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  • Time Period > Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-) (remove)
  • Contributor > McPherson, Harry C. (Harry Cummings), 1929- (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and he would be well placed to be there early. It may have been it had something to do with some military contractors, because we know that during the Kennedy years, when Johnson was vice president, that Houston was chosen to be the space center, and I
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ," [with] no one ready, the bases not touched, none of the groundwork that Kennedy had laid, none of the long work in the field. 5 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Katzenbach and Bob Kennedy all operated a very extensive network throughout the South. When you called John Doar about a problem that you had heard about in Meridian or in Selma, wherever, as sometimes happened--a lawyer or a judge or an elected official
  • Clark; pardons and paroles; LBJ’s relationship with Hoover; Omnibus Crime Act of 1968; Model Cities; Robert Weaver; Bob Wood; tariffs; press relations; overseas airline decision; 1968 LBJ campaign and decision not to run; political activities after the 3
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 10 (X), 5/13/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 1 -- 3 G: Kennedy introduced essentially a Medicare program that year that would be financed by an increase in Social Security taxes. Do you remember that? M: Well, I remember Johnson and [Robert] Kerr cooperating on some kind of a Medicare
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , 1969, an article by Charles Roberts dealing with the events leading up to Mr. Johnson's March 31st [1968] speech on Viet Nam. And since its publication, it has created some stir as to exactly how accurate it is. Could you just take that story as you saw
  • Charles Roberts article; Clifford’s doubts; TET offensive; personal doubts about the Vietnam commitment; LBJ didn’t like to hear opposition to the Vietnam policy; 3/22 luncheon meeting with LBJ; 20th parallel memorandum; State Department meeting
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this thing, your chronology here, and I'll tell you things that come to mind. On page 2, January 8, Johnson put Kennedy on the Foreign Relations Committee, passing over [Estes] Kefauver who complained about it. Johnson and Kefauver were just oil and water