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Oral history transcript, John E. Horne, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • called a meeting in Washington of what we termed at that time our National Advisory Council of the Small Business Administration. This council was made up of representatives from every state in the Union, and we usually met once a year in Washington. I
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , "All right, now get that on one piece of paper for me in the morning." I was rather disconcerted because at the time, while we were discussing this, there was a little bathroom off the side of the Oval Room and he was relieving himself in there while
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and Johnson called Nixon in New York and he knew we were flying down to Key Biscayne, the key advisers and Nixon, for a quick vacation, and he urged him to come by the White House. And we did, and at that time they more or less agreed on Johnson's behest
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 48 (XLVIII), 6/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1989 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR., with comments by Marcel Bryar INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: In the time of the riots in Washington for [Martin Luther] King [Jr
Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in on November 11, 1966. I came from Rochester, New York, where I had been for some time previous connected with the Xerox Corporation and a practicing lawyer. I was chairman of the Board of Xerox and had been General Counsel and Chairman of the Executive
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • -- Interview I, Tape 1 -- 3 At any rate we made the connection and I went down and was interviewed. About the same time the word went from Senator Johnson through Dean Page Keeton, the University of Texas Law School, that he was looking for someone and two
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was concerned, lasted from the time he became president, when you were national security adviser, until you resigned in December of 1965 and left in what, February of 1966? B: The end of February, 1966. M: The end of February. One of the most frequent
Oral history transcript, Richard A. Prindle, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
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Oral history transcript, Robert L. Hardesty, interview 1 (I), 3/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to go to school at George Washington University in 1951. school with time out for the Army. It was almost night I spent almost ten years at George Washington in English literature and working on my master's. F: Why did you pick George Washington? H
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , taken in order perhaps. Any of the party politics type activities? L: Our responsibility was largely in the area of substantive preparation of the program. From time to time, we engaged in trying to educate people in Congress about the various
Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Commission. I don't want you to go into your background; I want to save that for a subsequent session. C: For some other time, yes. Well, I was at the White House with Brooks Hays, who had been a very dear friend of Berl Bernhard, and we were even really
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • such impact. I recall that he had some input into some problem--whether it was an oil problem or a steel price problem, I'm not sure; but I was not personally involved, and I was not aware of his involvement in other economic problems up to that time. F
Oral history transcript, Tom and Betty Weinheimer, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to this place in 1954 then? TW: Right. G: I see. And, of course, the Johnsons had just had their place for about two or three years then, I guess, at that time? 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Union, without having to send in spies or make those U-2 overflights or anything like that. That story has bounced back enough times that I have a feeling that it may be true. The rest of the trip was pure good will, nothing else, which is rather
Oral history transcript, Donald Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • "lciatit"ln with all of them. They each had the right tf"l terminate my (appointment). one was designated. I presented my offer to move on each time a new As a Foreign Service Reserve Officer, one l s appointment is theoretically good only for as long
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • November. If 1949 was a period that for us, and in retrospect it seems to me for the country, was a sort of happy time, in 1950, particularly as the year wore on, there were rising clouds and frustration. The war was continuing in Korea and getting more
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , going too far, staying too short a time, rush, rush, rush. I was not happily in tune. However, early in April I did have a little taste of [how] maybe I could get in tune. I went to what was billed as a "celebrity breakfast," in quotes, given by Theta
  • from the Capitol basement; the Congressional Club; Sam Rayburn's social status; the downing of a U-2 spy plane in the Soviet Union; the May 1960 primary election; Dorsey Hardeman and a bill passed in the Texas legislature to allow a person's name
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • some advice. So he introduced me to then-Congressman Lyndon Johnson. From that time until 1965, when I left the practice, I was counsel to the radio station KTBC AM, FM, and TV and other interests which the Johnson family acquired. F: Well, as you
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • me five times. right, I'll do it. Finally I said, 'Well, all Somehow I'll make it up to my staff.' hqdn't written q word. All the time II This was in the very eqrl iest days of the Eisenhower years .. It's ah/ays been an amusing tal e
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and invited her for dinner to our house. And at the same time invited a man who is now dead named Aaron Schaffer, who was head of the French Department, or maybe the Romance Language Department, at the University of Texas. He and his wife Dorothy were
