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Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and it played a great part in my subsequent fall . However, I still feel that I was absolutely right . If I had to do it all over again, I would have done exactly the same thing . I think one of the reasons the failure of the Reagan administration
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the land that they had owned together. I know some of the things he got in the division, but I don't know the balance. He got the Scharnhorst, he got the Reagan, he got the Nicholson, and other ranches went to Judge Moursund. I remember it was surprising
Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • -- I -- 11 improper way to utilize the educational strength of the country. Fifty or sixty major institutions in this country, as well as the agencies like the Bell Laboratories and others constitute major research capability and Mr. Reagan's attitude
Oral history transcript, Lewis Mayhew, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • talk? M: --you can almost--you could ask anybody, "Who are on the short list for any such position?", and there'd be ninety-five per cent agreeing. K: Yes. If the Reagan administration were to call a conference on education today, could
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -Israel. It goes back a very long way, it goes back--in fact the current popularity of Reagan among a lot of Jews, not a majority but a lot of them, is something I think probably shortlived. In the top of the Republican Party I think there is a feeling
Oral history transcript, Raymond H. Lapin, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -6- I assume that's the fact; I don't really know. The first months of the Reagan campaign were very confusing; they had so many people in Sacramento, you know, inexperienced people, and a great deal
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Carl D. Perkins and Donald Baker, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . And President Reagan is leaving them alone, and we are faring very well with the Job Corps appropriations today. G: There was a rural program that did not stay in the legislation when it was passed, and that was one to allow a corporation to purchase land
Oral history transcript, James Davis, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 1 (I), 6/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, William Gorham, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • . And by the time Reagan came in, we had been getting about three million a year from HEW and HUD, all Republican money, actually. The money began to decline with Carter. K: Were the first projects--you showed me one of them on evaluation--but were the first
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to have a lot of jobs to fill. The Reagan people did that. They walked in here and offered early retirement. Objective: reduce the number of people on the rolls. It hasn't quite worked out that way. They got more people working for the federal government
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 2 (II), 5/3/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • lanes open, which was his international obligation as president to do. No, I don't think he was nearly as committed to the defense of Israel as this man is, Reagan, personally. I'm not saying about the State Department, but I think Reagan is personally
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as some of the things that the Reagan Administration is doing now. It was a reversal of direction, and [there was] a terribly strong propaganda campaign against the bill. In actual effect--and I'm saying this at the top instead of later on--there have been
Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of a time. Now we've got we've got to educate including some ex officio ones, the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, Speaker of the House, they're all new and they don't have the votes now but they will have before Reagan is out. F: Were you behind
Oral history transcript, Ewing Hass, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on that; of course, signed the bill, but I don't know that he got involved. That was done-- G: Governor Reagan opposed it initially. H: Right. Right. Senator [George] Murphy opposed it. The Congressman from the area opposed it, but when Lady Bird came out
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 7 (VII), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • library. Is there one that you know of? C: I don't believe anyone's even discussed a memorial to President Nixon in Washington, or President Carter, or President Reagan, or President Ford. M: I was just thinking that Nixon is the only one who has died
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • they didn't, but I contend they did--and they put up Sydney Reagan for president of the student body, the independents did. John and Jake deny having any part in that whatsoever. But in any event, Sydney was a nice fellow, but a rather nondescript individual
Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • part in politics in the years between the two campaigns? A: No. I came down for [Governor] Connally's inauguration. Just the local ones, the last one with Reagan, unfortunately, we didn't win. Whatever I can do, I do, if I believe in it. It's very
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 49 (XLIX), 7/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that this issue of equality of rights for blacks was more important than the Democratic Party. It's one of the--for the most political president--[Franklin D.] Roosevelt and he, I guess, were the two most political, and Reagan, the three of them--[were] the most
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for the most part off the hook, that they haven't had to face the adversary in the public view to the extent that I think should occur. You haven't had any meaningful debates on the issues, even in the last election when we had--a couple of debates? Reagan
  • of congressional liaison staff in LBJ's 1964 presidential campaign; the 1960 JFK-Nixon debates; presidential debates since 1960, such as the Reagan-Mondale debates of 1984; campaign finance issues; the rise of political action committees (PACs) and lobbying
Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Laurance Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Ferd Kaufman, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • there were several other ranches--the Reagan, the Scharnhorst, and so forth and so on, which I never put foot on. But one of the most interesting stories was, we got to know the telephone people. They had the--I think he said fifty-six trunk lines
Oral history transcript, Owen Donley, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for marketing in the Department of Agriculture in the Reagan Administration. And we changed a few words around to make it more acceptable to them. In other words, I think we changed "avoid fat" to "eat leaner cuts of meat" which accomplishes the same thing
Oral history transcript, Leslie H. Gelb, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , President Reagan is in China today. To the We have a quasi, de facto alliance with the Chinese in certain respects, despite the ignominy of our withdrawal. real one. Our commitment to the Thais I think is a I think it was then, I think it is now
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • are being badly served by the absence of a certain kind of military hardware, or by our strategic plans or whatever, in the hope that you'll get them changed that way. We just had a great example with [Caspar] Weinberger's letter to Reagan. The Pentagon
Oral history transcript, Anita P. Winters, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • liked. G: Jellybeans. W: Yes. G: Oh, I thought Reagan was the president that liked jellybeans. W: Yes, but he loved jellybeans. MW: He'd tell a story about him and Max [inaudible] jellybeans, wouldn't give him any. W: That was when they were
Oral history transcript, John E. Stavast, interview 1 (I), 3/12/84, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ; POW diet and living conditions, such as access to showers, beds, food, clothing; the POWs' release; Vietnamese modesty; the process of leaving the prison camp and returning to the US; meeting with Nancy Reagan; Stavast's medical condition; military
Oral history transcript, Henry Bellmon, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , who was public information officer, mentioned to me just the other day how much more communications seemed possible with Governor Ross Barnett then than now seemed possible in California where he is living with Governor Reagan, speaking in terms
Oral history transcript, Ashbrook P. Bryant, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or not we were taking adequate steps to prepare the country to defend itself, and number two, he was always on the tack of getting a dollar's worth of defense for a dollar. And the rumor was all over the place--and still is by the way, Reagan and his crowd
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wore on. M: Oh, he did. president. He did. In fact, he became disenchanted with every He supported Goldwater in 1964 and he supported Nixon in 1968, although he was really for Reagan. nomination he was for him. sioned with Nixon. G: But after
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that one can throw a label at Reagan as not being concerned about the poor, and it receives a very positive response. When you have significant majorities of the American people telling every pollster who's asked them, "Do you think the administration's
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 20 (XX), 4/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and the problems. Let me just ask you to elaborate on a couple of aspects there. Let me ask you to describe Sam Yorty's role. One memo characterized him as the real problem. He had supported Nixon over Kennedy and Reagan over Brown. O: He was a continuing problem
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 2 (II), 9/13/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • twenty years of non-recognition and non-interaction. I think that the policy being pursued now by the Reagan Administration--which I don't find distinctively different from the policy pursued by the Carter Administration, which in turn built on the Nixon
Oral history transcript, Mamie Allison, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1986, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • interested right now. I couldn't leave the television yesterday, Reagan and all of his--over in Iceland. B: During that year did LBJ get involved in politics in an active way? Do you remember any of his involvements? A: I don't think so. He was too