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Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1978 INTERVIEWEE: W. ERVIN II REDII JAt1ES INTERVI HJER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. James' office, Houston, Texas Tape 1 of 2 J: I first met Lyndon B. Johnson sometime in the mid 1930s. I was a clerk in the old WPA. At that time Aubrey
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and press assistant to then-Representative Jacob K. Javits from what was then the Twenty-first Congressional District of New York, which is the upper west side of Manhattan ranging at that time from West 114th Street north to the end of the island
Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it was when he was Majority Leader. The first time I met him was when Clyde Tolson, Associate Director of the FBI, and I was an assistant director, called me to his office and indicated that wouldn't it be a good idea if Mr. [J. Edgar] Hoover were
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • kept in the early years of the agency, which would include also whatever I had retained from task force days, because it wasn't that there was a clean beginning of OEO as such. Many of us, by the time the agency had gotten its authorization
  • ; "maximum feasible participation": how poverty programs helped people understand the potentials of the democratic system; public involvement in poverty programs; Community Representatives Advisory Committee; Humphrey meeting with the CRAC people; union
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • have them I served my last term as Supervisor--I ran for the I was elected in the 1922 election, when Governor Alfred Smith was reelected Governor. So I served one term in the state legislature. At that time there was a bill introduced known
  • of the U.S.; Hubert Humphrey; law and order issue; Labor Union; open immigration policy of the Democratic Party; LBJ’s place in history; science of politics and LBJ; difference in roles played by Farley and Bailey as National Chairmen of the Democratic Party.
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ALAN L. DEAN INTERVIEWER: David G. McComb PLACE: Mr. Dean's office, Department of Transportation, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: Now, last time we were talking about the task force under Mr. Zwick in which you worked to set up the initial
  • Fast passage of the bill; final version of the bill; role of the unions; problem of Maritime Administration; appointment of Alan Boyd; Dean's appointment; acquiring staff and office space; organization of DOT; field offices; White House role
Oral history transcript, Walter Washington and Bennetta Washington, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with the National Capital Housing Authority bring you into contact with him on legislative matters? W: Not too much, no. There may have been an occasional visit, but I don't recall anything of great significance at that time. B: Did you ever meet Mrs. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • struggles. You see, John L. Lewis had a rule in the Mine Workers that no Communist could ever become a member. You know, he was very anti-communist. But in this drive to unionize the South, he used a lot of young people who at that time were radicals
Oral history transcript, John Sherman Cooper, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of about four thousand when I graduated from high school, but in a large county. largest county at that time in the state. In fact, it was the My family has lived there since about-(Interruption) Well, in those early days, of course, with the small
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • rp e n ter' s e ast s ide pre ss offic e . Oc cas i o n a lly, the r e we r e potential conflicts, thoug h, frankly because President Johns on some times expresse d dis pleas ur e with s ome thing tha t was going on o n Mr s . Johns on' s side
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in a crowd somewhere, but nothing that's worth recounting. The first time I ever met him was when I had the responsibility--this must have been in the fall of 1961 and the spring of 1962--for the keynote speaker each year of the state meeting of the Texas
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and Reserve Affairs. Mr. Fitt, you were appointed Assistant Secretary of Defense by President Johnson and approved by the Senate on October 6, 1967, which is just over a year ago. Prior to that time, from '61 to '63, you were a Deputy Assistant Secretary
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 59 (LIX), 1/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- LIX -- 6 Teamster's strike. At the same time this was going on, incidentally, I notice on the calendar--and I do remember it--we were also dealing with old textile labor problems with the J. P. Stevens Company, which was a real union-busting operation
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 15 (XV), 6/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • is a union is a union. One of their biggest targets was the so-called closed shop. Now to most of the members of both the House corrrnittee and the Senate committee at the time of the Taft-Hartley Act, the closed shop was merely a monopoly of labor
  • History and interpretation of the Taft-Hartley Act; Walter Reuther; the closed shop and the union shop; the building trades; picketing; the various unions; LBJ and labor legislation; Brown and Root and the union; interest of George Meany and David
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in this way I don't know, but I remember the story was extant at the time. MG: This is after a settlement had been reached at the White House and was going to be voted on by the union membership; is this what you're describing? DG: Yes. MG: And the union
  • ; the Board members' backgrounds and labor-related experience; the Board's work with the Department of Labor and presentation to LBJ; Siemiller's message to the union members regarding whether they should accept the governments guidelines; the union's vote
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Kennedy, known as Executive Order 10988, which set up for the first time a formal government policy with respect to the rights of federal empoyees to be in unions. There was never any question, there was never any deviation, there was 'never any compromise
  • Civil service federal union third party mediation; the unique issues of a federal worker union; how Reynolds’ became Undersecretary of Labor, 1967; Reynolds’ work in a commission to examine certain U.S. foreign and domestic policies; involvement
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 4 (IV), 7/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . The greatest strength of unionism was in the Post Office Department, where roughly 90 per cent of the employees belonged to one or another of 14 different unions. been the case for some time. And that had The rest of the government had been only very
Oral history transcript, R. Conrad Cooper, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cooper -- I -- 23 days. The union has to get a ratification and we simply cannot, in this period of time
  • First contact with LBJ; the 1963 union-steel company difficulties; LBJ's active interest; LBJ sends representatives to negotiations; negotiation teams meets in DC on LBJ's invitation; I.W. Abel; Secretaries Wirtz and Connor; LBJ's meetings
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • employed on the construction sites. If you take Philadelphia, since it was the place where time began as far as our assault on trade union policies was concerned, if you look at the number of black journeymen employed in construction in general
  • employees in the Department of Defense; John Macy's federal executive councils; complications within the Post Office; TVA's lack of compliance with minority hiring; federal scholarships; labor unions; Philadelphia Plans; state employment services; corporate
Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • were involved-- the trade union movement and our union in particular was involved in the question of a minimum wage for the vlOrkers in this nation, and I buttonholed congressmen and one of them was Congressman Johnson. M: A brand new one at that time
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • needs to be done, that you've reached a responsible settlement," and he changes that to, "I'm hoping for a report," and he strikes out, "from Secretary Wirtz," because by this time he's so pissed off at Wirtz for being pro-union, and not doing what he
Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/12/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • detector that will give us warning within three or four minutes of the time the missile is first launched by the Soviet Union. So we'll have two independent systems that will tell us of launches. P: Let me depart just a minute and ask you sort
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 53 (LIII), 8/16/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1989 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR., with comment by Marcel Bryar INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: Some time in either late 1965, probably early 1966, when we were
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 57 (LVII), 12/12/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and not go through a day like the day [Jack] Valenti and I went through the last time, the day of the State of the Union. The other thing was that the President was still consumed with secrecy. He was particularly sensitive about any of the hotter proposals
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • against the unions in Texas. G: But here is Johnson in 1957, he's not only making a pitch to labor, but he's also spending a lot of time revving up his county man organization. You were even with him when he had a dinner for them. He's also opening
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • who dealt directly with the postal unions was Dick Murphy, a long-time friend and associate of mine. G: Let me ask you to talk at length about the postal unions, because this must have been a very significant aspect of the entire Post Office
  • against Edward Brooke; how Kenneth O'Donnell's gubernatorial campaign in Massachusetts affected O'Brien's relationship with O'Donnell; the eventual Senate race between Endicott Peabody and Brooke; the role of postal unions; problems in the postal service
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was formed, I came east and was one of the early organizers working for John L . Lewis . Later on I worked for other unions, at one time was southern director of the Textile Workers Union just before the war, and I forced myself to be drafted . I had
Oral history transcript, Herbert N. Blackman, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , The interview is in his office in the main labor building in Washington, D.C. time is 2:05 in the afternoon. The date is January 8, 1969, and the My name is David McComb. First of all, Mr. Blackman, I'd like to know something about your background, where
  • investigation of export control; American business attitude toward open trade with Communist bloc; labor union's view; McClelland Commission; Herbert Blackmon; Sam Anderson; Sinclair Weeks; National Security Council; White House Council on Foreign Economic
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 7 (VII), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • cannot hire from anybody The union shop on the other hand, he can hire anybody he wants to, but that person must join the union within a set period of time. Now, the trouble with the damn thing is that the closed shop is really a provision that's
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to Goldberg. But as time went on my views were possibly not quite as liberal and quite so sympathetically disposed to certain of the matters that labor unions were involved in under the Wagner Act, and, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • process; railroad strike in Florida, 1964; unemployment; Reynolds’ wife, Helen; 1965 New York City transit strike; National Association of Broadcast Employees and Army Signal Corps technicians dispute; problems with the building trade unions.
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 61 (LXI), 1/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , didn't want to face this issue one more time. So we were able to hold our Senate people very well as I look at this stuff. Then the House, they started to toy with a proposal that would give the President the power to determine whether or not the final
Oral history transcript, Roger Blough, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in union leadership . As far as personal relations with Dave McDonald, I think they were reasonably good ; and the same way with Phil Murray, who was in there a much longer time . And I'd say the same with John L . Lewis . What you infer is that belonging
Oral history transcript, James W. Smith, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was put together in 1953 or early 1954 and I attended the first meeting of it. I believe it was in Dallas or Waco. could have been in Fort Worth. It At that time I was a staff repre- sentative of the United Steelworkers of America in the Houston
Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Proxmire's election did you join the staff? L: Almost immediately. I had to give a little notice to the Farmers Union, and actually I worked both jobs for a couple of weeks. G: The 1957 civil rights bill was being debated at the time Proxmire was sworn
  • Early political interest and involvement; work with Wisconsin Electric Cooperatives; editing the National Farmers Union newsletter; views on Benson's farm program; work on Senator Proxmire's staff; LBJ and Proxmire; 1959 Proxmire speech; support
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 46 (XLVI), 5/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , because New Jersey happened to be getting a lot of publicity because of the White House interest and because it was next to the New York Times which was covering it. But I noticed in these steno pads we had a problem in Wisconsin, and the issue came up
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • physical exams out at Kelly My heartbeat was then at the maximum, but it had come down from Field . 172 to the time I took the physical exam which was about three weeks later-­ M: Was this due to being struck? B: Yes . M: Caused your heart
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were all writing about this. This was going to be the real test, whether the Senate would stand up against the dictatorial labor leadership that was in power at the time and stand up for the individual union member. And the Senate passed it after
Oral history transcript, Fred Schmidt, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at that time was known as the Oil Workers International Union and became an acting director for the Oil Workers, which was then, and I presume still is, the largest membership union in Texas. So when the executive secretary of the state CIa Industrial Union
Oral history transcript, James W. Gulick, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that time, as you indicated a minute ago, you had not had direct relationship with Mr. Johnson. That is, he hadn't contacted you directly regarding the business of your administration. G: That is correct. LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Biographical information; Maritime Administration; Commerce and Transportation Departments; unions; President’s veto of independent maritime agency; Merchant Marines; standard containers; Nick Johnson; Robert McNamara and his program; shipbuilding
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a polemic. It was about all the gangster side of unionism in Chicago and elsewhere, bombings and killings and scare stuff. There wasn't anything in it that was inaccurate, but I remember the Congressman--and I did not write for him at this time--he sat