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Oral history transcript, Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

haven't talked about her trip to Washington. She and Cecille went on a boat, I think, to New York and then had the trip LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 3 (III), 3/9/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the matter further; I talked to the President about it again, I believe, on Monday and Tuesday; and on Wednesday when I went back to New York, he asked me if I would call him that night after I had had a chance to talk to my wife and to my partners and let
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/oh Johnson -- I -- 8 lots and lots and lots of fish. Daddy used to have men who worked for him who would catch the fish, ice them down in barrels, and send them on the train to Fulton Fish Market in New York. So that is where that stationery came
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 5 (V), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

24617781] G: I know that FDR did that. R: I don't either. G: Was FDR criticized for that move? R: A little bit by the New Dealers. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh I'm not sure it was tied to-- No, I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of a Westinghouse bid on a nuclear desalting plant, more sympathetic treatment within the IMF, the IRB, and the New York banks. Then there were certain political items that the Egyptians were very interested in. One, they asked that we help mediate their diffi
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

for the consumer, the veteran, et cetera." In earlier years, in 1967, in addition to the meat bill that I mentioned, there was a pipeline safety bill; there was a bill on electric power failures--this was right after the New York blackout-(Interruption) I would
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

against a black anywhere in the nation--New York, California, Chicago, Mississippi, Arkansas, any place else. The South is no mutation in condoning racial violence by whites against blacks. B: Then, where it's a really dismal part of this, shortly after
of 1964; Voting Rights Act of 1965; work on minimum wage; the Neshoba County deaths; Council of Federated Organizations movement; FBI opens new office in Mississippi; RFK, Hoover and LBJ told FBI to get on the job in Mississippi; Freedom Democratic Party
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, as well as get out of New York. God, the problems we had getting rid of that thing! G: Really? R: Yes. G: Well now, what did you do in this particular instance to counteract He was terrible about that. the damage that the speech did? R: Oh, I've
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, of course, was not in office at that point. Robert Wagner, Jr., of New York was in office. He was very close to the White House, as was Mayor Daley. Theywere personally much closer than I was although I was extremely active in the formulation
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in New York in a hospital up there. 12 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bean -- I -- 13 Well, we had a real old time type
; LBJ's behavior at a 1956 event for JFK in El Paso; Bean's efforts to build a new port bridge along the El Paso/Juarez border; LBJ's involvement with the bridge in El Paso; the Chamizal agreement between the U.S. and Mexico and its relation to the port
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Roberts -- IV G: -~ 16 The ordination of I guess it was Archbishop [Terence] Cooke in New York. R: No. You know, if I saw a piece of paper or if I saw a picture or something of the kind, it might spark a thought, but no, I don't remember. G: May
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

was the art consultant to the Department The chief of the Heraldry Section of the U . S . Army was one ; the director of the National Gallery was one ; then we had one from New York, and I wrote William Walton and asked him to serve as a member and got
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of the New York Times and you have the State Department papers as well as the presidential public papers, you will find it replete with references to that. TG: Were you aware at the time that you took the appointment that the decisions to escalate had
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 3 (III), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

from working in New York, and they're drinking their martinis and one turns to the other and says, "Now tell me again, why are we opposed to the investment tax credit?" It was that crazy a thing. Well, as I said, we got practically no place
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of the press releases seem to have gotten out, and I know Bill Blair of the New York Times has the story." I said, "Stew, I'm sorry but the President still hasn't made a decision. You will have to ask them not to print it." He said he would. So then we had
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Marjorie Lawson, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--what's his name? Anyhow, they swept into the meeting and sat down and surveyed what was going on. Hobart started talking about needing to get approval of some new forms from the Bureau of the Budget in order to do some studies. So Bobby said, "Who are you
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

he was a wire service man. But he came out with a book later on which made quite a splash. J: No, I don't know him. G: Have I missed anybody? J: Oh, God, you've missed an awful [inaudible]. (Laughter) Charley Mohr of the New York Times was one
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. When he becomes vice president he's no longer part of the legislative branch, in spite of presiding over the Senate. He has no right to speak on the floor; he is looked upon as an outsider really by the members of the legislative branch. for a new
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

the University of Minnesota. you joined the United Press in Detroit. In 1948 And in 1949 you joined the Detroit Free Press and became a labor editor. You, at that time, also acted as a correspondent for the New York Times, Business Week, and Newsweek
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

got on it, particularly led by this guy [David] Halberstam from the New York Times. If you ever look up the press reports in those days, you'll find Halberstam would write them and then hand out the circulars to all the other press guys and they'd
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

