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Oral history transcript, Edgar L. Ball, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were Thurmond and [Fielding L.] Wright. Strom Thurmond, who is still in the United States Senate as a Republican, was their candidate. Mississippi. Wright I think was from I'm not sure that that's right, but I believe that's where he was from
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Northeast of the United States being cut off and floating out into the Atlantic, which went to Goldwater's references to regions of the country. I can't suggest to you that we put the daisy spot on anticipating the reactions to it, but we certainly felt
  • organizations found in Philadelphia under the leadership of Bill Green, Chicago under the leadership of Richard J. Daley, Minnesota under the leadership of the Democratic-Farm-Labor group, and in Albany, New York; O'Brien's concern about the two-party system
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 2 (II), 7/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Opportunity] itself. The issue gradually became joined around the question of whether or not Bobby Troutman was attempting to expand the Plans of Progress concept in the image of a voluntary, noncompliance involvement of corporate America with the committee
Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to a spot that required presidential appointment and that was an Assistant Attorney General in charge of the AntiTrust Division. That was in '43. We had in the Anti-Trust Division prior to my appointment a unit known as the War Fraud Unit. Mr. Truman
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt-everybody that was anybody in America during this, probably, darkest hour in the history of our country. January 1, 1943. But I learned my trade from I had not mastered my trade when Lyndon Johnson came there, when he was elected
Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • were born and when, and where did you get your education? H: I was born in Childress County, Texas, actually on a farm but near what was then Arlie, Texas, A-R-L-I-E. That little place doesn't exist any more, so the address is sort of lost since
Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • industries been engaged in this sort of training? M: Oh, yes. You've had it all starting from the CCC days on through World War II when they had training courses for training some of the women workers that came into industry during World War II
Oral history transcript, Louise Casparis Edwards, interview 1 (I), 1/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recording and transcript of the personal interview conducted on January 20, 1982 at Austin, Texas and prepared for deposit in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. This assignment
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in an American-made airplane, which meant that in effect America was still dominant. And so what happened is that both Britain and France again started thinking of leapfrogging. Now the way to leapfrog was to get into supersonic speeds, and so again we were
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Because I think it was the first stop on the railroad outside the metropolitan area. Also, it was close enough to Washington that all the local press and the foreign press could come to be in rural America, is my impression of it. As you know, Culpeper
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • into the DAC, a national [organization]. It was kind of the offshoot of it. They were just women interested in organizing the Democratic Party, but they also--they were leaders of it. It came out of the old farm program, too, farm workers. But I don't know
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • called them, who was one of the workers that kind of spoke for them, kind of a committee spokesman, a group spokesman . This girl, Preble Tadlock, I remember was such a person . When we found out Mrs . Roosevelt was coming down there, we wanted her
Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Tennessee on a hillside farm nea r Knoxvi 11 e. G: ~Jhat brought you to Texas? S: Well, you won't believe it but I'll make it as interesting as I can. I was in the service in World War I, July, 1917 to December, 1918. [It was] the first time I had been
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the United States Housing Authority was established, I went with Nathan Strauss as special assistant, so I left the Department of Interior. Now, my concern was sort of a catholic one (with a small "c"). I was involved in working on programs like
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • violence particularly in the South as seen from the vantage point of the White House. Was this something that would reach the President's attention when there would be a confrontation or a violent episode, an attack on civil rights workers, let's say? C
Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 2 (II), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • made it to the top of the agenda, at least in my experience. G: I notice from the hearings that there was a variation in the name, that it started out as Volunteers for America, or Volunters in America or something, then they added the "in Service
Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • see? Well, I think that tells the story of that piece. It was eventually passed, you know, with a change in the legislation to retain continental shelf rights for the United States, but the coastal states had jurisdiction over--I think it's the three
Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at the Driski11 Hotel . George PJokes, who was a member of the legislature at the time, and I went down to see him . We talked to him and told him how desperately Texas needed a progressive man in the United States Senate, and the problems that we saw
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • mainly to the towns and cities? K: Oh, we covered the whole [state]. We covered them all. We didn't miss any of them. M: What would you do about farmers out on their farms? K: Well, a lot of times this advance man would set up a meeting in a rural
  • Biographical information; LBJ’s two years as teacher and debate coach at Sam Houston High School, Houston; LBJ’s role as Congressman Kleberg’s secretary; life in Washington for underpaid federal workers; Dodge Hotel; Little Congress and LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 15 (XV), 1/4/1980-1/5/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • grandfather's hands, from 1912 to 1941 in Uncle Claud's hands, in recording the sales on these rolling, green hills of Autauga County and farmlands of Chilton County, cotton production--most of it was in tenant farms, and then some of it, the most productive
