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Oral history transcript, Emma Guffy Miller, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Washington in the papers, we'll say-- because I consider the Washington Post an excellent paper, the New York Times and the Pittsburgh Gazette--Post Gazette is a very good paper too. However, if you read a Washington paper, you'll find out a good deal
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sidney P. Marland, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

key posts of this kind in Washington, and I also was a very busy superintendent of schools in Pittsburgh and frankly didn't have the time to do it. F: You must have Iilet yourself coming back a few times, to use the vernacul ar. M: Well
Appointment to Presidential Advisory Council for the Office of Economic Opportunity while superintendent of schools in Pittsburgh; details of Pittsburgh’s pre-primary program in 1963-1964 (later called Head Start under OEO); composition of the OEO
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of Pittsburgh? B: Oh yes. I met Lyndon Johnson when he first went to Congress. M: This is the kind of thing wei re at the mercy of. I had no idea your acquaintance went back that far. B: I met him through former Governor Dave Lawrence who
; Berlin Wall issue; Barr as an observer during the 1967 Vietnam elections; Barr's view of the War on Poverty; Model Cities; Head Start; 1964 LBJ campaign visit to Pittsburgh; the March 31, 1968 speech; 1968 Democratic convention; housing issues; 1968
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 3 (III), 7/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to Pittsburgh in one last-ditch attempt to get the parties to settle before we brought them to Washington. Traditionally, big steel likes to settle in the White House. F: Why did you go outside [the Department of] Labor and get these two men? C: For two
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, R. Conrad Cooper, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: R. CONRAD COOPER INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Cooper's office, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin, sir, by identifying you for the transcriber's purpose. You're R. Conrad Cooper and during the Johnson
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh A. Leon Higginbotham -- Interview I -- 16 H: Mayor Tate. Barr's in Pittsburgh; Tate's here. F: That's
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. I don't remember much else--except for Pittsburgh, Pennsylva- I don't know how much you want to get into, but Pittsburgh was kind of home country to him because he went to a foundry, the Mesta Machine Tool Company of Pittsburgh. It's amazing
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Solis Horwitz, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: SOLIS HORWITZ INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Horwitz's office, Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Tape 1 of 2 M: Let's just identify you for the transcriber's benefit. You're Solis Horwitz, and your last
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 8 (VIII), 9/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

if that weren't settled. So I assume maritime got settled though I can't find it here. And the issue became whether to send Wirtz and Connor to Pittsburgh on Saturday--this is a memo from me to the President on August 27, but I remember the issue became--let me go
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

suggesting that we send Wirtz, Connor and Morse to Pittsburgh, assuming Wirtz has settled the maritime strike. And I say, "If Wirtz has not settled the maritime strike I have some doubts about sending him to Pittsburgh. Get someone with more horsepower than
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

by one little incident which is entirely personal. During the 1964 campaign--of course he was then president, running against Goldwater--we had a three-stop day. Pittsburgh, then, as I recall, Albuquerque. hometown. It was Boston, Pittsburgh was my I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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Oral history transcript, Roger Blough, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

unemployables? B: That came considerably later, didn't it? F: Yes . B: That was the organization that Henry Ford was involved in? I was not involved in that personally, but our company was involved in it . We did a lot of work on that in the Pittsburgh
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Mack H. Hannah, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/26/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Butane Rubber Company, I read it in the papers, and I knew I was going to be grounded as a salesman for oil and gas. I phoned Homer T. Arbuckle, who was a big man with Gulf at Pittsburgh. I saw where he was coming down to be secretarytreasurer, and I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 45 (XLV), 5/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

increases. As of this morning Pittsburgh Plate Glass had not moved. The president of Pittsburgh Plate Glass, Mr. David C. Hill, will be at your dinner tonight. Perhaps you LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

that. They were part of whatever little machine there was. In Cleveland, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, you really had machines, fairly active machines. In Pittsburgh, there was a Republican machine. Not Pittsburgh, Harrisburg. Pittsburgh, we had--all right
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Polk Shelton and Nell Shelton, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

: John L. Lewis, let's see, he was the coal miner. PS: Well, at that time he wasn't exactly a coal miner. At that time he was running one of the organized labors and sit-in in one of the big industries, I think in Pittsburgh. PB: Well, now, you say

Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 2 (II), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Republicans--Hugh Scott of the Sixth District of Pennsylvania, Clifford Case of New Jersey, James G. Fulton of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Thor Tollefson of Washington state and others--put in a Republican alternative to what was then called socialized medicine
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, with Joseph Barr, who was mayor of Pittsburgh. I certainly met not with Bob Wagner, but with [Paul ] Screvane and Ann Roberts in New York. I also met with John Collins in Boston. Before the act went through, we were down talking to folks in Georgia
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James Adler, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. (Interruption) G: Mr. Adler, I want to begin by asking you to describe where you were in the government at the time the War on Poverty was planned. A: I was at the Department of Commerce but on the payroll or being paid by the University of Pittsburgh
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

start by summarizing what I know of your career here subject to your corrections and additions. You were born in Pittsburgh in 1918; educated at Amherst; University of Chicago Law School; Georgetown Law School; World War II service with the U.S. Army

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

is an extreme eastern edge of-F: Kind of an off-shoot of Pittsburgh, in a way. B: Yes, it is, yes, just across the border. We got up there--I covered this event--and they had Johnson for president signs all over the walls and a lot of Johnson presidential
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. I arranged meetings with a number of big city mayors [including, among others, Dick Daly in Chicago, John Collins in Boston, Dick Lee in New Haven, Jerry Cavanagh in Detroit, and the mayor of Pittsburgh] offering to approve CRP financing
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James H. Tate, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of Pittsburgh. I talked to Mayor He tried to get him to come out to 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
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Oral history transcript, Perle Mesta, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

[telephone] I had friends here, I used to know the Gores very well. I used to visit the Gores. came here and then married in New York and we had an apartment here. I We lived in Pittsburgh but we always had an apartment here in the old Willard Hotel. F
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

participation of the poor, practically that they should run the program, and I didn't think that was right. we'd had trouble with it. Other mayors, He'd approve a plan like in Pittsburgh that he wouldn't approve out here, and it caused a lot of trouble
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

tried to get back to Washington and every time they got as far as Pittsburgh and either had to land in Pittsburgh or turn around and go back to Detroit. weather was terrible. The So the House adjourned then about eleven o'clock and people made a mad
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

people on the staff, Elizabeth Scully, the daughter of the then Mayor of Pittsburgh, an administrative assistant, and Jeanette Heine, H-E-I-N-E, a secretary. We built from there. I was trying to build the organization. Aubrey kept a very close hand
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

are taping this interview in the Deputy Postmaster General's Office, at the Post Office Department, in Washington, D . C . Mr . Belen, you were appointed Deputy Postmaster General by President Johnson and confirmed by Congress in February 1964 . From 1961
); LBJ's problems about pulling his dog's ears (resolved by Life membership in Vanderburgh County Humane Society); reminiscences of Postmasters General (Farley, Summerfield, Day, Gronouski, O'Brien, Watson, Donaldson); analysis of post office operations

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 2 (II), 6/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, and said, "They've found one over in Pittsburgh, or Philadelphia, on the junk heap, and they're going to put it on the back of a train and get it down to Washington for you this afternoon." So we went down to see the train and it was really a shambles
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph D. Keenan, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

into Chicago and going into St. Louis and going into Cleveland and going into Pittsburgh you saw the change and the enthusiasm. of how Dewey was doing. So I also kept track The thing that really [convinced me] . was the comparison in Salt Lake, where Dewey
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James W. Smith, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

W. Smith In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 21 of Title 44, United States Code and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, James W. Smith of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania do hereby give, donate and convey to the United
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

step I suppose was putting together your department, gathering personnel, and so forth. 0: This is right. One of the ingenious provisions of the Department of Transportation Act was a device to assure a post-enactment planning period. We did
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

entered public activity when I was appointed to become the assistant prosecutor of Hamilton County in 1939, where I served for three years, took a leave of absence to accept a post in what was then known as the Office of Facts and Figures, which
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

corporate policy. U.S. Steel in Pittsburgh was a goddamn different company than U.S. Steel in Birmingham, Alabama, and every time we would hit them someplace--you hit them in one place and start raising questions: "What are your recruiting practices? What
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

? nated I was invited up to Kennedy's suite. a dozen other state leaders. I arrived there and found I remember particularly David Lawrence of Pennsylvania. F: That's the mayor? W: Yes~ F: Of Pittsburgh. W: Governor. F: I just wanted
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of papers, including the Pittsburgh Courier group, the Chicago Daily Defender, the Tri-State Defender in Memphis, the Michigan Chronicle in Detroit--altogether about ten fairly good newspapers. Mc: And some in the South as well as in the North? M: Tri
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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