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Oral history transcript, Kenneth E. BeLieu, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and three or four others, [Robert] Kerr, sitting there. And I went back to Russell; I got up quietly and went back and said, "Shall we call for a quorum?" He said, "No, tell John to call for a vote." I went back and told Senator Stennis, "Senator Russell

Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

might re-enter? That with all that had gone on with the Kennedy assassination, for example, the troubles in Chicago, and so forth, do you happen to know whether or not he ever waivered, whether there was a possibility that he might have come back? H

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

could see them; contact with the press and efforts to publicize legislative progress; disagreement between Robert McNamara and General Earle Wheeler over the effectiveness of bombing in Vietnam; cabinet meeting updates on Vietnam; LBJ's reaction
of the Vietnam issues in 1967. There was early on a disagreement between Secretary of Defense [Robert] McNamara and General [Earle] Wheeler over the effectiveness of the bombing. O: Yes. G: My impression is that the bombing became increasingly an issue

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Excise tax reduction; raising the discount rate in 1965; Robert McNamara's and Charles Schultze's misrepresentations of defense expenditures; Barr's involvement in the opening of a bank in Vietnam; the effect of U.S. involvement in Vietnam
were picking up, but you couldn't find the expenditures, not through the government expenditures. What was happening was old [Robert] McNamara was putting out--he'd go to a factory and give them a letter of intent saying, "I want so many tanks, I want

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
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INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT G. BAKER INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: The first thing I wanted to ask you about was Johnson and Steve Mitchell, because Mitchell is really in the picture here in 1953. B

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, surprisingly to him, was run out of the attorney general's office and that he himself had very little control of it. Robert Kennedy was the one who would designate who got jobs and that sort of thing. Any recollections on that? O: I don't recall

Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
. I said, "In Southeast Asia we need a policy as to where we're going . What are we there for? What are the conditions for us to leave?" I tried to get Kennedy to see this . I pointed out that in Korea we never knew what we wanted there . we

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 5 (V), 5/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Did the President ever entertain the notion that Shriver was disloyal to him? JG: I never saw any sign of that. MG: He seems to have been under the impression that OEO was full of Robert Kennedy supporters. Did you feel that way? LBJ

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the Labor Department and Secretary of Labor Bill Wirtz; Wirtz’s temporary resignation; Robert McNamara’s resignation; setting the President’s appointments.
that he was not going to run again and the vacancy was then created when Larry O'Brien resigned as Postmaster General to assist Senator Robert Kennedy's campaign for the PreSidency, I believe the President decided ~hat the appointment to the Cabinet

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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
, 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

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
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, 1984 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT G. BAKER INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Baker's residence, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: Let's start with the discussion of this Upper Colorado River project and the Echo Park Dam. B

Oral history transcript, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in Vietnam; intelligence input to the Policy Planning Council; the response of intelligence analysts when their advice was not used; Dean Rusk’s relationship with Robert McNamara; joining Rostow on the National Security Council staff in 1966; Ginsburgh’s work
Oral history transcript, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger
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INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT N. GINSBURGH INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: General Ginsburgh's residence, Chevy Chase, Maryland Tape 1 of 2 G: General Ginsburgh, would you begin by telling us how you came to be associated with the Policy Planning Council

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 13 (XIII), 7/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Robert Kennedy was, I guess, Any--? 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to McPherson, I go back to the Hansion now on Sunday, March 31st, somewhere around noon, and to Horace Busby. I remember Buz shoved some yellow legal pages across the table to me. The first thing my eye fell on was a quote from President Kennedy

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 2 (II), 4/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or someone else. (Interrupti on) G: Babe Kennedy. W: I don't actually remember him living in that garage apartment> It was - a whole lot like [Raymond] Dwiggins has told me many times. He said, "Well, I can understand Barton Gill claiming that he

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Biographical information; first association with LBJ; Board of Education meetings; Richard Russell; Will Rogers, Jr.; recollections of LBJ as congressman; Albert Thomas; 1948 election; Mike Mansfield; Robert Kerr; Mike Monroney; Clint Anderson
: Have you ever participated in any other similar type of oral history project? A: I've had a lot of colleges interview me on similar projects, and some of the Kennedy people interviewed me on John Kennedy's Presidency and my association with him. He

Oral history transcript, Terrel Maverick Webb, interview 1 (I), 1/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in. the program, since he Hasn't particularly knoHn to the Kennedys. Do you know anything at all about that? t>J: Well, I'm sure it was. I do know that a man by the name of rok. Arch i'4ercey of the Merkle Press told me that he had been in communication

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 2 (II), 2/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on a trip. The one thing that I remember is talking to the Secret Service agent who had gained quite a bit of prominence at the Kennedy assassination, Clint Hill, who was the fellow who was on the second car and leaped on the back of the presidential car

Oral history transcript, Jack Howard, interview 1 (I), 10/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

programs. Well, he was overtaken by events, and after Kennedy's death and the great push to create th~ poverty program in his memory, things went so fast that Sam's pace and I'll have to say rather narrow views were not needed. Hence Moynihan became

Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to that, in the immediate past, you had served as Ambassador to OEeD and then prior to that in the Kennedy Administration, both as Director for the United States and the World Bank for a short time-L: Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs

Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it if it had been offered to me; it wasn't. F: You were rumored. D: Yes,I was rumored, but I wasn't; he later appointed me on the Advisory Commi ttee. ma~ ~-Tashington. taking it? I found it Did you consider being USIA head under Kennedy? the mos t

Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, I remember he dedicated the statue of Robert E. Lee. Well, I was shocked. I had never seen him before. He went up a little platform that they had built especially, and it seemed like it was agony for him to get along. F: Did you see much

Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

an everwidening cone into Oklahoma and the Southwest. abiding fundamentalism. covert issue then. There's a deep and John Kennedy's religion was something of a I mean it was a burning brush fire among [what] I guess you would call the religious groups

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

[For interview 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; social security; Eleanor Roosevelt; 1939 amendment to Social Security Act; Congressional committee and chairmen; unemployment insurance; disability benefits; Kennedy administration; Medicare; LBJ
the literature nobody made a big deal about it at all. Sort of said, "Yeah, that's a pretty good idea." This is the solution to the Achilles' heel problem which had vexed the Kennedy Administration and others up until this time. 15 LBJ Presidential Library

Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for LBJ in 1967 following Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's death; Krimer's involvement in the 1967 Glassboro Summit as an interpreter; basic interpretation protocol; LBJ's relationship with Aleksei Kosygin; Kosygin's discussion with Robert McNamara regarding
was that at some point during the conversation, LBJ asked [Secretary of Defense Robert] McNamara to talk to the chairman about arms limitation, and particularly ABM [anti-ballistic missile] limitation. At which point, McNamara 11 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 43 (XLIII), 3/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XLIII -- 2 were. As you might expect I--and I notice [Robert] McNamara as well wanted to include a statement that the Great Society was going forward. Everyone except Fowler now favored suspension

Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

concurrent--I guess what I'm trying to say is that I would have probably gone over to the Civil Rights Commission whether or not Jack Kennedy had been assassinated. As I've been indicating in another context, I often wore a number of hats, and this was a time

Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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to remember what was fact and what wasn't fact. M: Let's begin by identifying you, sir. You're Cyrus R. Vance, and your official positions in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations were entirely in the Department of Defense, as Counsel and as Secretary

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 3 (III), 3/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

had a bargain with the President that he would honor an agreement that I had made with President Kennedy that I would go on vacation in January of 1964, I guess. Then certainly part of the Panama crisis was during that absence, but I do remember being

Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. So I was one of them. Pat Kennedy, who was later to head up VISTA and who is now the city manager of Columbia, Maryland, was another. Jerry Bruno was the third one, and you know who Jerry is. Mel Cottone, who was also a Kennedy advance man

Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

deeply believed in it myself. own recommendations in writing. I gave him my I don't know how Stanton and Brown conveyed their views, but I conveyed mine to him. A good deal of work was done at that time, also, with Senator [Robert] Kerr, who I

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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
thing that concerned me was I couldn't really envision anybody else lead~~3 this country as Presidc':t. None of the people that \'icre on the scene, Hhich of course at that tir.:c included Senator Robert Kcnr.cdy and Vice President Humphrey-I had net

Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, Mr. President." "Well, why in the hell didn't you tell me?" (Laughter) So that was just prior to the time that he asked for this tax, and he knew I didn't like deficits; he knew [Robert] Byrd didn't like deficits and he was chairman of the Finance

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 17 (XVII), 1/5/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: That was part of the price of passing the legislation which is why I think we ought to get it. Then also look and see if there aren't memos from [Secretary of Defense Robert] McNamara to the President suggesting that we make him [Yarmolinsky] general counsel

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the steel price increase because by ten in the morning, I've got--oh, my god, no by ten in the morning, I've got [Robert] McNamara, [George] Ball, [Henry] Fowler, Dryden [?], [Alexander] Trowbridge. No, this is 1966; I'm sorry. Oh no, I'm sorry. I've got

Oral history transcript, Stanley L. Greigg, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, l986 INTERVIEWEE: STANLEY L. GREIGG INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Greigg's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 MG: I think you were working for [Hubert] Humphrey while [Lawrence] O'Brien was working for Kennedy. G

Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. SEATO conference . This would have Anyway, we had a I remember Dean Rusk--it had to be--well, see, when did the Kennedy Administration take office? � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

Kennedy was assassinated, President Johnson, then the [vice president], and Ralph Yarborough were both riding in the parade in Dallas, and they had a hard time deciding who was going to ride where. Just like children, you know. And Ralph wasn't going

Oral history transcript, Robert Q. Marston, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert Q. Marston, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell
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INTERVIEL~EE : DR. ROBERT QUARLES INTERVIEWER: f.1ARSTOi~ STEPHEN GOODELL PLACE: His office, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, r~aryland Tape 1 of 1 G: This is an interview with Dr. Robert Q. Marston, presently the director of the National

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