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Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 3 (III), 1/21/70, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • by the Navy Department indicates that they are going to close down either Boston or New York and they reach the conclusion--as to terms of naval yards--and they reach the conclusion that in terms of cost and expense and evaluation it's about even-Stephen, I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was it? On the first of November, on Monday morning, the New York Times ran this story about LBJ is "sputtering mad," and he called me. Even at the time it was amusing; I had a hard time keeping a straight face. He was chewing my ass out, furious about this story. He
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Milton P. Semer, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of Illinois, the late Senator [Herbert] Lehman of New York, and [Jacob] Javits when he came in in the fifties, and former Senator Joe Clark, who was from Philadelphia. That's how he put them together. G: Yes, but he convinced the Democrats to vote against
  • ; the problem of OEO potentially taking over issues for which other departments had been responsible; why a new agency was created for the War on Poverty; the accelerated public works program; criticism of Community Action Programs; opposition to public housing
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that Ambassador /Henry Cabot/ Lodge took under those instructions--which was, in effect, to go to the military and say if you want to start something new, we won't be against you--those had the effect of setting in motion all the thinking and so on that in turn
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • : Is it possible? S: Yes. H: I think all things are possible and we got over the hurdle of non-contiguous island states with Hawaii. states with Hawaii. And also we got over the hurdle of multiracial In view of what we've done in New York in permitting
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would have had to have come through Nelson Rockefeller. I mean, the one and only time I saw the President with Nelson Rockefeller was when Archbishop [Terence] Cooke was ordained in New York, and the President met with Rockefeller. G: He
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • dates, because that is on a written record. W: But I recall vividly the following Monday. that, but it was a Monday. I don't know the date of Mr. Weisl came in--Ed Weisl from New York-- and his assistant was Cy Vance, as everybody knows by now. Mr
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ." One was 24-inch, and I think the other was 12-inch, if I recall. Came from Texas up to New York. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at Newsday in New York as a journalist. And here was a guy who had been to a Baptist seminary. He was an ordained minister, wasn't he? G: Yes. I guess the question really goes to the matter of whether Bill Moyers was promoting his own image with the press
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • by a New York News man, "The Frantic Gentleman from Texas ? 11 G: Bil 1 v!hite. R: No. White was with the New York Times. News. He was a very Irish fellow; I can't think of it at the moment. He's quite well knm·m. 11 He's retired now. The Frantic
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • is it?" "It says that the President sent three emissaries to New York to get a copy of your manuscript. It's on the front page of the Washington Post [and it'sJ by Maxine Cheshire. And it says one publisher said he couldn't print it, but he would pay five
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . He happened to be my guide over there. He's from New York. But 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
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , what he did to support it. J: He supported it with everything he had. Tape 2 of 2 G: Okay. J: He felt that they're taking Texas gas and selling it in New York, that the fellow who took it out of the ground ought to be able to sell
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 15 (XV), 12/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had lunch with Fowler on Friday. C: Yes, on that subject I'm sure and at whatever point we knew--they must have acted that morning--Fowler called the President to tell him. Now on the sixth, the New York Times story, I don't know whether [Bill
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 2 (II), 8/14/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • -known journalists later on: Neil Sheehan from the New York Times, who was by then chief of the Associated Press in Saigon, and many of the very famous journalists who became well-known after the coup of Mr. Diem, [David] Halberstam, and so forth. G: D
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Birch Bayh, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bayh -- I -- 9 Bird, as he called Mrs. Johnson, was shopping in New York, so we sat there and ate and heard him reminisce, and we ended up about 11 o'clock at night with him in the back seat of that big chauffeured limousine
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a big part of his life and a big part of his companionship. He looked up to the old chairman, Carl Vinson from Georgia, with the greatest admiration and affection. And then he had a lot of other good friends on there, too: Sterling Cole I think of New
  • death; Harry Truman receiving the news of FDR's death at Sam Rayburn's "board of education;" LBJ's relationship with FDR; Milo and Tharon Perkins; President Truman's friends; LBJ's level of conservatism, especially following FDR's death; KTBC sending
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, on November 28, 1928 . I was brought up most of my life in Passaic, New Jersey ; went to public schools there and met my wife there . Then I did my undergraduate and graduate work both at Columbia in New York City
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . start from the beginning. But let's The first major task we had was in late September when Goldberg came down to Washington from New York and said that U Thant had just come back from Moscow and was convinced that the Russians were ready to use
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in New York with a young cous in of mine. M: Sullivan and Cromwell, wasn't it? B: I've forgotten. M: Yes. B: So at least some good Democrats carne out of Dewey's office. It was in Dewey's office. But Joe kept in close contact. I'm going back
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and we agreed on it. I took leave from my paper for three months in 1944, went to New York and worked out of the Biltmore Hotel during that campaign--Roosevelt's last campaign. Truman was the vice presidential candidate. Basically I was in charge
