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Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 2 (II), 1/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Program and then went on up as budget director, I think, or some like office for Mayor Lindsay in New York; and a young woman who had been working at the Bureau of the Budget named Anne Oppenheimer. I did a major part of the development of the VISTA
Presidential Task Force on the War on Poverty; drafting War on Poverty bill; Shriver’s dual responsibilities; Community Action; Adam Yarmolinksy episode; problems of the new agency; Legal Service problems; return to the Justice Department
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of them--as the guest of Argentina and Brazil, we got off at one of those places down there. There was a New York Times article that they were quoting that it was rumored that I was to be selected as Secretary of Commerce. But that's all I knew, and I

Oral history transcript, Terrel Maverick Webb, interview 1 (I), 1/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that was one of the cutest things that ever happened. F: I want to get .it down. W: All right. Just before we were married, in December of 1961, I was in New York, about in November--October or November--at the same time Lyndon Johnson and many of his
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and I think to silence the dissent on Vietnam. The thnust of Westmoreland's speech to the newspaper publishers in New York was that we had the enemy beaten militarily and the only question was whether we would lose the war in the Senate
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and public meetings all over the country. Then I would grab my hat at noon and fly across the country to make the speech to some place in Alabama or New York City. Quite often, the only speaker I could get on short notice was myself. I became acquainted
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that's how I got interested and that's how it sort of came on the agenda, as I remember it. The council then carried forward with sort of not only responding to questions from the White House but putting new thoughts forward. I notice in April 25, 1963
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in New York," or some other place. F: Did you present points yourself, or was this sort of an amalgam that he cut down into? H: These points were taken out of speeches he had made, positions he held, et cetera, and he would try to pick two or three
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 14 Horgantown, \.Jest City. Vir;~i [l i.a., and then the next day up to New York He made a series of three- four
LBJ and anti-war demonstrators; George W. Romney; New Hampshire campaign; getting ready for the 1968 election; writing for Hubert Humphrey; the Humphrey campaign and LBJ’s role in it; Moyers leaving the staff; becoming a full-fledged LBJ staff

Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the clippings from the Ho us ton paper. Let me know how my health problems and everything are being reqarded down there. Go by the Chronicle and the Post and see what you can find and nose around a little bit. 11 This is early in the campaign. weren't off
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George McArthur, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. No, it wasn't the Majestic. But you could go in there and get information on anything that you wanted. You could go in there and get a helicopter; you could go in there and--you just name it, it was there. I've told you about Joe Fried, the New York Daily News
Lansdale's missions to Vietnam and his reputation in Vietnam; John Paul Vann; journalists Denis Warner and Wilfred Burchett; the battle of Ia Drang; Stanley Karnow; spies that worked for news agencies in Vietnam; Ward Just; Charles Mohr; Peter Braestrup
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] 23 W: As I was self-appointed, acting press secretary, a couple of people--I remember Maggie Hunter of the New York Times was one of them--said, 11 Let us go down and see the President's office
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and put things in perspective, and ran into California delegates, Ohio delegates, Pennsylvania and New York delegates. They all said, "The world's coming to an end." Then I ran into some southern delegates, including Texas delegates, and they said
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 5 (V), 10/30/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, at that point, to interject the story about him showing the scar. That date, I believe, was October 29 that he-- G: Well, October 21 is the day the New York Times carried the picture. H: Okay, the twenty-first [Times] carried the picture. The hospital
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. in New York. J: I recall there was discussion. Lyndon talked about the fact that if he wanted to--you told me the man's name was Adams, I'd forgotten-Mr. Adams would hire him and subject him to a training program and after that he'd be a lobbyist. I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, in trying to placate the [John] Brickers and the Bridges and the Knowlands, for strictly partisan purposes leaked to the New York Times the full Yalta Conference Papers, which when read in that context, just cold print, it certainly gave the appearance
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. M: Someone else, an Edna Ferber, can have you work on their papers or give them away, and there's a limited interest. But anything a presi- dent has done at any point in his life is a subject of news and can be a subject of either friendly or very
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

ought to enter the twentieth century. Letrs get going with it. I felt that this was strong enough motivation for the simple reason that Wyoming has two Senators just like New York or California or Texas; and that therefore a new Senator LBJ
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to describe that President's Club dinner in New York at the Waldorf. J: Let me ask a question then. Were there two Waldorf dinners while I was there? G: There could easily have been. Could have had one each year. J: Yes. I don't think I went
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of appreciation to Senator Kerr for his services to the state. Don Cook of the American [Electric Service Power Corp]--of the utility of New York--the man, whom Mr. Johnson asked to be Secretary of the Treasury, was speaking, and I was at the head table
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

