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Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the earliest days, and Vice President Johnson had been interested, too, along the way. memoria 1 bust of Byrd done by Fel i x de Avenue of the Heroes. \~el He dedicated this don, and it I S on a new The plan was to have the statues of the great heroes
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

they were really thinking of him as a new day in Texas politics. I was so much convinced about what they had in mind that some time after he became the Minority Leader I asked Senator Stuart Symington if he would arrange a meeting for me. Senator Symington
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: Durbrow, yes. L: Yes. G: Did you know about that? L: Well, yes, we had a fair amount of that kind of difficulty. something new. Here was Here was something new, ambassadors having as a part of their activities a military organization and so forth
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frank Ikard, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

been meeting over here," they were staying at the hotel across the street, the Ambassador, and he said, "He's our choice, and we have every reason to think this will happen." F: Now by "our choice" who is our? I: New York, and this group was very
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 2 (II), 09/10/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)

, the state of Texas will not honor a taxi bill in excess of two dollars and fifty cents. Okay. It happened last time I was in New York interviewing Larry Levinson. He was tied up on something when I went to see him. I had, I think, a 4:10 plane out at Kennedy
How Frantz joined the National Historical Publications Commission; LBJ’s practice of allowing other people to announce good news; Nixon administration’s trouble finding Frantz’s replacement; Marietta Brooks; assembling an advisory board for his
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and '68? H: I wouldn't say that, but I would say this. Wasn't it after Lyndon became President that Bobby resigned as Attorney General? B: Yes, sir. H: Yes. And went to New York and, by golly, got elected senator from New York. That was quite
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 1 (I), 6/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in spite of the fact that where he came from, New York bankers in particular were generally hated and condemned because of foreclosing on mortgages and doing all kinds of things during the Depression years. In other words, it was an ambivalent feeling
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to contract with a New York company, and they provided us with a great number of teleprompters. Now, these were heavy, very heavy things to haul around. There are generally three things that looked like podiums that sat out in front of him and through a piece
to Mexico for LBJ to see a ranch, Las Pampas, he was thinking of buying; LBJ’s growing passion for secrecy; WHCA staff working as farmhands at the Ranch; LBJ’s resentment of Secret Service; LBJ’s radio system in Texas; the New York City blackout; gadgets
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, 1969 INTERVIEHEE: CHARLES FRA11ZEL INTERVIEWER: PAIGE HULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Frankel's office at Columbia University, NeH York City Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by identifying you. You're Charles Frankel, and your government position during
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

as I recall. E: Yes sir, there was. Wayne Morse and Senator (Herbert) Lehman from New York opposed me, and I had Lyndon's support all the way. F: Now you had seniority, as far as seniority was concerned you were definitely in line. But you have
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Was he the kind that would second-guess you? S: No, not too bad. He liked to have his way and all, but that's natural. Well, he had made the contacts about the witnesses, you see, and we had a very able lawyer in New York that was quite helpful and he
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ruby G. Martin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

?" In the North the move toward black schools, I think, is because people are giving up on integration. the schools in Harlem! How are you going to integrate Particularly when white parents are protesting! Look at all the suits that white parents in New York
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Thurgood Marshall, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

at the beckoning of one person. Secondly, it was a $4500 cut in salary. Third, the living expenses in Washington would be twice what I was paying in New York. So she said okay. We kept thinking about it, and the next day the phone rang. He was on the phone again. I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

wanted to see him immediately on this aluminum situation. The man was over there on business. The president of Reynolds Aluminum Company rushed back to New York and called Califano to see when the President wanted to see him and where. Califano's only
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was, believe it or not, by Alexander Jackson Downing . And Alexander Jackson Downing was a landscape architect who lived on the Hudson, up ; north of New York City . He was very young but very bright and he believed in the fundamental principle of the English
-and Merrill; Hirshborn Museum; Lady Bird’s intellectual curiosity; New Mexico Church of Los Trampos.
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that if one were sitting in Washington and reading the newspaper every day, the Washington Post, the New York Times and so on, I think the conclusion would have been inescapable that the Vietnam problem as seen by the LBJ Presidential Library http
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McCarthy -- I -- 20 M: We had Goodell of New York and we had [Albert] Quie and we had what's his
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Get him." So I went hunting for Joe Zimmerman. All I had was the name. Found him in New York. Got him on the phone. G: I show November 16 in my-- C: No, he came down for a meeting we had on the thirteenth, on a Saturday. G: I see, yes. C: I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

