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Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
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- your chronology here gives the reason, is Johnson's resistance to the idea of tax cuts as an antirecession measure. He was for big spending in response to recession, and part of that I guess is just the classic New Deal and southwestern, midwestern
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- , yes. G: --which was first mentioned in the State of the Union [Message]. M: I was never opposed to it. What I wanted to do was to see if we couldn't balance the budget. I didn't want that additional money to be spent for new things, because he
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 18 (XVIII), 6/12/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , which had to have something by about three or four o'clock in the afternoon. So we developed a little technique. I, or anybody that I could get to do it, would figure out some sort of a news lead and write out about eight paragraphs, sometimes less than
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- at me all the time to be sure that [inaudible]. He fussed at all his friends, [inaudible] G: Do you recall when you learned he had had his fatal heart attack? How you got that news? MW: Television. W: Were we here? We were here at the house or were we
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- into a world of communication, rather new, and quite strange to me, I a must ask you, Paul, to provide and a reasonable modicum of lot of caref~l guidance to·me deletion from the finished proauct -- lest this become a ,biographical sketch of a lniversity
- had an opportunity to ride with him up to Hyannis Port. So I got on the plane. He had a man from Georgetown and he had [Allen] Duckworth from the Dallas [Morning] News. Most of the agencies preferred to have their people at the various points to make
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- by_ evaluated this situation. I'd Senator Russell called me and said, "I've I need somebody to fill my press secretary's post right away, and the job is yours if you want it." I said, "Well, I definitely want it, but I think it would
- Biographical information; Senator Richard Russell; LBJ’s decreased popularity and its sources; civil rights; LBJ’s relationship with Russell; activating battleship New Jersey; Russell’s criticism of LBJ’s Administration; editorial cartoon; growth
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- /show/loh/oh ...... PICKLE -- III -- 2 stalled for an hour or two while we scrambled around to get new typewrite rs and chairs. That was the kind of attitude that was . preva 1ent. But it did go on to the courts. Whatever they say about Mr
- Moody, and Magnolia Oil; LBJ's 1955 heart attack; first post-heart attack appearance at Whitney; LBJ excels as a rural campaigner; LBJ in the 1956 campaign; Price Daniel; the state 1956 convention; as executive secretary of the SDEC; "Dollars
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- to what in some ways seem like quaint days, in 1964--sometimes we forget how far we've come and how fast--James Farmer announced when he started a new integration drive that Chapel Hill would be his first target, and that's while you were still Governor
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- , the election judge took the returns down to the Alice News. G: And that was Luis Salas? P: Yes. He took them there, and I was standing at the desk when he gave the returns, if I'm not mistaken, at that time [to] a fellow named Cliff DuBois, who worked
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- from hunting up in Chama, New Mexico one time, out at the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation. George and I were talking about the 1948 election. He said, "You know, a lot of people have said this, that and the other thing, but you know I have never
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
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- Reedsville, North Carolina with the Marshall Field enterprises up there. He had run for lieutenant governor two years before, and he was elected along with Umstead. Then when Umstead died in November of 1954, Luther Hodges was the new governor; he had two
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- teaching post, which was at Williams College, early in 1963. In the late fall of 1962, the directorship of the Agency for International Development became vacant. President Kennedy, after surveying the problems, decided that the right man to put
- is the beginning of Mr. Johnson's presidency. We had brought you over then to his offices following the news of the assassination. Did you take part at all in the reception of Mr. Johnson when he came in? Where did he go when he came in, did he get in any
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McGiffert -- I -- 6 McG: No. You remember they had had some trouble during the previous evening. The news of the assassination, I would guess, came
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- . So I started up the ramp--I guess it must have been half-time--looking for a friend. I met Lyndon coming down the ramp alone. F: Was he a congressman by then? Was he a new congressman? . C: He had just been sworn in. I guess one reason that I
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- would assume you heard of the news of the assassina- tion over the radio, or did someone phone you? H: Oh no, I was in that planeload of cabinet officers going over the Pacific. You see there were seven of us who were members of that Japan-U.S. Trade
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- conservative man. thought probably he was more of a moderate than Dick Kleberg. I think he supported practically all of the Roosevelt New Deal program. I supported a good deal of it. too much. Relief spending got to be inefficient and The CCC camps, a good
- Biographical information; LBJ; heart attack; LBJ’s capacity for friendship; FDR New Deal program; support for LBJ in 1960; Sam Rayburn; lobbyist; Bobby Baker; JFK’s New Frontier program; civil rights; education; Vietnam; civilian control of military
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
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- of him was] reading in the Dallas [Morning] News that he had been appointed NYA director for Texas. It surprised me a bit because a few weeks or a few days before I had read that a fellow from Port Arthur or Corpus [Christi] somewhere down there, had
