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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 37 (XXXVII), 11/14/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 14, 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: Well why don't you start with a general introduction of how this particular merger reflected
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Oral history transcript, Inez Hughes, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • with here at the college was going with one of the professors at Baylor. So one evening we were in the library and she said, "Inez, do you think there's really anything wrong about my going with Ben Condray [Benjamin Franklin Condray, Jr.]?"--she was wearing
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Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • -- 2 down to see McCormack in his office on the Hill. I said, "John, I understand you've said no to Jim Rowe. John, I'm down here to tell you that if you don't stand in we'll have a great deal of trouble. Because you are who you are and have a unique
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Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://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 4 and seeing that their needs were taken care of. So, I was decorated, as I say
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  • Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Raymond L. Telles, Jr.
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 2 (II), 6/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • up to that commitment, because Wilbur Cohen, of course, having replaced John Gardner, went through extraordinary lengths to see to it 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
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  • Lodge, Jr., as Nixon's running mate.
Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1984 INTERVIEWEE: SPURGEON H. NEEL, JR. INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: General Neel's office, San Antonio, Texas Tape 1 of 1 N: In 1951, I was surgeon of the 82nd Airborne Division as a major, and Lieutenant Colonel [William] Westmoreland
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  • Neel, Spurgeon H., Jr.
  • Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 50 (L), 7/19/1989, 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: This is August of 1965. In August of 1965, as we were--the HEW [Department
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Oral history transcript, Anthony Buford, interview 1 (I), 6/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • died, Lyndon was going to run for Congress. I think there were two or three of them running. Of course, I was very much for Lyndon and did everything in our power, although living in Missouri, to get him elected. G: Let's see, that was in 1937 he ran
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 32 (XXXII), 7/12/1988, 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 G: --that series of visits [you made] to university campuses in 1966. This was really a departure from
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 55 (LV), 9/13/1989, 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: We had some concern about financing, because we were worried about
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Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ., Jack Staples, Pressler [?]. Now let's see. I think Clayton, Jr. died. He was an attorney and rather prominent. And Jack Staples had a job with the government, regional director in the Post Office in Dallas, and knew Lady Bird all the way through. I
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Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Was there ever any hint in those years that some members of the Kennedy staff would not particularly like to see Lyndon Johnson have too much power? H: I don't recall that at the time. I just felt, as an observer
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  • Hardeman, D. Barnard, Jr., 1914-1981
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 11/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 15, 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: You sent the President a memo on November 21 [1966] outlining Stuart Saunders' claims
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 63 (LXIII), 4/17/1990, 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 G: With regard to the [Abe] Fortas nomination [as chief justice
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Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 5 (V), 4/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEES: WILTON AND VIRGINIA WOODS (with comments by Wilton Woods, Jr.) INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: The Woods' residence, Seguin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Woods, I understand that you drove to Washington in 1939 with the Johnsons. W
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 52 (LII), 8/15/1989, 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 G: In the 1966 Minimum Wage Bill it appears that one of the first tasks-(Interruption) --it appears
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Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . H: That's right. But Johnson never was a captive of the southern bloc. He was trying to be a captain of them, rather than a captive. You see, being a Roosevelt New Dealer and being a protege of Sam Rayburn, he obviously couldn't be a real
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Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 6 (VI), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • L. Gillette PLACE: Kozy Korner Restaurant, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Why is the Mineral Wells speech--? B: Well, see, what was going on in this period in. . . . G: This was October, 1949; Halloween, almost. B
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  • Allen Duckworth selling a picture of LBJ and visiting the LBJ Ranch, Ted Dealey's statements regarding LBJ, visiting Hyannis Port with LBJ to see JFK, a flood at the LBJ Ranch during a Busby family visit
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 27 (XXVII), 12/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • getting into Washington [D.C.] early in the morning and calling Lillian. We were way up in northwest Washington. The riots never got that far. Lillian was telling me what a strange thing it was to go out of the house and walk down the street and see
