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Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • -- I -- 4 classmate of mine. Tommy knew Vice President Johnson. And he told me that the Vice President was trying to put together a group of young people who would primarily do advance work in 1964 in the campaign, and that this group would jell
  • LBJ’s decision not to run for re-election in 1968; Martin Luther King’s death and LBJ’s view of King; LBJ on civil rights; open housing bill; trip to Chicago 4/1/68; the idea of moving the Democratic National Convention from Chicago; Chicago’s Mayor
Oral history transcript, Harold J. Russell, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • a lot of wonderful changes. P: Since 1948 besides serving on this committee, you have served in the American Veterans' Association, on committees and as national commander. You were one of the founders of the World Veterans Federation, and LBJ
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ; present relationship with LBJ; interest and work with handicap people; summary of advances in field of the handicapped; role of advisory committee and its effectiveness; assistance from Senator
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Abell -- I -- 2 with many other dignitaries. I stood in the receiving line next to Mrs. Johnson and was impressed then, as I have been ever since, with her talent for making people feel at home, and her congeniality and her
  • Meeting LBJ in 1955; the 1956 Democratic National Convention; Abell's father-in-law Senator Earle Clement's career; LBJ trying to do favors for his colleagues; adjourning Congress for the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles
Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the capital for civil rights legislation, generally under the leadership of Clarence Mitchell, who is the Washington representative of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Of course they had their direct contacts, so it wasn't
Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Then in 1960, early in the year, I got a call from him one day, and he said he was going to be some place in Ohio, nearby, Would 1 have was going to come into Pittsburgh and stay all night
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • make this arrangement possible. I suggested at that time that we form a non-profit corporation, as we have in the case of other national parks. I wrote a memo that went to Mrs. Kennedy from the Associate Director of the Park Service proposing
  • Natural resources and national parks
  • Biographical information; National Park Service
Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • surplus of beef in this country, with drastic price breaks, was simultaneously associated with rising prices and short supply in Europe. So that he, on a matter of about thirty-six hours notice, required us to get a half-dozen major people from the meat
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 3 (III), 7/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that are interested in civil rights. That's not limited to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or the Urban League who are identified essentially with the color, but from organizations like the League of Women Voters, as an example. They've
Oral history transcript, Chris Dixie, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and people of that kind. G: D: Did the CIO play a role? It played a role, but it wasn't a very popular associate to have around in those times. G: It seems to me that there was in that group a component of traditional liberals like J. R. Parten, Byron
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 51 (LI), 8/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • here for blacks and that they wanted to race through and get out there and that we were really in a race with that, with expectations, more than we were in a race with whether the NAACP [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in for the President's night reading. Of course, these FBI full field examinations were primarily complete reports on people who were being considered for appointments to jobs. You had other FBI reports on national situations or possible subversive groups or what have
  • Career history; early advance work; meeting W. Marvin Watson; meeting LBJ and getting advice on how to be a good employee; working on the Whistle Stop Tour; LBJ’s ability to size people up and communicate effectively; LBJ staffs’ youth; LBJ staff
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 3 (III), 4/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • people. Perhaps it would be of interest to relate how I did become involved in this. As we have discussed in the two earlier interviews, I had had association with Lyndon Johnson during the Vice Presidential days and a rather early association
  • statistics by computer; LBJ’s interest in geographic diversification, advanced degrees, youth, professional recognition, and minorities; difficulty in recruiting women; Betty Furness; short supply of women in corporate America in 1969; creation of HUD
Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • should he do this? the depression years; the work he did took him in contact as a young teacher with the Mexican-American child; his work with the National Youth Administration showed him the problems of people at close hand. No sensitive
  • 1964-1968 progress for women; 1963 equal pay act; coalition of liberal forces; living standards; manpower programs; Neighborhood Youth Corp; LBJ’s role with respect to advances that women made in 1960s; Commission on the Status of Women; Citizen’s
Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was a great New Dealer in my own thinking, not with any government association although I did do a little WPA project at one time. But Johnson, when he got involved with the youth-F: ._C: National Youth Administration . National Youth Administration
