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Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • realized that he was being surrounded by men who shared the grief of the family. Then, much to our surprise, as we were getting ready to leave for Steve Smith to return to New York, he asked if it would be possible to go by the area where the President--we
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • --was there as president of the National Governors' Conference, and Governor [Richard] Hughes of New LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • . S: Jim left and went to Georgetown [UniversityJ as their Comptroller or finance officer, and then he went to the State University of New York as chancellor. Anyhow, I am sure he was there and we resolved some of the issues. Then in January right
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to Chicago and New York and the east wherever we had contacts with the Mexican-Americans. And of course I have a lot of close Negro friends and as soon as he became president, the Negroes--the blacks-also had accepted Johnson as a humanitarian and as a good
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • basic philosophical differences between me and, incidentally, Leon Jaworski. In terms of your pulling out research I think the New York Times carried a cover story on the front page about this which, as I read it, was not too inaccurate about some
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and passionate than in fact we are. The White House correspondent for NBC or the New York Times or the AP is ~xp~cted to do as conscientious a job as he can of reporting the activities of the president and the administration. The fact that he may not have
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • prior to this? B: The man who was the chairman of the Interior Committee in the House was a man, Mr. O'Brien, from upper New York State, which you'd think would be opposing vote. But he was dedicated to the fact that Alaska LBJ Presidential Library
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • bring you the greetin gs of the Pres·; dent of the United States . He knows where I am. He knows I'm in the Securi ty Council in New York City. 11 But I don't know whether Mr. Johnson ever heard the story that I got the bigges t mileage out of, involving
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • brief and yet curiously intense.I was marched across the well of the Senate by Gerry Siegel during a break in the proceedings and introduced to my new boss, and he said, "Glad to have you, do your best," somewhat abruptly but with full force. B: From
  • Civil Rights Bill; LBJ’s 1964 campaign speech in New Orleans; Johnson treatment; immense capacity to judge people; Johnson-Rayburn relationship; first signs of Presidential ambition; LBJ’s relationship with oil and gas industries; relationship
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://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 "Rags" Ragsdale of the U.S. News [and World Report], who was a friend of his of many
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Sometimes he would rehearse those kinds of things, and I got in on it, but not this kind. He considered those more extemporaneous types of talks. (Interruption) We were traveling from Stewart Air Force Base in New York over to Ellenville, New York
  • other countries; LBJ speaking Spanish; Glassboro, New Jersey, meeting with Kosygin; trip around the US to visit military troops; communication problems aboard the USS Enterprise; LBJ’s response to a Williamsburg, Virginia, minister’s anti-war statements.
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • again. Even got mad at me for bring- I think that her boy [Phillip Bobbitt] wants to write her memoirs or something. G: Is that why you think she won't do it? J: She hasn't done anything yet. She's given out statements in New York, she's given
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Homer E. Dean, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , that their strength--because Duval County after all was a pretty small county as far as population goes--their strength lay in being able to produce a large bloc of votes, same kind of thing that made the Irish in New York and Poles in Chicago [powerful]. They didn't
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • members that would go around purposely . They were cashiers in a bank back home before they came here or they sold insurance, one . We had one from New York that was a cashier in a bank and he'd go by and make it his business to know everybody . Then we
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • as it was functioning, and consequently we proposed in 1967 that there be a significant change in the law to give it a different kind of a complexion. We had our last meeting in December of '67, which was the same month that we got our new amendments. I took
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ; and New Year's Eve, as I think I mentioned previously, I spent up here calling around to tell everybody that the President was going to announce the next day that they were going to work right away. But some people apparently had told the President
Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • agency in each of the cities in which these organizations had been set up. They were doing that by trying to give as illustrations of community action programs that might be done what ABeD \'ias doing in Boston, what HARYOU-Act was doing in New York
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • by taxpayers' money, and therefore you're using public money to take the student to school.. Well, I told the group, "I'll agree with you on that point, if you'll agree with me on this point." I go to New York quite frequently and I take the subway that goes
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the Task Force. mentioned an article that Fred Hechinger had written; been a long-time friend of mine. You Fred had When he wrote that piece in The New York Times, it was very helpful because we got a flood of letters from academic people and business
