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  • to one new wildlife refuge, two major additions, both of them happening to be in Alaska, and a recommendation that the President add over seven 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
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  • expert in that field. And that ultimately led to the passage of the Mental Retardation Act, which gave us roughly seven million dollars of new money to support--I think my recollection of the funds is correct--a variety of activities around the country
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the catastrophic consequences of a withdrawal from Vietnam. Joe Alsop had a good column in the Post this morning. You may have seen it. And I'm afraid he's right. n If we scuttle from Vietnam, Heaven knows where the rot is going to stop! M: What I was driving
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  • from an important post returning to Washington would be received by the President. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
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  • /oh Mayhew -- I -- 12 expansionist times, and there were a lot of people moving into positions of leadership where those positions hadn't been available ten years before. K: Yes. So that a new wave or new generation coming into power? M: Yes. A new
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  • . Paine. I think Dr. Paine was alrea dy there . M: That could very well be . L: I'm just tryin g to remember. M: That was late 1968? L: Yes, that was close to the new admi nistr ation . I'm not too sure. I'm not certa in on that. Because
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • sophisticated and complicated a weapon as the M-16 rifle.We only had one producer of that rifle. They were producing only something like--I don't know--thirty thousand a month or something--this is a figure that can be checked. It was not until 1967-68 that new
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • DATE: January 9-10, 1982 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas Tape 1 of 2 J: The winter and spring of 1950 began a new thing in my life and that is carpooling. Lynda, at six
  • the theater; socializing with staff, including the Clark Cliffords; the health of LBJ's family in 1950; LBJ's work on a natural gas bill; LBJ's interest in post-World War II rubber and tin industries; North Korea invading South Korea; Frank Stanton; childhood
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of the Operations Coordinating Board of the National Security Council, which was a new board. The purpose of it was to try to coordinate overseas opera- tions of the federal government. B: Were you formally disassociated from the Bureau of the Budget in those
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  • to always be rather surprised in a state such as Rhode Island that I would have led the ticket rather than vice versa. M: As a member of the New Frontier, as it was called, of those people entering during this election, did this help in committee
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • at Grady Memorial Hospital which is one of Emory University's teaching hospitals . In 1952, having completed my post-graduate training, I accepted an appointment as assistant professor of medicine at Yale University in New Haven. After two years
  • boards in Florida are elected on the basis of political affiliation, and the Broward school board changed its complexion. Three new Republicans were elected to the school board. F: This was after you had been sort of stockpiled for Broward? B: Right
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh of developing a legislative program--the academics, tapping these bright young people, as you called them? G: Well, the whole system is new. The process historically of program development
  • contest of his primary election in Texas? R: No. Actually, like most of the other young New Dealers around town, I met then-Congressman Lyndon Johnson in the early '40's, but it's not a clear recollection for me. I guess I remember him mostly as sort
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Relations Committee? M: Well, yes, I did. The Foreign Relations Committee post opened up rather unexpectedly, to me at least. I had been kind of waiting in the wings for an opening on the committee for some time, since that was my primary area
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ; with the new plant and equipment 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 SCHULTZE
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  • so new and young at the thing, you know, obviously Johnson had a good bit to do in Texas without coming up here. As it turned out, it was one of life's first and great lessons about politics. The fact that things shifted to Washington really made
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • that I became aware of it in my career at HEW. I was an academi c ian. I was teaching at the University of Southern California and, really, aside from a general ized liberal interest in the programs of the New Deal and the New Frontier, I had
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • come in and .out of that particular room. Mr. Wild was up in 1602. F: f NoH as a co-ngressman he rated an office here in Austin, I presume in the Post Office Building. 15 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral
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  • : Here's your picture in the College Star. S: I wrote articles of an editorial character and put them in the Star. I didn't go out and get news; I wasn't a newshound, don't you see? G: Yes. Now, in 1928 there was a drive to improve Evans Field. S: Yes
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  • didn't want him to. But I was not the fellow that was going to have to do the job, bear the burden. So I just really drew back from trying to influence anything. I did not know which was right. But this was so new and strange and such a break with much
