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Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

background and how I got started in Texas politics, I was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and came to Texas during World War II. As a relatively young man and with very little interest in politics, I met my wife in Austin, Texas and went to law school
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Walter T. Kerwin, interview 1 (I), 9/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

forth. And it finally was resolved after a while. G: Okay. Let's talk a little bit about Tet; that always strikes chords. What was your personal vantage point to observe the kickoff of that and the ensuing days? K: That was New Year's, Tet. I can
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

here that ,.,as at that time Powell, Rauhut, Maginnis, Reavlcy, and Lochridge. After having been in that law Eirm practicing law for some two-and-a-half years, when January 1963 carne around Governor Connally was looking for what he referred to as new
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a protracted period of tir_,;, but it seemed ltke a lengthy period of tin~e. I also recall that, at the time--i t seems to me that it w as prior to the response from Hanoi about the peace talks--and the Presidcnt got Cy Vance to come down from New York
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Sr., interview 1 (I), 1/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the legislature of Texas, owned my people in slavery time. I understand that he came from Attica, New York into Texas be- fore the Civil War. able to say. Where my people came from I don't know, I'm not But I do know that my grandfather Mr. Shoemaker
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

fully meant. If it was implemented and carried forward administratively, you had a complete change in history in a major sector of our country. It was not just the South that was affected by this, this affected just as much the city of New York
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

on up to New York. Went up to Hyde Park. M: Did you know Mr. Roosevelt? F: Sam had met him. We saw him make his acceptance speech that night out at Franklin Field. He had met him, yes. M: And he knew John Nance Garner, I suppose. F: Oh, he
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with that library they built particularly. We looked at some of their commercial buildings--one I believe in Lincoln Center in New York; looked at commercial buildings as well. I remember Connecticut General Life--we looked at their building, Mrs. Johnson
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

While I was on the honeymoon in New Orleans--we'd planned to have two weeks--he called me again and said, it short? 11 I did cut it short. 11 ! need you badly, can't you cut So we concluded our honeymoon and headed for Washington. F: It wasn't
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William R. Desobry, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, and the senior advisor came with him to escort him around the States. So they replaced him with somebody else, so I lost that job. So I went down to IV Corps later on. G: Were you given any special training, any special briefing for this new assignment? D
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robinson Risner, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

people are going to get hurt or killed. G: Did you have an opinion on the way that Hanoi was apparently able to convince some Americans that we were, in fact, bombing the civilians? Harrison Salisbury, I think, of the New York Times, was perhaps the best
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

arrived in Poland on November 30, 1965. M: You stayed in that post then until when this year? G: I stayed in that post until May 3l, 1968 at which time I resigned with the approval of the President in order to participate in Hubert Humphrey's political
treatment of Gronouski, 1964 campaign and the Post Office, Bob Hardesty, Bobby Kennedy, news media’s treatment.
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ernest May, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

you have any great difficulty persuading people to your point of view? M: Oh, yes. In this county it was impossible. Mc~ What was the difficulty here? M: This county had turned against Roosevelt--turned against the New Deal
Biographical information; Judge Frank Culver; Sam Rayburn; LBJ; George Petty; Coke Stevenson; Dan Moody; Carter vs. Tomlinson; FDR and the New Deal
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 5 (V), 5/3/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Joe Fowler's gallbladder was bothering him. One Sunday morning about six o'clock the White House phone rings next to the bed our Tiber Island house. "Yes, Mr. President." "Ernie, have you read the Washington Post this morning?" President. "No, Mr
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Gardner covered the Senate campaign But I'm positive and I believe he covered LBJ, is correct, and possibly Bob Johnson for the Houston Post , I believe those two . remember a specific people don't a UPI reporter being there . I am certain
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 3 (III), 11/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there were eighteen new Democratic senators and he [LBJ] had looked in the paper and none of us had realized it, but at breakfast Sunday morning he announced that twelve of them were Catholics and that he wanted to find out something about the Catholic
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 5 (V), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was primarily on bird life and in the last few months the focus has been on what effect this has on man himself. In this way it's sort of indicative of the whole sweep of the conservation movement and the fact that it's taken on new dimensions in the last few
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 2 (II), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

