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  • rose to the occasion. I had Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Vermont and New York. F: You didn't have any easy task, did you? M: And when we would report almost on a daily basis our success, he would say to me, IIWhy can't you get delegates
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • a half an hour . Fred Friendly was giving a lecture in New York and somehow the word "love" came into the conversation--I don't know whether he was referring to it in terms of its current meaning today or what--regardless, at some point a girl
  • an event would make news and therefore try to let me announce it in a way that was orderly. Example: Luci had studied to be a Catholic. There kept being rumors about it, but we stalled questions. Actually though, on the day Luci was going over
  • Luci and Lynda; Luci’s wedding; trips to Marshall to be with her father; Lady Bird’s encouragement for Lynda to leave U.T.; Warrie Lyn Smith; categories of news; commercialization of the White House; Luci’s job with optometrist; Lynda’s motive
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • INTERVIEHER: David G. McComb DATE: M: April 21, 1969 This is an City. intervie~v ~'lith Mr. 'Francis Keppel in his office in New York The date is April 21, 1969, and my name is David McComb. Can you briefly give me a sketch of your background, how you
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • -shocked. and stare. We talked or we'd just sit there There 'rlas a picture in the New York Times on the follow'ing Sunday, and I have a copy of it at the house, of the shadows of sevPl',"11 C" us \'ialkina past the 0val Office to meet the helicoot'2
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • expected to go and it wasn't until I was ready to make all my plans that my father said no. "You can't go to New York--a girl alone." F: It's a little bit bigger than Nashville. E: And that I could go to college some place near home. Chicago and got
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , 1982 INTERVIEWEE: ROSWELL GILPATRIC INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Gilpatric's office, Manhattan, New York Tape 1 of 1 TG: Mr. Gilpatric, can you recall the circumstances under which you were named to chair the task force on Vietnam
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to Washington, I think maybe--not any at all the last year. Mostly it was just funerals he attended. He went to New York a couple of times. G: Where would he stay when he would go to Washington? S: I don't know where he stayed when he went to Washington. I
  • to Acapulco; LBJ's memoirs, The Vantage Point; LBJ's daily routine at the Ranch following the administration; LBJ's interest in golf; the Malecheks' home on the Ranch; Scott's work as LBJ's post-presidential secretary; Scott's experience talking to the press
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE E. LEVINSON INTERVIEWER: Paige E. Mulhollan PLACE: Mr. Levinson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: I think most of the things about the staff we talked about on the first tape, but one thing we didn't mention was whether
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE : GORDON BUNSHAFT INTERVIEWER : PAIGE E . MULHOLLAN PLACE : Mr . Bunshaft's office, 400 Park Avenue, New York Tape 1 of 1 B: This started the whole thing . You lose track of years . Here's a telegram from Mr . Heath, who
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • into how you got started as a protagonist for better health. G: Well, very simply, I started out to go into the academic field. I went to New York University, undergraduate and graduate, and studied under Henry Steele Commager. The Depression came along
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • visitors down there, including Scotty Reston of the New York Times, and John Connally and Willy West. G: Wesley West? W: Wesley West from Houston. And we went out and hunted deer. G: You hunted deer? W: Yes. And Pierre Salinger was down there. G
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • in Poughkeepsie, New York. He founded this Tommy Taylor stayed the whole four years, but Tony went west to Los Alamos, which is now an atomic bomb plant. This was a boys' school. M: Why did they go so far? T: Tony wanted to go west, and Tommy Taylor liked
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , with President Kennedy being President at the time. I spent most of the day with him. I met him at Stewart Air Force Base, which is -near Newburgh, New York, in the morning. the graduation ceremonies late that morning. He addressed He had lunch with us in my
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 4, 1971 F: This is an interview with Arthur 1\1. Schlesinger, Jr. in his office in New York City on November 4, 1971. Frantz. The interviewer is Joe B. Arthur, I suppose the place to pick this up with you would
  • ; the effect of LBJ keeping some of JFK’s staff and the quality of the new members of LBJ’s staff; Eric Goldman; Schlesinger’s involvement with the Dominican Republic; LBJ campaigning for Robert Kennedy in the 1964 New York Senate race; White House Art Festival
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , the "We shall overcome" speech? D: I remember the words, "I now have the power to do something about it. I aim to use it." I remember that line and I remember the closing line, "We shall overcome." I think it was Douglas Kiker of the New York Herald
  • LBJ's visit to New Orleans with Louisiana Governor John McKeithen; LBJ's relationships with Mexicans; White House press conferences and how they changed in the television era; LBJ's use of television; LBJ's response to civil rights-related violence
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . That summarizes the formal education. M: When you finished this doctorate degree you then went to work for the government? F: No, my first job after law school--I had one summer job in New York in a large corporate firm for several months, but my first job
  • of friendly senators: one in New York, the one in Massachusetts that you mentioned, one in Gaylord Nelson's state of Wisconsin, and 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 5 August 1969 F: This is an interview with Mr. Laurance Rockefeller and Mr. Henry Diamond in Mr. Rockefeller's office in New York on August 5, 1969; the interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mr. Rockefeller, very briefly tell us how