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Peter Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • not make any headway. So time went along, and I forgot all about it. A letter came from the director of the Whitney Museum in New York City, Lloyd Goodrich. I didn't actually know him at the time, but I've met him since and we've laughed about
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • never really told him what I thought about it, which is very simple. The trouble with Johnson and Viet Nam was that he was too clever by half. He had 150,000 troops on the ground before the New York Times admitted we were in a major war, literally
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • American culture, so if you compare the twenty-year-olds in Chicago or New York or Memphis with the twenty-year-olds in the army, they are pretty much the same, you know, background and culture-wise. Now, it's true that if you take this guy and he migrates
  • Agent Orange; health requirements for returning to the U.S. from Vietnam; self-inflicted wounds; drug use among soldiers in Vietnam; post-traumatic stress disorder and related problems; the psychological development of people before they join
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was younger and more energetic in those days. G: Now, in February of 1964 American Banker Association President William Kelly made a speech in New York deploring the lack of cooperation and the overlapping of the three federal agencies involved
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 10 (X), 6/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • around the country. I remember sitting with Tony in New York exchanging ideas by way of spots. If you remember, we were pretty hard-hitting, to the extent that they are still talking about the little girl with the daisy. You know, that is cited
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the last years of his life was at breakfast in the Tudor Hotel in New York one morning. I was sitting in the dining room when Aubrey, staying at the same hotel, \'Jalked in and we had breakfast together. But I think this was even before he left
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to a fellow, let's say you've got a guy and he's running the Bellevue Hospital in New York City, and the ambulances are going in and out of there one a minute. And you say, "Well, now, suppose you had two Bellevue Hospitals. Do you think you'd have more
  • fully funded; Shriver trying to get Mrs. Johnson to sponsor Head Start as a new innovative program; the differences between Civilian Conservation Corps participants and Job Corps students; the urgent need for education as well as sociological
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a correspondent for the New York Times. himself [was] a Democrat. mugwump. He had a Bill As for myself, I have always been a He filled that paper with the Democratic story from start· to finish, all of which or most of which he got from Lyndon or from LBJ
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Conrad L. Wirth, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CONRAD L. WI RTH INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Wirth's office, RCA Building, New York City Tape 1 of 1 F: Mr. Wirth, tell us first briefly something of your own background and how you came to be looked upon as an outstanding
  • National Park Service, 1928-1964; CCC; New Deal; LBJ State Park; National Capital Planning Commission
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Jack Howard, interview 1 (I), 10/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • uninterest- ing for me because it was a circulation war and there was no room for good heavy news. It had to be feature and light stuff, and I was interested in more serious implications. So I came to Washington in 1960, worked on the subcommittee, did
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joe W. Fleming II, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • recently that state boundaries may even be anachronistic. I'm thinking specifically of the New York-New Jersey area. F: I think they are. I don't think there's any question about that. But to paraphrase Churchill's comment about democracy, the state
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the sufferance of a population. F: But the people are there for the next generation. C: Yes. The New York Times, and some of our foreign correspondents abroad, are married(and this must be a very real problenY. and continue to live there. They marry
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • mixed up on dates at this point, but-­ G: The letter was 1957. R: It was 1957? The letter itself was actually written by Jim Rowe, but the concepts were Johnson's. I think that the letter leaked out to the [New York] Herald Tribune somehow. We
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • space in that building on New York Avenue. I think that was while I was still [there]. That was task force space, yes. We just outgrew. G: Did the task force have a shortage of operating and planning funds during this stage? Y: We operated
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Anthony Partridge, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that on the whole the poor didn't get their deserts out of northern city government either. On the other hand, I think we were probably much more likely to accept a degree of city domination in New York, for instance, than in a lot of other [places], let's say
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Dorothy V. Bush, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was because we would have the largest television coverage . days, television didn't go beyond the Mississippi River . In those In the East, and in Philadelphia, we would have the New York audience and the Washing­ ton one . It was just a great big exciting
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the staff. I never shall forget the neutrality session. Even though I lived at the Dodge and worked at what was then called the New House Office Building--I believe it's now the Longworth Building--and I walked right by that Capitol twice a day at least, we
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEl~EE: DONALD C. COOK INTERVIEVJER: THOMAS PLACE: Mr. Cook's Office, 2 Broadway, New York. H. BAKER Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, if "Ie may begin at the beginning, I know that you first went to work for tk. Johnson in 1943. Did you have any acquain
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . The transportation modes are You may use high-speed rail, you may use highways, or you may take to the air to get from Washington to New York. It was becoming increasingly evident in the late forties and early fifties, when the Bureau of the Budget staff was doing
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)