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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to see Grandmother was always a part of it. She lived in a very simple farmhouse, where actually she lived for more than eighty-five years, having four husbands, thirteen children, and watching twelve of them grow up. That was a matter of great interest
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  • Lady Bird Johnson's paternal grandmother; Mrs. Johnson's father, Thomas Jefferson Taylor, Jr., and his childhood; Mr. Taylor's move from Alabama to Texas and setting up his business; the Pattillo family and Mrs. Johnson's parents' marriage; Mrs
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 60 (LX), 1/17/1990, 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 2, Side 1 C: I sent the President the cable of April 24, 1967, at 9:45 p.m
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, 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: --I don't really know, unless you've got specific stuff. I think that's inaccurate. G: Okay
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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 23 indeed, but you can just look your best with a small enough effort. The effort to get Tom Miller, Jr., into OCS took me to see Jim Rowe and Tom Corcoran and just about everybody I could think of. Maybe next to Bergstrom it was one of the great
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  • with the press, specifically newspapers; LBJ's interest in Lady Bird Johnson's appearance; Lady Bird Johnson's efforts to get Tom Miller, Jr., into Officer Candidates School; time LBJ spent with Ed Weisl while in California in the navy; Lady Bird Johnson's
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • before this, there had been some kind of gas-filled balloon sent up in the sky, very high in orbit, on which there had been great advertising that you could see. Actually you could see that balloon across the sky. That night there had been a rumor
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  • that powerful politicians have of their staff; FDR's relationship with Raymond Moley; Leland Olds; Corcoran's work with LBJ through James H. Rowe, Jr.; Senator Theodore Green's advice to LBJ regarding LBJ giving up the majority leadership for the vice presidency
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1989 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR., with comments by Marcel Bryar INTERVIEWER: Mike Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: On July 18 [1966] at the meeting of the Labor-Management Advisory Committee
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, 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: On May 21, I and Larry Levinson met with Jerry Grinstein who
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Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to that, I had some minor involvement in seeing to it and getting the assurance of the unions that they woul d not in any V,JaY interfere with the carri age of mi 1itary cargo, which they pledged and met that pledge. F: Now in July you had a railroad
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  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • did tell him I was Senator Kerr's manager . F: Did you see him after that? B: I saw him after that just on occasion . I would be with Senator Kerr while Senator Kerr was managing a bill or something and sit ting in the Senate or managing
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, 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 C: Before the aluminum price increase in September [1965] as part of the annual budget process, I
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 21, 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 C: We'll just get in the record, then we can go on. On July 20
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: JOE 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 C: After the report was issued, the management [of the airlines] accepted
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 17 (XVII), 1/5/1988, 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: We might begin our discussion of the Selective Service situation by asking you of your involvement
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Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • there are some questions involved in there that are not answered, at least on the public record. Did you see anything then of Mr. Johnson during the years that he was Vice President? R: Yes, I saw him several times, I think a couple of times when delegations
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  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
  • the JFK assassination; Civil Rights Bill of 1964; campaigning for LBJ in 1964; organization of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; introducing Martin Luther King, Jr. to the concept of non-violence; a King-Powell episode regarding Rustin
Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , of course they epitomized the other extreme of hiring kids fresh out of college, out of journalism school, at working them real to cover too much . hard, always cutting corners on low salaries, staffing and trying You can see I'm not a fan of UPI
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, 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 C: Do you know how we hired Hugh Robinson? G: No. C: When I was in the Pentagon, Jack Valenti
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Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • see him As I said, it was a small political world. Austin then was divided into three groups: the downtown business and social group, the college group, and the Capitol political group. And I was still being a Mario Savio on the campus, although I
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  • Hardeman, D. Barnard, Jr., 1914-1981
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of it in his guest box up there, and still had it look like a guest list. F: He even had Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. He probably wondered what he was doing there, but he was there .. Did you see much of him during the vice presidential years? W: No. F: Was he
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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 14 (XIV), 9/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • O'Daniel on the courthouse square in Marshall. It's fascinating to study the faces of the voters. They're all so intense and they're sizing you up. It's just like a stage play. You can just see them there sort of like a Greek chorus, just figuring you out
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Oral history transcript, Ben Crider, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • he, we called it run around or chased around with older boys was because Lyndon was more mature than anyone his age in Blanco County. B: Oh, I see. C: The young boys just didn't entertain him. He wanted to be with older boys and he always went
