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Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 7 (VII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for the increased expenditures of the war. C: That wasn't popular. G: Tell me about that. C: Well, I remember that surcharge and as I remember it passed. G: Ultimately. It was 1968 before it passed. C: Right. That wasn't popular, because Vietnam daily
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • forget you start off with twenty-two votes from the ex­ Confederate states. Then you add to that Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, New Mexico, that's another eight [ten] votes, that gets you up to thirty [-two]. Then you pick up a few oddballs here
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Pollak -- IV -- 4 home rule, or did you just assume that that was impossible to begin with and start in on what became the new form of government? P: Yes. The home rule bill had been defeated in 1966. When I got to the White House, Horsky was at work
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 28 (XXVIII), 9/24/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 24, 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3, Side 1 G: Let me just go back to yesterday. You discussed [Hubert] Humphrey's pre-inauguration visit to you
  • the state of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) when O'Brien became chairman; O'Brien's immediate reorganization of the DNC and new priorities; efforts to build the relationship between the DNC and Congress; DNC help with 1970 off-year
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . But we were looking for signs of hostility Of course, there was the Dallas Morning News of that morning, with a very unfriendly ad. IIYankee. Go Home" and so forth. mostly friendly. We saw signs like, But the crowd at the airport was Kennedy
  • Katzenbach as attorney general; presidents’ interaction with the State Department; May 1966 trip to Chicago; LBJ’s opinions of the U.S. role in Vietnam; LBJ’s assessment of his own staff; Tonkin Gulf resolution; Lindley Rule and press access to LBJ
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was working its way through, Stokely Carmichael is calling the cities for black power; [James] Meredith is shot; Puerto Ricans riot in Chicago. There are black riots in Chicago, Puerto Ricans riots in New York, blacks rioting in Jacksonville, Florida
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on. The riots continued through about the fourteenth. Governor Brown was in Greece. Efforts were made to get him back, and he came into New York and down 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Perle Mesta, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • [telephone] I had friends here, I used to know the Gores very well. I used to visit the Gores. came here and then married in New York and we had an apartment here. I We lived in Pittsburgh but we always had an apartment here in the old Willard Hotel. F
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 30 (XXX), 11/4/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: One point on something we discussed yesterday: your continuing as national chairman. McGovern in his book
  • ; the McGovern campaign's relationship with the DNC and its new chair, Jean Westwood; organized labor support for McGovern; a meeting of congressmen and senators to discuss Democratic discontent related to party reforms; attempts to increase congressional
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • all out because I never spent that much time in the White House. He was very fond of about my closest friend in Washington, Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News. I think probably, and I hope to goodness somebody does him. M: He's on our list
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a lot of those Irish politicians around: [Edward J.] Flynn up in the Bronx, Ed Kelly in Chicago, [Frank] Hague in New Jersey, all of the Irish pols up in Massachusetts. And boy, he used them. You see, in those days communications was only part of the 8
Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in either of my last two elections; I ran completely without any contributions, without spending any money. But when I was spending money and raising money, lid raise it by soliciting most of it in the state, raising a little in New York and Chicago
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • had been good. But this was the first time that Lyndon Johnson as President saw how the Council of Economic Advisers could perform. From that very moment on, he would expect to be kept up-to-date--to get these daily memos. This is the way the New
  • Biographical information; Arthur Burns; Committee for Economic Development; Herbert Stein; Howard Myers; Ted Yntema; Walter Heller; Brookings Institute; relationship with LBJ; termination of consultantship; development of new economic theory; Paul
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , that he got some money from Jewish contributors in New York. And Weisl, Balaban, and who knows who else communicated with Gerry Siegel and he provided Johnson with a lot of feeling for and understanding of the Jewish community's views on the Israeli
Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , of course not publicly in the Bonham daily paper. But the word was gotten around because Dwight Dorough's * father-- Mr. Deets Dorough, the County Democratic Chairman for all the years that Mr. Rayburn was in office, I guess, let me know pretty quickly when
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 5 (V), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEW V DATE: December 5, 1985 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3, Side 1 G: Okay, I want to start with some miscellaneous topics to finish up 1962. O: All
  • to accept incremental changes; how Roland Libonati's stance on civil rights affected his political career in Chicago; LBJ's request that House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck encourage his colleagues to support civil rights legislation; Richard Bolling's
Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • activities with that of Mr. Johnson and the events that occurred during his time. You began your news career with the Chicago Sun Times in 1948 and moved into broadcasting in 1950. You went with Station WNBQ, the NBC station in Chicago. From 1950 to 1965 you
  • on White House influence on news coverage, LBJ’s response to critical press coverage, preferential treatment to certain newsmen, LBJ’s decision on to run, 1968 convention, LBJ’s way of helping departing staff members, Vietnam, the effect of daily
Oral history transcript, Toinette Bachelder, interview 1 (I), 2/11/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • you back up a moment, who were you working for in the Truman Administration? B: In the Truman Administration, well, Judge Rosenman became the special counsel to President Truman, and I worked for him until he resigned to go to New York to go
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT BASKIN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as well go on there. Lyndon Johnson? B: Briefly, when
