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Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- V -- 2 really a rather funny thing. The Republicans had operated under the mythology for many years that the Yalta agreements signed by Roosevelt had been treacherous agreements which turned over all kinds of things to the Soviet Union. Well
Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • -time job, and supposedly was given a half-day Ivork. So during that summer I went to school from eight to twelve, reported to ,mrk immediately thereafter, and asually left about twelve or one that night. I found out most of my part-time jobs
Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • deal . I remember talking with LBJ on this subject one time and I said, "I'm not sure that you understand the aid program in India thoroughly, but I know your grandfather would ." He asked, "What do you mean by that?" I said, "Your grandfather
Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the dance was to be held, I met a hostess who asked me what my fraternity was and I told her Phi Delta Theta. So, some time later, in the course of the afternoon--I didn't intend to stay any more than just to make certain that I could get in there if I
Oral history transcript, George Silver, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1991, by Molly Malone Chesney (Item)
  • that it meant a substantial cut in salary and a move from a place where I had been established for fifteen years, where my children were going to school--and I still had one daughter in school. But the climate of the times was such that everybody was very
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I took some of my consternations over to George Christian, who was the press secretary at the time, who was present at the ranch in Australia when Mr . Johnson was tendered the offer of the kangaroos . George said he had enough to worry about ; he
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • supporters here in Houston to have him risk a House seat to run for the Senate? S: No. I think I was what you would call an old-time or loyal supporter. I thought he ought to make the race. G: Is that right? S: It's my recollection. G: Even though
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • GOLDSCHMIDT (Tape #1) INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Goldschmidt's horne in New York City November 6, 1974 MG: Let's start from the beginning and the first time you met Lyndon Johnson. EG: Well, I met him in a very characteristic way
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was to illustrate the fact that Mr. Weisl, who is Johnson's long-time friend in New York and his lawyer, became his committeman in New York City. Yet he had met few members of the press. Mike O'Neill knew the President very well; if I gave the impresston otherwise
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 5 (V), 4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the seeds for inflation by not getting a substantial tax increase in 1966. But by the time he had decided not to run again, he obviously had reached the conclusion that a tax increase was absolutely essential. And he had tried for 2 LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, James A. Shannon, interview 1 (I), 4/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • which we can then go into some of the material. S: Okay. Well, I was born and brought up in New York City and spent the bulk of my time there, except when I was away at school, until about 1946. I graduated from the College of the Holy Cross
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Waldron -- I -- 2 W: Yes. I knew Senator Wirtz before he died. G: What were your impressions of him at that time? W: Truly~ my impression
Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 3 (III), 7/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that was a key policy difference, and it continues to this day. There are just an awful lot of people who have a much closer eye on what the utility is making than on keeping the level of rates down in the long run. G: How was it resolved at the time? S: As I
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the situation. In 1941 Senator Morris Sheppard died and my brother ran for the vacancy. At that time the law said that the governor could name a successor up until an election was held and then the high man--it didn't take a majority, you see--would
Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in 1961 . I assume he was acting on the advice of other people because he had never met me before . The first time I ever saw him was in his office in February of 1961 and on that occasion he asked me to take over the job as Director of Defense
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 2 (II), 1/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh January 17, 1969 M: This is the second taped interview with Mr. Frederick Deming. The date is January 17, 1969; again, the interview is in his office; the time is 4:10 in the afternoon; and my name is David McComb. Now
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --the Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee--started because of the very panicky reaction throughout the country to the firing of the first Soviet space satellite, Sputnik I. At that time our space program was in its incipiency and it wasn't getting a great deal
  • ; problems with Interior Department; shift to Civil Division; Pure and Union Oil; critical of Ramsey Clark as Attorney General; LBJ’s difficulties with Establishment press; missile/satellite program investigation; LBJ’s neglect of functions as leader
Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , an old Moscow callow colleague [?J. I'd been up to Saigon on a long visit one time, so I knew the situation up there, the physical situation. Then I came back and I was briefed in the department and in the Pentagon and in the CIA and everything else
  • Assignment to Vietnam; situation there at the time; view of Diem in late 1950s; Wolf Ladejinsky; land reform; problems with relocation program; the Montagnards; conflict with General Sam Williams; MAAG and the embassy; Williams and Diem
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • did you first get aware of I guess about the same time I did. I became aware of him when he first began running .for Congress, but I didn't know him. F: Did you know him at all before you went to Washington? B: Yes, I did. I'd known him
