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Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that my political acumen was far greater than in fact it was. But it wasn't. I had no idea of the politics of it. The first intimation I had of a problem, a political problem, was one time when [John] Lindsay and I had been in the Executive Office Building
  • Financing the recommendations of the National Advisory Commission of Civil Disorders with the fiscal dividend; the rush to release the Commission's report; communication between Ginsburg and Joe Califano; John Lindsay's political aspirations
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the tension between the mayors and the feds was real. For example, [John] Lindsay was the deputy chairman of our Commission, a Republican at that time, and a lot of the mayors were Democrats and fearful of criticism from the Commission. So the Commission had
  • sources of information, such as the Office of Economic Opportunity and Tom Bradley; visiting Newark, New Jersey, to talk to citizens about rioting; John Lindsay's involvement with the Commission; the chain of command within the Commission; late night/early
Oral history transcript, Walter Washington and Bennetta Washington, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and John, Mayor John Lindsay that is, had been putting together a number of packages. Interestingly enough, my closest relationship developed with John around National Cathedral School, too. B: He had children there, too? W: Yes. He had some youngsters
Oral history transcript, J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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 INTERVIEWEE: J. LINDSAY ALMOND, JR
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  • Oral history transcript, J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by T.H. Baker
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 52 (LII), 8/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://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 Califano -- LII -- 3 Something he stuck in in part to stick it to [John] Lindsay
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 46 (XLVI), 5/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about not being able to deal with the construction unions, and in effect I think the President tried to put some distance between himself personally and the New Jersey situation. I don't know whether we had our flare-up with John Lindsay prior
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • whatsoever unless Mr. McGovern appeared. G: Who else was there? O: Terry Sanford, who was a peripheral candidate. It included Jackson, Humphrey, Muskie, and there might have been others. I don't recall. G: Was [John] Lindsay there or was he completely
  • support to Democratic Party unity; Jimmy Carter's role in the 1972 presidential election; Edmund Muskie's campaign leading up to the 1972 election and how it was affected by attacks in the Manchester [New Hampshire] Union Leader; John Lindsay's 1972
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 59 (LIX), 1/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • attitude toward this type of development? C: Well, you'll recall in January of 1966 in the State of the Union Message he took a shot at [John] Lindsay and the transit strike in New York, indicating that he would propose some kind of legislation
Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , what registration [he is]. Kerner was a Democrat, John Lindsay a Republican. Abel, probably [is] a Democrat. I have Of course, Otto I suppose Mr. [I. W.] I have no idea how Tex [Charles B.] Thornton is registered, but I know that Thornton
Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Travis County so not to be an embarrassment. I talked to John Connally about it, and I told John, I said, "John, there's only one way we can handle this thing. If--" And we had talked about the Johnson people would go to Los Angeles, and the Shivercrats
  • ; Shivers' interest in running for the U.S. Senate in 1954; Shivers' support for Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956; accusations of wrongdoing by insurance commissioners; John Connally asking for Shivers' campaign advice in 1962; Weldon Hart and Sandlin agreeing
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • some conservation work. I worked for a year at the Wilderness Society on the legislation on which I had done my thesis. In the course of that, I made the acquaintance of Hubert Humphrey, of Clinton Anderson, of John Saylor, of Scoop Jackson--the leading
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Lindsay, the only way of getting coillllittee, refused but we refused the Republican and more importantly to work with John Lindsay to work with support him because we needed in the House leadership, in the was through Bill McCulloch. M
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • programs we put in. We began to think about whether we had adequate everything from maps of cities if we had to move in, if we had riots in cities. I think [John] Lindsay was worried about riots in New York City and I don't think Johnson thought very much
Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • basis they dealt with us on, as long as we were able to get these programs and money. F: In these early War on Poverty days did mayors like you and Richard Daley and John Lindsay pretty much support the administration's efforts? C: Yes. John Lindsay
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Room with Mrs. Johnson and John O'Leary, head of the Yale College Political Union. He was extending an invitation to Mrs. Johnson to come up and speak on the Yale campus. She was really cute. She looked at him and started off by saying, "I'm afraid
Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • contingent, we released the whole guard, leaving the regular army there. The army was there for the whole school year, because I remember going down the following spring with John Doar. The purpose of our trip was to talk to Meredith and talk to the army
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to the point at which, in effect, our story starts. R: Okay, fine. I was appointed assistant secretary by President John F. Kennedy, and the way that came about, briefly was this. Arthur Goldberg had been named secretary of labor -designate by Mr. Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Baker gets indicted, we're in the middle of a transit strike in New York in which we're worried about John Lindsay blowing the lid off the wage-price guidelines on the wage side, we've got the State of the Union a week away. It is not an environment
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 5 (V), 5/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • I remember the time--it wasn't a Community Action Program but it was in the manpower area--John Lindsay got upset about something that was happening and went to the New York Times. Well, it was impossible to answer that. did hurt that program. do
Oral history transcript, Frank Ikard, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was interested in UNICEF. I don't know who first--you know, I just really don't know, except most matters of the tax nature-- F: You were working with then Congressman John Lindsay on this? I: Yes. F: Did you work together with some frequency? Were you
  • of the vice-presidential nomination; Homer Thornberry; Sam Rayburn; 1960-1961 presidential campaign; John Connally; oil industry in the 1960’s.