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 50 (L), 7/19/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in, no matter how inadequate their plan was [inaudible], because we wanted to give it as much push. It was a very optimistic view of the situation. At that point he also, in classic fashion, said that he wanted daily reports to really put a torch to the Office
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ; and I can't remember who all else was in the car, but this was the major group. We got out there to the ranch, and the party eventually comprised Bill Steven, who at that time was editor of the Houston Chronicle--he's now I think with the Chicago Daily
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • stood in all of those doors that read Look Magazine and New York Herald Tribune and a lot of publications that I was too intimidated to even go in. bureau for twenty-six dailies in Michigan. She had a news For twenty-five dollars a week I could
Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of that year, my senior year in high school. That year Sam Houston High School had a new debate coach, a gentleman who'd come from some smaller town as I recall in Southwest Texas to be a teacher of 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • would take a trip into New England. and we made six stops that day. It would be a one-day trip, I recall it very vividly. We went into Hartford, Connecticut, and Providence, Rhode Island, and Burlington, Vermont, and Portland, Maine; Manchester, New
  • 1964 campaign structure/organization; Arthur Krim; one-day New England campaign trip; daisy commercial; Barry Goldwater; Mrs. Johnson’s campaign trip through the South; inner workings of the campaign; Ambassador John Bartlow Martin; campaign
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Daily News, Keyes Beech, who had heard of the thing and wanted to go. In the meantime I think there was also a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • there was the MURA issue, the Midwestern University's Research Association, which was a proposal for a new and very expensive high energy accelerator to be built in Madison, Wisconsin, with federal funds as a consortium of about ten or a dozen midwestern universities
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , in the campaign in 1948 when Coke Stevenson, at that time former-Governor Coke Stevenson, announced for the Senate race on New Year's day, 1948, it is my recollection that he did not say anything at all about Taft-Hartley. And at that time when he announced, W
Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 2 (II), 9/29/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , because it was a complicated program. You couldn't run it in that neat, orderly, compact way that administrators like to run old-line programs. This was a new, dynamic, everchanging kind of program that required shifting and hauling as you went forward
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • Means, Mrs. J. H. Means; her husband was a professor at Huston-Tillotson College for black students; and Ada Anderson, an activist black, well educated; her husband was in real estate; and Arthur Dewitte, he was a news journalist LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Where did the impetus for that come from? c: Paul Butler, who was then chairman of the Democratic committee, I had known favorably for some time. Bi 11 Baggs, who at that time was the editor of the Miami Daily News, was a close friend of mine
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • were sitting under the gun of the charges . New charges were forthcoming every day about this, that, and the other thing ; and about others down here at the Department that had gotten special benefits from Estes, or gotten gifts from him, and this kind
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 4, Side 1 O: The 1968 tax surcharge battle evolved from the proposal that was made in 1967 by the President. He was anxious to deal
  • in running for president; Bernard Boutin being instructed to keep O'Brien out of involvement in the New Hampshire primary; LBJ's decision to not have a stand-in in the Massachusetts primary; O'Brien's February 1968 memo updating information on primaries
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The crowds turned out and they really throbbed to him. I remember the headline on the New York Daily News was "Veep Wows Them in Saigon." From a standpoint substantively, however, he sort of went overboard. You were asking me for examples of the sort
  • The Johnsons' residence as vice president, The Elms; Konrad Adenauer’s visit to the LBJ Ranch; LBJ's relationship with Texans of German descent; the Bay of Pigs invasion; LBJ's trip around the world in 1961, including stops at New York City
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • for Humphrey--who was still running then, and who was an old friend of mine, is dear friend of mine--and stay time as he might drop out of the campaign. with him until such I was told by Humphrey's man in Chicago. . . I said I wouldn't do that, unless
  • Kennedy and staff in 1965 over an anti-Vietnam speech; work at the White House as a House of Representatives liaison and assistant to Marvin Watson; Chicago and Philadelphia ghetto experiences and ghetto reports to LBJ; rise of black power; White House
Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh CLIFTON C. CARTER--l6 independents around. We had a second newspaper at Bryan at that time--the Bryan Daily News--that supported Mr
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 4, Side 1 G: [I'd like to] have you focus on that list of the congressional liaison people and assess the value of each
  • and Appalachia; LBJ as a supporter of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and his deep commitment to helping people; Sargent Shriver's early leadership in the War on Poverty; Phil Landrum as a leader in supporting War on Poverty legislation; the poverty bill's referral
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • period? J: Well, I would say that the best reporting of the Vietnam situation has been by guys 1i.ke Bob Shaplen of the New Yorker; Sol Sanders, U.S. News and World Report; Keyes Beech of the Chicago Daily News-- M: You did get one newspaper
Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the Daily Cardinal, the student newspaper, that a [Wendell] Willkie For President Club was being formed, and a prominent student orator named Henry Maier was the president, which created consternation among all of the proRoosevelt people. So we put our
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and publisher of the Temple Daily Telegram, and also now owns the radio and television station there. So, Frank Mayborn was in Nashville, Tennessee, at the moment, at the time the committee met, because he had a radio station over there. I realized
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh you know, there were some votes for Eugene McCarthy in Chicago or Illinois or wherever it was. G: New Hampshire, I think it was. Z: Again, sure, there was some discussion