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Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell
Biographical information; Shrivers; Holmes Brown; James Kelleher; John Brademus; Mr. Boutin; Mr. Loftus; press relations; Marshall Peck; Paul Weeks; Erwin Knoll; Joe Kershaw; "The Year Toward Tomorrow;" yearly Congressional approval; lack of White…
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Meeting Vice President LBJ; Ed Weisl; birthday event for President Kennedy in 1962; occasions where Krim saw LBJ before he became President; Krim’s work producing films for President Kennedy and LBJ; New York fundraising for LBJ; history of the…
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 2 (II), 5/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
The Krims’ first visit to Camp David; LBJ’s hospitality; an all-night discussion at Camp David; John Chancellor, Marianne Means, and an argument over Jack Valenti’s statement that he sleeps better knowing the President is in the White House;…
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
October 1965 visit to the Ranch; LBJ’s relationship with the press; activities at the Ranch; LBJ’s desire to pay off Democratic National Committee debt and Krim’s involvement; Cliff Carter; John Criswell; political discussions at the Ranch;…
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 4 (IV), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
North Vietnam’s reaction to LBJ’s 3/31/1968 speech; negotiating a location for meeting with the North Vietnamese; LBJ’s goals for the end of his presidency, including a tax increase; LBJ’s meeting with Levi Eshkol of Israel at the Ranch;…
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 5 (V), 4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Failed tax increases; Wilbur Mills; 1968 primaries; Bobby Kennedy entering the 1968 presidential race; the Tet offensive and negotiating with the North Vietnamese; Clark Clifford; bombing halts; Monsignor Paul Marcinkus visiting LBJ at the Ranch;…
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ’s frustration at the end of his presidency, especially regarding the Soviet Union and Vietnam; LBJ’s attempt to meet with Nixon and Soviets; Urban League dinner in New York; LBJ’s concern over press coverage of anti-war, anti-LBJ picketing;…
Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
How Krimer came to work for the State Department as an interpreter in 1963; biographical information; Krimer's World War II experience; Krimer's first work interpreting for LBJ; Krimer's early impression of LBJ; traveling to Germany to interpret for…
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker
First meeting with LBJ; LBJ’s relationship to Rayburn; Carl Vinson and FDR; LBJ in the House; Lady Bird; Civil Rights Bill; LBJ’s relationship with Humphrey, Truman, Eisenhower and the Kennedy’s; LBJ’s opinion of career military people; 1956…
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. Kuchel, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
How Kuchel became a Senator; LBJ in the Senate; LBJ’s relationships with Robert Taft and William Knowland; LBJ’s political skill in the Senate with both Democracts and Republicans; LBJ’s interest in tidelands; the Patrick J. Hurley/Dennis…
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
Laitin’s career history and how he went to work in the government; how Laitin became George Reedy’s Assistant Press Secretary; meeting LBJ; Mac Kilduff; Laitin’s first press briefing; George Reedy and his departure as press secretary; Lillian…
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 2 (II), 2/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
Advancing LBJ’s meeting with the Pope; Laitin’s falling out with LBJ; Bob Fleming as Deputy Press Secretary; trip to Mexico with LBJ; Christmas trip to Rome; Colonel James Swindal; trying to be anonymous in Rome while advancing LBJ’s arrival;…
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
Laitin’s work related to the Pope’s visit to New York and meeting with LBJ; press coverage of LBJ’s meeting with the Pope; how LBJ liked to be positioned for photographs; Yoichi Okamoto; advancing trips to visit President Truman; how LBJ…
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
An incident involving the press access to LBJ at the Ranch; Cassie Mackin; Doug Kiker; Marianne Means; Virginia "Ginny" Thrift; Walter Lippmann and Scotty Reston; Washington Whispers; comparing the number of press conferences held by LBJ and…
Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Initial involvement with the War on Poverty; work with the Council of Economic Advisers; income distribution; tax cut; 1964 campaign and poverty problem; meetings on poverty issue; differences in concept of poverty; key people involved; rejection of…
Oral history transcript, A. Scheffer Lang, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1968, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; Robert C. Wood; HUD development; formation of DOT; urban mass transit; transportation safety; National Transportation Safety Board; role in relationship to railroads; threatened national railroad strike; poor communication…
Oral history transcript, Raymond H. Lapin, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by David G. McComb
FNMA; reforms brought about as a result of the 1968 Housing Act
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; the source of Lasker’s interest in health programs and beautification; becoming involved with politics; early encounters with LBJ; legislation and funding for housing the elderly; 1960 election and convention in Los…
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
The genesis of the Heart, Cancer and Stroke Commission; Dr. Michael DeBakey; goals of funding national clinical research; influence of the American Medical Association and the National Institutes of Health; Dr. James Shannon; LBJ’s interest in the…
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1984, by Clarence Lasby
Dr. Michael DeBakey; the Heart-Cancer-Stroke Committee; LBJ’s interest in helping people; Albert Lasker giving money to the University of Chicago; George Brown; the regional medical program; Senator Lister Hill; Dr. James Shannon and the NIH; LBJ…
Oral history transcript, Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; association with Lady Bird; life and activities in Austin in the 1930s; the University of Texas; the Johnson courtship and marriage
Oral history transcript, L. Wade Lathram, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger
Lathram's career history and how he became a Foreign Service officer; how Lathram was assigned to be the deputy director of the Agency for International Development (AID) in Vietnam; safe haven locations for the families of Foreign Service officers…
Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by David G. McComb
First meeting LBJ at Sam Houston High School in 1930; LBJ’s debating team; LBJ becoming Richard Kleberg’s secretary; worked for LBJ in Kleberg’s Washington office; life at the Dodge House; budget problems; advising Congressmen of loans and…