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Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

be. G: Was the commission at that time inclined to reflect the views of President Roosevelt, do you think? S: More so than some other administrations, but I think the current FCC is very reflective of President Reagan's views. Harry Truman certainly

Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 2 (II), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, [George] Aiken. So he stayed on through both Democratic and Republican administrations until I think finally, in Reagan's time that they said, "What the hell have we got this guy--why are we giving this guy a plum?" and they cut him off. He had strong

Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and corporate income tax rates (very much like Reagan's "supply-side" ta..'\'. cut in 1981, which I had a great deal to do with). JFK had pushed the bill through the House but it was hung up in the Senate Finance Committee, headed by the very conservative

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 15 (XV), 12/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a copy of. It's kind of interesting. He went down to the Library and read a lot of stuff. But, no, I had no sense of a staff at war within itself. I had no sense of the kind of thing you read about on the Reagan staff. You have to remember something when

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XVI -- 24 carving up the routes, bring down prices--the same as where now Reagan is being praised

Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

for peace. I'm not looking to win the war." So which way was he going? He was forced into a number of contradictions, and that's where the credibility gap came from, and where the bitterness of the military comes from. There's no credibility gap with Reagan

Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 2 (II), 11/9/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

there . After Mr . Sam, Lyndon's father, was born there--my grandfather was Dr . Dan Reagan, R-E-A-G-A-N ; he was distantly related to Senator John H . Reagan--the families were just very close . After Mr . Sam moved to Blanco County, or maybe it was even

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXXVIII -- 14 with the Reagan Library, so I better not say. I'd have to see a picture. Aren't

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Kenneth E. BeLieu, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

different bases. I noticed that the Grace Commission for Reagan today says there are four thousand. Well, they're counting every little recruiting station, every little kiosk, when they do that. There are not that many major stations, and the ones that have

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the Third Ward became Jeff Davis. And then Milby, I think, was probably the third t although it was outside of the Houston Independent School District at that time. And then, of course, the Houston Heights came into the area which was Reagan, and so

Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harfield Weedin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

badly. on the Reagan High School team. made sure that his people [wereJ. I was a bad debater-- I was not properly prepared, but he I think his debate team was L. E. Jones and Gene Latimer, as I recall. Connally's era, too. And So I am of that era

Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

together, when the government hadn't been settled down at all. Now, three months after President Reagan took over there wasn't very much trouble at all here. The transition that occurred during February, March, and the early part of April simply didn't

Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and back away, and you had the same thing that has been going on for about ten years in Libya. It was not until Mr. Reagan came in when he ordered a stop to it: "Stay where you are, and if you get shot at, shoot back." Thatts what happened here last month

Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: That's basically true. Also of course it's a lot easier to be a spoiler and a social saboteur than it is to try to keep things going-it's easier to criticize the way Reagan is running this country in terms of economic problems than to come up

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 2 (II), 1/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason and Jeanne Deason, interview 6 (VI), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Krim -- I -- 21 who support the idea of a government taking care of those in need, the opposite of what elected President Reagan in l980. I mean, this was the appeal to people--and many of them wealthy--who felt the system would

Oral history transcript, Murrey Marder, interview 1 (I), 5/25/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

or a secretary of state role and to speak with such precision that each word is going to carry a very unusual weight. And they're not accustomed to it. We're seeing it right now with President Reagan. It's quite difficult to adapt a general political style

Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Carter, now Reagan. Since 1968 when Nixon came in and he wanted to do away with the Great Society, he wanted to close the Job Corps centers and finally relented. This year, 1981, there is a greater number of slots

Oral history transcript, Daniel Boone Porter, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the Republican party, and a Reagan nomination would split the Republican party. Parties rarely nominate a candidate that is going to split the party. B: Then did you participate more actively after the convention in the Humphrey campaign? R: I didn't

Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cline -- II -- 26 I can see Reagan doing that; he's beginning to do it a little bit right now. But Johnson didn't do it. And yet he knew it was his responsibility and I think if he's to be criticized it is for taking

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 3 (III), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Reagan had a huge program, but he enacted it the first year and he hasn't done much since. He had a huge tax cut the first year and an expenditure jump and he's just held onto that. I don't think Jerry Ford or Carter--they didn't have much. Nixon didn't

Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

honored those force levels. We weren't up to them then, but every president all the way to Reagan--those same force levels obtain. And people, when I make speeches about the past, when I tell them that, and say, "You know, we quit racing in 1962

Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, so that they would withdraw the veto. At one point Governor Reagan of California was bragging about the number of vetoes that he had issued on our program, and we never considered that quite a proper contest for a governor to engage in. G

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 2 (II), 5/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, by car--and he would always drive; I soon got used to the idea that he was his own driver--by jeep we visited four of the ranches, the Lewis Ranch and the Haywood and the Reagan and the Scharnhorst. We visited one of his neighbors, Bill Heath, who 19

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Billy Graham was sort of a president gatherer. In subsequent years I noticed with what ease he moved to Nixon and then Ford and then Carter. Now he seems to be breaking a little bit with Reagan on the nuclear issue. I met Billy Graham after

Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)