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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
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, 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
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, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of th ederal.p;Jperty and Adminis(44 U~~~97? ~nd regulations _. hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and conve to the United States of America for eventual deposit i~ the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the thing, but he didn't do it and it just went from bad to worse. In the meantime, we started out--for example, one of the kinds of programs we had was a program of distributing an improved breed of piglets to farm families in the center, many of whom had
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : You practiced in Chicago? W: Yes. I first became an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago and served there for four years, and then became a Special Assistant Attorney General to prosecute a large mail robbery case in which a post office
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ha 1dron -- II -- 11 And certainly in a farming area, where he had a background of knowledge of farming problems, he would appeal, just almost in a pleading way to these people
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • chief of staff of the Korean army and I think later became an ambassador to the United States, though I'm not too LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Johnson doing things that would emphasize sometimes the distinction between him and Kennedy, that Kennedy was an easterner, a sophisticate, the son of a rich man. So Johnson would emphasize that he was rough-hewn; he was a rural man, a farm boy
Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • nonsense, because that I thought that in this conflict of powers, of ideas, Australia had exactly the same interests on a much smaller scale as the United States of America. Therefore it took uS not five minutes to decide that when this thing came
  • Contacts with LBJ; assassination of JFK; relations with U.S. cabinet members; Vietnam War; import curbs on Australian meat; problems of Australian economic development in 1965; relationship with the United States and five U.S. Presidents
Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and Administrative Services Act of 1949,, as amended (44 U.S.C. 397) and regulations issued thereunder (41 CFR 101-10), 1, Mrs. Whitney M. Young, hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for eventual
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on the consequences of the testing, indicating that he had a divergence of opinion between the AEC, on the one hand, and the State Department on the other as to the course of action that the United States should take. preparing such a report. I spent about two weeks
  • Contacts with LBJ; Chairman, AEC; NASA; Dr. Glenn Seaborg; CIA Director; test moratorium; Bay of Pigs; U.S. Intelligence Board; Senate lack of control power over CIA; Cuban Missile Crisis; Latin America; H.A.R. Philby, Burgess and McLean defections
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • amateur view has been a tendency on the parts of many people in this country to lump Latin America together and not realize the vast differences from country to country. On the other hand, they do tend to stand somewhat solid when the United S t a t e s
  • Foreign service career assignments: 1936 in the Pacific and later in Latin America; effect of Alliance for Progress in Ecuador; effect of Kennedy assassination on the Alliance; assignment as Ambassador to Venezuela; fishing agreement (12 mile limit
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • should be able to endure dilemmas and work ourselves out of them without necessarily taking it all out on the President of the United States, who inherited much of this problem after all. And hindsight is so easy to utilize. Where was this criticism
  • as a President; Secretary Udall; Lady Bird’s effort to make America conservation conscious; assessment of history’s judgment of LBJ’s presidency; LBJ’s interest in the space program.
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • through grants they already account for something like a third or 30 per cent of total city receipts in the United States--urban receipts. We did discuss in the report alternative ways of making sure that the cities would not be shortchanged
Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the House, had been pending for several years, and was coming to a head. The late Speaker did not favor the Bill for their admission, because he thought that any admission of new states should be of contiguous territory to the continental United States
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Americans must have known. The American advisers to the troop units, perhaps? F: Not really. First of all, the American military advisers, you might say, were also fish out of water in that environment. I'm sure they were doing a very good
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in a logistics setup with respect to the MAAG [Military Assistance Advisory Group] that we had there then. But I was in Vietnam from 1954 to 1957. Then I came back to the United States. The Army insists that one go to school and so forth, and so I stayed
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • \"as making speec hes on some r ather cruc i al issues that a ffected the United States of America , area r edevelopment a nd depressed ar ea programs, and then to be caught not voting on them , you are pretty vulnerab l e . So our concern then 7
Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to the United States of America all my rights, title, and interest in the tape recording and transcript of the personal interview conducted on May 13, 1969 in Atlanta, Georgia and prepared for deposit in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. . This assignment
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • - tant things that the United States could do was to send its young people overseas in programs like the Peace Sorps to get to know people in developing countries and to make friends. I'm not talking about making friends between Washington and Lahore
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • American ambassador was touching base with the Buddhists, and that the United States of America was not having any part of kicking around Buddhists or raiding other people's churches. G: Okay. F: It was a good Kennedyesque statement that Lodge agreed
Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh DUTTON -- I -- 30 I thought and I think that in 1964, as to how he conducted his campaign, he had one of the great opportunities in America to turn towards detente. He lost an opportunity to go down as one of the really
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , 1971 INTERVIHJEE: EL~lER INTERVIHJER: 1. H. BAKER PLACE: Washington, D.C. B. STAATS Tape 1 of 2 B: This is the interview with Elmer B. Staats, who is the comptroller general of the United States. If I may give a little bit of your background
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • which was when Dean Acheson was brought in as a backstaits mediator. F: Did the fact that you and Ralph Bunche strategically located in the United Nations act as an advantage to us other than Bunche's sort of personal attributes, or did he disassociate
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was dead but before Kennedy's body was removed, and nobody made any attempt to follow him, although he was then president of the United States. He left, actually, just minutes--my recollection is--before the death was announced. reasons. And of course
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/8/1968 (Monday) (Item)
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