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Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • or Ho Chi Minh. He did not believe that political leaders should attack each other personally. He also felt that political leaders should not cause each other unnecessary problems.I remember on one occasion Sir Alec Douglas Home, the Prime Minister
Oral history transcript, Lester Maddox, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER May 13, 1969 B: This is the interview with Governor Lester Maddox of Georgia. Sir, do you recall if you had any acquaintance or knowledge of Mr. Johnson, say, before the 1960's, when he was a senator? M: Yes, sir, I did, because
Oral history transcript, Paul H. Douglas and Emily Taft Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . DOUGLAS I NTERV I EWER· MIKE GILLETTE WITH COMMENTS BY: EM I LY TAFT DOUGLA 5 PLACE: SENATOR DOUGLAS' HOME IN WASHINGTON D. C. November I, 1974 D: It has now been eight years si nce I served in the Senate and about six years since I finished my
  • See all online interviews with Paul H. Douglas & Emily Taft Douglas
  • Open conflicts between LBJ and Douglas; McCarthy censure; LBJ’s legislative skill; drafting the 1957 Civil Rights Bill; the influence HHH and LBJ had on each other; areas of cooperation between LBJ and Douglas; LBJ’s economic polices; truth
  • Douglas, Paul H.
  • Oral history transcript, Paul H. Douglas and Emily Taft Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Paul H. Douglas
Oral history transcript, Archer Parr, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1984, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , sir. Yes, sir. I was going to school at Texas A&M when he died, and came home for the funeral. Shortly after that I joined the Marine Corps. F: Where did you serve? P: In the South Pacific. F: This was in World War II? LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and this is now my fortieth year on Capitol Hill . F: He's finally going home, isn't he? M: I'm just trying to make up my mind . F: No, I don't mean you . M: Oh, oh, yes, sir . F: Colmer . M: Bill Colmer is going home . F: I haven't seen him yet
Oral history transcript, Ernest May, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • connection with Sam Rayburn? M: No, sir. Mc: What kind of connection have you had with Lyndon Johnson? M: Oh, none. I knew him, but that's all. I met Mr. Johnson a long time ago. I voted against him and for him, and that's about it. Mc: Did you
Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that for granted. F: And you worked. S: Yes, sir. F: Did you go home that night? S: As I recall, I think I did go home about three or four o'clock. I came back very early the next morning. F: Did you get involved at all in the funeral? S: No, sir. F
Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Dick Russell's influence had a lot to do with." F: Did Senator Johnson and Senator Russell get pretty close pretty quickly? E: Yes sir, they were close friends. Got to be close friends very quickly. F: Did you, in those early days, see much
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • at this for a year. R: Well, we'll try to do it as objectively as we can. M: Right. You're about my 110th interview. Let's get your identification on here, sir. You're Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., an attorney in Washington, D.C., and you've been associated
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 2 (II), 12/6/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to support Allen even though his appointee was from his home county and it was determined in their convention. The candidate and the Governor split the vote right practically in the middle. It was the difference between Allen being renominated and the judge
Oral history transcript, Mollie Parnis, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Parnis beach and he did, sir." said~ -~ I ~- 9 "Did you read that chapter?" and I said, "Yes, I He said, "Well, what did
  • of clothes; input on The Vantage Point; items made for the President; visits to the White House; the Ranch Acapulco; McGovern visit to the Ranch; state dinners; LBJ and guests for dinner; LBJ’s visit to Parnis home just previous to publication of Pentagon
Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh February 1, 1971 B: This is the interview with Senator Lister Hill. here very briefly your background. Sir, let me just read You were born here in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1894, and attended the University of Alabama
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: HELEN GAHAGAN DOUGLAS INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • See all online interviews with Helen Gahagan Douglas
  • Biographical information; first political action; election to Congress; activities/bill introduced in Congress; Richard Nixon; Melvyn Douglas campaign for LBJ at request of FDR; Farm Security Agricultural Department Program; friendship with LBJ
  • Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 1900-1980
  • Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Helen Gahagan Douglas
Oral history transcript, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/8/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 8, 1970 INTERVIHJEE: PAUL B. JOHNSON JR. INTERVIEWER: 1. H. BAKER PLACE: Governor Johnson's home, Hattiesburg, Mississippi Tape 1 of 2 B: This is an interview with Paul B. Johnson, Jr., the former governor of fvJississippi. Sir, a brief bit
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cross -- II -- 5 House about eight o'clock that night. watch the speech on television. I wanted to be home in time to And so I left about eight o'clock, and that time of the evening I could drive home, and of course I drove
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE C. WALLACE INTERVIEWER: T. H. Baker PLACE: Governor Wallace's office, Montgomery, Alabama Tape 1 of 1 B: This is the interview with Governor George Wallace. Sir, do you recall you had any acquaintance with Mr. Johnson before
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 5 (V), 3/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: MELVIN C. WINTERS INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Winters' office, Johnson City, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Okay, sir. This is 1961, right after the election when he went back to Washington as vice president, and one of the first
  • visit to the Ranch; the Trinity River Project; John Tower; LBJ's glasses and contacts; Ayub Khan's visit to the Ranch; LBJ's opinion of General Douglas MacArthur and Dwight Eisenhower; the Cox family in Johnson City; the Elms, the Johnsons' home
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
  • . And so he said to me--and I'll never forget this either--he said, "Cross, you boys must be getting tired." "Well , yes, sir. And I said, We need to get home and get some clean clothes." He said, "Well, I'll tell you what: you go on back to Bergstrom
Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh June 17, 1969 B: This is the interview with Bayard Rustin. Sir, to start pretty far back in time, did you have any knowledge of Mr. Johnson when he was in the Senate? R: Yes, I did. Of course, I suppose everybody heard
Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : You were offered the Secretaryship of the Treasury to replace Douglas Dillon in '65, weren't you? C: That was discussed, yes. B: And you didn't take it. C: That is correct. B: Again, if it's not impertinent, may I ask why, sir? C: Well
Oral history transcript, Boisfeuillet Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . He was the first administrator for Texas of the NYA, which must have been 1935-36. B: I think so, sir. When you were on the Georgia staff, he was Texas administrator. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • and Johnson families; advising LBJ and Senator Paul Douglas on krebiozen; instituting regulations that barred krebiozen from interstate shipment; problems related to the use of thalidomide.
Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , "go fishing" [political jargon for sitting on the sidelines]. And if we had to oppose, he would know well in advance of our intended actions - neither my group nor I would ever "blindside" him. The fact that we were on good terms was driven home to me
  • and the creation of the Guaranteed Student Loan Program; LBJ's frustration with rising bank interest rates; Walker's opinion of William Sherrill; how the instability of the dollar and the 1959 Federal deficit led JFK to choose C. Douglas Dillon as secretary
Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEHEE: IVAN ALLm, JR. I NTERV IHIER: THO~1AS PLACE: His office, City Hall, Atlanta, Georgia HARRISON BAKER Tape 1 of 1 B: This is the interview with Mayor Ivan Allen of Atlanta. Sir, did you have any acquaintanceship with Mr. Johnson before
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and if the ball calls for me to make the throw to home rather than throw to first I'll throw home, although in my own mind I figured I could catch the man coming down to first and the run was going to score on me anyway, if you follow that baseball analogy . Yes
Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 1 (I), 10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • things. F: Let's make one correction. Where you said the early 40's I was the founder and first national chairman of CORE. B: Yes sir. I understand those are two separate offices. When, in this career, did you first form any knowledge of Mr. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Thurgood Marshall, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , "Yes, that's what I mean by nobody." He said, "Take all the time you want." I said, "Very well, sir." He hung up, and I hung up. I went home and talked to my wife and we discussed the problems, because one was a lifetime job to trade in for a job
