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Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to recommend a DOT to the President. Second, the role I played in helping hold the FAA and its employees behind the bill. But let me tell you how I spent my time after the decision was made to establish a DOT. The State of the Union Message was delivered
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 2 (II), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there. There's no excuse for those towns now, because they can go to the county seat in less time in an automobile on a good highway than they could get in a horse-and-buggy or a wagon into the town and do their shopping and get back out to home in time to milk
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh October 19, 1968 W: I was born of southern parents in St. Louis, where they were residing at that time, briefly in 1923. We returned to the South. My mother and father were Tennesseean and Alabaman people with a long
Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , that is directly. I started working for Time magazine in Paris in 1950 and at that time the French war in Indochina was going on. So I had a good deal to do from the Paris end of covering the story, that is, from the French end of the story. And [I] became
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with the White House, you r;iean? F: This was discussion with the White House--this was a discussion with President Kennedy. We had a discussion about it first in New York from early in December of 1960. And it was considered for quite some time. On the one
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 4 (IV), 4/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Gordon -- IV -- 2 happy phrase. I didn't at the time. There \Vas just none better around and for SOme reason it was felt necessary to have a rubric
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • was something of a secretary to Dick Kleberg. That's when I first met him. I had a great affection for Kleberg. He was a very interesting person. But the time came when a vacancy developed in Texas; and Lyndon Johnson went back, announced his candidacy
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 18 (XVIII), 1/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think he wanted to be a judge. That's my recollection. I mean I was not in the White House at the time. I may have been there at the time the switch was made. I don't think I was there at the time Celebrezze decided to go but, yes, he wanted
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOHN CONNALLY INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Governor Connally's office in Houston, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 F: Governor, you and I, I think, share experiences in this. We must have both been undergraduates at the time that Lyndon
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in excess of two hundred thousand jobs were found for disadvantaged kids that summer at no cost to the government, and some one hundred and fifty thousand full-time jobs for the hard-core unemployed. What makes it really remarkable is that the whole
Oral history transcript, Michael E. DeBakey, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • don't have much time." And I said, "He'll certainly do the best we can." He said, "Well, I am very anxious to have this in order to incorporate it in my State of the Union r·lessage." This \lias in April or nay, something like that, I've forgotten
  • Biographical information; time in New Orleans at Tulane University; studying in Europe; member of the Department of Surgery at Tulane; military service in 1942-1944 with the Surgeon General; post-war medical research program with the Veterans
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 2 (II), 8/14/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to start in the period of 1953 because 1953 was the period during which Mr. Diem prepared of his coming back to the country. I was at that time special assistant to Dr. [Phan Huy] Quat, who was minister of defense in the government of Prince Buu Loc
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • got into that political race, and we had met many of the political figures of the state. I don't remember exactly when we met President Johnson, but it was sometimes in the 1930s. He was director of the NYA [National Youth Administration] at the time
Oral history transcript, John N. Luft, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • --selling automobiles in the retail trade and implements, employed by J. I. Case Company as a retail salesman, out of the Kansas City office for a couple of years. B: Is that the Case Farm Implements? L: J. I. Case, at that time was known as the J. I
Oral history transcript, Frank Ikard, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Congress for about six terms? I: I guess I was elected seven times, but I came in and filled out an unexpired term, and then resigned in mid-term, so I did not serve fourteen years but (was) elected seven times. F: You had been a judge prior to your
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • interviews you talked about Viet Nam) and talk a bit about the time from when Mr. Johnson became President in November, 1963, and how this affected your relationship with him. I know you were brought back in a much closer connection, and so I think we'll pick
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was not able to go to' college as my stepfather had had a financial disaster, you might say. gone broke and he had lost all. The bank had At that time the federal government di dn 't protect people 1ike they do nm'l. So I stayed out three years and worked
Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , and went to the Senate at the same time. Do you recall the first meeting or first contact that you had with Mr. Johnson? Mundt: Not precisely. I'm sure it was when we were both members of the same Congress back there about 30 years ago. And I presume
Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . Senate as a staff director for the Labor subcommittee. Is that correct? S: Right. M: And you worked there from 1961 to 1963. From that point as an assistant to the Undersecretary of Commerce and also apparently at the same time a director
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 3 (III), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , did the Department of Agriculture, was your main interest developing local leadership for rural programs? How did you view the focus of the task force? B: To use the words live been using a long, long, long time, my purpose and the purpose
