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Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD H. NELSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE· PLACE: Mr. Nelson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with your association with the Peace Corps. How did you get involved with that? N: I had met Bill Moyers and Sarge
and Kennedy’s staff; Diem’s assassination; Vietnam; trips to New York and Benelux region; LBJ as president; transition after assassination of JFK; the 1964 campaign; civil rights meeting with black leaders; LBJ’s ethics and relationship with staff; Walter
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Cameron McElroy and Lucille McElroy, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the summer to places, Alabama or Chicago or New York? M: No. I never di d know of her goi ng to them. to Alabama. But I knew of her goi ng I think she was originally from there. (Interruption) G: Now, Mr. McElroy, you were talking about the effect
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of service to the public because you are going to have delays on the ground, for example, in Los Angeles or Chicago, because the airports in New York are saturated and can't handle the number of airplanes. So what you are going to get, and is happening now
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert F. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

an evidence of change which really is an extremely welcome change on the whole, and which indicates a new sense of being a person, of individuality, and of actually being a part of the community on the part of a great many people who heretofore have not been

Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 F: A lot of the time, and, therefore, while I saw him when he came to Paris and did occasionally see him here in New York, it wasn't anything like as close as during the time we were both

Oral history transcript, Murrey Marder, interview 1 (I), 5/25/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

it was a typographical error in the Washington Post, which happens. So I went to look at the New York Times text and it also said fifteen hundred. Well, the chances of having the same typographical error in both papers were improbable. And then I checked the transcript
for the Washington Post; North Vietnam's version of events in the Gulf of Tonkin and how it varied from the official U.S. version of events; Marder's coverage of the Multilateral Force (MLF) story and the issue of U.S. sharing access to its nuclear weapons with other
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

one, wasn't it, in the [Washington] Post and the New York Times? C: The story was page one. Well, it's New Year's weekend. There isn't a hell of a lot of other news. G: What was the industry reaction? C: The industry was, well, the industry
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 30 (XXX), 11/4/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 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: One point on something we discussed yesterday: your continuing as national chairman. McGovern in his book
; the McGovern campaign's relationship with the DNC and its new chair, Jean Westwood; organized labor support for McGovern; a meeting of congressmen and senators to discuss Democratic discontent related to party reforms; attempts to increase congressional
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

forget you start off with twenty-two votes from the ex Confederate states. Then you add to that Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, New Mexico, that's another eight [ten] votes, that gets you up to thirty [-two]. Then you pick up a few oddballs here
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

. They were real angry about it, especially John Taber of New York and Clarence Brown of Ohio, Wigglesworth of Pennsylvania [Massachusetts?], and so on. So, Lyndon Johnson helped me. with Sam Rayburn. That's when I really got acquainted And they helped me
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, that he got some money from Jewish contributors in New York. And Weisl, Balaban, and who knows who else communicated with Gerry Siegel and he provided Johnson with a lot of feeling for and understanding of the Jewish community's views on the Israeli
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, I believe in December of 1960. Shortly after his having been named the secretary of labor-designate, he called me in Schenectady, New York. I had been the vice president of opera- tions of a fairly sizable corporation, which was then known
process; railroad strike in Florida, 1964; unemployment; Reynolds’ wife, Helen; 1965 New York City transit strike; National Association of Broadcast Employees and Army Signal Corps technicians dispute; problems with the building trade unions.
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 3 (III), 2/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

from the New York Times index. G: Yes. It's an article by [John Warren] Finney of the New York Times and then another one, a column by [James] Reston. Albert Gore is the sinner, I think, but we'll get into that. But that I think I might say
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there was Sterling Cole of New York. So he made many friends on that. We saw a good deal of the members of the Naval Affairs Committee. It was a big part of his life. He would get lots of letters from his daddy, who was so proud of his son being in Congress
Johnson's finances; a summer 1937 trip to New York City with friends; meeting Alice Maffet Glass and Charles Marsh; Marsh's influence on LBJ regarding international matters; a bill requiring a public referendum before war could be declared; LBJ's interest
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

programs, their own mandates, their own areas of responsibility were suddenly being challenged, especially when you had an eager beaver like Shriver as the symbol of a new program. Then not only Shriver but many of us--I have to include myself, I have
the program; Shriver juggling poverty programs and Peace Corps; Ruth Atkins and New Yorkers concerned about their school.
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

that--particularly thought of serving at the UN. that I wasn't interested in the UN Not but I was doubtful if I could afford to live in New York at the United Nations, because it's a very expensive post. Probably, if I had realized how expensive I couldn't have

