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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1985 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 4, Side 1 G: Let me start with a couple of general points that were raised by your papers. One, the problem
goals, namely, John F. Kennedy's (JFK) New Frontier program; the requirement that cabinet members yield to White House recommendations; Ed Day as U.S. postmaster general; how JFK envisioned his relations with Congress, his legislative program

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 3 (III), 9/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

generally about the Johnson Rule and his new policy of placing frestunan senators on major committees. J: Right. Up until Johnson became majority leader, it was most conman for a new Democratic senator to receive two minor committees and not any major

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and you would get back, for a very modest price, a new rug. I did a lot of painting and hopefully making Dillman more attractive. Mrs. Ferris worked on it with me. I put Lynda and Luci in a dancing school; I cannot remember the lady's name now. She taught

Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)

when you go back to the old field, you find that the new technology that's available will permit you to do a job you couldn't do before. Then that area will again become productive. So one just has to search constantly through the list of problems

Oral history transcript, Lindy Boggs, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

New Orleans and gave a speech. Hale was in a seersucker suit. Two days later, he asked me if I could please send him some winter clothes to Springfield. I think Lyndon understood that it was a personal commitment that had 8 LBJ Presidential Library

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 3 (III), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

as in the Executive Branch, and his belief that the traditional processes were not producing the kind of innovative and imaginative new approaches that were necessary to deal with the very significant problems facing the country. And this was particularly true when he

Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

members of the House Committee on Armed Services, which had just been created by--[there was] a violent fight over it--the merger, the forcible merger, of the old Naval Affairs Committee and the old Military Affairs Committee into the new Committee

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

exactly vihat all the inner struggl es staff membfi' in the M: edj'llei~ fail~ly \.yC:I~e ff)l~ a years. You'r0 also perhaps in a position to answer a general question. In the sixties there was a great deal uf talk about the so-called new economics
Biographical information; the Eisenhower, JFK and LBJ Administrations and the Council of Economic Advisers; new economics; Troika; tax cut; contact with Congress on economic matters; Appalachia program; SST; Agriculture Department budget

Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 2 (II), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Where did he get his money in that campaign? Brown was one of the best old-time supporters Johnson ever had. G: You know, they published the New York members of the President's Club in the Congressional Record, and the list just went on for pages

Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for a special consideration, with one exception. That exception involved the move of radio station KTBC from its location to a new location because they were losing their lease and had to get out. I filed a request that the application be expedited

Oral history transcript, Frank Pace, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: FRANK PACE, JR. INTERVI EWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Pace's office, 545 Madison Avenue, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: You're Frank Pace, and your last full time government occupation was in 1953 \"lhen you retired as Secretary

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 11/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the New Haven and the proposed Penn Central system which is satisfactory to the New Haven trustees and to the district court, then, unless circumstance of material change, it would be my recommendation the Department of Justice not continue opposition

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD H. NELSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE· PLACE: Mr. Nelson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with your association with the Peace Corps. How did you get involved with that? N: I had met Bill Moyers and Sarge
and Kennedy’s staff; Diem’s assassination; Vietnam; trips to New York and Benelux region; LBJ as president; transition after assassination of JFK; the 1964 campaign; civil rights meeting with black leaders; LBJ’s ethics and relationship with staff; Walter

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, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

that just between January 1 of '64 and the end of December '65, that one hundred new appointments of women had been made to top posts. this continued. Then in 166 and '67 There were well over three hundred appointments, as far as I can find, but the full

Oral history transcript, A. Scheffer Lang, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

at the graduate school after I got out of the Army before I went to MIT to take the faculty appointment there. M: Then from there, 1962-65, you worked for the New York Central? L: That's correct. M: According to my information, you had something to do

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh of developing a legislative program--the academics, tapping these bright young people, as you called them? G: Well, the whole system is new. The process historically of program development

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

at dinner; and Aaron Schaffer was a man that I would normally consider a very kindly and gentle person, but an unreconstructed liberal out of the New Republic school. And after dinner, we got around to coffee. He turned to Miss Grace and he said, "After

Oral history transcript, George Hartzog, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/20/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. But we were encouraged by it, because at least half of them did leave and go utilize their time in other sight-seeing activities. So with the permission of the new First Lady, we will continue to experiment LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, 1973 INTERVIEWEE: MRS. ANNA ROSENBERG HOFFMAN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mrs. Hoffman's office in New York City Tape 1 of 1 F: First of all, when did you first become aware of Lyndon Johnson? H: I'm very bad on dates. F: Yes. t'/ell

Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

contest of his primary election in Texas? R: No. Actually, like most of the other young New Dealers around town, I met then-Congressman Lyndon Johnson in the early '40's, but it's not a clear recollection for me. I guess I remember him mostly as sort

Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

predicted my appointment in the spring, I think it was, and I, therefore, concluded I was safe. M: Did you know anything about it at that time? R: No, I knew nothing about it at that time. M: How was the news broached to you? In what manner did Mr

Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

to go to Baylor University. I graduated in 1937 with a Bachelor of Arts and a major in journalism and came up the street and went to work June 11, 1937, for the Waco News Tribune as a copy editor, and I have been with the paper ever since. M: You

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the electorate in Texas and point out to me that in substance, Texas, because of the way in which it was settled was as big a melting pot as New York, and that particularly he had always been able to have the support of the Negro and the Mexicans. His problem

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 2 (II), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a lot of that was the feeling that Johnson was still a New Dealer, a Roosevelt man, or a loy~l or liberal Democrat. _and Joe Kil gore and Ray Le.e and· Gordon· ful cher;. Buck· Hood; Tom . « · Mill er·, tne mayor: Bob Phinney; myself; and one

Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, and successively you have worked for the Wisconsin State Journal, the Milwaukee Journal, the United Press Association, Christian Science Monitor, the International News Service and as Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Record. You were co-author

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

1958 when Senator Johnson was deciding who in the new class elected in 1958 would get what and who would support him on some thing-- I don't rememb~r what it was--that was coming up right at the beginning of the Congress oi 1959. But certainly we

Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the Depa rtmen ts of Labo r and Commerce into the Depa rtmen t of Econo mic Affa irs 11-12 Labo r was 95 perce nt again st the new depa rtme nt 14 Labor -Man agem ent Advi sory Conn nittee studi ed merge ! and propo sed that it not be done LBJ

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. But we were looking for signs of hostility Of course, there was the Dallas Morning News of that morning, with a very unfriendly ad. IIYankee. Go Home" and so forth. mostly friendly. We saw signs like, But the crowd at the airport was Kennedy

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

-range payoff. There's not going to be an immediate payoff in my judgment, because the traffic is too thin in most parts of it. The traffic is much less in some areas in the East Coast, say, from New York and Boston down to Florida then for some

Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, 1982 INTERVIEWEE: DAVID HALBERSTAM INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Halberstam's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 2 G: You said that you had a Lyndon Johnson story. H: Yes. I was, in 1960, working for the Nashville Tennessean

Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with each other a great deal over the years. The part where perhaps I came to know him best, and had the closest association with him, was right after he became president. He requested a news media liaison from Texas in Washington, and I was the one

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

have to use your judgment in cases like that, and I didn't have much judgment. I was pretty new at that sort of thing. So I decided to let him in. It turned out Lyndon didn't know him at all and the man wanted to get a job as a cook at a CCC [Civilian
Johnson's finances; a summer 1937 trip to New York City with friends; meeting Alice Maffet Glass and Charles Marsh; Marsh's influence on LBJ regarding international matters; a bill requiring a public referendum before war could be declared; LBJ's interest

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 8 (VIII), 4/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was pleased, proud, a little haughty that he might go down there and represent this new administration at this bridge dedication. Well, I didn't say so out loud, of course, but I said, "Like heck you will. That's a volatile situation and you're going to fall

Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

you. I told them I was going to be at Old Gun Factory Navy r·1ess for Thanksgiving Dinner. So 10 and behold, I get this call. and said, liThe White House is on the phone." A waiter came running Well, of course, this was big news in those days

Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

. But by 1935, response in the welfare area, as evidenced by the Social Security Act of 1935 and the Housing Act and other acts about 1937, indicated that this new response of government to needs was much broader than what we would refer to as a relation

Oral history transcript, Edith H. Parker, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Lyndon had somewhat come in on the coattails of the New Deal, and the President had had their pictures taken with his arm around Lyndon when the next campaign was taken. He had done every sort of thing that he could, and he never forgave Senator

Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 2 (II), 4/17/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that organization of a new state-wide Head start program was a viable possibility. to Cooper. with me. He picked up the phone and gave me entree Cooper called Winter and a couple of other people to meet I made it clear to all that this was not an official OEO
Child Development Group of Mississippi; Phillips’ trip to Mississippi; new Mississippi Head Start program; Mississippi Action for Progress; Bernard Boutin and Bertrand Harding; OEO lobbying.

Oral history transcript, Joseph H. (Joe) Carter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

started reading my columns and news stories in the paper in Oklahoma, which is his home state. We became friends and a dialogue developed. expressed an interest. I I told him that I wanted to work for the President if I could, do anything

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Kefauver, who was a senator from Tennessee, had entered into the New Hampshire primary and had defeated Truman, who was then the sitting president, most people--I'm talking about most politicians--were of the opinion that Truman liked being president

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