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Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Clements was also impressed with your independence and helped get the money from a source in New York or some place, a liberal source. M: They did raise some outside money, and I never did know or pay much attention where it came from. The Committee
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

"LBJ as I Knew Him," by Mildred Stegall (Item)

her and two other girls to New York on a shopping spree and he picked up the tab. In the long run she was the winner. I only mention these two instances to prove we all have our good days and our bad days and that we all are only human, even Presidents
LBJ's personality; how Stegall met LBJ; LBJ's prank on Glynn Stegall involving Glynn's new car; LBJ's involvement in the Little Congress; how the Stegalls went to work for LBJ; LBJ's efforts to make his staff work harder; LBJ's assistance when Glynn
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 45 (XLV), 5/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Financial writers on-- G: Does it indicate who you talked to? C: Well, obviously I gave Ed [Edwin] Dale the Times--I gave Bart Rowan a one-on-one and I gave Ed Dale of the New York Times a one-on-one, in the morning. And then I had Stanley Wilson, Al
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

as their personal staff, who they are paying directly, etc., that there is a different relationship than those whom you have obviously recruited on a different basis to the post that they hold. And I sure never heard it done to anybody that could be regarded

Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

so well, a 1924 model new Ford, Model T, that did not have a battery ; we always cranked it . He wasn't privileged to campaign very much because my mother was ill and because he was making a crop, as well as teaching school . went with him, I'd say
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of volunteer labor that you had, you look at it now and you're just amazed. I remember one little boy looked at his mother and said rather plaintively, "Mama, when are we going to have something to eat besides Post Toasties?" (Laughter) Because she would work
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (TAPE =lF2) April 22, 1969 This is a second session with Mr. Henry H. Fowler, former Secretary of the Treasury. I am in his offices in New York City. The date is April 22, 1969, and my name is David McComb. Last time you
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

post? S: Primarily what they turned out to be--namely, managing the Bureau of the Census. It's a big organization, some 4500 or 5000 employees. Its primary task is managerial, and the relation of the Bureau to other work in the Department
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason and Jeanne Deason, interview 6 (VI), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)

out of the Naval Personnel Department. WD: Burea u of Personnel. JD: And he was going to New York to be shipped overseas. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was more of a legend than a figure we really knew. Bob Wagner of New York, we came to know his son much better in later days. He, too, was just somebody that we knew through legend. So I think that about covers my memories of the chief ones. A dinner party
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, thought about what I would do when I finished school; I knew I wanted to travel, I had never been out of Texas, and either perhaps have a job in New York or Washington or Europe. At any rate I happened to be discussing with Judge Powell's secretary one day
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

that there are any intelligent people outside of Cambridge and New York, possibly a few in Boston. And they were laying for him. I think the war in Vietnam had more to do with stimulating and exacerbating the situation than anything else. M: Mr. Johnson
House; dealt with Cater, McPherson or Middleton; Temple of Dendur; proposed Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars; some of best new members chosen by the President; most significant achievement was survival; controversial grants; successful programs
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

decided that the people that he admired in the Senate were Paul Douglas and Wayne Morse, and both were loners. Senator [Herbert] Lehman from New York was not psychologi- cally a loner but his issues made him a loner, too. But I think Prox consciously
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

saw my name in there--he was there for INS or Hearst--and he said, "Gee, if Beech is going to go, I got to go, too, or else I'll get a rocket from the New York Journal American "--or at least that's what I think he was thinking--and Jim Lucas . So
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

liberal congressmen--well, the most liberal in Texas by far. But he ranked along with [Vito] Marcantonio of New York, kind of commie, communist. G: Of course Maury wasn't. With the tension between your brother and Mrs. Kleberg, did you have a hard time
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

post." I wrote President Johnson a letter, that's in the files, saying that I would stay so long as he wanted me to unless I felt that my contribution outside government would be greater than inside--but basically saying, "You can count on me." My next
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

GOLDSCHMIDT (Tape #1) INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Goldschmidt's horne in New York City November 6, 1974 MG: Let's start from the beginning and the first time you met Lyndon Johnson. EG: Well, I met him in a very characteristic way
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Eisenhower. Now, Truman, without consulting anybody--I guess talked to his labor friends--endorsed Averell Harriman, who was the governor of New York. So Senator Johnson and some of them had, I believe, been supporting Senator Russell. Senator Kerr
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Kenneth E. BeLieu, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

room, and a call came from New York from Eileen Galloway. She said, "Senator Johnson was talking on the plane about a staff director for the Space Committee, and I brought your name up and his eyes lit up and he said, 'That's it!'" I said, "Well, I'm up
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

