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Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to speak at Riverside also in 1928? W: No. G: Or Senator Wirtz coming to speak, Alvin Wirtz? W: No. G: Were you? W: I was at New York University. G: In the fall of 1928? W: Yes. G: Okay. I wasn't in school in 1928 down there. September
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. Mulhollan PLACE: Mr. Bundy's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: I'm sure you have no reason to recall exactly what we covered in the last tape. B: None. You'll have to stop me. Just put your hand up if I've said it before. M: I'll do
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Louis Shanks, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1987, by Gina Gianzero (Item)

. Johnson is so very, very gracious. I had some friends from New York City that were dying to see the inside of Mrs. Johnson's home on the Ranch. So I didn't wish to bother Mrs. Johnson, and I called our very dear, dear mutual friend, Donald Thomas, and told
; Ernest Willinger giving LBJ a plane; Shanks' visits to the White House; LBJ in the post-presidential years; LBJ's behavior around women.
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin and Harold Howe II, interview S-II, undated (Item)

States. ,·, ) l :~ ~ ·) I I HALPERIN: To be specific , the latest figu_res we have indicate a per pupil expendi ture of $413 in Missis s ippi and $1,125 in New York .. .!' I I Close to triple. Thos e figures, of course, include exlsti~g---Federal
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

unions, and it was declared in short order to be illegal, as I recall it. F: Now the New York Times, for instance, and it wasn't alone, called--and this happens in other instances--for federal legislation to deal with strikes that hurt the national
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was another. M: Did any of them ever do it? N: No. The only successful effort came in connection with our Johnson book. It was rather widely syndicated in newspapers in installments. The [New York] World Journal Tribune, short-lived, was started in 1966
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

a couple of years and retired. In 1950 there was only one dissenting voice in the committee; while J. Hardin Peters on was still chairman, and that was a northern congressman, [Frederic] Coudert, C-O-U-D-E-R-T, of upper New York. LBJ Presidential
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

the "New York desk" of the Fed, where they do the open market operations, was lagging. The idea would be for the President to get Martin to instruct them to buy more longterm government securities and thus put more money into the 10ngterm money market
Troika; Quadriad; Council of Economic Advisers; administration differences; details of tax cut; trade-offs with Congress on budget cuts; Wilbur Mills; Harry Byrd; origin of tax cut; Samuelson Task Force; “new economics;” tax increases; Vietnam’s
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

me to New York to work at the United Nations and all those kinds of things. But that is how I got to know John Connally, whom Senator Connally wanted to run his re-election campaign. John Connally refused him. There was really very little doubt
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

as the California campaign. And on Saturday, the day before the President's speech, we had gotten five guys to resign from their jobs to go out and work in California--Larry O'Brien and Marvin Watson had gotten some people for New York, and they were working
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-II, 11/10/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)

: November 10, 1993 PLACE: Professor Bundy's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 D: What I wanted to first ask you about is the Dominican Republic. That was not a topic we spoke about last time, and so I wanted to get you talking about that a little
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 11 (XI), 7/24/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEW XI DATE: July 24, 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: Okay, why don't we begin 1965? You talked briefly last time about the impact
demonstrations like the one in Selma on the Voting Rights Act; LBJ's support for voting rights; the negative effect of American media coverage on public perception of U.S. involvement in Vietnam; O'Brien's concerns over television news presentation of events
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Here we were in Dallas and some reporters called New York, their home offices, to find out what they knew. I ran out into the parking lot and a cop was sitting there on a three-wheel motorcycle listening to all the traffic on the police radio. Maybe
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 2 (II), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1987 INTERVIEWEE: FRANK STANTON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Dr. Stanton's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: You visited the President after his heart attack in 1955. S: Oh, yes. G: Can you describe your visit
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 2 (II), 11/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, I was detailed on a part-time basis, still as special assistant, still working at J3, but I was also supposed to go out and spend some time with III Corps in planning this particular operation. I don't think it had any really significant and new
to improved the placement of new chiefs and staff; dealing with questions from the press; how Jack Cushman dealt with the press; Montague's role in planning the Hop Tac operation and why it was unsuccessful; General Westmoreland's request for an estimate
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

at dinner; and Aaron Schaffer was a man that I would normally consider a very kindly and gentle person, but an unreconstructed liberal out of the New Republic school. And after dinner, we got around to coffee. He turned to Miss Grace and he said, "After

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and Senator Connally, and Democratic Leader [Ernest] McFarland, and all of his--he really did his best for them. Then, we also went up to New York, and [I] have a delightful picture of all the six of us on the Empire State Building. In fact, that was our
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to the President. I was on a vacation on a fairly remote lake in New York State when one afternoon in July somehow the White House operators got through up there, and it was Joe Califano at the other end of the line asking me whether I would mind coming down

Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)

of an hour [later] the phone rang. It was Jim Eastland. He said, "George, there's this guy from the New York Times there. He says I called that fellow Sadat a nigger. I want you to call him up and tell him that ain't so." I said, "But why don't you tell him
and Robert Kennedy; civil rights legislation debate; civility among legislators; the New York Times not running a story about Senator James Eastland referring to Anwar Sadat as a "nigger;" McGovern and Frank Church meeting with Hubert Humphrey about support
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, yes. Yes, there was Alex Hurd~ acts~ and this-- the chancellor of Vanderbilt, [he] was the chairman; Walter Thayer, then president of the New York Herald Tribune, one of the stalwarts of the Republican hierarchy on the Eastern Seaboard
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

a syndicated colwmi.st. r thought I would just .begin by introducing you and then at the end of that, you can add whatever you'd like to it. You were born in 1924 in New York City. In 1947 you received a B.A. I from U.C.L.A. and in 1948 received a Master
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 8 W: The first I even heard about it was some little item in the New York Times that I was one of several people who were being considered for this post which I hadn't even been aware of. But it was just
program; relationship between JFK and LBJ; selection of Houston for space center; NASA budget; supersonic transport planning; Post-Apollo planning; HHH as Chairman of Council; 1967 Apollo fire; visit with LBJ in retirement
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

named Walter G. Andrews of New York was the first chairman of the brand-new Armed Services Committee, and he was determined to make the committee work. The people from the old Naval Affairs Committee were determined to make it not work, because
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

hope he was to get the degree. F: Where were you on that fateful November 22, 1963, when Kennedy was shotZ P: Having lunch at the Rockefeller Center in New York. F: What did they do, interrupt your lunch? P: Well, nobody could believe it. So I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

a leader in my campaign before he went to New York and had been very active in my election, and he came to see me and said that President Kennedy insisted that he had to have support from some elected officials in the South. He asked me on behalf
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

director and the build-up was taking place, at that point we were having trouble with the totals. too large when you added them all up. The programs were There was still a great drive on the part of the President to continue new legislation, keep them
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

going to handle the New York-New England region, and they were up on one section of a floor, and somebody else was some place else. became the cadre. And then eventually that But most of these people had gradually fallen into the system in which \Ve
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Zorthian? Yes . it a little tough for him to do his job, doesn't it? Well, I had first known Alan Carter in New Delhi, seemed to be a pretty able guy . G: shall I say, That's another parallel, I think, India, too? He worked for Ken Galbraith
Cabot Lodge; the new regimes
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: No. G: We've looked for a maker and can't find it. P: I don't. Let me give you the history of this organ. It was owned by Walter Hornaday, who was the political correspondent for the Dallas Morning News during the thirties, forties and fifties
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

F: Were you seriously considering for lieutenant governor up in New York in 1 9 6 6 , or is that just a rumor that got out? A: Actually, the lieutenant governor was rumor. asked to run for attorney general in New York. Then I was actually I told
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, David L. Hackett, interview 1 (I), 4/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as opposed to failure? H: Well, there are two parts. I think one was what type of programs they came up with [such as] Mobilization for Youth, which had been going on in New York City on the Lower East Side of New York. Columbia University School of Social
and start programs; what the Committee looked for in creating a new anti-delinquency program; Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited Associated Community Teams (HARYOU-ACT) programs; the Lower East Side experiment; increasing local involvement in planning
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

House staff, and with Bob Kennedy. The March on Washington civil rights thing came on the scene very quickly after I left the government, and I became deeply involved in that. represented ~Ja Her I Reuther on the committee, both in New York
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 15 (XV), 1/4/1980-1/5/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to Mayo's for a checkup, and I went to New York on a city trip with Gene Boehringer Lasseter, and we did a lot of sight-seeing. She went to see a young man from East Texas who was destined to make quite a mark for himself in the world of music. He was Van
Closing up LBJ's Senate campaign headquarters after the 1941 loss; trip to New York City with Gene Boehringer Lasseter to see Van Cliburn; the political importance of postmasters; LBJ's involvement in the extension of Selective Service and the draft
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 4 (IV), 1/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

McPherson of the White House staff. Back in January 1967, John Macy held a meeting at the Sky Club in New York with Alexander Trowbridge, then undersecretary of commerce, I believe, and some leaders of the business community, headed by Sidney Weinberg
of Congress and the executive branch in developing new legislation; Congress' ability to draft legislation; statutory commission funding; Wozencraft's involvement on the tripartite Commission on Political Activity of Government Personnel; the Commission's
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

yacht, which I guess is how New Englanders analyze character. anything. I didn't drive the boat into any rocks or But, more seriously, we talked about the mission and his plans, and I think it was largely just a question of being personally acceptable
before the coup; an offer to move Diem out of the country to safety; visiting the Presidential palace the day after the coup; flying with the Nhu children to Rome; JFK assassination; post-Diem conditions in Saigon; Georges Perruche; an explosion
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. G: How did they get the application through? J: Royls application got hung up because they passed a regulation at the FCC, because of the need of strategic materials, that no one would be permitted to build a new radio station using strategic
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in New York City and Chicago are quite different than they are in Austin and Dallas. B: Is there any obvious animosity at the convention between the Johnson staff and the Kennedy staff? A: I'm sure that they had as many mean things to say about us
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Eugene C. Patterson, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

; started out in the newspaper business as a reporter for the Temple paper and Macon paper; '48 to '56 with the United Press in South Carolina and New York and London; ,..th~n -. in '56 joined the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, first as Vice President
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, and sold it there. The money was remitted to New York, and was placed in the hands of Castro agents in New York. And the real owners of the sugar sued for the recovery of the proceeds on the grounds that Castro had violated International Law and had

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in journals . B: At that time, I was considered one of the candidates . I went back to New York--oh I think in November of 1959,--and did a very poor job . meeting in New York, they had all of the candidates . At that It was the meeting of the National
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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