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Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to get the votes, they also would tell him. There was no double talk. There was no rather crude partisan politics between the three men. I think I could also say in the associations that I had both with the Speaker and Mr. Johnson it was exactly
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . That was, first place. my first real association of any kind with Lyndon B. Johnson. As you may remember, 1957 was the year of the first civil rights bill. F: Right. W: Which I was naturally interested in, as a southern correspondent. More than that. I went
  • Biographical information; 1960 “rump session;” Henry Cabot Lodge; campaign trips; Democratic ticket; Catholic issue; McCarthy censure; Watkins Committee; Vice Presidency; assassination; Connally-Yarborough feud; Dallas; funeral; Vietnam; press
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • I had missed. During our visit in Washington, one of my friends--a former editor that I had worked for on the Oklahoma News--said, "Well, Franklin D. Roosevelt is going to have a press conference. Don't you want to come and hear it?" Of course, I
  • Biographical information; association with LBJ; Rayburn; Board of Education meetings; impression of LBJ; political reputation and closest associates; relationships of LBJ with FDR, Eisenhower and Truman; NYA; wartime price control legislation
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • during my freshman year. I later became Rice correspon- dent for the Chronicle, and went on into journalism. went into politics. years. President Johnson Therefore we still had a close association over the We saw each other a great deal, communicated
Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in 1945 the acting Illiite House press secretary. D: That's right. F: Now then, as a veteran newspaper man and son of a newspaperman and a man in and out of Washington all your life, I'd be very interested in your commenting on press secretaries during
  • Administration; role of White House press secretary in 1945; impressions of other press secretaries; recollections of LBJ's early days in Washington and his race for Senate; support for Truman; Democratic Party allegiance; 1960 Democratic Party convention
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 17 (XVII), 1/5/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Although I think I ended up briefing the press on the issue, and therefore backing off from that I believe my side of the issue was that we should continue the deferment for married men. We had a little debate in the Oval Office LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • came in with this kind of a judgment. I should get this stuff out in the press. It's really indefatigable. I still do the same kinds of doodles. That must say something. (Laughter) This is the President, [commenting on] AP [Associated Press] 1962
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 7 (VII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cronin -- VII -- 3 maybe in this year, in this particular year--of going to the White House. We had our Administrative Assistants' Association and I had taken over as president of that during those
Oral history transcript, Milton R. Young, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • around me. He just I believe he really did like me. That was the last time I ever saw him. I got a wonderful letter from Lady Bird afterwards, mentioning some of our associations together and especially how much Lyndon thought of me. G: Do you
Oral history transcript, James A. Shannon, interview 1 (I), 4/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • continued as director of the Squibb Institute but also was on the board of directors and on their executive management committee. During the spring of 1949 I was invited to come to NIH as an associate director of the Heart Institute in order to develop
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . He'd made a good governor, most people in And it ,,,as a political race, and feelings were aroused. Naturally I was working as hard for my man as I could. B: What made Hr. Johnson seem liberal? M: I suppose association in the minds of many people
  • jobs and errands for the President; advice for LBJ’s press relations; Bill Moyers; LBJ’s treatment of George Reedy; Jenkins held LBJ in respect but not afraid to disagree with him; 1964 campaign; Mississippi delegation; Mooney’s admiration of LBJ; Eric
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 2 (II), 6/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Johnson's reaction when she as first lady was compared to other first ladies? I remember seeing in the press a lot of comparisons of Mrs. Johnson and, say, Mrs. Roosevelt, and most of all, Mrs. Kennedy. A: It's very hard for any first lady to be compared
  • Mrs. Johnson as first lady; trips into poverty areas; Mrs. Johnson and speeches; Lynda and Luci during the presidency; 1964 campaign and train trip in the South; press on train trip flying Lady Bird Special; Mrs. Johnson's control and self
Oral history transcript, William Narva, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: DR. WILLIAM NARVA INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Dr. Narva's residence, Sheraton Carlton Hotel, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with your first association with President Johnson. N: I arrived in the Washington
