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  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh O'Brien -- Interview I -- 5 boy, this has got to be it. But see, Lyndon Johnson
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  • , yes. I came her in 1968. H: I see, the very last part of '68. P: That's right. From Atlanta. I resigned the editorship of the Constitution to take this job in Washington. H: During this career, sir, when did you first have any
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  • of the organization of conservation and natural beauty; Laurance Rockefeller, of course. Now let's see, who else was there? Ken Galbraith was a member of the task force, but he did not show up at this meeting. F: Did Edgar Kaiser, Jr. work with you on this? I know
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  • Haar, Charles M.
  • Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Charles M. Haar
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR., with comments by Marcel Bryar INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: --but we ought to get him on while I think of it. On Monday, April 4, Rod Markley
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  • foreign economic assistance These countries don't want Communism or any other totalitarian ideology . They're much more likely to be with us than the Russians on these things . want a better break . They just They want to see their resources used
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  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: JAMES M. NABRIT (Tape #1) INTERVIEWER: STEPHEN GOODELL More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
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  • appointments; black attitudes toward LBJ; Hobart Taylor, Jr.; RFK, Truman, Humphrey and John Macy; Nabrit’s switch to Democratic Party in 1964; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party’s seating fight at 1964 Convention; advising President on civil rights
  • Nabrit, James M.
  • Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell
  • James M. Nabrit
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES H. ROWE, JR. INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Rowe's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: We were talking last time about the election of 1956, and I thought today we would go on forward chronologically
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  • Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
  • James H. Rowe, Jr.
  • fifties on, did you see much of the relationship between Rayburn and Johnson? H: Yes. Of course, I saw only a small part of it. over quite frequently to Rayburn's office. Johnson would come Rayburn would only very rarely go over to Johnson's office
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  • Hardeman, D. Barnard, Jr., 1914-1981
  • Johnson, it was then that I met Lyndon for the first time. Lyndon went down to talk to Kl eberg, and K1 eberg and Maury were friends, and as I said it was then that I remember seeing Lyndon as a young, young person. or '32--say 1930 though. I thought I
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  • heard about the NYA starting up, and Maury Maverick, who was a congressman in San Antonio, was, I think, a close friend of Lyndon's. Maury was quite a guy, and Maury told me to go on up to see Lyndon, so I did just that, to Austin. I think the NYA had
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  • on his way down to Corpus Christi to accept his first big assignment job with Congressman Richard M. Kleberg. Congressman Kleberg asked him to stop by and meet us, and he stayed all night in our home. C: Were you publishing then? F: Yes sir, fifty
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  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Palmer -- I -- 2 G: So you had not assumed command of the airborne corps. P: No. G: I see. P: There was Kay, sitting in Quarters One. (Laughter) And a fellow named Jim Lawrie, commander
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  • , 1968 INTERVIEHEE: WARREN M. CHRISTOPHER INTERVIEWER: THO~IAS PLACE: Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. H. BAKER Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, there is one whole area here involving urban disorders, the major city riots, which I believe you've been
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  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
  • , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Subversive Activities Control Board. C: The decisions of the Supreme Court and changing times
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  • was for Roosevelt?" I said, "Yes, he sure is. He's for Roosevelt; he's supporting him across the board. All the rest of them are not." So he said, "Get him up here. I want to see him and talk to him and see if I can't help him." So I got in touch with him and he
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  • and people in the oil industry; LBJ's campaigns against Hardy Hollers and Buck Taylor; the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947; how LBJ was offered a position on the House Naval Affairs Committee; attending the funeral for LBJ's father, Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr.; Billie Sol
  • the publishers]? L: Oh, Sam Fore, Jr. was number one. G: He'd known him from the Kleberg days, I guess, Did you see much of him during those days? L: Yes. I didn't see him much during the NYA program. When they got around to the political campaign, why
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  • � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE : Kenneth M . Birkhead (Tape #2) INTERVIEWER : T . H . Baker DATE January 13, 1970 Ba
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  • [For interviews 1 and 2] First meeting with LBJ in 1948; Thomas C. Henning, Jr.; Joseph R. McCarthy; Senator Earle Clements; Senate Campaign Committee; Walter Jenkins; George Reedy; John Connally; Eisenhower inauguration; LBJ's organization
  • Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker
  • Kenneth M. Birkhead
  • entir~ly with the different candidates: McGovern, and Humphrey. Seems to me like there was 'one can't particularly recall right now. McCarthy, m~re that I I thought there were four. F: I can't remember, now, who it was. S: But what I did
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  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
  • Charlie was confirmed the next day, without any hearings. So Charlie, he and I were never real close, because I had--well, we were good friends, still are. this, because this is funny. In 1952--you see, it fits in like I think I told you, didn't I, about
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  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 15 I rcn:cr.,ocr buck t iJC m;}int:.:incd consto.nt conto.ct through the radio on the airplane the :"li te HO,lSC to see Here the:: ivin~s coming
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  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
  • children. L: Yes. G: I see. Her Her mother's family had lived 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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  • on the force now. This man told me he came in Truman's time, so he didn't see anything of me, except if I went to the White House. F: Well, we'll get started then. When did you first meet the Johnsons? T: I've been trying to think of that. when I was up
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  • a bust of FDR to LBJ and receiving a bust of LBJ; 1955 Democratic Women’s Club meeting in San Antonio; JFK’s invitation for Tully to come to the White House to see if his desk was the same one used by FDR.
