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Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Echo Park Dam; interstate highway program and billboards; Allan Shivers; Senate investigations; public housing bill; extreme measures taken to get senators to the Capitol to vote; getting senators out of Washington to win a vote; minimum wage bill;…
Oral history transcript, Kenneth E. BeLieu, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Belieu's work with the Armed Services Committee in the mid-1950s; a bill LBJ requested to transfer the San Jacinto Army Ordnance Arsenal from the federal government to the state of Texas; how Belieu came to lead both the Senate Space Committee and…
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 2 (II), 10/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's relationship with Senate staff; Gonella's working relationship with LBJ; personal relationship with LBJ and his siblings; Everett Dirksen; Hale Boggs; Huey Long; LBJ's early workings with the Senate
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Job duties for the Free World Assistance (FWA); LBJ’s support of the FWA; requesting the involvement of other countries in aid to Vietnam; 1965 Pleiku incident; public relations speaking engagements about Vietnam in the U.S. and Europe; the use of…
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger
Adams' work for the CIA in Vietnam in 1965; identifying the enemy in Vietnam; self-defense and secret self-defense militiamen in Vietnam; Adams' involvement in Special National Intelligence Estimate 14.3-67: altered statistics reporting troop numbers…
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Composition of the Policy Committee; Rayburn’s decision not to serve as chairman of the Democratic National Convention; Paul Butler and his role; liberals and the Democratic National Committee; LBJ’s lack of commitment to his candidacy for the…
Oral history transcript, B. F. "Tom" Donald, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; Donald's duties in Jim Wells County during the 1948 Democratic U.S. Senate primary; Coke Stevenson's efforts to see the voting records; suspicions regarding the final 200 names on the Jim Wills County voting/poll list; the…
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 15 (XV), 8/30/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Recollections from 1955 on legislative matters; Price Daniel; Drew Pearson; interstate highway bill; Quemoy and Matsu; Styles Bridges; the Capehart Amendment; minimum wage; McCarthy Amendment on Geneva talks; Rayburn and LBJ; purchase of stations in…
Oral history transcript, Archer Parr, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1984, by Joe B. Frantz
Family background and biographical information; Parr's military service in WW II and Korea; Luis Salas' role in LBJ's 1948 U.S. Senate election; George Parr's contact with LBJ; George Parr's role in the 1948 U.S. Senate election; disagreement between…
Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1984, by Lewis Gould
Proceeding with Highway Beautification legislation after the White House Conference on Natural Beauty; Alan Boyd; amendments to the bill; Tocker’s feelings of betrayal and frustration; Bill Moyers; Mrs. Johnson’s participation in the Highway…
Oral history transcript, Peter R. Rosenblatt, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger
How Rosenblatt became involved with Southeast Asian affairs in Robert Komer's office in 1966; Rosenblatt's duties under Komer; Rosenblatt's work with the Agency for International Development (AID), the Office of Civil Operations (OCO) and Civil…
Oral history transcript, John Michael Dunn, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger
Appointment of Lodge as ambassador; Lodge's policy; President Ngo Dinh Diem; Diem's Catholicism; William C. Truehart; Deim's family relationships; nature of Dunn's job; Lodge and the press; Earl Young and Long An story; General Harkins; embassy…
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Returning to Saigon following the JFK assassination; Robert McNamara’s December 1963 visit to Vietnam; January 1964 Khanh coup and alleged French involvement; what the French might have wished for Vietnam; Christmas 1964 in Dalat; Tran Van Don; Le…
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Price Daniel and the Senate Judiciary Committee; Democratic Steering Committee; Drew Pearson; Commerce Committee; Senator Alben Barkley; selection of Harry Truman as 1944 vice-presidential candidate; use of Skeeter Johnston's office for lunch;…
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 2 (II), 7/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Plans for Progress controversy; Bobby Troutman; EEO-1; requirement that individual facilities report statistics; corporate Plans for Progress office; how Bobby Troutman generated conflict between LBJ and RFK; volunteerism vs. mandatory compliance;…
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Going to work for Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge; Paul Kattenburg; Ambassador Frederick Nolting; Flott’s job duties; conditions at the American Embassy in Vietnam upon Lodge’s arrival; interaction with the press; traveling from Washington D.C. to…
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 14 (XIV), 7/19/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Reminiscences from 1955; Grace Tully; LBJ’s kidney stone ailment; circumstances of LBJ’s heart attack and later despondency; LBJ’s gradual resumption of duties