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • seem to you in this new role, in the role of vice president? 6 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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  • . respect. I never thought of Lyndon in that We've had some members who I hav~ thought of as populists, but I never really thought Lyndon was a populist. In those days we thought of him as a New Dealer and not the old term of populist, I guess. G: I
  • LBJ’s association with President Roosevelt; LBJ as a New Dealer compared to Maury Maverick as a populist; LBJ turning to Sam Rayburn for advice and support; LBJ urging Poage to run against O’Daniel for a Senate seat; the 1948 election; Poage’s
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • machines just go roaring across this rich, beautiful earth. And gosh, I wish I could come back and see it in planting time, and harvest time. And this is quite a phenomenon. And then, in October, especially, we would find ourselves in New England, and we'd
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • started in the Johnson Administration, and you had agreed to remain as an assistant special counsel :for the new president. We've talked about the problems of getting a Kennedy staff reoriented into a Johnson staff and meshed with 2. Johnson staff
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • for the new Congress. He said then that he would be for me. F: Let's go back a moment. You had known Senator Yarborough for some time. H: Yes, I had known him ever since I was in the legislature. He was assistant attorney general under Allred when Allred
  • budget. It was before he got into his new offices. He was over in the Vice President's office still and it was with Mr. Heller, Mr. Gordon and myself about the general shape of the budget. That's when I carne down very firmly that it had to be under
  • of payments; LBJ's relationship with JFK's people; appointment of new Secretary; Vietnam; role of Major General William Dupey
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • find ready response in the White House, or was there a major division there? R: No. It was a process which was agonized from beginning to end. Each new target list--the whole program was called Rolling Thunder. The military would come forward with X
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  • in California, I got desperate calls. He wanted to announce some new weapons systems of one kind of another and we announced the over-the-horizon radar and one other weapon systems from the steps of the Capitol in Sacramento as I recall. Pat Brown and I got
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . We were not just finishing the New Deal agenda; we were coming in with a whole lot of new ideas, new roles for government. And that was the first couple of years. The last year or so we really were involved in the management of programs and it's
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • but I don’t remember any particular slogan that we had on it. I think it just had “Lyndon Johnson for Congress” and that sort of thing. G: Was there any particular theme? K: Of course he was extremely interested and in favor of the New Deal. G: Did
  • believer in air power, solid. In those days, before the nuclear submarines, air power was by far the important weapon. He and The missile picture was just beginning to develop. r, for example, were very strong for the B-70, the new bomber proposed
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • first taken office. I can remember very vividly the fact that my dear friend, Maury Maverick, who was then the congressman from Bexar County in the San Antonio district, introduced me to this young new Texan. As I recall it, Maury took him down
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • President Roosevelt's New"--what did he call it? G: New Deal. S: "New Deal ,",ould never have become effective." Jimmy Roosevelt spoke up and said, "I want to back up what Senator Sparkman has said. Without the support of the southern so-called
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • mentioned that at the end of 1964 Mr. McNamara suggested that you be brought back in as a more or less regular ad hoc adVisor to Mac Bundy. N: This was not regular. This was a special project of getting ready for Mr. Wilson's post-election visit
  • , they couldn't let NYA pay for somebody doing some job, then if the school had been paying for him, pay the one the school had been paying for off. It was to create new jobs. That's the big LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • on the program. We scored a touchdown on this particular program on the last day of the Johnson Administration, by getting an executive order issued, which did create the commission, but which left the appointment of its members to the new president, so
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . forgotten a coupl e of others that were therec I have I think Arthur Schl es inger \'Ias in there and a coupl e of others. B: It was generally assumed at the time in the newspapers that you '.'Jere there as kind of a representative of the New South. S
  • ; LBJ’s reputation in the South; LBJ’s strengths and weaknesses; LBJ’s post-presidential activities.
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the post office there, which was a small fourth-class post office probably paying some fifty dollars a month or something. She had three boys, and we lived there in Johnson City until the boys all left home to go to college. She remained living there until
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • responsibilities that he had could have been so well-versed~ so well-briefed and posted on the entire situation. He was evidently completely posted on the essential elements of the issue, the important factors~ and in all respects, except one--I've got
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)