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  • Reedy’s return to LBJ’s staff; preparations for 1968 campaign; March 31, 1968 speech, Washington riots; assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy; Reedy’s book on the presidency; maritime strike; Sam Houston; last year of LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 33 (XXXIII), 6/13/1988, 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 G: Okay . . . C: --take over beautification. G: That's a good place to start. Do you remember
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 31 (XXXI), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR., with comments by Marcel Bryar INTERVIEWER: Michael Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: On the topic of poverty let's start from your perspective in the Defense
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 39 (XXXIX), 12/20/1988, 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 G: Generally, any insights on his attitude towards India? C: The President, at whatever point he got
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Oral history transcript, A. Ross Eckler, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • at that time he had with him Mr. Hobart Taylor [Jr.]. The Vice President, I think, impressed all of us with his sincere devotion to the cause of equal opportunity and civil rights. I was impressed with his directness and support of that program which
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  • First association with LBJ; Hobart Taylor, Jr.; 1965 Civil Rights Act; Richard Scammon; Andrew Brimmer; promotion of civil servants into appointed posts; referrals; special surveys; Congressional intervention; right of privacy issue; mailout
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • see, I didn't identify it as that. Yes. I was on my way back from Minnesota, the planes were stacked up over Washington due to congestion in the airport. It was a tight vote, and Majority Leader Johnson felt he needed my vote. He stalled the debate
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 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: Yes. You were talking about the involvement of Wayne Morse. C: The President called him or told me
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 28 (XXVIII), 4/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1988 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 G: One question on Model Cities that I neglected-- C: Okay, go ahead
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 51 (LI), 8/14/1989, 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 C: In connection with the [Civil Rights Act] Title VI guidelines that were issued for the school year l966
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Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . But it seemed that somewhere along the line someone had taken the trouble to see what I had done in the reserve, and my background at Columbia University in history and political science, and they sent me out to the Army Intelligence School at Fort Riley
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Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [William McChesney, Jr.] Martin in which we agreed that because of the impending cost escalation for the Vietnam War, there should be an income tax surtax proposal, I advanced reasons for the necessity of such a proposal, as I recall it, at a cabinet
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 47 (XLVII), 6/13/1989, 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: At some point I recommended and put in a presidential statement, either a signing statement
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Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 12 (XII), 4/25/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on that. George Brown was Do you have any recollection at all of that commission's work and whether or not it influenced LBJ's thinking? J: No, I don't, to be honest. G: Okay. Let's see who else was on it. William Paley, George Brown, Eric 2 LBJ
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Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was in the Senate, all the time he was vice president, and, neces­ sarily, I saw much less of him after he became president. But I did see him both professionally and personally at times when he was president. F: Let's bril!g your career on up to date and get
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 43 (XLIII), 3/28/1989, 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: As we were trying to draw to some kind of consensus, the President
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 23 (XXIII), 3/15/1988, 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: At some point in the 1964 campaign when [Barry] Goldwater was attacking Johnson and [Robert
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 34 (XXXIV), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 19, 1988 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 G: Okay, let's start with the airline strike, [by the] machinists
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 41 (XLI), 1/18/1989, 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: --while it's in my head. When the President went on his trip to Southeast Asia on October 17, 1966
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Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Wild as a matter of fact. Claude Jr. and I were very good friends and my wife and I would see Mr. and Mrs. Wild [Sr.] periodically when we were in Austin. Mr. Johnson had wanted to speak to this group. Mr. Wild said Of course, the rumors were
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: What I must have done is called Vickie [McCammon McHugh Murphy] at some point that morning to ask him
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Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • about that time? T: Let me see--I don't recall when I first met Mr. Johnson. was sometime later. My guess--it I think probably I really didn't meet him until LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
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  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would like to meet him, but I've never met him." He said, "I'll arrange it, and he's here in December if you're interested." I got a call one day at my apartment, and Bill said, "The Congressman can see you"--I think in a day or two. I went down
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  • Weber, Otto, J., Jr., 7/12/1920-6/5/2010