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Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH ALSOP INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
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  • Alsop, Joseph, 1910-
  • Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Joseph Alsop
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE JOSEPH SISCO INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Sisco's office, Room 6242 State Department, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M.: You were during the Johnson Administration first, deputy assistant secretary
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  • Sisco, Joseph J.
  • Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Joseph J. Sisco
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Both my grandfather, Joseph Brown, and his wife, Bridget Burk Brown . They were both born in the town of Thurles in County Tipperary in Ireland . far as we can find out, about 1860 . They came to California in, so My father was born in 1870, and he
Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CLARK KERR INTERVIEWER: Janet Kerr-Tener PLACE: Dr. Kerr's office, Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley, California Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 K: lid like to start by having you review your biographical highlights
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  • Kerr, Clark
  • Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener
  • Clark Kerr
Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • - ments to try to delete money for Vietnam. As I recall then, the guy who handled most of the opposing amendments was Senator [Joseph] Clark of Pennsylvania. He would get maybe a handful of eight or nine, ten, twelve votes that would include Senator
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , the guys who covered the Congress were very much interested in technical virtuosity. This used to infuriate the liberal reformists, used to drive them out of their minds. [Senator Joseph] Joe Clark wanted the press to be interested in issues and things like
Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh - 35 charged were mere outgrowths of the tax case. Katzenbach didn't necessarily want Bittman to prosecute the case. Ramsey Clark, who was Deputy Attorney General, felt he was in no position
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in the delegation. When I came to Congress, the delegations was much more conservative, as that word· is generally understood, than it is today, for example. There were many senior members, such as Fritz Lanham, Hatton Sumners, Milton West, Mr. [Joseph] Mansfield
  • Fisher, Ovie Clark
Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was the staff liaison man? C: Well, I had-- M: Doug Cater, for awhile? C: Cater was staff man under Johnson, too, then there was Ramsey Clark, and before that, was Mike Feldman, and Mr. White, and of course Sorenson, and then, Bill Moyers. M: Did
  • Celebrezze, Anthony J. (Anthony Joseph), 1910-
Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • believe Senator [Joseph] Clark of Pennsylvania was still in the Senate. And the Senator from Massachusetts, [Edward] Brooke, was not there, the black senator. He was in Africa at the time on LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996 (Item)
  • most of the Great Society speech, I think, didn't he? M: Umhrn. C: Clark Clifford contributed greatly. Abe Forrest [Fortas?] contributed a lot to what he was saymg. He always, when he made a speech, if it was a reasonably important speech he LBJ
  • Middleton, Harry Joseph, 1921
Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • would logically come out of the White House at that particular time. And you may have read that this system came "a cropper" because on one day at the ranch, Joseph Laitin then an assistant press LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ; Estes Kefauver; Douglas Dillon; Pierce Salinger; Joseph Laitin; Horace Busby; George Reedy; Henry Fowler; Bill Moyers; Bob McCloskey; Frederick Deming; George Christian; relations with the White
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of thing that he and I would talk about. He never asked my advice on policy. Hell, he had four- star generals, and had [Robert] McNamara and later--what's his name?-Clark Clifford came in as secretary of defense. that he asked for advice about policy
Oral history transcript, Keith Waller, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in Austin, that President Johnson sent a crony to Canberra, Ambassador Edward Clark. There's a counter- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • Clark; meeting with LBJ.
