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Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Dougherty -- II -- 3 home, 1413 East Bowie Street. We were building a ranch home, a hacienda, but we lived in town at the time, and my wife Patricia

Oral history transcript, Stanley Ruttenberg, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

is located at 1211 Connecticut, N.W., in Washington, D. C. 610. I am now in his office in Room The date is February 25, and the time is 3:20 in the afternoon. My name is David McComb. First of all, I would like to know something about your background

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, considerations of geography and seniority. I think that Russell was a little con cerned that McFarland wouldn't work hard enough at the job. McFarland, I don't precisely know what it was, but he seemed to be having some personal problems at the time

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 5 (V), 7/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and wanting some help. We usually tried to get up ahead of time what sort of American involvement there was in a country, if there was any at all--if so, what was it, what type of aid was the US giving them, and the monetary levels, and that sort of thing

Oral history transcript, Solis Horwitz, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

for a year and was here every Friday. But full-time I'm very new, beginning around the middle of April. M: When did your first contact with Mr. Johnson take place, back when you worked for the Senate Armed Services Committee in the late 1940s? H

Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh October 10, 1968 B: All right, sir, if we may start here, when did you first get acquainted with Mr. Johnson? H: I met Mr. Johnson some time in the forties. assignments--OPA, Agriculture, other things. I was in Washington

Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 2 (II), 7/20/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

) INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MULHOLLAN July 20, 1971 M: I can refresh your memory fairly quickly, I think. I've talked to Mr. Baker, and he's quite sorry that he was not able to come back this time because he enjoyed meeting you before. You all had finished talking

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

particularly, as far as the national administrations have been concerned, with the Americans for Democratic Action and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and UAWand other labor organizations at various times. R: You did that better than I could, so

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

known then-Senator Johnson, he called upon me from time to time to advise him with respect to matters, frequently dealing with civil rights, which was not a particular expertise of mine except that I had worked on the restrictive covenant case which had
; LBJ as President; Vietnam War; LBJ and credibility; Nixon Administration; civil rights leaders and the Vietnam War; LBJ and education; various Presidents’ support of civil rights; LBJ’s early position on civil rights; LBJ’s 1965 State of the Union

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

time talking to the then-Director of the Bureau of the Budget, Charlie Schultze, to find out a little bit about what I would be required to do. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
of the Budget; the privilege of working hard for a president; keeping ideas fresh and balanced over time; LBJ's strengths, especially in communication and helping people.

Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 2 (II), 11/9/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

://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 Palmer -- II -- 3 And so, on that ground, they were very sound, but the timing

Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 3/8/1969, by Jack Valenti and Robert L. Hardesty (Item)

now become Pre•ident, and I remember that Congr•••m&n Thoma• •aid: "We are ready to carry out any order• you have, Mr. Pre•ident." Thh wa• the fir.t time I had heard him addre••ed a.• "Mr. Pre•ident." It ••emed to me that there wa• a change in th

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 4 (IV), 3/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

station, and he just delayed and delayed and delayed because of his perception that entry into this business at that time--and this is at a much later date than when we went into KTBC--was still fraught with so much peril that he would move his tower

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Sr., interview 1 (I), 1/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the legislature of Texas, owned my people in slavery time. I understand that he came from Attica, New York into Texas be- fore the Civil War. able to say. Where my people came from I don't know, I'm not But I do know that my grandfather Mr. Shoemaker

Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to the peninsular campaign in Napoleon's time down through Ireland down through Philippines, Malaya, et cetera. We also had Lucian Pye, who had gone out and interviewed a number of the guerrillas captured in Malaya and wrote an extraordinarily perceptive book based

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

be useful to record it. But it would be just as useful to record how you felt about it if you were aware of it at the time. J: Well, yes, didn't take it seriously, didn't encourage it. I personally think he was scared to death of such a prospect
The prospect in 1955 of LBJ being a candidate for the presidency; Amon Carter and LBJ's relationship with Carter; John Henry Faulk; LBJ's 1955 heart attack; humorous story regarding suits a tailor was making for LBJ at the time of his heart attack

Oral history transcript, Lawrence Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

more serious, it occupied more of the personal time of higher officials of the Executive Branch and the President; so I would not characterize the support by any President as different in quality. I simply think that, as the problems became more

Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of a nighttime basis. I'd go to work on the poverty task force stuff when I left the Pentagon at seven or eight o'clock at night, and then after a bit of that I shifted to full-time as Shriver's deputy. G: In his phone conversation with you did Shriver

Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

a couple of weeks leave to come back to the States really to see what I was going to do when I got out of the army. I was thinking of teaching at the Harvard Law School at the time, but I had another errand to do. One of my fellow technical advisers

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. You'll recall that one of the things that committee staff worked very hard on, and I spent a gre~t deal of · time on, was the investigation that was conducted jointly by the Senate Armed Services Corrmittee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

grade at Tandy School in Fort Worth, Texas, and I must also confess that in the fifth grade I wasn't ready for all of it, but it made me very early in life aware of the Daniels. And so from the time you emerged, then--I suppose I'm a small generation

Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

gone through channels? M: No, the complaint had not gone through channels, as I remember it. The complaint was one from a union newspaper, and we had been subjected to this sort of charges many times before. P: General McKee, since the first

Oral history transcript, Claiborne Pell, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

on the Foreign Relations Com- I went to Paris where he was there as the leader of our delegation to the NATO Parliamentarians, and sought to secure his support for this appointment at that time. me. He was exceedingly receptive and cordial to I remember, I

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 that in Montana . He talked me into extending my leave of absence another six months and going to work on one of these bridges, which I did . When my leave was up by that time I

Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, say, something like organized labor, was there any powerful interest group in Texas that was a perennial opponent of Allan Shivers? S: Well, what we called the extreme liberal Democrats, of which there were a number ofthem. They were not the union

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

targets for years from Franklin Delano Roosevelt on through to Johnson's time--substantial numbers of these were passed. Slum clearance, housing, the poverty programs, the interstate highway systems, airline and airport legislation, and the development

Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

back with him . personnel, so he brought me So I was in sort of an aiding position at that time . I was [an] aide and that was it, so I didn't have any particular chores . What am I saying? I didn't have a particular job, I could sort of be on my

Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, 1969 INTERVIEWEE: LESLIE CARPENTER INTERVIEW'Eji: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: National Press Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 F: Mr. Carpenter, tell us briefly about your own career, how you happen to be where you are at this time. I know you

Oral history transcript, Edgar Cahn and Jean Camper Cahn, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the neighborhood offices that community action was to set up. Based on that [experience]--well, at that point during the summer of 1963 after I graduated, we took time before we moved to Washington--I had an offer from the Justice Department, and accepted the offer

Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: WILLIAM CLYDE FRIDAY INTERVIEWER: Janet Kerr-Tener PLACE: Dr. Friday's office, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 F: There's an interesting little footnote here, if I have the time sequence correct. Robert Goheen

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

more about the burden of being a public servant, that it was better time spent than almost anything she ever did to learn her husband's job. F: She was definitely in charge of the office? C: Yes, and worked long hours. F: But without

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 23 (XXIII), 8/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

asked him for an imaginative reporter Dave had recommended me. I got to know Johnson reasonably well, and by that time the committee work was so heavy that the United Press had committees divided up. My committees were the Armed Services Committee

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

for the record because future research scholars may spend time looking for memoranda of conversation between me and my Presidents, which are simply not there. Finally, I had no mechanical means in my office at any time to record telephone conversations or other
appointees; White House staff; role of LBJ at times of crisis; State Department involvement in speeches.

Oral history transcript, Gerald N. McAllister, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the church and duties and functions that I have within the life of the church occasionally bring me into contact with my father in his official capacities, but most of the time they tend to insure that we go separate routes. We're good friends, however

Oral history transcript, Anthony Solomon, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh NOVEMBER 18, 1968 M: Let's begin by identifying briefly you in time and position. Did you join the government service prior to the time Mr. Johnson became President in 1963, or was it after he became President? S

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

timing was deliberate? W: An imperative part of it, really. We learned later that there were a good many people that had been expecting the President to do something like this in his State of the Union Message, and they were quite surprised to have

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the Pentagon to make sure everything was okay before I sent him over to, I think it was, Jack Valenti who ultimately interviewed him to give him the final okay. G: Let me ask you about the violence that summer. You talked about Watts last time but racial

Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of us who worked for the Park Service had keys to the gates of Arlington Cemetery, because many times we would work overtime and work a nighttime 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and his secretary of defense, his various secretaries of state and so forth. And I thought that they would come out of it, that they would come out of it in time. G: I think, in fact, you said in a letter to Senator [Mike] Mansfield that you thought

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. (Interruption) Then there was Carl Hayden of Arizona, who was a landmark in the Senate, already at that time quite elderly, but still with years ahead of him. He had been representing the state of Arizona since it entered the Union, which was about 1912. He
Churchill; LBJ's opinion on the timing of trying to pass difficult legislation; the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); Lynda's fifth birthday.

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