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Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , on their side were [George] Carver and [Daniel] Graham. And the consensus is among the jurors that Carver and Graham were not good witnesses for their side. The best witness was Westmoreland; McNamara was thought to be a good one. There's a guy called [John F
Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to make responsible decisions. 1I And like everybody else I supported him very actively. And so the end of the first period of our relationship was rather funny. As you probably know, Phil Graham and I had gone to President Kennedy at the critical
  • Early acquaintance with LBJ; how LBJ related to the press as a senator; Alsop's interactions with LBJ; Alsop's support of LBJ in 1964 against Goldwater; Alsop's and Philip Graham's role in JFK's selection of LBJ as the vice-presidential nominee
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 12 (XII), 7/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: Let's start with this. I was asking you about Katharine Graham and the D.C. home rule. O: Well, this of course
  • Efforts to enlist the help of Katharine Graham and the Washington Post staff to get support for D.C. home rule; LBJ's support for House Rules Committee reform that would help the liberal members of the House; the regional medical centers program
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was that I was the leader of the District of Columbia delegation and relied on that and other Kennedy promises. Negroes opposed to Johnson. We had on the delegation a number of Phil Graham was running the Johnson-Kennedy amalgamation-M: Was he a delegate
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ? That's a good question, and this is the one that we've asked each other in the last few days. Basically, our memory--and I'm speaking of ours as Danny Graham's, Charlie Morris ' , and mine, and it makes some sense--[is] that as soon as they got within
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 6 (VI), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • murder publicly and everybody ran for cover. Johnson's cure for it was to get an election reform bill on money. I can't remember what was in it, but we all worked on it: Phil Graham, [Adrian] Butch Fisher--who else worked on it?--a number LBJ
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that assignment that I finally went to work for [Henry] Cabot Lodge in the embassy as the mission coordinator and stayed there in that job, or one like it, throughout all the rest of the ambassadors, all of Ambassador [Ellsworth] Bunker's tour and all of Graham
  • Lodge got Jacobson a position in the State Department as mission coordinator; Jacobson's opinion of Graham Martin, Maxwell Taylor, Ellsworth Bunker, Creighton Abrams, and Frederick Weyand; Ed Lansdale's 1965 trip to Vietnam and the work of a group under
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . No, I just wondered what you had in mind when you made the statement . Well, I had a lot of things in mind . I think the man who inspired that comment was Graham Martin, when he was ambassador to Thailand, and he ran a very, very tight ship indeed . I
  • Graham Martin; question of origin of the insurgency; Laos and the Laos Accords; General Trapnell; Averell Harriman; Pop Buell; division of American opinion on Diem; Buddhist troubles; the immolations; press corps; coup that overthrew Diem; Henry
Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -10- I was there with phil Graham, who was then our publisher, and as Teddy White has published
Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
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Oral history transcript, Alfred T. "Boody" Johnson, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • imagine more time than you'd spend on athletics or anything like that. He and--I don't know who his partner was. G: Elmer Graham r guess was [one of them]. J: Elmer Graham, I believe you're right. I believe you're right. Elmer Graham, yes. G: I
Oral history transcript, Frank Denius, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • are prominent real estate men and have been for many years in Austin are Paul Crust2:nann and Tom Graham. comp~ny t..""e They are partners in a realty and other business interests and Paul Crusemann was nominee of the democrats in our precinct favoring
Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at the working level. Well, that was driven home to me again by something that happened at the banquet. I was to be the featured speaker; the only other white face on the platform was that of Graham Watt, the city manager, a very perceptive and able guy
  • Speeches Taylor wrote for HUD; citizen participation programs; Public Administration Society speech in Dayton, Ohio; black power; Graham Watt; Roger Prear; rhetoric vs. reality; operating through city government James Sundquists’s view of citizen
Oral history transcript, G. Preston Smith and Ellen Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the opposing speeches. G: Do you recall any examples of this? s: No, because I was never present when he debated in an interinstitutional debate. G: But you would debate him in practice, wouldn't you? S: In class. G: Now, I gather that Elmer Graham
Oral history transcript, Charles Timmes, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : I'd love to. I have heard from another source that you were forbidden from contacting Big Minh in the last year or two of the [Nguyen Van] Thieu regime. Is that not true? T: That's not true at all. G: I'd heard that Graham Martin-- T: As a matter
Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 2 (II), 7/25/1985, by Charles B. MacDonald (Item)
  • dissolved it. M: You have written that Ambassadors Graham Martin in Thailand and William Sullivan in Laos were reluctant to yield to you on military points you considered essential. W: Would you give examples of this? I remark on this on pages 76-77
Oral history transcript, Stewart J.O. Alsop, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Early acquaintance with LBJ; how LBJ related to the press as a senator; Alsop's interactions with LBJ; Alsop's support of LBJ in 1964 against Goldwater; Alsop's and Philip Graham's role in JFK's selection of LBJ as the vice-presidential nominee
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Graham's shop, Estimates and Current Intelligence, working totally separate from my group, gradually arrived at essentially the same conclusion, I believe, that at least a major effort was coming. By the end of November or certainly by the first part
Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • over there, which I'm not at all acquainted with. But on the analysis side, there were only two people that I am aware of, myself and Danny Graham, who of course as you know later got to be the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, a lieutenant
Oral history transcript, Vasco Leitao da Cunha, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1973, by Dr. Richard Graham (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: VASCO LEITÃO da CUNHA INTERVIEWER: Dr. Richard Graham PLACE: Ambassador Leitão da Cunha's office, Rio de Janeiro Tape 1 of 1 G: I'm speaking to Ambassador Vasco Leitão da Cunha at his office in Rio de Janeiro on the Avenue Rio Branco
  • Oral history transcript, Vasco Leitao da Cunha, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1973, by Dr. Richard Graham
Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Frank Porter Graham to the U.S. Senate. Dr. Graham was the president of the University of North Carolina and considered a very liberal person. Incidentally, he came--in that first primary, which was in 1950--he came within five thousand votes of winning
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • state university in the country and after the war one of the centers of advanced, if not liberal, thought. Later with such people as Edward Ketta Graham and Howard Odom and Frank Porter Graham. We've had this so'urce of the development
Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • would be in Texas. When I said we planned to visit our place on Possum Kingdom Lake (near my home town, Graham) in May, he said, let our White House military guy know the dates and he'll supply a plane to get you in and out. Then he reeled off a list
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , because there were a lot of men who would come to town on important business and not bring their wives. So we often sat down to a group where I was the only woman or maybe eight and just two women, or three. Kay Graham had a party honoring Oveta Hobby. Kay
  • ; Wright Patman; hosting Sid Richardson for dinner and socializing with Philip and Katharine Graham, among others; the possibility that Allan Shivers would run against LBJ in 1954; attending events with John Foster Dulles and Ezra Taft Benson; first seeing
"LBJ as I Knew Him," by Mildred Stegall (Item)
  • years. I heard that the Vice President and Mrs. Johnson were planning to come to Glynn's funeral in Graham, Texas. Knowing how busy he was I suggested he not try to come but they came anyway. When LBJ arrived they needed a car to use while they were
Oral history transcript, Jerre Williams, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that said, "Hey, don't you have a friend, a close friend, on the Conference from Seattle who's a Republican?" And I said, "Of course I do. on there. He's a great friend of mine. together. He's a Republican through and through. I put Bob Graham We were
  • Conference of the United States; Frank Wozencraft; a history of the Conference; Williams appointed to head the Administrative Conference; the nature of the Conference; Charles Brannan testifies for the Conference; Robert Graham helps save the Conference
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 3 (III), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- III -- 8 Lee Graham approach of the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation. I think most of us thought it would be a mistake to set up an independent agency. Well, in the final windup it was kind of half and half; it was an independent agency in the l.Jhite
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that Graham Purcell, a congress­ man from Wichita Falls, was constantly voting against Department of � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • around and show her these parks, and she did. But then, we had many Washingtonians who helped pick up the ball--Kay Graham, the owner of the Washington Post, got her foundation to give some school the improvement of playgrounds; and the newspapers
Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that this was the building of a Great Society. This was the first time that that phrase had surfaced. Later on I found that a man named Graham Wallas had written a book in the early part of this century called The Great Society. sure where Goodwin retrieved that phrase
Oral history transcript, George Hartzog, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/20/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to run a park and what the ecological impact of drought was. Jackson Graham, who was then the chief of civil works, and I agreed after the very first meeting that we had in which we discovered this kind of dialogue going on among our staffs that I would
  • of Secretary of the Interior coming from the West; Bureau of Outdoor Recreation; Ed Crofts; North Cascades and Redwood National Park; Jefferson National Expansion Memorial; Floyd Dominy; Everglades; Sybil Jackson Graham; Federal highways; TVA; campground
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you came out of his class, then you were a member of this chewing tobacco club. I never made it. (Laughter) G: LBJ was also on the debate team, is that correct? W: He wasn't the main debater. There were two fellows. a preacher named Graham
Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be in 1960. Had yoct any particular acquaintance with Johnson prior to that time? S: I had known Johnson when he was Majority Leader, I'd known far better very close friends and supporters of his, esp2cially J[m Rowe and Phil Graham. At Jim Rowe's
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • not really, because Mr. Johnson wasn't. • • • I think he was not. I say this genuinely:. I think he really had no thought of becoming a vice-presidential candidate until Kennedy suggested it or somebody . suggested it. '.• I don't think it was Phil Graham
Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • something--it may have been in Hugh Davis Graham's book on the transformation of general education policy [The Uncertain Triumph: Federal Education Policy in the Kennedy and Johnson Years] or something like that--that you were appointed assistant director
Oral history transcript, Najeeb E. Halaby, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • come out to Texas just before World War I, married my mother, who was the daughter of a Confederate soldier who had moved from Tennessee to Texas and had a small ranch down at Graham, Texas. They met while she was an art student at SMU [Southern
Oral history transcript, Ann Oppenheimer Hamilton, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • secretary of defense for manpower? Who was the assis- I think it was Bill Graham. G: Anything on education as discussed in the task force sessions? H: Prod my memory some more. G: Well, Head Start was not initially included. LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)