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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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, 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, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, 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, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Corcoran's interest in LBJ and Texas politicians in the 1930s; FDR's Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938; LBJ's 1937 congressional campaign; LBJ's support for FDR; Alvin Wirtz; Corcoran's work with LBJ and the Lower Colorado River Authority and…
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
LBJ's interests in Sputnik and civil rights; activities at the LBJ Ranch the night of the Sputnik launch; Corcoran's relationship with FDR; the 1936 Minimum Wage Bill; Corcoran's preference for a career in law rather than politics; expectations that…
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
John McCormack's refusal to stand in for LBJ as a favorite son at the 1968 Massachusetts Democratic National Convention; LBJ's campaign weakness; LBJ's efforts to win the Kennedy family's favor; the lack of loyalty of JFK's staff members to LBJ; 1964…
Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; LBJ's appointment as director of the Texas NYA; Aubrey Williams; Maury Maverick; first contact with LBJ; state budgets; NYA organization; state directors; Congressman Buchanan; advisory boards; Richard Brown; NYA-WPA…
Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton
Cowles' connection to the University of Texas; the origin of the Flair Symposium and its first symposia in 1994; Cowles' work at Look magazine; how Flair magazine was started and why it did not succeed; the Flair Annual; recognition Cowles has…
Oral history transcript, Ava Johnson Cox, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1985, by Ted Gittinger
Characteristics of the Bunton family; Rebekah and Sam Ealy Johnson training Cox as a child in elocution and extemporaneous speaking; Sam Ealy Johnson's personality; LBJ as a student; Cox and LBJ doing farm work and road work; Sam Ealy Johnson's work…
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; forest service background; establishment of BOR; Joe Penfold; Conservation Fund; legislation passed in 1968; Stewart Udall; Golden Eagle Passport; Corp of Engineers; cooperation with other agencies; Bureau of Reclamation;…
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 2 (II), 5/12/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; forest service background; establishment of BOR; Joe Penfold; Conservation Fund; legislation passed in 1968; Stewart Udall; Golden Eagle Passport; Corp of Engineers; cooperation with other agencies; Bureau of Reclamation;…
Oral history transcript, Ben Crider, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1968, by Paul Bolton
Boyhood days in Johnson City; family friendship with LBJ, who preferred older people as friends; LBJ and Crider brothers' visit to California where Ben Crider was employed; boyhood activities on ranches in Blanco City near Johnson City; mother's…
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
Contacts with LBJ as Senator in 1958 while a budget officer for the State Department; LBJ's reactions to State Department's "guidance" for his foreign country visits as VP; LBJ's concern for good impressions by his party in foreign countries; LBJ's…
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's VP trip to Senegal; Bill Moyers; John Rooney; May 1961 Asian trip: Saigon and Diem, Philippines and Marcos, Formosa, Bangkok, India and Pakistan; Dag Hammarskjold funeral in 1961; Beirut; Iran; Turkey; Cyprus; Greece; LBJ's paranoia regarding…
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 1 (I), 9/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
How Cronin was hired to go to work for Lister Hill in Washington, D.C.; Cronin's relationship with Marc Ray "Foots" Clement; Cronin's duties under Hill; Lister Hill's staff; Hill's work ethic; Hill's interest in education and health issues; Hill…