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Oral history transcript, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Circumstances involvement in War on Poverty; meetings; work on program; Adam Yarmolinsky; types of people on task force; Mike Harrington and Paul Jacobs; choice of clients for programs; different locations; working out the programs and the bill;…
Oral history transcript, James Adler, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Position in government during War on Poverty; Appalachian program; Kennedy
Oral history transcript, William R. Desobry, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1983, by Ted Gittinger
Desobry's military career before going to Vietnam in 1965; Vietnam as a learning experience; Desobry's duties as a senior adviser in IV Corps; Robert McNamara's visits to Vietnam; how the military was prevented from defeating the enemy in Vietnam;…
Oral history transcript, Edgar L. Ball, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Formation of Loyal Democrats and Dixiecrats; Harris County Democrats; Frankie Randolph; struggle for party control; Sam Rayburn; Johnson's role; precinct organization; race issue; committeeman/committeewoman controversy; 1956 Democratic National…
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 7 (VII), 1/18/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Reminiscences of 1945 touching on the hiring of new staff, the Marshall Plan, 70-group air force; detailing LBJ’s decision to run for the Senate
Oral history transcript, James W. Smith, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Organization of Democratic Advisory Council; Sam Rayburn; LBJ and labor; the black community; Brown and Root; Harris County Democrats; Frankie Randolph; precinct organization; 1956 State Democratic Convention; committeeman/committeewoman controversy;…
Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger
Personal opposition to official policy in Vietnam; National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam; SANE; MOBE; NCAC; role of television; counterculture; assignation attempt of Dellinger; travels to Vietnam; meeting with Ho Chi Minh
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger
First duties and associates in Vietnam; III ARVN Corps; the problem of counterintelligence duty in Hawaii; early buildup of the Vietnam War; background of the war; the Oriental soldier; return to Vietnam in 1967; briefing preparation for McNamara;…
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
How Bonanno came to work for LBJ; LBJ's March 31, 1968, speech on Vietnam and LBJ's decision not to seek re-election; foreign response to the speech; Averell Harriman and Cyrus Vance's negotiation meetings with the North Vietnamese; the shift away…
Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger
Situation on arrival in Vietnam as Ambassador; Chief of MAAG; General McGarr; Taylor-Rostow mission; Ed Lansdale; task force chaired by Roswell Gilpatric; impressions after traveling in the provinces; Viet Cong tenacity; Colonel John Paul Vann;…
Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 2 (II), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
[For interviews 1 and 2] LBJ and the business community; businessmen’s committee for LBJ in the 1964 campaign; money-raising; the SST; appointment as Secretary of Commerce; purpose of Cabinet meetings; Department of Commerce; 3/31 announcement;…
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
Plans for the 1968 campaign; working with LBJ; disagreement during 1960 campaign; 1964 campaign involvement; LBJ and Mike Mansfield; LBJ and the Democratic Party; LBJ and RFK; LBJ’s withdrawal; Theodore White; LBJ and HHH during the 1968 campaign;…
Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger
Biographical information; Vietnam; mission personnel; Nguyen Khanh coup; Lodge; 34-A operations; mission policies; leaving Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 4 (IV), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
North Vietnam’s reaction to LBJ’s 3/31/1968 speech; negotiating a location for meeting with the North Vietnamese; LBJ’s goals for the end of his presidency, including a tax increase; LBJ’s meeting with Levi Eshkol of Israel at the Ranch;…
Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1982, by Ted Gittinger
Disputes within the military intelligence establishment about enemy order of battle; responsibility for estimates; problem of making body counts; serving as Chief of current intelligence and estimates; Sam Adams 1967 visit; mistreatment of prisoners;…
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 3 (III), 11/8/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ’s 1955 heart attack and recovery; psychological analysis of LBJ; LBJ’s sense of humor; LBJ’s smoking habit; LBJ working from the hospital while recovering in 1955
Oral history transcript, Roswell L. Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger
Task Force; Edward Lansdale; August 24 cable; Averell Harriman; Roger Hilsman; Joseph Mendenhall; Ambassador Frederick Nolting (Vietnam); JFK assassination; LBJ; Vietnam; General Paul Harkins; Joint Chiefs of Staff; military reports from Vietnam;…
