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Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • came in as chairman and many new people came in to the National Committee . These were not people that were par­ ticularly well-known on the Hill . In the days of Mr . Truman, even at one time when you'd had one of the members of the Senate--[J . Howard
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 5 (V), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the study group which again reconvened in New York with a good deal more perspective this time. Myers MacDougall, who had attended the beginning of the convention--professor of law at Yale--had attended the most recent meeting of the Afro-Asian bloc
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • himself or herself politically. G: Any recollections on that trip to New York? R: Very dull. Very routine. There wasn't anything to it. He went up and made a speech. Let's see, did he come back the next day? Yes. G: Later in June you flew to Los
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , but that was a pro forma exercise in all likelihood. So, as long as Idris was in charge in a very conservative monarchial government in Libya, it was really a separate account. That has all changed, of course, since the ouster of Idris and the advent of this new
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • wanted to ask you about that because, as I recall, there was a Washington Post and New York Times article about the role of Clark Clifford when he became secretary of defense. Was it Bobby's
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • stop him short on the first ballot, then on the second ballot, he would lose strength. And therefore, it would be a completely new convention. It turned out that the key states to hi~ winning on the first ballot were the states of Iowa and Kansas
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Julius Richmond, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • things about a new program is that it succeed and demonstrate successes." And I said, "If that means reducing the scope and size of the program, then that's what we'd better do." Well, it turned out we didn't have to do that because, again
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , New York, and Los Angeles, as well as Chicago, that night. 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
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Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • appeared in the Pentagon Papers that have been in the New York Times. (Laughter) So they pretty much outlined what we wanted to get from the Canadians: a willingness to have their representative on the ICC discuss with Hanoi and the officials in Hanoi
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • President, had asked to run for the Senate. Burnett Maybank was in many, many ways ideologically similar to Lyndon Johnson. He was basically a New Deal Democrat and a man of the people. He was a Charlestonian, and he had great difficulty speaking
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • several meetings with President Kennedy in 1962. The speech that he made to the Economic Club in New York City in December, 1962, spelled it out in more detail. I was in on the writing of that speech. F: Does the Keynesian economic theory work both ways
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , to give the South a chance to live with the new decision of the Supreme Court, I think Senator Russell would have been drafted for the presidency and would have been president. But I think that was the biggest political blunder in my lifetime, because
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in New York. As much as I could see, he was lambasting the Office of Education on busing, so that the ethnic minorities in his district would support him. M: In these education acts, did you have any conflict with the Labor Department, say, with 17
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • an assistant to the Governor of New York State, who at that time was Averell Harriman. From 1957 until 1962 you were an assistant to Senator Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania, and from 1963 until 1965 you \'/ere the
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • showing enough confidence to fly in our aircraft, it would help us and the overall industry. F: Bell didn't have a plant here then, in Texas? M: No, our plant was in Niagara Falls, New York. It was not too many years later that the decision was made
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City for a year. His thought was that when I finished that assignment that I would then stand a good chance to be accepted as a military member of the Policy Planning Council at the State Department. And that's
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, J. Roy White, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , in the construction of the new dining room and kitchen facilities, the addition of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
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Oral history transcript, Rodney Borum, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • as manager of a conference at Crotonville, New York, dealing with a foreign policy problem of the U .S . This is something that Secretaries Fowler and Connor attended, G .E . hosted, and the Atlantic Council sponsored . The conference was on trade
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the LendLease hearings with Elizabeth Rowe, and we listened to [James Bryant] Conant, the president of Harvard and to the bouncy little mayor of New York, [Fiorello] La Guardia. I remember [Wendell] Willkie passed me in the hall, one of the most vital, vivid men
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Ernest W. McFarland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • slowed down because the New Nexico people wouldn't sell them the gas. They had to have a firm contract with the Federal Pm.;rer Commission. So anyway we had this bill up. Lyndon and I being on the Commerce Committee, the Interstate and Foreign
