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Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? Do you work hard? Do you sleep all the time? Is your memory failing?" He laughs! Johnson wouldn't laugh at that, would he? So it's a strange thing. I've never thought of this. But a White House conference that condemns Ronald Reagan, it might make

Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

gotten married here or lived here, and I felt that the influence that the military would have would make it very hard to do anything with him. And I would have said the same thing today, because he was a popular man just like [Ronald] Reagan was popular

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

seat. The other thing I should mention, and I notice [Ronald] Reagan's name here somewhere in my notes, I don't know whether Reagan was a declared candidate or not but Brown was worried about Reagan. I don't know whether he said anything at this time

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and wise enough. Sometimes I am totally convinced you'll have a mandatory seventy [year] retirement [age], which would preclude Ronald Reagan from being the candidate. But LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT

Oral history transcript, Jay Cutler, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1990 by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the block grant is now developing, the Ronald Reagan theme that plays itself out again. Less of a support for the block grant, much more still for the categorical, even despite the Nixonian approach to block granting things also. Nothing close to the success

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

sign this thing. You got to pick out a good place for him. Mr. LBJ and, of course, I can't get Ronald Reagan. And I think we are through trying to get signatures now because there 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

thirty-five, forty, forty-five minutes even though it was only supposed to be a half an hour. But President Ronald Reagan used to stand there and Helen Thomas, the senior correspondent, would say, "Thank you, Mr. President," shutting off the news

Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

of which was dedicated by President Johnson. Then I had my troubles with a new governor of the state, one Ronald Reagan, in the course of which he won and I lost. Then I became a faculty member again. K: Maybe a battle, but not the war? CK: Well

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 63 (LXIII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the things [Richard] Nixon learned when he went with [Clement] Haynsworth and whatever the other guy was, and of the things [Ronald] Reagan learned with [Robert] Bork--[G. Harrold] Carswell--that Supreme Court seat is something that the Senate takes very

Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

John Connally and LBJ; Connally's efforts to get governors' support for LBJ's actions in Vietnam; clashes between Connally and Ronald Reagan; the purpose of JFK's 1963 trip to Texas; how things changed in Texas when LBJ became president; a LBJ Ranch

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 16 (XVI), 11/21/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, Jeff Cohelan, the New York Times, Newsweek; John Gilligan; O'Brien's June 1966 trip to California and his report on the political climate there; Ronald Reagan; evidence that negative comments by U.S. congressmen regarding Vietnam were being used

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with Lyndon Johnson, named Senator Charles Mathias from Maryland. He's from this congressional district. voted for equal rights. But he has always So he was the senior member on the Senate Judiciary Committee when Ronald Reagan was elected president

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for presidents to have litmus tests, and all the flak that [Ronald] Reagan takes for having them is just because he has got the wrong litmus test, not because he's got a litmus test. And we ought to get into that. You ought to get that appointment of that judge

Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

put upon the Department of Labor directly and through the governor of the state. Governor [Ronald] Reagan did everything possible to assist the growers. I think, actually, that one of the better chapters in the Labor Department's activities under

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Kennedy in California two years previously in the campaign for the presidency . [I] then succumbed to the motion picture actor Ronald Reagan, myself, when I sought a third term . Since that time, I have been in the private practice of law . been

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 25 (XXV), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of detachment and LBJ allowing cabinet officers to run their own shops? C: Well, he allowed people to run their own shops on things--in no way the way a President [Ronald] Reagan or even a President [Jimmy] Carter allowed people to run their own shops

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 5 (V), 11/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. They are an unmitigated one thousand per cent huge success. I can remember when President Reagan got elected, in the first six months Mrs. Reagan took a great deal of interest in a program called Foster Grandparents, and she wrote a book about it, in fact, in her first

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

when Jimmy Carter was inaugurated and when Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, and I just have no remembrance at all. Then at some point in the afternoon we all went out to Andrews [Air Force Base] to see the President and Mrs. Johnson off, and we were

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to that, and the tax cut thing he wanted. I think Johnson was sold on the tax cut but his problem was getting the tax cut through Congress. Ronald Reagan got a tax cut through in three months. It took Johnson a long time to get Harry Byrd's consent and that's what he

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to believe that Ronald Reagan could talk the American people into a crusade in Uruguay, for God's sake, but-G: Well, he pulled one off pretty neatly. J: Yes. Yes, and he may pull others off, but that shows you what the power of a committed and articulate

Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

would you characterize Benson's farm program? L: Well, Benson's farm program philosophy was very similar to Ronald Reagan's. That is that the ideal thing would be for the government not to be in the picture at all, and that the only reason

Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Johnson? M: Well, of course Moody was a very conservative man and certainly their But it was obvious. philosophies were poles apart. He was the Ronald Reagan type of those He thought Lyndon was just a direct offshoot of the FDR social days

Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

have the same problem myself. On television if you're not able to relax you're no good on it. Some of these fellows who have been on for years like Ronald Reagan, they're good at it. They know how, but it doesn't mean they're great statesmen. He

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of currently as the forerunner of the deal that President Reagan is trying ,to make with the President of Mexico--was one Thursday or Friday afternoon [when] our phone in the regional office rang. It was our Washington nffice in the Farm Security

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. There is no question that it was underestimated. On the tax issue the President used to say or said to me on more than one occasion, one, that the tax bill of 1964 was working. We were in the midst of--and it hasn't been duplicated until [Ronald] Reagan became

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 7 (VII), 2/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

then with Jerry Ford and later on with Ronald Reagan that things aren't that different and that, well, you've reached the time in our democracy where you might have something similar to what I just described going up through the canyons of New York. It's

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

these kids. That's sort of like Ronald Reagan thinks, I guess, or some of his supporters do. So Otis Singletary being married to that woman, and her father being a congressman from Mississippi, that was another--how shall I say?--effort on our part

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh O'Brien -- Interview XI -- 7 deal of money. And that was the emergence of Ronald Reagan, in the Goldwater

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

more successful. He knew--I think next to Ronald Reagan probably, in the area of communications--he knew pretty much the power of television. He was a television station owner and he knew that television had an impact on public policy. He had that White

Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

the [nuclear] freeze movement now. If anybody can believe, with Ronald Reagan or anybody else, that the fact that there are some pro-Soviet Communists who favor the freeze and I'm sure attend committee meetings occasionally or something else, although they're

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Judd -- III -- 12 Peking wants to use us. And it has been using us. And they've been mad at [Ronald] Reagan

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 3 (III), 1/17/89, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Judd -- III -- 12 Peking wants to use us. And it has been using us. And they've been mad at [Ronald] Reagan

Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

sometimes on short range, but I think you can see enough--. I mean, in the case of the redwoods, in twenty years--that the attitudes have changed enough to sort of force among others Ronald Reagan to accept, if not exactly to embrace, the whole redwoods

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 31 (XXXI), 12/10/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, California, where Mr. Nixon is taking a working vacation, Ronald Ziegler, the President's press secretary, said the President had rejected Mr. O'Brien's suggestion. He said that Mr. Nixon was confident that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies would

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 3 (III), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/show/loh/oh Baker -- III -- 7 were talking about--there was somebody from the prisons over in the Justice Department-G: [Ronald] Goldfarb? B: No, that's not the right name. Somebody else. They were just wild. They were going