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Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the United States, and I predict that one of these days it will be the greatest bulwark of strength that the United States government will have in financial institutions. F: Of course it has gone beyond that. I've seen it in Latin America where in some
LBJ’s civil rights interest; Sam E. Johnson; Ku Klux Klan issue in Texas legislature; farm to market roads; LBJ as secretary to Dick Kleberg; rural electrification; Russell Chaney; NYA; discussion with Rayburn regarding LBJ running for Senate

Folder, "VP Johnson's Trip - Far East - May, 1961," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 1 (Item)

as the people. Thia auccoaa is the beat token or the reinforcement ot the bonda ot friendship between the United St~tes ot America and Pree Vietnam. -0- 1 ' -l> I l MANILA PRJ:SS S llYtMAHY Vice President Johnson visit successful, both as publicity nnd

Oral history transcript, Donald A. Williams, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

have been of group nature rather than individual nature. B= Have all of these meetings been in connection with the work of the Soil Conservation Service? W: Related to work of the Soil Conservation Service. For example, the Keep America Beautiful
Biographical information; contact with LBJ; Keep America Beautiful; LBJ strong support of conservation and development; Soil Conservation Service; Lady Bird’s interest in the outdoors and natural beautification; Great Plains Conservation Program

Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Ben Barnes of Brownwood, Texas do hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title, and interest in the tape recording and transcript of the personal

Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

affecting the American people and affecting the American economy. Those would be: spending policies; tax policies; social security policies; housing policies; monetary policies; farm policies; international economic policies; and basic regulatory policies

Folder, "Bernard Quint," Office Files of Yoichi Okamoto, Box 1 (Item)

: "The United States of America wants to see the cold war end, we want to see it end once and £or all; •.• The United States wants· sanity and security, and pea~e £or all, and above all," ... _..·.·•· . • ' Dece1nber .' •,'•,:•,•/,•+:•,.-•.-,~:•r,r

Oral history transcript, Rutherford M. Poats, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

will sound very simple, but people thirty or forty years from now might not consider then quite as simple as they now are. Don't let them limit you. If you want to ramble around and talk about something else, by all means do so. You were with United Press

Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 8, Excerpts and Taylor's Memo," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 49 (Item)

. [At this point, Secretary of the Air Force Harold Brown read the citation as follows:] CITATION The President of _the United States of America, au thorized by Act of Congress, March 3, 1896, has awarded, in the name of The Congress, the Medal of Honor to MERLYN
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Folder, "JCS -- SIGMA I‑66, Fact Book, 9/66," Agency Files, NSF, Box 33 (Item)

their American masters. In October the General Assembiy ot the United Nations voted to ~eat·the'Chinese·Pepple!s·Republic. Before the 1ssne reached the Security Council. Peking angrily rejected the proposition unless the Chiang Kai-shek faction was expelled
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Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Senate; served in World War I; entered the United States House of Representatives in 1933 and served until 1946 or '47. must have been a lap of terms. R: Yes. I was elected in 1946 to fill a vacancy. There LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

assisted in this by sending troops, sending their people into Africa and into Latin America. over the place. There were Chinese all So there was a basis, it wasn't just a . . . . But I think the mind set of even the liberals in the United States
of Americans for Democratic Action; the Democratic Farm-Labor Party; the Sino-Soviet bloc; Humphrey's good relationship with JFK; Ed Lansdale; Humphrey's relationship with LBJ; the Diem assassination; Humphrey's trips as VP to Vietnam, India and other places

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

in Latin America that would like to come and live in the United States than there are people who come and live in the United States. I think that would be a fair statement. But this gets so involved LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] size of the agreement. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 21 But in that case you have a union in the United Steel Workers and an employer-bargaining group which

Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: DOUGLAS PIKE INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Pike's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Would you recount how you came to enter government service? P: I worked for the United Nations in Korea during the Korean War and then came

Folder, "Vice President's Trip to Southeast Asia, May 9-24, 1961 (II)," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 1 (Item)

~:tll logis~~c__s~~p~r~ units. • • : On Jaly-·30· the· Thai Cri~nal Court ruled for the ·sec end time th-,t it is· proper for the pollce·to keep ·comrr.unist_suspects under·detention i.ridefin.it.ely during investigation ·and' until. cor.:pleti'o

Folder, "Classified Papers - Far East Trip, May, 1961," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 1 (Item)

in Washington. NOLTING DI ."- ~~ PHILIPPINES COMMUNIQUE - MANILA - May140 1961 President Carlos Po Garcia of the Republic of the Philippines and Vice President Lyndon Bo Johnson of the United States of America met at Malacanang Palace at 7:'.35a.om" today

Folder, "JCS -- SIGMA I‑66, Game Documentation, 9/66," Agency Files, NSF, Box 33 (Item)

of SIGMAI-66 was to examine some of the major issues, problems and questions associated with a deescalation of the war in Vietnam. The teams in SIGMAI-66 represented the United States (Blue), Republic of South Vietnam (Green), National Liberation Front
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Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

for this thing, and army units were assigned to go in and reoccupy the southern tip of the country, which was Ca Mau. This one psywar company that they had was assigned to do propaganda, and a staging area was set up in Soc Trang, which was north of Ca Mau

Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

in that division was spent in working on the growing interest of the federal government in medical care and in the shortage of manpower. I was Executive Secretary of the Bane Committee, which developed the document "Physicians for a Growing America," which formed

