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Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 2 (II), 9/29/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McCarthy -- II -- 8 was more or less getting criticism from [Richard] Daley in Chicago. So I think among the men they decided that Edith was the one to offer the amendment
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • come from various agencies, including the Peace Corps, understood how to put together an agency. Bill Kelly certainly knew about these things, others did. Much more thought and effort went into figuring out who would do what than what had to be done
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Job Corps, the director of Head Start. So at that time Bill Kelly would have been closing them up, and Bill Kelly was just terrifically good as a manager and thank God he was in charge. That's one reason why I don't remember the details. G: Did
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • , that was probably [Ralph] Huitt; the General Counsel; the Comptroller, who was Jim Kelly; the Public Health Service, and the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, [who] was probably Bill Gorham at that time, with a memorandum where I raised questions. way
Oral history transcript, J.C. Looney, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Had some contacts. And of course having been with the [National] Youth .l\'cirrlinistration, he had had contacts and also having been secretary to Congressman [Richard] Kleberg, he had had some contact. But no wide acquaintance. He wasnft known
Oral history transcript, William H. Darden, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Senator [Richard B.] Russell's staff to the Armed Services Committee? D: It was pretty accidental. I had been offered a job in private industry and decided to take it and told the Senator I was leaving and then decided that I didn't want to take that job
  • ; conflict over whether the air force should develop more manned bombers; LBJ's political philosophy; LBJ's views on civil rights; LBJ's relationship with Senator Richard Russell.
Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Richard Lee of New Haven and his then secretary, now the president of the New York State Urban Development Corporation--Ed Logue--made to me. Mc: How does he spell his name? T: L-O-G-U-E. I went to New Haven in August of 1955 to be Director
Oral history transcript, C.W. Price, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • you? P: They didn't call me at that time directly, but I mean I think that's when [Kellis] Dibrell and this other boy-- G: [James] Gardner? P: --Gardner, I think that's about the time they came down here. G: Okay. So they came into town
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a lot of those Irish politicians around: [Edward J.] Flynn up in the Bronx, Ed Kelly in Chicago, [Frank] Hague in New Jersey, all of the Irish pols up in Massachusetts. And boy, he used them. You see, in those days communications was only part of the 8
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • indirect. I think it was all through the juvenile delinquency committee, and that was [Richard] Boone and [David] Hackett. I think he was still probably--I wouldn't say sulking in LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • covered East Texas with Wright. They went to Paris and the Lone Star Steel Plant and Hughes Springs, Linden, Atlanta, Texarkana, Jefferson. Meanwhile, Lyndon talked on the phone with [Richard] Russell trying his best to get Russell to come out
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • made or a judgment made that this won't sell, and this won't go. So we weren't only discussing right and wrong, we were discussing what was doable or not doable. G: Bill Kelly perceived three stages in task force composition in terms of the types
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in Vietnam at the time? S: That was the Special Forces group in Vietnam. G: Who was the commander? S: Francis Kelly for the first nine months and Jonathan Ladd over here Deputy commander of the Special Forces group. in Watergate Apartments
Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • -- I -- 5 G: Did you talk to any of those people afterwards? R: No, it was a day or two before we went into that, and that came about after Coke Stevenson and Frank Hamer and Kellis Dibrell--Dibrell was a former FBI agent--came down
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 5 (V), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • situation on the Hill. So I finally had my list of twenty-two--I believe that was the number--members who should be on that petition and weren't. And typical of that list was a woman named Edna Kelly, who was a congresswoman from New York. She hadn't signed
  • to accept incremental changes; how Roland Libonati's stance on civil rights affected his political career in Chicago; LBJ's request that House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck encourage his colleagues to support civil rights legislation; Richard Bolling's
Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIHJEES: GOVERNOR AND NRS. RICHARD HUGHES (Betty Hughes) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: The Hughes' home in Princeton, New Jersey Tape 1 of 2 F: First of all, Governor Hughes, tell us briefly where you came from, how you gradually moved up
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  • Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to become the administrative assistant to Congressman [Richard] Kleberg, and in those days I don't suppose I ever went to 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think Johnson understood that until it was explained to him, but I think that he instinctively grasped the explanation as soon as it was offered. G: Those who came down to the Ranch were General [Joe W.] Kelly, Major Swindell and Senator Paul Douglas
  • LBJ and Senate activities, 1957; Middle East problems; disarmament issue; open curtain proposal; USIA; J. Edgar Hoover; 1957 Civil Rights Bill; Little Rock crisis; Senators Walter George and Richard Russell; Sputnik; space hearings; Johnson
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ] Westmoreland's command, over the numbers. Basically the CIA, in the person of George Carver, the phrase we use is caved in to military demands in September 1967. As he put it in a cable to Richard Helms dated the thirteenth of September 1967--Carver being
