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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 20 (XX), 4/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 O: We have a white paper dated late September, which was a detailed presentation of a campaign in the form of a campaign manual
-finding and support for LBJ in his travel throughout the country; growing concern among Democratic leaders about Vietnam; presidential campaign work and organization prior to 1968; problems in the New Hampshire and Massachusetts primaries; lack of support
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was, and I was aware that he was a supporter of the administration, that he had been identified with it. M: You went off to work for the New York Times, I believe, for a little while. W: I was a Washington correspondent to the St. Paul Pioneer Press
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

congressman's district, and there was a way of rewarding or punishing every congressman through the Post Office, either giving or withholding patronage, putting up new buildings or not putting them up, putting them up on the site that the congressman wanted them
for LBJ; comparison of the White House social life of the Kennedys and the Johnsons; Kappel Commission and reorganization of the Post Office; defection of top level appointees regarding Vietnam policy; Larry O’Brien’s opposition to Vietnam policy
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

said, "Why, he's a He isn't going to be interested in civil I said, "Well, he says he is, and I bel ieve him." I also went to see the editor of the New York Post, and the publisher, Mrs. Schiff. And they both thought I was crazy. IIWhy, he's
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on, you mentioned Mrs. Johnson and the Karnack post office. A: Yes. We desperately needed a new post office in Karnack and I should have been alert enough to have noticed it myself. One of my assistants called the Congressman from Karnack, I believe
Braestrup’s work as a journalist in Southeast Asia for the New York Times; New York Times coverage of Vietnam compared to Time magazine; how journalists covered Vietnam and the danger involved; how Braestrup became Washington Post Bureau Chief; Joe
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, 1974 I NTERV I HJEE: NELSON ROCKEFELLER INTERVI E~IER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Oa 11 as, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: This is an interview with former Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York in the Sheraton Dallas Hotel in Dallas, Texas, on February
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh L. Marks--II--2 a resident of New York or Los Angeles or Washington in order to get a good lesson in physics or chemistry or to have an outstanding teacher talk about
Biographical information; public educational broadcasting legislation; 1960 campaign; liaison with Eastern states; vice presidential nomination; media campaign; LBJ and JFK in New York; LBJ and television; Cuban Missile Crisis; USIA; Vietnam
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, a quivering young reporter from Galveston who most recently was given an administrativeeditorial position on the Houston Post after many years as their Capitol correspondent; Wick Fowler, who was later a war correspondent for the Dallas News; the brilliant
Texas press in 1930s; State Observer; first contact with LBJ; Alvin Wirtz; war years; KTBC radio station; 1944 Democratic state convention; 1944 and 1946 congressional campaigns; speech writing; KTBC and aggressive new policy; UN conference; San
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 2 (II), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. It was close to New York City. It provided start-up capacity for New York City that it badly needed because it came on line quicker than steam did. It made unnecessary additional oil or coal burning in New York City and its environs. The problem was, the real
suggestion that Securities and Exchange Commission powers over the utilities be transferred to the FPC; LBJ's influence on Swidler's work; Swidler's talk to New England power companies and the resulting efforts to integrate and coordinate systems without
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Stewart J.O. Alsop, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. M: As president? A: Yes. I did have one interview with him. Let's see, it was the time of the Detroit riots. When would that have been? Late 1967 I guess. I wanted to see him on some other subject, and I'd had my name in. I was in New York. I got
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 12 (XII), 10/29/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

know, we couldn't get passed until Dr. [Martin Luther] King was assassinated. And even if you look at that--I remember proposing it. It's the only time--and I think if you look at the New York Times or something--I was mentioned in the twenty-fourth
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 31 (XXXI), 12/10/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3, Side 1 O: Watergate has been part of our discussions throughout this oral history. At this point, it might be helpful
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Nelson M. Bortz, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

. She herself, coming from New York as Industrial Commissioner of the state when Roosevelt appointed her, felt the need for a closer federal-state relationship . She established what has been known over the years as the Bureau of Labor Standards

Oral history transcript, Roger Stevens, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Fortunately, many that were elected in that year are still with us. F: Could you use Johnson to go out and help you raise money? S: No, I never did that. I remember he did come to a fund-raising affair with Sam Rayburn in New York once, for the purpose
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 2 (II), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Where did he get his money in that campaign? Brown was one of the best old-time supporters Johnson ever had. G: You know, they published the New York members of the President's Club in the Congressional Record, and the list just went on for pages
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, is a product of Georgia. MOrris Abram's effort as a young attorney in Atlanta made a great impact. Of course, he has moved to New York and now on up into the Boston area. But I never see him that he doesn't bring up the issue. And he would be one who
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Najeeb E. Halaby, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: NAJEEB HALABY INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Halaby's offices, Pan Am Building, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: This is an interview with Mr. Najeeb--to his friends known as Jeeb-Halaby. First of all, I'd like to know something about your
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] New York delegation. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh I look back on that now with a great deal of amusement
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3, Side 1 G: We finished last time with a discussion of the Salt Lake City speech which, I believe, was the end
of vice-presidential debates; Spiro Agnew's reputation; Wallace's support from organized labor; money to promote voter registration in New York; the campaign status in September 1968; campaign committee meetings; the recording and release of the Salt Lake
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of view of getting the minority story told as well as important.power centers togo to minorities, I stressed the media a good deal--the New York Times, the New York Post--in those New York hearings, the various networks in both the New York hearings
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

