, Mr . Dulles had a very close relationship with Bob Bowie, who was head or chairman of the Policy Planning
Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • where John Foster Dulles very wisely said that, and with the approval of President Eisenhower, that we would not support the French except through "united action." In other words, that we would not go it alone. M: Multilateral-- F: It had
  • Biographical information; Finletter Report; 70-group Air Force; George Mahon; Adlai Stevenson; Vietnam; decline in power of Democratic party; John Foster Dulles; NATO; meeting with LBJ on 4/10/64 on MLF; lack of support of MLF; Ottawa speech; Non
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was that? Was that May or June? G: I believe it was June that he announced he was stepping down. Yes, June the ninth. J: Yes. Occasionally Lyndon would be asked to a small meeting with [John Foster] Dulles, and sometimes I would sit by him at a White House dinner. I
  • ; Wright Patman; hosting Sid Richardson for dinner and socializing with Philip and Katharine Graham, among others; the possibility that Allan Shivers would run against LBJ in 1954; attending events with John Foster Dulles and Ezra Taft Benson; first seeing
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • of the House. You may recall the trouble we had over in Lebanon. W: I do indeed. D: I recall very vividly today that President Eisenhower called us all down, the joint leadership. After giving us a briefing by John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of State
Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • position as against an executive position. At that time John Foster Dulles was Secretary of State and he was a very dominating figure. Part of it had to do with him personally, just as Johnson was the dominating figure as Majority Leader. leader
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • some straws in the wind that year that really sort of cast a long shadow. Secretary [John Foster] Dulles got together a meeting of eight congressional leaders--Knowland, of course, and Lyndon, and [William] Milliken and Russell and [Earle] Clements
Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with it. the type of man that was Secretary of State. I think it was I always thought that John Foster Dulles was extremely condescending towards the committee. I thought Rusk had a tendency to be more open, although sometimes you really had to pick at him to get
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , about [William] Proxmire, [John Foster] Dulles, and Hawaii. M: I think that is the general chronology, isn't it? J: It is, and there are many things on there that I certainly do not want us to miss. (Interruption) M: If you go down
  • gun control bill; LBJ's relationship with Dorsey Hardeman; John Foster Dulles; Mrs. Johnson's visit to FDR's home in Hyde Park, New York; Mrs. Johnson's interactions with Eleanor Roosevelt; the Johnsons' relationship with Ed Weisl and Warren Woodward
Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • nominated for the vice presidency in 1960? H: Well, no. I was not extremely jubilant. But I was so pro-John Fitzgerald that what he wanted was all right with me. B: Why were you so much in favor of Mr. Kennedy in 1960? H: John Fitzgerald's record
Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • from Orange County, which is the John Birch county in the state, but he developed quite a lot in Sacramento. He was a member of the assembly; he got his law degree in 1932, and he was elected to the assembly in 1936, to the Senate in 1940, went to war
Oral history transcript, Roland Bibolet, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • imagine he did. You know, I can't remember the occasion, but I remember at one of our staff meetings he was late and Walter was presiding, and then he came in and whatever we were talking about, he announced that John Foster Dulles had returned
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that he wasn't the one that got it started. It goes back to John Foster Dulles, Eisenhower, and then to Jack Kennedy and Cardinal Spellman. I think Johnson really felt deeply that it was our obligation to give freedom. a chance, democracy a chance
  • to the United States Information Agency Advisory Commission; LBJ’s decision to not run in 1968; Vietnam propagandist and censor Barry Zorthian; Hoyt’s trip to Vietnam; John Vann; LBJ’s “credibility gap”; LBJ’s press secretaries; LBJ’s personality
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • consequence that I know of that I might have been exposed to and was not. me. Dick Helms never mentioned it to I learned later that he didn't mention it to John McCone for a long time, too, so I guess I shouldn't have my feelings hurt, and lim sure he
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Johnson -- XXXII -- 20 figure above it all. In fact, McCarthy kept on interposing himself into the State Department. [John Foster] Dulles was firm
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • policies were fairly well followed. Eisenhower's main lightning rod I always thought was John Foster Dulles. That was one of the master strokes of the whole Eisenhower Administration. always walking up to the brink. You know, Dulles was I think
Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and straighten it out. Well, Rostow, Gene Rostow, is very well intentioned but, in this instance, was impractical. He tried to organize, as [John Foster] Dulles did during the Suez crisis, an international force to force passage through the Straits of Tiran. TG
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ! But this was the United States policy embodied in the Domino Theory by John Foster Dulles. That was policy, and at that time if you just said, "Communism," that was enough to justify it. And it would still be, in retrospect, the statement of many military people
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 13 (XIII), 7/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Now, that surrmer he and other senators were scheduled to go to Korea with [John Foster] Dulles, and the trip was cancelled because Eisenhower needed to have them stay and consider raising the debt limitation. The entry [from the 1953 chronology] I
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , at the same time wanting to take advantage of [John Foster] Dulles' leaning against Israel, wanting to take political advantage of that, but at the same time not wanting to go too far and embarrass Eisenhower or to disturb Eisenhower. Johnson had what I
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 3 (III), 4/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • say that it dispelled all the anxieties. The problem is that it is a lot easier to operate than it is to be effective in a staff capacity. Winston Churchill once described staff work as "dull brooding over the deeds of others." truth
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh HAYS -- I -- 3 bestow the honor. This was right after Preston Smith had gone off against John Connally and the price freeze business, you may have been aware
  • Biographical information; LBJ’s philosophy on leaks; Sam Rayburn; John Rankin insulting to all; Eisenhower appointed Hays to TVA in 1959; Fair Employment Practices Commission; Fulbright; Faubus and Arkansas Central High School fiasco; "Southern
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1980 INTERVIEWEE: JOHN A. BAKER INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Baker's residence, Arlington, Virginia Tape 1 of 2 G: Mr. Baker, l e t ' s start today on the War on Poverty task force. Let me just ask you how you got
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  • Baker, John A. (John Austin), 1914-1982
  • Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
  • John A. Baker
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was that Secretary of State [John Foster] Dulles was in favor of our giving financial and military assistance to the French. And I believe it was the unanimous opinion of Johnson and Rayburn and Russell and Senator George, that in view of the Korean debacle that we
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 2 (II), 9/13/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in the lead. A non-aligned set of individual Arab states, in sharp contrast to the John Foster Dulles period of alignments and bilateral pacts and Baghdad pacts, because you've got to look at this in broad terms. That period where we had a number
  • in Vietnam may have affected its standing within the UN: policy changes in regard to China and Taiwan; UN reaction to the Tet Offensive in 1968; the assassination of John F. Kennedy; obstacles to negotiation in times of war, such as in Vietnam in the 1960s
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • born in Abilene, Kansas, until, oh, at least bring it down to when you came to Johns Hopkins. E: Very briefly, I got my bachelor's degree from Kansas State University. During my senior year there, I took the Foreign Service examinations, partly
  • Biographical information; FDR; LBJ's relationship with Eisenhower; invitation to LBJ to speak at Johns Hopkins; Senator Joseph McCarthy; Chamizal dispute; LBJ as civil rights leader; Latin American affairs; 1960 election; Dominican Crisis; Panama
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in the primaries in 1960. I should also say that in the sixties, the 1956-1960 period when Eisenhower was in, when we were having confrontations with the Chinese over Quemoy and Matsu, he was very skeptical about the [policy], and open. This was the [John Foster
Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was his idea at all. as far as I know. I think it was a surprise, It may have been [John Foster] Dulles, because Dulles was the one who said this should happen on behalf of the President. They were going to send down a plane and Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on Foreign Relations. He said the reason he wanted us over there--he was going to put Mansfield and myself--he said he wanted some new, young blood on the committee. Secondly, he said that he was worried about John Foster Dulles becoming Secretary of State
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • approach and direction of foreign policy? A: President Eisenhower was a man that relied very heavily upon his advisers, especially John Foster Dulles. He was likely to take their opinions and say, "W e l l , if this is the view of most of you, we'll