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Oral history transcript, Emmett Shelton, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • during prohibition. during prohibition times. what it was. Williamson, the Williamson House, that's Mrs. Williamson was a real good cook, and that's where we had our training table. one year. And then Mrs. Penn ran the training table Then back up
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • this was a basic principle of government by the consent of the governed, that it would strengthen \ the Union, that we would have a bulwark of defense at the time when that seemed like a very sensitive area, right opposite Soviet Russia, and so on and so forth
Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • time to time I would send memoranda giving my thoughts on speeches or anything else for that matter directly to the President, always providing the Secretary of State with a copy of what I sent the President, so from then on I followed this channel
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • program-H: Important to your state-- GM: That's correct. Johnson wanted me to understand that in the most agricultural state in the union if I supported John Kenaedy I was supporting a man who a short time before that had blasted the whole
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 4 (IV), 1/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • yesterday that there were a good many interagency committees and panels where the members were designated as the secretaries in charge of the cabinet departments. In fact, the time of these cabinet officers would be wholly consumed if they attended even one
  • ; early Committee meetings; resistance to the terms of the commitment, conflicts of interest, and fear that time spent in government work could hinder career development; LBJ signing a work program executive order January 19, 1969, so that the Nixon
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 10 (X), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and the executive branch. He also represented the government in the Supreme Court, but not elsewhere unless by special arrangement and with added fees. It wasn't even a full-time job to be attorney general in those days. Not until 1870 was the Department of Justice
  • or departmental regulations rather than by legislation; the impact of government contracting power and unions; penalties for violating the National Labor Relations Act; congressional concern that the executive branch would act beyond its proper authority
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • than I am." I said, "Yes, sir, but we've found that they've gone through trying times on security and they really feel they need the protection now. What we've done, Mr. President, we've placed certain security within that podium, and so we would prefer
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • anecdote that you did not tal k about on tape was the introduction to Jack Dempsey. Do you recall the first time you met him? K: Yes. You remember that Lottie Dexter Dempsey was a guest for at least three weeks or something like that in Tom MartinIs
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Oh, yes. G: We talked about that a little bit last time. B: Yes. Yes. G: Were you aware at the time that there were different--? B: There were some differences of opinion, yes, but not in my view serious ones. I think the position taken
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • don't know--I guess a lot of labor union money went in to help Johnson at that time. We wanted to win it, and almost did. F: Yes. He may have. Who knows? R: In fact, I think we did. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, John P. (Gen.) McConnell, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : Maybe so. McS: I'd like to begin by asking you if you recall your first meeting with Mr. Johnson and your earliest impressions of him. McC: Yes, of course, I'd testified before him several times in various capacities when he was a senator on the Hill
Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • much together? M: Never, never. The only time 1 can remember the President ever coming to the Hill was for State of the Union addresses. seeing President Johnson on the Hill. I never remember He may have been there. down to the White House
Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • thought a Secretary would have to be . 17 I think the Farmers Union, Grain Terminal Association, had quite some influence at that time on selections, especially its then and long-time and only upto-then head, M . W . Thatcher . He announced a few days
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 5 (V), 3/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1972 INTERVIEWEE: J. J. (JAKE) PICKLE INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Congressman Pickle's office, Cannon Building, Washington, D.C. Tape l of l F: Jake, where were you at the time of the assassina tion? What had you been doing to set up
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • meetings the last time we broke up, and I'd like a little sort of assay of what they were like. W: It's a little difficult to dredge this out of mind. those that normally stick very deep. staf£ ~eetings It 1 s not one of I don 1 t think we had any
Oral history transcript, Logan Wilson, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a number of times. He and Mrs. Johnson were in our home on at least one occasion for a dinner. at Johnson City. He was a mem- We have been out to their place We weren't intimately acquainted, but sufficiently so to be on a first-name basis when he
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • fill in briefly here? Well first ~ want to thank you very much, Paul, for not attempting to tell the entire story of my checkered career! have, as basic job of course, f~r most of that time I been teaching at the University of Texas; and for brief
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • popular maybe some of these other things would be carried along with it. B: Anyone working on this would have to read that. Actually space at the time was a comparatively minor part of that message, the second State of the Union message. W: Right. I
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . nature." You say "aggressors of this You know, I'm not sure if any prospective aggression has exactly the same characteristic as any other prospective aggression. Certainly in that case it took me a long time to get over the watershed and to see
