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- . Emergency Relief Mission and came back and briefly resumed the special assistant post while I broke in a new man when Joe Califano went to the White House. in John Cushman. I broke Then I became principal deputy assistant secre- tary of defense
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Robert Vincent Roosa, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb
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- , 1969 HlTERV I E\'JEE: ROBERT ROOSA INTERV I HJER: DAV 10 McCOMB PLACE: 59 Wall Street, New York City Tape 1 of 2 M: First of all, I'd like to know something about your background. Where were you born, when, where did you get your education? R
- Biographical information; Federal Reserve Bank; new economics; Treasury Department; Organization for Economic Cooperation; Organization for European Cooperation and Development; working parties; Group of Ten; ring of swaps; London Gold Pool; Robert
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- for the American-Statesman. I started as a capitol correspondent for the Galveston N~s, and then the Trans-Radio Press; that was a news service. Then I picked up another paper--this was [as] capitol correspondent, [the] Wichita Falls Post, which is no longer
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- 12, 1971 INTERVIEWEE : ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI INTERVIEWER : PAIGE MULHOLLAN PLACE : Dr . Brzezinski's office at Columbia University, New York Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's just identify you for the beginning here on the tape . . B: Right . M: You're
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- and she gave money and plants to the City of New York. in evidence. To this day the beginnings she made are still Park Avenue and other places in New York, as a result of her work, are still beautified every year. As I said earlier, one of the things
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- INTERVIEWEE: HARRISON SALISBURY INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MUu-iOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Salisbury's office, New York Times, NeVI York City Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by simply identifying you, sir. You're Harrison Salis- bury, and you've been with the New York Times
- in Hanoi; meeting with Bill Bundy and Dean Rusk to give them his impressions of his Hanoi visit; Bill Bundy; trying to see LBJ to tell him about Hanoi; Art Sylvester; speaking publicly about his book; LBJ’s relationship with the New York Times; the Post
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- , Pennsylvania disaster, and some of the problems in the Los Angeles area and in New York. But undoubtedly in the past five years, six years, there has been a tremendous increase in awareness. poeple are speaking out. More The electric utility industry has
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- on. The riots continued through about the fourteenth. Governor Brown was in Greece. Efforts were made to get him back, and he came into New York and down 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- . Scion of a premier New York investment banking firm, Dillon Read, Republican Doug Dillon had served in the Eisenhower Administration, first, as Ambassador to France, and then as Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. The forces behind his
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -3- Since I've left the government, I've been spending some time here in New York on same state matters, specifically looking at the data on the racial problems in the schools in the city of New York and the other big cities
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
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- in the Washington Post editorial, which said in view of the monumental problem, we weren't asking for enough money. And that was also the editorial position of the New York Times and many liberals. Secondly, the feeling that the bill was an instrument a) to help
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- of these airlines are headquartered in New York. The second circuit contains a bench which has always been much more sympathetic to the scheduled airlines and less sympathetic to the CAB. As a result, the foreign permits were appealed not to the Court of Appeals
- to permit supplemental carriers to charter planes to travel agents for domestic travel; the president's required approval of foreign charter permits; the airlines' appeal to the Second Circuit in New York of the District of Columbia court's decision
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- . The time is 10:45 in the morning, and my name is David McComb. To start off, Dr. Pechman, I'd like to know something about your background--where you were born, when, where did you get your education. P: I was born in New York City and went through
- Biographical information; Arthur Burns; Committee for Economic Development; Herbert Stein; Howard Myers; Ted Yntema; Walter Heller; Brookings Institute; relationship with LBJ; termination of consultantship; development of new economic theory; Paul
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- political figures out there; several times for dinner when he'd have either political figures or friends from Washington, New York. M: Did you talk to him about Vietnam after that trip? H: No, because I came back a little early. We spent a week trying
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- to New York to see, on his next trip, what he could do. And his notes indicate one or more houses said that's an interesting idea, yes, there's a market for that that would make us a little money. But several in a row rejected it on what I call
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , 1978 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: The LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with your trip to New York in June 1934, I guess it was. J: Yes. My daddy gave me that as a graduation
- Lady Bird Johnson's June 1934 trip to New York City with Cecille Harrison; receiving LBJ's name and contact information from Gene Boehringer; touring New York City; traveling from New York City to Washington, D.C.; Mrs. Johnson's impressions
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- was in jo~rnalism a year later, in 1934~ and as a graduation present I believe she was given a trip to New York and you accompanied her on the trip? Yes. We went by boat from New Orleans. M: Yes. G: Let me ask you one thing. It was in August
- Rooming with Lady Bird at the University of Texas in 1932; a Thanksgiving in Karnack; graduation trip to New York and Washington, D.C.; meeting LBJ; LBJ-Lady Bird wedding; Aunt Effie; a visit to the White House; Lady Bird evaluated
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- there. That's the first time that I had met him. I liked him very much. And then I replaced him; he had been gone a couple of months before I got there. I saw him in New York; we had dinner with him in New York before. Bill Benton gave me his apartment in New
- with the U.S.; Battle's communications with Nasser; Cairo as a desirable ambassadorial post; morale at the Cairo embassy; living in Cairo; spy satellites and photographic reconnaissance; the 1964 downing of John Mecom's plane by the Egyptian air force; Battle's
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- INTERVIEWEE: MORRIS ABRAM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Abram's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2 A: I don't know the year, but it was probably around l963-64. Arthur Krim called me and asked whether or not I would be willing to be the president
