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Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . It was on to avoid misconstruction of the visit-- purely social. F: You ,,,ere around, of course, and you didn't have much time to savor the reaction from the March 31 speech when Martin Luther King was shot down in Hemphis. h'hat uas your role i::l. th,," midst
  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference were doing? Y: I don't recall a great deal of discussion on specifics. I do know that we discussed the possibility of certain methods resulting in a counter kind of reaction, and I can remember
  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • friendly relationship with Dr. King's father. I knew Dr. King personally, but I didn't have any great intimate relationship there. I was in the President's office the night that Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated. I was sitting there with him
  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
  • ; LBJ’s efforts in Vietnam; Martin Luther King’s assassination; working on the Commission for Federal-State Relations; LBJ inheriting JFK’s staff; being offered a federal appointment; LBJ deciding not to run in 1968; LBJ’s relationship with Robert Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • think he really meant it. I remember his voice quavering a little as he said it, and it took a lot of courage to say it because of all the overtones of Martin Luther King and everything else that was behind that in the whole movement in the South. I
  • Hesburgh, Theodore Martin, 1917-2015
Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • on for years in his voice. First of all, I and many other people fought--and we fought, I'll have to say, and I'll say this frankly for history--that Martin Luther King, after he had agreed to come out for the first time against the war in Vietnam and take part
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • wouldn't bother them . You know, somebody told me something once about Martin Luther King ; a fellow who was a friend of his said Martin was a revolutionary, that he scared people to death because he acted as if he thought the Constitution meant what
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , as I called him. G: What did they talk about when they were together? N: State of the nation. State of the economy. Ed Weisl always used to be like a--well, we called him Eddie the Wise because he was like a patriarch adviser to the kings
Oral history transcript, Lester Maddox, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : None whatsoever. In fact, I picketed only after I could not get any response from a series of wires to the President asking for an audience with him. He had been giving audiences to Martin Luther King and other groups, other individuals, and I had
Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • about that when you presented your credentials? H: Of course, I presented my credentials to the King, who is very pro-American incidentally, and a very fine man. Erlander, who was then the Prime Minister, I think was essentially was pro-American. I
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : In your meeting with President Johnson at that time, did you discuss Martin Luther King with him? W: You know, in three and one-half hours of conversation with the President about that matter, I don't know that we discussed in detail any personality. I
Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • their relationship was during the Martin Luther King riots in 1968. As you recall, President Johnson was scheduled to go to Hawaii and meet General [William] Westmoreland in Hawaii to talk about the situation in Vietnam, but I guess on a Wednesday, or I guess
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • to happen then: The President's withdrawal; the Martin Luther King assassination. That was really my first feeling of the difficulties of running an organization like this. Mr. Harding was out of town at the time of the King assassina- tion, and I
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, interview S-IX, 8/12/1969, by William J. Jorden (Item)
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • prior to that, I'd begun to make a good living, joined a lovely country club, started going out to Aspen to ski in the winter and living the good life. And Watson was a~king me to come here; they could pay me something like $25,000 a year in a place
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • franchise than the Anglo Saxons. However, it is all directed toward the village, the hamlet, the town, the provi-nce; and what's all this stuff about a national government. David King, who was a very brilliant congressman from Utah who lectured
Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • back and I went on to Bangkok. Martin and I saw Sullivan there. I saw I didn't go to Laos on that trip? (Mark) Yes, Bangkok, Tokyo, Canberra, Laos, Saigon and Manila. H: I must have gone to Bangkok and then Vientiane and then to Tokyo
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Biographical information; Bureau of the Census; Lou Harris; Luther Hodges; 1960 census; invasion of privacy; survey techniques; Select Commission on Western Hemisphere Immigration; President’s Commission on Registration and Voting Participation
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was not taking advantage of his experience and his potential, and after a few fits and starts and all that, he resigned from the army. He went to work for Martin Marietta Corporation until--again, I don't know the exact date--but he made up his mind that he
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --this will be amusing--this stuff is not really history, it's more in the area of anecdote. F: But sometimes it reveals. K: The first real substantive job I had after the assassination was a letter to King Faisal Abde1 Aziz al Saud, Saud. still of Saudi Arabia. I
  • and Pakistan with LBJ; accompanying Vice President LBJ on Middle East trip; disagreeing with LBJ; differences in how JFK and LBJ dealt with their staffs; anecdote regarding King Faisal Abdel al Saud; suggesting conversation topics for Vice-President LBJ to use
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • McGeorge Bundy, like Larry O'Brien, and certain others of them like this boy from whom I just got the letter, Bernie Boutin, who tried to run the campaign in New Hampshire [tried]. That was a letter from Bernie this morning. I think King. That was a very
Oral history transcript (conversation), Lyndon B. Johnson and Ted Sorensen, interview S-VIII, 6/3/1963 (Item)
  • . If T \ic!tC: :(2.-:nc~d_y I \•;01/ldn 1 t fot the:n cal1 my signills. \,;::_::; doi:1c; t;1cit I'd go ·int:) the South a tin;e or·t',10 rnys21f. I'd l.Jhik t I'd put th2 R:::pub l i can.s on the 3pot Ly ina king he·:! l': ,:.:h h:: 1,;~m ts ,rnd I
Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of going down there every week for a state dinner for some president or king or foreign dignitary. II So Kennedy and Johnson had agreed that we should go anywhere, whether the guys were on Merchant Marine or Post Office Committee. Share the goodies
Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • did you come to be appointed Postmaster? Q: Ivell, I got mixed up in politics in the campaign of Dick Kleberg, that's east of Dallas. Good farmland. the King Ranch, in a special election that he was running in for Congress representing
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and had just started seeing people again. The King of Jordan was in town at the same time, which also might have been a factor. I was supposed to see Nasser. He left the day that I suspect that, knowing Nasser, that if he had wanted to see me and he
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of in context as it affected the Middle East crisis--the continuing Middle East crisis. K: The issue with Libya as long as King Idris was in charge was much more our holding onto Wheelus [Air Force] Base and protecting our oil and gas, which were growing
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • them the story the way we were walking around in the garment district, and the crowd was there, and they saw us, and I was wal king with him. He overheard, he sai d, some people asking one another, "Who is that tall man walking with Dubinsky?" M
Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • a lot of the Vietnamese special forces. The Assistant Province Chief in Ban Me Thuot was a man whose name was Y Bham, Y B-H-A-M. I know you know all this. Anyway, Y Bham was the hereditary king of the Rhade, and because the Rhade were the senior tribe
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was rea lly su l king all through the trip in Texas . M: And not helpful. 0: He was against go ing to the ministers , as the Speaker 1•1as . The Speaker and I sat together and watched it on TV and he was stunned, because he was totally against
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Connally. fvlc: Was Mr. Johnson's popularity affected by his association with the Kennedys? F: Well, I would assume that it would, in a manner of -~- spe~king, naturally. Your guess about that would, of course, be as good as mine. Mc: Did you pass
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • suburbs of Saigon and he discovered a herd of Santa Gertrudis cattle which had been bred at the King Ranch, I guess, and been transplanted to Vietnam. So the photographers could get a picture of him, he chased those steers around this pasture within
Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • were. Some people say we trained them for the wrong war. What's your response to that? L: Well, I don't know what war they were tal king about. G: Well, they say we trained them to be a U.S. road division-- L: Oh, I don't think we did that; I
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • tried to do to their sorrow--a different ball player but the same old game. I think it was John King Fairbank who said "We're sleeping in the same bed the '~e're French did even though we may be dreaming different dreams." And this is true. Dean Rusk