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Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

campaigning in the early primaries against Kennedy. And so I pretty much stayed out of that one. I went to the convention as a correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune and did some writing. I did have the distinction of being the first reporter to carry
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 2 (II), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Corps volunteers in and see whether they can help do something." That kind of concept doesn't have any relevance to Harlem, New York where you obviously have an awful lot of people around there, there's no shortage of people, there's no shortage
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in New York City. I also have honorary degrees, one from my own alma mater, Doctor of Divinity, and one from Midwestern University in Wichita Falls, Texas, an L.L.D. My pastorates have been rather long for our denomination, and most of them--all of them
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a deal with Adlai Stevenson, who people wouldn't think would make a deal but he did, and he made a deal to deliver Michigan, New Jersey, California, and New York to Stevenson if Stevenson would throw the convention open, and that's the way Kefauver got
acceptance of the vice-presidential nomination; whistle stop train trip through the South; Bart Lytton; helicopter incident in Rocky Bottom, South Carolina; New Orleans
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1981 INTERVIEWEE: DONALD C. COOl( INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Cook's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2 By terms of the legal agreement, pages 1 through 10 will not be available during the lifetime of Robert McNamara. LBJ
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1, 8/14/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

to Texas? D: She sure did. She sure did, but now she's the greatest Texan you ever saw. B: Is that right? D: Yes. But she thought Texas was all bad and that we just ought to move to New York but I wasn't about to move to New York or New Jersey
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

wanted to go to any political convention until finally in 1956 I went. I think Lyndon went to every one from the time that [they nominated], oh, the governor of New York who was the 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to highlight the D: issues? I thought he should be opposed. went to the Harvard Club. I went up to New York City and I There was a meeting--and I don't like labels--but a meeting of highly intelligent reactionaries, if you want to call them that, although
Post-WWII background; University of Texas; family oil interests; county politics and 1948 meeting with LBJ; Johnson-Stevenson race in 1948; George Parr
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Settlement Commission and rewrite all the job descriptions. It was through Mr. Macy that I obtained some very fine new personnel. M: So he was probably the one who kept your name in the top of the pile as far as prospective talent for the various jobs
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Solis Horwitz, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

outside counsel. So he called his good friend Ed Weisl from Simpson, Thacher and Bartlett in New York and actually coerced him over the telephone to come and take it. And it was really a tough job because this was around November 4 or November 5
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

A't/a rd; you kno\o'J, it was goi ng to be an every year type of thing. suit out of it. I don't think it was, but I got a new I don't know but what that suit made him do it, but I doubt it because he was always very interested in publicity. G: Why
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as director of the new President's committee. I knew that there was going to be one. I was an advocate of a policy that would be affirmative--I invented the word affirmative action, by the way. It had come out of the New York statute of 1943, had never been
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

' bellow would roar out suddenly, "And what about eggs!" and then he'd tell his story. A grand newsman in those days, long dead and forgotten, was Lemuel Spears, a New York Times correspondent. men Mr. Ochs himself hired. was concerned. Lem Spears was one
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the race to Lyndon Johnson, the Dallas Morning News. Then as the votes LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
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Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, they're the problems the same in Texas or New York, California or Connecticut, then eventually if the states and local subdivisions do not respond, then the federal government will respond. So in those areas I think the federal government should

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

after he went back to New York, Doug Dillon once or twice did, a matter of sending messages. But the decisions about what we ought to try to achieve, and a good share of the public relations about such increases when they came to public attention
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Florence Mahoney, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to school or universities or anything. You wouldn't remember it, but it's true. So I guess that's how I got interested in it. I was always interested in mental health and when I was in school they sent us one time to a big public hospital in New York
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was elected speaker [of the Little Congress], I ran and was defeated. It goes on and says what I wanted to do was to be in charge of entertainment to New York. Here's what happened. for speaker. In 1937 my name was put in the pot to run Lyndon Johnson
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to be made. T: Is this fairly accurate? Can you add some detail to that meeting? The story that appeared in the New York Times by Eileen Shanahan was not accurate. The facts were as follows: In October-November of 1966, I went to Puerto Rico
into the Department of Economic Affairs; Labor was 95% against the new Department; Labor-Management Advisory Committee studies merger and proposed that it not be done; personal contact with the President; White House staff; Cabinet meetings were basically
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on that considerably even after he became defense secretary, but yet you would hear or read these things in the national magazines and the New York Times, how "Clark Clifford is trying to lead a dovish position, a change in policy on the war." The public print just
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John L. Monahan, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, one man might have the state of New York, and another man might have, say, a whole mid-west area of five states. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
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Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 5 (V), 5/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

