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Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ; with the new plant and equipment 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh SCHULTZE
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to plan it. Because we were new in this type of endeavor, she was very specific, saying, IIIf I ever catch any of you in any of the pictures, I'm going to break your damned necks," and she-F: I can hear that. C: --and she meant it. That stuck with me
  • The Grand Teton trips; Appalachian trip; New England trip; the Crossroads trip;
Oral history transcript, Henry Bellmon, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • an important term--appearance in connection with dedicating what we called our Oklahoma Ordinance Works Authority Industrial Tract . I received word of this trip through the news media on a certain afternoon, and it troubled me all evening because
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 3 (III), 2/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • from the New York Times index. G: Yes. It's an article by [John Warren] Finney of the New York Times and then another one, a column by [James] Reston. Albert Gore is the sinner, I think, but we'll get into that. But that I think I might say
Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -Roosevelt position because I was a very ardent supporter of the New Deal. I thought it was a terribly exciting time. Of course Pappy [W. Lee] O'Daniel had become the political salvation of Texas. He had run for governor that year; beat Bill McGraw and Ernest
Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • activities with that of Mr. Johnson and the events that occurred during his time. You began your news career with the Chicago Sun Times in 1948 and moved into broadcasting in 1950. You went with Station WNBQ, the NBC station in Chicago. From 1950 to 1965 you
  • on White House influence on news coverage, LBJ’s response to critical press coverage, preferential treatment to certain newsmen, LBJ’s decision on to run, 1968 convention, LBJ’s way of helping departing staff members, Vietnam, the effect of daily
Oral history transcript, Joe W. Fleming II, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • fast. It was Public Law 89-4, meaning it was the fourth bill passed after the new Congress came back, and the first major legislation passed after the President received it in the fall. G: In 1964, again it's my understanding that the bill passed
Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that's how I got interested and that's how it sort of came on the agenda, as I remember it. The council then carried forward with sort of not only responding to questions from the White House but putting new thoughts forward. I notice in April 25, 1963
Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 F: A lot of the time, and, therefore, while I saw him when he came to Paris and did occasionally see him here in New York, it wasn't anything like as close as during the time we were both
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there was nothing there for me to do. The boss said, "I can send you to Panama, and you can catch up with them or better still, why don't you stay here and start a nucleus of a new outfit which we hope to have here, because we have this big lab." to stay. So I
Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 2 (II), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • expert in that field. And that ultimately led to the passage of the Mental Retardation Act, which gave us roughly seven million dollars of new money to support--I think my recollection of the funds is correct--a variety of activities around the country
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Monday morning and went into New Orleans and spent the second night in Atlanta and were having breakfast somewhere in Atlanta Wednesday morning when we heard the ra9io had been counted out. was wonderful about it. F: ~eport that he So it was a sad
Oral history transcript, Thomas Royals, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] '65, the new ~npower More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -6- Administration, Stanley Ruttenberg, placed me on his staff to get deeper involved
Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • we call Long News Service which is an independent Capitol News Service. We correspond for eighteen daily newspapers in Texas. Among them the San Antonio Light, Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Beaumont Enterprise, EI Paso Herald-Post, Texarkana
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • salaries and the House salaries. So this passed without much opposition. Remember, we kept it in trading position for a long time because I was insistent we were going to get nearly a billion dollars of new revenue out of the postal rate increase to pay
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. O'Connell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh October 23, 1968 M: Let's start with your background. According to my data, you were born in New York State at a place called Saranac Lake. Is that right? 0: That is correct. M: In 1905. 0: That is correct. M
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • /oh or maybe it was Bowdoin [College] up in New England, and had had one summer as a copy boy at the New York Times and so on. He was a very active, very energetic Vietnamese whose family or wife ran a big English school. He understood the press
Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 4, 1971 F: This is an interview with Arthur 1\1. Schlesinger, Jr. in his office in New York City on November 4, 1971. Frantz. The interviewer is Joe B. Arthur, I suppose the place to pick this up with you would
  • ; the effect of LBJ keeping some of JFK’s staff and the quality of the new members of LBJ’s staff; Eric Goldman; Schlesinger’s involvement with the Dominican Republic; LBJ campaigning for Robert Kennedy in the 1964 New York Senate race; White House Art Festival
Oral history transcript, Lester R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , outline your career, private and govermental? B: I might begin with my upbringing on a farm in southern New Jersey, I was born in 1934 in southern New Jersey, began farming there as a youngster, a future farmer and 4-H member . I developed a large
Oral history transcript, Edward P. Cliff, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • at Hultnomah Falls. and saw our new visitor information center at Multnomah Falls. Again on this trip I had the privilege of riding LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Where were you on assassination day? A: Having lunch in the White House Staff Mess. Walter Heller and most of the members of the cabinet were on that plane over the Pacific, and the news c a m e while we were at lunch. F: How did it come, just
