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  • : Tonight's meeting with the Platform Committee will raise question on the Middle East, ABM, USS Liberty. General Westmoreland: We are bombing trucks laden with war materiel. The President: The Christian Science Monitor said today that the greatest number
  • . The President showed the group a Christian Science Monitor article on the views of various dissenting Senators about Vietnam. "This is the type of thing which the American people are seeing every day. We need to get them more information of a factual nature. 11
  • Canham of the Christian Science Monitor asked a two pi. rt question. The first being why the budget message expected that we'd be out of Vietnam by June 30, And the second being, what about having another halt in the bombing of North Vietnam without
  • of a bitch Zorthian, how did he get down here so quick to tip off and leak it to the press?" What we didn't know was that in that hour we were meeting, in Washington, after the President's speech, George Christian had briefed the press and had said to them
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Jacobson -- II -- 13 G: How about Daniel Sutherland? J: Don't know him well enough to-- G: Christian Science Monitor. J: Yes. I don't know anything bad
  • ; the additional war damage claims bill now pending in the United States Congress: the steps which could be taken together to develop vigorous science programs for the Philippines and United States; the possible Peace Corps projects which will be discussed later
  • informat!oii MAY 28, 1968 - 1:30 p m. l MEETING WITH FOREIGN POLICY ADVISERS The President Secretary Clifford Undersecretary Katzenbach General Wheeler I CIA Director Helms Cyrus Vance Walt Rostow George Christian : ) NOTES OF THE PRESIDENT'S
  • , 1996 INTERVIEWEES: Harry Middleton and George Christian and LBJ School Students PLACE: LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas M: Max Sherman [dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs] says that he is not going to say anything
  • See all online interviews with George Christian
  • use of the telephone and the Library's plans to make LBJ's phone conversation recordings available; how George Christian got to know LBJ; LBJ's strengths and flaws; LBJ's interactions with the press; how LBJ kept up to date on Congressional activity
  • Christian, George E. (George Eastland), 1927-2002
  • Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996
  • George Christian
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  • TO DISCUSS GENERAL WHEELER'S TRIP TO VIETNAM Vice President Secretary Rusk Secretary McNamara Clark Clifford General Taylor Under Secretary Nitze Director Helms Walt Rostow George Christian Tom Johnson .... SfRV\C£ scr ~ DECLASSIFIED NOTES
  • : The President Secretary Rusk Secretary Clifford Walt Rostow General Wheeler Harry McPherson George Christian Tom Johnson I \ ' I Meeting ended: ~ ... MEETl~~G ~JOTE& bORYRIGtfTED .PvblicotioA Req•UI•• f!.ermi11ion of Ce p'Hgftt Kafd&t. W Tbomaa
  • for about fifteen minutes when the news came through. This involved a number of people on the White House staff as well as Kermit Gordon, who was Budget Director, and myself, and members of our staff. There was Jerry Wiesner, who was the science advisor
  • ADMINISTRATION NA FORM 1429 (6-85) FOREIGN POLICY GROUP MEETffiG \~' ~ .:·· October 29, 1968 THOSE ATTENDING: The President Secretary Rusk Secretary Clifford General Abrams General Wheeler Richard Helms Walt Rostow Harry McPherson George Christian Tom Johnson
  • among White House staff; division of staff along philosophical and personal lines; George Christian and TV networks; CBS-Cronkite Show anti-administration material; William S. White; Joe Alsop; animosities over humor; "corny" criticism about Medal
  • happened to be at State--it was Dix Donnelley at one point, Bob McCloskey was press officer at another point--plus whoever happened to be in the White House, Bill Moyers, George Christian, so on. So I had four different people, all with a perfect right
  • , transporta­ tion, space technology and science. And even these do not exhaust the possi­ nilities for Federal initiatives. Indeed, they do not include major proposals for negative income tax or revenue sharing with States and municipalities which are currently
  • to Hawaii. M: Back to Hawaii, as chief of the production effort under General Phil Davidson, where I stayed for the next two years. Of course during that time we monitored the \O/ar as it continued in Vietnam, and although our interests were broader than
  • to him. F: Did you have an opportunity to form any opinion of his general behavior at the time of the funeral or of his take-over of the Presidency? H: From what I could see on our monitors and through our cameras, there was no question he deported
  • SIGMAII-65 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS THB GAMEDIRECTORFOR ~IGMAII-65 COLONEL GEORGE A. LINCOIB WAS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH PRESENTPOSITION: Professor and Head ot Department of Social Sciences, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. SCHOO
  • guys if we don't mention the others you mean. E: There were so many there that were so good. most loyal guy that ever v:as. loyal guy. George Reedy was the Christian was the same, a very Jack Valenti was the most loyal little peckerwood, as long
  • ://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 j Connell -- I -- 27 on Johnson's staff with George Christian, before he
  • Congress. We had enacted a lot of good legislation in 1965, but there was still a lot of unfinished business to carryover into 1966. I had brought in a staff person to be my deputy early in 1964--John r~organ, who was an American Political Science
  • /31/68 A 2 p 01/31/68 A ~ ±n--ine.tn-am secret ,AM ~~C 7/u,,t) for Bunker and Westmoreland from Christian secret draft of ll39a - - to -p-resi dent from Rostow l-P- fetit7/68 -r-- A f\ FILE LOCATION NSF, NSC History March 31st Speech
  • to it that that is monitored and controlled by higher echelons; and that those things which do affect the interface between the military and other LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • : Did you feel that that was an intentional thing--that we were perhaps getting a little too close in monitoring events of the crisis? N: No. The Israelis had surveilled our ship earlier in the day; they knew it was a U.S. ship; they had taken
  • really better sitting in Washington and watching a television monitor, and contacting their sources here about what's really going on. But the mystique of the news profession is that you've got to be at the scene of the crime and so on, whether
  • of specific poverty-labeled programs, but that we were to be the spur and the monitor and the examiner, the critic, of the whole range of government affairs, to see that they become more poverty-conscious and do things that will contribute to the War
  • himself could write the answer, they'd ask the question over again. You just had bing-bing-bing-bing; they were asking questions as if they were sitting like you are asking me questions. G: Were you monitoring all this cable traffic? M: Sure. But I
  • or so. So I'd say that this is probably the most inspected and audited and monitored program that we have anywhere. Even so, I don't say that it's not possible and doesn't happen that there are corrupt diversions or simple theft or Viet Cong seizure
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Boatner -- III -- 29 But he did expect the reporters to be their own monitors of their news . I think reporters do tend
  • rights ii that area via an armed vessel -- per.baps a destroyer -- rather than via a communications monitoring ship like the USS BANNER
  • , and the Poles, they held a swing, one way or the other. Now that commission would monitor very closely every U.S. military person or piece of equipment that came in or out of Vietnam. If I got some replacements out there I had to show by name, rank
  • hundred feet or a thousand feet, and the aircraft's taking its commands from the navigation set, the flight controls are slaved into the course and everything else, and all you're doing is monitoring it on your radar. And as you approach the target, you
  • we had direct lines to the exchanges--Manny Cohen would be there and a couple of his people, I think Pollack was one of them; Larry Levinson was in for awhile on that; and we just sat there and monitored the market for a couple of days. And then when
  • you been able to monitor developments in Vietnam while you were in Hawaii? H: Oh, yes. We had a little task force there. As a matter of fact we had a task force that was going into Laos if anything happened in Laos, and I was the commander. I had