Oral history transcript, Pat Adelman, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

to Austin; Mr. Kruger was 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Adelman -- I -- 8 coming back from New York and Congressman Johnson
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. be aboard until May 1. But he won't He is, you know, Jim Allen, Chief State School Officer of New York, who, incidentally, I understand, was offered the Commissionership under President Kennedy and again under President Johnson and has just now accepted
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 5 (V), 11/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, 1971 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE E. LEVINSON INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Mr. Levinson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 F: Larry, we haven't in previous interviews said much on the personal side. We've been strictly programmatic, you might
White House staff deciding what to do after LBJ's presidency; LBJ asking Levinson to move to Texas rather than work for Gulf and Western; LBJ's expectation of long-term loyalty; final Cabinet meeting; Levinson's decision to move to New York; where
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/oh Shriver -- I -- 2 to working with poor people, you might say almost exclusively; third, to pacifism. I used to work from time to time in the office of the Catholic Worker, which was down in the Greenwich Village area of New York City. So
; how the War on Poverty came to include more than Community Action; an Rowland Evans and Robert Novak column in the Washington Post indicating that Shriver might be LBJ’s 1964 vice presidential running mate and reaction of the Kennedy faction
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1977 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH LAITIN INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Laitin's residence in Bethesda, Maryland Tape 1 of 2 L: We never got into the [subject of the] Pope in New York. G: Okay. Do you want to take that up? L: Yes
Laitin’s work related to the Pope’s visit to New York and meeting with LBJ; press coverage of LBJ’s meeting with the Pope; how LBJ liked to be positioned for photographs; Yoichi Okamoto; advancing trips to visit President Truman; how LBJ treated
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

others and I think everyone of us was from [the South]. I was from Alabama, Tom Wicker was from North Carolina, The New York Times, Doug Kiker from the Herald Tribune was a Georgian, and there were several others. have made this charge? So how could he
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Richard A. Prindle, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

and got very interested in the activities there. I went ahead and had my internship at Columbia Presbyterian in New York City in surgery, again because I was somewhat interested in the possibility of going into surgery of heart deformtties and so forth
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Harris Melasky, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

the war I went to work in New York City. 1 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
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

recall, was out of town, in New York I think, making a speech. I ran him down. I pulled him off the dais. He hadn't made the speech, sitting on the dais somewhere. I got him on the phone and I told him that we were contemplating a reorganization
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the electorate in Texas and point out to me that in substance, Texas, because of the way in which it was settled was as big a melting pot as New York, and that particularly he had always been able to have the support of the Negro and the Mexicans. His problem
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? F: No. The only difference was one in degree, not in kind. There was just as much discrimination in New York City as there was in Birmingham, Alabama, except Birmingham was more blatant and more widespread. It didn't matter. When you look
employees in the Department of Defense; John Macy's federal executive councils; complications within the Post Office; TVA's lack of compliance with minority hiring; federal scholarships; labor unions; Philadelphia Plans; state employment services; corporate
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Erich Leinsdorf, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

time with them after the termination of my first season with the Metropolitan. Before I left New York to go to Virginia and to enjoy the country and the beautiful estate, I filed an application with the Immigration (Bureau) which was at that time, I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of urban type problems, even if the urban type problems seemed suburban or semirural. Because I think increasingly this country is beginning to recognize that the problems of Chicago and New York are not going to be solved in Chicago and New York alone
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, then after the war I went up to New York and CBS and was choppin’ along in tall cotton, doing very well. For years I voted down here in Texas and then I changed my voting to New York. But I'd talk about Lyndon being my congressman from down
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- I -- 3 about, were there at a small family dinner. I was very taken by the whole thing. I went back to Washington [New York?], and then he called me a week later, and I came back down. He said that they had done a background investigation on me
from diplomacy in current politics; the riots in Washington, D.C., following the assassination of Martin Luther King; LBJ's confusion over the riots, their purpose and leadership; being in New York City for the ordination of Cardinal Terence Cooke
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

bathing trunks to the JetStar and he dressed on the plane. At the same time, Lee White was sent to New York, and, as I recall, he and Collins, or Collins, after being briefed by Lee White, met with Brown at Kennedy Airport in New York. The purpose
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

buzzed me and said Mrs. Johnson had called. She was inundated by mail on the subject of beautification. She'd had an interview with U.S. News and World Report, which I think had come out in either a December or January issue. In this she had particularly
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to New York, I seem to recollect it had something to do with NATO. But the President called me in the afternoon, about two or three in the afternoon, and he said, would it be possible to do this." My attitude in working with President Johnson was always
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it. F: Didn't have anything to move with. H: Didn't have anything to move with. Purely on a political side I think that the majority of people supported him in my own state. F: New York? H: We were concerned politically. We had every indication
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 2 (II), 4/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

some historical evidence. She was, You might find it, too, in the Library. G: I'll check. Well, yould mentioned earlier that you would tell her stories of New York and whatnot. P: There was such a difference in our ages that fairy tales were
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 2 (II), 2/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, I was the advance man in Rome when LBJ, on that round-theworld trip, went to the funeral, as I recall it, in Australia of the prime minister who was drowned, and decided to come by Rome. Then, preceding that, when the Pope came to New York, I did
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 28 (XXVIII), 9/24/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

24, 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3, Side 1 G: Let me just go back to yesterday. You discussed [Hubert] Humphrey's pre-inauguration visit to you
the state of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) when O'Brien became chairman; O'Brien's immediate reorganization of the DNC and new priorities; efforts to build the relationship between the DNC and Congress; DNC help with 1970 off-year
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and he asked us not to say anything. We respected that, and about three weeks later I read it in the New York Times. Audience was a little bigger, I think. On another occasion three couples of us went over. They were showing us through their quarters
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of other letters, in It was picked up because it was so appropriate- "efficient and beguiling." I think there was tremendous appreciation of Stevenson by Mrs. John son, and she went to New York several times where he escorted her to various things. Yet
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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