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Oral history transcript, John N. Luft, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by T.H. Baker
Luft’s career; 1932 meeting with farm leaders in Kansas; Congressman Floyd Breeding; John A. Schnittker; Hatch Act; appointed by Freeman; appraisal of Freeman; outline of general policy; crop insurance; funding; legislative drafting; staff; racial…
Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
First association with LBJ; recollections of James V. Allred; support of FDR; memories of Roy Miller; LBJ’s aptitude for acquiring information; views on LBJ; 1941 race; recollections of George Parr; circumstances of Lyle’s election to Congress…
Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; meeting LBJ; Lynda and Luci Johnson; LBJ’s relations with the press; Senator Styles Bridges; visits to the Ranch; LBJ’s resentment of press criticism; LBJ’s sister Josefa; Bobby Baker; Johnson’s lack of trust of…
Oral history transcript, William Dayton Maclay, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by T.H. Baker
Biographical information; political involvement of career men; branches of Department of Agriculture; National Science Foundation; foundations; coordination among departments of government; financing of research activity; effect of President on the…
Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Contacts with LBJ; success of Eisenhower relationship with Congress in foreign policy; personal contact between Secretary Dulles and LBJ; AID bill; estimation of LBJ; formidable experience of talking to LBJ; Macomber never brought good news;…
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; 1940-1943 experiences in the Civilian Personnel Division of the War Dept. as a civilian and a junior officer; demobilization in 1946; work as Director of Personnel and Organization at Los Alamos, changing it from a military…
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 2 (II), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb
The role of Civil Service Comission in loyalty and security program; his work as president of Wesleyan College; becoming Chairman of the Civil Service Commission in the Kennedy administration, 1961; working with Vice-President Johnson on equal…
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 3 (III), 4/26/1969, by David G. McComb
Receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 as a recruiter of talented persons for government service; setting up the guidelines for executive branch presidential appointments; evaluating and recommending appointees; generating appointment…
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 4 (IV), 7/21/1969, by David G. McComb
Reforms in the Civil Service Commission during the Johnson administration, including salary adjustments, labor relations, increased emphasis on employee training and continuing education, re-evaluating and updating civil service exams; evaluation of…
Oral history transcript, Lester Maddox, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker
Support of Nixon and Goldwater; contact with LBJ; LBJ and civil rights; Pickrick Restaurant affair; Secretary Gardner; 1968 election; unseating Georgia delegation in 1968 convention; evaluation of LBJ as President; involvement in Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Warren Magnuson, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
Appointment to Naval Affairs Committee in 1936; how he met LBJ; trip to Central America to evaluate a second canal; war service; President Roosevelt and LBJ; LBJ as senate majority leader; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Professional background; entrance into White House Fellows Program in 1965; description of the Program and selection of the first 15 finalists; detailed evaluation of the Program and LBJ’s interest in it; Maguire’s work on Jack Valenti’s…
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
LBJ’s personal additions to letters; procedure for releasing correspondence to the media; procedures in writing speeches for the President; LBJ’s input into speeches and dinner toasts; presidential speech writers as policy makers; LBJ’s speech…
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
State of the Union messages; 20-30 versions of March 31, 1968, speech regarding Vietnam bombing pause and the postscript of LBJ’s withdrawal as a presidential candidate; detailed account of March 31; work on final draft of speech, presentation of…
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
How he met LBJ in 1935; LBJ’s ambitions and absorption with politics; LBJ as a new Congressman and loss of the Appropriations Committee appointment to Albert Thomas; Sam Rayburn and the Board of Education; rural electrification; Civil Rights Act of…
Oral history transcript, Florence Mahoney, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
Mahoney's early interest in health care issues; Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman's articles about mental health care in Oklahoma and his influence on Mahoney; how Mahoney began working with Albert and Mary Lasker on mental health issues and cancer;…
Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; nomination of JFK and LBJ in 1960; Manatos’ work as Senate liaison in Kennedy and Johnson administrations; House’s receptivity to administration’s bills before and after the 1964 Congressional elections; head counting…