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Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was younger and more energetic in those days. G: Now, in February of 1964 American Banker Association President William Kelly made a speech in New York deploring the lack of cooperation and the overlapping of the three federal agencies involved
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 10 (X), 6/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • around the country. I remember sitting with Tony in New York exchanging ideas by way of spots. If you remember, we were pretty hard-hitting, to the extent that they are still talking about the little girl with the daisy. You know, that is cited
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the last years of his life was at breakfast in the Tudor Hotel in New York one morning. I was sitting in the dining room when Aubrey, staying at the same hotel, \'Jalked in and we had breakfast together. But I think this was even before he left
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to a fellow, let's say you've got a guy and he's running the Bellevue Hospital in New York City, and the ambulances are going in and out of there one a minute. And you say, "Well, now, suppose you had two Bellevue Hospitals. Do you think you'd have more
  • fully funded; Shriver trying to get Mrs. Johnson to sponsor Head Start as a new innovative program; the differences between Civilian Conservation Corps participants and Job Corps students; the urgent need for education as well as sociological
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a correspondent for the New York Times. himself [was] a Democrat. mugwump. He had a Bill As for myself, I have always been a He filled that paper with the Democratic story from start· to finish, all of which or most of which he got from Lyndon or from LBJ
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Conrad L. Wirth, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CONRAD L. WI RTH INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Wirth's office, RCA Building, New York City Tape 1 of 1 F: Mr. Wirth, tell us first briefly something of your own background and how you came to be looked upon as an outstanding
  • National Park Service, 1928-1964; CCC; New Deal; LBJ State Park; National Capital Planning Commission
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Jack Howard, interview 1 (I), 10/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • uninterest- ing for me because it was a circulation war and there was no room for good heavy news. It had to be feature and light stuff, and I was interested in more serious implications. So I came to Washington in 1960, worked on the subcommittee, did
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joe W. Fleming II, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • recently that state boundaries may even be anachronistic. I'm thinking specifically of the New York-New Jersey area. F: I think they are. I don't think there's any question about that. But to paraphrase Churchill's comment about democracy, the state
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the sufferance of a population. F: But the people are there for the next generation. C: Yes. The New York Times, and some of our foreign correspondents abroad, are married(and this must be a very real problenY. and continue to live there. They marry
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • mixed up on dates at this point, but-­ G: The letter was 1957. R: It was 1957? The letter itself was actually written by Jim Rowe, but the concepts were Johnson's. I think that the letter leaked out to the [New York] Herald Tribune somehow. We
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • space in that building on New York Avenue. I think that was while I was still [there]. That was task force space, yes. We just outgrew. G: Did the task force have a shortage of operating and planning funds during this stage? Y: We operated
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Anthony Partridge, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that on the whole the poor didn't get their deserts out of northern city government either. On the other hand, I think we were probably much more likely to accept a degree of city domination in New York, for instance, than in a lot of other [places], let's say
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Dorothy V. Bush, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was because we would have the largest television coverage . days, television didn't go beyond the Mississippi River . In those In the East, and in Philadelphia, we would have the New York audience and the Washing­ ton one . It was just a great big exciting
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the staff. I never shall forget the neutrality session. Even though I lived at the Dodge and worked at what was then called the New House Office Building--I believe it's now the Longworth Building--and I walked right by that Capitol twice a day at least, we
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEl~EE: DONALD C. COOK INTERVIEVJER: THOMAS PLACE: Mr. Cook's Office, 2 Broadway, New York. H. BAKER Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, if "Ie may begin at the beginning, I know that you first went to work for tk. Johnson in 1943. Did you have any acquain
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . The transportation modes are You may use high-speed rail, you may use highways, or you may take to the air to get from Washington to New York. It was becoming increasingly evident in the late forties and early fifties, when the Bureau of the Budget staff was doing
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • days. He had worked for the old New York World and the National Farmers Union. [He was] really an interesting guy and knew a tremendous amount about Congress and the way things were done, not the textbook kind of legislative process, but the way
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview S-I, 8/1994, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • [problems] in a town like Austin, which is not known for its public transportation service, is a continuing thing. How do you define these-- LC: Idiosyncrasies? DC: --idiosyncrasies of Harry, yes. LC: Well, think of the young man in New York City
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1984, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • , 1984 INTERVIEWEE: MARY LASKER (MRS. ALBERT LASKER) INTERVIEWER: Clarence Lasby PLACE: Mrs. Lasker's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 2 ML: [People aren't] interested in the subject of health unless they're sick themselves. And nobody ever
