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Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 1 (I), 9/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with the problem of pouring more and more capital into their basic operations with less and less time to sell the product. Herbert Swope invented the op-ed-page, so-called. Thereupon The op-ed [opinion- editorial] simply took great writers, newspaper writers
Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : No, I met them only, later, but it wasn't at that time that I'd even met them or knew who they were. G: So I guess that puts you on the bus to Austin. M: Well, I stayed at a little hotel about two blocks from the Littlefield Building. I think
  • Biographical information; San Marcos; College Star; White Stars; membership; purpose; LBJ as state NYA administrator; NYA public relations activities; staffers; structure of the NYA; projects; Herbert Henderson; working habits; later contacts
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or to be nipping at Eisenhower. He justified that with his fellow Democrats, despite the displeasure of Mrs. Roosevelt and Herbert Lehman and people like that, Walter Reuther, on the grounds that the country should speak with one voice abroad. And we had a lot
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 5 (V), 4/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • gave his envelope to Lyndon, and Lyndon turned it over to someone else. W: The Hendersons. But that was not-- There were two Hendersons. One of them died shortly after we were-G: That was Herbert, I think. The other one was Charles? Which one
Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: HERBERT JENKINS INTERVIE~JER: T'.. HARRI. BAKER . Chief Jenkins• office, Police Headquarters, . Atlanta, Georgia .PLACE: Tape 1 of 1 B: · This is tfte interview with Herf>ert Jenkins, chief of police of Atlanta
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  • Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker
  • Herbert Jenkins
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ringing and so on to keep it going. We set up offices in the old Hancock House, just west of Congress Avenue two blocks. worked so hard in my life. and would help with I believe that I never We would try to raise money and would make speeches
  • Biographical information; 1937-1960 campaigns; Congressional secretary to LBJ; lived with the Johnsons; Hardy Hollers; waiting for election returns; appointment as U.S. District Attorney; Herbert Brownwell; Frankie Randolph; Los Angeles Democratic
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • pretty much compose it himself? Do you know, if staff people helped him draft the speeches? J: I believe from the beginning he had Herbert Henderson, who was a man of a very magnificent way with words. He was a newspaperman. They came into our lives I
  • Roosevelt; LBJ's support for public housing in Austin; staff member Herbert Henderson; LBJ's work on lower Colorado River dams and rural electrification; the struggle to get public power to central Texas; Senator Alvin Wirtz's involvement in negotiating
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . This is the kind of thing that makes you think about Johnson's varied agenda. "Riesel wanted me to pass along his views that Horston [Herbert Holmstrom] [and] [Douglas] McMahon of the TWU [Transport Workers Union of America] are very much activists and that McMahon
Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • were looking after the cars got them around to the rear of the building, so that we could go to the jail that day. It wasn't far away, about two blocks or something like that. When we got downstairs to get in the cars to scoot over
  • the Nuremberg trial; Storey’s work on the Atlantic-Pacific Interoceanic Canal Route; Storey’s work on a President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice; his acquaintance with the Kennedys and Herbert Hoover.
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in those days than it ever became later. It was small. There was John Connally, Dorothy Jackson-­ now Dorothy Nichols--Herbert Henderson, who is now dead, and I. By the way, I do want to interpose here that I was never paid eighty dollars a month
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to a white tie dinner in honor of Herbert Hoover. It surprises to me remember some of the things that we did. I think that was about the time that we got over a feeling that we had said bad things about Hoover and actually began to feel somewhat sorry
  • Social events of the 1950s; Senator Theodore Francis Green; Sam Rayburn; Senator Walter George; Herbert Hoover; Lady Bird Johnson's miscarriages in 1954; the political situation in Vietnam in 1954; the Texas governor's race between Allan Shivers
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • several blocks, and I lived in, I guess what you'd call the attic of his home until my orders came through to go overseas, or to go into the Navy on active duty. And I did go in and served about two and a half years, most of it in the Pacific aboard
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to have heard me four blocks away when that Istop Kennedy" proposal was made. killed. The proposal was promptly There was one thing about a proposal like that. It had to be unanimous, because if it wasn't unanimous the group that disagreed would have
Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • office that morning and insulted everyone in here by his action and then tried to illegally block the door to the mayor's office. And we had moved him aside, Captain Royal and I had moved him aside. He then found an incident that afternoon
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 5 (V), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was, it was open to old mining laws and could they stake out mining claims and take it away. Well, that started back in the 20's. President Herbert Hoover closed all the oil shale country to mining locations. I think this was a very provident step and the question
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a little pony to pull it?" But I used to put her in it and wheel her all over the area. By 1946 I was getting pretty adept--I think I may have mentioned this--at collecting for the Red Cross in the blocks around there. I had covered them ever since we had
  • at KTBC; attending the State of the Union Message; 1947 legislative issues; Aunt Effie's estate; President Truman sending Herbert Hoover to Europe to study food and fuel shortages; Mrs. Johnson's pregnancy; the backyard and garden at the 30th Place house
Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of this department but headed up this legislation, but I do recall that in a discussion I had with this doctor--Holman, something of that sort-M: [J. Herbert] Hollomon was in the Commerce Department. K: Hollomon, yes; it was Dr. Hollomon. I know that when I
