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Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- . various places. Just met them--met him, rather, at Of course, they didn't campaign together. They didn't go too many places together, but sometimes our paths would cross at airports. M: Were you in New York when they had that meeting
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- conditions as the residents of Resurrection City lived. One of these fellows was Paul Ballantine [?] of the Washington Post, whom I understood right after Resurrection City undertook to write a book about it. But I have not seen it published. As a matter
- to force a confrontation over not applying for a permit; selecting the name "Resurrection City" and why the original name, "City of Hope," was not used; negotiating the terms of the permit and a bond; Solidarity Day June 19, 1968; a demonstration by New
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (TAPE iP5) July 31, 1969 This is a continued session with Mr. Henry Fowler, former Secretary of the Treasury. The interview is in his office in Goodman Sachs and Com- pany in New York City, 55 Broad Street. The date
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 49 (XLIX), 7/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
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- force that Andrews [Air Force Base] had. G: The JetStars? C: The JetStars. And saying that he wanted the cabinet officers using the King Air for short flights instead of wasting all the money it cost to fly a JetStar. So if they had to fly to New York
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- man, Franklin Lincoln, who was a partner in the law firm in New York City of which Mr. Nixon was a member. Then that designation of Mr. Lincoln was reaffirmed after the election. So I worked with him some before the election and continued to work
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 43 (XLIII), 3/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
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- Congress and the public. This was in the New York Times. Let's see, 9-13 [September 13]. C: I don't. G: To what extent would the administration, on something like this, brief the Republican leadership and supply them with, or furnish them
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- in it later, left the government actually, went to New York, lived there. G: When was this? In 1952? J: In 1952, before we went on the air. advertising in New York. world. Went off the payroll and sold Thought I was the hottest salesman
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- it. As a matter of fact he signed the passed Immigration and Naturalization Act in front of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. I was so impressed because we had important immigration responsibilities in the health area. We main- tained posts overseas
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- : After Yarmolinsky got offed by the Congress, and the President basically, I can remember Edgar returning finally from New York, and his first day back actually, Shriver called you in, explained that he didn't really have that much feeling for what had
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- in the country except New York and Michigan. F: Even the most rigid white politician has to pay some attention to that number of votes. 14 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
- and Senator John Stennis; Evers as NAACP field director; work for education; housing; employment; Ramsey Clark; Lady Bird's Dixie tour; federal programs in Mississippi; friends Charles Percy of Illinois and Nelson Rockefeller of New York; SNCC; CORE; SCLC
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Benjamin Payton"--who's now president of Tuskegee and who was then a scholar-in-residence at the Protestant Church Council in New York--"has written about you and the Moynihan Report?" He said, "No." I said, "Well, you ought to look at it." Pat sneered
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 2 (II), 11/23/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- feelers. Recently a couple of books ha~e come -23- out detailing an opposition nongovernment view. You've probably been familiar with Ashmore-Baggs and Kraslow-Loor~ /JJ.arry S. Ashmore and William C. Baggs, Mission to Hanoi (New York: 1968); David
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- with whatever U. N. facilities, translators and so forth, which could be made available. And that, as I understand it, is the essence of what U Thant told Stevenson. Stevenson apparently did not write any of this down, and subsequently when I went up to New
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- it and trace it? M: I think the New York Times' version, which appeared a few days after Newsweek was published, is a better version, at least so far as I know. I saw Charles Roberts on the Friday before this piece was published for lunch. He had completed
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 24 (XXIV), 2/6/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
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- although he overdid it of keeping all the Kennedy people on that he possibly could. The--I know that Bill White was one of the first to pound that home to him, Bill White of The New York Times--but he-- G: That he overdid it? R: Yes. Johnson definitely
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
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- ://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 Califano -- X -- 4 White and Governor Collins to meet Pat Brown in New York when he
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- , 1973 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE E. LEVINSON INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Mr. Levinson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 L: I'm sitting here on November 2, 1973, and we're all musing about the Watergate and the fate of the presidency
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
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- if there are so many blacks in the community, then all the whites would run for cover and then it all becomes black. So the New Jersey Civil Rights Commission ran that up the flagpole--I think it was New Jersey; it might have been New York--as an idea that maybe
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- considered Mr. Goldwater, and I recall we considered at considerable length Governor Rockefeller of New York. We gave quite a lot of attention 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- or $7 a ton across the board in what President Kennedy thought was a direct violation of an agreement he had. They had a bitter confrontation and President Kennedy sent Arthur Goldberg, who was then Secretary of Labor, and me to New York. We went