Oral history transcript, Earl Howsam, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and, as I recall, he was on that committee at that time. G: What were your impressions of him at the time? H: That he was a tall, outstanding Texan, and he seemed very impressive. I had heard about him before because we were interested
Oral history transcript, Roger W. Jones, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • have lived here since I was about eighteen months or two years old. I'm a product of the Houston pub- lic schools starting in kindergarten at Montrose School, which was at that time, I think, a pilot kindergarten program. I completed elementary
  • ; eras of BOB; role of BOB in times of economic stress; LBJ's personal interest in management efficiency; LBJ as the most management minded President in Jones' experience; LBJ was the first President to personal participate in incentive award ceremonies
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : ~- IV -- 2 I wasn't present to hear it, and all I would have heard would have been how many times--hearsay I don't know--but I know Lynda, and I knew that she could say harsh things. But at any rate, that apparently was the background of the early
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with many of those Jews and continued to be throughout his political career, while having a kind of amused, Texas view of Jews. I remember one time when I kept pushing Johnson to take up a bill that would achieve some immigration reform and let a lot
Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Johnson? S: I guess that was probably in 1962. M: After he was already vice president? S: When he was vice president. I spent from June 1961 until July 1962 pretty much in Geneva on the Laos talks, and I think the first time I met him
  • to negotiate; drafting a congressional resolution and comparing it to the Tonkin Gulf Resolution; meeting with Canadian officials about U.S. negotiation goals; J. Blair Seaborn; LBJ balancing time devoted to domestic affairs vs. Vietnam; how Sullivan was chosen
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • at that time, over the phone. Most of it was Sunday afternoon and the problems were related to--my memory is very hazy on this, but the main issue I remember was when to move army troops, if and when. We and the Justice Department both made an enormous
Oral history transcript, Carl Hayden, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there in addition to what would have been possible for the power from the Salt River. There are lots of industries out there now. F: Why do you think they picked the Salt River for the first darn? Arizona wasn't even in the Union at that time. H
Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to that, in the immediate past, you had served as Ambassador to OEeD and then prior to that in the Kennedy Administration, both as Director for the United States and the World Bank for a short time-L: Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 3 (III), 1/2/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to comment on them and frequently did so that as far as Washington was concerned there was pretty good coordination. For a time President Johnson had Mr. Robert Komer in the White House to coordinate what was called "the other war," that is, the political
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of aluminum that somebody brought me the wire on the power failure in the Northeast, which, if we're right here about times, occurred about five o'clock. I immediately went. It was a total power failure. New York City was knocked out. The LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 2 (II), 6/1/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: MAXWELL D. TAYLOR INTERVIEWER: TED GITTINGER PLACE: General Taylor's residence, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: General Taylor, can you tell me the reasons for your trip to Vietnam in 1957? T: By that time, I was chief of staff
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • president, the former president and now a statesman . F: Our former friend . J-9 : No, he's not a former friend because he's still my friend . He and his wife have been my friends for a long time and I've been their friend . In fact, Lady Bird has
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the inaugural affairs. So that busy month drew to a close. There was an alchemy about Eisenhower's State of the Union. As I said, it sort of ushered in a time of good will and good feeling in the town. And Lyndon was quick to praise it. One of the marks of a new
Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh Sauvageot -- III -- 2 everybody, including all the student cadre and the faculty people at the National Training Center for the training of the RD cadre. Of course, nobody knew at that time but what the assault wouldn't come down
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that up for a little while but not very long. M: He took your advice for a short time? R: Oh, yes, because we were close friends, and he had respect for m-y judgment. M: Did you visit him in the hospital after the attack? R: No, I didn't visit him
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the time to bring the union negotiators and management into the White House and make them negotiate there. Under that kind of heat it worked. contract. They did negotiate. They did settle a That left him with a feeling that a way to settle those huge
Oral history transcript, John T. Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • have lived here since I was about eighteen months or two years old. I'm a product of the Houston pub- lic schools starting in kindergarten at Montrose School, which was at that time, I think, a pilot kindergarten program. I completed elementary
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the American people felt they were seeing too much of him in that period. He did know the value of the evening time period, because he's the first president who had the prime-time State of the Union addresses. Usually, in the old days, the State of the Union
Oral history transcript, Harold J. Russell, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • this. This year marks the twenty-fourth observance of the National Employ the PhySically Handicapped Week in October? R: Yes. P: So it does make it all the way back to '48, and you have served on the committee for the entire time. R: Yes, I have. I've seen
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 6 (VI), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • people still felt that the treaty was contravened. This was a time when it was 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories