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Oral history transcript, Robert B. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . During the time Mr . Johnson was president, you were frequently described in the news media as a longtime Texas associate . I wonder if you could perhaps begin by just describing how that early acquaintanceship came about and just how close
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • really quite a short time to that important project. He went up, oh, I think maybe to about a three-day session and made calls on Senator [Tom] Connally, Senator [W. Lee] O'Daniel, I believe, and Bob Lovett, one of the undersecretaries. When he emerged
  • an apartment for John and Nellie Connally in preparation for their arrival; Connally's work as LBJ's executive assistant; Truman's 1949 State of the Union Message; children's birthday party for Sam Rayburn; Felix Longoria; the University of Texas purchasing
Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • little time before, so I should have at least Some memory and some responsibility from the beginning of the system. M: Right. Now, I wonder if you could begin, perhaps, by recalling any early acquaintances that you had with Mr. Lyndon Johnson prior
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • you were, I believe, assisting Marvin Watson as appointments secretary, which would really go from 1964 to the time in which you assumed the actual position in 1968. So you would have been assistant to Mr. Watson during that period. Could you tell me
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Kennedy at that time, Archie asked me a few times to prepare some speeches on housing. And I did that. I prepared a couple of speeches for John F. Kennedy, and of course, I had met him when he was by here. But that was really where my expertise
Oral history transcript, Frank Denius, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • :.irec-;:.c:.: ar..c. Bank here in Austin, Southern Union Gas Company, the local dr. d. a:;'5 0 '~'ex as C api t:al C0:.:pOya ti or.; J.. se rve '::'5 ·the .Ji r'.'::' c'~or , General Ccunse::', ar:d Secret:.ar.l-Treasure:c of tl.is ..::ompa~ bee
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • State of the Union. We had two parallel acts. I sat in with the task force, as did Harry McPherson; the President asked both of us to participate in it. He showed a continuing interest in it through the fall. I don't recall that there were any big issues
Oral history transcript, William F. Billings, interview 1 (I), 5/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh May 23, 1969 M: Let me identify the tape, first of all. F. Billings. This is an interview with Mr. William I am in his offices in Dallas, Texas in the Fidelity Union Tower. The date is May 23, 1969 and it's 1 0 : 1 0
Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with General Curtis LeMay who made his home in Newport Beach, California. just to get started. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. with Mr. Johnson? General, Incidentally, I'm a World War II veteran so I have been following you for a long time. L: More
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • indicated in the State of the Union. And I think he probably asked everybody he ever came in contact with that question at one time or another. Mc: In your dealings with Commerce, did you work on the balance of payment issues? P: Yes, to some extent
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • said, "I'm afraid I can't answer that." William Sentner was the guy who ran the union at Emerson Electric. He never played golf with my father, but under the ~Jagner Act you had to deal with the guy who had the job, and by the time that Dad had ins
Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • working all the time, evenings as well I said, "Well, if Idon't get a job I'm going to have to quit studying and go home ." I've got a job for you . He said, "Now, don't do that . You come by my office in the morning . I work in a congressman`s
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • been working as a newspaper reporter for a medium-sized daily in Pennsylvania and felt that I wanted to go abroad. I wanted to go abroad as a correspondent. At the time, among other subjects and people, I was covering Congressman Francis E. Walter, who
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • working as a newspaper reporter for a medium-sized daily in Pennsylvania and felt that I wanted to go abroad. I wanted to go abroad as a correspondent. At the time, among other subjects and people, I was covering Congressman Francis E. Walter, who was from
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • programs and in beautification, things which you are associated with--desalination of water, the whole myriad. L: I'm interested in health programs because as a child I had poor health-- F: This is in Wisconsin? L: In Wisconsin. At one time I
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 3 (III), 9/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recall very well that upon McFarland s defeat Mr. Johnson, I 1 think, wanted to become the minority leader. He had been the assistant minority leader prior to that time, and he was probably one of only maybe two or three that were possible because
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • and career briefly and just tell me about that. M: Well, I got into the newspaper business out in Plainview High School when I was editor of the high school paper, and we printed it down at the local newspaper. I was working on a dairy at the time, and I
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • and Root was a very well established construction firm at that time . GB : That is correct . PB : Now, Mr . Johnson was first elected to public office in 1937 . Do you recall, did you know Mr . Johnson yourself at that time? I h-ad not met him
Oral history transcript, Najeeb E. Halaby, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . The Russians didn't parti- cularly want too many assistant naval-air attaches at that time. As a substitute, I went into the newly formed research and intelligence organization in the State Department, working on the formation of the Central Intelligence group
Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was true. Bedell Smith told me that one vote was needed. General Walter At that time, I think General Smith was the congressional liaison with the Pentagon on this. General Smith was a great fisherman, and he invited a congress- man who always wanted
Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • times earlier to join the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy and turned them down the first two times, saying that I was not an expert in radiation and besides, I was a reassurer of parents, not an alarmer. Homer Jack, the director
Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 2 (II), 5/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: DAVID E. McGIFFERT INTERVIEWER: DOROTHY PIERCE McSWEENY PLACE: Mr. McGiffert's office, 701 Union Trust Building, 15th and H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 McS: This is the second session with David E. McGiffert. Mr. McGiffert
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in this manner. And I saw the effect that it had on him and on my mother. Not that they were overcome by it, but it was an experience somewhat I suppose like being a victim of a natural catastrophe, which left a very strong impression on me. At that time I
  • The origin of Shriver’s interest in poverty-related issues; Shriver’s involvement with trade unionism, the St. Vincent de Paul Society and the board of education in Chicago; Shriver’s work in the 1940s with Eunice Kennedy on the Continuing Committee
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • lead time than we wanted. While he was a good soldier, his views were known when the legislation went up and the auto industry knew his views and they knew that in him they had an ally. That caused some confusion. We by and large took him out
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • before Thanksgiving I guess it was, Herbert stayed at the office all night. of strange. I thought it was kind Dorothy and I went by there a time or two and he was calling all over the country, which as I later found out, that's what he did when he got
Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . At that time, I was 18 years old and wasn't able or permitted to do much but pass out cards and tack up placards and do a little car-driving, which I did in the Bastrop County area around Smithville on weekends when I could get over there from Kerrville. Now
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the several unions that represented postal employees. It was long and at times acrimonious negotiation but the threat of strike which was over our heads for months was avoided. We also tried to use our facilities to be helpful in the poverty-youth employment
  • Hampshire primary; the timing of RFK's announcement; Eugene McCarthy as a presidential candidate in 1968; O'Brien's trip to Wisconsin; a run-in with Jesse Unruh the night before O'Brien's son left for Vietnam; LBJ's March 31, 1968, announcement that he would
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and then lots of casual dinners for staff, newspaper friends, other senators. We began to branch out more in that year. The children's doctor was Dr. John Washington, who would come any time of day or night, if he felt that tone in your voice that said, "I'm
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the beautification program, which of course led to the passage of the Highway Beautification Bill, and Mrs. Johnson's traveling to publicize the efforts of cities and states in the beautification projects. We had reached a point in time, I believe May, 1967, when
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • years. F: I was going to ask you, did that more or less set up a confrontation between you and the southern delegation? H: Yes. It was, in all honesty, a political albatross, particularly at that time, because the southerners dominated the Congress
Oral history transcript, Harold H. Saunders, interview 1 (I), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Saunders -- I -- 2 G: Did you know Professor Goetzmann at that time? S: Bill Goetzmann? G: Yes. S: We came in in the same year. We were, in effect
Oral history transcript, Omar Burleson, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • (D-Tex, 17th District) Interviewer : Paige Mulhollan October 3, 1968 M: Did you know Mr . Johnson before you came to the House? B: Yes, as a matter of fact, I knew him before I was a member of the House . I was here for a time . I was here
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 3 (III), 3/9/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • appeared to be a drive which was being prepared and mounted by the North Vietnamese and NLF forces. So I think the really critical time came in the early 1965 period. M: Before that late 1964 period when you mentioned things really fell apart
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ~~~ ~-- --~-A_C_7_4_-_8_7___ ___ ___ _~ Gene ral topic of inter view : Disc usses his caree r in gover nmen t. Date Feb. 19, 1969 May 7, 1969 Place ~~T_ap~e--'li~~l~~~~~~-Le ngth Tape #2 31 pages 33 pages Tape index : Page or estim ated time on tape Subi ect(s
Oral history transcript, James Adler, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . (Interruption) G: Mr. Adler, I want to begin by asking you to describe where you were in the government at the time the War on Poverty was planned. A: I was at the Department of Commerce but on the payroll or being paid by the University of Pittsburgh
Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 2 (II), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and how would they spend it? Gradually the states were able to better come up with estimates of the numbers of retarded individuals they had within their states, but I don't think at any time we could really say we had an "accurate count." I think
Oral history transcript, John Wildenthal, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • could have on it. G: Did you know anything about his friendship with LBJ then? W: Well, I had just picked up I don't know how much at the time. I found out at the law firm that Senator Wirtz was one of the strong people in carrying the ball
Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Because my wife and I were relatively young--I was thirty-eight at the time--and we had come from John Kennedy Massachusetts, we received a lot of press coverage. country in We were doing unusual things in the conservative State of Ohio. When
Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . This was when Bernard Baruch was the chairman of the delegation, and we were trying to negotiate the so-called Baruch Plan for international control of atomic energy. But in the summer of 1967 I was asked by a war-time friend who was then deputy assistant
Oral history transcript, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • at [the] State [Department]? RG: At the time that I was a student at the National War College, General Burchinal, Dave [David] Burchinal, who was at that time the deputy chief of staff for plans, programs, and operations of the air force, picked me to go