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Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

that the Post political writer gave me, but it flickered out, but I wrote him about it. And he said: "Dear Bess, A letter from you is always a choice morsel, and the one that I have before me is no exception to that rule. However, when news breaks
Biographical information and family history; Scott's hearing and health problems; Scott's educational background; Scott's early work experience and how she became a newspaper reporter; Scott's work for the Houston Post and Hulsey Theatres; Scott's
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 11/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the whole East Coast or the New York City commuting problems. Whether that was politically significant to Robert Kennedy, I don't know. Ramsey took the position that the memorandum that Bobby Kennedy wrote was not binding on the United States because
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. Prior to that you had Prior to that you had been a New York Times State Department reporter. Does that pretty well get tbe last ten or fifteen years? J: It does except my last public service was as a member of the American delegation to the peace
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 3 (III), 7/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

problem because there were five governors and two or three mayors involved. And we had things like--at that time [Nelson] Rockefeller was governor of New York and [Robert] Wagner was the Democratic mayor of New York [City]. In Pennsylvania, [William
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 3 (III), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

whether Marcinckus is Polish or Yugoslav, or what it is. But I said to the President, "He looks like a football player," and the President, who met him when he saw the Pope in New York and later saw him abroad, said, "No, he looks more like an actor
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: I don't believe so. W: --went to Houston and made the tapes, and to Beaumont and to New York to meet with presidential nominee Kennedy and to appear on nationwide TV and then back to the Valley and on up to Corpus Christi and then into Austin

Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

INTERVIEWEES: ARTHUR E. GOLDSCHMIDT and ELIZABETH WICKENDEN (Mrs. Goldschmidt) INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MULHOLLAN PLACE: The Goldschmidts' home, 544 East 86th~ New York City Tape 1 of 2 M: You don't have to talk into it [the recorder] or anything. pick you
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the morning [Washington] Post and there was an article saying that Glen Wilson and Eilene Galloway have been appointed by Lyndon Johnson to new space jobs. I was appointed a special consult- ant, and Glen was appointed a coordinator of information
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

articles for the New York Times for Bill Wirtz; there were pamphlets for the Labor Department--a whole host of things. G: What was understood by the word "poverty", if you can recall, at that time? Was it discussed simply in terms of an economic line
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh March 10, 1969 G: This is an interview with Mr. Herbert J. Kramer, formerly the Director of Public Affairs of the Office of Economic Opportunity, and presently consultant to OEO. Mr. Kramer was born in New York City in 1922
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert L. Hardesty, interview 1 (I), 3/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it. And I think So there wasn't any question of making the transition. F: Was it personal antipathy? H: Yes, I guess Bob Kennedy just didn't like him. So there was never any love lost. John went up to New York in '64 to campaign for Bobby Kennedy. out
Biographical information; John Gronouski 1964, Post Master General, called Hardesty to be speech writer; Jack Valenti chief editor; first session, 89th Congress; LBJ and production of bill signing: two or three a day; Indian affairs speech; Bob
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, 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 3, Side 1 G: Let's start with some of the legislative developments in 1967. The Republicans gained forty-seven House
; the rail strike settlement; funding proposals for rat control; William Manchester's book, The Death of a President; Doris Kearns' involvement in a 1967 New Republic article that was critical of LBJ; a July 1967 memo regarding Irish airlines' opposition
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

with International Petroleum in the legal department and was there until late, I guess, in 1922 when the Continental Mexican Petroleum Company was sold by General Petroleum of California to Standard of New York, and they operated as New England Fuel Oil
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

cent funded by state funds, really was placing too great a burden not only on Illinois. I had discussed this with Governor [Pat] Brown of California, Governor [Nelson] Rockefeller of New York and Governor [John B.] LBJ Presidential Library http
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in the South didn't have the financial base in the early days to support it. So I got Reverend Kilgore involved, who was up at the Friendship Baptist Church in New York; Gardiner Taylor in Brooklyn; and others, so that this thing had some financial base
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Volkmar K. Wentzel, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at West Point, at which time he was, of course, Vice President of the United States, 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
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/show/loh/oh 9 office at Newsweek in New York, and Mrs. Johnson called up and suggested that I come and have a cozy evening, more or less alone, with them. F: This was while they were still living in the house? G: [It was] before they moved
First acquaintance with the Johnsons; Clean Elections Bill; Philip Graham’s background; Joe Rauh; Graham’s support of LBJ in 1960 election; selection of home for Johnson family; 1958 dinner at Alsop’s with JFK; Washington Post editorial policy
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in the future might be in the northern cities? M: Only the Southerners in Congress, but that was taken to be a self-serving on their part. When they would say the real problem is going to come in New York and so on, everybody would say, "Well, you're just
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in New York City. I don't think Father went to New York to establish that market, but one way or another they did come in contact. He sent fish eggs from a 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the advantage that in a state which reads New York papers, that the New York papers would give it exposure. C: Oh, they gave it exposure all over the country because that was a big question then. This was very dramatic--calling him down--and I'm not sure
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

