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Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

were occurring during that so-called war of attrition. But it was extensive. We were monitoring, for example, the Soviet shipping through the Suez Canal, endeavoring to ascertain what exactly they were sending not only to Egypt but to Algeria

Oral history transcript, Sheldon Cohen, interview 2 (II), 6/18/1975 by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, the [Internal Revenue] Service did monitor its own telephonic advice. The only way a supervisor of a telephone answerer who provides tax information could check on the work that his people were doing was to hear the question and the answer. But our internal

Folder, "Garrison, Jim," Papers of Wright Patman, Box 768-B (Item)

11 in critical areas of my conversations with Gervais -- a defect which has been sought to be cured by the "notes" taken by Justice Department agents monitoring them and which was sought to be reinforced by sending Mr. Gervais out of the country

Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 6 (VI), 10/31/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

coronary care unit, so to speak. In other words, we could monitor him every inch of the way, every minute of the time; we had all the equipment that we had in the coronary care unit, and basically with the two of us there with all the equipment we needed

Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 2 (II), 6/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

under a certain preoccupation. And I had to spend a great deal of time down on the Hill just testifying so that they wouldn't put a silly law through to put a federal monitor on campuses, which obviously were not federal institutions. They were 4 LBJ

Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

what a country should do and then observe and monitor it and let them know that if they did not live up to that, it would have a serious effect on their request for an extension of that program. And he finally sat still

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Assistance to Indonesia, 1/7/1964, Volume 1, Tab 3," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 1 (Item)

a determination :must be made in a reasonable tirn e. Secretary McNamara recommended that the President sign the determination today and instruct all agencies to monitor closely the assistance now in the pipeline which would ·continue to b e sent to Indonesia. He

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 3 (III), 12/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: 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

Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 16 (XVI), 11/21/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh O'Brien -- Interview XVI -- 11 the world on a reasonably timely basis. That is the other side of the coin. G: Did you have some sort of built-in mechanism within the department for monitoring the time
methods; the decline of railroads and growth of trucking; encouraging government offices to use zip codes; overnight mail delivery; monitoring delivery times; increasing postal-window hours and six-day-a-week delivery service; opposition to legislation

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 38, August 11-17, 1967 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 21 (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was going to work, if it was going on the air on time and in good shape. G: Well, did you have a monitor up there that you could look at? J: Yes, we did. We had a very small building, and we had a set up there. It's my recollection that a bunch of us

Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 2 (II), 8/14/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

with the outside world was simply contacts, you see, from monitoring the opposition. G: I am wondering if you knew George Carver at that time. D: No, I did not know George Carver at that time, but I remember that there was a group of young officers from

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-II, 11/10/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)

that the Liberty, monitoring Israeli military moves and intelligence, might spill the beans in some inadvertent way, so that the Syrians would know the Israelis were coming and that, according to Helms, the assumption was that they had to put this ship out

Folder, "January 27, 1968 - 1:25 p.m. National Alliance of businessmen luncheon," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

it has been necessary for us to monitor this traffic so that we know what the North Koreans are up to. We were very helpful sometime ago in warning the South Koreans that a group of North Koreans were coming over, an assassination group, to blow

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

their capability." And we figured we'd be risking too much even with that unless we greatly improved our monitoring and technical assistance capability. That then is creating a new kind of federal-local relationship that doesn't attempt to double check

Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

up with Califano and yourself and four others, is that right? L: Four people that worked with us. As I say, we divided the government up so that we would be able to monitor the major activities of each of the agencies, both in the development

Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 2 (II), 9/29/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Youth Corps and the Adult Work Program. M: Well, they were running them. But not only the delegated function, but also evidently the administrative and monitoring--for all practical purposes, they were doing that. The Neighborhood Youth Corps

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 30 (XXX), 11/4/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

home. I can't document how far we went in that regard, except within the headquarters through John Stewart's monitoring we were able to ensure we had a more normal party situation, whether it was press releases or statements that were issued

Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

similar. The planters had pretty much all of the same life style, their homes and families. So Miss Lady attended St. Mary's College. I visited her there on one or two occasions. She and Helen Byrd were so glad to see me, because with a monitor or sponsor

Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

questions, I suppose. R: In the Kennedy-Bundy period, and I only saw six months of it, but there was a far more detailed monitoring of Department of State business, down to really a very detailed level. We used to clear things with Mac Bundy and his people

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, which I'm sure is available to you if you want to consult it. But I think that in the days of the majority leadership it was running somewhere in the area of a thousand a day. F: Who monitored it? J: It was monitored in sort of a system whereby

Oral history transcript, Jule M. Sugarman, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jack Hood Vaughn, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 76: May 9‑14, 1968 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 34 (Item)

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 111: Dec. 18‑25, 1968 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 43 (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 4 (IV), 3/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

an adequate job of monitoring the delegated programs like Neighborhood Youth Corps, [those] run by other agencies? 23 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org

Folder, "Watts," Office Files of Joseph A. Califano, Box 58 (Item)

. As a result, he proposes to write a letter to the Chairman o! the Board that was to receive the grant, informing them that HEW cannot support activities that "monitor or buffer" local police forces, that while HEW officials had reason to be lieve at the time

Oral history transcript, Floyd E. Dominy, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

beneficial to Arizona; the Secretary had his own people up there monitoring me to be sure I didn't commit the Administration in advance of having clearance from the President and the Bureau of the Budget and everybody. F: But this of course is wnat you have

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

were formed within the White House and without to constantly be monitoring the issues to see what could be done, whether ridicule was the answer, what the issues were, whether or not we should really play up the anti-Social Security stand

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

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

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

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

Oral history transcript, John Wildenthal, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

well, and you would get telegrams delivered [at] all hours. .veyed to him. He wanted them picked up instantly and con- We had the assignment on several occasions of monitoring Drew Pearson when Johnson himself could not hear the Pearson broadcast

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

there would be an announcement. I monitored the press briefings. Nothing happened. Nobody saying anything. The next day, the next day, the next day, I was really up a tree. I said, "He told me he was going to do this." And day and day went by! Then one morning

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

a briefing at the State Department that started something like this. "There's a report in the Reuters News Agency this morning based on a monitored radio broadcast from Hanoi that the North Vietnamese foreign minister said, 'If the U.S. would do A and B

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 14 (XIV), 9/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

back the southern Democratic opposition in the old southern Democrat-Republican coalition. We used to carefully monitor our roll calls and committee action to see if we were making progress in that area. And we were. We were reducing, little by little

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