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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 26 (XXVI), 4/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

by Henry Ford's pee goons and all that stuff way back in the thirties I guess and he put a union together and it worked. At this stage Johnson was also--you got to remember Johnson's also--Reuther's going in there. He's talking about cities. Johnson's

Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

here. At that time, I don't think there was any union here unless it was the railroad union. I LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 3 (III), 3/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. Mulhollan PLACE: Mr. Bundy's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: This time the subjects I want to talk about--and for your time benefit I hope we can wind it up--are Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East, particularly. Suppose we begin with Latin

Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Swedish horse out here in your office. P: Then when I came back in 1957 I began as legislative representative for the Industrial Union Department of the AFL-CIO. Then, of course, I began working- t~: r'1r. Johnson P: He was majority leader
Biographical information; trade union movement; 1960 campaign; consumer programs; consumer legislation; packaging bill; truth-in-packaging bill; women's rights; Betty Furness; Women's Bureau; equal pay bill; labor standards; interagency

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

was a member of Congress a time or two and when I was in Washington. He probably won't remember those occasions, but I do. But I have no idea when it was. And I don't remember my very first association with him as a member of Congress. I knew that he

Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

in a stream of political talk all very much over our heads, but he is in such high good humor we enjoy it anyway. So we practice, and we learn what he wants us to learn, and how to say it, and as we win the city championship for the first time

Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

its year and I was scheduled to make a brief address and give a paper at the conclusion. I did return to Washington and then ensued the various meetings incident to my assignment described by Mr. Halberstam. However, during that time I got

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 6 (VI), 3/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

where we really hammered out a draft of the National Defense Education Act. At that time it was limited to, and only to, engineering, the sciences. I don't remember in categories exactly how it was spelled out, but that's the way it was. This expansion

Oral history transcript, Ed Gossett, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of the time I was in the Un i ve rs ity, I was on the YMCA cabinet. Fo r two yea rs, I was state president of the Baptist Student Union. I was advertising manager of the Texas Ranger for several years. forensic activities. And I went in I was captain

Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

into labor unions too? R: Wherever we could. Any time there was a structural organization that we could pinpoint, we tried to have our man as an activist. did, really, was commit a lot of people to work. fit too. And All this And this has a bene- Utah

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

a White House Fellow. This would be in the latter part of the fall of 1965 through one year of the program. had gotteu in~o We how you became involved in the presidentiaJ corres pondence, his personal letters. At our closing the l3st time you had

Oral history transcript, Emanuel Celler, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

came out of the Senate, that was the only bill that could have been passed? C: I think that's a good statement. B: Yes, of course, at that time. At that time. Was there much distress among the liberals at what had happened to the bill? C: No, I

Oral history transcript, Edward R. Fried, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in certain subjects, but which weren't the sort of things that would get him in trouble. Now, on other occasions, State of the Union messages, like that, we had the chance to participate by seeing drafts at various times that Walt Rostow would ask

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 5 (V), 5/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Rusk's son [David], who at that time was quite active in civil rights matters, was involved. He worked with Sterling Tucker, who is now the vice chairman of the District of Columbia City Council, and he sat in on the meeting with us and was our principal

Oral history transcript, A. Phillip Randolph, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

leaders were in his office at the time, and we were discussing this question with him. The next time I met him was in a conference with President Kennedy. A number of the civil rights leaders were involved in a conference with President Kennedy and Vice

Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

, engineers-G: Technicians. K: Yes--the backbone for a strong military-industrial complex in the Soviet Union. G: I've said many times that Sputnik did more for American education than Robert Taft or a lot of other people could possibly do, because

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Lehan, interview 2 (II), 1/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Lehan -- II -- 23 I think that the union would find its income is better, its employment's better over a period of time, if you-- So you can't do it ignoring the union. M: You're saying that labor would benefit from-- L: --ultimately benefit. I think

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 3 (III), 6/21/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in committee, but Senator Johnson got it out on the floor and brought it to a vote. Do you remember that? H: What resolution was that? I haven't the slightest recollection at this time. G: It was a resolution that would more or less tie Eisenhower's hands
in 1950’s; Construction and aid to impacted areas; LBJ’s interest in education; LBJ’s position on “liberal” issues; LBJ’s impact on Eisenhower’s foreign policy; LBJ’s instructions to HHH in political maneuvering/timing.