airports of the state. if they were going beyond the state, it would be put on the trunkline aircraft and sent to Los Angeles or New York or Miami or Seattle. But if they were going to other parts in the state, then the plane coming in from that other
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to be something between a young man and eventually a White House special assistant. Where are you from? C: Brooklyn, New York. Born and brought up in Brooklyn. Then to Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts, where I graduated in 1952, then to Harvard Law
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 61 (LXI), 1/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there any trades that you recall? C: No. It was just pure heat. I'm sure I talked to the [New York] Times editorial people, the [Washington] Post. It was a full-court press. G: Patriotism and-- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frank Pace, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: FRANK PACE, JR. INTERVI EWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Pace's office, 545 Madison Avenue, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: You're Frank Pace, and your last full time government occupation was in 1953 \"lhen you retired as Secretary
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Martin – II – 5 economist up in New York. I had his name down here somewhere. He's still alive. He's writing a lot
Shepherd. Also mentions Hobart Taylor, the President’s Club, Adam Clayton Powell. DNC activities in Detroit, Chicago, New York, Atlanta
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of aluminum that somebody brought me the wire on the power failure in the Northeast, which, if we're right here about times, occurred about five o'clock. I immediately went. It was a total power failure. New York City was knocked out. The LBJ Presidential
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 5 (V), 6/3/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that. I can't tell. The thing that I thought was that you can't force people to obey laws, that police can't really control society. I noticed the David Burnham article in the New York Times this morning in which he said it would cost twenty-five billion
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lloyd N. Cutler, interview 1 (I), 4/12/1969, by William Helmer (Item)

service, and then, as many of my friends, I discovered Washington was an interesting and exciting place to live. With several other refugees from New York, we started a law firm. here. We have survived through the normal process of growth and merger
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 28 (XXVIII), 4/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and Semple, who are the two New York Times reporters that covered the White House while I was there, were so--and the Times was so much better than any paper, even the Post. Those two reporters just--I forget who covered it for the Post; I guess Bill Chapman
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 53 (LIII), 8/16/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was periodically covering the White House for the [New York] Times--obviously we gave him a backgrounder story the next day, saying that we were going to make a major push in this area. G: Had the [William Randolph] Hearst [Jr.] series already come out? C: Well
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

INTERVI EWEE: THOMAS G. HICKER INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Wickerls office, Washington Bureau, New York Times Tape 1 of 1 F: First of all, I know you came out of Hamlet, North Carolina, which I think is a very happy place to have been born
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 10/30/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

me up one Sunday morning and asked me if I'd read page 78 of the New York Times. I said, "No." It was down three flights of stairs from me. And he said, "Well, you go downstairs and get the newspaper, the New York Times." And I went down and got
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Democratic Party dinner in New York. He came right from the airport to the dinner and delivered a rather flowery tribute to the President. That sort of stilled things for a while. But it wouldn't stay down, and I think the President r s response
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ashbrook P. Bryant, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was the Empire Ordnance investigation, which had a life of its own, a long story of its own, and we ultimately had to present that to the grand jury in New York. I was pulled back out of the army; I had gotten into the army by that time. We had submitted
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 26 (XXVI), 4/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

force to a New York Times reporter. And subsequent shaking revealed that the President had casually mentioned it at the Ranch to a reporter there and that's how the story had gotten out. Any recollections of that? C: No, it doesn't surprise me. LBJ
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the Washington Star or the Washington Post or the New York Times, or in those days the New York Herald Tribune, the story hadn't been published with LBJ. I should add one other paper, the Austin-Statesman, or, you know, the Dallas News or the Dallas Times-Herald
and President Kennedy; Presidential scholar ceremony invitee list; Laitin losing his code name; LBJ not wanting people to know who he was taking to Camp David; how the press manipulate the people who release the news; LBJ’s relationship with the press; the focus
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Emanuel Celler, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 the members from the State of New York, whence I come. B: The relationship between Mr. Johnson and Mr. Roosevelt--you said it was noticeable. Was this because of Mr. Johnson visiting the White
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

news organizations, to my recollection, had staff correspondents based in Saigon, I think except for the news agencies. correspondent. The New York Times had a visiting Usually it was a person from Hong Kong who came down just the way I did. LBJ
into the South; Abe Fortas; reporters and public opinion on the war; the effect of the news media; evaluation of other reporters in Vietnam; American generals in Vietnam; locations and dates of his field reporting; covering the Communist side of the war; books
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

ranging from six to seven o'clock. could make the very early morning shows here. They used The wire services And even the dailies, the specials, the New York Times or the Washington Post, could make a late edition, you .see. And every other period
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 4, Side 1 O: The 1968 tax surcharge battle evolved from the proposal that was made in 1967 by the President. He was anxious to deal
continued advocacy work for postal reform as co-chair of a citizen's committee; legislation enacted under Richard Nixon to give the Post Office Department more independence and the ability to self-finance; lack of political interest in the Post Office
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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