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Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; McGeorge Bundy; William Bundy; Robert Komer; Vietnam; Bien Hoa; service on high-level review committee on Vietnam; Pleiku incident; Honolulu Conference; Ky; bombing halt; Harriman; Wilson; J. Blair Seaborn mission, 1964;…
Oral history transcript, R. Conrad Cooper, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
First contact with LBJ; the 1963 union-steel company difficulties; LBJ's active interest; LBJ sends representatives to negotiations; negotiation teams meets in DC on LBJ's invitation; I.W. Abel; Secretaries Wirtz and Connor; LBJ's meetings with…
Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; naval affairs subcommittee; Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve; shipyards; trip to Europe, 1945; Carl Vinson; committee work; reports
Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker
Biographical information; investigating subcommittee work; Carl Vinson; LBJ's view of the military; 1948 Senate election; Preparedness Subcommittee; Richard Russell; 1952 Democratic convention; 1957 civil rights legislation; space program
Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; community organizing; Saul Alinsky; evolution of the War on Poverty; OEO legislation; Sargent Shriver; Labor Department; HEW; Community Action Program; urban affairs task force; Dick Boone; Fred Hayes; political problems;…
Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
Business community's views of LBJ; financial burden of social programs; Chairman Martin; Arthur Krim; Medicare and Medicaid fight; voluntary balance of payments program; steel negotiations of 1965; Connor's disagreements with LBJ over tax increases;…
Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 1 (I), 6/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
Business community's views of LBJ; financial burden of social programs; Chairman Martin; Arthur Krim; Medicare and Medicaid fight; voluntary balance of payments program; steel negotiations of 1965; Connor's disagreements with LBJ over tax increases;…
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger
Duties with Humphrey; foreign policy assistants; development of Humphrey's thinking on Vietnam; Humphrey's interest in arms control; Food for Peace; the development of democratic institutions; health research; civil rights; NATP; founding of…
Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; initial contact with LBJ; desegregation plans; 1956 Democratic National Convention; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 Democratic National Convention; Collins' selection and role as chairman of the convention; minority…
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
How Collier met LBJ at Sam Houston High School; Cliff Carter; LBJ
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
First meeting with LBJ in Washington, 1935 at Little Congress; closely associated in Democratic convention in 1952 and after; Mississippi vote for LBJ and presidential nomination in 1956; Kennedy-Kefauver race at 1956 convention; Adlai Stevenson…
Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; circumstances leading to job at the White House; nature of work; systems organized for presidential appointments; personnel involved; appointment process; use of contacts; the Betty Furness appointment; LBJ and appointments;…
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger
Impressions of LBJ; Khrushchev's departure and the explosion of the first Chinese communist nuclear device; attending NSC meetings; the Sino-Soviet split; field experience in Taiwan as it related to Southeast Asia; patriotism and dedications of the…
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger
Impressions of LBJ; Khrushchev's departure and the explosion of the first Chinese communist nuclear device; attending NSC meetings; the Sino-Soviet split; field experience in Taiwan as it related to Southeast Asia; patriotism and dedications of the…
Oral history transcript, Edward P. Cliff, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Meetings with LBJ; trips with Lady Bird; trip with Lynda Johnson; assessment of Lady Bird; Wilderness Act; pollution; recreation; East of the Mississippi; acreage use; Redwoods; Job Corps; wilderness areas; National Wild and Scenic Rivers Bill;…
Oral history transcript, Norman M. Clapp, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1968, by T.H. Baker
Career; contact with LBJ; Senator McCarthy; Pat Lucey; Carlyle Runge; Proxmire-Johnson controversy; 1960 Presidential election; his appointment as Administrator of REA; REA program emphasis on wholesale power supply; March 1964 Annual meeting of…
Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
Involvement with Civil Rights Commission; assessment of individual members; aims and achievements of the Commission; impression of Clarence Mitchell; LBJ, the White House and the Commission; interaction with state civil rights commission; the quota…
Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
1968 welcome to Senate phone call from LBJ; Hells Canyon power bill; description of how Senate business is conducted; LBJ's explanation of his role in nomination for VP in 1968; LBJ and Vietnam conflict; LBJ's capacity for generosity and his…
