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Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Chuck Baird Robert Anders on; Bill Shaw 17 17 Decisio n to withdra w from governm ent C. R. Smith; Charle s E. Fiero 18 Busine ss reactio n to the Off ice of Foreig n Direct Investm ents 18,19 Staffin g 20 Specia l Trade Repres entativ e 21
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 2 (II), 5/2/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 Then in June I received a call. I remember this because this was two days before the assassination of Robert Kennedy. I was in Hawaii then, and a call came through from John Bailey and he said
Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on for about a year--this was by that time late 1968--and I don't recall whatever happened to it. I don't know whether it was ever sold or not. G: Was Senator [Robert] Kennedy involved in this at all, also? K: I don't recall that he was. G: Another
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . G: Okay. So from '62 to '64 you were the director of the Peace Corps in Peru, and from '64 to '66 you were the Latin America regional director. .. ·. ~, 3 M: That's right. G: ~n I . 1966 you joined with Senator Robert Kennedy's staff
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 3 (III), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • after another. It just seemed like something to do. Most of us had been doing it with the Kennedy preliminary thing and we just stayed with it. G: Did you have a shortage of operating funds as a task force? B: We didn't have any operating funds
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • of Mary Rather's brother and sister-in-law and Rather's efforts to care for their children; Juanita Roberts; Oklahoma Senator Bob Kerr; LBJ's view about alcohol; Averell Harriman; Estes Kefauver and his speech in Waxahachie, Texas; Christmas Eve at LBJ's
  • Johnson -- XXXVI -- 16 who had to deal with that, that is, first, [John] Kennedy, succeeded in multiplies by Lyndon Johnson, were not present, did not sign it. Lyndon was in Mayo having a kidney stone operation. That was something that plagued him much
Oral history transcript, Edith H. Parker, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • he got there. he went to the White House. Then Kennedy was killed, and It's rather strange to have a combination like that, but he did. G: Well, let me ask you to elaborate on your discussion with him in which he indicated he planned to run
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview S-I, 8/1994, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • -access admission to the public papers, many of which are very private papers, of the people involved in governing in high places in Congress, as well as the White House? LC: I think he had people on his staff, like Juanita Roberts, who were goading him
Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a hundred [votes] at a time, and then the final big change. The Texas Election Bureau was, and still is, noted for really incredible accuracy. Robert Johnson, the manager, who's retired now, he would take a pencil--that was before computers, he wouldn't
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it in his book. Some parts of his book are not completely reliable but I believe that is. G: Do you rec211 the initial relationship b2tvJeen Lyndon Johnson and Bill Knowland after Senator [Robert] Taft had to leave? M: It was always a fairly cordial
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Biographical information; McGeorge Bundy; William Bundy; Robert Komer; Vietnam; Bien Hoa; service on high-level review committee on Vietnam; Pleiku incident; Honolulu Conference; Ky; bombing halt; Harriman; Wilson; J. Blair Seaborn mission, 1964
  • somebody who concentrated on Vietnam and another chap who concentrated on Asian problems outside of Vietnam. [Robert] Komer had responsibility for the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. M: Corresponds to the ANE bureau in the State Department. C
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and got an answer back that, yes, it would be all right. We decided to have it at the Kennedy-Warren, and it was going to cost a dollar seventyfive a plate, and I invited, as I always did, choosing very carefully because one was limited in the number
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • believe it could have been anybody that he would have liked better. And there we were, opposite numbers to that great Senator [Robert] Taft, the majority leader, who had Bill Knowland of California for his number-two man. But the shocking change
Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • majority leader; Joe McCarthy; political divisions in North Carolina; Samuel James Ervin; Kerr Scott’s regard for LBJ; Robert Rice Reynolds; William B. Whitley; LBJ’s power in the Senate; Bobby Baker investigation; Bill Knowland; the issue of tobacco 1954
  • Rights Bill? C: Well, I'd have to refresh a little bit to get the years, the different steps straight. Well, for example, I know that Jack Kennedy never was real strong in that direction prior to the August 22, 1963 march, you know, when a hundred
Oral history transcript, John Michael Dunn, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • staff; Edward Lansdale; General Taylor; Robert McNamara; David Nes; Rufus Phillips; Charles Bohannon; Lucien Conein; Dunn's eyewitness to the Diem coup; Pham Ngoc Thao; PLF (VC); Article 32 investigation of Dunn; Father DeJaeger; Tran Van Don; Big Minh
  • was appointed of course as the ambassador by then-President Kennedy. in his days as a reserve major general. What led to that? I had known him He was serving over in the Pentagon on the army general staff in a mobilization assignment and I was assigned
Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 2 (II), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the success of the original. G: Yes. There was an indication that I think Robert Cooke, a specialist in early childhood education, brought some of this significance to Shriver's attention. W: Do you recall this? I honestly don't because at this point
Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • put him on a committee, too . I remember on that committee, Walter Reuther and Ernie [Earnest Robert] Breech, people on it . And then later, the head of Ford,[were] I just forget exactly what it was right now ; a similar thing as the one
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • we're talking about now. F: Right. P: The farm-to-market roads, they were beginning to talk about them but not do anything about them. You see, the Highway Commission had just been formed with Robert Hubbard as chairman, and they were not too active
Oral history transcript, William F. Jackson and Lucy Ginter Jackson, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • driver, Bashir Ahmad, in Pakistan; LBJ's visit to Greece; Stephen and Jean Kennedy Smith's role on the trip to Asia; LBJ's trip to West Point to speak at commencement and his first impression of General William Westmoreland; planning for Pakistan's
Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /loh/oh Hight -- I -- 9 H: It was his comments, those that I overheard, that Senator [Robert] Taft was very good to work with. He was a pro in the sense that when certain agreements were struck, for scheduling or anything having to do
Oral history transcript, Roland Bibolet, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you want to recount the story? Sure, what little bit I know about it . really between Senator [Robert] of Texas, My recollection that it was Kerr of Oklahoma and Senator Johnson and it was up to Senator McFarland, would confer with all
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Kennedy, known as Executive Order 10988, which set up for the first time a formal government policy with respect to the rights of federal empoyees to be in unions. There was never any question, there was never any deviation, there was 'never any compromise
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 3 (III), 7/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • problem because there were five governors and two or three mayors involved. And we had things like--at that time [Nelson] Rockefeller was governor of New York and [Robert] Wagner was the Democratic mayor of New York [City]. In Pennsylvania, [William
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was sending [Henry "Joe"] Fowler to see every member of the Appropriations Committee to ask them to hold down spending. He said [Robert] McNamara would need a supplemental of somewhere between five and fifteen billion. Then he said if he asked for a tax bill
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • enthusiastic about the Diem regime than Kennedy was. Did you get that feeling at all? T: Well, I suppose it might be a by-product of--this has just occurred to me, I hadn't thought about it in those terms--what you might call LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 2 (II), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But there was no activity dealing with ongoing serv- ices to individuals who were retarded. Most of what was being done was being done through voluntary organizations around the country. There was a stimulation of interest that was begun by some members of the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the commitment of American combat troops. G: Even before the end of 1963, there was contemplation of pulling out a thousand troops. M: That's right. did. Mr. Kennedy announced that, the Kennedy Administration I can't remember whether it was McNamara
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • operate, and it's through these sources that one can develop countermeasures. G: I understand. I believe Secretary [Robert] McNamara testified later before one of the Senate committees that he regarded this as a routine patrol. Some people think
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ; discussions on Vietnam; LBJ and Vietnam; incidents preceding and following Gulf of Tonkin incident; Robert McNamara; use of intelligence support
Oral history transcript, William B. Dale, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . So I've I was appointed first by President Kennedy in November, 1962, then by President Johnson in April, 1965, and the third time by President Johnson in August of 1967. M: So he did take a positive step in renaming you in the position you LBJ
Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • familiar with the precedents that existed in the form of the Ford gray areas, demonstration projects, or the experiments that were held under the Juvenile Delinquency [and] Youth Offenses Control Act, under Attorney General B: Robert Kennedy? I was aware
Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996 (Item)
  • , and I was a speech writer and there wasn't anything much lower than a speech writer. (Laughter) But I have come on to much more exalted planes. Now, in this library there are some forty some million papers and they are very--I think Mr. [Robert "Bob
Oral history transcript, Vasco Leitao da Cunha, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1973, by Dr. Richard Graham (Item)
  • Kennedy? G: Where they launch the missiles? L: Yes, at Cape Kennedy they launch the missiles. But there is a small town about thirty miles from that where we stayed the night. Orlando. Orlando, Florida. From Orlando, Florida, then we went to Cape
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 10 (X), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in person, they said, "Yes, sir," over the phone, and that was that. This would not have happened in an older administration, even under Kennedy. Nobody yet had confidence in whom they could trust, but it was an example of a truncated decision-making process
Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • there. When you worked in the jungle, you had to put this, that, infiltration and all the rest, cutting off food and whatnot. I had a pretty good idea of what--and I knew [Sir Robert] Thompson down there, too, who set up their whole operation, came up
Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • McGovern, and Robert McClory; Fulbright and the Fulbright Program; political pressures and the Board of Foreign Scholarships; the Sterling Tucker appointment; cultural exchange programs; cultural exchanges and the CIA; Anthony Solomon; Dean Rusk
  • that there ought to be a study of the offices overseas. study. functio~ of cultural affairs The Brookings Institution was asked to perform this The State Department and I think the White House under the Kennedy Administration w"ere very interested
Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Maxwell Taylor visited Vietnam in order to report to President Kennedy just a few months before you were assigned to Saigon. Did you have a chance to talk to him on his way back? H: Well, yes, we had him out to dinner, as a matter of fact, and he didn't
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with conservation matters. She visited Calvin Coolidge's birthplace and presented a plaque designating it as a National Historical Lan~rk; she visited an old wood- covered bridge; she visited the Robert Frost home--or the approaches to it. We didn't have time
Oral history transcript, Zephyr Wright, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Biographical information; Wiley College; Dr. Melvin Tolson; CTJ and civil rights; LBJ is disappointed that Wright did not notice passage of the 1957 Civil Rights Act; LBJ complains that blacks are ungrateful to him; Robert Weaver, Roger Wilkins
  • talking with him because he just seemed so brilliant. To me he was somebody you could look up to. earth, a good person to talk to. He was just very down to And also Weaver. G: Robert Weaver? W: Robert Weaver, Housing. G: Did LBJ have anything