for his particular needs and functions. I recall that I planned that we would have the new big bed arranged on the seventeenth floor and that at the right time, after several days, in order to allow his circulation to stabilize and his blood pressure
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Governor But I did go over there . The Watts riots took place, and I immediately flew back . Joe Cali- fano met me at New York, and offered all the assistance in the world . As a matter of fact, they flew me back in a Presidential jet--not the big one
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, 1969 INTERVIHJEE: GEORGE L. MEHREN INTERVIEHER: T. H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. Mehren's office, The Agribusiness Council, Inc., Park Avenue, New York City Tape 1 of 2 B: This is an interview with Dr. George L. Mehren. Sir, let me summarize your
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Roger Blough, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh July 29, 1971 F: This is an interview with Mr, Roger Blough in his office, 14 Wall Street, New York City, The interviewer is Joe B . Frantz, and the date is July 29, 1971. Mr, Blough, just to get started
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Herbert N. Blackman, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

were you born and when. B: I was born in Brooklyn, New York, in December 1913 and I was educated in the public schools in Brooklyn, and I have my undergraduate degree from Brooklyn College and a Master's degree from Columbia University. M: What

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 5 (V), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEW V DATE: December 5, 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: Okay, I want to start with some miscellaneous topics to finish up 1962. O: All
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

newspaper guys who really understand the complexities of the Agriculture programs ; and the agriculture programs are complex, and sometimes difficult to understand . There are just a few of them, mainly ones like Bill Blair of the New York Times
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

. They organized the metropolitan blacks, largely through the ministers in the black churches. In places like New York and Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and Chicago, and, by that time, see--during World War II a great many blacks moved from the South to the North
; higher education for African Americans; Morehead's work for Southern Education Reporting Service and Southern School News; negative press coverage of the South; school integration and racial violence in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957; the legal
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

was not there at the time that it was passed. But do you remember anything about its significance at the time, or his discussion of it? J: Not intimately. I knew, of course, that the bones of the treaty were that basis on which a post war foreign policy was built
on civil rights over the years; socializing with Marjorie Merriweather Post and Senator Theodore Francis Green; Miriam "Ma" and James "Pa" Ferguson; Stuart Symington; President Eisenhower's heart attack; LBJ's depression after his heart attack; LBJ's
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

quite a They had first the Kennedy-Ives Bill; Jack Kennedy and Irving Ives of New York had this bill which was a rather moderate effort to correct some of the abuses in labor. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and he came And Wolf did a very fine job basically in that field and other agricultural developments, helping with the rubber and new plants and that sort of thing. But there was no [disagreement there]. They fought over other things later, because he
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

before, and I don't think it ever will be done. I said a number of things which were laughed at but now have gained credence. I was pointing out that I thought Johnson had extra glands. Well, that was laughed at. I noticed in The New York Times today
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John Wildenthal, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the New York Times, the Congressional Record, and the Washington Post every day. II G: Did he do that? W: I think he fairly well did, or had them read for him. at the Dodge so that we could be available. closed day or night. He had Ed and me He
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William M. Capron, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it? C: It's referenced in here someplace. I know perfectly well; I'm just terrible on names. Well, then there was Homer Bigart [who] did a series in the [New York] Herald Tribune on poverty in Appalachia, particularly in eastern Kentucky and West
involvement in CAPs of Walter Heller, Kermit Gordon, Dave Hackett, Dick Boone, Paul Ylvisaker and Mitchell Sviridoff; a December 1963 cabinet meeting regarding CAPs; the argument over whether to develop a new agency for CAPs; Capron's 1963 view of how a new
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

recall about that is that Mary Rather was his chief secretary at the time. Mayo Clinic. She was sending things to him at the She addressed a whole bunch of stuff to Rochester, New York that the Senator was most anxious to have and became quite
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: That's correct. F: It must give you a certain trust in patience and persistency. D: Well, it's a testimony to the fact that an idea takes a long time in its incubation and its ultimate growth. I think Chauncey Depew, celebrated raconteur from New York
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

deal. Of course, the FBI was here, and they We examined various items and questioned where certain things happened and all that sort of thing. I'll get to Warren now. He had a very brilliant lawyer from New York that he was fond of, and he made him
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 33 (XXXIII), 6/13/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Justice] got very badly reviewed in the [New York] Times. Have you looked at it? G: (indicates no) C: [I was] surprised. Maybe someone will send me a copy of that book. G: Okay. Was there a key guy in Fortas' office that would be helpful? A clerk
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

an example of what I mean, on Medicaid. We were told by Bob [Meyers], the actuary, that the cost of Medicaid over Kerr-Mills in the first year would be $250 million, nationwide. It was $250 million in New York State alone. 4 LBJ Presidential Library http
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Short -- I -- 6 and forth. I had one movement at that time in which--I think it was the Polaris missile--we moved the missile case from some place in New York in here for heat treating. That was just dipping it in one
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, W. True Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

say, the FBI--to the FBI agent in the Embassy that would say, "A known Chicago gangster had left New York and is arriving in Zurich on such-andsuch a day. Was there any way we can find out what he is doing there." Things like that, you know
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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