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Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

counties on the coast to make a new district, and Dick Kleberg ran and was elected . My best recollection is that he came to Congress January 1, 1933 . G: No, it was earlier than that . Lyndon Johnson went up there I guess the first time in December
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

points in David Halberstam's book The Powers That Be is that your stories were given a very different slant by the editors in New York, and let me ask you to address this point and explain to what extent you think this occurred. M: I think it occurred
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

: Well, the Regents' action in July of 1967 was to thank and discharge the committee. Now the question was to create a new committee to do whatever else was necessary. (Interruption) At the July meeting, the Regents accepted the report and accepted
The creation of a new committee related to the LBJ School of Public Affairs; how the committee members were appointed; the committee duties of administration, budgeting, architectural planning and searching for a dean; Norman Hackerman; considering
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Peter R. Rosenblatt, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

House, which was just after Labor Day in 1966, I had absolutely no background in Southeast Asia, in Asia, or any part of the Pacific. And I don't know if you want me to get into how I got there, but-- G: Certainly. R: I had come from New York
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. Is that correct? c: Well I was appointed in January of '68, and actually came into the office early in February of '68. M: You came here, I believe, from private business with Goldman-Sachs of New York? C: Yes, I had been an economist for Goldman-Sachs. M
price policy; union democracy; stockpiling; Direct Investment Program; balance of payments; transition; cabinet committee work on post-planning for economic consequences of the end of Vietnam War
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

: No. That issue was not settled for at least a year. In the Johnson Administration, the President appointed a committee of two men, Eugene Black and Harold Osborne--is that his name?--I forget, a New York LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Louise Hermey Stanford, interview 1 (I), 9/6/1989, by Sybil Jackson (Item)

TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Stanford -- I -- 2 Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in New York to see about working in the summer
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Theis -- I -- 2 was about to leave he put his arm around my shoulder--we scarcely knew each other--and he said, "Bill, I spent the weekend up in New York with Dick Berlin." Well, Dick Berlin at that time
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

remarked to me one day about how important it was not to repeat the mistake of the 1950's in the expansion into South Post. So we worked some and got some good architects in and landscape designers to help design the new areas and realized that if we took

Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Adolph Berle in New York--whom I knew not intimately, but in a casual way--saying that the President-elect had asked him to form a task force on policy toward Latin America. They wanted an economist and they thought I would be the best person. I tried
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of differences, and stirring the country to bring pressure to bear on the unions--public pressure through the media. There were many meetings with individuals associated with the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and others to explain
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for the Texas Power & Light Company as a salesman. University. In 1927 and 1928 I went to New York They laughed at me for going to that little old school LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Manuel Cohen, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. For example, when Mr. [Robert] Haack became president of the New York Stock Exchange, I brought him in to introduce him. But I know that on occasion people associated with the Exchange would come to visit him just because they, one, liked to meet the president
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Johnson, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of ELIZABETH WOOLLS JOHNSON In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 21 of Title 44, United States Code, and subject to the tenns and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Sarah Roberts, ofNew York, New York, do hereby give, donate, and convey to the United
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Escapee Program in Nuremberg in the early fifties. I also had considerable experience in advertising and public relations. In early 1960 I decided to leave that world of advertising and public relations and return to Columbia University in New York City
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

opportunities to learn sort of a post-graduate degree. In 1958 I came into government and was quite a-political. In 1961, when I became Assistant to the Commissioner, I became privy to many of the policy and political problems of the day. I wasn't

Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 3 (III), 1/21/70, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

by the Navy Department indicates that they are going to close down either Boston or New York and they reach the conclusion--as to terms of naval yards--and they reach the conclusion that in terms of cost and expense and evaluation it's about even-Stephen, I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was it? On the first of November, on Monday morning, the New York Times ran this story about LBJ is "sputtering mad," and he called me. Even at the time it was amusing; I had a hard time keeping a straight face. He was chewing my ass out, furious about this story. He
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Milton P. Semer, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of Illinois, the late Senator [Herbert] Lehman of New York, and [Jacob] Javits when he came in in the fifties, and former Senator Joe Clark, who was from Philadelphia. That's how he put them together. G: Yes, but he convinced the Democrats to vote against
; the problem of OEO potentially taking over issues for which other departments had been responsible; why a new agency was created for the War on Poverty; the accelerated public works program; criticism of Community Action Programs; opposition to public housing
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that Ambassador /Henry Cabot/ Lodge took under those instructions--which was, in effect, to go to the military and say if you want to start something new, we won't be against you--those had the effect of setting in motion all the thinking and so on that in turn
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