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 3 (III), 12/2/1968, by T.H. Baker
Biographical information; McCone Commission; Watts riots; role of deputy attorney general; judicial appointments; Abe Fortas; Crime Commission; Crime Control Act; Newark riot; Detroit riots; contingency plans; MLK assassination; Washington D.C. and…
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker
Biographical information; McCone Commission; Watts riots; role of deputy attorney general; judicial appointments; Abe Fortas; Crime Commission; Crime Control Act; Newark riot; Detroit riots; contingency plans; MLK assassination; Washington D.C. and…
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker
Biographical information; McCone Commission; Watts riots; role of deputy attorney general; judicial appointments; Abe Fortas; Crime Commission; Crime Control Act; Newark riot; Detroit riots; contingency plans; MLK assassination; Washington D.C. and…
Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; Assistant Secretary appointment; primary duties; Troika; tax surcharge; freedom to express opinion; economic forecasts; Federal Reserve Board; Wilbur Mills; President's Advisory Committee on Labor-Management Relations; wage…
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; Judge Ben B. Lindsey; Harold Ickes; Alvin Wirtz; FDR; LBJ techniques; Harry Truman; tidelands; civil rights; 1960 Democratic convention; Chapman's health; national lawyer's group for Johnson-Humphrey in 1964; conservation…
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; Judge Ben B. Lindsey; Harold Ickes; Alvin Wirtz; FDR; LBJ techniques; Harry Truman; tidelands; civil rights; 1960 Democratic convention; Chapman's health; national lawyer's group for Johnson-Humphrey in 1964; conservation…
Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; choice of LBJ as VP; LBJ as chairman of EEO Commission; operation of HEW; liaison with Presidential staff; first cabinet meeting; assessment of cabinet meetings; poverty bill/program; ESEA; LBJ's assistance in passing…
Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
Political background; LBJ's support of poverty program in Detroit; use of phrase "The Great Society" and how it began; role of Public Officials Advisory Committee; Detroit Freedom March with MLK in 1963; creation of HUD; Model City program; U.S.…
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Jacqueline Kennedy Garden; Mrs. Paul Mellon; Lady Bird Johnson Park
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
The Grand Teton trips; Appalachian trip; New England trip; the Crossroads trip;
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; National Park Service
Oral history transcript, John Brooks Casparis, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
History of the Caparis family; Mrs. Rebekah Johnson and her technique of elocution; debate and interscholastic league; 1924 debating with LBJ as partner; research material for debates; debate topics; LBJ as debater; district meet at San Marcos; LBJ's…
Oral history transcript, Clifford P. Case, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Association with LBJ; Senate; McCarthyism; impressions of LBJ; Johnson leadership; relationship with William Knowland; techniques; timing; LBJ temper; space program; relations with Eisenhower; Nixon and Dirksen; Lewis Strauss nomination; 1957 civil…
Oral history transcript, Margaret (Mrs. Jack) Carter, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1969, by David G. McComb
Background in politics and participating in the New Deal; Democratic party state machinery in Texas; 1956 Democrat Party convention; role of Texas Democrats in national conventions and elections
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. (Joe) Carter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker
Biographical information; day of JFK's assassination; Jim Jones; Marvin Watson; 1968 campaign; Marty Hauan; Will Sparks; DNC; George Christian; Mike Monroney, Jr.; advance work and trips to Honolulu and Huntington, West Virginia; Whitney Shoemaker;…
Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker
First meeting with LBJ in Congress; LBJ more of a man's man than JFK; LBJ's address to American Society of Newspaper Editors; LBJ's acceptance of VP; 1960's Mississippi racial atmosphere; armed himself; Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi; activities of the…
Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
Kennedy Task Force; comprehensive community action program; Sargent Shriver; Shriver Task Force; legislation; VISTA; drafting the bill; resident participation; planning and operation problems; regional planning; political power; Moynihan; Job Corps;…
Oral history transcript, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; Sam Rayburn; Comptroller; career; Senator Couzens and Ford Auto Company; Roosevelt bank moratorium; commissioned as examiner; bank examination facets; FDIC; money deposits overseas; banking crisis; "Eurodollar;" secrecy…
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Calvert, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1971, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; 1941 and 1948 campaigns; 1948 state convention; State Executive Committee and certification of LBJ as a candidate in 1948