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- , 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
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- can remember seeing he signed his name in one of those— G: Okay, and then May [April?] 25 he went out to Kansas City to see Truman, and then on to New York to see “Advise and Consent.” V: I didn't see that though. It says here, I notice where
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- , 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: Of course [in 1966] you had big majorities: sixty-eight Democrats, thirty-two Republicans in the Senate
- Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee Harold Cooley; the creation of the Department of Transportation and pressure to keep the Maritime Administration separate; the 1966 minimum wage increase; the Demonstration Cities/Model Cities Program; parcel post
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- was to illustrate the fact that Mr. Weisl, who is Johnson's long-time friend in New York and his lawyer, became his committeman in New York City. Yet he had met few members of the press. Mike O'Neill knew the President very well; if I gave the impresston otherwise
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 24 (XXIV), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , 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: Okay, one more question about Chicago. Did you make an effort there to have [Eugene] McCarthy support
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- for the reason that while the people from Roosevelt's home country of New York and New England who were in some sense identified with the financial community were not willing to back him in the great LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- , let me ask you about some specific things and see if you've gotten into it. Have you had anything to do with the high-speed surface transportation between here and New York? L: Yes sir. M: Is this rail that you're involved in? L: It’s rail. M
- ; high-speed train transportation between Washington, D.C., and New York City; the high-speed train system in Japan; research on short-takeoff and vertical-takeoff aircraft; NASA and FAA involvement in aircraft research; the Supersonic Transport program
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- around the country to New York, Chicago, the West Coast, everywhere, to explain this. of this had been done. rea lly mean it, II All Then to suddenly say, "Oh, sorry, we don't or to say very frankly even worse, liThe Pres i dent has countennanded
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Washington in the papers, we'll say-- because I consider the Washington Post an excellent paper, the New York Times and the Pittsburgh Gazette--Post Gazette is a very good paper too. However, if you read a Washington paper, you'll find out a good deal
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz
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- , 1973 INTERVIEWEE: MRS. ANNA ROSENBERG HOFFMAN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mrs. Hoffman's office in New York City Tape 1 of 1 F: First of all, when did you first become aware of Lyndon Johnson? H: I'm very bad on dates. F: Yes. t'/ell
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- . Jack, we were discussing the last time the campaign of '64 and we shut off on the campaign swing through New England. Now then, as you know, along about that time when the President was up in New York we had the unfortunate episode of Walter Jenkins
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- make them? Aren't you liable to slander? K: What did Coach [Darrell] Royal do when he was quoted as having made a derogatory statement about one segment of our population, and having made the statement in New York, whereas in truth and in fact, he
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- . McNamara was thinking? LG: No. Because even at the end, he told many different stories about the purpose, when the New York Times started to publish these things. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
- ; staff who worked on study; study plan; lack of direction or certainty of what was expected reflections on the need for historians to do the study; role of Robert McNamara; speculation about the purpose of study; reaction to publication in the New York
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- , but one of particular relevance here, which was a conference in New York sponsored by an organization called Peace Without War. November I believe. It was last And there then that was all on the record. I gave a talk on the issues of press relations
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Busch and August A. Busch, Jr., and I went to New York and took this contribution of ten thousand dollars, which was made up of the various members of the family. While we were in New York, of course we had an appointment, and we met Mr. Garner and Sam
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- , and such was the fervor that the New York Sun ran a note, "Positively tomorrow at three o'clock Theodore will walk on the waters." It was something of that tre- mendous populist movement. As we thought of it at the time, President Theodore Roosevelt, whom the President
- Biographical information; involvement with Roosevelt's administration; newspapers' importance to the government; summary of politics in New York State when Roosevelt was governor; genesis of the New Deal; Harvard graduates in FDR's administration
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , "There are three places that I will not go, so don't even schedule me ." I said, "What's that? " He said, "New York, Chicago, and California ." I said, "Well, you east mentioned the three largest states . " He said, "Yes, but i'm not going in there and have
- Biographical information; John Connally; 1941 Senate race; war years; 1960 presidential campaign; advancing; campaign trips; New York City; convention; Nixon; Texas politics; Alvin Wirtz; Johnson personality; Mrs. Johnson
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- couldn't tell you. F: Were you at any time in there promised a Cabinet post? W: Well, yes and no. On the 26th of December of 1960, I was then the Vice Chairman of the Housing and Redevelopment Board of New York, which is the board that has to do
- to LBJ Ranch regarding housing message; his impact on LBJ’s thinking; reason for resignation; prejudice; feeling that the new administration will attempt to make administrative reform
- INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT BASKIN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as well go on there. Lyndon Johnson? B: Briefly, when
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- INTERVIEWEE: ROGER HILSMAN INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Hilsman's office at Columbia University, New York Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by identifying you, sir. your last official You're Roger Hilsman, and position with the government
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- the Washington Post, the New York Times, and such as being part of this alleged conspiracy. Is there anything in the United States in your opinion that could 14 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
- Roosevelt Association; counsel for Washington Post; Phil Graham; Jerry Siegel; John McCloy; Edmund A. Gullion; Herbert Humphrey; Jerome B. Wiesner; Arthur Dean; Arthur Schlesinger; McGeorge Bundy; ACDA; Alvin Wirtz; Moscow trip; test ban treaty; American