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 2 (II), 5/3/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: MORRIS ABRAM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Abram's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2 A: I don't know the year, but it was probably around l963-64. Arthur Krim called me and asked whether or not I would be willing to be the president
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , in the campaign in 1948 when Coke Stevenson, at that time former-Governor Coke Stevenson, announced for the Senate race on New Year's day, 1948, it is my recollection that he did not say anything at all about Taft-Hartley. And at that time when he announced, W
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- X -- 2 G: You may have, but I'm not sure. J: Well, let me tell this, because it kind of fits in. Barry Bishop used to work for the Dallas Morning News in Mexico--that's a Republican paper, you
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and 20, 1977 INTERVIEWEE: Mrs. Jane Englehard INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mrs. Engelhard's home, Cragwood, Far Hills, New Jersey Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with your parents, first of all. Your father was a Brazil- ian diplomat. E
  • to the United States and involvement in the microfilm business; New York Governor Alfred Smith; a plane crashing into the Empire State Building; marrying Charles Engelhard; Engelhard’s political career; Engelhard’s involvement in the gold business; race
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 4 (IV), 4/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the fields of social welfare. My impression is that President Johnson was looking for a tag to describe his major legislative accomplishments, purposes, to correspond to Kennedy's New Frontier. My re~ollection is that the phrase Great Society came out
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • .the full-length speech entitled, "The United States Should Get Out of Vietnam." It was a full-length speech, and it was the first statement made by anybody in public life. Being an old newspaperman, I knew it was news, and I fully expected to see
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • for newspapers in Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and was editor of the Santa Fe New Mexican in Santa Fe. At the time I came to Washington, I was editor of the Laredo Times, Laredo, Texas, I wrote political columns at most of the places I worked. Incidentally
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . It was during the time of the early New Deal when labor was encouraged, when there was new legislation that allowed for organization. John L. Lewis, who is one of my great admirations, took advantage of the climate of the time and started to prganize
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1977 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH LAITIN INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Laitin's residence in Bethesda, Maryland Tape 1 of 2 L: We never got into the [subject of the] Pope in New York. G: Okay. Do you want to take that up? L: Yes
  • Laitin’s work related to the Pope’s visit to New York and meeting with LBJ; press coverage of LBJ’s meeting with the Pope; how LBJ liked to be positioned for photographs; Yoichi Okamoto; advancing trips to visit President Truman; how LBJ treated
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 5 (V), 9/9/1982-9/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • his office from the New House Office Building to 504 in the Old [House] Office Building. Do you remember that? Is there any significance to the change? R: Yes. Well, it was significant because it was an unusual thing to do. The members of Congress
Oral history transcript, Edward J. Brenner, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in Wisconsin, I think, an independent voter and a registered Republican, and in Louisiana I was a registered Democrat, and in New Jersey I was a registered Republican, and I was really pretty much middle-of-the-road, and, to a large extent, it depended upon how
  • Biographical information; David Ladd; J. Herbert Holloman; Secretary Hodges; Bill Eaton; appointment as Commissioner; morale problems within the department; minority hiring; new facilities; international law; need for international system
Oral history transcript, Gordon Bunshaft, interview 1 (I), 6/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE : GORDON BUNSHAFT INTERVIEWER : PAIGE E . MULHOLLAN PLACE : Mr . Bunshaft's office, 400 Park Avenue, New York Tape 1 of 1 B: This started the whole thing . You lose track of years . Here's a telegram from Mr . Heath, who
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 18 (XVIII), 1/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , "They're on television every night. They're on the evening news. Washington is--[Robert] McNamara and [Cyrus] Vance and [Roswell] Gilpatric and you and [Dean] Rusk--are all working and you read the New York Times and the Washington Post. The country
Oral history transcript, William G. Bowdler, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with the White House in the first place. B: I was born and raised in Argentina, in Buenos Aires and Patagonia. I was educated in New York and Virginia and Massachusetts at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. During my last year at the Fletcher School I
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : January 11, 1974 INTERVIEWEE : MRS . JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS INTERVIEWER : JOE B . FRANTZ PLACE : Her Manhattan apartment in New York City Tape 1 of 2 First part of tape missing (35 feet) F: Let's continue, then, our broken interview
Oral history transcript, Henry Hall Wilson, interview 1 (I), 4/11/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • such a district that they would very seldom vote for a New Frontier bill. F: Could you talk with people like, let's say, Clark Fisher or Omar Burleson, John Dowdy? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Clinton P. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • not? A: Yes, he was. B: Did you immediately become acquainted with him? A: I had met him earlier than that. In 1935 I was National Youth Administrator for New Mexico and he for Texas, and we got acquainted at that time; so that I knew him already
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XI -- 6 J: Oh, I know he did! He just opened his eyes to--well he just--not opened his eyes; he turned his eyes in the direction of the outside world. Of course, I do remember a lovely spring trip into New
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ultimately lower the cost of construction with this new kind of steel. Then, we, this is the first of January. Let me just go back to the thirty-first [of December 1965] because when I look at the Presidential Diary. G: Let's see. C: I've got it right here