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Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 2 (II), 2/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Union and China, Moscow on the way and I think Peking on the way back, I'm not sure. But he did make all three capitals, spent a lot of time in Hanoi, carried our message. It was reported by one of my ambassadorial colleagues, Sir George Clutton
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Truman Administration. At that time, I don't recall exactly the position that senator Johnson-F: I'll refresh you on that. November '48. He was a new Senator; he had been elected in Then, after '50 when Ernest McFarland was defeated, he was named
Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Johnson in those days? No, I was not acquainted with him. I did see his name. I remember an incident that happened about that time where the House administrative assistants or secretaries, as I think they were called then, used to organize a Little
Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : Before that time you'd served from time to time in government service along with your career in the Law School at Yale. Did you have any prior personal relationship with Mr. JohnsonZ R: No, I didn't. M: You hadn't had any occasion politically
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and Public Buildings and Grounds. You first cace to the U.S. Congress as a representative in 1959 when Hm.Jaii became the 50th state in the union and served on the Agricultural Committee. From 1958 to 1959 you served in the Hawaian Territorial Senate
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 2 (II), 5/2/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • California was made a state it was not contiguous to the East. When other states such as Nevada, Montana, Wyoming became states, their population was much smaller than Hawaii's. But obviously, tne opponents had other deeper reasons. There was a time when
Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . At the time I said publicly in a release that I thought that Texas was a different footing because it had been a sovereign nation, and that when it joined the Union it said that it would pay its own debts and keep its own land, and that therefore it had
Oral history transcript, Abe Fortas, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the time and be in Washington part of the time. J: You actually were with the Triple A part of that time too, weren't you? F: That was part of the Department of Agriculture. J: Yes. F: Then I went from there, as I recall, to the Securities
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
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on portions of the State of the Union or a crime talk from time to time. And, remember, it was during that period he created his Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice~ with Nayor Lindsay coming in, Kingman Brewster, Whitney
Oral history transcript, Jerry Voorhis, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • an outstanding job for young people. He was, with some of the rest of us, one of the strong supporters of many of the well-conceived New Deal measures that were at that time so vital, really, to the saving of the country, from our point of view at any rate
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 2 (II), 7/9/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • not commit it to such a terrain. The result is that, as one reads the memoranda, it becomes clear that I was prepared at various times to concede things that had already been decided. This was tactically necessary if I were to have any credibility with my
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • his name out because I thought we ought to have a Southerner for President. something on my mind for thirty years or so, South to get back in the Union. This has been that it's time for the I would like to have voted for Richard Russell earlier
Oral history transcript, Eugene McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • calls from them. There weren't very many people who were taking Joe on at that time. The only favorable comment I remember was a TV columnist here named Bernie Harrison [?] who wrote about it. I don't think it was even mentioned in the editorial s
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 17 (XVII), 12/17/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • came from and some of the basic positions that officeholders from Louisiana would hold, whether it was on oil or perhaps some elements of civil rights. But Long was basically supportive. I don't recall whether it was this year of 1966 or at a later time
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a positive expression to his leadership. It was largely based upon various social values and was not really in accord with the overall trend of liberalism at that time, because liberalism had gotten quite far away· from populism. Unfortunately
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the most recent interview about the selection of an architect for the Johnson Library, and that's where we quit. Do you want to pick up the story there? H: Yes. We had the policy at the University at that time of having regular architects who did
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Jorden -- II -- 3 interviewing people, looking at documents, trying to find out as a reporter what the hell was going on here. G: Did you use the same techniques that you would have if you had been researching a story for the New York Times or--? J
Oral history transcript, Leonard M. Elstad, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at the college in the Hall Memorial Building. The date is February 14, 1969. The time is 10 a.m. in the morning, and my name is David McComb. Dr. Elstad, can you tell me something about the background of the college? E: Yes, I'll be glad to. In 1857 a man
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • picture at this time? V: Not to the degree that he later became involved. He was involved in the financial part of it, but I would say that it was later on that Arthur took a role with President Johnson that really superseded everyone else
