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Oral history transcript, Burke Marshall, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, if not comfort, from the editor of the Birmingham News and from other people down there. So that there was always somebody. B: Did you ever form any opinions about why these somebodies weren't doing this for themselves, or for their own states? M: Of course
Amendment; James Meredith; May 1963 to Birmingham; Oxford affair; RFK; Mississippi Governor Barnett; Governor Wallace’s stand at University of Alabama; Tom Watkins; Governor J.P. Colman; FBI cooperation; JFK assassination; Justice Department under LBJ; 1964

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 2 (II), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to his office. In the course of the conver- sation he informed me that the new administration was going to enlarge the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Andrew Young, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. 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

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, the Tax Division, as did I, in part because he was a Southerner from Birmingham, Alabama, with pretty good southern contacts; John Doar, Jim McShane, head of the Marshal's Service; Joe Dolan; Norb Schlei; a whole bunch like that were actually down

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on. The riots continued through about the fourteenth. Governor Brown was in Greece. Efforts were made to get him back, and he came into New York and down 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library

Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, no, in 1962. B: During 1963 when the Birmingham demonstrations were going on, do you know if Mr. Johnson was involved on the federal side of that? W: I don't have any independent recollection of what part he might have played at this time. newspaper
How Wallace classified LBJ’s political stances from the Senate through Presidential periods; the 1960 Presidential campaign; the Birmingham demonstrations and Wallace’s discussion with Robert F. Kennedy regarding them; Wallace’s high regard for John

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

1958 when Senator Johnson was deciding who in the new class elected in 1958 would get what and who would support him on some thing-- I don't rememb~r what it was--that was coming up right at the beginning of the Congress oi 1959. But certainly we

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? F: No. The only difference was one in degree, not in kind. There was just as much discrimination in New York City as there was in Birmingham, Alabama, except Birmingham was more blatant and more widespread. It didn't matter. When you look

Oral history transcript, James M. Quigley, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

for politics. My father was always active in politics; he had been active as a Republican for the best part of his lifetime. But in the New Deal days, in the thirties, he became a Democrat. And as I thought my way through the process, I think I recognized
1958 election to Congress; JFK's role in Quigley's 1960 congressional election defeat; how JFK's Catholicism was viewed by Pennsylvania voters; the new House Committee on Science and Astronautics and why Quigley was interested in it; Quigley's opinion

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was that was the opening of the door. But then we met [on] New Year's Eve in Birmingham, Alabama, at the old 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral

Oral history transcript, Anthony Partridge, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Partridge -- I -- 2 P: Oh, it was chaos, marvelous chaos. We were in the New Colonial Hotel up on 15th Street, and there were

Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Then at the congressional level you had Luther Patrick from Birmingham, but Luther got defeated. VFD: But in the House, Vito Marcantonio, who was a radical from New York, carried it in the House. The reason he was able to get it carried in the House was because neither

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that created a new judgeship. And we had a campaign manager in Birmingham, Alabama, and we had a state campaign manager who both wanted different people. That ball was thrown my way to resolve, and I didn't want it. Finally, with the new bill creating

Oral history transcript, James Cato Pattillo and Nettie Pattillo Woodyard, interview 1 (I), 6/27/1968, by A.K. Johnson (Item)

with Carolyn Johnson over at Wetumpka. Montgomery. Jimmy Rogers ~ Of course, we made trips to One time I remember we went to Birmingham to hear He used to be rather fond of country music when it first became popular. This is not the Jimmy Rogers that people

Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

for progress in the whole field of race relations. B: Those were perhaps crucial years of the civil rights struggle in the South, the freedom rides and James Meredith at the University of Mississippi, Birmingham. T: Did you participate in any of those? Yes

Oral history transcript, Lloyd N. Cutler, interview 1 (I), 4/12/1969, by William Helmer (Item)

service, and then, as many of my friends, I discovered Washington was an interesting and exciting place to live. With several other refugees from New York, we started a law firm. here. We have survived through the normal process of growth and merger

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Martin – II – 5 economist up in New York. I had his name down here somewhere. He's still alive. He's writing a lot
Shepherd. Also mentions Hobart Taylor, the President’s Club, Adam Clayton Powell. DNC activities in Detroit, Chicago, New York, Atlanta

Oral history transcript, Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1967, by Mary Walton Livingston (Item)

of Montganery, Alabama. Mrs. Durr has came to the National Archives today, October 17, 1967, to record her impressions of the JOhnsons as newcomers to Washington in the early days of the New Deal. Mrs. Durr, would you like to tell us how you first met
Impressions of the Johnsons as newcomers to Washington in the early days of the New Deal

Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

from Time magazine because it would make me the first black correspondent working for a news magazine as well as the first black correspondent working in Washington for the mainstream media. It was an important event for black people to make this kind