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in Austin on Board of Regents business, for the Univers ity of Texas, or do you know why you \'1ere in Austi n? You must have spent a lot of time there in those days, anyway. P: I remember that. I was on the Board of Regents in 1937, and I also had
Oral history transcript, Lewis Mayhew, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Mayhew -- I -- 2 M: I served that institution from 1947 to 1959. During all this time, my professional interests moved capriciously around. I was originally trained
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Kennedy and Robert Kennedy right after President Eisenhower's State of the Union address in January. Do you recall any of the significance to that meeting? R: No. I don't remember it at all, and I doubt if there was any unusual significance
Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • as to whether or not to deploy the Anti-Ballistic Missile System; a similar meeting recently at the time of the decision to suspend bombing totally in North Vietnam. And at the occasion of the using of Army forces in Detroit at the time of the civil disorders
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 7 (VII), 1/18/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , administrative. G: And was he to replace anyone? J: No, I just hadn't had one. Sort of learn the ropes and take that over eventually. Mr. Johnson just felt like maybe I was overworked. G: Now the Marshall Plan came up at this time and was a big issue
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that question so he must have made me sensitive in some way to the fact that he wanted to keep [Gardner] Ackley out front. G: When we concluded last time, you were talking, recounting what Ackley had said about the need for restraint. C: Yeah
Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Opportunity; the time is 2:30 on Wednesday, November 20, 1968. Mr. Harding, perhaps I should start out by asking how you first became acquainted with President Johnson. H: Well, the first personal contact that I had with President Johnson was in probably
Oral history transcript, Willard J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • is in his office in Washington, D.C. at the Coast Guard headquarters. The date is December 10, 1968; the time is ten-thirty. My name is David McComb. First of all, Admiral Smith, I'd like to know where you were born and when. S: I was born in Michigan
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was trying to fix the date when you scheduled this informal discussion, and my mind went racing back. As near as I can fix the time, it must have been in his first term in Congress. I don't think that I had met him, I may have, when he was on the staff
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 B: Did you have the same sort of problems with Mr. Johnson's relations with the press during the campaign that you had before that that you were describing last time
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . But it was a terrible position for the President to be in, and I don't just mean in small political senses--I mean in terms of a distinct upset to the country just at a time when it needed to settle down and digest what had happened in the way of the election ; and he
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the maximum extent. At that time, we were talking about three miles beyond their border for Tidelands. Now we're talking about two hundred miles, and it looks very much like this is what the world's going to come to, and the reason being that the Japanese
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Majored in economics, M.A. in 1950, Ph.D. much later, ten years later at the University of f·iaryldlld, gotten part-time while vwrk-ing at the Council of Economic Advisers. M: And your Ph.D. also in economics? S: In economics, risht. I spent rt;ost
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • time to all the Vietnamese, North and South. It is a sort of a combination of Christmas, New Year, and Easter. I've been told by Vietnamese or Southeast Asian experts that this period of family reunification or celebration hadn't been violated
Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • dead now. R: Oh, he is? I didn't know that. G: He was around for a long time. R: He came here in 1919. I used to like to have coffee with him and listen to him talk about what it was back in those days. I believe--well, I know it was Speaker Sam
Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 2 (II), 3/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ERIC TOLMACH INTERVIEWER: STEVE GOODELL PLACE: Mr. Tolmach's office, OEO, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Last time when the tape ran out we were talking about Community Action in the task force period, and I think that the last question
Oral history transcript, Llewellyn B. Griffith, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/15/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LLEWELLYN B. GRIFFITH, SR. INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Library, Austin, Texas MG: Let's get this on tape, the first time you met Lyndon Johnson. LG: Yes. I was the chief engineer of the WPA for the Central Texas area
Oral history transcript, Ruby G. Martin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • a great deal of time with Doug Cater. And I know that when the chips were down, the White House always supported this program, sometimes on the basis of fact and sometimes just on faith because we didn't have time to gather the facts. I personally feel
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was honored that he asked me, in part at the suggestion of his son George, who had been the assistant secretary of labor and with whom I'd worked. Ambassador Lodge knew that I'd traveled in the Soviet Union with Bob Kennedy, who of course had defeated his
  • . to Vietnam for the first time; Victor Krulak-Joseph Mendenhall visit; Jocko [John] Richardson and John Mecklin; Rufus Phillips; General Paul Harkins; Mike Dunn; Bill Trueheart; security for Ambassador Lodge; Lou Conein; coup of 1963 and meeting Diem an hour
Oral history transcript, Roman Pucinski, interview 1 (I), 12/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Quite a man. P: A beautiful story about Mr. Sam: Mr. Sam never called me Pucinski; he had some sort of a mental block. Every time I was in the well seeking recognition he would say, "The gentleman from Illinois, Mr. Puccini." He did that for, oh
Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , or wanted recommendations on how to cure rural poverty, poverty in rural America, within ten years. Angeles. And that came just about the time of the riots in Watts in Los That weekend I sat down and did a lot of talking back and forth with my wife who