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Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's election to Congress in 1937 and Franklin Roosevelt's (FDR's) appreciation for his support in Texas; LBJ's appointment to the Naval Affairs Committee and FDR's feelings regarding the appointment; Roosevelt's duties with regard to members of…
Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
Emotional involvement of journalists covering Vietnam; whether reporters reflected to perspectives of the publications for which they wrote; how transportation within Vietnam was arranged for reporters; how reporters decided what area to cover;…
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Ted Gittinger
Adams' involvement in General William Westmoreland's libel suit against CBS following the airing of The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception; joint chiefs' awareness of order-of-battle inaccuracies; North Vietnamese use of mines and booby traps in…
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 3 (III), 8/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger
McGeorge Bundy and the public affairs committee; Bill Moyers; press coverage of Vietnam; Dan Duc Khoi; Bui Diem; improving methods for transmitting news; American journalists from other countries; Morley Safer and Mike Wallace; Vietnam Psychological…
Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener
Biographical information; period as chancellor and president of University of California at Berkeley; Kerr’s appointments during LBJ Administration; relationship with LBJ; offer of appointment as secretary of HEW; establishment of medical school in…
Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
Student activity fund; Gaillardian; LBJ and Mylton Kennedy; Mary Brogdon; Whiteside’s letter about postmastership; repercussions from Whiteside’s role in Lyndon Johnson Day at Southwest Texas.
Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
Circumstances of entering Southwest Texas Teachers College; job at college; impressions of the young LBJ; LBJ and the 1928 Democratic National Convention; Dr. Evans’ garage apartment; LBJ’s interest in the College Star; lack of money among…
Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 2 (II), 7/25/1985, by Charles B. MacDonald
General Harkins and his relationship with Taylor and Lodge; David Nes and pacification; assessment of ambassadors; National Libertarian Front; weaknesses of South Vietnamese forces; Westmoreland’s command arrangements; strong points of the U.S.…
Oral history transcript, William F. Jackson and Lucy Ginter Jackson, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
How Jackson became military aide to Vice President Johnson; LBJ's vice-presidential trip to Asia and members of the press on the trip; LBJ's time management; arranging for a photographer to accompany LBJ; the ability of the South Vietnamese to fight…
Oral history transcript, Anthony Buford, interview 1 (I), 6/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
How Buford met LBJ; how Buford went to work for Anheuser-Busch; support for Franklin Roosevelt and how Buford met Sam Rayburn; LBJ's conservatism in the early 1940s; Anheuser-Busch business relations with KTBC; a Washington D.C. party the Johnsons…
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
The Johnsons' residence as vice president, The Elms; Konrad Adenauer’s visit to the LBJ Ranch; LBJ's relationship with Texans of German descent; the Bay of Pigs invasion; LBJ's trip around the world in 1961, including stops at New York City, the…
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 18 (XVIII), 6/12/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ’s 1960 campaign speeches; Reedy's role in the 1960 campaign; description of the train LBJ used in the 1960 campaign; LBJ's campaign staff; Vice President LBJ's request to head the armed forces; the relationship between the Senate and vice…
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
Allen Dulles' 1960 visit to the LBJ Ranch; LBJ's visit with JFK in Hyannis Port following the 1960 Democratic National Convention; LBJ's attempts to identify with farmers on the campaign trail; Congress' inability to make progress in the session…
Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby
Biographical information; how Gorman got into journalism; how Gorman got involved in writing about conditions in mental hospitals; the Oklahoma State Mental Hospital; Gorman's work at the Daily Oklahoman; newspaper publisher, E.K. Gaylord's,…
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger
Biographical information; Vo Nguyen Giap in the 1930s; the development of nationalist parties and the Communist Party in North Vietnam; Diem's life after the Communists took over North Vietnam in 1945; Diem's opinion of communism and his political…
Oral history transcript, Inez Hughes, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Lewis Gould
Biographical information; Marshall High School in the 1920s; Lady Bird Johnson's brothers, Tommy and Tony Taylor, and her father, Thomas Jefferson Taylor; Hughes' contact with Lady Bird Johnson after the 1920s; items in the Harrison County Historical…
Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely
Boyd's political career, starting in the 1930s; how Boyd came to work for Sam Rayburn; LBJ's 1948 U.S. Senate election; the 1948 Texas Democratic Convention in Fort Worth and Coke Stevenson's defeat in the primary; Sam Rayburn's relationship with…
Oral history transcript, Lewis Mayhew, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener
Biographical information; Mayhew's career leading up to his work at Stanford University and other education-related entities; Mayhew's areas of expertise and his published works; Mayhew's involvement in the 1965 White House Conference on Education;…
Oral history transcript, Ava Johnson Cox, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1985, by Ted Gittinger
Characteristics of the Bunton family; Rebekah and Sam Ealy Johnson training Cox as a child in elocution and extemporaneous speaking; Sam Ealy Johnson's personality; LBJ as a student; Cox and LBJ doing farm work and road work; Sam Ealy Johnson's work…
Oral history transcript, Frank G. Wisner, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger
Wisner's career in the Foreign Service in the early 1960s; Wisner's duties in Vietnam upon his arrival in 1965; Agency for International Development [AID] work in Dinh Tuong province; organization of pacification efforts; Wisner's responsibilities as…
Oral history transcript, L. Wade Lathram, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger
Lathram's career history and how he became a Foreign Service officer; how Lathram was assigned to be the deputy director of the Agency for International Development (AID) in Vietnam; safe haven locations for the families of Foreign Service officers…
Oral history transcript, William A. Knowlton, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger
Knowlton's military background; working in the office of Secretary of the General Staff, Harold K. Johnson, in the mid-1960s; Knowlton joining Joe Califano's staff when Califano was special assistant to the secretary and, later, deputy secretary of…
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger
How Jorden got into foreign policy government service from journalism; going to Vietnam to assess the situation in 1961 and the resulting white paper; Jorden’s Berlin Viability Plan and trip to Germany; Averell Harriman; working group for…
Oral history transcript, Richard G. Stilwell, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger
Stilwell's relationship with General William Westmoreland; the CBS/Westmoreland lawsuit; Stilwell's involvement in the Draper Commission regarding foreign aid; Stilwell's experience with Vietnam before 1963 and his assessment of the situation in…
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger
Duties with Humphrey; foreign policy assistants; development of Humphrey's thinking on Vietnam; Humphrey's interest in arms control; Food for Peace; the development of democratic institutions; health research; civil rights; NATP; founding of…
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 2/26/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
Valenti describes working at a desk inside LBJ’s office after 1958, why LBJ delayed announcement of his presidential candidacy in 1960, reactions of LBJ and his supporters to JFK’s offer of Vice Presidential nomination, relationship between LBJ…
Oral history transcript, James Robinson, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger
How Robinson came to write a book about LBJ; response to the book; how the Tet offensive and LBJ's 3/31/1968 announcement that he would not seek re-election affected the publishing of Robinson's book; the political atmosphere at Ohio State University…
Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview S-I, 2/5/1985, by Elizabeth Carpenter
Biographical information; how the U.S. government can help people despite its budgetary constraints; politics interfering with Congress doing what is best for the people; why Jordan left Congress and her future interest in politics; Jordan's career…
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 4 (IV), 1/28/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
Townsend Hoopes; LBJ’s decision-making; LBJ’s relationship with Dean Rusk and Ramsey Clark; Clark Clifford; the relationship between LBJ and his staff; Spring 1968 turnaround in attitudes regarding Vietnam among LBJ’s staff; General William…
Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger
Flynn's experience flying for the Air Force after WWII; U.S. unprepared ness when Korean conflict began; code of conduct of American POWs in Vietnam; training of U.S. fighter pilots in Europe delivering nuclear and missile weapons; Cuban Missile…
Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Ted Gittinger
Agent Orange; health requirements for returning to the U.S. from Vietnam; self-inflicted wounds; drug use among soldiers in Vietnam; post-traumatic stress disorder and related problems; the psychological development of people before they join the…
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Weber's educational background and college work experience; how Weber met LBJ through Willard Deason in 1940 and went to work in LBJ's congressional office in 1941; Weber's work on patronage for LBJ; staff work schedules and salary; Weber's…
Oral history transcript, John McCully, interview 1 (I), 10/26/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Circumstances of going to work for the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity; LBJ's initial reaction; LBJ and labor; members of the committee; positions with USIA; Department of Labor involvement with the committee; publicity;…
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Abe Fortas' role in the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity; how LBJ's control of the Committee was undermined; John Macy; discrimination in White House hiring; NASA; federal workforce turnover; Feild's involvement with Eisenhower's…