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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Stag parties early in 1949; decorator Genevieve Hendricks; acquiring furniture for the Johnsons' home; LBJ's Senate staff; LBJ's interest in children who were named after him; social and service opportunities for Lady Bird Johnson, such as the Senate…
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; Sam Ealy Johnson; LBJ as a teen; Rebekah Baines Johnson; high school in Johnson City; teachers’ state meet; trip to California, 1925; Tom Martin.
Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger
Biographical information; impressions of Vietnam; reform programs; infiltration; intelligence; Ap Bac; Diem Laos; country team in Saigon; Buddhists; Diem
Oral history transcript, Robinson Risner, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger
Initial involvement with Vietnam; flying missions into Southeast Asia; views on the war; a military professional; service as commanding officer of the 67th Tactical Fighter Squadron; controversy about bombings; opinion of Ramsey Clark and Jane Fonda;…
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Meeting Vice President LBJ; Ed Weisl; birthday event for President Kennedy in 1962; occasions where Krim saw LBJ before he became President; Krim’s work producing films for President Kennedy and LBJ; New York fundraising for LBJ; history of the…
Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; approach and success as Ohio State University president; first acquaintance with Sargent Shriver; circumstances of working with Job Corps planning task force; reason for his selection; various other members; degree of…
Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
How Hayes became involved with the War on Poverty task force; early ideas on how to combat poverty; tension between task force director Sargent Shriver and people who worked on poverty issues before the task force was formed; staffing the Community…
Oral history transcript, Julius Richmond, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; Head Start; developmental action; Sargent Shriver; grant application process; Syracuse project; parental involvement; Even Start program; Title II and Community Action Program; Child Development Group of Mississippi; Head…
Oral history transcript, William M. Capron, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Capron's work on the Council of Economic Advisers in 1963; research and plans to address poverty issues in the Kennedy Administration; Capron's involvement in a Saturday lunch group that studied poverty issues and developed related program ideas in…
Oral history transcript, James E. Chudars, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; state of commercial helicopter aviation in 1948; circumstances of joining campaign as pilot; description of the helicopter; refueling the helicopter; maintenance check; campaigning by helicopter; impressions of LBJ; Sam and…
Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; naval affairs subcommittee; Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve; shipyards; trip to Europe, 1945; Carl Vinson; committee work; reports
Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 2 (II), 9/29/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Bert Harding's involvement in the task force created to analyze the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO); Sargent Shriver's management skills; OEO's efforts to enlist support for 1967 legislation; Edith Green and Joe Waggoner's involvement in the…
Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 2 (II), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Head Start; Work-Study Program; Congress and the poverty program; Edith Green and the Job Corps for women; the Yarmolinsky episode; 1964 legislative submission
Oral history transcript, Samuel V. Merrick, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; War on Poverty; Labor Department; President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency; Model Cities; Job Corps; Neighborhood Youth Corps; personal impressions of LBJ; Adam Clayton Powell; legislation
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger
Time limit in dealing with Vietnamese situation; the Tet Offensive; Weyand's role; press reaction; impact of Tet on South Vietnamese forces; intelligence; Cronkite's visit to Vietnam; the pacification programs; decision to write Tet!; subsequent…
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger
Reflections of purpose of patrol of destroyer Maddox in August 1964; exercising right of freedom of the seas; evaluation of performance and investigation of Maddox; views on media coverage; Operation Pierce Arrow; Rolling Thunder campaign; the…
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger
Biographical information; CIA in Vietnam and Indochina; structure of the CIA; Bay of Pigs; the “secret war” in Laos; disputes on the role of the CIA; Edward Lansdale; Taylor-Rostow mission to Vietnam; “How to Lose a War;” debate over Diem;…
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 3 (III), 9/14/1981, by Ted Gittinger
