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  • retaliated subsequently to this J. Edgar Hoover--you know, the J. Edgar Hoover-Robert Kennedy confrontation over who authorized wiretapping. Do you know if this was related? M: Well, the Hoover incident was earlier. The Hoover incident was in December,1966
  • of your spring--"rhat s07C.e of them aren It. crises, al \'le But tell De ,.]hatever you could call -k.t10\.J about s and the d2cisio'l not to run again. T: Well, I recall, Joe, that after the President made the decision that he television
  • impatience; MLK and Resurrection City; Ramsey Clark and his relationship with LBJ; wire-tapping; J. Edgar Hoover; Robert Kennedy’s assassination; getting Secret Service protection for Presidential candidates; the Commission on Violence; Lloyd Cutler
  • . Edgar Hoover and Robert Kennedy was surfaced, the Department under Nick Katzenbach attempted to find a middle ground; one that would not embarrass, or unduly embarrass, Robert Kennedy, and one that was nonetheless candid and honest as to the prior
  • they might have been good intelligence gatherers, but because it would really blow the project. You did have terribly suspicious political leaders in the foreign countries j if suddenly a hundr~d, two hundred, road surveyors [arrived] like on the Ghana
  • called Nick Katzenbach; I called J. Edgar Hoover--two of them, Katzenbach and Hoover, because I had had indication from Moyers that it would be a good idea to get in touch with them and get their advice. I assumed from the way he put it that he'd
  • : SHERWIN J. t·1ARKMAN INTERVIEWEE: INTERVIHJER: DOROTHY PIERCE McSWEENY PLACE: Mr. Markman's office, 815 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite 600, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 Mc: This interview is with Sherwin Narkman, Assistant to the President from 1966
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  • Markman, Sherwin J., 1929-
  • Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
  • Sherwin J. Markman
  • everything. role. I had a. feeling that J. Edgar Hoover played a large I had a feeling that J. Edgar, who hated Bobby, was doing what he could to be sure that the President was convinced that there was a Kennedy conspiracy. I think every little action
  • , I give you pernlission to fill his nanle in. And I called up the FBI and got hold of J. Edgar Hoover, I think it was, or the man next to him. So I talked them out of protection. Of course, they told nle they had to protect me under the law. Well, I
  • . tough j ob. He said, " It's a tough, It means you have to work full -time, you have to be on the floor full-time, and you have to go around and do the little housekeeping chores that nobody e l se would do them." •~as prepared to do . And he
  • , the defense of those islands and the Chinese Communist threat to the islands. Let me ask you to analyze that issue and-- J: Well, the Communists were convinced step by step that they could take over all of China and they took it all over except those
  • to Ambassador Goldberg that he might perhaps feel more comfortable with someone that he had worked with more closely, but ,l\rnbassador Goldberg's reaction was tremendously understanding and positive. He J' LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
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  • Sisco, Joseph J.
  • Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Joseph J. Sisco
  • can borrow. This is just sheer nonsense. This game is played much more effectively when you have Democratic President. Democrats don't get all upset about raising the debt limit. Southern Democrats do, but the m a j o r i t y of them don't get too
  • Biographical information; House Banking and Currency Commission; Sam Rayburn; Inter-American Bank; International Development Association; Hoover Commission; campaigns for Congress; Kennedy appointment to the Treasury; Chairman of the FDIC; May 1965
  • have been re-elected on a Chinese laundry ticket, and I think he knew it, too. J LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • the first six weeks I served as J-2 adviser to the I ARVN Corps. Then there was a greater need for a J-2 adviser to the III ARVN Corps so I was transferred there in the same capacity. I served under--I don't remember his actual name, but we called him
  • and his staff. G: I'll ask a question about him a little later, but we can get into that. So you felt that relationships were what was critical? H: Yes. G: In 1960. \
  • time, it was a special election, and I left in January. I was elected in '38. The truth of the business is my wife and I that summer of '37 went with General John J. Pershing and the Battle Monuments Commission over to France and Belgium, England
  • , Mr . Thornberry and Mr . Young both had served on the Post Office and Civil Service Committee while I was Chief Counsel . And I said, "With respect to the ability to do the job," you know that there was a conflict between Mr . 1961-63) and Bill (J
  • INTERVIEWEE: DAVID DUBINSKY INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Dubinsky's office, 201 West 52nd Street, New York City Tape 1 of 1 (Interview begins abruptly.) M: . . . Roosevelt. D: Hoover--Republicans too. M: Oh, Republicans too, yes! D
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 first move in an attempt to hold down some of these foreign costs that we were incurring as a government. F: You served on the Hoover Commission in there too. B· I did some
  • Biographical information; House Banking and Currency Commission; Sam Rayburn; Inter-American Bank; International Development Association; Hoover Commission; campaigns for Congress; Kennedy appointment to the Treasury; Chairman of the FDIC; May 1965
  • , it was completely unworkable . poor compromise . Like so many compromises, it was a That office was set up in 1950 as a result of, I guess the key item was the task force report to the Hoover Commission on transportation, which as I recall, I'm not sure about
  • Corporation. You take, for instance, I was on the floor of the House when Herbert Hoover sent up a message mimeographed, saying, "We must have a Reconstruction Finance Corporation for the banks, railroads, and insurance companies." LaGuardia of New York