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Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • friendship to Lyndon, and Lyndon was then running for the vice presidency. When he came through in 1960 I got on the plane--let's see, it was an old Electra--and we were campaigning all over the South. At a certain point late in the evening, he said
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Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : Was that the way it turned out? P: That was the way it turned out. That was a disappointment to me. I remember when I was called over to see the President and he asked me to take the job, there'sa couple of anterooms outside the Oval Office. I was waiting
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  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the Peace Corps. I was writing some speeches for him on the Peace Corps and doing some traveling with him. I did go to see the Vice President and asked if he could help me get a deferral from active duty, at least until I finished my graduate studies
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Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the assassination of President Kennedy November, 1963. While I always most friendly to him, I really didn't see President Johnson from the time of s campaign for re-election in 1964 until about February, 1968, when named my son, John, Jr., to membership
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 53 (LIII), 8/16/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1989 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR., with comment by Marcel Bryar INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: Some time in either late 1965, probably early 1966, when we were
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Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 2 (II), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • "Chicago incident" on withholding funds, I thought you might be interested in seeing a copy of the enclosed letter to the Johnson Library. ~ aTrs. Carter Burden Ro!>crt L. Carter ~~Irs. A!1~honY' r"rrii. Raymond Z. Yahs. Jr. ._. !'.frs. John B. Q3kes J
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Oral history transcript, Lloyd Bentsen, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • not see the candidates until the night John Kennedy came to Houston. Unfortunately I was scheduled out of the state at a board meeting of a company and could not be there for it and had to receive word [of it]. I remember President Johnson called my home
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  • Oral history transcript, Lloyd Bentsen, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Lloyd Bentsen, Jr.
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 3 (III), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES H. ROWE, JR. INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Rowe's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch for December 15, 1966, has an article on page 28A by Richard Dudman, which throws some
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  • Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 3 (III), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
  • James H. Rowe, Jr.
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1982 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES H. ROWE, JR. INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Rowe's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Now, from the memos, at least, your work on the 1968 campaign began in 1967. R: I think so. Yes. G: You were
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  • Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
  • James H. Rowe, Jr.
Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: HODDING CAR TER, JR. INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
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  • Carter, Hodding, Jr.
  • Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker
  • Hodding Carter, Jr.
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 61 (LXI), 1/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1990 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: As we came out of the Congress, we had the Senate bill which
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Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 President Kennedy answered, "I just do not think this is the time; I do not see anything in this coming session of Congress." It, needless to say, was an occasion of disappointment to Mr. Wilkins
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Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1977 INTERVIEWEE: LUTHER E. JONES, JR. INTERVln~ER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Corpus Christi, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: One thing that you didn't mention in that earlier tape that I'm going to ask you to recall is the first time that you met Lyndon
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  • Jones, Luther Edward, Jr., 1914-1999
  • Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Luther E. Jones, Jr.
Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOHN E. LYLE, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Congressman Lyle's office, Houston, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: I want to begin by asking you to sketch very briefly your background and explain how you first came to be associated
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  • Lyle, John E., Jr.
  • Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
  • John E. Lyle, Jr.
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 5 (V), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JAMES H. ROWE, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Rowe's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: I want to ask you about a series of things that LBJ was involved in when he was a congressman. Perhaps some of them you will have
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  • Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 5 (V), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
  • James H. Rowe, Jr.
Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • drums, see the war clouds It \'las almost inevitable that my generation, again, \'lOuld be plunged intowar. I decided, then, I think, that the best thing a fellow might do with his life \'JOuld be to try to get in the field of public service
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  • Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
  • James C. Wright, Jr.
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: EDWIN L. WEISL JR. INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
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  • Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Edwin L. Weisl, Jr.
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: Hobart Taylor, Jr. (Tape #1) INTERVIEWER: Stephen Goodell DATE January 6, 1969 G: More on LBJ
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  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
  • Taylor, Hobart, Jr., 1920-1981
  • Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell
  • Hobart Taylor, Jr.
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 42 (XLII), 2/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1989 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: --that through the end of August [Henry "Joe"] Fowler was still opposed to suspending the investment
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Oral history transcript, George Hartzog, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/20/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE HARTZOG, JR. INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
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  • Oral history transcript, George Hartzog, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/20/1968, by Joe B. Frantz
  • George Hartzog, Jr.
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 46 (XLVI), 5/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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: We also felt a strong sense of obligation to go after labor because mostly we were
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Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with me, he can get in touch with me ." McCormack turned to Rayburn and he- said, "I won't be seeing Jack Kennedy, but Tom will deliver the message ." McCormack, by the way, was LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
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  • Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr.
