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Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that. Aime Forand had introduced the bill. He was not the ranking Democrat to me, but well up toward the top of the [Ways and Means] Committee. The only people for it were labor unions, and he was the only one on the committee, apparently
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • this will be interesting down the line. C: Joe, there were forty trips covering what we estimated at the end of the time two hundred thousand miles. F: First of all, you had no precedent for this, did you? C: No, only that Mrs. Roosevelt had gone and seen coal
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it on. He was not confirmed by the Senate, and Secretary Connor wanted to have some people of his own choosing. He offered the job to me, and I thought about it for a relatively short period of time and said ''Yes.'' It was a job which encompassed many
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • was on loan, in · . But at ·tt
Oral history transcript, Sarah T. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a little bit about yourself. I know that you were a policewoman here in Washington at one time. Just what does that involve? H: I dealt largely with delinquent children and delinquent girls. I did patrol the dance halls, Union Terminal, and some
Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of this time--from 1950 to 1965--you were assigned to the Washington Bureau. and covered both Washington congressional and political moves and then the last seven years of this, as military correspondent for the Cleveland plai:l Dealer. In 1965 you first came
Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on two or three months to finish up some work I was doing and then came to the Urban Coalition. I donate my services here on a part-time basis. M: You are, of course, with the Texas nativity. in connection with Mr. Johnson is cronyism. The obvious
Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely (Item)
  • was elected. So I became very interested in politics at that time, running my own race. M: What year were you elected? B: I was elected in--well, let me see, 1938. I was elected the year Bill Boyd was born. I spent a great deal of time studying
Oral history transcript, Jack Howard, interview 1 (I), 10/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • unions a change in the qualifications for recruitment. For the first time we would permit some college training in lieu of time as an apprenticeship representative with a building trade~ union. Christ! I went to meetings of the AFL-CIO, I went up
Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • " as they call it at those magazines, doing every department where someone else were unavailable, sick or on vacation . BA : What was the name of the book? BE : Time and a Ticket , it was called . BA : You may be too modest to mention this, but are you
  • Biographical information; TIME & A TICKET; LBJ's remarks regarding Vietnam; LBJ's reading and general knowledge; speech writing and the staff; "cussers/doubters/nervous-nellies;" consumer interest information; speech schedule put out on Fridays
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • very vividly because it's so belied by what has happened, even in recent days of the birth of Lynda Bird's daughter. It amuses me that--the girls are big and I remember the time he told us, when Lynda was about five, how he took her to Neiman-Marcus
  • ; problems with Interior Department; shift to Civil Division; Pure and Union Oil; critical of Ramsey Clark as Attorney General; LBJ’s difficulties with Establishment press; missile/satellite program investigation; LBJ’s neglect of functions as leader
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Eleanor Roosevelt at the convention in an attempt to swing the convention with the enthusiasm of the moment. However, the efforts we had expended over that long period of time stood us in good stead because, again, there was no erosion. So when the actual
  • Virginia primary and what JFK learned from it; the JFK/Nixon debates; JFK's handling of the Bay of Pigs incident; O'Brien meeting with each cabinet member to review roles in the Kennedy Administration; JFK's and O'Brien's time spent learning their roles
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . M: Still 1963, right? R: The President invited me over to a meeting to discuss the outlines of his first State of the Union message. Somewhere I have some penciled notes of that meeting, but there must be better notes at that time. Walter
  • First impressions of LBJ; JFK and LBJ; JFK and the White House staff; LBJ as VP; LBJ on foreign aid; LBJ Berlin speech, 1961; LBJ on foreign policy pre-presidency; LBJ’s first State of the Union message; Vietnam; CIAP; Latin America; White House
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 3 (III), 12/11/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • agreement get that, that if we got it And that prior to that to be the most important point to the South Vietnamese. our election. circumstances time, that of comment on the timing at all, since right without a bit came to. on the advice
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 8 (VIII), 9/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- VIII -- 3 August 17. It was bigger than the steel union settlements in aluminum and in cans and it busted the 3.2 per cent wage-price guideline. At that point
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • not discussed it because it was a matter of such vast importance and still is a matter that's of tremendous importance and is very much before the public and before the Congress at this time . That [matter] deals with the deregulation of natural gas
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • going to do, you're going to-- M: Be as expansive as you feel like being because the more you add, the better the interview is. So don't, when we've got plenty of tapes and, I think, plenty of time. So, okay, we begin with then on the third
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that scmetime we'd come in the back way through the alley and use a freight elevator to get up in the offices because the bill collectors were waiting for us, particularly Western Union and the printers. time. They were there all the And here was Mr. Marsh
Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • sketch your background, education? H: Ny home town All the time. "laS Mi nera 1 We 11 s. But when I got into NY A I had been in Lubbock, going to school at Texas Tech and had finished out there and was out looking for something to do right