  • bladder surgery scar; a 1967 skin cancer publicity incident; Dr. Edmunc Klein; Dr. Peter Harvath and the use of 5-fluorouracil; a skin cancer on LBJ’s foot; LBJ’s devotion to the Presidency and his family; press overreaction to Narva’s treatment on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Aubrey Williams . B: I was teaching school in Denver and was president of the Denver Class room Teachers Association and chairman of the convention committee for the big NEA that met there in July of 1935 . While I was working on this committee work
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . So he began having continuing associations with Johnson, discussions about problem.s relating to that. But at the sam.e tim.e that that went on between them., I had a continuing relationship with him. [Johnson] on m.atters relating to the NY A. NYA
  • ; Medicare; Helen Taussig; Advisory Council on Public Welfare Task Force on Income Maintenance (Heineman Commission); Advisory Commission on Status of Women; Esther Peterson; LBJ fixed associations between Wicky/Cohen/Social Security; Medicare; Mrs. Kennedy
Oral history transcript, George McArthur, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to start off by asking you, if I figured it right, you worked for the AP [Associated Press] for twenty-one years, is that right? M: Yes, twenty years. G: That's a long time for a wire service. My impression of a wire service kind of a job was, you
  • McArthur's work for the Associated Press; the difference between working for a wire service and a daily/weekly publication; Mrs. Eva Kim McArthur's work as Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker's secretary; Bunker's attitude toward McArthur's and Eva's
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • instruments, and that therefore the sensible goal was to land a man on the moon, because in the course of doing that we would have to do a lot of research into the biological problems associated with outer space. Just the space instruments didn't raise those
  • in other military tactics, such as rocket power and supersonic speeds; Robert Kennedy's presidential aspirations in 1963; LBJ's reaction to criticism in the press; assumptions in 1963 about President Kennedy's political future; Barry Goldwater's chances
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • pressing so heavily on millions of our citizens. The basic philosophy of the OEO is constructive and much good has been accomplished for the poor and the uneducated, but in some areas there has been an injection of politics beyond reasonable measure
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bolton -- I -- 3 with the Associated Press over the matter of wrongly identifying a picture, was also a special correspondent for the San Antonio Light and other newspapers. To do most
  • Texas press in 1930s; State Observer; first contact with LBJ; Alvin Wirtz; war years; KTBC radio station; 1944 Democratic state convention; 1944 and 1946 congressional campaigns; speech writing; KTBC and aggressive new policy; UN conference; San
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- I -- 2 B: Yes. Let me interject, I don't want to get off onto my first meetings with him and some of those things, but this one is interesting as to how [I was hired], not all the details that were involved with it. I was working in the press
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 59 (LIX), 1/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • remember more about that. (Long pause) We then got some settlements, but again, the problem turned out to be the IAM [International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers], the electrical workers, the firemen and oilers, the sheet metal workers
Oral history transcript, Henry Hirshberg, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • That was after he was in Congress. Wait a minute, when did he go to Congress? He had returned here-I was very much involved in the marriage. Youth Association. Did you know anything regarding that appointment to the National Youth Association? H: I had
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 2 (II), 5/3/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Motion Picture Association. I believe the retiring president was Eric Johnson. I was practicing law here in this firm and quite happy in New York, but as Arthur portrayed the job it had a lot of interesting aspects to it. Some of them I didn't like
  • Jack Valenti becoming President of the Motion Picture Association instead of Abram; MPA issues that concerned LBJ; integrationist vs. separationist civil rights movements; Berl Bernhard; A. Philip Randolph; problems at the White House Civil Rights
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and press assistant to then-Representative Jacob K. Javits from what was then the Twenty-first Congressional District of New York, which is the upper west side of Manhattan ranging at that time from West 114th Street north to the end of the island
  • immediately after the authorizing legislation was passed; the role of the minority party and lobbyists; the increase in lobbying and associations in Washington D.C.; political debates based on politicians' home state rather than political party; Millenson's