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the Congressional records. But just to begin with, you were elected to the 76th Congress in 1939 as a Democrat from Oklahoma, and you were succeSSively reelected to the House through 1951. At that time you were elected as Senator and served in the Senate until
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • every aspect of that statement. I don't think that the Arab world is yet in the Soviet camp. Soviet influence in the area has been increasing for quite a long time, but not allover the area. The Soviet influence is primarily in Algeria
Oral history transcript, William M. Capron, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Council--and my memory is not sharp enough on the exact timing and just who said what to whom at this point--was already, I know, in June talking about the need to think ahead to the legislative program that President Kennedy might introduce in 1964
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Barr -- V -- 2 B: No. That customs thing it--you know, a lot of these things--life was going so fast at that time, and I had so many balls
Oral history transcript, Harold Howe II, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of a high school. I did some work at the University of Cincinnati during that time. M: You were teacher of history in 1940 to 1941 at Darrow School in New York. H: In New Lebanon, New York. M: And then shortly after that you must have gone
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Coleman -- I -- 2 it a pretty good organization while he was president? F: ~las C: Well, he had been speaker of it before I got to Capitol Hill but evidently, it must have been, because after his term as speaker for a long time his leadership generally
Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • time I met President Johnson was in the 1960 campaign. I was the advance man for President Kennedy's first trip into Texas, into Houston. At least I advanced the Houston stop, and the Houston stop took on some rather critical importance because
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the time I was about three months old until I left there in December of 1942, when I was fourteen. G: You began in the Senate as a page, I understand. B: Yes. I was appointed as a page boy by the late Burnett Maybank, whom Franklin Roosevelt, our late
Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , sulphur companies . I represented Union Sulphur Company at one time, and various others, in working with Mexican notaries in getting charters and denouncements and leases, concessions from the government . My practice in San Antonio was rather varied
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . The ambassa­ dor there at that time was a man named Horace Smith, and he had a station chief named Henry Heckscher [?], and they disagreed very strongly . They both were very strong-minded men . I hope I have the details here right, but memory--I would
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • red me. . Then we'd work late every night . I 4le was working on the student aid part df it then, so a lot'of times we'd be there at eleven . or twelve o'clock at night . LBJ would come by or be there and sign the payro! 1 s and . send them on i n
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . We was working on the student aid part of it then, so a lot of times we'd be there at eleven or twelve o'clock at night. LBJ would come by or be there and sign the payrolls and send them on in to the WPA at Austin, who processed them and sent them
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to call him. Morse by that time, I think, had declared against the war and part of it was Johnson demonstrating dramatically that even somebody that was against the war thought this was a terrible thing. Once you're in it, you protected your boys and you
Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • for lunch in his offices in the Department of Justice Building. As we were about to sit down, a gentleman whom I didn't know at the time came in to just say hello to Tom Clark, and it happened to be Lyndon Johnson. He stayed for lunch and we had a visit
Oral history transcript, Wayne Aspinall, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ASPItlALL -- I -- 2 F: You went up to Congress the same time that Johnson moved over to the Senate. A: When did you first get to know him? Why, I
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a very powerful committee and as time went by they had jurisdiction over civil rights legislation. But the significance of Price Daniel going on the Judiciary Committee over Governor Lehman was basically a civil rights fight. I think this one move
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • his name publicly, because he has some daughters living here, and they're very good friends of ours. Guy Maddox [?] was his name. G: Guy Maddox? W: He was the town bully at that time, drunkard, and everything else. And I didn't have much trouble
  • ; Sam Houston and Josefa Johnson; LBJ paying off his father's debts; Winters' contact with LBJ at the time of the JFK assassination; the Association of General Contractors' pressure on LBJ to sign highway legislation; LBJ's involvement in roadside park
Oral history transcript, Ralph Dungan, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Subjc c t(s) covered time on tape - 9 .Johnson never could rccogn i.zc that he was no longer the Senator from Texas but the Vici? President of the U. 11 The Kennedy family and staff was treated very syr:ipathet by Johnsun 12 . Transition; Kenney
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • we did the State of the Union address in 1968 we actually rehearsed it thirteen times. He went through it and he'd tear it up and he'd add to it and the staff writers were there. As we were rehearsing again--it's now about eight-fifteen at night
Oral history transcript, Betty Furness Midgley, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • had written "consumer interests" three times on one piece of paper; that's all the notes I had made. rattled than even I knew. I was more But Mr. Macy explained what this job was. I did know Esther Peterson who held the job at that time. her