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Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • he disliked and distrusted most easterners, the New York Times, people he either thought were against him. Just based on the evening I mentioned and a few other things I think Johnson's basic posture toward everyone was a kind of surface dislike. I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 4, Side 1 G: Let me start with a couple of general points that were raised by your papers. One, the problem
  • and Republican opposition to national Democratic Party policies; anti-Catholic sentiment in Louisiana that diminished JFK support; the role of Mayor Robert Wagner in New York City patronage; Democratic Party organization in Chicago and Philadelphia; judgeships
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, William Narva, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Narva -- I -- 15 call, an inquiry, from some reporter from the New York Times saying that we had talked to some Dr. Klein about skin cancers on President Johnson. I don't remember any Dr. Klein. I told this man I didn't know what he was talking about
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , l987 INTERVIEWEE: FRANK STANTON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Dr. Stanton's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Dr. Stanton, let's begin by asking you to recount your earliest association with the Johnson family and, if you
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Capital Airports and their Washington Area Office, which was really a part of the Eastern Region based in New York, to a new office building in Falls Church, Virginia. with the people involved. operations were. This move was, by the way, very popular
  • 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
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: DAVID DUBINSKY INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Dubinsky's office, 201 West 52nd Street, New York City Tape 1 of 1 (Interview begins abruptly.) M: . . . Roosevelt. D: Hoover--Republicans too. M: Oh, Republicans too, yes! D
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . involvement. Then after that, because the war didn't end and because more and more people became conscious of it, there was the Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. Meanwhile, right around the same time in New York City--where I didn't
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • courted them too much at the start, and then they fell out. I think he gave great weight to what was said in the eastern newspapers, the New York Times and Washington Post and Baltimore Sun. that are read in this town. Those are the papers I think he
  • 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
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, 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: I should make a comment on another candidate for the presidency in the context of past discussions we've
  • support to Democratic Party unity; Jimmy Carter's role in the 1972 presidential election; Edmund Muskie's campaign leading up to the 1972 election and how it was affected by attacks in the Manchester [New Hampshire] Union Leader; John Lindsay's 1972
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh May 12, 1969 This is an interview with Chet Huntley in his office in New York on May 12, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. First of all Mr. Huntley, you have one thing in common with Lyndon B. Johnson, that is you
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 2 (II), 1/6/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I must say, Mr. Meyer was not in the best of humor. Which I I offered to take him back on Charlie's plane to New York but he said, "No, I'm not going on anybody's private plane. I'm taking the shuttle back. I'm not used to being kept waiting
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 5 (V), 4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEW V DATE: April 7, 1983 INTERVIEWEE: ARTHUR KRIM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Krim's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 1 K: Now you can start with the tax thing or-- G: Let's do. Let me ask you about the effort to enact
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 13 (XIII), 9/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: Well, let's start today with the Water Quality Act, an effort to establish quality standards for interstate
  • of new towns; the creation of the Department of Housing and Urban Development with Secretary Robert Weaver as the first African-American cabinet member; how the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) was affected by the creation of HUD; a constitutional
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ." question came up of ticker tape parades and I said, "Gee, I'm not much of a ticker tape man, Julian. Is this the thing we really ought to do?" "Yep," he said, ''we 111 go up to New York and Chicago and San Francisco and Houston." I said, "Gee, that's
  • Act; transition to the new administration; Bob Seamans.
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recall it, a week or ten days, LBJ found out that Kilduff was going up to New York for the weekend, I think it was. This is typical LBJ. He told Reedy he wanted him to take the weekend off, he was tired and needed a rest. He knew that that was going
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 2 (II), 11/13/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • brother? K: No, I wasn't. F: Did you call him? Did he call you? K: No, I called him. He was flying from the West to New York. He heard about it in New York. I talked with him later that evening. F: After he got in? K: That's right. F
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : January 11, 1974 INTERVIEWEE : MRS . JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS INTERVIEWER : JOE B . FRANTZ PLACE : Her Manhattan apartment in New York City Tape 1 of 2 First part of tape missing (35 feet) F: Let's continue, then, our broken interview
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Abram V. Goodman, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1996, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the anecdotes about him that were bursting out all the time. He was very much sought after by Protestant preachers, and he had a keen wit and an amazing mind but somewhat unpolished. I remember, after I left Austin, reading on the front page of the New York
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 5 (V), 9/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: MARY MARGARET VALENTI INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mrs. Valenti's residence, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: There was a New York Times story at the time he was in Mexico that he had received ten thousand
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 4 (IV), 4/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Kentucky which ran in the New York Times , I think some time in the winter of 1962-63. These articles were written by Homer Bigart, a Ne\v York Times reporter. These captured Kennedy's attention and imagination and aroused his LBJ Presidential Library
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • our annual newspaper forum, to which heads of state and men and women of importance were invited for a week of speech-making on important issues of the day. Just before an election she asked me to debate with Dorothy Schiff, owner of the New York Post