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 2 (II), 7/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • VII, which created a new entity, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, with a different set of legal criteria and a somewhat different type of relationship to individual minority, potentially aggrieved citizens. They could file individual
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Roman Pucinski, interview 1 (I), 12/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on the flight out to Milwaukee, because the New York Times had written some story which was just totally fallacious--there was no basis for it--about the Vice President. I know that this just irritated the daylight out of him, flying out to Milwaukee. But he
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • small post. made it easier, but I'm In a way, you might think that inclined to think that maybe it made it a little more difficult, and there were morale problems there. P: You are indicating though that they didn't come from the relationship from
Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • days of the New Deal. I went down to Washington in the fall of 1936, just at the time of the second election of President Roosevelt. when it was, but I did meet him. I don't recall exactly I think he was on some coal com- mission or something
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . I was of the opinion that he was a very effective leader in Congress ; that he was substantially more liberal than at least the average Minnesotan thinks a Southern leader is ; that he was a supporter of the New Deal and so on . I had enough
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in our elective offices. F: Mrs. Nixon takes a military plane to New York to shop. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- V -- 9 perhaps, or Birmingham? I don't remember which one, because from time to time she would find some new doctor or some new source of help. I think perhaps this may
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and stay in the Waldorf­ Astoria Hotel in New York City"--how the Waldorf got into it I don't know! Well, he didn't think too much of it at the time, but later on after we returned to the United States we got an almost panicky cablegram from the American
Oral history transcript, Raul Castro, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • five years in Mexico; therefore I knew the ropes. And therefore very little time was spent in trying to acclimate me to my new assignment. So most of it had to be by digging on my own, and that's about the extent of it. F: They just really turned you
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Eisenhower. K: So at least there was that background on the situation. When I first went up to New York with Senator Taft and Senator Millikin to talk with Eisenhower after he had become president-elect, but before he was sworn into office, we talked
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Bird was taking journalism, she could be, you know, like what's her name with the Washington Post. And in that way Aunt Effie certainly was ahead of her time, I think. Her dream was not of Bird marrying and having a family. Bird to have a real career
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • trip--in Buffalo and Syracuse, New York, wound up that evening in Ellenville, New York, on behalf of Joe Resnick who was a congressman from that Republican district, and he won the race for Congress. The next morning we started out at Rhode Island
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the name ''Murphy?" Is that universal, or is that Di strict terminology? J: Well, it's widespread in the District, and I understand it's also used sometimes in New York. I asstUne that the guy who thought . it up must be named Murphy
Oral history transcript, Victor Ferrari, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in England. We were Our first leg was to Syracuse, New York, followed by stops at Goose Bay, Labrador, and then into Iceland. You notice how short those legs were. Because of our inexperience we were assigned very short legs. On our flight to Iceland
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Glynn. But boy, what a bastard he could be. G: Any other events during the campaign that you remember? The trip to the International Ladies Garment Workers Union in New York? R: I don't remember that, for some reason. You know, during that whole
  • about Vietnam; intervention in the Dominican Republic; civil rights; immigration reforms; airline machinists’ strike; Reedy’s departure from post of press secretary; LBJ’s staff.
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Relations Committee] which Humphrey chaired from about 1958, I believe, on until he left the Senate. So she was involved in foreign policy to that degree. handled that subcommittee. She She is now living in New York and keeps running for office up
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : And a guy by the nnme of Dumphy from New York City. There were seven or eight fellows, all pretty knowledgeable and pretty decent. I know who the chairman was--Judge Barrett Prettyman, a retired federal 3 LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and here by the Federal Reserve ; the Treasury, of course ; Federal Reserve, by Al Hayes of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Mr . Combs handled the foreign exchange transactions for it . they met in Basel and other places in Europe . And It seemed
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --I--20 It wasn't wrong to do it. hard for election. They were people that were working So they used it effectively on the stump and at home, and they continued to use it. Maybe there are those from New York or Illinois who haven't heard
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • weeks. He asked Ed Weisl, a prominent lawyer from New York City, and Donald Cook to assist him. They brought in all of the people who knew the most about the subject, Dr. Teller and others. The hearings were, I think, probably the groundwork
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , hadn't you? B: Yes sir, with a nitrate mine, operated by the Guggenheim brothers from New York . So I felt like I could be of assistance . Seemed to be interesting to me to be in South America, I liked it, liked the people--liked the chilenos . I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)