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ' meeting in Chicago. He checked the time element [?]. The Secret Service wasn't prepared; the press hadn't been informed, and he didn't know he was going to do it till just that morning. So LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • with U.S. p rticipation. We had a small mission that was rather taken for granted, I P: To continue this chronologically, did you have any association with Mr. Johnson during his Vice Presidency? campaign of 1960? G: think. Let me back us up. What
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of this fact of his selection of Lyndon Johnson, I was deluged immediately by press and radio. And I was able to say then, and did say, very strongly that Lyndon Johnson had an excellent, liberal record, and that basically he was a populist in his political
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of his close associates. To begin with, he had an all-consuming commitment to his job as President. He had become President through the great tragedy of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and it was as though he felt that since he had not been
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Senator Jackson and the Senate Committee on Internal and Insular Affairs. I didn't try to press the Bureau of the Budget, other than to give my forthright observations, knowing that the financial 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 10 (X), 5/13/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the situation that he was in, that he had to have some kind of bill. G: There was a good deal of criticism from the southern press that Johnson had tricked the South in this way. M: Yes, with his announcing that this bill that had been blocked would
Oral history transcript, W. Evans Buchanan, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 B: No, I'd met him . I had been invited to the White House in my capacity as an officer of the National Association of Home Builders . And he appointed me, in 1962 or '63 to the advisory
Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • --it was Xavier's registration that I went to. Many of us were involved in the organization of National Students Association, which was in its time what the SDS is today, you know, radical type students groups in the nation. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 2 (II), 5/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to the American 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 Conservation Association
  • ; Laurance Rockefeller; Hubert Humphrey; consultant to American Conservation Association; Nixon administration proposed changes in the Council; Udall-LBJ relationship; transition; Hickel's influence with Laurance Rockefeller regarding Citizen
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 2 (II), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [Associated Press], that is, the staff head, Frank Starzel. And he said, "Take along Ep [E. Palmer] Hoyt." And Ep I knew, and Ep was the editor of the Denver Post at the time. I asked him what he wanted, and he said he wanted to find out whether he was getting
  • Paley; Stanton’s role as LBJ’s tie to the television industry; the 3/31/68 speech; leaving Washington DC with LBJ the morning of 4/1/68 to go to Chicago; the decision to keep the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago and not move it to Miami; press
Oral history transcript, William F. Jackson and Lucy Ginter Jackson, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • press any further conversation. I always felt on the staff there was a reason for doing something, some reason behind what was going on that I may or may not have known anything about. I'd like to have been able to renew my acquaintanceship with Tom
  • How Jackson became military aide to Vice President Johnson; LBJ's vice-presidential trip to Asia and members of the press on the trip; LBJ's time management; arranging for a photographer to accompany LBJ; the ability of the South Vietnamese to fight
Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in most of that activity. I was a I was heavily Close to Dr. Martin Luther King --closely associated with all the national civil rights leaders. B: What was your opinion of the Justice Department's, and the Kennedy Administration generally, handling
Oral history transcript, John McCully, interview 1 (I), 10/26/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were a part of the Department of Labor. They had the operating mechanisms of printing and such functions, press releases. I released press releases through the Department of Labor, not direct. G: How about office space? M: We were in the General
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • is an opportunity. I.might also tell you about the time that he sent me as a delegate to the Texas Press Club Association. We had in the college a press club, and those of us who edited the newspaper or annual belonged to the press club. of it. I believe he
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to a press conference. The press conference was going to be later that day. I was there for Defense, briefing him on various Defense issues. He kept interrupting the press conference to talk to somebody at the other end of the phone to persuade him to take
Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • my life. I loved it, but I mean that just wasn't my idea of a long-term career. Arthur told me quite a bit of the background he had had with Johnson over the years, their close personal association when Johnson first came to Washington