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Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [and] asked me to come over, and I did. At that time my office was just across the street from the Executive Office Building. He asked whether I would take some responsibility for dealing with the platform on his behalf. In particular he was concerned, as we
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 28 (XXVIII), 3/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -cut call to political duty. Meanwhile, of course, Senator [Robert] Taft had been a long-time worker in the vineyard, was really seriously running, as was the perennial Harold Stassen. When the time came for Truman's State of the Union Message, Lyndon
Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . At the time when I came back to the department with Ambassador [David] Bruce from Paris and he took over the job as under secretary of state and I became his assistant in that position, Luke Battle was one of the several staff assistants to the Secretary, who
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : That's right. So I had a background in politics. I ran for Congress in '54 and I kept the district--because it has a strong Democratic registration--and I managed to be reelected four times, and always with pretty good margins. So I had some leeway. I
Oral history transcript, Leslie H. Gelb, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . II I didn't know at the time who had written them, at that exact time, but I found out several months later that the handwriter had been then Lieutenant Colonel Robert Gard, G-A-R-D, who was the military assistant to McNaughton at the time
  • Times; order of battle controversy; reflections on JFK and the Vietnam War; present and past views about the Vietnam War
Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: WALLACE TERRY INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: LBJ Library Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Terry, would you begin by giving us just a little background of how you came to work for Time? T: I was a reporter for the Washington Post from 1960
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: BARRY GOLDWATER INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Senator Goldwater's office in the old Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Senator, you came to the Senate the same time as Lyndon Johnson, in 1948. G: No, I-- F: You
  • Goldwater's senate experience with LBJ; lawyers in Congress; the Taft-Hartley Act and labor unions' influence on Congress; Joe McCarthy and censure; LBJ as Senate Majority Leader; LBJ not wanting to be vice president; LBJ's first heart attack; LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • there . variance . There's just one little For awhile I was Counsel and not the Staff Director, for a period of about two years, but the rest of the time I was the principal staff person for the Post Office and Civil Service Committee of the House . P: When did
Oral history transcript, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • went to my first located pastorate in a college town, Chickasha, Oklahoma, and was there for nearly twelve years. In addition to my own academic work in our school, I did a good deal of summer work at Chicago University and Union Theological Seminary
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , relatively, for me to raise hell about it, because what the hell! Dean was deeply involved with Vietnam, an Arab-Israeli war, and with Pueblo , and things like that, and why should I take up his time with things which, in the long run, were not truly
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • or the length of the training had no rational connection, weld attack them. The other thing that happened, and this isn't all unions--some obviously tried to move with the times--but the other thing that some unions would do would be to set up a whole new
Oral history transcript, David W. Angevine, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • for the Kansas Association as its first employee; my title was assistant And I was also editor of l"iidwest r'junicipa1 Ut"ilities, the six-times-a-year publication. Then I worked also for a brief period of time, less than two years, for the U.S. Department
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 12 (XII), 8/19/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --the road was full of us in those days going to Washington--and went as far as Roanoke. This again is sort of typical of that time. We spent the night in a tourist home. There were lots of rather nice-looking old homes, usually Victorian with white
  • II; attending a dinner honoring Sam Rayburn and his sister, Miss Lou; the State of the Union address in 1941; listening to Franklin Roosevelt's Fireside Chats; LBJ's exposure to culture and music by the Marshes; LBJ's desire
Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with him, would say, "Well, they're bound to be admitted some time in the Union; it's inescapable, and why not admit them now while the Democrats are in control? And while the late Speaker didn't change his position on contiguous territory, he did state
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, III, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • very, very much. It hurt that it took so long for people in the unions, for instance, to really get moving, although they were there, they were there. The confusion that reigned, though, was so great, and the time shortage was so great
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • over the years, he would have known that the machinists were a totally different type of union than the railroad brotherhoods, operated under different rules, had different traditions, and this got him in trouble many times in his life, many times. 13
Oral history transcript, Birch Bayh, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • at that time who was helping put the State of the Union Message together. M: He was still Deputy Attorney General then, wasn't he? B: Yes. Or I think this may have been when he was working down at the White House. [He was] a staff member there for a while
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 2 (II), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : Yes, that's correct. He had been the White House correspondent for many years and he was in his sixties and they wanted two people there. So I went down for the first time in 1961, although I had covered the White House some before, but just filling
Oral history transcript, Robert M. White, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • administrator this agency has ever had. W: That's right. M: You began with it. Is that correct? Prior to that, you were the chief of the National Weather Bureau. W: United States Weather Bureau. M: United States Weather Bureau--from what time, sir? W