~ time had come to leave as well. It was at that particular point that the president of Wesleyan came to me and indicated that they were creating a new post and would I be interested. I canvassed the situation and concluded that this would in fact
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to have your name on my sleeve when I go for resources." [He said,] "You've got it." And that turned out to be essential. I embarked on that project as the new staff director, in a sense coming in at midstream. By that time the staff had been well
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

reporter many years ago. When I was in Swathmore, Pennsylvania, I worked for the Philadelphia papers part time, but I drifted into political reporting when I was here in Washington. F: By the time the New Deal came on, you were established as a syndicated
news; suppression of news; RFK never broke with McCarthy; characterization of McCarthy; LBJ as VP; LBJ’s effectiveness as an ambassador; JFK assassination; dinner with the Johnsons; press disenchantment with LBJ; press secretaries; RFK; oil interests
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- X -- 2 G: You may have, but I'm not sure. J: Well, let me tell this, because it kind of fits in. Barry Bishop used to work for the Dallas Morning News in Mexico--that's a Republican paper, you
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 29 (XXIX), 5/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

doing something on New Year's Eve, Friday, December 31--I think it was a Friday--that they thought they could get away with. And it was like surreptitious action, number one. Number two, there was a strong feeling that they were, in fact, taking
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, A. Ross Eckler, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

appointed to a presidential appointment post in the administration. I believe they could see some very real advantage in a younger man who would be able to have the benefit of my services as deputy, presumably, and to get experience to be ready
First association with LBJ; Hobart Taylor, Jr.; 1965 Civil Rights Act; Richard Scammon; Andrew Brimmer; promotion of civil servants into appointed posts; referrals; special surveys; Congressional intervention; right of privacy issue; mailout

Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

offered a war service appointment in the Bureau of the Budget. This was one of the temporary appointments that the government was making during the war years. The Bureau of the Budget was sort of a command post for the White House in relation
Biographical information; how Carey came to work for the Bureau of the Budget; John Steelman; post-war work and staff of Bureau of the Budget; cooperation between government and universities in scientific research; National Science Foundation Act
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

directors and advertising agencies that handle the media advertising. You know, when a fellow enters into a political race nowadays to run for a state office, it's almost like creating a new corporation and going into business. and a director
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a Texan? H: I was born in San Antonio, and I grew up here in Austin. lJhen my family moved here, I was just a little fellow, about seven or eight years old. F: When did you join the Dallas News? H: 1916, on the old Dallas Journal, which
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

your own Department? U: Well, with my Department, and you know my Department is not one of the big major Departments in terms of its programs and responsibilities like HEW has been the entire 1960's. We were initiating a lot of new programs. I think
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Phillip S. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

it?" There is the opportunity, you see, for the new administration to say yea or no or maybe or, I~e don't know at this point and we think, therefore, that you ought to advise the agencies that ahe administration has not yet formulated a position." M: I had occasion to read
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. Space Agency.. And I got a call .from Mr. Graham, saying that he wanted to talk to me. · Hhat emerged . was we did; we talked,· and he was interested in me joining the Post. And we, after a couple of discussions, agreed that I would.come. One
; Phil Graham; relationship between Robert Kennedy and LBJ; leaving the LBJ staff in 1960; going to work for Mr. Graham at the Washington Post; interaction with LBJ in VP years; LBJ and the press; press involvement in government work; turning down LBJ’s
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Radcliffe Killam, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, there was a so-called old party and new party in Webb County politics. The old party was primarily the party of the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

with 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 the new chairman of the House
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Louis F. Walter, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

house which later became the St. Barbabas Church. Of cours~, there has been a new church erected on the same lot. F: Do you remember when the county seat was moved from Blanco to Johnson City? W: Yes. I was a small boy, I guess 14 or 15 about
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and there's a recall of this, or that, or you get the notice in the mail from your auto dealer. In those days, those recalls were devastating. They were big; they were front-page news often. That was what we regarded as the real deterrent. We also had
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

you. I told them I was going to be at Old Gun Factory Navy r·1ess for Thanksgiving Dinner. So 10 and behold, I get this call. and said, liThe White House is on the phone." A waiter came running Well, of course, this was big news in those days
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lindy Boggs, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

New Orleans and gave a speech. Hale was in a seersucker suit. Two days later, he asked me if I could please send him some winter clothes to Springfield. I think Lyndon understood that it was a personal commitment that had 8 LBJ Presidential Library
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in the Navy in the Maritime Service, elected again to Congress in 1946 from one of the New Orleans districts where you have served since; in 1956 named Deputy Whip and in 1959 Whip of the Democratic party. And, as I say, that is a very brief summary of a long
interest in passage of legislation; RFK; 1964-1965 legislative success; Congressional briefings on Vietnam; compromise on seating of the Mississippi delegation; LBJ’s political speech in New Orleans; inactivity of the DNC; media image of LBJ; assessment
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of 1942 and had post-operative thrombo-phlebitis, which rendered me 4-F. I went to law school when the enrollment at Texas one time was down to a low of about twenty-three students, in a summer session. When I graduated in the spring of 1944 there were
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as a kind of a buffer to take care of special problems that got created, because of my civil rights background and labor background. Well, one day evidently some angry folks from New Jersey came over from one of the local poverty programs over some
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

losing the initiative in space to the Soviets. On September 16th, he went over to the White House to discuss with the President how best to handle the problem of continuity at NASA after the election and a new administration had taken over
Act; transition to the new administration; Bob Seamans.
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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