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- should not be impatient. Weshould be willing to sit them out. Andjust because they turn something down, I don't think that meanswe nec essarily· have to comeforward with something new. Aboveall, I don't want to get negotiating with ourselves before
- level of defense spending to finance expensive new projects without evaluating the consequences in relation to our fo'reign and domestic policy goals. The question that should be asked is: Would the security of the nation be measurably improved
- , the Sheep Meadow, was in the bandstand, the platform from which the speeches were made, and I heard a reporter for a major New York paper, the New York Daily News, call in, and I may not have the figures exactly right, but I think I even have the figures
- and Teetering 22B: The Pleiku Attack and the Shaping of a New Course 23: Competing Pressures and the Baltimore Speech 24: Negotiations: Word and Deed, Public and Private 25: Shoring Up Proves.Not Enough 26: The June-July Policy Debate: The Framework
- but this may not be s o. We should look again at our programs and examine all ideas without thinking whether or not they can be done without increasing our expenditures . {8) The Defense Department i s studying several new military recommendations made
- may object. to the' term. . . --. -·-. .... -· -· - .... - CHICAGO DAILY NEWS Sept-ember 15, 1967 .... - ,,-.---- .. ---- ... ·Connnent ';vI cNa1narciCredibility·Rating Plunges B3 William McGaffin an indiscriminate bombinJ of in private talks
- . This transcript begins with Marvin Watson entering the President's Office at' 2:35 PM_, but according to the President's Daily Diary, Goldberg's meeting with the President was from 1:24-2:30 PM. DATE: 12/6/67 TIME: 2:35 PM CALLER: Arthur Goldberg Pages
- *TRANSCRIPT ONLY; THERE IS NO RECORDING OF THIS MEETING; DAILY DIARY LISTS MEETING BETWEEN LBJ AND ARTHUR GOLDBERG ON 12/6/1967 FROM 1:42P TO 2:50P; MARVIN WATSON APPARENTLY JOINED THE MEETING AT 2:35P
- Council health Council Southern .) year~ Yuntil in the next it almost political triumphal In this Suu himself the admin in sel This Phan Khac Suu ~-~ to the J . in the Navan but stage, somewhat he guided new Charter
- to the Kennedy Administration to have any Admin~tration. contact with Mr. Johnson back in your news career or in private career? D: Only vaguely in my news career. However, in 1955 and 1956, I was on Capitol Hill associated with Senator Estes Kefauver
- one, was quite conservative. paper~ I Jim Free of Birmingham, I think, as southerners go, is quite liberal; certainly more so than the . Birmingham paper. I was. Bruce Jolly, of the Greensboro Daily News, at that time, was I thought more liberal
- ranging from six to seven o'clock. could make the very early morning shows here. They used The wire services And even the dailies, the specials, the New York Times or the Washington Post, could make a late edition, you .see. And every other period
- had been good. But this was the first time that Lyndon Johnson as President saw how the Council of Economic Advisers could perform. From that very moment on, he would expect to be kept up-to-date--to get these daily memos. This is the way the New
- Biographical information; Arthur Burns; Committee for Economic Development; Herbert Stein; Howard Myers; Ted Yntema; Walter Heller; Brookings Institute; relationship with LBJ; termination of consultantship; development of new economic theory; Paul
- involved calling up reserves. Secretary Rusk felt that it was important that the new military proposals have civilian (i.e., State Department) endorsement. He thought he should participate in the Congressional testimony. Mr. Bundy suggested
- that would do if we stop the bombing. We've had maybe 200 flickers and Harriman tracks down every probe, but so far there has been nothing." ### August 7, 1967 NOTES ON PRESIDENT'S MEETING WITH VIRGINIA PREWETT OF THE WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS, MARCH 14, 1967
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell
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- the President and yourself? Gu: Colonel Cross said, as I recall, I~r. President, this is a new man that I've brought in to be my administrative assistant. He's a Marine." The President said,"I understand from Cross that you can walk on water and replace
- equi;:,ment Washington substantial number But even at the anot~er ½;ii:c Laos.** and flow of new weapons in and perhaps Hanoi * rifles Chinese) became highland border ;:aobili ty basic (mostlv regiment, in If was Cong
- STATES:MIGHT BE MADE'. •-:°'.'-'. .. , .... ' ,,r 1 1I~' • •· . IT WAS LEVISON'S SUGGESTION THAT.':.PEOPLE LIKE-:JQHN KENNETH GALBRAITH,,' . ,_..:;·;-· :: ' KING, JAMES WECHSLER, ·THE EDITOR ·or THE' "NEW ·YORK POST~, DR.,'.JOHN .. BENNETT, PRESI DENT OF UNION
- A State Embtel Top Secret 2096 from Bangkok (Section 2) 3 p 05/19/61 A State Embtel Top Secret 2096 from Bangkok(Xection 3) 2 p 05/20/61 A State Embtel 2751 Secret from New Delhi 2 p 05/19/61 A State Embtel 2767 Conf. from New Delhi 2
- TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh opponents in an election for president. F: Yes. H: But not in the daily routine--well, not routine
- ..,,_ has been considerable, .. ~ inflated_by civilians.·. .. ; ~ .... _ ,,,._ incltli¼io~ ~~ To some extent .... by measures already taken. 2 - Heavy S•E•C ft•E•'f infiltration of both new units is continuing. made prior A strenuous