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . That was his favorite alcoholic beverage. fifth, of course. He'd buy it by the Many a time, back when he was governor, and even after he was out of the governor's office and in that short period of time before he started actively campaigning for the Senate
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to the most serious. On the other hand, he was much less organized than McNamara was. Part of that may have been Johnson himself; part of it may have been the presidency, I don't know. But he'd tend to deal with four or five problems at the same time
Oral history transcript, Lawrence McQuade, interview 1 (I), 1/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with Mr. Johnson prior to the time you came over here, either in your capacity with the Defense Department or any other capacity? Mc: No. I'd never talked with him directly. I had seen him from a dis- tance and that's all. M: And you carne over here
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of strength on the part of the Soviet Union, an impression that was not justified. were both about on a par at that point. by it. Actually, I believe we Of course, we were deceived We, meaning the committee staff and the conmittee members, didn't quite
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Leisure, which was supposed to be sort of a cross betw"een Sports Illustrated and Esquire or something. Anyway, we almost t,vo years. twenty-seven. ~.,rere greatly underfinanced. This lasted for about I was very young at the time, I guess twenty-six
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • either the relationship with the Soviet Union or the peace process in Vietnam to the results he had hoped to achieve by the end of his presidency. We had many conversations about that. I remember that in November, probably during the Thanksgiving period
  • LBJ’s frustration at the end of his presidency, especially regarding the Soviet Union and Vietnam; LBJ’s attempt to meet with Nixon and Soviets; Urban League dinner in New York; LBJ’s concern over press coverage of anti-war, anti-LBJ picketing; sale
Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . At that time the person we worked with in Commerce was Herb Hollomon, who was an assistant secretary of commerce. He's gone on to become president of the University of Oklahoma; you may know of him from that capacity. So, in many ways, both in my official
Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and graduated from high school at Brownwood in 1920. the University of Texas from 1921 to 1928. practice of law in Dallas, Texas. I attended In 1931 I commenced the During that time I served in the 36th Infantry Division of the Texas National Guard
Oral history transcript, Morris Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , stayed on good relationship with him the whole time, except that I was on the other side. So, there wasn't any doubt in my mind that the election was a grab-off deal down there in Alice, wasn't it? G: Do you remember how you arrived at that conclusion
Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • of the Union message been soliciting ideas and suggestions and proposals from the departments to deal with these problems that we knew were there, but all we got were tired, old, retreaded ideas. We heard about everything a hundred times, and none of it really
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ERNEST CUNEO INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Cuneo's Office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Mr. Cuneo, last time we were just starting to talk about the Supreme Court reorganization, and I thought you might reminisce a bit about your
Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that period to come into contact or have acquaintance with Mr. Johnson, either when he was Senator or later when he was Vice President? R: Limited, but some, yes. I had an amusing experience because there was a long period of time when President Johnson
Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a little less than half, were Democrat at that time, much more now, and in those districts, it became the senator's privilege--if you can call it that, I don't--to recommend a postmaster. In the districts represented by a Republican, of course, he did
Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Connor -- II -- 7 the President around the time of his State of the Union Message in 1966. Brimmer said, "Well, of course it will." By the way, Andrew Brimmer is someone you should talk to if you
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 27 (XXVII), 12/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was in--was it Joe?--was just unsupportable. Well, I'm getting--at this late date, I'm not quite sure of my time lapses. I know at one point, when I saw how bad Wisconsin was and various other places, I sat down and wrote a memo--I don't know what ever happened
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 %8&+$1$1 This is an interview with W. Evans Buchanan in his office in Rockville, Maryland, 8 2 0 Baltimore Road. The date is February 7, 1969; the time is 2:55 p.m. First of all, to say something
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the money centers of the North and East. Lot of congressmen in those days, and with a great deal of justification, looked upon our part of the country as a sort of a stepchild, and we were glad every time we could make a stride in bringing ourselves somewhat
  • Johnson's time spent sight-seeing and attending events at the Congressional Club or the 75th Club; visiting Bill White in New York City; Sam Rayburn, Wright Patman, Nat Patton, and other Texans in Washington, D.C.; visits with Aunt Effie Pattillo; summer
Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 2 (II), 2/23/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • agona 11 y across the street from his TV station. He said, "What in the hell would I do with it?" I said, "Well, it's a good buy." a building on it. razed the building. The labor union owned it and they had It was an old Methodist Church at one time
Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LYMAN LEMNITZER INTERVIEWER: Ted Gitt i nger PLACE: General Lemnitzer's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: All right, sir, please go ahead. L: It was about that time that General [George C.] Marshall took over from Louis Johnson
Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the report had been presented to Kennedy before he went to Dallas. There is, like, a month's time lag, or something like that. After Mr. Johnson became President, Esther Peterson was designated special assistant to the President for Consumer Affairs. I began
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • are then expressed in the State of the Union and other messages. The basic problem with that approach is that after awhile, there is very little new thinking and basically every idea is bureaucratized; it's compromised and cleansed, and by the time it gets