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and internst in the tape recordings and transcripts of the personal interviews conducted with me and prepared for deposit in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. A list of the interviews
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • toward the environment? D: Well, I recall he talked about it. G: Any trips that you went on with him that would--? D: I'm trying to remember whether there were trips. I know that he talked about the environment in the sense that he was a farm boy
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 3 (III), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of those battles come. Maybe State and Defense and Budget get into them up on the Hill, but we didn't seem to be involved. G: I assume that it was also not difficult to form a united or unified administration position on something even if it was [inaudible
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • he's working with and they're He would rather really be with them than anyone because I think he's an around-the-clock worker. F: When you made that first visit, did you have any idea you might work for the Johnsons some day? C: No, not remotely. F
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • particularly at lunchtime, like Normandy Farms out in the country where they had copper on the mantel and a beautiful rural setting and marvelous popovers. Collingwood, which is a great white-columned mansion on the way to Mount Vernon on the banks
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a birthday party. There was no great significance. It would have been held under any circumstances, and it would have been just about the same. G: The week before that he flew to Des Moines to a farm workers' conference, then to Cincinnati to address
Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and graduated in the class of 1933. G: What was San Marcos like the time that you were there? M: San Marcos was almost like a poor farm. They had probably less money than any crowd that you can imagine. I went up on the bus. The reason I went on the bus
Oral history transcript, Thomas D. (Tom) Mills, interview 1 (I), 8/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the pipe moved and everything. He used to go up to the cowpens when they were working cows. G: Someone said that he went from being president of the United States to president of the LBJ Ranch. Is that about it? 20 LBJ Presidential Library http
  • in Mexico and provide clothes and toys for its workers and their families; LBJ playing golf; LBJ's health problems in retirement; LBJ's love of spicy foods; LBJ's interest in watching movies at the Ranch; the military no longer being allowed to provide
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and shovel, handwork. It was all handwork. (Laughter) And he did drive a team some, a fresno [scraper]. G: Was he a good worker? W: Damned good, one of the best. G: I've heard that he could find ways to sort of Tom Sawyer people into getting them
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Dallas was about the most conservative city in the United States, a conservatism ranging from sensible routine con­ servatism to some very, very extreme stuff. I think that Alben might have had a very bad reception in Dallas, but to say that Johnson
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . now a banker, I guess. Workers. Welly is He was general counsel to the United Mine What I didn't know was that Johnson was supporting him. I just wanted to get his opinion of him. Johnson said, "I will be right up to talk to you about him." He
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • for this thing, and army units were assigned to go in and reoccupy the southern tip of the country, which was Ca Mau. This one psywar company that they had was assigned to do propaganda, and a staging area was set up in Soc Trang, which was north of Ca Mau
Oral history transcript, Will Wilson, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • three terms, which were completed in '62. I made two unsuccessful races: one for governor. During that period, one for the United States Senate and [Then I] dropped out of public life and practiced law from '62 until I accepted this position
Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • he was president. I could always get it handled with Moyers or Valenti or someone like that, although I brought in committees and that kind of thing that he sat with. He appointed me as the national chairman of Discover America. I organized
  • in retirement; Short's "Discover America" work with government agencies; Humphrey's relationship with Eugene McCarthy; Short's work for Humphrey and McCarthy while they waited for LBJ to decide who would be his vice presidential running mate; Democratic fund
Oral history transcript, Victor Ferrari, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • leave in a hurry. They took us to a little farm nearby and introduced us to a typical Dutch hayrick. At that period in time they were transferring young Dutch people to Germany to forced labor camps. To avoid this fate, the farmers would hide
Oral history transcript, Emmett Shelton, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • any means. He wouldn't even go to the World Series games when he was president of the United States. I don't think he ever threw the ball out or anything. He LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . F: But there was nothing visible to a fellow worker of his? T: No. I think you had to be conscious of it all the time though. In everything you say and do and how you vote. F: Well, one thing I was leading around to--he placed Senator Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Ava Johnson Cox, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . It was heavy work and I've done heavy work all my life. I've done a man's work, and it hasn't seemed to bother me, not too much. G: How good a worker was Lyndon on this project? C: Well, you had to keep after him, because he would find something else to do
  • Characteristics of the Bunton family; Rebekah and Sam Ealy Johnson training Cox as a child in elocution and extemporaneous speaking; Sam Ealy Johnson's personality; LBJ as a student; Cox and LBJ doing farm work and road work; Sam Ealy Johnson's work
Oral history transcript, John Sherman Cooper, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ~ live forgotten, to speak at a luncheon or dinner that he gave during the Rose Festival. accepted. I wanted to go. And so I I found that the two speakers were Lyndon Johnson, later to be president of the United States, and myself. met him then. I