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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 48 (XLVIII), 6/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

extending the executive order, or, as I said here, "presidential memo to the departments that would prohibit discrimination in all new housing, financed by any institution, supervised, regulated or insured by the federal government," which we figured would
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Henry M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Jackson -- I -- 2 the fact that he came from Texas and was in the thirties, as I understand it, a New Dealer. And that liberal image in the eyes of Mr. Roosevelt gave
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Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: Oh, yes, considering that I was new and green. I was the main political guy for Brown, so there was some value from their viewpoint. B: But it was pretty heady stuff. What was your impression then of Mr. Johnson's chance for the nomination? 0
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Donald A. Williams, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

require a formal reappointment with each new administration? W: No, no, the appointment continues with the pleasure of the Secretary of Agriculture. B: All right. May I also as~ this is--again as I told you before the tape was on--so the future

Oral history transcript, Helen Thomas, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1977, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

growing years, and went to college at Wayne University in Detroit. Detroit is really--I still consider it home even though I came to Washington in World War II, 1942, and got a job as copy girl for the old Washington Daily News. I then went to UP
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 5 (V), 12/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the Pentagon. A man by the time he reaches an important position in the Army will maybe have been in the Pentagon six, seven, eight or ten years. In comes a new civilian Secretary, so he's just not a match for these men who have spent their entire lives
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

out and seeing what was actually happening in the countryside. And my report recommended a very radical overhaul of AID, with the creation of a new rural affairs division, but at the level of assistant to the director so that it took its authority
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 6 (VI), 10/31/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, 1995 INTERVIEWEE: J. WILLIS HURST INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: LBJ Library, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: You want to start with-- H: New Orleans. G: --with New Orleans. All right, sir, go ahead. He called you there on--I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Carey -- II -- 3 instead, wholly new merchandise, intellectual merchandise, with almost no surrounding analysis [or] data. It was very, very raw stuff because of the nature of the brainstorming that was going
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

for newspapers in Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and was editor of the Santa Fe New Mexican in Santa Fe. At the time I came to Washington, I was editor of the Laredo Times, Laredo, Texas, I wrote political columns at most of the places I worked. Incidentally
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. It was during the time of the early New Deal when labor was encouraged, when there was new legislation that allowed for organization. John L. Lewis, who is one of my great admirations, took advantage of the climate of the time and started to prganize
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at that meeting got up to make their responses, who all they had been able to enlist and to give their testimonials. The big news that happened while we were at Mayo's was about the helicopter. A bunch of Lyndon's friends, I would say led by Carl Phinney
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 57 (LVII), 12/12/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- LVII -- 3 majority. And with the new House, as Henry Wilson's memo of November 22 indicates, we were faced with a continued
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

even though he didn't have opposition. J: Oh, absolutely. Going to every post office was a lifelong, rather a twelve-year long, aim and reality, I think, in his twelve years in the House. G: One of his friends remembered that he, in a non-election
problems of the South; Clark Foreman; a new congressman's wife's duty to call on the wives of her husband's delegation, committee chair, cabinet and Court members; visiting Joseph Edward Davies at Tregaron; LBJ helping Jewish people from Germany in the late
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

so. He would look at those books and say, "There's not a damn thing in it. It's just a bunch of words. There's no new policy. reason for me to go. '1 There's nothing new. There's no new stateMent. There's no new So we tried to get the desk
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of the administrative and programming problems, planning problems, that a new organization would obviously face--particularly one where these young people would not have had this kind of experience before. B: Did you have any kind of continuing contact with individuals
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 3 (III), 4/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. As one secretary said, "It's very nice to have the administrators announce the bad news and let me announce the good news." a decentralized system. You can do this beautifully under Yesterday we announced that the Secretary had given final approval
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

for appointments, positions, being heard. And here he was, and he just drew a little circle around it and just worked away, beautiful work. I do want to talk about the new building at KTBC. Does that come along later? M: Yes it does. Here on the twenty-fourth
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John M. Steadman, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

participating, virtually all of them had been around here for the last couple of years; they knew each other, they knew I guess who was a real grabber of turf and who was a team player and all. But to me everybody was new, and it's remarkable how, looking down
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

had a combination of all three of the liberal, moderate, conservative. Now you can't keep all these people, but itls a new ball game in Texas. This is something that's hard for people to realize. Most of Lyndon Johnson's supporters are too old
Vietnam policy; post-presidency contacts and work with LBJ and Lady Bird Johnson and LBJ State Park; Hubert Humphrey's 1968 Texas campaign; LBJ's role in politics in post-presidency period
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Donald F. Hornig, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

that I had a call from Santa Fe, New Mexico from Kistiakowsky, and Kistiakowsky said, "What the hell is going on down there? Everyone's mad that you said no. You are the first person that has said no." So I explained to him that his call had helped me