Oral history transcript, Robinson Risner, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • or not Ramsey Clark always knew what he was dOing, I don't know, but he was also aiding and abetting the enemy. As far as the people who chose to believe we were bombing civilian targets, all they would have had to do, and some of them did do this, [is] avail
  • Initial involvement with Vietnam; flying missions into Southeast Asia; views on the war; a military professional; service as commanding officer of the 67th Tactical Fighter Squadron; controversy about bombings; opinion of Ramsey Clark and Jane Fonda
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • were to debate the changes, which they supported anyway_ The judges were--well the President was the judge--but the spectators were the President and Clark Clifford and some Texas friend of the President's, a college professor down there, I believe
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 4 (IV), 1/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . government. I think much progress was made in perfecting the organization of the Defense Department in previous administrations. I think Mr. [Robert] McNamara contributed substantially to further improving the organization. And I think during Mr. [Clark
  • The organization of the Department of Defense and its relationship to the president and his advisers in decision-making; delegation of authority within the Department of Defense; comparing Clark Clifford to Robert McNamara as Secretary of Defense
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ceiling 549,500. Then, I flew out to Clark .L\ir Force Base in the Phi 11 i ppi nes on the bJenty;;.fourth of f\1a rch, and I met with General Westmoreland and discussed this whole thing with him most of one night. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • been federal troops under the command of President Johnson that would have had to have stopped the riots instead of Alabamians and Alabama peace officers. B: Ramsey Clark was in Montgomery as a sort of the chief federal coordinator. Did you meet him
Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • : Let me digress a moment. You mentioned Califano. I think it was in 1967 that a Califano memorandum was somewhat of an issue during the Congressional session; I think it had something to do with Senator Clark's job creation bill. Apparently
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in Vietnamese regime; Westmoreland; Abrams; personnel in Vietnam; Clark Clifford; LBJ’s acceptance of Locke’s race for Governor of Texas – no aid from LBJ; 3/31 announcement; estimation of LBJ; Texas political structure; Lady Bird; political nature of LBJ.
Oral history transcript, Leslie H. Gelb, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • wound up working on this, would you say? LG: Well, I did a cover memo that transmitted the whole thing to I guess it was [Clark] Clifford. I can't even remember at this point. G: Is that the one that's in the twelve-volume set? LG: Yes. And I
Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and [Clark] Clifford, that these were the only people who gave him solid, sound advice, and these were the only people who were not taken in by circumstances or events or even other individuals. In this particular instance, the President said that Dobrynin
  • Biographical information; contact with LBJ; Policy Planning Council; short-circuiting channels of communication; October 1966 trade speech; Ludwig Erhard; Harmel Exercise; Vietnam; foreign policy brain trust for Humphrey; Abe Fortas; Clark Clifford
Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • times. What's your impression about the Clark Clifford justification for his turn-around in the summer of 1968, that when he went out there they told him privately that LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that I have the greatest regard and respect for Clark Clifford. I like Tim [Townsend] Hoopes very much. I regard both of them as friends s I think they regard me as a friend. So what I'm saying has no personal overtones whatever and is not intended
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , from time to time [Clark] Clifford He was then the chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. But he It/as also an advisor to the President on many other things. years. ~r. They have been friends for many From time to time
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://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 ~. .~ 26 being mnde. The Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, for exanple
  • impatience; MLK and Resurrection City; Ramsey Clark and his relationship with LBJ; wire-tapping; J. Edgar Hoover; Robert Kennedy’s assassination; getting Secret Service protection for Presidential candidates; the Commission on Violence; Lloyd Cutler
Oral history transcript, Frank Pace, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Hannegan, who was also head of the Democratic National Committee. At then- Attorney General Tom Clark's suggestion,Bob Hannegan took me in to administratively run the Post Office, because he had other responsibilities. He had a considerable closeness
Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . McNamara's job was going to be. He told me who he was going to appoint Mr. Clark Clifford as Secretary of Defense. , He further, on that occasion, told me that he had decided not to run for reelection. OM: This is November of 19671 . WW: 1967. He
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ; the Pueblo incident; Robert McNamara and Clark Clifford; LBJ’s estimation of the enemy’s thinking; Tet offensive; the San Antonio formula; LBJ not running for re-election; LBJ’s lack of involvement in the 1968 convention; General William Westmoreland
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • called spe- cial counsel to the President, the first person really to hold that job actually was back in FDR's days I guess, when Ben Cohen was in that job. But then it took on a little different flavor when President Truman came into office and Clark
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • a consultant. I then succeeded Mr. Clark Clifford as Chairman of that board when he became Secretary of Defense. P:Also, during your career you've authored two books, The Uncertain Trumpet and Responsibility and Response. General Taylor, before we LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lester Maddox, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • administration until I was elected governor. Then of course I could get in the White House, and I was received cordially and very warmly. B: I meant, for example, the difference between, say, Attorney Generals Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Katzenbach and Mr. Clark? M
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • than Mr. Rusk, Mr. [Clark] Clifford, General [Earle] Wheeler, and to some extent Mr. [William] Bundy at the State Department, and the other chiefs of staff, have access to the traffic going backward and forward between Paris and LBJ Presidential