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Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell
Biographical information; contact with LBJ; Korea; impressions of LBJ; press relations; staff operations; LBJ and RFK; McCarthy campaign; 3/31 speech
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
Working for three Kennedy brothers; housing finance management his expertise; Dick Goodwin set up eleven task forces for LBJ; contacted Haar; task to get ideas to beautify cities and states, to clean rivers, zoning, save the environment; LBJ would…
Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
1964 cigarette warning label legislation; Surgeon General’s Advisory Committee; publication of report; Office of Smoking and Health; National Interagency Council of Smoking and Health; publicity; tobacco industry opposition; AMA and Medicare; LBJ…
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell
Biographical information; administrative assistant to Jim Cross; duties at the White House; Bob Taylor; Clint Hill; Art Godfrey; overseas flights; Presidential trips to Vietnam; communication equipment on Air Force One; impact of jet age on office of…
Oral history transcript, James W. Gulick, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; Maritime Administration; Commerce and Transportation Departments; unions; President’s veto of independent maritime agency; Merchant Marines; standard containers; Nick Johnson; Robert McNamara and his program; shipbuilding…
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
Met LBJ as a delegate when LBJ was Senate Majority Leader; October 1963 attack on JFK for sending helicopter pilots as advisers in Vietnam; deception practiced through; Gruening the first Senator to publicly oppose the War in Vietnam; Tonkin…
Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Contact with LBJ; dedication of Richard Byrd Memorial Statue; award for the Hubbard Medal; Senator Byrd's garden party; Jane N. Smith Medal; building dedication; White House Historical Association; presidents book; The Living White House; LBJ…
Oral history transcript, Llewellyn B. Griffith, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/15/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
As Engineer met LBJ, the NYA director; WPA started by Roosevelt, NYA started by Mrs. Roosevelt; NYA tagged onto WPA for financing through Congress; WPA located in San Antonio, NYA in Austin; LBJ as state of Texas administrator of the NYA; Griffith's…
Oral history transcript, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ as Senate Majority Leader in 1959 when the Landrum-Griffin Act passed; JFK as floor manager; May 1966 Pat McNamara died and Griffin succeeded him in the Senate; Michigan delegation opposing LBJ as VP because he wasn’t strong on labor or civil…
Oral history transcript, H.M. Greene, interview 1 (I), 1/21/1965, by Douglass Cater
First meeting LBJ; Johnson family in San Marcos; physical impressions of LBJ; LBJ in college; instinct for leadership; class in government; Henry Kyle; LBJ’s philosophy of government; organizational ability; origin’s of LBJ’s philosophy; trip…
Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener
Biographical information; teaching career; candidacy for Congress; support of JFK; Wayne Morse; impression of LBJ as a Senator; education legislation; federal aid to education; opinion of Sam Rayburn; parochial school question; Adam Clayton Powell…
Oral history transcript, Elmer Graham, interview 1 (I), 4/1965, by Eric F. Goldman
First meeting with LBJ; debating the subject of sending Marines to South America; LBJ as a debater; Professor Greene; University of Texas Library; LBJ as a politician; Black Star/White Star episode; School Master Club
Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1982, by Ted Gittinger
Disputes within the military intelligence establishment about enemy order of battle; responsibility for estimates; problem of making body counts; serving as Chief of current intelligence and estimates; Sam Adams 1967 visit; mistreatment of prisoners;…
Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger
Biographical information relating to Vietnam; fall of the Diem regime; Thieu; General McChristian and order of battle techniques; discrepancies in the figures; the crossover point; "The Uncounted Enemy;" actions of General Westmoreland; Giap; General…
Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; investigation of the returns in Jim Wells County of the run-off between Coke Stevenson and LBJ; Stevenson’s campaign style; Stevenson as governor; political machine in South Texas (Parr Machine); Manuel Ramon, County Judge…
Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
First acquaintance with the Johnsons; Clean Elections Bill; Philip Graham’s background; Joe Rauh; Graham’s support of LBJ in 1960 election; selection of home for Johnson family; 1958 dinner at Alsop’s with JFK; Washington Post editorial…
Oral history transcript, Bertha Allman Graef, interview 1 (I), 10/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
