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Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell
Educational and professional background; work with the 1964 Task Force on Poverty under leadership of Sargent Shriver; concept of community action; Shriver’s management style in Peace Corps, task force and OEO; funding of Community Action Agency;…
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell
Briefing Senator Robert Kennedy before his 1965 trip to Latin America; Peace Corps and OEO staffs’ opposition to Vietnam War, 1966- ; original purpose of U.S. intervention in Dominican Republic; Mankiewicz leaving the Peace Corps to become…
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell
LBJ’s response to the Detroit riots and race problem; McNamara’s move from Defense Dept. to the World Banks; Robert Kennedy’s and the “doves” in the Senate; assessment of LBJ and conclusion that he was a bitter man; Kennedy’s decision to…
Oral history transcript, Thomas C. Mann, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; first meeting LBJ in 1961 in discussions on Mexico; resolving the Chamizal issue; Sam Young; Judge Norman Hardy; John Connally; the Panama disturbance in early 1965; Cyrus Vance and Graham Martin; the Dominican crisis: the…
Oral history transcript, Stanley Marcus, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; first meeting LBJ; social relationship; selection clothes for Lady Bird; inaugural clothes; Lady Bird as a dutiful and cost conscious wife; 1965 inaugural festivities; Mrs. Angier Biddle; Lady Bird’s image; Women’s…
Oral history transcript, Murrey Marder, interview 1 (I), 5/25/1982, by Ted Gittinger
Marder's career history covering foreign affairs; LBJ's foreign affairs-related experience as he entered the presidency; LBJ's credibility gap in the press; LBJ's tendency to exaggerate; Marder's August 1964 coverage of the Tonkin Gulf incident for…
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Biographical information; work on Credentials Committee at 1964 Democratic Convention; support for Adlai Stevenson at 1956 and 1960 Conventions; JFK’s nomination at 1960 Convention; becaming a State Dept. employee 1965; contact with Senator Robert…
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; JTBC AM, FM and television; 1960 presidential campaign; 1960 Democratic Convention; Communications Satellite Corporation; USIA
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; public educational broadcasting legislation; 1960 campaign; liaison with Eastern states; vice presidential nomination; media campaign; LBJ and JFK in New York; LBJ and television; Cuban Missile Crisis; USIA; Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Sidney P. Marland, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
Appointment to Presidential Advisory Council for the Office of Economic Opportunity while superintendent of schools in Pittsburgh; details of Pittsburgh’s pre-primary program in 1963-1964 (later called Head Start under OEO); composition of the OEO…
Oral history transcript, Burke Marshall, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by T.H. Baker
First meeting LBJ; government service recruiting; John Doar; May 1961 Freedom Rides; Justice Department attorneys; 1964 Civil Rights Bill drafting; LBJ as VP; friction between JFK and LBJ’s staffs; President’s Commission on Equal Employment;…
Oral history transcript, Thurgood Marshall, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by T.H. Baker
Knowledge of LBJ; support of LBJ by Texas NAACP; Walter White; Sweatt v. Painter case; LBJ’s non-support of NAACP-pushed legislation; Roy Wilkins’ opinion of LBJ; 1957 Civil Rights Bill; split between NAACP Legal Defense Fund and NAACP; 1960 VP…
Oral history transcript, Robert Q. Marston, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell
Biographical and professional information; appointment as Associate Director of National Institute of Health and director of Division of Regional Medical Programs; problems of regional medical cooperation; 1967 decision to move Regional Medical…
Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; meeting LBJ through National Youth Administration; LBJ’s 1938 campaign for Senate and decision not to contest the loss; details of 1948 Texas Democratic Convention Executive Committee’s certification of LBJ over…
Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Supporting Adlai Stevenson in the 1950’s and JFK in the early 1960’s; his work as a speech writer for LBJ in 1964 campaign; Vice President LBJ’s visit to Dominican Republic in early 1963; Dominican coup against President Juan Bosch in September…