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . As a matter of fact, Patton at one time had been the regimental commander of the Third Cavalry, in the pre-World War II days. After the war I went to Leavenworth, and upon graduation from Leavenworth was picked up in the staff and faculty in the School
Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . C: The first time I ever ran for public office was in 1961, when I ran for the office of mayor here in Detroit. Prior to that time I had been practicing law here in the city. F: You ran, I gather, pretty much as a lone wolf. C: Yes, I ran
Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1970 INTERVIEWEE: HARRY ASHMORE INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Santa Barbara, California Tape 1 of 3 F: Mr. Ashmore, let's talk first chronologically. let's give a very brief resume of your life up to the time that you began to emerge
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • trip to Texas. Did we mention this last time at all? M: Yes, we did. F: Yes. I think I felt then that the press coverage was so extensive of the trip that there was no particular need to rehearse where we went or what we did. If I'm repeating, we
Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Johnson happened to be in Austin at that time and was gracious enough to come down to the meeting. So I've known Mrs. Johnson through the broadcasting field, and [I met] the President, as I recall, at a meeting in New York. senato~ He was then U.S
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • at that time was in the Treasury Department. So he invited me to join the Budget Bureau LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --the following people: Governor Stevenson, l"Ir. Rayburn, Grace Tully, the driver, and myself. And we drove to the Ranch in Johnson City. F: What was Grace Tully's role in this? M: She was, at the time, I think, one of LBJ's secretaries. had, of course
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Nixon's aspirations at that B : time, and how much help, if any, you received from the national party . Nixon, of course, flatly denied that he had any Presidential ambitions-that he intended to spend four years in Sacramento . But I hammered away from
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 2 (II), 3/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • came aboard? s: Only the most general kind of instructions. At that time Henry Wilson had been in charge of the House side of Congressional relations for the President-well, he'd come in from the Kennedy days, he'd been there since '61
Oral history transcript, William Lewis and Margaret Chase Smith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1975, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: MARGARET CHASE SMITH INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Senator Smith's home in Skowhegan, Maine 20~ 1975 Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 F: Coming in and out of the:inter~iew was General William Lewis, Senator Smith's long-time administrative
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at Stonewall. You have My two sisters, Rebekah I was conceived on the Ranch and born January 31 right after we moved to Johnson City in November 1913. So I used to kid Lyndon all the time that more people came by to see my home than they did his. G: Your
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: DUDLEY T. DOUGHERTY INTERVIEWER: JOE B. PLACE: Mr. Dougherty's office in Beeville, Texas FR.~NTZ Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 . F: Mr. Dougherty, I suppose what we will do ,is start back at the time when you came in from the war
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 5 (V), 5/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of But they created The mayors were always complaining about them because they didn't have control over them. Originally all Community Action grants went directly to community groups, and the local political types didn't like that at all. Over time, because
Oral history transcript, Sam Fore, Oliver Bruck, Dan Quill, & William S. White, group interview 2 (II), 1/20/1965, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • and it has gone right on up to now. He would have been in his early twenties. F: I think so, I think that is correct. Of course, we had occasion to be associated with him many times while he was a Congressman’s secretary. Along about --when
  • Group interview with Texas newspapermen and long-time political supporters of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the afternoon. The date is March 4, and the time My name is David McComb. P: The year is 1969. M: Yes, you might add that, 1969--somebody may wish to know that 50 years from now. First of all, I'd like to know something about your background, where were
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and restrictions, however he wishes to make it; and that we will type a transcript, send it to him to edit, and at the same time, give him a legal form with which he can express his restrictions as he sees fit. The tape, t h e transcript, the legal release form
Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Proxmire -- I -- 3 some time. He's a fine, brilliant man, and he was very helpful. I just--I should be able to remember. I
Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the deep depreSSion days), and I had only had that position a short time; about a post office. I I was satisfied and didn't know anything told him that, but he said I'd make a good one and insisted that I accept it, which I did. ?: Have you been
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was [Robert] McNamara's lawyer for those hearings. You may recall that as we saw the major issue in the hearings, the issue was whether or not the civilian leadership in the Pentagon and President Kennedy, at that time, had the right, in effect, to censor
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • regarding Vietnam. You had a handful of members who were registering concern. That number grew as time went on, and it became particularly a problem when you had staunch supporters of the President's Vietnam policy expressing concern. So you have
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Senator Johnson, and the popularity of the highway program on both sides, I think we got some Republican votes like George Aiken and Leverett Saltonstall, people like that who voted contrary to the wishes of the administration. G: At the time these votes