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Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan
LBJ’s personal style and diplomacy in interviews and in informal public appearances; reactions of reporters to LBJ’s unpredictable schedules; Cuban Missile Crisis involvement; role as VP; personal enmity with Robert Kennedy; relations with press…
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker
Early association of Johnson and Clement families; the Johnsons' wedding reception for Bess and Tyler Abell; Tyler Abell joins Johnson campaign; work at the DNC; joining Mrs. Johnson's staff; LBJ as Vice President; Mrs. Johnson as a wife and mother;…
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 2 (II), 6/13/1969, by T.H. Baker
Mrs. Johnson as first lady; trips into poverty areas; Mrs. Johnson and speeches; Lynda and Luci during the presidency; 1964 campaign and train trip in the South; press on train trip flying Lady Bird Special; Mrs. Johnson's control and…
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker
State dinners; various White House parties; work invovled in planning entertainment; Tyler Abell as chief of protocol; problems connected with Luci's wedding; guest lists; Festival of the Arts; entertainment at the White House; seating arrangements
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker
Meeting LBJ in 1955; the 1956 Democratic National Convention; Abell's father-in-law Senator Earle Clement's career; LBJ trying to do favors for his colleagues; adjourning Congress for the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles;…
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker
Braestrup’s work as a journalist in Southeast Asia for the New York Times; New York Times coverage of Vietnam compared to Time magazine; how journalists covered Vietnam and the danger involved; how Braestrup became Washington Post Bureau Chief; Joe…
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; how Abram met Richard Russell; Georgia’s county unit system; Russell and civil rights; Herman Talmadge; Charlie Bloch; Thurgood Marshall’s appt. to the Supreme Court; Supreme Court appointments; the Democratic…
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 2 (II), 5/3/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Jack Valenti becoming President of the Motion Picture Association instead of Abram; MPA issues that concerned LBJ; integrationist vs. separationist civil rights movements; Berl Bernhard; A. Philip Randolph; problems at the White House Civil Rights…
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz
Contact with LBJ; assassination; tax issues; Wilbur Mills; comparing JFK and LBJ; CEA; War on Poverty; committee on Economic Impact of Defense and Disarmament; procedures; agriculture issues; 1964 campaign; Walter Heller; Wright Patman; LBJ's…
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
Monetary policy, 1966-1968; tax increase discussions; Bill Martin; relationships of CEA with Federal Reserve System, Bureau of the Budget and Treasury; Wright Patman; Arthur Burns; LBJ's understanding of macro-economics; Vietnam; War on Poverty;…
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Biographical information; early impressions of LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Sam Rayburn; LBJ and foreign policy in the Eisenhower Administration; LBJ as majority leader; the 1960 election; the JFK legislative program; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution;…
Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Start of involvement in politics with Democratic Party; entertaining in 1964 campaign; appearance with LBJ at Austin rally; suspicion that Hubert Humphrey's campaign was sabotaged; song selection for the different rallies; White House invitations;…
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Ted Gittinger
Adams' involvement in General William Westmoreland's libel suit against CBS following the airing of The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception; joint chiefs' awareness of order-of-battle inaccuracies; North Vietnamese use of mines and booby traps in…
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger
Adams' work for the CIA in Vietnam in 1965; identifying the enemy in Vietnam; self-defense and secret self-defense militiamen in Vietnam; Adams' involvement in Special National Intelligence Estimate 14.3-67: altered statistics reporting troop numbers…
Oral history transcript, Pat Adelman, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1971, by David G. McComb
Adelman's educational background and former jobs; how Adelman got into the radio business; managing Kruger jewelry store; how Adelman became manager at KTBC radio; how Adelman met LBJ; LBJ's difficulty with public speaking; how Adelman brought KTBC…
Oral history transcript, James Adler, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Position in government during War on Poverty; Appalachian program; Kennedy