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a little bit of background here to begin with. You came out of East Texas. Right? H: Yes. Leon County and Grimes. F: You went to the University for your law work? H: Yes. F: And then went back to Grimes County and at one time was a judge
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • try to recollect how I came to know President Johnson to begin with and when and in , I what odd connections our paths crossed over the forty years live been in Washington. Probably the first time I became aware of a Lyndon Johnson '\ was during
Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was going on at that time in the Democratic Party than Lyndon Johnson did in all the states in the Union. He knew them all. He knew the people. B: Who were some of the people who were encouraging him to run for president in 1956? E: In this area
Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , was trying to get a promotion. F: Well, you and I were born about the same time, and I've got a cousin named Wilson. It's W. Wilson, so you can figure that. Half the kids I grew up with were either named Woodrow or Wilson. You can always date them. I
  • Biographical information; Bean's educational background and notable people Bean grew up with; the first time Bean met LBJ; Bean's political career in the early 1940s and after his return from WWII; Bean's work as a Texas state legislator; working
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Scooter Miller at the Women's National Democratic Club. Lyndon and I also went to a reception honoring Margaret Chase Smith at the F Street Club. She was an important figure in that time, and, to a considerable extent, a friend of ours. There were
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 12 (XII), 10/29/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • I got, but going through these papers on the conference-- G: This whole period almost seems to have been a time when the President was trying to garner affirmation of his civil rights programs and was a time when some of the civil rights leadership
Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with Mr . Johnson . When did you first meet the man and have knowledge of him? B: I first met President Johnson when he was a Senator . As you know, he occupied a particularly commanding'position there and I had occasion from time to time in connection
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , who at that time was Secretary [Robert] Weaver, would become the acting secretary of housing and urban development. F: Why was that put in? C: I don't know. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • , which at that time was recently established on the initiative of Governor Earl Warren. Then I became, as a young faculty member, under some very special circumstances, the first chancellor of the Berkeley campus in its history. K: Was that because
Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 3 (III), 4/16/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: ERIC TOLMACH INTERVIEWER: STEPHEN GOODELL PLACE: Mr. Tolmachls office, OEO, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: I think last time we were talking about the R&D programs, at least at one point in the tape we were. I thought I'd ask
Oral history transcript, James Cato Pattillo and Nettie Pattillo Woodyard, interview 1 (I), 6/27/1968, by A.K. Johnson (Item)
  • they all graduated from Oxford, they moved back to Autauga County, but they didn't sell their property up there. They kept that for some years afterward, and I visited them several times in Autauga. I had several conversaUons with Minnie, Lady Bird's
Oral history transcript, Price Daniel, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to Austin in the legislature in 1939 as a member of the House and served three terms. F: Did you know young Congressman Johnson at all at that time? D: I met him after I came to the legislature. or three times during the six years. He visited there two
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 55 (LV), 9/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • went up at twelve noon. That was the time it was delivered to the Speaker [of the House] for inclusion in the Congressional Record and the President of the Senate. Here on the highway safety and transportation stuff when we were touching so many
Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh October 29, 1968 M: The tape is now running, Mr. Finletter. Let's start in a very general way. Can you recall the first time in your career that you came into contact with President Johnson? F: I really can't. My
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • around and see him from time to time, and he does make some avuncular comments about it, but he's not really engaged in the day-to-day operations of it. One of the reasons, I think, is because of Congressman [John S.] Rooney [D.-N.Y.], the Congressman
Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , Maryland, visiting my parents for the weekend. I got a phone call. My boss at that time was a guy named Frederick Stalfort, and he called me up and he said, "Coffey, where in the hell are you?" And I said, "I'm home." "Vlell," he said, "You're going
Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: DAVID E. McGIFFERT INTERVIEWER: DOROTHY PIERCE McSWEENY PLACE: Mr. McGiffert's office, 701 Union Trust Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 McS: This interview is with David E. McGiffert, former under secretary of the army from 1965
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 3 (III), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Time went on and finally one day when Secretary Wirtz was out of the city I received a call from Joe Califano asking me to come right over to the White House which I did. He said, "Jim, the President doesn't LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • said, So I got a cup of coffee . We were sitting there drinking it, and about that time Lyndon walked in . At that time I didn't know that Jesse was there to meet Lyndon, and he didn't know that I was there to meet Lyndon . came in . Lyndon We
Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • when he came to the Senate or even prior to that time, if you knew him as a Congressman. H: Well, I first knew him in early 1947 when I organized the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, as its first chairman, and he was a member of that Committee from