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Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • continue working with him on some of these things. In connection with that work, we’ve been told, as virtually the Congressman, Mr. Johnson was especially interested in agricultural problems in veterans’ affairs. Does that check with your impression? LBJ
Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to go home and get in bed and go to sleep. I know I've got to go home and shave and go to mass." He was a very devout Catholic, very active in Catholic affairs there. The two, Lady of the Lake and what was the other famous girlsl school down in San
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , the beginning of the roadside parks that now dot Texas--were sponsored by the Texas Highway Department . They'd furnish supervision, trucks, tools, and material, and the National Youth Administration would furnish the boys . They'd pick them up on the trucks
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ." But that's the way it was. He'd drift in and out. for a couple of hours or a couple of minutes. He might be out There was no way of predicting it. John Connally came up. Rayburn was supposed to make a speech out at the Veteran's Hospital on November 11
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • that whenever he got too short, he would call up "The Chief," as he called Lyndon even in those days, and the Chief would get him a little money even though "The Chief" didn't have much. I was with the Department of Justice running its trial section
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • section with the President for a press conference in which he was planning to cover some Defense Department stuff, and I was there along with I suppose the assistant secretary of defense for public affairs. He kept interrupting the briefing session
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • work did you do at the Department of Interior? W: Well, I started out as Adviser in Negro Affairs and also became a consultant to the Housing Division of PWA, which was the first part of government to get into low-rent public housing. In 1937 when
  • Biographical information; Adviser to Secretary Ickes on Negro affairs; National Committee on Industrial Recovery; Harvard thesis research; integration of cafeteria services at Department of the Interior; “The Black Cabinet;” duties at Department
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 1 (I), April 1963, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • the Congressman’s attention to? K: Oh, yes, there were a number of them, especially in agriculture. In those days, Mr. Kleberg was on the House Agricultural Committee, headed by Marvin Jones. G: How about veterans legislation? K: That’s one of the bills that I
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • this mean you're going to support Mr. Disney for the United States Senate race instead of the thenincumbent, Senator Elmer Thomas," who was a veteran in the Senate. tilted his cigarette a little big higher, and he said, "Indeed not! And he I told Wesley
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • for international security affairs--a mouth-filling title--from September, 1965 to September 1, 1966 when I left to come here to Harvard. M: Right. That brings you up to date. Did you know Mr. Johnson at all prior to the time you entered government in 1961
Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • .back to become the director of the Office for Refugee and Migration Affairs within the Department of State . years . I served there about three Then a very, very severe recurrence of this thing that I'd had in Germany caused me to have to think
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • areas, the famous interagency youth committee, which was to circumvent the State Department and USIA, or at least the stodgy parts of it. But no, I don't remember specifically. G: Anything on a cabinet-level committee? Did he advocate that to your
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • bring them in. Then I had the question of the customs embargo quarantine on them, so I worked that out in the Department where we could quarantine them at a wildlife refuge. But this question of secrecy was still bothering me, so I contacted Ed Clark
  • LBJ's tour in Australia; kangaroos for the ranch; LBJ's decision to retain Kennedy cabinet; press leaks; opinions of Stuart Udall; appointment to the Department of the Interior; Rebekah Johnson's relationship with LBJ; Boatner's father's death
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • into the organization on leave of absence from the State Department of Education. I was at that time serving as deputy state superintendent of public instruction. The President secured from Dr. Woods, who was state superintendent, my leave of absence for thirty days
Oral history transcript, Val M. Keating, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , which in Texas was administered by the Texas Relief Commission, was being tapered out. It later, as you know, became the State Depart- ment of Public Welfare, and WPA was the job I was to go to full time, but for approximately six months I held both
Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . in the early days these people were scattered through the departments. G: Johnson maintained very close and friendly relationships with a whole mass Qf people who he was available to, who he called on and asked for thtngs_and saw them socially. He saw us
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • for a period of two years." F: It has been a long two years. H: Yes. And so I became special assistant to the Attorney General in the Department of Justice--the Attorney General at that time being Homer Cunnnings. F: Where had you become acquainted
  • Early personal history in Texas; Justice Department experience; Texas Legislature service; Mine Workers International Union background; LBJ and John L. Lewis; first contacts with LBJ; recollection of Sam Ealy Johnson; LBJ’s job with Kleburg and NYA
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , for which he covered South American affairs. We were young and full of vim and vigor and we carried those jobs LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • --he was interested more in national affairs. P: Did this have to do with our entry into the beginning of World War II? B: No. P: This is too early. B: It had nothing to do with World War II. that time. You're right. We thought war was over
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • many of the young men that I am hiring because of your having served as a field representative in the Texas Relief Commission." And then, too, he touched on the fact that I was reared in a department store and had experience in the running
Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was at a two-day seminar in East Texas University with reference to Sam Rayburn. One of the people the're was the head of the history department LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • barnstorming for the United States Department of Agriculture -- across the nation for some years, meeting mature and deeply concerned groups of farmers. I had visited most of the states of the Union for these sessions. Otir farmers were suffering
Oral history transcript, NYA Interview, group interview 1 (I), 1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • parks. p: The roadside parks were the first major statewide project we had and the first in the United States. RR: Yes, that was the first NYA project. FR: It started under Jimmie Allred and the State Highway Department. Lyndon made the contacts
Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in for a meeting when we had our plans sufficiently developed so that we could have a three-day session--as I recall. in the Department of Labor building--to go over all our plans. and met each of them individually. Then r saw the whole group Each came to talk
Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it." Mr. Johnson was there the next morning, and, as I recall, the Senator had a little conversation with him and then sent him down to someone in the department. The outcome of it was, with other help that may have been registered, Mr. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • ••••• accepted an offer to go on a foreign mission either with the ptate Department or the Army. I enjoyed those five years as Postmaster very much because I enjoy working with people and the public, and those were a wonderful bunch of employees and associates
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • don't (speaking to And this is where they became acquainted. He had heard of Mr. Fore's reputation as a Democrat and as a leader in party affairs, and he knew that Mr. Fore was a real close friend of Richard Kleberg's. So on his way down from
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • good system of roadside parks which NYA helped the highway department build. It was done with highway department funds for material, NYA funds for labor. And some two or three hundred parks were built in the period of six or seven years. La Villita
Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Thornberry--I--4 the Department of Agriculture; at that time we had a public ~battoir. I remember that, but I don't remember any others. F:When it comes down to 1948, were you waiting to see what he
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • interested in women's affairs, and political affairs, but always nonpartisan. But as far as I know, there was no organized women's group here, working on political or just issues concerning women. B: So women were just pretty well integrated