World War II convinced me to join a new outfit called the Central Intelligence Group. F: This is a piece of friendly exchange, when were you in Harvard Business School? K: After I got out of Harvard College. [I] started in '42 and finished my degree
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

could and when you had time? C: Oh, I re a d the available papers that were time l y. Of course, that was just the Washington p apers and the New York Time s an d the Sun and th e Wall Street Journal. Th ey we re the only one s that you coul d real
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Action is its flexibility. That is, it could be something different in New York, it would certainly be something different in Chicago where Dick Daley was in charge, and it would certainly be something different in Saginaw. And that was the point
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

years. he was thro.ugh the news· med ta and so forth, but Of course, I knew who r never had any persona 1 contact with him. B: Th.at would apply even to his acttvtties while he was vice president, . as chairman of the Equal .Opportun1ties
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and a new life beginning. It was roughly divided between business school, which took up about five or six hours of the day [and the office]. I went to a very ordinary sort of a loft place and took typing and shorthand for about three hours and then studied
in the Washington, D.C., area; the news that Austin had been approved for a military installation; a petition campaign for LBJ to run for congressman again and support for a possible Senate race; LBJ's frustration with his work in the navy; LBJ's relationship
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

know whether they ever made their ways into the Library or not. G: That's a new one on me. Let's see if I can find some. Was that the last year you were there? J: Probably so, because actually I was only there two years. G: Any other activities
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? But we never asked if something was not in the mill, say, to build a new post office in Cleveland. If it is already on the drawing board, we might be able to speed it up a little bit by a few months. If there was no plans for it within the department
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

and perhaps had been concluded with a firm of architects in New York and in Washington. A decision had been made by the regents to build a University building and a presidential library as part of the same architectural, and, I presume, construction contract
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Fred Korth, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to Gilpatric actually. the selection of a contractor for a VSTOL This was on plane--vertical short take- off and landing plane--in which Bell Aero-Systems was involved of Buffalo, New York. I had been a director of Bell Aerospace Corporation, of which
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/8/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: This is out of the chronology, but it's related to this. One of the first things you did after you became governor in 1964, I believe, was go to New York to talk to the officials of the television networks about what could be done to improve M ississippi's
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

twice with them to spend- well, we spent three or four days with Lady Bird and Lyndon in Ed Weisl--he lived in the Hampshire House in New York, which is a very fancy place . I do recall one evening we were there and Tom Clark--you remember Tom Clark
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

it arose myself through the New York Times and specifically through Mr. James Reston. I recall this instant quite well. It was early in the President's Administration. He was preparing to go before the United Nations, and Mr. Reston apparently in getting
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

made a. number of planning grants . Many communities were not prepared ; many, many communities did not have the sophistication or the resources that a city like New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, that could turn the wheels of their council of social
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

them, I'll take you out there and show you that there aren't"--well, anyway, he was livid with me. But Halberstam picked all this up and sat down there and made notes and then he wrote an article for the New York Times about-G: Did that have any
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to develop some hoarseness. On examination by physicians at the naval hospital and Dr. Wilbur J. Gould in New York, it was felt that the benign-looking lesion on the larynx should be looked at under a microscope. So as time goes on we've got two problems
of LBJ; LBJ’s post-presidential activities; Mrs. Johnson.
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Quang Duc. Tri Quang was-- for six weeks there I was not at my post. I had speeches to make about Vietnam at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and elsewhere, which were already laid on. I have to do with it? thing about it. So your
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in either of my last two elections; I ran completely without any contributions, without spending any money. But when I was spending money and raising money, lid raise it by soliciting most of it in the state, raising a little in New York and Chicago
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

goes on in the political life in the United States . And I unhesitatingly say the brand of politics being played in Texas, in all of my memory, is entirely different from that that's playing in Mississippi, in New York, in Pennsylvania, in Illinois
Biographical information; organized labor's view of Senator Johnson; initiatiing new labor view in Texas; CWA; local union; union at the nation level; 1968 Chicago telephon strike before convention; 1960 campaign/convention; LBJ's effectiveness
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

unanimous approval ; didn't So mine went right through . I had no In fact, the man who was chairing the subcom mittee was the fellow that Bobby Kennedy beat in New York . He was one of the finest men ; he was really a fine gentlemen, and he
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

relations with the government, gave up my apartment and town house in New York City and brought everything back down to Washington. the University. Got down for Christmas, and in January I started back at And I felt so good but the last of January
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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