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Times, assistant to James Reston. I stayed on in Winston-Salem for a number of years. F: Winston-Salem. Is the New York Times running a farm club down there? W: Well, in a way. But I stayed down there for a long time, and ulti- mately, early

Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 6, Bunker Reports," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 48 (Item)

our troops in the ~xpcc'!:aticr. thr-:.t they ~ig:1t create ?.dve::..·se psyc:~o:o~:. h1. the United States anC: thus a chance :n r:,olicy? cal reactions 4 ., • • .. • • , J.. • • .1 I an:1. inclined to the f orme-r fo.cory. It s ecms to me
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Folder, "Deployment of Major U.S. Forces to Vietnam, July 1965, Volume 7, Tabs 421-438," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 43 (Item)

'' >" COPY LBJ LIBRARY 1. Australia, Canada, and tlie Netlierlands responded v/ith assurance of support of tlie United States' position and of tlieir desire to be as helpful as possible. Menzies sent a reply to President Johnson promising "continuing
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Folder, "Memos, [Cables, memos, reports, and other material, 11/63-5/67] Vol. XVI, 8/16 -31/64, 2 of 2," Country Files, Vietnam, NSF, Box 7 (Item)

out on the high seas in an act of aggression against the United States of America. . . . . . . The challenge that we face in Southeast Asia todav is the same challenge that we have faced with courage and that we have met with strength in Greece
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Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in 1949, I went to work for the legislative department of the UAW--United Auto Workers union--here in Washington. My job was mostly research; I read the [Congressional] Record every day and I came to the Hill to get bills and attend hearings. I also

Folder, "Presidential Decisions-Gulf of Tonkin Attacks of August 1964-Volume I, Tabs 1-8, 1 of 2," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 38 (Item)

The P r e s id e n t m a k e s public h is in s tr u c tio n s i s s u e d the p r e v io u s day to U. S. Navy units in the Gulf o f Tonkin. ) The D ep a r tm e n t of State p u b lic iz e s the U .S . p r o t e s t note to N orth V ietn a m . M cN a m
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Folder, "3 A (2) Gulf of Tonkin, 1964 - 68, 1 of 3," Country Files, Vietnam, NSF, Box 77 (Item)

during th e re st of th e sessions of th e S en ate th is week. UNITED STATES ACTION AGAINST N O RTH VIETNAM Mr. GORE. Mr. P resident, w hatever doubts one m ay have held regarding th e policy an d actions of th e U nited S tate s in S o u th V ietnam
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Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that that was very definitely in the American interest. In other words, the Marsha.ll program, while it was regarded by some people as simply a program. to help European countries, it was also a. program to help the United States of America -- both from

Folder, "[Incidents in the Gulf of Tonkin, August 1964 - Bromley Smith Memo of January 27, 1968]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)

to the United Nations Security Council on August 5, said that the first Tonkin incident involving the SS Maddox occurred 30 miles at sea from the mainland of No r th Vi etnam. The second incident involving the SS Maddox and the SS C. Turner Joy occurred 65 miles

Oral history transcript, Lester R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, outline your career, private and govermental? B: I might begin with my upbringing on a farm in southern New Jersey, I was born in 1934 in southern New Jersey, began farming there as a youngster, a future farmer and 4-H member . I developed a large

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

been horrified if he knew how little I knew when I started. Mc: Did you continue in this area? P: Yes--and all the way through, although we did a good deal more in 1967 in thinking through farm programs, programs for rural America up
Biographical information; First impressions of LBJ as President; functioned initially as McPherson’s deputy; farm programs; free trade; Kennedy Round; draft system; personal opinion of President; authority in dealing with departments and agencies

Folder, "[September 6, 1967 - 11:09 a.m. Meeting with Vietnam Election Observers]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)

of the United States at its best. "I am proud of you." He said he would call for individual reports around the room but none need to speak if they don't desire. Governor Richard Hughes of New Jersey opened the individual reports pointing out that he went

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therein by the authorities thereof, a tape and transcript of a personal statement approved by me

Folder, "Deployment of Major U.S. Forces to Vietnam, July 1965, Volume 5, Tabs 281-292," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 42 (Item)

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Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of this material into the physical custody of the Archivist of the United States. 2. It is the donor's wish to make the material donated to the United States of America by terms of this instrument available for research as soon as it has been deposited

Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: This counterinsurgency business was a very fashionable sort of topic, as I recall, around the early sixties. Do you remember when this first began to surface and demand attention? L: Yes, it was in 1960-61, and we organized a counterinsurgency unit down at Fort Bragg

Oral history transcript, William S. Gaud, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

does he give it his stamp? G: That depends on how interested he is in doing that. I think he can make a very real impression on the agency if he wants. decide, He can for example, the priorities between Latin America, Asia, LBJ Presidential

Folder, "[February-April 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)

of the poor countries: India, Pakistan, Latin America, Africa. This means more aid, both money and food. Europe must play its part. On the UK future and U.S. -UK Relations We wish the UK best of luck on entry into the Common Market. you will keep at it, even
Latin America

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was the second youngest of eight children, and he was born in San Fran cisco . My grandfather was a gardener in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco . My maternal grandfather was a farmer who lived on his farm all his life--never left it, as a matter of fact

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that particularly; I try to keep things on an even keel. But I do think that over the years it was a remarkable job that the agency did, with support from Air America and the United States Army, the whole government worked together with CIA in the lead. And when

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

a supervisor in a cut-and-sew industry to be sure that the merchandise that had been assembled was ready to be moved to the market of the public of the United States. He had courage to insist on a 10 per cent surtax and worked hard to see that that went over

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