Oral history transcript, Gould Lincoln, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • together? You gave me what I was looking for. I was trying to think at that time, did Lyndon Johnson already evidence the ambition and the drive and the motivation that has characterized his whole career, and you think he did? L: I think he has ever
Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this, what are blacks going to say out here, what are black leaders going to do, will they see through it as transparent b.s.? I had that problem all the time. I had no other job, really, than making sure that the politics was right because we were
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 28 (XXVIII), 4/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . G: The New York Times piece by Bob Semple, why don't you give the background of that, because we never discussed that on tape. C: At some point in 1966, Semple, I think with prompting from Max Frankel, came to me and said, "We'd like to follow
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • to call on him--it was one of the first times that I really got to know him--when he was recuperating from his heart attack down on the Ranch. A story had appeared in the New York Times that he was at work building a southern conservative coalition
Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at all before you came to Washington? E: I did not. Of course, I knew who Lyndon was. I had been working on the Dallas Times Herald when this vacancy occurred with the death of Congressman [James] Buchanan in Austin. I knew about Lyndon Johnson's
Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . When her mother I was a judge at the time my first wife died. After· three or four years had gone by, I had the good fortune to meet a tall, articulate, ''litty, good-looking brunette with three little boys. She was a widow of air force Captain
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • thought, "Well, that's cheap. She'd pay a hundred for it in America." So I just took it right there. And after I had paid him he looked at me and he said, "You've only been in our country a short time I can tell. You didn't handle this very well. You mind
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the communist power had been broken--and it was broken; after 1948 that was the end. Walter Reuther got the United Automobile Workers back. The AFL-CIO set up the IUE, the International Union of Electrical Workers, which over a long period of time finally
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 3 (III), 1/17/89, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • thought, "Well, that's cheap. She'd pay a hundred for it in America." So I just took it right there. And after I had paid him he looked at me and he said, "You've only been in our country a short time I can tell. You didn't handle this very well. You mind
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • mentioned, at Defense. I don't recall General [Charles] Roderick's activities in detail, which should not be taken as meaning that he wasn't good; it's just a matter of recollection after a long period of time has elapsed. But it's interesting, as I go
  • efforts to stall the cotton-wheat bill; the relationships between different pieces of legislation and how to time legislative activity to the advantage of the administration; Carl Hayden and the Central Arizona Project tied to his vote on cloture
Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • --it was Xavier's registration that I went to. Many of us were involved in the organization of National Students Association, which was in its time what the SDS is today, you know, radical type students groups in the nation. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Aimee Semple McPherson? C: Aimee Semple McPherson. She was carrying a program every Sunday night and I think one other time during the week, but anyway she had one, I know, on Sunday night. The minister either followed her or preceeded her
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 2 (II), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • down there? S: Well, my recollection is that he went--didn't that [heart attack] occur at George Brown's place, where, in Alexandria or something? G: Yes, Middleburg, I think. S: He spent a lot of time telling me about the complications
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : It is now. I was just indicating that--perhaps as useful background, even though it's in the Kennedy Administration--you were of course involved in Viet Nam from a very early time, and I'd like to get some indication as to how much Mr. Johnson as Vice
Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 2 (II), 11/25/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • with a small group of inside people--people that he had been associated with for some period of time largely, and people who were of his particular bent, very imaginative, very humorous, very light and gay. I didn't fit into that particular category, so
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in 1949, I went to work for the legislative department of the UAW--United Auto Workers union--here in Washington. My job was mostly research; I read the [Congressional] Record every day and I came to the Hill to get bills and attend hearings. I also
Oral history transcript, Eugene B. Germany, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh GERMANY -- I -- 2 M: My goodness. G: From that time on after my school-teaching period, I went into the "oil business asa geologist having had only two
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • down there, if not every day, several times a week. So the only alteration in the travel plan that was made to pick us up was Washington to New York, and then we went directly down to the Ranch. Mrs. Johnson met us at the ramp and took us in to the old
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • who felt that he was overstepping and overplaying his hand. Once again, Goodwin was exiled, this time to the Peace Corps, where he became a speech writer for Sargent Shriver. It was in this kind of obscure post which someone said is as far as you can
Oral history transcript, David E. Bell, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : July. At least, I left at the end of July. Previous to that you had been director of the Bureau of the Budget under the Kennedy administration, and that had been your only government service since the time of the Truman administration. Is that correct
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (TAPE iff 1) January 10, 1969 This is an interview with Mr. Henry Fowler, former Secretary of the Treasury. The interview is in the Main Treasury Building, in Washington, D. C. The date is January 10, 1969. The time is 10