every accommodation that you could get at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. You could have a radio, you could have lights, you could have refrigeration, and you could have everything that they had in the Waldorf-Astoria with a good highway, a good
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 3 (III), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to \'lrite an app1 ication for them. Another was: That was one of the big tough ones. many of the procedures were written by city boys, which is the reason therels a food shortage in Soviet Russia now. Marx lrlaS a city boy. There wa s a New York Times
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the earliest days, and Vice President Johnson had been interested, too, along the way. memoria 1 bust of Byrd done by Fel i x de Avenue of the Heroes. \~el He dedicated this don, and it I S on a new The plan was to have the statues of the great heroes
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

they were really thinking of him as a new day in Texas politics. I was so much convinced about what they had in mind that some time after he became the Minority Leader I asked Senator Stuart Symington if he would arrange a meeting for me. Senator Symington
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: Durbrow, yes. L: Yes. G: Did you know about that? L: Well, yes, we had a fair amount of that kind of difficulty. something new. Here was Here was something new, ambassadors having as a part of their activities a military organization and so forth
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frank Ikard, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

been meeting over here," they were staying at the hotel across the street, the Ambassador, and he said, "He's our choice, and we have every reason to think this will happen." F: Now by "our choice" who is our? I: New York, and this group was very
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 2 (II), 09/10/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)

, the state of Texas will not honor a taxi bill in excess of two dollars and fifty cents. Okay. It happened last time I was in New York interviewing Larry Levinson. He was tied up on something when I went to see him. I had, I think, a 4:10 plane out at Kennedy
How Frantz joined the National Historical Publications Commission; LBJ’s practice of allowing other people to announce good news; Nixon administration’s trouble finding Frantz’s replacement; Marietta Brooks; assembling an advisory board for his
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and '68? H: I wouldn't say that, but I would say this. Wasn't it after Lyndon became President that Bobby resigned as Attorney General? B: Yes, sir. H: Yes. And went to New York and, by golly, got elected senator from New York. That was quite
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 1 (I), 6/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in spite of the fact that where he came from, New York bankers in particular were generally hated and condemned because of foreclosing on mortgages and doing all kinds of things during the Depression years. In other words, it was an ambivalent feeling
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to contract with a New York company, and they provided us with a great number of teleprompters. Now, these were heavy, very heavy things to haul around. There are generally three things that looked like podiums that sat out in front of him and through a piece
to Mexico for LBJ to see a ranch, Las Pampas, he was thinking of buying; LBJ’s growing passion for secrecy; WHCA staff working as farmhands at the Ranch; LBJ’s resentment of Secret Service; LBJ’s radio system in Texas; the New York City blackout; gadgets
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, 1969 INTERVIEHEE: CHARLES FRA11ZEL INTERVIEWER: PAIGE HULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Frankel's office at Columbia University, NeH York City Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by identifying you. You're Charles Frankel, and your government position during
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

as I recall. E: Yes sir, there was. Wayne Morse and Senator (Herbert) Lehman from New York opposed me, and I had Lyndon's support all the way. F: Now you had seniority, as far as seniority was concerned you were definitely in line. But you have
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Was he the kind that would second-guess you? S: No, not too bad. He liked to have his way and all, but that's natural. Well, he had made the contacts about the witnesses, you see, and we had a very able lawyer in New York that was quite helpful and he
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ruby G. Martin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

?" In the North the move toward black schools, I think, is because people are giving up on integration. the schools in Harlem! How are you going to integrate Particularly when white parents are protesting! Look at all the suits that white parents in New York
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Thurgood Marshall, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

at the beckoning of one person. Secondly, it was a $4500 cut in salary. Third, the living expenses in Washington would be twice what I was paying in New York. So she said okay. We kept thinking about it, and the next day the phone rang. He was on the phone again. I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

wanted to see him immediately on this aluminum situation. The man was over there on business. The president of Reynolds Aluminum Company rushed back to New York and called Califano to see when the President wanted to see him and where. Califano's only
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was, believe it or not, by Alexander Jackson Downing . And Alexander Jackson Downing was a landscape architect who lived on the Hudson, up ; north of New York City . He was very young but very bright and he believed in the fundamental principle of the English
-and Merrill; Hirshborn Museum; Lady Bird’s intellectual curiosity; New Mexico Church of Los Trampos.
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that if one were sitting in Washington and reading the newspaper every day, the Washington Post, the New York Times and so on, I think the conclusion would have been inescapable that the Vietnam problem as seen by the LBJ Presidential Library http
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McCarthy -- I -- 20 M: We had Goodell of New York and we had [Albert] Quie and we had what's his
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Get him." So I went hunting for Joe Zimmerman. All I had was the name. Found him in New York. Got him on the phone. G: I show November 16 in my-- C: No, he came down for a meeting we had on the thirteenth, on a Saturday. G: I see, yes. C: I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

Anyhow, we became good friends and she [Bernstein] was a very fine lawyer. Later she became the Regional Attorney in New York, which did not have the same status, of course, but her husband [Bernard Bernstein], who had been in the service during the war
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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