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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, 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
Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • for the New York Times. G: What story was that, that you referred to, the one [for which] they needed all the manpower they could get? B: All the stories. They were covering visits from Secretary [Robert] McNamara, they were covering all kinds
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] atmosphere. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh And you know there's that famous quote of Kennedy putting more weight on the New York Times
Oral history transcript, Murrey Marder, interview 1 (I), 5/25/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • people thought that he lacked Kennedy's feel for foreign affairs. Was that your impression of him? M: Well, Lyndon Johnson had a different kind of experience in foreign affairs. His was considerable experience at one level of foreign affairs
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : It was very ineffective at first. The major person in the White House that did have some knowledge of the Hill was Jack Martin, I. Jack Martin, who had been Senator [Robert] Taft's assistant. I have a feeling that other members of the Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XIV -- 2 within our power, the ability to break the price. Also, [Robert] McNamara was worried that we were operating with a blunderbuss. With aluminum we ought to find a more delicate, surgical way to do this. And I shared
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ; the relationship between LBJ and Richard Russell; Robert Taft; tidelands controversy; Felix Longoria's burial; a letter from Herbert Hoover to Harry Truman regarding Hoover's public service; buying souvenir pieces of the White House during its renovation; Paul
  • . It was through him that we first heard--I'll continue this when I get back-(Interruption) An interesting little sidelight is that it was through Senator John McClellan that somewhat later on, and I don't remember what year, we first heard of Robert Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 31 (XXXI), 12/10/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Evans of the Evans-[Robert] Novak column at lunch, perhaps in early or mid-1971. Rowlie asked me why Chuck Colson hated my guts. I responded that I didn't know who Chuck Colson was. The name was a name I wasn't familiar with. Rowlie said, "Of course you
Oral history transcript, R.J. (Bob) Long, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • guess it was 1947. F: Yes, that'd be about right. L: Yes, 1947, I guess. that. I'd been assistant about a year and a half before Jatk Roberts was elected district judge, and Archer resigned. What'd I say the governor's name was? F: Jester? LBJ
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , he I guess was dealing initially with Senator [Robert] Taft and that was Senator Taft's last year. He had cancer and died. How did he work with Senator [William] Knowland as opposed to Taft? J: I've already told you that. Didn't I tell you about
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
Oral history transcript, F. Edward Hebert, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . Did you have any idea t h a t he would acc ep t the vice p r e s i d e n t i a l nomination under Mr. Kennedy? H: I had no f e e l i n g about i t . I d i d n ' t give i t any thought. M: What was your opinion o f the JFK-LBJ t i c k e t ? H: Oh