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • newspapermen all around there and they were saying different things. The fact is, and one of the saddest facts, that when our people arrived--Cy Vance and John Doar, Warren Christopher and others, Governor Romney and Mayor Cavanagh and the General and the Chief
Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of two in the House of Representatives. And then it was a ques- tion of the Senate. But while he didn't promise us, he made his contribution. sympathetic. He was And the reason why he didn't want to give a promise was because at that time (John P
Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But I'm not certain of that. G: Let me ask you about disposal of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. K: Yes. G: Here you had a political issue in that Mayor [John] Lindsay was blasting the White House and saying that they weren't. K: Well, of course one
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . We had this emergency labor dispute problem which Johnson had stuck in the January 1966 State of the Union Message because he was annoyed with John Lindsay. We struggled all year with that and I think we gave birth to a mouse here. I don't know
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh SYMINGTON -- II -- 8 concern, to put it mildly, in HEW, from Wilbur Cohen down, or you might say from [Abraham] Ribicoff, [Anthony] Celebreeze, and [John] Gardner, [who] were the three fellows who had it. Kennedy left before Gardner
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • together an organization for Los Angeles in which every state delegation was assigned to a Kennedy person, and that Kennedy person, whether it was Abe Ribicoff or John Bailey or whoever--and there were a large number of them then--would literally live
  • John F. Kennedy's (JFK) plan regarding primaries going into the 1960 Democratic National Convention; assigning JFK staffers to specific state delegations; JFK's decision to address the Texas delegation; JFK's decision to ask Lyndon Johnson (LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 27 (XXVII), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that, the officers of the exchange met with me in a formal setting. John Loeb was one of the key people on Wall Street and he and I had become friendly in the Humphrey campaign. There were a couple of other prominent Wall Street people who joined with John Loeb
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 4 (IV), 12/4/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • could count on about a dozen House members who, because of their constituency, would be supportive. But when you get to a farm bill, that constituency has eroded. For example, I think of a liberal Republican, John Lindsay, in those days, and there were
  • conservation, the Highway Trust Fund, and the National Wilderness Preservation System; 1962 amendments to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act affecting government supervision of drug industries and drug labeling; John F. Kennedy's (JFK) reaction
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 2 (II), 1/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that the conversations of the task force and the bill drafting were not including any domestic peace corps. I was also aware that my friend, Norbert Schlei, the legal counsel, and his staff--Sol Lindenbaum, who later became Ramsey Clark's executive assistant, and John
Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the South was Henry--in terms of the House; in the Senate it was only Mike. G: Why was Sprague selected for the western states? 0: He's a California native. He had been with [Congressman John] McFall, [was] his AA for years, and we knew him. what stage
  • Desautels, Claude J. (Claude John), 1921-1982
Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • cent funded by state funds, really was placing too great a burden not only on Illinois. I had discussed this with Governor [Pat] Brown of California, Governor [Nelson] Rockefeller of New York and Governor [John B.] LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the efforts expended up to 1963 and then later, we did it the right way. G: What was Robert Kennedy's role in the 1963 civil rights bill? Do you recall his confrontation with John Lindsay and--? 12 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More
  • John F. Kennedy's (JFK) effort as a young politician to become a better communicator; how Lyndon Johnson's (LBJ) legislative power shifted when he became vice president and then president; JFK's and LBJ's different styles in dealing with members
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and you had John Nance Garner on the one hand and Lyndon Johnson and people like Alvin Wirtz on the other. Do you recall this fight, particularly as it applied to the Texas delegation and what sort of support you got from them? 8 LBJ Presidential
  • of committee members and staff, including Edith Green, Phil Landrum, Carl Perkins, Frank Thompson, Hugh Carey, Peter Frelinghuysen; Arch Moore, Albert Quie, Charles Goodell and John H. Dent; the Economic Opportunity Act and the War on Poverty; efforts to raise
Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . after Christmas in 1964. I first met the President right John Macy had asked me to come down to the White House at 6 o'clock as the President wanted to chat with me, ostensibly to decide whether or not to appoint me as Chief Counsel. We chatted
Oral history transcript, H.S. Hank Brown, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • did recover when [Texas] Commissioner [of Agriculture, John] White ran one time against Senator Yarborough and got a handful of votes, got seventeen thousand I think statewide . Jerry was very close to White and had felt like, "Well, we've been
Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 13 congressman from Springfield. Springfield paper. I mentioned that I represented the Kennedy never could stand John McCormack, and Furcolo did business with John McCormack, so therefore he didn't like Furcolo. It goes
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • around the table asking suggestions as to what he ought to be doing. Somebody brought up that he ought to go out and confront the demonstrators if necessary, but go out and press the flesh. And his feeling was [this]. I know he quoted John Connally
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 11 (XI), 7/24/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • who represented what might be called Democratic districts: northern districts for the most part, northeastern districts, a John Lindsay-type of district. Those people didn't feel that the accomplishments of Lyndon Johnson were necessarily adverse