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Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 3 (III), 3/25/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a candle to him. G: Were there any other blacks considered, like Bill Hastie? J: Yes, I'm sure Bill Hastie had to be considered. He was a judge at the time, I think, in New York. But really not. There wasn't anybody in the running at all. G: In July
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 4 (IV), 8/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the dump-Johnson movement, which originated, I think, in New York probably. That did affect him some, but it didn't affect much of his domestic legislation. It just affected his chances of getting their support for renomination. M: With such a strong
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Busby -- VII -- 6 resigned from the federal bench in New York to take it, as a matter of fact. And A. [Arthur] B. Culvahouse, who is the outgoing general counsel at the White
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • effective, I would have to evaluate my effectiveness as being in the Houston area. Oh, I'd work for him and beat the drum every time I'd go out, go to New York or anywhere else. But, as I say, I have a feeling that my effectiveness was a lot more so here
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 2 (II), 3/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • excluded from the political processes in the South and elsewhere would nonetheless participate in the benefits of Community Action programs of the new legislation. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 2 (II), 9/29/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was to spin off the program. Well, we had all this coming in from all over the country, and then we met with the House Education and Labor Committee and we gave each member of that majority a job to do. Like [Hugh] Carey, the present governor of New York, had
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • reconstruct it completely. That document did go to the President, but it was not, as far as I know, the subject of major discussion until after U Thant made his statement in New York. Then the President asked for the file. It was sent to him again so that he
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of this was interspersed with big news from the outside world, like an atomic bomb exploding underwater in Bikini and the Atomic Energy Commission being formed or being whittled into shape. Oh, finally and gloriously the money that we were going to get for the extension
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Ford several times. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -2- As a matter of fact, I sat next to his wife at a Yale alumni law banquet in New Haven a few years ago. I was at that time vice president
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Reston of the New York Times took this up and thought it was a good way to use an active man. What was at issue was giving the Vice President the chairmanship of a very powerful piece of governmental machinery without any easy way of fitting
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Toinette Bachelder, interview 1 (I), 2/11/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • you back up a moment, who were you working for in the Truman Administration? B: In the Truman Administration, well, Judge Rosenman became the special counsel to President Truman, and I worked for him until he resigned to go to New York to go
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • did learn, indirectly, that our names had been mentioned earlier. That had totally escaped my mind when the call came from the President--I was in New York at this judges conference--that [Lloyd] Hand had left and would I take his place
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • into starting ahead the Johnson of time. And the big problem was to bring new organization. P: When you say building for 1960, did you have in mind the Presidency? C: I had in mind the Presidency, although nothing was ever said between us, or anything else
Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • understanding of it. He wanted to be kept briefed; he wanted to be consulted; he was cooperative. But he expected to be in the act, and he was in the act. Now I remember once when he went up to the U.N., in New York to represent us at a meeting. I believe
  • Contacts with LBJ; success of Eisenhower relationship with Congress in foreign policy; personal contact between Secretary Dulles and LBJ; AID bill; estimation of LBJ; formidable experience of talking to LBJ; Macomber never brought good news
Oral history transcript, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • recall. He started talking to me about how he had made speeches in New York and Philadelphia and others areas of the country outside the South and what fine receptions he had had and so on. I knew of course that the Majority Leader of the United
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • flight, and LBJ went to New York with the Glenns for a ticker-tape parade after that. Any recollections of that? R: Nothing that is of any great importance; it went off according to schedule. I think that's the main thing that I remember
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Earl Warren, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and Boggs on the Democratic side and Ford and Cooper on the other side--and John McCloy from New York and Allen Dulles would be willing to serve on that commission if I was to head it up. And he said, "I think this thing is of such great importance
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of thing on the basis that you can expect them to keep it quiet? M: In those days only the chairman of the committee was aware of it. G: I see. M: They never told the members of the committee. Now they just print it in the Washington Post
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Pike I -~ 7 up in New York City you are probably going to be a somewhat different kind of a person than if you
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 15 (XV), 8/30/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • could contribute more to the Judiciary Committee than Lehman could. Lehman was, with all due respect to New York, not 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, John McCully, interview 1 (I), 10/26/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • splurge of publicity on the release of an annual report on the activities and successes of the committee, increased percentage of employment of minorities in government, et cetera, the New York Times, Peter Braestrup, I think it was, who I saw