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • a LBJ Presidential Library http://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 14 talk in New York a few days
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Abe Fortas, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ? F: I was in Washington. J: How'd you get the news? F: Just as a member of the public. I forget precisely. J: You were likely at lunch. I think half the nation was. Did now-President Johnson get in touch with you very soon after that, as you
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with the White House, you r;iean? F: This was discussion with the White House--this was a discussion with President Kennedy. We had a discussion about it first in New York from early in December of 1960. And it was considered for quite some time. On the one
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Eisenhower at Walter Reed [Hospital] a lot. B: And I went out to California a couple of times with him to visit. G: Did you? B: Yes. I don't have anything else to say. G: He went to New York on May 20 and spoke at the Arthritis Foundation. B: Yes
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Norbert A. Schlei, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that date he was, I think, doing a lot of thinking about what to do with himself and was not a driving force in the new-proposals area. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • going willy nilly. People in the South used to give black people one-way bus tickets to New York and Baltimore and St. Louis and Memphis and Chicago, just to get them out of the state. And that is not a way that develops a human resource very well. G
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 3 (III), 1/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and as the scene he would take his leave~ shifted~ not because he was not interested in the North and indeed he went on to New York City and Bedford-Stuyvesant to deal with and learn about urban racial problems, but that his time had come to move. B: We're
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . There would be no reason for that . Clearly, I didn't work in New York . Clearly, I didn't work in the South, because in those days the southerners considered me even more of a traitor than they do today, a traitor to my class or my race--I'm not clear
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Roland Bibolet, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it, and I think he did very properly, too. My recollection is he appointed Senator [Herbert] Lehman on the Policy Committee, and I always felt that was a very big and courageous step. Is that right? Was he on there, Lehman of New York? G: Well, I know
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • countries have a better handle on infant mortality than the great and glorious U.S.A. She even made a date with the Cardinal in New York to go to see him. And all she wanted to ask him was if he would help to get some of the good Catholic members--to support
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : It was 441. S: I'll bet it was almost the same squadron. believe. It was Destroyer Squadron 13, I The Wilkes has a familiar ring. F: We were a part of MacArthur's Navy at one time. S: Probably you were ahead, because I got aboard the Woolsey at New
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • by the wire services. About four or five days later, there was a little story on the front page of the Washington Post which said, "Five days ago Secretary Wirtz spoke in De troit, or Chicago (uhichever one it was), and expressed views against the Vietnam
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
  • was selected to be the pilot for that particular trip as we had just gotten some new jets called the Lockheed C-140 Jetstar, built in Marietta, Georgia. We made the trip; it was successful, although we had some bad weather and some other problems
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh Johnson -- VI -- 19 G: Really? J: And she's sweet as can be to me. She's more sociably inclined; she wanted to go to New York to see the King of Spain when he came over, you know. More social life. up with that. And when I lived
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Let me ask you about the newspapers in Houston during that election, the Post and the Chronicle in particular. S: I'm not sure but what they both endorsed Coke. remember. I'm not sure. I can't I'm not sure we got either one of the newspaper
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 2 (II), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • life into your new? C: I never did. My mother still at this moment has some things at home that she packed up from the sorority house that day. I guess the only thing that I did as far as going to check in at that life again was to take off one day
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 5 (V), 7/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 26 didn't like to be told they couldn't get the New York Times or something. There's no telling how
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Goldberg -- I -- 17 me copies of the briefs that were submitted to New Orleans and to New York. F
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins and Alice Hopkins, interview 4 (IV), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of his religion was politically \'Jrong and not morally right. as governor of New York. We thought he was an outstanding statesman We supported him just generally because we liked him; we liked his attitude. reason, but I don't recall any. Wirtz may
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a group to Eddie Senz in New York and pay the bill for all of them to have make-up treatment, and learn how to do make-up. Of course he would remind them that he had spent this money, you know, and therefore to make your face up and look good. He
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)