Gulf of Tonkin; Brinks incident; attack on Pleiku; gradualism; Taylor’s assessment of turning points in the war in Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Campaign strategies for the second 1948 primary against Coke Stevenson; voter support from the 10th District throughout LBJ's political career; Stevenson's weaknesses; political organization among women in Texas; seeking the votes of George Peddy and…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
A women's rally to organize LBJ's 1948 Senate campaign while LBJ was still at the Mayo Clinic; arranging for LBJ to campaign while traveling by helicopter; what it was like to campaign by helicopter; LBJ's efforts to plan for the future; LBJ's…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Activities during the summer of 1947 leading up to Luci Johnson's birth; riding on the Sequoia with Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal and friends; LBJ's interest in national defense and U.S. relations with the Soviet Union; Luci's birth; the…
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; War on Poverty task force; rural conservation centers; Job Corps vs. CCC; rural anti-poverty program land reform; migratory farm work; task force meetings; maximum feasible participation; OEO legislation; SWAFCA (Southwest…
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Visiting President Truman and a trip to the Truman Library; phones and photographers in the Truman home; lessons learned on a trip to Honolulu; why LBJ did not travel outside the US more often; incident involving LBJ purchasing a dead horse;…
Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger
Biographical information; long involvement with and extensive work on Vietnam; first duties in Saigon; captured documents; geographical regionalism in Vietnam; infiltration; armed struggle and political struggle; impressions of Diem; the intelligence…
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger
Biographical information; preparation for covering Vietnam; reflections on McNamara; the Caravelle Hotel; recollections of Thich Tri Quang; the Buddhist movement and the Ky government; press policy in Vietnam; opinion of Ky; elections in Vietnam;…
Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger
Assignment to Vietnam; situation there at the time; view of Diem in late 1950s; Wolf Ladejinsky; land reform; problems with relocation program; the Montagnards; conflict with General Sam Williams; MAAG and the embassy; Williams and Diem;…
Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger
Intelligence operations in Vietnam; Ngo Dinh Nhu; French influence; Diem; North to South infiltration; social and economic regeneration; Americans in Vietnam in 1959; MAAG; land reform; strategic hamlet program; argoville program; Buddhists; the role…
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 2 (II), 6/1/1981, by Ted Gittinger
Biographical information; 1957 trip to Vietnam; General Sam Williams; Edward Lansdale; Taylor-Rostow report; intelligence; Lionel McGarr; coordination; Diem coup; Harkins and Lodge; KATUSAs; Westmoreland; State Department; bombing campaign;…
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
1965 meeting with LBJ about press coverage in Vietnam; Frank Stanton; Arthur Sylvester; LBJ and the press; Walt Rostow; different interpretations of the situation in Vietnam; Bill Moyers; government response to press criticism; qualifications of the…
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby
Health care reform; Mary Lasker; White House Health Conference, 1965; Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act; Family Assistance Program.
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
His decision to work for LBJ, John Connally's role among LBJ staff members, LBJ's childhood, Billy Drake, LBJ's relationship with his staff, Busby’s role as speechwriter, Coke Stevenson's political career, the Roosevelt election.
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Allan Shivers and Democrats for Eisenhower in 1952; the role of LBJ and Sam Rayburn in the 1956 Texas State Democratic Convention; Paul Butler and the Democratic Advisory Committee; party at Dewey Bradford's house; how LBJ won county and precinct…
Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
How McCarthy came to work with the War on Poverty task force; John Blatnik's involvement in Minnesota Job Corps centers; McCarthy's work with Job Corps; the organization of Job Corps; the Labor Department's work with the War on Poverty; initial…
Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; Carl Vinson; GSA staff and operations; relationship with LBJ; GSA involvement in housing shortage alleviations; surplus property use; disposal of Brooklyn Navy Yard; aluminum stockpile; LBJ Library plans; the Federal…
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 3 (III), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; War on Poverty task force; rural conservation centers; Job Corps vs. CCC; rural anti-poverty program land reform; migratory farm work; task force meetings; maximum feasible participation; OEO legislation; SWAFCA (Southwest…
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
As naval officer assigned in 1943 to subcommittee on naval affairs investigating shipyards under LBJ’s supervision; called back by LBJ during the Korean conflict to investigate morale of draftees; merger of three services into Defense Department;…