  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: You were talking about the atmosphere of the-- C: Yes. I remember going over to the [Capitol
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  • , and specia lizatio n was ve!Y rare indeed . A few ~ple li~e ·"Chip" [Charl es E.] Bohlen and Eddie [Edwar d, Jr ·. ] Page decid~d at an early date that they wanted to specia lize in Russia n affair s. A few I people decide d they wanted to langua
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  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: I was meeting with [Robert] McNamara, [Nicholas] Katzenbach, [John] Douglas, [Henry] Fowler, [John
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  • been others, but I don't remember. G: I see. D: It was sort of to get the ball rolling. G: What precisely were you given to do in that position? D: Well, the first place, I have to confess I knew nothing about anything. I knew zero. G
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  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- IV -- 4 sunrise. I think we wanted to see the sunrise over the city. The meals, of course, were lots of courses and very fancy. Oh, yes, there were some friends on there. M. D. Bryant from
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  • I NTERV I El~EE: ~JAL TER I NTERV I El·JER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Dr. Frantz' office in Garrison Hall, University of Texas, Austin, Texas. HORNADAY Tape 1 of 1 F: First of all, i-Jr. Hornaday, tell us very briefly about yourself. Are you
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  • to the Vietnam plank. This was the core problem. I felt it desirable to go to Chicago before the convention began, and in fact, got there about a week early to see whether a consensus could be worked out. Before I got there, I had a copy of a recent speech
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  • flexible; Humphrey's personality and how it changed during the convention: Humphrey's loyalty to LBJ and frustration over the situation; why John F. Kennedy beat Humphrey in West Virginia in 1960; 1960 opposition from Franklin Roosevelt, Jr., and meetings
  • Johnson was smarter, and as I recall it he was much more vocal . of Sam Rayburn in terms of his mentor . I did not think I was very impressed with Sam Rayburn, loved him, but I did not see that mentorstudent bit even then . G. Was there any deference
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  • of the Appalachian region on the other side. was under Franklin Roosevelt, Jr., who was then under secretary of Commerce. [He] was the head of the federal side. It LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
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  • to Washington with the initial term of Richard M. Kleberg, who had been elected to Congress from Corpus Christi . That had at one time been part of the same congressional district with San Antonio . They had split off this Nueces County with sev­ eral other
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  • Brown, Russell M.
  • Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Russell M. Brown
  • the United States and Brazil, except the ordinary routine problems, such as problems of the coffee agreement and things like that which are of an international nature and on which we not always agreed, but which it was our fortune to see solved without
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  • class, and after I quit it, and he quit it, well, the professor told me that I wasn't flunking it but old Seth was. Well, Seth, he got thrown out of college and we didn't see any more of him, but he was a fine man and of course he had a real fine
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  • nice. It was fine to see all these people that had such a hard time back in a very depressing time, [to see] that most of them evolved into pretty good citizens. Not leftists, you know. Most of them have the right perspective. They're law-abiding
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  • against it, because [Harlan] Fentress--at that time I think that Bill Anderson and some of the others were running the paper. Let's see, what \vas the man's name that had-G: Charlie Marsh? J: Charlie Marsh, yes. He talked to Charlie Marsh. Charlie
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  • in the Department of Justice, and told them who I was and why I was, So to speak. F: I thin'~ we hit everybody in the Department of Justice---at least Assistant Secre ta:..-y up, and qui te a number of others--Ed Heis 1 Jr. So I feel that itJs myoId stomping
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  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Fleming -- I -- 2 Currier, [and] my board members. We were interested, but we didn't see anything startling about this, and there really wasn't. It was an updating of E. Franklin Frazier, that's what it was, though it, as we now know
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  • groups; Martin Luther King Jr.'s lack of involvement in the conference; A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin's alternate "freedom" budget; involvement of major civil rights organizations and leaders in the conference; recommendations that came out
  • , 1989 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR., with comments by Marcel Bryar INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: [My] recollection is as vivid as the one I had on the first briefing
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  • in Karnack, didn't he? W: Kuehne? A: Kuehne? W: Yes, he probably did because I think Mrs. Kuehne was--no, let's see, she wasn't related in any waY,was she? A: No, she was a Glass. W: That's right. But he was a well-known architect and a very
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