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  • funny, because in California I am a Democrat, but in New York [Jacob] Javits, I think, is a fine, fine man, and I love Rockefeller. So I'm sort of in-between, sort of a liberal Republican in New York and as I go West, I get more and more Democratic. F
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , 1985 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: Yesterday we were talking about President Kennedy and the southern members of Congress. Let me ask you
  • 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: The two legislative stories left are the Revenue Act of 1968 and the Truth in Packaging bill. Take your choice as to which one
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • hereinafter set forth, I, Frank G. Wisner, of New York, New York, do hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title, and interest in the tape recording and transcript of the personal interview conducted with me on March 21
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . Can we get the original maybe, at the [LBJ] Library? April 21, 1966, 8:30 p.m., Thursday. It's from me and Jack Valenti and it attaches the reading version of his statement. Because I don't think this was in it. B: The New York Times says he ad-libbed
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Slocum, New York, at the time I was first approached by a member of Mr. Deegan's staff in New York City, Tom [Thomas] Deegan, and asked if I could come down to talk about an interview with Mr. Johnson, perhaps, after I had a chance to talk to him. I went
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • in Connecticut, New York, and some other states. Because I waul d be asked occas iona lly, "How many Negro students do you have out there this year or this semester?" I'd say, "Honestly, we don't know. We guess \'Je've got three hundred, but we don't keep
  • to New York when you met with Time and then Newsweek--theater again. Y ou 10 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • gun control bill; LBJ's relationship with Dorsey Hardeman; John Foster Dulles; Mrs. Johnson's visit to FDR's home in Hyde Park, New York; Mrs. Johnson's interactions with Eleanor Roosevelt; the Johnsons' relationship with Ed Weisl and Warren Woodward
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ; it's clear we're not in the right world. What Nader's book, and perhaps even more important, the front-page cover the New York Times gave it, did in November was just say, "We"--the guys who were trying to do something--"were absolutely right." G
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE BALL INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Ball's office in New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by identifying you, sir. You're George Ball, and during the Johnson Administration you served as under secretary [of state
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • was eight About three or four years later my brother and I went to private school in New York State, in the Catskill r"10untains. lady Bird would have been about four years of age at that time. And I did quite a little baby-sitting. M: Oh, you did? T
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • from the condemnation of the social set in New York. It was the people who had an impact on Washington politics that mattered to him. I think that's a common Texas problem, where the height of achievement is to send one's son to 12 LBJ Presidential
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . (Interruption) The press, I think I mentioned these other names; Marshall McNeil, Sarah McClendon, Les Carpenter, I guess Walter Hornaday, who was the correspondent of the Dallas Morning News, and the Houston Post had someone here, Robert Johnson. I think
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , "They're on television every night. They're on the evening news. Washington is--[Robert] McNamara and [Cyrus] Vance and [Roswell] Gilpatric and you and [Dean] Rusk--are all working and you read the New York Times and the Washington Post. The country
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . But the re was never any seri ous problem in commun ication on the Middle Eas t. And I could say tha t a good deal of the load was being .ca rrie d by A~bassador Goldberg in New York, where I spent a good deal of tim e with him, in tha t, what was being
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the world of Lyndon Johnson, because Johnson paid so much attention to him. Do you remember when the Pope came--? G: To New York? P: Ves, what year was that? G: Let's see. P: Some of the things that get triggered here--yes, it was the end of 1965, I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • -range payoff. There's not going to be an immediate payoff in my judgment, because the traffic is too thin in most parts of it. The traffic is much less in some areas in the East Coast, say, from New York and Boston down to Florida then for some
  • of New York [James H. Scheuer, D-Bronx], which took on the title of New Careers. This was an adult work program that was really designed to assist individuals to move up the career ladder, bringing them in at the low LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to imply that we in Pittsburgh, or I as an individual, were in any way exclusive in what we were doing. There were good programs like this going on in New York City under Martin Deutsch, a great scholar, a great psychologist, working in early childhood
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the New York state delegation--who voted for him in Los Angeles on the first ballot. I remember giving a newspaper an interview at the time which said that we shouldn't discount the effectiveness of Lyndon Johnson on the ticket because he brought enormous
