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Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • went to Saigon. B: I started out in May 1966 as the New York Times Bangkok bureau chief, which essentially in theory kept me in Laos, Thailand and the rest of Southeast Asia outside Vietnam. But within a week of my arrival, I was happily in Vietnam
  • Braestrup’s work as a journalist in Southeast Asia for the New York Times; New York Times coverage of Vietnam compared to Time magazine; how journalists covered Vietnam and the danger involved; how Braestrup became Washington Post Bureau Chief; Joe
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
Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that year for the San Antonio Light as a cub sports writer and each summer thereafter for three years, coming home from school for the summer months, and then went to work full-time for them about 1930-31. I left the sports arena and went into general news
Oral history transcript, Mollie Parnis, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1983 INTERVIEWEE: MOLLIE PARNIS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Miss Parnis' office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 G: I want to begin by asking you to tell how you first met the Johnsons. P: Well, I first met Mrs. Johnson when she
Oral history transcript, Richard A. Prindle, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and got very interested in the activities there. I went ahead and had my internship at Columbia Presbyterian in New York City in surgery, again because I was somewhat interested in the possibility of going into surgery of heart deformtties and so forth
Oral history transcript, Najeeb E. Halaby, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: NAJEEB HALABY INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Halaby's offices, Pan Am Building, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: This is an interview with Mr. Najeeb--to his friends known as Jeeb-Halaby. First of all, I'd like to know something about your
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Democratic Party dinner in New York. He came right from the airport to the dinner and delivered a rather flowery tribute to the President. That sort of stilled things for a while. But it wouldn't stay down, and I think the President r s response
Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 3 (III), 1/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • force version of the aircraft, both here in the U.S. and overseas, though in my opinion these have not been abnormal incidents, but typical of the kind of difficulties one has with the deployment of a new aircraft. In the case of the navy, however
Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • during the first five years of the Kennedy-Johnson Administration when the rate of economic growth was twice as high as in the previous years. And we began to get the new and recent price inflation when the economy got into trouble again. There has
  • interest rates; Rexford Tug-well; Keyserling’s influence on the New Deal; lasting effects of New Deal reforms; military spending and the economy; Vietnam war; planning public spending; jobs and on-the-job training; evaluation of LBJ’s domestic policies; how
Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that health thing. So I came to Washington in September of 1945. And I went to work for a news bureau here headed by Bascom N. Timmons, formerly of Amarillo. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Alfred Rosenthal, interview 1 (I), 10/29/2010, by Claudia Anderson (Item)
  • the arrival in New York was like cattle. It is true they had a sort of a board, and you had to report to it; you stood in line. And, of course, everything was done long before I ever arrived in New York. The consul in Trinidad, American consul in Trinidad
  • family home in Cologne, Germany; photography methods and a photograph of LBJ in Austin with the Jewish Brotherhood; the work of the Joint Distribution Committee and Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) in New York and Amsterdam; LBJ's involvement
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
Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , maybe a new curtain or properties around the stage, 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
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 2, 1968, in his office, New York City JBF: Mr. Farley, to begin, tell us something about your background, how you came to get into politics. F: Well, I was born and raised in a little community called Grassy Point
Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the real estate business, managing apartment houses in syndication in New York City. I had gotten into interpreting quite accidentally, at first for the Carnegie Foundation; subsequently the Young Women's Christian Association, the national board
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3, Side 1 O: The Oregon primary was hotly contested. [Eugene] McCarthy showed a better organization than he had shown
  • Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) loss to Eugene McCarthy in the Oregon primary; support for RFK going into the New York primary; concerns going into the California primary and memories of 1960 California problems with Edmund "Pat" Brown; the RFK/McCarthy
Oral history transcript, James W. Gulick, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • going to be in the future. 1 believe--\vhen the Department of Transportation was created, was it not part of the administration put the Maritime Administration in that new department? pol~cy to LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org G
  • capabilities; nuclear power; safety regulations; cargo preference legislation; new maritime program; transportation revolution; relationship between government and maritime industry.