Circumstances of attending Demonstration High School; LBJ's practice teaching there; civics and government courses; LBJ's effectiveness as a teacher; LBJ's political interests; LBJ's teaching methods; opinion of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Biographical information; reporting political, congressional and military affairs; 1960 and 1964 Democratic campaigns; Cuban Missile Crisis; Cy Vance; Robert McNamara; crises operations; defense directorates; public affairs
Oral history transcript, Ed Gossett, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; 13 years in DC; disillusioned with LBJ after he became President; Great Society Program to haunt us for years: it awarded indolence; LBJ a politician, not a statesman
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 4 (IV), 4/8/1969, by David G. McComb
Great Society; OEO; HUD; Medicare; educational and veterans legislation; Brookings Institution
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by David G. McComb
Budget issues; contact with and impressions of LBJ; LBJ’s legislative abilities
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb
Bureau of the Budget; economic policies of the LBJ Administration; Federal Reserve System; JFK assassination; transition period
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1968, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; Council of Economic Advisers; economic policies of the JFK Administration; steel price fight, 1961-1962
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 3 (III), 11/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's relationship with Senate staff; Gonella's working relationship with LBJ; personal relationship with LBJ and his siblings; Everett Dirksen; Hale Boggs; Huey Long; LBJ's early workings with the Senate
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 2 (II), 10/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's relationship with Senate staff; Gonella's working relationship with LBJ; personal relationship with LBJ and his siblings; Everett Dirksen; Hale Boggs; Huey Long; LBJ's early workings with the Senate
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Becoming personal secretary; LBJ’s personal interest in employees; Bobby Baker; characterizing Johnson family members; 1960 Democratic Convention; LBJ’s acceptance as VP; campaign; LBJ as VP; duties as Lady Bird’s secretary; traveling with Lady…
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
Goldwater's senate experience with LBJ; lawyers in Congress; the Taft-Hartley Act and labor unions' influence on Congress; Joe McCarthy and censure; LBJ as Senate Majority Leader; LBJ not wanting to be vice president; LBJ's first heart attack; LBJ's…
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 5 (V), 5/3/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
Craig Raupe and Joe Henry H. Fowler stories; LBJ
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 4 (IV), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker
Assessment of LBJ; Lady Bird
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker
White House responsibilities; tourism; FRB guidelines; LBJ
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by T.H. Baker
Role of Special Assistant; regulatory agencies; airport congestion; White House functions; funding; B/P; Dan McKinney; effectiveness of commission; TF vs. Presidential Commission; travel organization; tourist and travel taxes; Obscenity Commission;…
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by T.H. Baker
Biographical information; FDR-LBJ relationship; Estes Kefauver; Austin liberal community
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
First meeting with LBJ; NYA; Aubrey Williams; Congressional support for LBJ; Dillard Lasseter; John Carson; political apprenticeship of LBJ; Alvin Wirtz; Sam Rayburn; Abe Fortas; Helen Douglas; father figure to LBJ; Texas sort of expansiveness and…
Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; met LBJ in Austin while NYA Administrator; social and political contacts with LBJ beginning in the late 1930s; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Ronald Goldfarb, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
Circumstances of becoming associated with the War on Poverty Task Force; early organization; duties; need for coordination of the program; decision-making; naming VISTA program; pressure from departments; LBJ’s interest; philosophies on dealing…
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
As naval officer assigned in 1943 to subcommittee on naval affairs investigating shipyards under LBJ’s supervision; called back by LBJ during the Korean conflict to investigate morale of draftees; merger of three services into Defense Department;…
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; met LBJ in 1930s through Texas attorneys Harris Melasky and Martin Winfrey; 1943 subcommittee on naval affairs; 1948 Senate race and subsequent lawsuit; advice to LBJ regarding running for Senate Minority leader in 1952;…
Oral history transcript, Horace D. Godfrey, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker
Biographical information; Congressman Harold D. Cooley and W.R. Poage; LBJ’s interest in cotton legislation; positions in federal service; putting career men in appointee positions; Secretary Freeman; Secretary’s staff meetings; major…