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Oral history transcript, John T. Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; Jesse H. Jones and LBJ; Jesse H. Jones’ support of Coke Stevenson in the 1948 Democratic senatorial race against LBJ; LBJ’s influence on Texas politics; J.T. Jones’ impressions of LBJ’s faults and virtues.
Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; how Jones met LBJ; LBJ getting Jones a job on the staff of Congressman Kleberg; LBJ as taskmaster; LBJ’s relationship with Kleberg; LBJ’s inability to relax; LBJ’s work as Texas director of the National Youth…
Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ’s speech class and debate team at Central High School in Houston; LBJ being action-oriented; LBJ’s work with, and loyalty to, Richard Kleberg; Roy Miller; Senator Alvin Wirtz; Little Congress; LBJ’s short time in law school; Maury Maverick;…
Oral history transcript, Roger W. Jones, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; BOB job; liquidation of war industries; use of BOB by Presidents Truman and Eisenhower; Major General Wilton Persons; Sherman Adams; Jack Martin; Bryce Harlow; McCarran-Walter Immigration Act; Hatch Act; problem of civil…
Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1984, by Roland B. Hayes
First contact with LBJ; attending meeting at the White House to discuss legislation; early impressions of LBJ; election to the Texas Senate; service on income maintenance; commission; introducing LBJ at Houston fundraiser; LBJ’s help in her race…
Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview S-I, 2/5/1985, by Elizabeth Carpenter
Biographical information; how the U.S. government can help people despite its budgetary constraints; politics interfering with Congress doing what is best for the people; why Jordan left Congress and her future interest in politics; Jordan's career…
Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
Jordan’s impressions/recollections of Senator Richard Russell; long hours worked by Senators Russell and LBJ; Jordan’s impression of LBJ as a 'very lofty' person; Senator Russell’s opposition to the 1957 Civil Rights Bill; Russell’s…
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Professional background; Jordan’s two trips to Vietnam; report that the North Vietnamese threat was serious; Kennedy’s 1961-1963 decision to escalate U.S. involvement in Vietnam; Jorden’s belief that Kennedy would have followed LBJ course in…
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger
How Jorden got into foreign policy government service from journalism; going to Vietnam to assess the situation in 1961 and the resulting white paper; Jorden’s Berlin Viability Plan and trip to Germany; Averell Harriman; working group for…
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 3 (III), 8/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger
McGeorge Bundy and the public affairs committee; Bill Moyers; press coverage of Vietnam; Dan Duc Khoi; Bui Diem; improving methods for transmitting news; American journalists from other countries; Morley Safer and Mike Wallace; Vietnam Psychological…
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger
Selection of the team to go to Paris to negotiate with North Vietnam; Averell Harriman; Cyrus Vance; Philip Habib; organizing the trip to Paris; failure to make serious progress in Paris; debates regarding “the shape of the table”; portraying…
Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
1937, 1941, 1946 and 1948 campaigns; radio station KTBC; LBJ's presidency.
Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 2 (II), 2/23/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
Sam Ealy Johnson; political campaigns; LBJ Ranch; LBJ and Catholicism; TV station KTBC
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 2 (II), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
Judd family history and childhood in Nebraska; how Congress has changed since the 1940s; the future of US democracy; how WWII changed US citizens' perceptions of their rights; the rise and fall of governments; 1944 trip to China; WWII US aid to…
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
How Judd decided to become a medical missionary; Judd's family background; Judd's early experience in China; the nature of communism; Judd's experience with malaria; communist propaganda techniques and Judd's struggle to argue against communism; the…
Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger
Living in Paris to cover the French war in Indochina 1950-1957; moving to Hong Kong to be the chief correspondent for Southeast Asia and China in 1959-70; getting accustomed to Vietnamese culture and developing sources; Pham Ngoc Thao and his death;…