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  • 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
  • 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
  • supported the maintenance of strength in NATO and gave the Eisenhower-Dulles program every reasonable support. M: His relations with Secretary Dulles were satisfactory, as far as you know? H: So far as I know, yes. They were cooperative. M: Did you
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: JOHN A. McCONE INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • See all online interviews with John A. McCone
  • McCone, John A. (John Alex), 1902-1991
  • Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
  • John A. McCone
  • , that he listened--maybe that was part of his being tired, but he did listen carefully. Our chairman began, John Hannah, and talked for maybe fifteen or twenty minutes. A number of other people talked, I remember Dean Griswold, I believe, and a number
  • Biographical information; received Medal of Freedom from LBJ; LBJ's use of Civil Rights Commission; JFK and civil rights; CRC's first meeting with LBJ; Commission hearings; John Gleason; LBJ's accomplishments in human opportunity/civil rights; White
  • long enough to hear this interview, and his name was John Burns, who presently is governor of Hawaii, but his term will expire January 3, 1975. He has terminal cancer. Speaker Rayburn was a fantastic person when i t came to determining the character
  • Tidelands legislation; admission of Alaska and Hawaii as states; East-West Center in Honolulu; space program; Senate committee assignments; Estes Kefauver, John Kennedy, and the Foreign Relations Committee; 1960 Democratic National Convention; LBJ’s
  • had it up to here with ROTC and they were shooting me off the podium every day. about that. I began to get a pretty dull thud LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • leaned toward John 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 MinO\'J -- I -- 7