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Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ' secretary, in hopes of seeing Jenkins when Mr. Johnson arrived in the office. my first introduction to the Senator. meeting in this respect: ~Jr. I believe that was But I think it was an important right off the bat he invited me to come in and sit down
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Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • also, that a minimum wage law in that small industry would not be easy to achieve. The king of the pecan merchants came to see me a few weeks later and brought his secretary along--probably to make a record of what I said and what the king of pecan
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  • First meeting LBJ; the invocation at LBJ's inauguration; Chancellor Kiesinger of Germany; Hugo Black; Harry Jersig; the National Advisory Council for OEO; Sargent Shriver; Maury Maverick, Jr.; 1967 trip to South Vietnam to observe national elections
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 3 (III), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --to one of the offices that had been functioning there for President Kennedy to see if they had any of the green azure paper. F: That's what that shade is. R: Azure is what they call it. live always just called it green. We of course didn't know what
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Oral history transcript, NYA Interview, group interview 1 (I), 1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • comments on this latter point? r think this political point is probably the most interesting poi.nt. D: Why don't we stop at this point and see if we've got anything here? W: That's a good idea. Let's see. Now we are back on tape, gentlemen. Would you
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  • Little, Charles Pemberton, Jr., 1911-1992
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 2 (II), 7/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Woods narrow in [on] Bobby Troutman, which is exactly what the committee's minutes reflect. When the question came down to reviewing whether they were going to have a single staff, whether it was going to be a composite, single committee operation--see
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  • by Arthur Goldberg to honor Vice President LBJ; Hobart Taylor, Jr.; refusing to relax the EE requirements as a political favor; Donald Cook; John Wheeler; Silliman Evans; public utilities' exemption from executive order; cutting off Houston Light and Power
Oral history transcript, Joe W. Fleming II, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , if you could, to describe, as you see it, the origins of the program of the commission, the kind of concerns that generated it, and so on. F: Fine. I think in a very direct way the origin of the program can be ascribed to the West Virginia prlmary
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  • [For interviews 1 and 2] JFK campaign in West Virginia; decline of coal use after WWII; unemployment; national press on Appalachia; Mike Feldman; Ted Sorenson; Franklin Roosevelt, Jr.; public law 89-4 in 1965; Highway System first authority vested
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 2 (II), 12/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • speak to that. See, this is a situation where he was not, obviously, coming in the office. He was not writing us any kind of informational letters. He was talking on the telephone occasionally and often to Lady Bird, I'm sure, but not to us much
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  • Weber, Otto, J., Jr., 7/12/1920-6/5/2010
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 15 (XV), 12/15/1987, 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: Why don't we begin with the discussion of interest rates and the increase in the discount rate
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, 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: This was your first State of the Union Message that you worked on. C: Yes. The basic questions
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, 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: Let me ask you to discuss the whole question of government contracts and President Johnson's
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Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 2 (II), 5/3/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . He, too, was an integrationist. Now any black leader today who asked for a hundred billion dollars would ask for it for blacks or a conglomerate of minorities. But not Randolph, not in those days. Now you see the strains of separation beginning
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Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Well, yes, to make sure that they were listening. was done at supper. But you see, that The Krims were in; the Krims were there. was there, and Busby had been with them through the years. stayed on as secretary for Busby. Busby And Marie Marie had
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  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 8 (VIII), 4/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • remember--he had a whole string of paranoid reactions to what he imagined somebody at the White House was setting him up [for], see. Well, this played 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 19 (XIX), 1/27/1988, 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: Let me ask you to describe this visit to the LBJ Ranch on December 22, 1964, when you were still
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 26 (XXVI), 4/18/1988, 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 C: The President talked to me about rebuilding cities the first weekend
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Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • announced? G: Let's see. I believe he announced late. B: Very late. Yes, he announced on May 12, and he went to Texas on May 5. This is in 1948. He went to Texas on May 8. Before he left the office here-(Interruption) The story rounds out better if I
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Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Busby's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 B: Let's see, Taft-Hartley was passed in Congress in 1947, the Republican 80th Congress. Their first two official acts when the Republicans finally regained control of Congress after
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 12 (XII), 10/29/1987, 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: [It is possible] that Lee White and Harry McPherson would have more insights on [Daniel Patrick
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 18 (XVIII), 1/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape l of l, Side 1 C: In late 1965, when I went down to take the President through the legislative program--in July
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, 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: We were working on the [Wilfred] Feinberg-- C: Had we finished Feinberg? (Interruption) C: I
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