  • Biographical information; initial contact with LBJ; desegregation plans; 1956 Democratic National Convention; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 Democratic National Convention; Collins' selection and role as chairman of the convention; minority
Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the special election for Congress. So mine was parallel there 50 years later and a lot of people expected and urged me to run for Congress at that time. I felt that I didn't know anything about national political problems and that I did have some ground
Oral history transcript, Fred Schmidt, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a number of people on our national board, of which I was a member, from the trade union movement. So I do recall Johnson saying that he had a very close association with that young redhead from Detroit, that fiery young labor leader who, when he couldn't
  • Contact with LBJ in the 1940s; Democratic Advisory Council; Rayburn's role; Ralph Yarborough; 1956 state and national Democratic conventions and labor; CIO and Texas politics; Frankie Randolph; Texas Observer; committeeman/committeewoman controversy
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for the 1964 campaign. And so Wilson had offered six people full-time jobs at the Democratic National Committee as full-time advance men. That was the first time, really, that there had been full-time advance men; in the past it had been a part-time deal
  • How Pachios got involved with Peace Corps; JFK’s assassination; LBJ comparing himself to JFK; Eric Goldman; Pachios’ work as an advance man in the 1964 Presidential campaign; Maine governor John Reed; Eugene Pulliam; campaign stops in California
Oral history transcript, Marjorie Lawson, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • teach him. And so they met several times after that, and would call Belford for advice on issues, and then asked him to go to Boston with them to talk to the NAACP [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People] people up there. My husband
  • ; Theodore Kheel; the work of committee members and staff; how LBJ and JFK grew in their understanding of civil rights on a national level; Lawson's work as chairman of the civil rights section of the Kennedy-Johnson campaign and people who tried to undermine
Oral history transcript, Louise Hermey Stanford, interview 1 (I), 9/6/1989, by Sybil Jackson (Item)
  • as far as we knew, but the summer project was an organization called COFO, Council of Federated Organizations, which was made up of SNCC, NAACP [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People], Congress of Racial Equality [CORE] and, I think
  • ; the joining of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to form the Council of Federated
Oral history transcript, Andrew Young, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • into the meeting! That was part of the Gandhian influence, that you could be completely open because you were doing what was right. It was always my job, anyway, to tell people what we were going to do in advance. For instance, when we were going into Birmingham
Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • afterwards, really, that I was doing a lot of work with National COPE and also with the Retail Clerks and our own people. I would go into various cities and work with the labor movement. G: You said he would reserve some of the worst ones for you
  • Biographical information; Joseph McCarthy; LBJ’s techniques; minimum wage; labor; Jim Suffridge; Dave Dubinsky; 1960 campaign and convention; Esther Coopersmith; West Virginia primary; Arizona delegation; Wyoming delegation; Kennedy machine; advance
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for the Advancement of Colored People] is not going to be at ABA meetings drinking cocktails and going to bar association dinners and they're not going to know him or how good he is. G: Well, how significant was the fact that he was Abe Feinberg's brother
Oral history transcript, Harold Howe II, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • support programs and about having young people have the opportunity to go to college. As we worked with the American Bankers Association, a year or more after I was appointed, about the details of the Guaranteed Loan Program, which is one of the new
  • Profession Development Act; Fine Affair; Equal Education Opportunity Survey; HEW/Labor rivalry; U.S. Employment Service; Higher Education Amendments of 1968; Vocational Amendments of 1968; 1967 Title III proposals; National Education Association; major policy
Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 2 (II), 3/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • that I'd asked you was whether or not the people on the task force had reached a consensus of agreement about what Community Action would be. I'd like to start. this tape by asking you if you knew of any task force people who were opposed, had objections
Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Nations and the people you were dealing with? Do they notice this much about U.S. domestic affairs? Did it make it easier for you to work? H: I think two of the most significant contributions that President Johnson made were in the field of civil
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 1 (I), April 1963, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • of the colorful ones. Could you give me a picture of what he was like as a teacher? K: He was very dynamic, just like he is now. G: Pacing up and down in front of the room? K: Yes, he was a real debate coach, I’ll say that. G: Do you recall any
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
  • Meeting with LBJ as a debate coach in Houston; working for LBJ on Congressman Kleberg's staff; LBJ's influence on Kleberg; National Youth Administration; first campaign for Congress; contacts with FDR; LBJ's campaign techniques