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 6 (VI), 3/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cronin -- VI -- 2 counsel and other people come down to Birmingham and we met in the Tutwiler Hotel, which is no longer there. That's

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

; served some in New Orleans; I served Some in the Atlantic and some in the Pacific. My last tour of duty was at Kwajalain in the Pacific; I was there when the Japanese surrender took place. And as quick as I could get passage, I carne back to America

Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 8, 1968, in his part-time home in New Orleans, Louisiana B: I have the machine on now, so if we can go ahead and start. I'd think a logical starting place, sir, would be with when you first met Mr. Johnson. C

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

one, was quite conservative. paper~ I Jim Free of Birmingham, I think, as southerners go, is quite liberal; certainly more so than the . Birmingham paper. I was. Bruce Jolly, of the Greensboro Daily News, at that time, was I thought more liberal

Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: It came about because the former un-dersecretary was named by Presiqent Johnson to be ambassador to New Zealand. F: That was who? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 1 (I), 1/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the new 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Pollak -- I -- 2 Solicitor

Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Rayburn. B: You and he in those days shared interest--the New Deal in general-- H: That's right. B: Franklin Roosevelt's policies, the TVA. Did you ever get together on bills or legislation? H: The truth is by the time he got to the House, we had

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, you know, just by happenchance. I think I was with Dad and Tony Buford from St. Louis and Mr. Johnson the night after Lynda Bird was born. B: What was Mr. Johnson like as a brand new father? C: Well, you know, that's a long time ago. My

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 2 (II), 2/18/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

started in the Johnson Administration, and you had agreed to remain as an assistant special counsel :for the new president. We've talked about the problems of getting a Kennedy staff reoriented into a Johnson staff and meshed with 2. Johnson staff

Oral history transcript, Winston Taylor, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Bates] Taylor. T: My father was five years older than Lady Bird’s father. They were both born in Alabama. G: Yes. Which one came first? T: T. J. came [inaudible] first though. My father owned a [inaudible] gin in Birmingham, Alabama. He sold

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 2 (II), 7/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

VII, which created a new entity, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, with a different set of legal criteria and a somewhat different type of relationship to individual minority, potentially aggrieved citizens. They could file individual

Oral history transcript, William M. Colmer, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. So I started up the ramp--I guess it must have been half-time--looking for a friend. I met Lyndon coming down the ramp alone. F: Was he a congressman by then? Was he a new congressman? . C: He had just been sworn in. I guess one reason that I

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the fifteenth? C: Yes. Is that right? (Long pause) To meet with Governor Brown, yes. G: So it must have been the fourteenth. C: Well, it says, "Brown arrives in Los Angeles, vows to restore law and order. News conference." They have this August 15, page l

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of friendly senators: one in New York, the one in Massachusetts that you mentioned, one in Gaylord Nelson's state of Wisconsin, and 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1984, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

, 1984 INTERVIEWEE: MARY LASKER (MRS. ALBERT LASKER) INTERVIEWER: Clarence Lasby PLACE: Mrs. Lasker's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 2 ML: [People aren't] interested in the subject of health unless they're sick themselves. And nobody ever

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 5 (V), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to not make all the other appointments from the agency as though it was exactly the same thing simply with a new name. He wanted to make it different and as a consequence he brought in a number of people in the secretariat under Weaver. This made it awkward

Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 2 (II), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Corps volunteers in and see whether they can help do something." That kind of concept doesn't have any relevance to Harlem, New York where you obviously have an awful lot of people around there, there's no shortage of people, there's no shortage

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to be pretty cold-blooded about this. Yes, three minutes is more important to you on getting a story over on David Brinkley or Cronkite than two columns in the Birmingham News Age Herald. 23 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Luci and Lynda; Luci’s wedding; trips to Marshall to be with her father; Lady Bird’s encouragement for Lynda to leave U.T.; Warrie Lyn Smith; categories of news; commercialization of the White House; Luci’s job with optometrist; Lynda’s motive

Oral history transcript, Donnelly Bolton, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, we never moved out of Camp Shelby, Mississippi. G: You were going to be in the invasion force, should there be one? D: Yes, one of the new outfits. Then, luckily enough, I came out of the war a captain, which was a little bit lower than I had

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 5 (V), 3/14/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that are significant in how the new president handled the grief that came in the wake of Kennedy's assassination? C: I remember the assassination well, and the body lying in state in the rotunda. I think if I had to comment as you're asking here, the transition

Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that Lyndon Johnson was more satisfied with what the commission was doing. If Lyndon Johnson hadn't been satisfied with the commission, he would have moved fast to get a new staff director. The fact that he would allow it to move ahead for two years

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