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- survived that test. \Vhen we went into that series of conventions, we had control of the majority of the delegates. That was the convention in which Price Daniel took over as governor and his Executive Committee was elected. Some of the members of the new
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- until we had been there about a year. G: Anything about the operation of the Ranch when you moved there that you thought was significant? Was it in need of a new manager? M: Well, perhaps they didn't have the time or the money to spend on the cattle
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- was fairly new still, and as we're finding out, I think, in the Nixon Administration, the liaison between Congress and the White LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- of the new school of arts and sciences, call it Letras, from 1957 to 1960. In 1965, I was called Escuela de Ciencias y to be a candidate. I was proposed as a pre-candidate and then elected as the candidate for the Unification Party, which
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
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- owed to Hennan Welker would cease to exist when Herman Welker left the Senate. So it was .a whole new situation, a whole new ball game, one might say. Because it was between two men, Herman Welker and Wayne Morse; one of them had befriended me
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- off last time with Johnson coming into the White House and those early days, I don't suppose it made any great difference in your life in the Senate except that you did have a new President. And things were a bit torn up at that time. T: Well, when I
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- way or another to make it. So Janice, a kid that age, she wanted to go, and we didn't have time to say no. She went along and we just had to drive much faster than I like to drive. But it was a new Mercury and no problems, sailed right on. G
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
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- ]--but who ever raised the price on New Year's Eve that year sent the President through the overhead, ruined my weekend. G: Is that right? C: Well, he was at the Ranch. We'll get to that. He was at the Ranch; he read it on the ticker and we went to war
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 31 (XXXI), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
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- to build something called New Towns in Town here in Washington and this came late in the administration. 1968. Have you come across any of that? B: We came across it (inaudible). G: Yes. C: There's a book on that program I've got somewhere
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- of the hanJ dutie• that were beiJls pre•eed down upon u• who were around the new Pre•ident. JOHNSON: What we wanted to do for the country i• what we did. It wa• that lim.ple. I r-lly wanted LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, James E. Chudars, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
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- ? C: No. These were brand new. There was very little helicopter flying at that point. They had training classes, but there weren't any units. There were some R-4s that were sent out to China. They did some things, but they weren't too effective
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- you, and it'd be too messy, so we'll give you a few minutes, and everybody go to the corner of So-and-So and So-and-So, or out to the high school, or whatever, and they'd circle, and everybody would dash for the new place, and then they’d land
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- presented by President Truman, but to no avail. He could not be persuaded. F: The Chief Justice didn't want to leave his post, I presume. 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- went in the Army. Army until after World l~ar I was in various posts in the II, and came home in December of '45. I went back in the Attorney General's Office for a brief spell when Grover Sellers was attorney general of Texas; then resigned to run
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- , the southwest corner of the square, and they did not build the new courthouse until 1916. I believe it was about September 1916 they moved into the new courthouse. G: I wonder if LBJ's father, Sam Ealy Johnson, had anything to do with the moving
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- large town. His car was there. We started searching for him and found him. He was passed out in a ditch, not partly, dirty and mud allover him and so on. I didn't know what to think about him. Dorothy was also rather new; she'd only been working
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Drawing Rights and other major issues related to the reform of the International Nonetary System. It now has its successor, or continuation, in what's called the "Volcker Group." M: This is the new man who holds Deming's position. D: That's right. M
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- ."'NDml RAINES ~ Jom;so~ More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh L[Bl{z\RY ORAL HISTORY COLLECTWN Narrator Ralph Anthony Dlmgan . . l'ririccton:> . New Biographical information: .Jersey__Q.~ State
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- down. "The Rotunda, he said, "is right past the tunnel, rightpa st the underpass. back of the Capitol you turn right." and tried to ff nd it, and I went 11 In I did go down New Jersey and ~trai - ght ahead and went and went. finally walked al
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- would take a trip into New England. and we made six stops that day. It would be a one-day trip, I recall it very vividly. We went into Hartford, Connecticut, and Providence, Rhode Island, and Burlington, Vermont, and Portland, Maine; Manchester, New
- 1964 campaign structure/organization; Arthur Krim; one-day New England campaign trip; daisy commercial; Barry Goldwater; Mrs. Johnson’s campaign trip through the South; inner workings of the campaign; Ambassador John Bartlow Martin; campaign
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
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- For example, we found great disparity in the cost of the same operation in one shipyard as against another. Same operation. Something new in the field of radar would come along, and you'd put it on all of the ships of a certain kind. In some, the man
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)