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 13 would have to do something about briefing. It was decided that I would go up to New York on the plane that was to take him to the area; And I met Cy in New York at the airport; we set
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 4 (IV), 2/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of [John J.] Rooney, maybe from New York-- G: That's right. Brooklyn, I think. H: --was on the trip. Now, the reason President Johnson had asked him, at least as I 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 39 (XXXIX), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of 1966 the New York Times carried a front page story by Ed Dale which said, "The Johnson Administration stopped trying to roll back individual price increases. The unannounced modification policy was confirmed today by authoritative sources." That story
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 50 (L), 7/19/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the Desegregation Bill, and the economy, the issue of the anti-inflation tax is all on the front page. G: New York Times, yes. C: In any case, as you might expect, the South not liking them, and the North. . . . Here's Bob Byrd fighting the guidelines. It's
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , but there was a senator running from New York State at the time, who, by the way, was defeated, who was supposedly getting all kinds of rumors that there were offensive weapons going into Cuba from refugees supposedly coming out of Cuba. The whole thing was we were unable
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • not sufficiently aware of them all to tell you about them. But I remember that he went one day to New York. and that his good friend Ed Weisl up there was supposed to be gathering up delegates and so forth, and that he was certainly more successful even than I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 12 (XII), 4/25/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • perhaps. J: I don't remember it. G: Now, Russell visited the LBJ Ranch after the election. when he came? J: Were you there Do you remember that? No, that fall I was in New York most of the time. I'd left the Senate payroll and sold
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • not be able to guarantee the future of the voluntary program but I didn't know what the alternative was definitely going to be. I called Jack Connor, who by that time was in New York at Allied Chemical, and I talked with him because really the voluntary
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Roosevelt said was, "Lyndon, up in New York the first thing they taught us was to sit on the ballot boxes." So I can remember that time he came back in a very black mood, said his wife had been abused and attacked, and he didn't think he would ever run
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, John Harllee, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in California, what did you do? H: I went to New York to work briefly in the financial world and then was appointed as a commissioner on the Federal Maritime Commission by President Kennedy--with some minor jobs in between that aren't worth recounting--a few
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Richard G. Stilwell, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • at that time, and then turned around and tried to be an objective chronicler of what happened. G: That's interesting statement. In what respect was he an actor? S: He was an actor in the sense that with the New York Times as his outlet, and his reporting
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , naturally. At that point, I was introduced to Werner Wiskari, who was a New York Times correspondent in Scandinavia and who was Finnish. He had been born in Michigan, where there are a tremendous number of Finns in the northern peninsula, and he spoke very
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 19 discussions around the world I've bailed out his reputation in the way that came almost as complete news
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was advancing a trip that very day, in fact, for then-Vice President Johnson to New York. I was in New York with Secret Service agents for the big B'nai B'rith meeting at Madison LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Robert B. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE : ROBERT B . ANDERSON INTERVIEWER PAIGE E . MULHOLLAN PLACE : Mr . Anderson's office, One Rockefeller Plaza, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: You don't have any connection with Arkansas? A: No . I had connections only
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Owen Donley, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Donley -- I -- 10 Javits of New York, I think, was the ranking Republican member. I know that Senator Mondale
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the city very well, but she came down from New York as a sort , 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
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with the Atlantic Ocean and ends at the western part of New York State, and then there's nothing until you get to California. You never send me anybody unless they're from California or New York or Massachusetts," or what have you. So he wanted somebody from
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to wait a little while. So we advised And finally, then, on December 15th, as I recalled the dates he did recognize the new government. What I'm trying to say is that the death of President Kennedy actually delayed recognition of the Dominican
  • of 1963; causes of Dominican Civil War, 1965; military intervention; posting Martin to negotiate a cease-fire; LBJ’s fear of a communist take-over; Ambassador Bennett; Martin’s negotiations in the Dominican Republic; Martin’s book Overtaken by Events, 1966
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 2 (II), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Judd -- II -- 10 United People of America. And see, little by little without realizing the whole thinking has changed completely. Not completely, but substantially. G: Would you add the post office? J
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or July or when, because I did return to Austin later on. At any rate, sometime during the summer I went to see our old friend Dr. Will Watt in Austin and got the big news that I was, at last, pregnant. It was big news because from 1934 to 1943--of course
  • the war in 1942-1943; James Forrestal as secretary of the navy; the 1944 division among Texas Democrats; women in Texas politics in the 1940s; a woman's "I remember Johnny" speech about LBJ helping her find her son; receiving the news of D-Day, June 6
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)