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
Oral history transcript, Pat Adelman, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • particularly? M: I don't know. What was his name? A: James W. Pate, P-A-T-E, Jimmy Pate. At that time, of course, radio was kind of in its infancy; it was new and it had a lot of appeal. A radio announcer in those days was really a celebrity. I had
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of Congress, we were trying to develop some new legislation that we might put through after the election of '58 that would improve the situation for producers of various farm commodities. And Mr. James G. Patton, president of National Farmers Union, and I
Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1977 NTERVIEWEE: ANNA ROSENBERG HOFFMAN INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Hoffman's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 H: I wasn't active on the passage of the Selective Service Act, but I heard a story about it that I later found
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , although Lyndon Johnson always thought I was from the Northeast. I'll explain why later. I was born in Chicago the day the United States entered World War I, April 6, 1917. parents had migrated westward from New York two years previously. My My father
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the establishment of a new executive department. 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
  • in legislation; urban mass transit situation; problems of highway beautification program; rapid rail transit to New York; the SST program; employee transportation; miscellaneous organization problems; Nixon transition
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Nay 13, 1969 F: This is an interview with Mr. Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., in his office in New York on Hay 13, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mr. Weisl, you're out of Illinois, right? W: Yes, sir. F: Tell us a little
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Adlai Stevenson fan in both of his campaigns. Looking onto the 1960 election, of course, I felt this was a great opportunity for the party. As late as early 1958 I think I was still a Stevenson man. In fact I wrote an article for the New Republic which I
Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : I've got the recorder on. T: All right. But what I did, I wrote these myself, not speech writers. Because the speech writers assigned just weren't good enough in that sense, and I used these as policy speeches to float new ideas and to try
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 20 (XX), 4/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 O: We have a white paper dated late September, which was a detailed presentation of a campaign in the form of a campaign manual
  • -finding and support for LBJ in his travel throughout the country; growing concern among Democratic leaders about Vietnam; presidential campaign work and organization prior to 1968; problems in the New Hampshire and Massachusetts primaries; lack of support
Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1974 I NTERV I HJEE: NELSON ROCKEFELLER INTERVI E~IER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Oa 11 as, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: This is an interview with former Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York in the Sheraton Dallas Hotel in Dallas, Texas, on February
Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 2 (II), 7/18/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : No. I think it was in the Rose Garden. I think it was, but that's vague in my mind. Where is--yes, 6/19. It says "fundraiser," but I didn't go to the fundraiser with him. I stayed at the hotel. G: How about going to New York to open the World's Fair
Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • time? How did When did this become a problem, in your view? D: Well, I was always opposed to what I would call u.S. attempts to impose the American century on the rest of the world. I have often said that I spent some time studying at New College
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • incident. Did I ever tell you the story about Cassie Mackin, who since has become quite well known as an NBC news commentator, very prominent in covering the conventions. She replaced Marianne Means on the Hearst headline service. Marianne Means had sort
  • and President Kennedy; Presidential scholar ceremony invitee list; Laitin losing his code name; LBJ not wanting people to know who he was taking to Camp David; how the press manipulate the people who release the news; LBJ’s relationship with the press; the focus
Oral history transcript, Harold Howe II, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of a high school. I did some work at the University of Cincinnati during that time. M: You were teacher of history in 1940 to 1941 at Darrow School in New York. H: In New Lebanon, New York. M: And then shortly after that you must have gone
Oral history transcript, Tommie W. Glick and Sarah Taylor, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , I married in New York. How did you get to New York? the war had a great deal to do \,/ith that. path and my husband's path crossed. That's how my During the war I was in the Red Cross, and he was a surgeon in the Army. Mc: Oh. And so you went
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • papers are your columns carried in now, sir? T: Twenty-two. I only send columns to the papers that I send news to. M: How often do you write a column, as opposed to sending news dispatches? T: Until recently about three times a week; but right now
  • Biographical information; Dockrey Murder case; Garner of Texas vs. Snell of New York; Miller’s appointment of LBJ; Edward Jamison; first impressions of LBJ; three famous Texas political figures; LBJ’s interest in military affairs; rating LBJ
Oral history transcript, Willard J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • given the commencement address and it was a very special occasion. The President had an opportunity to get off what I felt was a delightful quip that was reported in the New York Times the next day. In congratulating the class he told them he hoped
  • Biographical information; LBJ’s June 1964 Coast Guard Academy commencement address; DOT formation and transfer of Coast Guard to DOT; position of the Coast Guard; PPBS; obtaining new equipment; control of ice-breaking operation; Arctic exploration
Oral history transcript, Walter Washington and Bennetta Washington, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • had a way of doing it that you had to learn to understand. S: When that discussion took place there in 1966, was there already for you a possibility of the New York housing job? W: In the housing field, I had had at that time a number of other
Oral history transcript, Stanley Ruttenberg, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of employment on the part of the employers and then a decision was made to set up a training program in that area, which meant, really, a new developing concept. The Secretary of Labor would determine what occupations there ought to be training programs
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: MARY LASKER (Mrs. Albert D. Lasker) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mrs. Lasker's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 1 F: Mrs. Lasker, let's start by talking a little bit about how you first became interested in health
Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this young fellow could just go down to the White House almost any time he wanted to, figuratively having a key to the back door. So he did go down there a lot, because that's the way I'd get the news a lot on things happening. On the other hand, some
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 27 (XXVII), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 23, 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 O: On the evening prior to inauguration, my wife and I were visited by Hubert Humphrey and his wife
  • to McDonnell and Company with O'Brien; the state of McDonnell and Company when O'Brien came to work for them; selling seats on the New York and American Exchanges to make McDonnell and Company money; the McDonnell family's wealth and influence; a merger