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • with Dr. Howard Rusk at New York University as a fellow in physical medicine and rehabilitation. Then two years and a little bit more at the Mayo Foundation as a fellow in medicine, and returned then to New York University as an assistant professor
  • it for trips to Philadelphia and New York--short trips. We have helicopters--white-top helicopters that are roughly five minutes from the lawn here at all times when the President's in residence here at the White House. A telephone call will have one sitting
  • , 1982 INTERVIEWEE: ARTHUR KRIM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Krim's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: You were saying that you met with the President a good deal during the period from April through June, [1968], I believe. K
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • with the White House in the first place. B: I was born and raised in Argentina, in Buenos Aires and Patagonia. I was educated in New York and Virginia and Massachusetts at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. During my last year at the Fletcher School I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Johnson decided he'd run for the Senate. Lyndon knew that. And, of course, He asked him if he could carry Colorado. Johnson was a wonderful man, a great old man. that some new people had come in. Well, the trouble was A young New York sort of lawyer
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • fit, so I gave it back to him. I made a fatal mistake, because I've never gotten paid for that bet. F: You'll have to remind him again some time. Q: Lady Bird was here and she had some reporters with her. One of these reporters,the New York
  • ; changes in Post Office in the last 35 years; Equal Opportunity Employment Act; Vietnam War veterans; LBJ Ranch visit; Dr. Frantz's additional notes
  • of conflict and noise. And if we hit the front pages of the [New York] Times or the Washington Post, then Shriver was going to hear from the President in the morning after the President read his paper. When Shriver heard from the President, I would hear from
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • nist hands and all the rest . happen here?" it was important That the whole government struggle, was just busting out completely, and Ky's my interview shy about seeing correspondents unless he New York Times or the Washington Post he'd some
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • sort of going alone with a general atmosphere of academic defense and indeed I had signed with Pool, and Bloomfield Kaufman and Lucian Pye a letter to the New York Times in support of the President's policy earlier that year that occasioned a response
  • York. Lyndon usually attended both things, quite often with Johnny Runyon and the Dallas Times Herald people. The American Legion had a big dinner. G: Did you go to that event in New York with him, the newspaper--? J: I often did, and I think
  • governess; LBJ's support for working women and daycare facilities; LBJ's smoking and stress; Gene Autry at the 1953 Texas State Society barbeque; a British Embassy celebration of the coronation of Elizabeth II; seeing the Trumans in his post-presidency
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , understand, I'm an Independent. M: All recent appearances to the contrary! F: That's right. In New York, I was a registered member of the Liberal party, and now I'm a 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • and I have talked about Harry Coles and speculated about on where he might be. He's from New York, isn't he, or lived in New York? R: Yes, he was from Washington, D.C. Then after his naval career, term or service, he went first I think to Philadelphia
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • appointment to the Redevelopment Land Agency? H: I remember that I was driving back from New England and that I stopped in New York to see my wife's parents, Mr. and Mrs. N.A. Ross. We were on the beach in Long Island when I got a call to call the White
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • in these appointments. Each state in the union has at least one appointee, with the leading states being the District of Columbia, New York, Maryland, and California, Virginia, and Texas." He was pleased to note for the Cabinet that Texas was in sixth place
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • /oh or maybe it was Bowdoin [College] up in New England, and had had one summer as a copy boy at the New York Times and so on. He was a very active, very energetic Vietnamese whose family or wife ran a big English school. He understood the press
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • was when he was in the Senate back in the fifties. How close did you actually cover him personally during that period? S: That was a very close relation. I remember the first time I met him. I came down from New York here, and I was here in this bureau
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • -sawmill-farming community west of Jacksonville, which was where I grew up . I attended the public schools there, and I also attended the public schools in New York and Massachusetts . M: Your family must have moved some then? B: No, I had a lot
  • together. G: You mentioned, I think, something about Henderson going to New York? K: Well, Lyndon told me what Herb was capable of. I don't remember how long before that had happened, but Herb had got on a binge and held gone off to New York and held
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • a conservative from Arizona, [Paul Jones] Fannin, to [Jacob] Javits of New York. It ran the gamut. The first paragraph of the "minority views" said we voted for this bill. The second section said this is a hell of a way to run a railroad, pushing through a bill
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , and the role of the cities became considerably different. Today we have, for instance, in the New York metropolitan area, as the most clear-cut example, situations where New York and Connecticut and New Jersey simply cannot act independently of each other
  • of Businessmen (NAB) and compensation of its members; how OLC helped NAB and a housing commission avoid a conflict-of-interest pay problem; subsidizing new businesses in low-income areas or offering tax incentives to business owners to involve the poor
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to full strength when you left to take the new post? M: Yes. As we brought it up to full strength, then President Johnson proposed an increase in the department of a thousand new positions approximately. Congress approved that so we have brought it up
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)