Oral history transcript, Antonio J. Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , the so-called Brick House, the Taylor-Andrews House that appears in an historical volume called Early Homes of Texas. M: And Karnack is near the Louisiana border? T: Yes, about fifteen miles. M: And your father did what? T: My father was a country
  • ; visiting the Ranch at the same time as Mexican President Adolfo Lopez-Mateos; trip to Oaxaca to pick up Senator Douglas; returning part of El Paso to Mexico and related events; experiences with Mexican officials at social events; Mrs. Johnson’s success
Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . They knew he was a man of great force . This is before he became President . Ba : Did he have any knowledge of British leaders before he became President? Was he acquainted with Mr . Douglas-Home or the future Prime Minister, Mr . Wilson? B: Whether he
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : On a lone wolf senator like Paul Douglas, who from all I can gather from the sidelines was a man who pretty well kept to himself and never really belonged to the Senate as an organization, did Senator Johnson make any particular effort to get Douglas
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ;. 1969 INTERVIEWEE: GERALD W. SIEGEL · INTERVIEWER: T .: H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. Siegel's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 B: This is the interview with Gerald Siegel. Sir, your background·· briefly: born in Iowa; Yale Law graduate. And am .I
Oral history transcript, Clinton P. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh May 20, 1969; U. S. Senate B: This is the interview with Senator Clinton P. Anderson. Sir, do you recall when you first met Mr. Johnson? When you arrived in the House in 1941, he was already there, was he
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Lyndon the prime mover in this? D: Well, he was certainly one of the prime ones, yes, sir. I might relate one incident which will show you that even at the age of eighteen or nineteen he had some of the qualities which later came forward in his
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ," that sort of thing. He was confident of victory. Then he went home to the Ranch and the next day of course he had this landslide. I don't recall how soon it was after the election that we got invited down there. It might have been the very next day. It would
Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • mTERVIB~EE: FRANK CHURCH INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Senator Church's office, OS08 405, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin simply by identifying you, sir. You're Frank Church, senator, Democratic senator from Idaho. You came
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: RAMSEY CLARK INTERVIEWER: HARRI BAKER PLACE: His home in Falls Church, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 B: This is a continuation of the interview with Ramsey Clark. Sir, we left the civil rights story in the summer of '65 before
Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LYMAN LEMNITZER INTERVIEWER: Ted Gitt i nger PLACE: General Lemnitzer's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: All right, sir, please go ahead. L: It was about that time that General [George C.] Marshall took over from Louis Johnson
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 6 (VI), 5/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the property of first-class intellects, as long as they were confined to philanthropists or speculators, as long as they were only advocated by austere, intangible Whigs"--there's Paul Douglas for you--"Sir Robert Peel was against them. So soon as these same
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a home; we did not have children. There was a sound base missing for me, whereas Lyndon had a very sound base, his work. I learned that I could do 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
  • because he changed planes at the last minute; movies of LBJ's military experience; General Douglas MacArthur awarding LBJ the Silver Star and his letter declining the award; LBJ's illness and hospitalization in New Zealand, Fiji, and Australia; LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think that's one of the chances I missed to be a better human being, not to reach out to him more, although we did some. So it was a well-staffed household, within our limitations, and everybody very busy and lots of company, always visitors from home
  • visit to Washington, D.C. and Mrs. Johnson's trip with them to New York City; F Street Club; Joseph Davies' home, Tregaron; visits to Senator Harry Byrd's home; "Byrd houses" along the Appalachian Trail; socializing with the Texas delegation; Tony Buford
Oral history transcript, William M. Colmer, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: WILLIAM M. COLMER INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Colmer's home in Pascagoula, Mississippi Tape 1 of 1 F: Do you remember when you first met Lyndon Johnson? C: I remember the first time that I remember meeting him. And I'm sure