Anyhow, we became good friends and she [Bernstein] was a very fine lawyer. Later she became the Regional Attorney in New York, which did not have the same status, of course, but her husband [Bernard Bernstein], who had been in the service during the war
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of Idaho, who was appointed to the SEC --- you see, there was a big story in the New York Times that 50 per cent of the staff of the SEC was going to resign if Hamer Budge was confirmed. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

you Why did you acquire a place in Virginia? Did you just like the country, or would it bring you near Washington? B: Back in those days, you traveled by DC-3's . If you got hung up in New York or Washington on Friday and you had to be back
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and Califano really thought about the price-quote program. Bill [Blair] put it on the front page of the New York Times the next morning. G: What was LBJ's reaction to-that? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

that Kennedy left for Dallas? T: Yes. And my husband went with him. M: And you stayed here? T: I was here with some guests from New York and Washington. I told him that I would join him the next night in Austin. I was going up by private plane with some

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. This happened on two specific occasions, I can recall, concerning Vietnam mail. Such newspapers as the New York Times and the Washington Post also became quite interested in late '66 and early '67 on the specifics of Vietnam mail. They wanted to know
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

journalistic consequence. It wasn't even the kind of thing you could file as a "Gee, editors back in New York, I met a fascinating man the other night while I was on a story, and let me tell you about him . . . • " It wasn't even that, it was just
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 5 (V), 8/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

come from all over. Special trains had come in early that morning from Detroit and Chicago and New York, and so on. They demonstrated on the Capitol steps. them but they stood there chanting, 11 We were ordered to move 1 shall not, I shall
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was a frequent occurrence, I'm satisfied. My wife wrote Walter Jenkins a letter when he was in the hospital. The President called me in the late afternoon following the arrest and he said, "Is it true?" I knew what he was talking about. He was in New York
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 6 (VI), 8/18/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, 1972 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE E. LEVINSON INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Mr. Levinson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 F: Tell us about the grand life on the presidential yacht, the Sequoia. L: Right. I was going to give you a summary
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of superi or; ty. I thought lithe acti on" was with China and Japan, and this post-colonial appendage was of no interest to us. It had been badly mauled by the French and indescribably badly managed by the French, and the last thing in the world 'tIe
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

: The nickname "Chub" came to me at Groton School from the junior headmaster Jared Billings, who had given it to my father when he was at the school some twenty-five years earlier. On me it stuck because all the new boys thought that was my name, when he called
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

issue unfortunately It cost the Republicans a lot of votes in New York State and in many others. However, in Kentucky and Tennessee, I'd have to say that the issue worked for the Republicans in those states. Mr. Johnson couldn't offset that. F: You
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was any different at the end than he was in the first place~ different than Johnson's. His whole style of leadership was quite I think Mansfield looked upon the leader ship as somewhat of a moral post. In his mind, the leader was some body
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

/show/loh/oh 12 Mrs. Maverick could tell you more about that than I could of the various ones. And Maury then was constantly making speeches to this group, or to press clubs--he went to New York to meet Dorothy Thompson and her group, and I

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

; Captain Campbell as I recall, from New York was. the capta;,n 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://discoverlbj.org
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

looked forward to, very much. Old friends from New York like Ed Weisl would come down, or from Texas; Ed Clark was a frequent visitor and the Browns. And of course the Mayor [Tom Miller] was on the phone to us all the time. The Texas Ladies Luncheon
of the country's rubber plants; a trip to New York City with LBJ's relatives; Warren Woodward and Horace Busby joining LBJ's staff; Soviet control of the occupation zone in Germany; LBJ's first television appearance and why he was a less effective speaker
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 2 (II), 11/9/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in time and then ran them back home as though they had occurred at the same time. We caught them on that one. G: Who was responsible for that, do you know? P: After our investigation, we decided that it was in the New York editor's office. The people
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Johnson, The Houston Post was supporting because he was a Houstonian, and I was a cousin of Governor Hobby's and just extremely devoted to him . And Johnson felt that one of the reporters on the paper, at least one of the editors, not the Hobbys
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 2 (II), 3/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on that o F: Can you think of anything specific? S: I guess I really can't. There was something about some deal in New York, but I'm dadgummed if I can remember what it was. I remember the President had me talk to Shriver, and then Shriver came back
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Goerge just looks different than anybody else. G: After the convention, as you said, you worked with the Johnson end of the campaign. Can you recall which trips you advanced? L: I can't remember too many of them. G: There was one in New York. L
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

people would even go so far as to cut out chunks of the telephone book. or course, it was easy enough in the morning, because you had the Washington Post, the New York Times , the Congressional Record , the Federal Register, and then whatever memoranda
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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