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 52 (LII), 8/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at these times, one, against, I think, everybody's advice, the President stuck in the State of the Union Message a statement that he was going to ask for legislation to--and let me just find it here--"I also intend to ask the Congress to consider measures which

Oral history transcript, Leo Gehrig, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Gehrig -- II -- 14 salaries; a lot of contributions along the way. Nurses have a union. do, as they should. Times

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: FRANK MANKIEWICZ INTERVIEWER: STEPHEN GOODELL PLACE: Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Last time you referred to a briefing that you had had. I think it was your first contact with Senator Kennedy. M: Yes, that was at the end of, I guess

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

. There was no alarm raised. What he turned out to be in our eyes, he certainly was not in the beginning. M: When you went to Washington this time, in the company of Lynda and Luci, you all flew. Is that the first time they flew? It seems to me that they usually

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1990 INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE REEDY INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Reedy's office at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: --1964 last time. R: Right. G: You had begun a discussion of the vice

Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

] from the time Mr. Johnson took office until the summer of 1966. B: Until the end of September of 1966. M: Then you came back as ambassador to the United Nations for a very short period. B: A period of four months beginning--I thought

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at that time was, "My role as first lady will emerge in deeds, not words. 11 F: The President made a magnificent speech to Congress, a State of the Union speech in 1964 right after he had taken office. He talked about the poverty situation around

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

authoritatively about what Lyndon Johnson was doing, what he was like and all that, and to my knowledge, in the four years I was there, the only time he saw the President was at that ill-fated Arts Council display on the South Lawn and it was only a passing thing

Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

off three times--bwice, they tried it the third time and we resisted, to have a hearing in Mississippi under that administration, despite the fact it was obviously the worst state in the Union and we'd had the most complaints from there and we'd taken

Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 1 (I), 10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

) INTERVIEWER: HARRI BAKER October, 1969 B: This is an interview with James Farmer, who at the time of the interview here in October of 1969, is assistant secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for Administration. F: That's right. B: And just very

Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a reception at the Carlton Hotel for Vice President and Mrs. Truman. F: At the Carlton here? s: Yes. During the reception someone, either Secretary Forrestal who was secretary of the Navy at that time, or Mrs. Forrestal, suggested that my wife and I come

Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that was required to establish the basis for a [Texas] Ranger's pension. The State Legislature at one time had passed legislation which enabled men who had taken any part in defending the frontier communities against the Indians, if they established

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the organization of the auto industry. We were very active in that because at that time the Negro leadership of Detroit was very much against all unions because of the craft union concept which barred Negroes. The CIO came in with a new type of industrial unionism

Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

concluded our session last time--our Ist interview--we had chronologically gotten up to the period of about 1966, and I had just started to ask you about the increased criticism that really began at that point and reached a pretty harsh level. Just generally

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was there as an honor guest, and also Mrs. Alma Lee Holman, who was the Democratic committeewoman. John Connally gave a talk on the man, Lyndon Johnson, and then naturally they had some singing. There always is. This time it was old familiar Jesse James of KTBC fame. He

Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. But the convention, if I remember correctly, vms in July or the first of August. Immediately thereafter I took Cl. short vacation and then threw myself Hholeheartedly in the campaign. At that time I was Director of Political Education for my union, so I
; criticism that LBJ didn’t devote enough time to party’s political machinery

Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

for a substantial length of time the editor and executive vice president of the Washington Post and held previous editorial positions with that paper, I guess, on back into the late 1940s. W. 1946. M: Right. You were a Washington correspondent in the thirties

Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

like you-- R: Well, it took me a long time. I had been trying to get off for quite some time and thinking about it and making real efforts for quite some time. I: Did you have any connection with Mr. Johnson at all prior to the time you joined

Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

no experience in this area at that time. However, I did graduate in personnel management and later went to the advanced business school at Harvard as pertains to finance and political problems that come in the advanced management program. So I assume

Oral history transcript, Harry Nachlin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and explained that Mr. Johnson was involved in this campaign, and he had been--he had lost time because he was in the hospital. I think he was up at the Mayo Clinic to have a gall bladder operation as I recall [It was a kidney stone operation.]. G: Right. N
for the campaign trip; the logistics and staff work involved in the helicopter-based campaign; costs associated with using the helicopter; public reaction to LBJ's speeches and the helicopter; LBJ shaking hands; typical flight times and experiences for pilot, Jim

Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for the 1964 campaign. And so Wilson had offered six people full-time jobs at the Democratic National Committee as full-time advance men. That was the first time, really, that there had been full-time advance men; in the past it had been a part-time deal
Vietnam soldiers; handling crowds and the press during trips to the Philippines, Korea and Mexico; preparing for the 1966 State of the Union Address; Edmund Muskie; May Craig; landing Air Force One at National Airport; LBJ’s view of war/leaders; Pachios

Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, of trying to improve the lot of the least advantaged people in society by all kinds of programs. He would have wanted--I've heard him on this subject so many times--it to be through minimum wages and through endorsement of labor union programs. He has

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