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Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • a standard conversation after the riots that began by saying that the country wouldn't tolerate rewarding the rioters.And it would end by the development of substantial programs to rush into the area. And knowing that we were doing precisely what we said we
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • at this point and more likely to spend an hour and a half on the telephone with him shooting the 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • be primarily a means to an end for political purposes? M: None at all. The only conversations I've ever had with the President about the work of that bureau, or for that matter I may say with Secretary Rusk, were on the general subject and the very difficult
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of conversations by telephone and otherwise that Clifford had had around the country. I'm sure that he talked to some members of the wise men group. He spoke with real passion and real concern. He said, "This Speech as it is presently written, is wrong. The speech
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 6 (VI), 5/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • measures, by the progress of time, by the striving of understanding, the conversion of receptive minds became the property of second-class intellects, Sir Robert Peel became possessed of them also. He was converted at the conversion of the average man. His
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . I have strong feelings about it and have heard him talk about it on one or two occasions. It's defensive. They were against him-- B: His conversations about it are defensive? M: No, I mean his relationships to them is defensive. What he has done
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • mind? B) Why does George Reedy write him memos about resigning as majority leader? Were those reflections on what Johnson had said to Reedy in conversations, that "I think I will resign," and if so, why? Was it in order to go run for president? Did he