Oral history transcript, Janet Wofford Ingram, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

fortunate things that happened to us, comparatively, during the war. And I remember Mrs. Johnson came down to San Antonio when the new federal building was built. It's not the new federal building now [in Austin?]. It's on Eighth Street, I believe. 2 LBJ
the Johnson Administration; Ingram's son's criticism of LBJ; LBJ's mood in post-presidential years; LBJ's health; Lady Bird Johnson's work after LBJ's death.
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

did want me to arrive as soon as Lodge left, which was quite unusual for a new ambassador to arrive the day his predecessor left. Lodge left in the morning and I arrived in the afternoon. Usually there's a gap of some weeks or even months
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 4 (IV), 3/8/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

be no new entity that had control of nuclear weapons. If the countries of Western Europe were to merge, if they were to create a unified Europe which had control of foreign and military policy, then that Europe would be nuclear by direct succession
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of payments problem. This was something brand new to the United States, we'd never really ever encountered it. And we finally ran up against the place, and began to realize that as a nation we were spending more internationally than we were earning
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Carl Vinson, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1970, by Frank Deaver (Item)

a lieutenant Although he served for only five months, he was awarded the Silver Star Medal for distinguished service while serving in New Guinea. He left active duty only because President Roosevelt ordered all members of Congress serving in the Armed Forces
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 3 (III), 7/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, but we did change the one thing that could block legislation and had been blocking legislation since the New Deal days. M: Was this seen at that time as sort of a preparatory move to take on some of this legislation 3 LBJ Presidential Library http
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Henriette Wyeth Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: HENRIETTE WYETH HURD INTERVIEWER: ELIZABETH KADERLI PLACE: Sentinel Ranch, San Patricio, New Mexico Tape 1 of 1 K: I am at Sentinel Ranch with Mrs. Hurd, who is gOing to tell me some more about the incident itself as she was with Hr. Hurd
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to have a meal with him or to have a talk with him. F: You didn't know him particularly well though before he became President? M: No. F: Relate the circumstances surrounding your receipt of the news of the assassination of President Kennedy. Where
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 2 (II), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1979 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT L. PHINNEY INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Phinney's residence, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: That's really germane. P: They were brand new. You say initially when the NYA moved in-They had nothing to start
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 3 (III), 3/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the relations were not So when--and I think I've discussed this to some extent earlier--when Ted had corne in we had talked a little about 1968. Ted and John Criswell and I had a lunch discussing the forthcoming New Hampshire primary, and Ted was suggesting
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 23 (XXIII), 3/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

] McNamara for having no new weapons system--I told you the story about the Polaris [mentioned in Interview XX] and how we got the new name? [Bill] Moyers called me and said the President wanted to announce new weapons systems the next day. They were going
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 2 (II), 1/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

countries with the United States would furnish additional credit to the U.K. in order for them to support this new rate, this was put together very quickly. And over the weekend of the British devaluation, there was a command post operation out

Oral history transcript, Truman Fawcett and Wilma Green Fawcett, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

to each other for two or three years and then we moved to another house further away. WF: The TF: We moved just a few blocks aVlay from the old house. WF: But Lyndon had lived out on the farm until he moved in at five years Fawcett~ built a new home
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Mylton Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

when I was there, and that's right down the big hallway in Old Main Building. Then you came to a side hallway to the right that went by the student exchange, and there was a little office just beyond that--or post exchange, you know
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

back home and it was a small town and everybody had a post office box. Daddy went and checked his post office box before he took my mother and my brother home, and my brother had received orders from the 8th Naval District in New Orleans to report
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 2 (II), 10/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

) Then on New Year's Eve, the Johnsons arrived in Washington and we all met over at Scooter and Dale Miller's house--wait a minute, I beg your pardon; it was the Thornberrys' house, it was Homer and Eloise's house-for a New Year's Eve party. Scooter and Dale
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. As such, in a federal agency, particularly a temporary federal agency like the WPA was, a New Deal agency, I was pretty much on my own with no supervision. I was told what they expected, then I did it. The boss, the state administrator, was Harry P. Drought, a ranking
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 1 (I), 1/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the 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: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Pollak -- I -- 2 Solicitor
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert F. McMahon and Mark T. Muller, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Field, I had a total of fourteen hours in fighter aircraft, four of which were in a P-36, and none of them in the new P-40 E. But we did get them assembled, more or less, with the aid of some Aussies and the tutelage of a few sergeants that were destined
McMahon met LBJ; air combat in Papua New Guinea; McMahon meeting LBJ again after LBJ had become a U.S. senator.
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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