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • ? That started getting--sort of got the civil rights ball rolling in Texas? M: Yes. I don't remember all of the chronology on the Sweatt case. He was the litigant that the NAACP [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]--they had a legal
  • ; Ralph Yarborough; when reporters get involved in the story they are covering; Yarborough's 1952, 1954, and 1956 gubernatorial races; the national-level Democratic Party taking control of the Texas Democratic Party in 1956; the growth of the Republican
Oral history transcript, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh DR. GEORGE DAVIS DOROTHY PIERCE MC SWEENY This interview is with Dr. George Davis, the minister of the National City Christian Church in Washington, D. C. Today is Thursday, February 13, 1969, and we are in his office this morning about
  • Relationship with LBJ, who was a frequent visitor to Davis' church; service on the National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity; the LBJ-Nixon transition period; Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • resigned and went into the practice of the law . I was engaged in civic activities . My first year out of law school I became the president of the Cincinnati branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the youngest
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the presidency in a most crucial time in the nation's history, he did an excellent job, and he soon convinced the American people that he was a man of real ability, of common sense, and great courage and great integrity. And he did much during the years of his
  • for Vice President; 1960 campaign; 1940 election; motion for abrogation of 2/3s rule; contact with LBJ when he was Senate Majority Leader; Paul O’Dwyer and Allard Lowenstein; Dump Johnson movement; LBJ legislation proposed and enacted to help the people
Oral history transcript, Harold Fleming, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1986, by Michael Gillette (Item)
  • , that was virtually all done with primary reference to blacks and the other minorities were included in a sort of ritualistic way, as the "regardless of race, creed, color or national origin." And women wouldn't have been included at all had it not been
  • Daniel Patrick Moynihan's involvement in the White House "To Fulfill These Rights" conference; Moynihan's report "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action;" deciding who would be invited to speak at the conference; Fleming's career and how
Oral history transcript, Leo Gehrig, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't have any recall of any actions that he took. G: One other thing on the compliance. The National Medical Association in 1966 was critical of Robert Nash in terms of enforcing compliance. Let me ask you to evaluate that criticism. LG: I don't
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • data you have and the coloration of events is so impressive that you know what is happening, beyond just having the evidence in your hand. You go back to Washington and, God, the paper mill's still turning on, and people are still fighting over
Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • or really was the manager, I guess you would say, I think he carried the title of treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. He's now very active for Mr. Humphrey. I think he actually is the one who originated the idea. F: Do you get people
Oral history transcript, Burke Marshall, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of this and it also demonstrated that the civil rights movement was going to be a dramatic, colorful, interesting, turbulent kind of a period; so that there were just a lot of young people coming out of law schools that wanted to participate. B: In your recruiting
Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • process in terms of debating the coach always emphasized that you should speak forcefully, precisely, and with conviction. At that moment, in the most weak, mild, milquetoast expression, he said, "Well, where is the closest colored YMCA?" So what happened
  • Biographical information; problems of blacks in colleges in the 1940s; appointment to FTC; association with LBJ after U.S. judgeship appointment; meetings and activities following assassination of MLK and related disturbances; work on Federal Jury
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • with the President's selection. Some time that summer, I don't have the dates noted, John Walker of the National Gallery of Art had contacted me saying that he was a close associate of the DeWitt Wallaces of Reader's Digest, and Mrs. Wallace has a foundation from which
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and Reserve Affairs? F: That's hard to do briefly. The Assistant Secretary at this desk has the function of worrying about the standards for entrance into the Armed Forces, how we procure the people to meet those standards, and then how we treat them
  • Biographical information; duties in Manpower & Reserve Affairs; civil works program; overcrowding at Arlington National Cemetery; McNamara; Project 100,000; Adam Yarmolinsky; Steve Ailes; Senator Richard Russell; Mr. Vinson; Operation Transition
Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Association for the United Nations, and New York. State President of the organization; I was one of the founders of the Rochester Association for the United Nations, one of the largest in the country. I had also for some time been deeply concerned
  • for the Performing Arts; relationship with the Kennedys; Bill Moyers; Tommy Thompson; Lincoln Gordon; the Dominican Republic crisis; Castro and Cuba; Free Trade Association meets in Montevideo; Central America foreign ministers meet in San José; Fernando Eleta
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it at the reporters. You can imagine what a spectacle that was with the leader of the Soviet Union throwing handfuls of corn at people because he didn't understand why all the reporters were there. He did complain to Eisenhower. He asked Eisenhower to get