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Oral history transcript, Tommie W. Glick and Sarah Taylor, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1971, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; met LBJ in 1945 at dinner with Lady Bird; in 1955 saw him at Tommy's funeral; saw Lady Bird at family affairs as an old friend
Oral history transcript, Donald Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; meeting the Johnsons in the 1950s; history of the Foreign Commercial Services; Under Secretary Judeman; Bill Dale; Edward Schriven; Dr. Behrman; Secretary Hodges; JFK’s 5/1/1961 letter to ambassadors; Magnunson; Senator…
Oral history transcript, Sim Gideon, interview 2 (II), 10/3/1968, by Paul Bolton
Biographical information; first contact with LBJ; Wirtz’s influence on LBJ; LCRA; Ralph Morrison; Wirtz as father of the idea of LCRA; Hydro-Power; Colorado River Company; Colorado River floods; help from LBJ when Congressman; Colorado dam…
Oral history transcript, Sim Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1968, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; Texas lawyers; LCRA and Buchanan Dam; PWA; meetings with LBJ; LBJ’s interest in rural electrification; Mansfield Dam name change; relationship with the Johnson’s; impression of the Johnson’s; Lake LBJ; LCRA…
Oral history transcript, Eugene B. Germany, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Biographical information; disagreed with Roosevelt and LBJ on social politics; "handouts" and on methods used; Stevenson lost by 89 votes to LBJ for Senate; fraud claimed; Roosevelt’s influence helped LBJ; 25-30 newspaper against LBJ as VP;…
Oral history transcript, Leslie H. Gelb, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger
Circumstances of going to work on what later became known as the Pentagon Papers; the study to answer questions about the Vietnam War; granting of authority to requisition files within the Pentagon; CIA provides materials; White House material; staff…
Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
Geissinger’s description of a White House photographer’s duties, etiquette, and judgments on how and when to photograph the President, LBJ’s response to various situations, personal anecdotes from his vantage point of working for the…
Oral history transcript, William S. Gaud, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; Presidential impact on AID; comparison of JFK and LBJ; Presidential approval of specific loans; BOB and Treasury Department involvement in policy decision; White House and State Department involvement; B/P loans; AID…
Oral history transcript, Reynaldo G. Garza, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; met LBJ while student at UT Law School; helped LBJ in first and second runs for Congress; introduced him to Mexican-Americans in East Austin; election to Brownsville school board in April 1941; LBJ through NTA; helped in…
Oral history transcript, John W. Gardner, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1971, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; met LBJ in early 1960s; appointed White House Fellows Program in 1964; Task Force on Elementary and Secondary Education Act 1965; Secretary of HEW 1965; health, education and civil rights as LBJ’s dramatic accomplishments;…
Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; American G.I. Forum; discrimination; reinterment of Felix Longoria; meetings with LBJ; campaigning for Stevenson with LBJ; LBJ’s decision not to run; 1960 campaign; Mexican-American organizations; ambassador to U.N.;…
Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; LBJ; Sputnik; committee work; NASA; space legislation; U.N. and space; conferences; visiting the Ranch; space law; reports; foreign travel
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 5 (V), 5/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ; War on Poverty; Title I; Community Action; OEO; Model Cities; Head Start; food assistance; administration of programs; VISTA
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Clark Clifford; Leo Beebe; briefing to cabinet; Secretary Wirtz and McNamara; cabinet meetings; Congressional legislative process; Henry Ford; Paul Austin; 3/31 announcement; effects of diminished Presidential power; Stewart Udall; working…
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 3 (III), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
History of task forces; Commissioners Howe and Keppel; Califano's role; Nixon idea of an urban council; experiences working with LBJ
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
White House Aides: Bohen / Nimitz, Zwick / Deusenberry / Schultz; Educational Opportunity Act of 1968; Child Development Task Force; Urban development bank; LBJ's strongest interests; 1968 Housing Act; 1967 Air Pollution Control Act; 1967 Partnership…
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Biographical information; Joe Califano; Nicholas Katzenbach; John Douglas; formation of yearly legislative program; task forces establishment; outside task force organization; regional diversity within task forces; finding qualified people to serve;…
Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton
LBJ as NYA state director; the Great Depression; the 1937, 1941 and 1944 campaigns of LBJ; rural electrification and LCRA; characterization of LBJ; Mayor Tom Miller of Austin; John Connally; Lady Bird
Oral history transcript, Edward R. Fried, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; participation on Walt Rostow’s Policy Planning Council from 1962-1965; impressions of LBJ as a personal diplomat; characterization of LBJ as a person and as President; deGualle’s decision regarding the devaluation of the…
Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Writing The Neglected Aspect; circumstances of appointment to office; disapproves LBJ's Vietnam policy; drafting the Smithsonian speech for LBJ; background of the International Education Act; the Interagency Committee on International Education; John…
Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Biographical information; variety of duties; working with Lady Bird; invitations to White House functions; protocol; entertainment; gifts; contact with the Johnson family; designing wedding booklets for Luci and Lynda; specially lettered Gettysburg…
Oral history transcript, Lawrence Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; Henry Kerns; Secretaries Hodges, Connor, Freeman, Fowler and Trowbridge; export expansion; Ernie Goldstein; Ed Fried; role of Commerce Department; trade centers; Charles Bohlen; Battle Acts; COCOM; August 1968 trip; Easter…
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 3 (III), 7/31/1969, by David G. McComb
Influence of Vietnam on Treasury policies; attitudes towards LBJ and Congress; national public service
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1969, by David G. McComb
LBJ as VP; 1964 election; Secretary of the Treasury; LBJ as Chief Executive; assessment of LBJ’s personality; contact with Lady Bird; analysis of 3/31 announcement; LBJ’s faults and virtues; links with the business community; aluminum;…
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; Tennessee Valley Authority; Reconstruction Finance Corp; Robert LaFollette; Wendell Wilkie; Commonwealth and Southern Utility Group; Leland Olds; Adolph Berle; St. Lawrence Seaway Project; War Production Board; John Lord…
Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Biographical information; first association with LBJ; LBJ-Sam Rayburn relationship; 1960 convention; LBJ’s acceptance of VP nomination; Lady Bird campaigning in North Carolina; civil rights legislation; religious issue; Senate luncheon; LBJ’s…
Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Chairman Intergovernmental Coordinating Committee on Vietnam in March 1964; his duty to brief VP on Far East; after T.G. massacre in 1961 had two jobs: to dredge information from Ambassador Averell Harriman and to brief Congress and VP; painful…
Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; political contacts with Kleberg and then LBJ; LBJ as teacher of Carroll Keach, L.E. Jones and Gene Latimer and taking them to Washington; Sam Rayburn; Mr. Fore
Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger
Flynn's experience flying for the Air Force after WWII; U.S. unprepared ness when Korean conflict began; code of conduct of American POWs in Vietnam; training of U.S. fighter pilots in Europe delivering nuclear and missile weapons; Cuban Missile…
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Job duties for the Free World Assistance (FWA); LBJ’s support of the FWA; requesting the involvement of other countries in aid to Vietnam; 1965 Pleiku incident; public relations speaking engagements about Vietnam in the U.S. and Europe; the use of…
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Returning to Saigon following the JFK assassination; Robert McNamara’s December 1963 visit to Vietnam; January 1964 Khanh coup and alleged French involvement; what the French might have wished for Vietnam; Christmas 1964 in Dalat; Tran Van Don; Le…
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Going to work for Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge; Paul Kattenburg; Ambassador Frederick Nolting; Flott’s job duties; conditions at the American Embassy in Vietnam upon Lodge’s arrival; interaction with the press; traveling from Washington D.C. to…
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb
Appointment as Deputy Mayor; LBJ's hopes for city government; work with D.C. Council; relationship with Congress; difficulties from serving unrepresented constituency; high percentage of disadvantaged people in D.C.; budget process; program budget;…
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Biographical information; duties in Manpower & Reserve Affairs; civil works program; overcrowding at Arlington National Cemetery; McNamara; Project 100,000; Adam Yarmolinsky; Steve Ailes; Senator Richard Russell; Mr. Vinson; Operation Transition;…
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Biographical information; meeting LBJ in 1943; casual relationship with LBJ in House for six years; controversial 1948 election of LBJ over Coke Stevenson; LBJ’s reputation as a wheeler-dealer; insecure politically in Texas; dedication of Medical…
Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; Finletter Report; 70-group Air Force; George Mahon; Adlai Stevenson; Vietnam; decline in power of Democratic party; John Foster Dulles; NATO; meeting with LBJ on 4/10/64 on MLF; lack of support of MLF; Ottawa speech;…
Oral history transcript, Victor Ferrari, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1991, by Michael L. Gillette
Does not pertain to the Johnson Administration; Childhood & teenage years in Pennsylvania; Joined the Air Force in 1942; Stages of training for pilots and navigators; Experiences flying; Early experiences in Britain; Bomber flight to Germany;…
Oral history transcript, Dan H. Fenn, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/18/1972, by Paige E. Mulhollan
1960 Democratic National Convention; circumstances of working with JFK; duties; appointment and LBJ; impressions of Walter Jenkins; relations between JFK and LBJ's staffs; work with Tariff Commission during the LBJ Administration; LBJ's early meeting…