  • Relationship with LBJ beginning with HR days; Senate; VP; Presidency; development of federal and state programs regarding UE compensation, etc.; JFK relationship with governors; establishment of Office of Emergency Planning; J. Herbert Holloman
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 15 (XV), 1/4/1980-1/5/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • getting the crowd and the date and the podium and everything. I don't know when the Hatch Act passed, but it surely made changes. Sometime during the fall Herbert Henderson died, and a chapter closed in our lives. There was nobody subsequently quite like
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and some were being pre-positioned in a park, as I recall. It was either a park or a public school ground in the city of Detroit within eight or ten blocks of the riot area. At this time Vance reported that he did not recommend the commitment of federal
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • know the President will talk to you about it." I said, "Fine." He said, "You know that Commerce Department Building, that's a big building? It's a whole square block." I said, "Yes, I know that." He said, "Well, as big as it is, it isn't big enough
Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , who was the co-chairman--Woodrow is now a federal judge-was the leader of the liberal wing and certainly was a Kennedy man. think the Reverend [Herbert] think that's his name, was the one Meza~ I who proposed the idea originally. I Woodrow
Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • nomination for President. As the temporary chairman of my precinct convention I guess I was foolish, but I tried in a very calm way to say that the Republicans were holding their meeting just down on the other end of the block, and I thought the lady
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • up the money to establish Texas Southern University down in Houston. It had a law school in it. There was another law school a block away over at the University of Houston. But after the courts--after the color barriers were removed, so far as I know
Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • , and this is an asset." He said, "Yes, we do. It's very difficult." I said, "But I'm curious about your state hospital. It's only two blocks away. When was the last time you visited there?" "Oh," he said, "about twelve years ago." I said, "Don't you feel any sense
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the Office of Management and Budget, not to the Executive Office Building, but to the Executive Office Building number two, the new one which had just been built, which was just a block away, and then spend the rest of the day there. At the end of the day, I
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The war in Europe had just ended, and he went as part of an investigating team with Edward Herbert and Sterling Cole. IG: Yes, and wasn't Cook on that trip? MG: Yes. IG: Yes. I remember the trip and that's all. I was not there. Cook telling me he
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that the Senate should have majority rule so that the filibuster can't prevail. In that December a group was assembled--it was Paul Douglas, Hubert Humphrey, Wayne Morse, Herbert Lehman--that all agreed to a proposal that I had made some time back. The proposal
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was [Commander Herbert L.] Ogier, I believe that's correct--what did they know about the South Vietnamese operations? Were they told, "Don't go near here on such-and-such a day, you may get mixed up in something," something to that effect? M: No, I don't think
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • case it marked my next involvement with Walker, because I got a call from Jack [Herbert J.] Miller, as I recall, who was then the assistant attorney general in charge of the Criminal Division, and someone whose name I don't recall who was one of Bobby
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • about the only one he can talk to, in that nature, and as far as I know, well maybe the only one that didn't quite do it that way was Roosevelt at first with Herbert Hoover. But before Mr. Roosevelt got out of his office he was talking to Mr. Hoover
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • assignments to advance legislation? R: Oh, of course. G: For example, if one senator were blocking a piece of legislation in his corrmittee, would Johnson offer him a better corrmittee assignment in order to get rid of him? R: Oh, I don't know of any
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the foreign policies of both Democratic presidents and Eisenhower, but they did it on the grounds that they had to block the foreign policy moves that were being made by the Democratic presidents and Eisenhower until something was done about the Nationalist
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Subcommittee I guess had an office or offices in one of the SEC buildings a couple of blocks from the Senate Office Building, B: is that right? Do you remember? At the bottom of the Hill there used to be a temporary building built during World War II
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a But whole blocks around there, people [are] coming in by the thousands in this bicentennial year. And I like it up there. I think I've got the best home. seen it and the yard there and everything. You've You sit out and dictate LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to say was okay, this is a loser, but look, how about conser­ vation, how about cotton, how about this, that and the other? G: Another tactic of Johnson's-­ Tape 2 of 3 G: Another tactic seems to have been to try to force a corrmitment out of [Herbert
Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Crook, William H. (William Herbert), 1925-1997
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • talking about--went into people's homes. ments. We walked the streets at night. We went into block meetings of Negroes. extreme militants. [inaudible]. level. We went into apartWe talked to some We saw a good number of projects which were being
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • anyhow, she got quite a little cut, not nearly so awful as I thought at first, because I was scared. I called our doctor. He wasn't in his office. I knew of another doctor who had an office not many blocks down the road. I picked her up bodily, got
Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • into Laos and block the Ho Chi Minh Trail. LBJ did not want to face the realities of the geography of Indochina. He wanted to compartmentalize the war: "Laos, you can do some bombing, but no horsing around--a little with Special Forces. Cambodia, no, I don't