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Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: PAUL THORNHILL INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Thornhill's home, Oak Hill, Texas Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: When did you begin flying for Vice President Johnson? It was for Vice President that you began? T: Yes
Oral history transcript, Courtney A. Evans, interview 1 (I), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh MARCH 27, 1969 This is the interview with Courtney Evans. Sir, would you just summarize briefly your career up to the time you joined the Office of Enforcement Assistance? E: After my graduation from law
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh (Tape ff:3) July 29, 1969 B: This is a continuation of the interview with the Reverend Luther Holcomb. Sir, before we get back into the chronology-- H: Excuse me, have you met Judy Miller? B: We've been talking out there. H
Oral history transcript, Harvey O. Payne, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 HP: Yes, sir, that's right. PB: And rented out the other? HP: Yes, sir. PB: How
Oral history transcript, Price Daniel, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • for six years. F: Until you became senator? D: Yes, sir. F: Right. Then as attorney general did you have any contact with first Congressman Johnson and then Senator Johnson? Of course, you were here based in Austin, and this was his home district so
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . It was very significant how he identified his home. He went down to the ranch, he didn't go back to the plantation or even the farm. He went to the ranch. He was a westerner, he was a cattleman, he was an oilman, in the sense that he identified
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • impressed In the official meetings I wasn't present. I was present later at the Ambassador s--I believe it was Ambassador [Douglas] MacArthur [II] at the time--at his home when he had a private party for the. Prime Minister. The Prime Minister slicing
Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 2 (II), 9/15/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . 1981 INTERVIEWEE: EDWARD G. LANSDALE INTERVIEWER: TED GITTINGER PLACE: General Lansdale's home. McLean. Virginia Tape G: of 2 General Lansdale, we were discussing some of the reform programs in South Vietnam while you were there. Did you advise
Oral history transcript, Raul Castro, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • I've been in the mining business for a good many years. From there my parents came over. They were actually political refugees. My family had to leave for political reasons and ended up in a town called Douglas, Arizona, also on the border, next to Agua
  • Arguedas Mendieta; the effect of the CIA's alleged involvement with Guevara and Arguedas on U.S.-Bolivian relations; bomb-throwing incidents at Castro's home while he was ambassador to Bolivia; problems getting U.S. aid into Bolivia, especially due
Oral history transcript, Sam Fore, Oliver Bruck, Dan Quill, & William S. White, group interview 2 (II), 1/20/1965, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • on his way down to Corpus Christi to accept his first big assignment job with Congressman Richard M. Kleberg. Congressman Kleberg asked him to stop by and meet us, and he stayed all night in our home. C: Were you publishing then? F: Yes sir, fifty
Oral history transcript, Douglass H. Hubbard, interview 1 (I), 6/4/69, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • for Interpretation Do I have that title correct? H: That's correct. B: Sir, just for the convenience of anyone using this in the future, would you briefly summarize your career up to your taking over this job? H: Yes, I'd be glad to. I was born in Oakland
  • relationship between the National Park Service (NPS) and the Texas Park Service (TPS); working with Mark Gosdin and Will Odom of TPS; preserving the Danz, Sauer and Behrens homes; architect Roy White of Austin; funds from Laurance Rockefeller for furnishings
Oral history transcript, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was going to lose it. that he was going to lose it. I never felt But, as I say, you just don't count those chickens until they come home. M:: Yes. E: Finally, they're all right. But, no, I wasn't particularly worried; but I was concerned, because
Oral history transcript, J.C. Looney, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the drainage problem. F: Was it as close an election here as it was over the State? L· The first election? F· Yes. L: Yes, sir, it was. The way I remember it in this county, I believe O'Daniel probably led the ticket. second, and Johnson was third
Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , have any struck you as being particularly meritorious or with substance, or are they all, to your mind, meretricious? N: You mean the criticisms? G: Yes, sir. N: Well, I hate to brand everything, including stuff I haven't read, as being wrong
Oral history transcript, Wroe Owens, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , but a few voters, and as I said, I went down with my wife and my five-year old daughter, stayed in the hotel, did my job, and came home. That is really what I did, but when I came home, the investigation was, we thought, complete, but I didn't spend a lot
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh July 8, 1969 B: This is a continuation, the second interview with Rev. Holcomb. Sir, we left this after about 1961 or so. The next thing would be in '62 when you were appointed by President Kennedy as chairman of the Texas
Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • of age at that time, and I would go out on the patio of our home to practice my lines and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
  • Texas; Van Cliburn; St. Mary’s Catholic High School chorus; Diaz Ordaz visit; “The Fandango;” Sir Gilbert Peake.
Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • quickly." When I got to Bragg, Johnny Bowen didn't know anything about this. He said, "Who the hell are you and what are you doing on my post?" I said, "Sir, I have orders to take anything I want." (Laughter) About that time the phone rang
Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • them with him to compare them, and he said everything was aboveboard. On his way home though, he said he stopped at a beer joint and he left the poll and tally lists in the glove compartment of his car. Those were two sets. The only remain- ing
Oral history transcript, Patrick V. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh March 13, 1969 B: This is an interview with Patrick V. Murphy., former Director of Public Safety of the District of Columbia, and later Director of the Law Enforcement and Assistance Administration. Sir, to start with your
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • always supported the efforts to have better farm programs. Rural electrification-- he was an early advocate and always a strong supporter of rural electrification, rural telephone program; the various credit programs of the Farmers Home Administration
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , "I don't know just what you mean, sir ." And he said, � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and involved a nuclear war between the United States and the Russians and/or Chinese, I don't know. But I do know that I am convinced that had we followed [Douglas] MacArthur's thrust--and I don't fault Harry Truman for firing MacArthur--but had we followed
Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a I had had little previous administrative experience. r had been director of the NRA in Virginia briefly. But I was predominantly a newspaper writer in those days, an assistant to the distinguished editor of Richmond's afternoon newspaper, Douglas
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the South is concerned. I liked Symington. I liked him. I liked Paul Douglas, And I perhaps liked somebody else--I can't remember any other candidates at the moment of that time. F: Stevenson was still around. S: I had about done all I could do
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : All right, sir. Is it accurate to say that your first involvement in intelligence regarding Vietnam was when you were at USARPAC? D: Yes. That's true. You don't watch it with the single focus that the J-2 MACV watches it, because that's the whole
Oral history transcript, Stanley L. Greigg, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and it was a nonpartisan type of political involvement. But I elected to run for city council back in the home city of Sioux City, which was a city of roughly a hundred thousand. And I went through a very, very tough campaign for city hall and won that campaign by a very
Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 2 (II), 11/9/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in the United States did not have any strategic reserve at home for contingencies elsewhere. And if the Soviets had wanted to heat things up in Europe, for example, or Berlin or something, we'd have been sort of hurting. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Nay 13, 1969 F: This is an interview with Mr. Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., in his office in New York on Hay 13, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mr. Weisl, you're out of Illinois, right? W: Yes, sir. F: Tell us a little
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 2 (II), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • life into your new? C: I never did. My mother still at this moment has some things at home that she packed up from the sorority house that day. I guess the only thing that I did as far as going to check in at that life again was to take off one day
Oral history transcript, Conrad L. Wirth, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • landscape. F: There is a third generation now of landscape architects in the family, isn't there? W: Yes, sir. t'ly older son, Theodore J. Wirth, has his own business at Billings, Montana, and played a part in the design of the LBJ Park. LBJ
Oral history transcript, Steve Martini, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • want her home used for utilitarian purposes, so therefore we continued cutting hair in the West Wing. But I would go to their offices, and most of the time I used General [Howard M.] Snyder's, Dr. Snyder's office to give all these people a haircut
Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: EDWARD JOSEPH INTERVIE~JER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: t~r. Joseph's office, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 2 F: We'll make this informal, Eddie. Are you an Austin boy? J: Yes, sir, I was born and raised in Austin. F: That's what I thought. J
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 4 (IV), 8/8/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was still teaching in San Antonio most of the time and going to law school at night, and he was working up there. But when he would come home--the Congress then stayed in session fewer months than it does now; and they would come home usually in July
Oral history transcript, Richard E. Neustadt, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: Richard Neustadt INTERVIEWER: Paige Mulhollan M: Let's begin, sir, by identifying you. More
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was practicing law, simply on some sort of business or other, and my mother and father were invited to the home of the Johnsons for a quite large party which they gave for three new congressmen from Texas. B: That would have been to the Ranch? W
Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • already begun under the Eisenhower Administration with the creation of the Inter-American Bank and with the Act of Bogotá [Bogotá Agreement], which had been agreed to with Douglas Dillon, who was the American representative that summer of 1960. The term
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is the second session with Kenneth M . Birkhead . Sir, we were talking last time about your position right after the 1960 election at the beginning of the Kennedy
  • of Senate Democrats; John Sparkman; Paul Douglas; Paul Butler; Matt McCloskey; Americans for Democratic; Charlie Murphy; Albert and Mark Lasker Foundation; 750 Club; Ed Foley; Liz Carpenter; Ralph Hewitt; Bob Berry; Dave Lloyd; Jack Kennedy; Ted Sorenson
Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Los Angeles, I decided to go back to Dallas to pick up my business again and just assumed that Senator Johnson, being the vice-presidential candidate, wouldn't need me, that the Kennedy people would run the car.npaign anyway . Well, I was home about
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • moved out in their [areas] back home, they would swing delegates. didn't ,happen It just that way. M: It didn't work that way. S: No. M: Did you go to Los Angeles? s: Oh, yes, I went to Los Angeles. M: Were you a member of the Texas