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . The Kennedy strategy in those days was to try to please everybody, so he would appoint a Thurgood Marshall in New York but also appoint a Cox in Mississippi. B: We might make it clear, that would be now Justice Marshall's appointment to the lower courts
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the Northeast, including New York City, and I said, "No." It was a surprise to me. He said he had asked Governor Ellington, that's Governor Ellington of Tennessee-G: Yes, Buford Ellington. S: --who was head of the emergency planning agency [U.S. Office
  • , new technology, and the reduction of rates; FPC chairman Jerome Kuykendall; members of the FPC; Swidler's voting role as swing man and duties as chairman of the FPC as opposed to a commissioner; Swidler's goals as chairman; the benefits of the FPC
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • would also be very difficult. D: It is a difficult thing, and-- M: For example, the New York Central and the Pennsylvania Railroad merger, which got a lot of publicity. D: That's right. H: This would seem to be a difficult task. D: That's right
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • one wasn't at the White House, but I was invited to his signing of the bill on immigration at Bedloe's [Liberty?] Island in New York. It was a beautiful, beautiful show. I must say, while the President from the distance that I saw him did his usual
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • crisis was of course involved in that era. T: I might say that my first involvement with President Kennedy was as a result of the Bay of Pigs. I was in private life in New York at the time and was called down two days after the Cuban Brigade
  • thought were very newsworthy proj ects . One was the survey of the Niger River and others of similar importance. The next dav the New York Times gave us a part of a column on the twenty-eighth page. I said to a friend of mine: "You know, we don't want
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • in New York City? G: I'm not sure. I think he's still with--what? Atlantic Richfield. He's either in New York or suburban Washington. But Anderson and Jerry Persons and Bryce Harlow and Bill Macomber, people like that. Did the Republicans in the Senate
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to call on him--it was one of the first times that I really got to know him--when he was recuperating from his heart attack down on the Ranch. A story had appeared in the New York Times that he was at work building a southern conservative coalition
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE BALL INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Ball's office in New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: I think maybe a good thing at the beginning would be to put on [tape] that I've read through your file of memoranda, and your caution
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • -- I -- 7 G: I see. Did you meet him in Honolulu and then accompany him? L: I went to fetch him in Honolulu and accompanied him all through the rest of the journey. And then, from Washington, he went to New York; from New York, [he] came back
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • with Congress. So I got to know him fairly casually in those years. In 1955, when he had his heart attack, he was recuperating down on the ranch in Texas and a story appeared in the New York Times, written interestingly enough by William S. White, which said
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • for The Nation. SL: What other •••.• ? Oh, The Nation, The Reporter, lately demised, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, and in the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • ? N: Well, you know, I had known him briefly in that Libyan experience and also I knew him when he was in New York. Because during his tenure as our head of the U.N. Mission there, I went up on various occasions to handle issues that came up
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Pollak -- IV -- 4 home rule, or did you just assume that that was impossible to begin with and start in on what became the new form of government? P: Yes. The home rule bill had been defeated in 1966. When I got to the White House, Horsky was at work
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • is executive vice president of the American Cancer Society in New York City. with me, and I decided to take the opportunity. They got in touch I presume another motivation at this time was the fact that I had decided to get married, and so I left with my
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • friends who in one way or another want you . .;;. to be friendly too •. I would imagine that Mr. Autry was obtained primarily through the recommendation of a Mr. Ed Weisl in New York,· who represented in legal capacity the movie actors. to them, .YOU go
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to the Kennedy Administration to have any Admin~tration. contact with Mr. Johnson back in your news career or in private career? D: Only vaguely in my news career. However, in 1955 and 1956, I was on Capitol Hill associated with Senator Estes Kefauver
  • relationship with the press, which I think was useful. We did have some exceptions to the reporting, some of it was very good. The New York Times had some good reporters there. You see, most of these reporters didn't stay for the duration. Well, it was much
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • and it was quite successful . Railroads in those days ran a fantastically low price excursion to New York . round trip . I think it was $3 a He worked out a deal that the whole Little Congress could go up there and go to a night club and eat dinner something
  • know him well . four Negro women and the man--what's trip and he went with us . went to New York one time on a sales G: James Davis? B: James . dices . prejuAs far as I know Johnson had no personal James Davis . white or black . Now, he swore
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)