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the Vice President's home, and that was the first time I met Lady Bird. The Vice President was a terrific host; it was one of those times when he was going around handing out the drinks and everything. I remember Kennedy and Gene Kelly singing some old
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the reasons and all that. The press didn't have time enough to charter their own plane to follow us and they rode with us, along with some extra Secret Service men. So then he made his speech. He came back with Mayor [Richard] Daley and Colonel [Jacob
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But we had some basic differ- ences of opinion on the political implications of certain of his programs. It came down pretty much [to] myself, General Counsel Don Baker and Bill Kelly, who had been in the Job Corps before [Otis] Singletary
Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • main office, of course, was in San Antonio, at Kelly Air Force Base, but I did spend quite some time south. F: Did you ever consider moving down there permanently? T: Well, in fact, right after the war, in 1945. I was assigned as liaison officer
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, H.S. Hank Brown, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • miles that I could get into . I guess in three months, every union meeting I just worked because I disliked Richard Nixon and I still do, if anything more so . the time about that fellow . He's only proven what I knew all I think he is a terrible
Oral history transcript, Edgar Cahn and Jean Camper Cahn, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that subsequently took place between the Ford Foundation, Mayor [Richard] Lee's administration in New Haven, and the federal government. [Those negotiations] led ultimately to the designation of New Haven as an appropriate site for both Ford and the federal
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • off was the family? J: Well, to start in, first you go back to the Johnson family. There you see the big pioneers in the trail drivers, the largest trail driver in five or six counties. Now, yesterday a Mr. [Konrad] Kelly was up here interviewing
Oral history transcript, B. F. "Tom" Donald, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in an intimidating manner. Frank Hamer, the Ranger with him, was packing two or three pistols. Kellis Dibrell was there. They said that Kellis Dibrell was with the FBI, but when I asked him for identification, Dibrell said that he was no longer with the FBI. Coke
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • job. She was loyal, she worked hard, she ran the program I think pretty well. Theoretically I guess there was somebody in the world that could have done it better, but she did it very well. G: Let me ask you about Bill Kelly. What was the background
  • Corps; Jeanne Noble and Bennetta Washington's involvement in women's Job Corps centers; Bill Kelly taking over for Ted Berry as director of Community Action and Kelly's later work in Job Corps; talking to LBJ in December 1964 to get the Job Corps budget
Oral history transcript, Radcliffe Killam, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : It might have been Dibrell, mightn't it? K: Yes, yes. G: Kellis Dibrell? K: Kellis Dibrell that Truman Phelps was working with, and I think what--Truman was the ex-district attorney here, and he was familiar with the local political situation, had
Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , I'm nat sure, after the run-off primary when I went down there. It was probably less than a week, but it's hard to recall, three or four or five days or something of the sort. He asked me and Kellis Dibrell and Jim Gardner, lawyers, in San Antonio
  • of Webb County; details of 1948 Senate campaign; Kellis Dibrell and Jim Gardner; Clarence Martens; court proceedings regarding questionable votes; Justice Black’s decision; impressions of LBJ’s decisions to accept the nomination despite proof of ballot
Oral history transcript, Josh H. Groce, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of getting the facts. So that's when Kellis Dibrell and Jim Gardner [?] came in, two ex-FBI men. G: Did you hire them? JG: No, they volunteered through Coke. They had known Coke longer than I had. They really did not claim to be lawyers representing him
  • Democratic primary race; why the case was initially taken to federal court rather than state court; Bob Smith and Mack Burnett's work as commissioners; Kellis Dibrell and Jim Gardner's work; the 1948 vote of the state executive committee in favor of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Morris Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ? Did you--? R: Well, of course, Kellis Dibrell and Coke and the boys were down there working on it. I never did go down there myself. I was down here trying to take care of my business, but I 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, William F. Billings, interview 1 (I), 5/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • opponents for the national Senate . And I was acquainted with a lawyer who lives in San Antonio by the name of T. Kellis Dibrell--had been acquainted with him for many years . Kellis was a close friend and confidant of Coke Stevenson . M: That was a very
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sam V. Stone, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • degree and had no particular skill of any kind, so I went then to a business school and came back and began my work as a bookkeeper at the Georgetown Oil Mill where I remained until about 1917, when I then joined the army and went to Kelly Field in San
Oral history transcript, Homer E. Dean, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Thomas -- 1-- 11 cup of coffee and while they were there, this county chairman told them, "I have a gentleman I want you to meet." So he went into another room and came back leading T. Kellis Dibrell, who incidentally was an old
Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • before they disappeared. $: That's right. G: Gardner and-- S: Jim Gardner and Kellis Dibrell saw them. LBJ Presidential Library http