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • season matter? C: I think that made us want to deal with it and the fact that it really did hurt, if you will, thinking, writing America. It was a bigger thing to the readers of the New York Times and the newspapers than it was to the average guy
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 60 (LX), 1/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this. Yes, see, here's Staggers on the day after the President sends it up on May 5. Staggers reported in the [New York] Times of May 6, page 36. "Representative Staggers declined to give his views on the President's bill but said, yes, that he thought
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • why he would say such a thing, that 1 hadn't said that he got kicked in the head by a horse, it was Clare Booth Luce. didn't call him crazy, it was Clare Booth Luce." part in that news release, you see. to approve it. I I had to put that I didn't
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Robert A. Levine, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . Levine, I'd like to begin by providing a little biographical background information that I have. Then if you feel there are any gaps, please feel free to fill in. Originally you're from Brooklyn, New York, as I understand it. You attended the Brooklyn
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • their friendship or their loyalties. Johnson and Clinton Anderson of New Mexico and Kerr and [Richard] Russell of Georgia really ran the Senate on the Democratic side along with the late Styles Bridges, [Everett] Dirksen and some of them on the Republican side. G
  • ; LBJ's 1955 heart attack; LBJ and Kerr's dealings with Senator Joseph McCarthy; Reynolds' post-presidential visit to the LBJ Ranch with Bill Kerr; Eisenhower's responsibility for U.S. involvement in Vietnam; LBJ as vice president.
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • saw Thornberry and Thomas, Brooks, I think Gonzalez, but I can't be sure. They were there and we were all talking in hushed tones. I still had not seen the new President, didn't know where he was. We were sitting there some time when suddenly he
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Vei for an What were the contingency plans? There was an old Lang Vei camp that we'd been in before, and then they'd built a brand new one. The new one was completely underground; even the radio antennae we'd had spread underground
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • after 1960 South Vietnam might even be able to reduce its defense budget. But in 1964--and I'm referring again to the interview that you gave to the U. S. News and World Report-you said that when you left Vietnam in September of 1960
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, James Adler, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • attitude about poverty, how it should be dealt with? A: Well, I guess the closest insight I had came about as a result of a series of articles written by a man named Homer Bigart in the New York Times. He wrote a series of articles about poverty
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 2 (II), 9/15/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and there were s orne northerners comfng down that Di em was putti ng in essentially as self-contained units of northerners into new villages· that they would start. Tiley were just dotted in with the mountain peopl e. out they were permanent settl ers where
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • precious glass. She was a great companion, and I was so glad for every one of those trips she made. And we went to New York--well, I can't say that I know much about that. I do know that I took her to a play or concert. Another interesting thing I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • thrown together. I don't think there's a picture here right now, it's at home, but Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Clark christened boats together and submarines and one thing and another, and they went to New York quite often together; our children were friends
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was for Homer's benefit that he was giving me this going over because I had done what LBJ really wanted done. G: Oh, really. How did you find that out? H: Well, I got a couple of new shirts. He never would say he was sorry, but that's when you would get
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Fred Schmidt, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Convention. In fact, we literally did that. Our Dallas delegation, the year we won it, the Brownsville convention, we had some black delegates there and it was sort of a fearsome thing to anyone who's grown up in Texas. You know you're breaking new ground
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • became under secretary of agriculture in the new Kennedy Administration. M: That's right. B: How did you get that job? Did Mr. Freeman pick you or Mr. Kennedy? M: Mr. Freeman approved me, I guess. Well, if I may go back, before the election
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with him.The President was pretty sore and I believe thought that Bill would end up in the Bobby Kennedy camp. Indeed I think Bill has been in several camps in New York--all over the lot--which is probably what any highly intelligent, famous, and ambitious
Oral history transcript, George Silver, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1991, by Molly Malone Chesney (Item)
  • -- I -- 25 S: Milbank Memorial Fund is a foundation in New York, very prestigious though relatively small. The president at the time was someone whom I had known as a student and whom I had been instrumental in getting involved with the foundation
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ." It was in the [New York] Times the next Monday; this was a Saturday, I recall because the following Monday was my birthday. The fourth of June was the day it appeared, if I remember right. But that handling of the speech was where the drama was in the agency. I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)