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: EDWIN WEISL JR. (Tape #2) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
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  • Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz
  • Edwin L. Weisl, Jr.
Oral history transcript, Otis Arnold Singletary, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • right down to any specifics. He wanted to see whether he was interested in you and whether you had any interest in what they were doing. I went back a second time. This must have been in bout October of '64. F: You were named on October 21
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  • Oral history transcript, Otis Arnold Singletary, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Otis Arnold Singletary, Jr.
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 48 (XLVIII), 6/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 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: In the time of the riots in Washington for [Martin Luther] King [Jr
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 54 (LIV), 9/11/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 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 2, Side 1 G: Do you recall the extent to which the traffic safety legislation
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Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1974 INTERVIEWEE: WILLIAM H. JORDAN, JR. INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: U. S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of I G: This is an interview with Mr. William H. Jordan, Jr. in the Conference Room of the Senate Appropriations Committee
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  • Jordan, William H., Jr.
  • Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
  • William H. Jordan, Jr.
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 49 (XLIX), 7/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1989 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: Harding Lawrence was the head of Braniff Airlines. And Lawrence wanted an international route going
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 40 (XL), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: The more I reflect on what happened in 1965, the more it seems to me that the combination
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 59 (LIX), 1/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1990 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR., with comments from Marcel Bryar INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Do you want to start generally with a discussion of the President's
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Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 8 (VIII), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Jr. and the riots here in Washington. Tell me about that. Is that a vivid memory in your--? C: Well, the riots are a vivid memory in that at that time--of course, working in the legislative branch, we were entitled to keep our home state plates
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  • involving Vietnam; the riots in Washington, D.C., following Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death; Robert F. Kennedy's death and his personality; Abe Fortas' nomination as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; the 1968 presidential election; George Wallace's
Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LAWSON B. KNOTT, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Knott's home, Arlington, Virginia Tape 1 of 2 G: Let's start just briefly by asking you to trace your background to a certain extent and explain how you evolved
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  • Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Lawson B. Knott, Jr.
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 29 (XXIX), 5/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Press indicates that you'd received no advanced word from Bethlehem [Steel Corporation] regarding their five
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Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But when LBJ came, you see, he was, from my viewpoint, the gifted southern politician, gifted like Russell, different than Russell.Russell in many ways might have been even a better president than LBJ. That is not to say that he would have been
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  • nominee for the 1960 election; Robert B. Troutman, Jr. and his disagreements with LBJ; how Abram met LBJ; LBJ and civil rights legislation; Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report on the black family; White House Conference on Civil Rights and Moynihan’s
Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 K: He would, of course, naturally go see the executives, but he'd walk through the newsroom and try and meet the people. course at that stage he was trying pretty hard
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  • Skelton; LBJ’s acceptance of VP; covered VP while in Austin; move of press from Austin to San Antonio; Eastern press; post-Presidential press conference; John Connally’s dissatisfaction for some of LBJ’s policy; off the record meetings; Sam Kinch, Jr
Oral history transcript, A. Phillip Randolph, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Wilkins [of the NAACP]; Mr. Whitney Young, Jr., National Director of the National Urban League; Walter Reuther, President of the UAW;-- B: Would Dr. King have been there? R: Dr. [Martin Luther] King, Jr., was there, and a number of others--I don't
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 57 (LVII), 12/12/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 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: --in connection with the surcharge. G: This is a meeting
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Oral history transcript, Otto Lindig, interview 1 (I), 3/1965, by Jessie Hunter (Item)
  • : Is that correct? Yes, in 1919 we had the biggest cotton crop we ever did have in Gillespie County. Lyndon was at home and I still see him coming to the cotton gin with a bale of raw cotton. He had it ginned, barefooted. I don't think he wore shoes before he
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  • ; Sam Johnson as Justice of the Peace; dances; Lady Bird; political support for LBJ; family history of Sam Ealy Johnson Sr. and Sam Ealy Johnson Jr.; childhood and school days of LBJ; LBJ as a teacher; history of LBJ’s career.
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. (Joe) Carter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , for some time during the whole Johnson Administration, had not been as efficient an organization as it should be. Did you see any signs of that? C; I think that the worst complaint I heard about the Democratic National Committee was that staff members
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  • Biographical information; day of JFK's assassination; Jim Jones; Marvin Watson; 1968 campaign; Marty Hauan; Will Sparks; DNC; George Christian; Mike Monroney, Jr.; advance work and trips to Honolulu and Huntington, West Virginia; Whitney Shoemaker
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Koeniger -- I -- 6 K: Well, on the several times that I visited in the home with him, I never did see him scold the children. He was agreeable to every- thing. G: Was he a raconteur? Did he tell political stories? K: Most
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