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Telephone conversation # 13311, transcript, MARIE FEHMER and HUBERT HUMPHREY, 8/25/1968, 12:31PM
HHH ASKS FEHMER TO TELL LBJ THAT HHH IS WORKING WITH JOHN CONNALLY; HHH WILL BE ON MEET THE PRESS TODAY, IS WORKING ON DEMOCRATIC PARTY PLATFORM AND WILL LEAVE FOR CONVENTION TODAY; HHH PRAISES LBJ'S SPEECH IN SAN MARCOS, TEXAS YESTERDAY
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Career history leading up to Feilds’ work with the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity; Phil Hart; the consolidation of the President’s Committee on Government Contracts and the President’s Committee on Government Employment…
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 2 (II), 7/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Plans for Progress controversy; Bobby Troutman; EEO-1; requirement that individual facilities report statistics; corporate Plans for Progress office; how Bobby Troutman generated conflict between LBJ and RFK; volunteerism vs. mandatory compliance;…
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Abe Fortas' role in the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity; how LBJ's control of the Committee was undermined; John Macy; discrimination in White House hiring; NASA; federal workforce turnover; Feild's involvement with Eisenhower's…
Oral history transcript, Myer Feldman, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
Feldman's involvement in a select committee that investigated the discharge of General Douglas MacArthur; Senator Richard Russell's role in that committee; the relationship between Russell and LBJ; Walter Jenkins.
Oral history transcript, Dan H. Fenn, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/18/1972, by Paige E. Mulhollan
1960 Democratic National Convention; circumstances of working with JFK; duties; appointment and LBJ; impressions of Walter Jenkins; relations between JFK and LBJ's staffs; work with Tariff Commission during the LBJ Administration; LBJ's early meeting…
Oral history transcript, Victor Ferrari, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1991, by Michael L. Gillette
Does not pertain to the Johnson Administration; Childhood & teenage years in Pennsylvania; Joined the Air Force in 1942; Stages of training for pilots and navigators; Experiences flying; Early experiences in Britain; Bomber flight to Germany;…
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
Meeting LBJ and the "Johnson treatment;" deciding how to proceed in the Richard Nixon Administration with Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) programs that existed in the Johnson Administration; problems enacting civil rights legislation; Finch's…
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 2 (II), 6/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's meeting with Richard Nixon and members of Nixon's Cabinet following the 1968 election; LBJ's interest in finding a cure for cancer; problems enacting civil rights legislation, such as "white flight"; problems with the implementation of…
Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; Finletter Report; 70-group Air Force; George Mahon; Adlai Stevenson; Vietnam; decline in power of Democratic party; John Foster Dulles; NATO; meeting with LBJ on 4/10/64 on MLF; lack of support of MLF; Ottawa speech;…
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
First meeting with LBJ in March, 1946; Ganson Purcell; James Rowe; Sam Rayburn; W. Averell Harriman; Truman’s anti-inflation program; General Counsel for AEC; Herbert Marks; Kenneth D. McKellar; Dr. Edward U. Condon; General McArthur; Richard…
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
1964 Presidential message to 18 nation Disarmament Commission; Pastore resolution; William Foster; MFL; Walt Rostow; Aleksei A. Roshchin; George Bunn; Sam DePalma; Tsoraphin; Ambassador Swidbert Schnippenkoetter; Ambassador Knappstein; Mr. Gromyko;…
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Biographical information; meeting LBJ in 1943; casual relationship with LBJ in House for six years; controversial 1948 election of LBJ over Coke Stevenson; LBJ’s reputation as a wheeler-dealer; insecure politically in Texas; dedication of Medical…
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Biographical information; duties in Manpower & Reserve Affairs; civil works program; overcrowding at Arlington National Cemetery; McNamara; Project 100,000; Adam Yarmolinsky; Steve Ailes; Senator Richard Russell; Mr. Vinson; Operation Transition;…
Oral history transcript, Harold Fleming, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1986, by Michael Gillette
Daniel Patrick Moynihan's involvement in the White House "To Fulfill These Rights" conference; Moynihan's report "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action;" deciding who would be invited to speak at the conference; Fleming's career and how it…
Oral history transcript, Joe W. Fleming II, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell
[For interviews 1 and 2] JFK campaign in West Virginia; decline of coal use after WWII; unemployment; national press on Appalachia; Mike Feldman; Ted Sorenson; Franklin Roosevelt, Jr.; public law 89-4 in 1965; Highway System first authority vested in…
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb
Appointment as Deputy Mayor; LBJ's hopes for city government; work with D.C. Council; relationship with Congress; difficulties from serving unrepresented constituency; high percentage of disadvantaged people in D.C.; budget process; program budget;…
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Going to work for Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge; Paul Kattenburg; Ambassador Frederick Nolting; Flott’s job duties; conditions at the American Embassy in Vietnam upon Lodge’s arrival; interaction with the press; traveling from Washington D.C. to…
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Returning to Saigon following the JFK assassination; Robert McNamara’s December 1963 visit to Vietnam; January 1964 Khanh coup and alleged French involvement; what the French might have wished for Vietnam; Christmas 1964 in Dalat; Tran Van Don; Le…
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Job duties for the Free World Assistance (FWA); LBJ’s support of the FWA; requesting the involvement of other countries in aid to Vietnam; 1965 Pleiku incident; public relations speaking engagements about Vietnam in the U.S. and Europe; the use of…
Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger
Flynn's experience flying for the Air Force after WWII; U.S. unprepared ness when Korean conflict began; code of conduct of American POWs in Vietnam; training of U.S. fighter pilots in Europe delivering nuclear and missile weapons; Cuban Missile…