: Is it possible? S: Yes. H: I think all things are possible and we got over the hurdle of non-contiguous island states with Hawaii. states with Hawaii. And also we got over the hurdle of multiracial In view of what we've done in New York in permitting
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

would have had to have come through Nelson Rockefeller. I mean, the one and only time I saw the President with Nelson Rockefeller was when Archbishop [Terence] Cooke was ordained in New York, and the President met with Rockefeller. G: He
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

dates, because that is on a written record. W: But I recall vividly the following Monday. that, but it was a Monday. I don't know the date of Mr. Weisl came in--Ed Weisl from New York-- and his assistant was Cy Vance, as everybody knows by now. Mr
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

." One was 24-inch, and I think the other was 12-inch, if I recall. Came from Texas up to New York. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at Newsday in New York as a journalist. And here was a guy who had been to a Baptist seminary. He was an ordained minister, wasn't he? G: Yes. I guess the question really goes to the matter of whether Bill Moyers was promoting his own image with the press
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

by a New York News man, "The Frantic Gentleman from Texas ? 11 G: Bil 1 v!hite. R: No. White was with the New York Times. News. He was a very Irish fellow; I can't think of it at the moment. He's quite well knm·m. 11 He's retired now. The Frantic
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

is it?" "It says that the President sent three emissaries to New York to get a copy of your manuscript. It's on the front page of the Washington Post [and it'sJ by Maxine Cheshire. And it says one publisher said he couldn't print it, but he would pay five
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. He happened to be my guide over there. He's from New York. But 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

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, what he did to support it. J: He supported it with everything he had. Tape 2 of 2 G: Okay. J: He felt that they're taking Texas gas and selling it in New York, that the fellow who took it out of the ground ought to be able to sell
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 15 (XV), 12/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

had lunch with Fowler on Friday. C: Yes, on that subject I'm sure and at whatever point we knew--they must have acted that morning--Fowler called the President to tell him. Now on the sixth, the New York Times story, I don't know whether [Bill
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 2 (II), 8/14/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

-known journalists later on: Neil Sheehan from the New York Times, who was by then chief of the Associated Press in Saigon, and many of the very famous journalists who became well-known after the coup of Mr. Diem, [David] Halberstam, and so forth. G: D
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Birch Bayh, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bayh -- I -- 9 Bird, as he called Mrs. Johnson, was shopping in New York, so we sat there and ate and heard him reminisce, and we ended up about 11 o'clock at night with him in the back seat of that big chauffeured limousine
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was a big part of his life and a big part of his companionship. He looked up to the old chairman, Carl Vinson from Georgia, with the greatest admiration and affection. And then he had a lot of other good friends on there, too: Sterling Cole I think of New
death; Harry Truman receiving the news of FDR's death at Sam Rayburn's "board of education;" LBJ's relationship with FDR; Milo and Tharon Perkins; President Truman's friends; LBJ's level of conservatism, especially following FDR's death; KTBC sending
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, on November 28, 1928 . I was brought up most of my life in Passaic, New Jersey ; went to public schools there and met my wife there . Then I did my undergraduate and graduate work both at Columbia in New York City
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. start from the beginning. But let's The first major task we had was in late September when Goldberg came down to Washington from New York and said that U Thant had just come back from Moscow and was convinced that the Russians were ready to use
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in New York with a young cous in of mine. M: Sullivan and Cromwell, wasn't it? B: I've forgotten. M: Yes. B: So at least some good Democrats carne out of Dewey's office. It was in Dewey's office. But Joe kept in close contact. I'm going back
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

and we agreed on it. I took leave from my paper for three months in 1944, went to New York and worked out of the Biltmore Hotel during that campaign--Roosevelt's last campaign. Truman was the vice presidential candidate. Basically I was in charge
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Peter Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)

not make any headway. So time went along, and I forgot all about it. A letter came from the director of the Whitney Museum in New York City, Lloyd Goodrich. I didn't actually know him at the time, but I've met him since and we've laughed about
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

never really told him what I thought about it, which is very simple. The trouble with Johnson and Viet Nam was that he was too clever by half. He had 150,000 troops on the ground before the New York Times admitted we were in a major war, literally
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

American culture, so if you compare the twenty-year-olds in Chicago or New York or Memphis with the twenty-year-olds in the army, they are pretty much the same, you know, background and culture-wise. Now, it's true that if you take this guy and he migrates
Agent Orange; health requirements for returning to the U.S. from Vietnam; self-inflicted wounds; drug use among soldiers in Vietnam; post-traumatic stress disorder and related problems; the psychological development of people before they join
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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