- measures to cut demands on Vietnamese manpower {3rd country labor, better use of returnees, etc.); {d) develop better procedures here and in Saigon for civil/military review of new manpower demands. {Tab J) Subject: Land Reform Problem: Land reform
- into the retirement program . So, if you do it the way I provided for suggest, you will automatically get the new programs when 2 1/2 million federal employees, and you will not become a target each time improvements that you're bound to want come along ." Mr
- all out because I never spent that much time in the White House. He was very fond of about my closest friend in Washington, Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News. I think probably, and I hope to goodness somebody does him. M: He's on our list
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
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- to Washington in May of 1942 from Pennsylvania, \"here I had been state m,anager of International News Service. ing to get back to being a reporter, I managed ~~ant to get transferred out of the administrative and back into the reporting business
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- period? J: Well, I would say that the best reporting of the Vietnam situation has been by guys 1i.ke Bob Shaplen of the New Yorker; Sol Sanders, U.S. News and World Report; Keyes Beech of the Chicago Daily News-- M: You did get one newspaper
- commuter lines are down. 45, 000 commuters will be stranded because of the strike on the New York Central. The Pennsylvania railroad will be crippled. The New Haven and Long Island Railroads may not be able to operate because of picket lines. The Secretary
- . also be covered in new tasking for CIA collection efforts. 1. 2. We should do more to exploit the intelligence as sets of other countries. The Australians, for example, should be encouraged to add at least one officer to-their :.Wlilitary Attache
- , for it would be folly to undertake i. I I I a brand new effort without realizing that a large number of people have spent •1 I extensive little time and effort effort persons to tell the story has been spent trying working with veterans
- and Secretary of his· own which summary Rostow on the situation In addition and met a daily In addition, had requested. Taylor plus for for a Vietnam our world the San Antonio working out on new posture." formula. speech Rather asked
- , and labor. Our economic statistics are the best and most compre hensive in the world. But they can be and need to be further improved. The costs will be exceedingly small relative to the benefits. To this end, my 1969 budget provides for several new
- /oh or maybe it was Bowdoin [College] up in New England, and had had one summer as a copy boy at the New York Times and so on. He was a very active, very energetic Vietnamese whose family or wife ran a big English school. He understood the press
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb
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- ; with the new plant and equipment 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 SCHULTZE
- stop the bombing and they shell the cities, or abuse the DMZ. r I • r ! !.. -4 When I got back to Washington from New York, I w.e nt back to the Soviet Union and pointed out that I did not want to deceive anybody and didn 1 t want them
- *TRANSCRIPT ONLY OF THIS CONVERSATION; THERE IS NO RECORDING; LBJ IS MEETING WITH JIM JONES AT TIME OF CALL; HHH, RICHARD NIXON, AND GEORGE WALLACE WERE REACHED BY TELEPHONE; TIME FROM DAILY DIARY
Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 F: A lot of the time, and, therefore, while I saw him when he came to Paris and did occasionally see him here in New York, it wasn't anything like as close as during the time we were both
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD H. NELSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE· PLACE: Mr. Nelson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with your association with the Peace Corps. How did you get involved with that? N: I had met Bill Moyers and Sarge
- and Kennedy’s staff; Diem’s assassination; Vietnam; trips to New York and Benelux region; LBJ as president; transition after assassination of JFK; the 1964 campaign; civil rights meeting with black leaders; LBJ’s ethics and relationship with staff; Walter
- predicted my appointment in the spring, I think it was, and I, therefore, concluded I was safe. M: Did you know anything about it at that time? R: No, I knew nothing about it at that time. M: How was the news broached to you? In what manner did Mr
- , 1982 INTERVIEWEE: DAVID HALBERSTAM INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Halberstam's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 2 G: You said that you had a Lyndon Johnson story. H: Yes. I was, in 1960, working for the Nashville Tennessean
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
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- with each other a great deal over the years. The part where perhaps I came to know him best, and had the closest association with him, was right after he became president. He requested a news media liaison from Texas in Washington, and I was the one
- . But we were looking for signs of hostility Of course, there was the Dallas Morning News of that morning, with a very unfriendly ad. IIYankee. Go Home" and so forth. mostly friendly. We saw signs like, But the crowd at the airport was Kennedy
- that Ambassador /Henry Cabot/ Lodge took under those instructions--which was, in effect, to go to the military and say if you want to start something new, we won't be against you--those had the effect of setting in motion all the thinking and so on that in turn