I remember the time--it wasn't a Community Action Program but it was in the manpower area--John Lindsay got upset about something that was happening and went to the New York Times. Well, it was impossible to answer that. did hurt that program. do
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

recall it was Mitchell Field in New York. This was before the [House] Armed Services Committee for its approval, and GSA was to be involved from a disposal standpoint. involved. Mr. Vinson got There were a couple of members on his committee from New
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that there were fourteen Anna Rosenbergs in the New York telephone book, where she lived, and there was no proof in the world which one of those Anna Rosenbergs had attended the communist meetings. Somebody had. Anyhow, she was one of the smartest, toughest, most
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 5 (V), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Walter Jenkins had his great difficulty. I must say, that's a mark of a very decent, very fine, very warm, and very courageous human ceing. She wasn't thinking about what the hell impact this would have in Texas or New York or Greenwich Village
Barber to a Defense Department post; advising LBJ on having Lynda move from her segregated dorm at UT and inviting civil rights leaders to dine at the Ranch; LBJ's understanding of the militant forces released by progress in civil rights
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 19 (XIX), 1/27/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--and they were ready to go. They wanted to make sure we paid their expenses and covered everything which we ultimately did. G: Were they currently presenting a show somewhere in New York? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 5 (V), 5/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

cities like Philadelphia and New York and Chicago. The first indication we had that they planned to hold a Solidarity Day exercise came from the press. Progressively, as we had visits with their leaders about matters relating to Resurrection City
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Berl Bernhard, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

don't know--you see, I think he always perceived Moynihan as a Kennedy person, you see-- G: Did he tie him to Robert Kennedy? B: Yes; New York, Bob Kennedy, all that kind of stuff because--the President chewed my head out at another time when I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Father Wunibald W. Schneider, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

staying with me from Washington or New York, people who are Catholic. They want to go to church, and I go with them because I want to make them feel at home. It's better if I go with them than if I send them off on their own." So at that time he had some
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Estelle Harbin, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh So I went down there and went to work and Mr. Driscoll died in late spring 1930. The Crash had come, but it didn't affect us; it affected New York more than us. We were just bewildered with Mr. Driscoll
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Charles Fitz Baird, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

a very short but very pleasant trip to Newport News while Hrs. Baird launched a submarine on a specific kind of occasion. Fact finding because __lhenever in my capacity I go anYHhere for whatever purpose, I learn a goo'd deal by talking to the LBJ

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 4 (IV), 12/4/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 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: Let me start with one note that I have from last time that you were going to talk about
O'Brien's discussion with Joseph Kennedy about the New Frontier program; leadership in the House of Representatives before and after Sam Rayburn's death; the Trade Expansion Act of 1962; a private-sector public-relations operation led by Howard
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of renewal through supporting services to help the families, individuals and businesses located in or displaced by projects. In New Haven, Mayor Dick Lee and renewal chief Ed Logue had brought in Mike Sviridoff to start an effort of this kind under the Ford
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

worked on for almost six or eight months leading up to the announcement and then later there was a magazine article on it in the New York Times and then later in my book, To Be Equal, which went into it more in detail. Mr. Johnson is mentioned in the book
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 51 (LI), 8/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and we got the story in the [New York] Times we wanted, which was that there was flexibility, and I guess we got back in the business of keeping a head count on these plans. (Long pause) [Inaudible] (Long pause) In our Civil Rights' proposals. . . . Now
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

not before Congress as a platform for the Democratic party in '56 and again in '60. Most of the time I was governor of New York--a considerable part of the time I was. Then afterwards I still remained as a member because we were very much concerned
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. It was very funny. His office was two blocks away on New York Avenue, but we had called the garage for a car to take us over there. Well, the garage cars were all out, so we waited ten or fifteen minutes sort of standing out on the curb cooling our heels
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

inspiration for that letter. worth checking out. I'm not sure of that, but it's If you find the letter, I think the letter first appeared in the New York Herald Tribune. G: Was Johnson upset about the leak of it? R: Not really. He said that he
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 2 (II), 3/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

to have it a viable, acceptable, legal entity, and for the first time in the history of the agency, we established a trustee ship . There were visits from delegations from Syracuse, and I remem ber very distinctly telling the new chairman
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Graham -- I -- 19 I remember after Tet, about a few weeks after, not the New York Times, not the Washington Post, but the Stars and Stripes came out with an issue. I went
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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