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger
Early contact with LBJ during 1960 campaign; going to Vietnam for the first time; learning about Vietnam and gaining the confidence of the people there; deciphering the motivation of the officers that spoke to him; Homer Bigart; John Vann; John…
Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger
Campaigning for LBJ in 1964; serving on National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy; disagreement about Vietnam War; letters to LBJ about the war; RFK; HHH candidacy; White House Conference on International Cooperation; Spock trial; civil…
Oral history transcript, Bertha Allman Graef, interview 1 (I), 10/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
Circumstances of attending Demonstration High School; LBJ's practice teaching there; civics and government courses; LBJ's effectiveness as a teacher; LBJ's political interests; LBJ's teaching methods; opinion of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's growing popularity throughout the state of Texas in the 1940s; work in LBJ's congressional office; LBJ's 1944 congressional opponent, Buck Taylor; efforts by oil men to defeat Sam Rayburn; Lynda Bird Johnson's birth and her name; LBJ's love for…
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 6 (VI), 9/16/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
Observations of events in 1947, including Aunt Effie’s death, foreign policy issues, rural electrification, labor issues and LBJ’s decision to run for Senate
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 5 (V), 9/9/1982-9/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
The Johnsons buying their home at 4921 Thirtieth Place in Washington D.C. and the layout of the house; LBJ moving to a bigger office space in the Old House Office Building in 1943; LBJ's work as chairman of a subcommittee to investigate Navy…
Oral history transcript, Donnelly Bolton, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger
Bolton’s military and educational career; the Holscher Committee; duties in the Congo; Gamal Abdel Nasser; duties in Vietnam; restrictions to fighting in Vietnam; reasons for failure in Vietnam; the 1st Cavalry Division; Attleboro; Ted Dessausure;…
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 5 (V), 8/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
Recollections of campaigns and people involved, 1941-1946; Claud Wilde; John Connally; Charles Herring; Everett Looney; Jenkins’ contacts with LBJ during WWII army service; KVET and KTBC
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's election as Senate minority leader in 1953; the small numerical difference between majority and minority parties in the 1953 Senate; committee assignments; the Johnsons' social life in early 1953; the Eisenhower inauguration and related events;…
Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger
Hagerty’s military and intelligence background; 6/17/53 uprisings in East Germany; Joseph Stalin’s death and replacement by Nikita Khrushchev; the Russian Foreign Area Specialist Training program; estimating Russian intentions and capabilities…
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's opinion of the Taft-Hartley legislation, Coke Stevenson's campaign methods, Dr. Homer Rainey?s dismissal and resulting University of Texas student demonstration, LBJ's campaign strategy involving the Ferguson family and small town visits, how…
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
Shriver's opinion that Job Corps would yield results quickly; how Shriver's work for the Chicago Board of Education guided his work in Job Corps; the idea of putting the Job Corps under the Department of Defense; LBJ's support for Shriver's desire to…
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger
Summary of army career; involvement in intelligence regarding Vietnam; replacing General McChristian in Saigon; differences in McChristian and Davidson; "the Weekly Intelligence Estimate Update;" Creighton Abrams; counterintelligence; pattern…
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
October 1965 visit to the Ranch; LBJ’s relationship with the press; activities at the Ranch; LBJ’s desire to pay off Democratic National Committee debt and Krim’s involvement; Cliff Carter; John Criswell; political discussions at the Ranch;…
Oral history transcript, Emmett Shelton, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
Reflections on Southwest Texas State Teachers College in the 1920s; the college newspaper; Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s in Texas; Shelton's father's opposition to the Klan; Shelton's father and Jim Ferguson; type of students at Southwest Texas; Dr.…
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
Association with LBJ; Blanco County; Johnson family; college life; White Stars; student activities; Houston; Professor Greene; assistant to Kleberg; Maury Maverick; 1937 campaign; campaign advisers
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
How Rather went to work for LBJ; LBJ's work on National Youth Administration (NYA) projects on the West Coast before shipping out with the navy in World War II; Lady Bird Johnson's interest in photography, movie-making and drama; Rather's involvement…