something I want to talk to you about." I said, "What is it?" He said, "Your friends on the New York Post are going to print a story tomorrow that I have an incurable disease and this will hurt me badly in the campaign. I think you ought to tell them
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of pieces he didn't like, and he expressed himself about it. to the effect, if not directly, "~Jhat He said words you're doing is you're up here, you read The New York Times and The Washington Post, and all of a sudden you think that's the fad. yourself
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Dwight A. Ink, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

and we were able to put him on the job. We had one in New York, an FHA insuring office, in which the White House had no problem, but the fellow was a Republican and the Democratic Congresswoman from that area was all up in arms, and she raised a horrible
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that as a step to Johnson. H: Let me tell you how I met Mr. Johnson. I think it all started when I took my family--is it all right to get personal and to spend time on that? F: Oh, yes. H: I took my family to the New York City World's Fair at that time. I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

River; half, anyway, of the national recreation areas are in the eastern part of the country; I think the bulk of the land purchases from the conservation fund have been east of the Mississippi River. states. I'm not sure about that. New York gets
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Leonard M. Elstad, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

brought a group of little handi- capped children down from New York City on a drive for funds so that he could start a school for these handicapped children. He would take them into the wealthy parts of the city, and he'd put on a little dance
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEW VI DATE: February 11, 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 4, Side 1 G: [Let me ask you about some] issues in 1963. O: Yes. First of all, [I'll try
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was Phoenix or Miami or New York or St. Louis. I covered an awful lot of those fights. In fact, Eddie Rickenbacker, as you know, organized Eastern Airlines and he was a very smart, hard-driving, hard-nosed businessman, if there ever was one, as well as being
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sidney Dillon Ripley II, interview 1 (I), undated, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in January, 1963 when he came for the dedication of the new Museum of History and Technology of the Institution. I was then the elected Secretary, but didn't take my post until February. Mr. Johnson spoke at that speech about his personal interest

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

, Mayor Lindsay of New York, because of the settlement he had just agreed to with the transportation workers who went on their annual New Year's Eve strike. And we had no idea how we were going to draft that legislation at the time we put that in. We knew
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Smith -- I -- 10 a French-American investment firm called Lazard Freres, Lazard They're in New York even now. Brothers. the objective of dividing
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Kenneth Torp, interview 1 (I), 6/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: No, none. F: Where had you gone to school? T: CCNY in New York. Got a bachelor's there in Modern American History, Modern European History. F: Well, you got in on some modern history. T: Yes. F: So, you showed up there, then, in a commercial
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, to cover the legislature and continued on covering the Governor's Office. My bureau chief, who was Bill Carter--he was from New York--did not know much about Texas politics. He had been sent down to take over and spruce up the bureau and so he let me write
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 2 (II), 12/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

where Senator Wirtz had been. Fortas could give you a lot of information in a New York minute. Every now and then, Lady Bird would call Mr. [Thomas G.] Corcoran. He knew his way around too; while he was not in the government at that time, he certainly
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 4 (IV), 8/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

take them to heart. Now, I have some further information on that situation, too. The next day, the twenty-fourth of January, I showed Udall the New York Times article which said that other cabinet officers, Wirtz and Cohen particularly had had real
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of dollars going out by competitive bids. We created a whole new procurement appeal system with one board LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

on our side. Most reporters don't work hard enough to actually read the law. Weaver, wanting really to be secretary, wasn't about to create a flurry on this. About ten days later, Weaver called me frantically and said that the bond lawyers in New York
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Shoumatoff, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, 1973 I NTERVI EloJEE: MADAME ELIZABETH SHOUMATOFF INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Her home on Long Island, Locust Valley, New York Tape 1 of 1 F: Suppose you tell me at the beginning how you got to be a president's portrait painter. S: You
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 3 (III), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and perhaps that quality may have been exaggerated to some extent. Maybe it was in comparison to her husband [that she was considered cultured]. G: Okay. Now before we turned on the tape we had talked about the trip to New York and going to the make-up
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. At which point Harry told me the other side of that story. At some point during the vice-presidential years, Harry had accompanied Mr. Johnson to a meeting in New York and they had been invited to a cocktail party. They were all in the apartment and Harry
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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