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb
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- . On one occasion this organization went to New York--J've forgotten why, but it was a convention--and we were on the train together. The thing LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Clements was also impressed with your independence and helped get the money from a source in New York or some place, a liberal source. M: They did raise some outside money, and I never did know or pay much attention where it came from. The Committee
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- her and two other girls to New York on a shopping spree and he picked up the tab. In the long run she was the winner. I only mention these two instances to prove we all have our good days and our bad days and that we all are only human, even Presidents
- LBJ's personality; how Stegall met LBJ; LBJ's prank on Glynn Stegall involving Glynn's new car; LBJ's involvement in the Little Congress; how the Stegalls went to work for LBJ; LBJ's efforts to make his staff work harder; LBJ's assistance when Glynn
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 45 (XLV), 5/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
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- . Financial writers on-- G: Does it indicate who you talked to? C: Well, obviously I gave Ed [Edwin] Dale the Times--I gave Bart Rowan a one-on-one and I gave Ed Dale of the New York Times a one-on-one, in the morning. And then I had Stanley Wilson, Al
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- as their personal staff, who they are paying directly, etc., that there is a different relationship than those whom you have obviously recruited on a different basis to the post that they hold. And I sure never heard it done to anybody that could be regarded
- so well, a 1924 model new Ford, Model T, that did not have a battery ; we always cranked it . He wasn't privileged to campaign very much because my mother was ill and because he was making a crop, as well as teaching school . went with him, I'd say
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
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- of volunteer labor that you had, you look at it now and you're just amazed. I remember one little boy looked at his mother and said rather plaintively, "Mama, when are we going to have something to eat besides Post Toasties?" (Laughter) Because she would work
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (TAPE =lF2) April 22, 1969 This is a second session with Mr. Henry H. Fowler, former Secretary of the Treasury. I am in his offices in New York City. The date is April 22, 1969, and my name is David McComb. Last time you
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- post? S: Primarily what they turned out to be--namely, managing the Bureau of the Census. It's a big organization, some 4500 or 5000 employees. Its primary task is managerial, and the relation of the Bureau to other work in the Department
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- out of the Naval Personnel Department. WD: Burea u of Personnel. JD: And he was going to New York to be shipped overseas. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
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- was more of a legend than a figure we really knew. Bob Wagner of New York, we came to know his son much better in later days. He, too, was just somebody that we knew through legend. So I think that about covers my memories of the chief ones. A dinner party
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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- , thought about what I would do when I finished school; I knew I wanted to travel, I had never been out of Texas, and either perhaps have a job in New York or Washington or Europe. At any rate I happened to be discussing with Judge Powell's secretary one day
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- that there are any intelligent people outside of Cambridge and New York, possibly a few in Boston. And they were laying for him. I think the war in Vietnam had more to do with stimulating and exacerbating the situation than anything else. M: Mr. Johnson
- House; dealt with Cater, McPherson or Middleton; Temple of Dendur; proposed Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars; some of best new members chosen by the President; most significant achievement was survival; controversial grants; successful programs
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- decided that the people that he admired in the Senate were Paul Douglas and Wayne Morse, and both were loners. Senator [Herbert] Lehman from New York was not psychologi- cally a loner but his issues made him a loner, too. But I think Prox consciously
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- saw my name in there--he was there for INS or Hearst--and he said, "Gee, if Beech is going to go, I got to go, too, or else I'll get a rocket from the New York Journal American "--or at least that's what I think he was thinking--and Jim Lucas . So
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- liberal congressmen--well, the most liberal in Texas by far. But he ranked along with [Vito] Marcantonio of New York, kind of commie, communist. G: Of course Maury wasn't. With the tension between your brother and Mrs. Kleberg, did you have a hard time
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- post." I wrote President Johnson a letter, that's in the files, saying that I would stay so long as he wanted me to unless I felt that my contribution outside government would be greater than inside--but basically saying, "You can count on me." My next
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- 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
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Eisenhower. Now, Truman, without consulting anybody--I guess talked to his labor friends--endorsed Averell Harriman, who was the governor of New York. So Senator Johnson and some of them had, I believe, been supporting Senator Russell. Senator Kerr
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Kenneth E. BeLieu, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
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- room, and a call came from New York from Eileen Galloway. She said, "Senator Johnson was talking on the plane about a staff director for the Space Committee, and I brought your name up and his eyes lit up and he said, 'That's it!'" I said, "Well, I'm up
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)