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 13 (XIII), 7/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Recollections from 1953-1954; LBJ’s Texas State Networks broadcasts; Joseph McCarthy; LBJ and Knowland; Mary Rather leaving the staff; long working hours; Bill Moyers and foreign policy input
Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 1 (I), 7/3/1984, by Lewis Gould
Biographical information; how Tocker came to know LBJ; the billboard bonus law of 1958; Tocker’s work for the Outdoor Advertising Association of America; passing an amendment to the billboard bonus law; LBJ’s stance in regard to the billboard…
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 15 (XV), 6/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
History and interpretation of the Taft-Hartley Act; Walter Reuther; the closed shop and the union shop; the building trades; picketing; the various unions; LBJ and labor legislation; Brown and Root and the union; interest of George Meany and David…
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ’s Capitol office; P-38; Castro assumed power in Cuba; resignation of Theodore Green as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee; annual battle over Rule 22; LBJ’s motion to change rules to two-thirds of those present and voting than a…
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Jacobsen's early work for LBJ; protocol for entering LBJ's office; a trip to Camp David with LBJ; allowing LBJ to relax from the stress of his duties; Ambassador W. Tapley Bennett, Jr., Abe Fortas, and Tom Mann in the Dominican Republic in 1965;…
Oral history transcript, M. J. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1984, by Roland B. Hayes
How Anderson got to know LBJ through Dr. Everett Givens; the establishment of the United Political Organization of Texas; recruiting members for the UPO; LBJ's interest in poor people; LBJ's contact with Anderson as president of UPO through Cliff…
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 2 (II), 5/3/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Jack Valenti becoming President of the Motion Picture Association instead of Abram; MPA issues that concerned LBJ; integrationist vs. separationist civil rights movements; Berl Bernhard; A. Philip Randolph; problems at the White House Civil Rights…
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger
Entering special forces; PAC desk at NMCC; Yankee Team operations; role in planning operations; dealings with the White House; Ambassador William Sullivan; Barrell Roll and Steel Tiger; Van Ken Bridge; early special forces service in Bad Tolz;…
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Steve Mitchell; the oil business; drought relief; President Eisenhower; foreign aid; Chiang Kai-Shek; Bricker Amendment; Senator Walter George; Allan Shivers; the 1954 Senate election; Dixon-Yates controversy; Taft-Hartley amendments; Pat McCarran;…
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 3 (III), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Description of LBJ’s mother, story about campaign speech for Vance Hartke and a congressional candidate whose name LBJ could not remember, taping LBJ’s speeches, trip to Acapulco and friendship with Aleman and Guajardo, discussions about whether…
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Career history leading up to Feilds’ work with the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity; Phil Hart; the consolidation of the President’s Committee on Government Contracts and the President’s Committee on Government Employment…
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger
McCloskey's career history; McCloskey's philosophy of public relations as the State Department spokesman during the Vietnam War; Vietnam War reporters; the atmosphere within the State Department, Defense Department, and White House; McCloskey's…
Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger
Living in Paris to cover the French war in Indochina 1950-1957; moving to Hong Kong to be the chief correspondent for Southeast Asia and China in 1959-70; getting accustomed to Vietnamese culture and developing sources; Pham Ngoc Thao and his death;…
Oral history transcript, Leslie H. Gelb, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger
Circumstances of going to work on what later became known as the Pentagon Papers; the study to answer questions about the Vietnam War; granting of authority to requisition files within the Pentagon; CIA provides materials; White House material; staff…
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 12 (XII), 4/25/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Observations from 1952-1953; the Smithwick suicide; LBJ’s membership on the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy; Texas backing of Eisenhower for president; the Bricker Amendment; LBJ and the White House liaison staff; LBJ and the Democratic National…
Oral history transcript, Guy S. Meloy III, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1984, by Ted Gittinger
Meloy's work as senior adviser to Task Force One of the Vietnamese Airborne Division; Meloy's work with Vietnamese Colonel Ho Trung Hau; the Vietnamese Airborne Division's reputation as soldiers and their protection of civilians; Meloy's preparation…