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 3 (III), 7/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • read the New York Times or the Washington Post, you would know, but you wouldn't always know if you were living in Wappinger Falls, Minnesota [New York]. G: Now, the whole area rate formula was a novel formula for regulation. Is that not true? 17
  • , or administrative law judge's, work in deciding the FPC's cases; Seymour Wenner; the questionnaire FPC distributed to obtain data from the gas producers; hearings in connection with Wenner's two-rate system for flowing gas and new gas; the expansion of natural gas
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1982 INTERVIEWEE: DAVID HALBERSTAM INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Halberstam's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 2 G: You said that you had a Lyndon Johnson story. H: Yes. I was, in 1960, working for the Nashville Tennessean
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1983 INTERVIEWEE: ARTHUR KRIM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Krim's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: Mr. Krim, let's today discuss that period after the 1968 election but before the Nixon inauguration. K: All right
  • LBJ’s frustration at the end of his presidency, especially regarding the Soviet Union and Vietnam; LBJ’s attempt to meet with Nixon and Soviets; Urban League dinner in New York; LBJ’s concern over press coverage of anti-war, anti-LBJ picketing; sale
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --or was it the Texas congressional delegation?--one or the other gave him the plaque. Lyndon went to New York with the Speaker in the middle of the month, going up there on the train and coming back the late night train. Gosh, what hours they put in. He went up to give
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there, particularly the representatives of the major media. The networks, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the news magazines and the wire services would tend to be close friends, to work together, go out on stories together. of interchange
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XVII -- 3 got to know Don Cook from New York, who became special counsel of one of those subcommittees. Absenteeism involved his hours and his brain and his passion, but some of his thoughts were
  • in the 10th District in 1943; Mrs. Johnson's teeth; portraits and photos hung in the new KTBC office.
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the witnesses were forced to espouse the Administration's position when they really didn't want to. F: To move ahead, you were quite active in New York politics, most particularly in city politics in New York, in the early 1960 ' s. Did Mr. Johnson as either
  • and 1964 campaigns; New Yorkers’ feelings about LBJ; Jack English; RFK’s Senatorial campaign in New York; effect of William Miller on Republican ticket; duties as Lands and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department; proposals for Indian problems
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 2 (II), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • -in-chief of the whole newspaper, but ran the editorial page but supervised the news as well. And before Wiggins left, there was beginning to be doubts about the Vietnam policy at the Post. Not by him. G: Yes. Some of the younger reporters, perhaps. K
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • have direct contact as he had them in the bureaucracy down there and once in a while saw them, he trusted a lot further than he trusted the local politicians at the precinct level, at the county level and the rest of it. In places like New York
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the house down. Lord, they were standing in their chairs. They were screaming. They were yelling. They were clapping. They were waving handkerchiefs. And I remember the reporter from the New York Post, a very cynical guy who had been really quite nasty
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, 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 2, Side 1 G: I wanted to ask you about President Johnson's role in the campaign. O: There was an uneasy situation
  • of nuclear arms; Abe Fortas' nomination as Supreme Court chief justice; the effect of George Wallace's candidacy on both Nixon and Humphrey; voting results in New Jersey and Illinois; the effect of polling and publicizing poll results; poll accuracy; Ohio
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 2 (II), 5/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ARTHUR KRIM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Krim's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2 G: Mr. Krim, let's start with that weekend of August 6, [1965], the first time I believe that you went to Camp David. K: Yes. My wife and I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 3 (III), 7/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of a state like New York, but you go out to North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, there the question of public housing isn't nearly so important as it would be in the metropolitan center. But conversely you take New York again, where you have a consumer
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 59 (LIX), 1/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • attitude toward this type of development? C: Well, you'll recall in January of 1966 in the State of the Union Message he took a shot at [John] Lindsay and the transit strike in New York, indicating that he would propose some kind of legislation
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (Tape #1) NOVEMBER 10, 1969 F: This is an interview with Helen Gahagan Douglas in her apartment in New York on November 10, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mrs. Douglas, briefly run over your career, at least get
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 2 (II), 6/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and his discussion with you as he was leaving the presidency. Do you want to recount what you can of that conversation? F: I may have mentioned when we talked before, that the day after the [Richard] Nixon election in 1968, when we were in New York
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Johnson happened to be in Austin at that time and was gracious enough to come down to the meeting. So I've known Mrs. Johnson through the broadcasting field, and [I met] the President, as I recall, at a meeting in New York. senato~ He was then U.S
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . You went to Kansas City to meet with Truman and then on to New York. Do you recall that trip? Was there anything significant about it? R: I recall the Truman trip. There was no great significance to it. I do not recall the Sukarno thing. I mean, I
  • The Johnsons' residence as vice president, The Elms; Konrad Adenauer’s visit to the LBJ Ranch; LBJ's relationship with Texans of German descent; the Bay of Pigs invasion; LBJ's trip around the world in 1961, including stops at New York City
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 7 (VII), 2/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEW VII DATE: February 12, 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: [Let's begin with] the assassination. Did the fact that the assassination
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)