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Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of 1967. Mr. [Joe] Califano called me up and I was not at the office. flu. I had been home. I had the And he said that he knew that I wasn't feeling so well, but if I could possibly come down, he would like to have me come down at six o'clock. So I
Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 2 (II), 4/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • home work . M: Your worst working time would be in the preparation of the economics report? 0: Yes . The hours I just outlined were sort of the regular peiiod . During the report, I think I literally averaged a hundred-hour work-week from
Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to the Atlanta field office? Y: Well, I had been on the White House detail for five years; Georgia is my home; I had expressed a desire to transfer back to Georgia--you must realize that there is an awful lot of traveling on the White House detail and people
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 3 (III), 1/2/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was still coming in this evening. So it was now nearly 8:00 p.m. When he found that Kermit had gone home he said not to disturb him, he would see him on Monday. He asked me about the stock market--do you want that here or 1ater? M: You might go ahead
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • people's minds that knew anything about it that this fellow Dougherty could ever beat Johnson. M: Did Mr. Johnson discuss or members of his staff talk very much about his political base and broadening his political base at home? He had, of course
Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to point up some of the positive things we were doing here at home. And I think in the long run this contributed to an image about the United States which was about as good an image as we deserved at the time, about as good as we could get
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 5 (V), 8/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . particular occasion. We were sitting in the So it didn't always have to be a It might just be that you were there. I think a lot of times he might thing, "Well, I've got a staff member who has been working awfully hard, and he has been away from home
Oral history transcript, James M. Quigley, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • first term in Congress was that the then-president of the United States decided to buy a farm. Mr. Eisenhower selected Gettysburg as the site for his home and his farm, so he became my most distinguished constituent. This did not help my situation 3
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh December 19, 1968 B: 1bis is the second session with George Reedy. Sir, last time we carried this through the election of 1960, which brings us now up to the vice presidential years when you were still on Mr. Johnson's
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 3 (III), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at home were watching and that kind of thing, they could go to Johnson and say to him, "Now, we know this bill is not going to pass, but we'd like a respectable showing for it." Johnson could always turn up fifteen to twenty people to join the votes
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 12 (XII), 8/19/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --the road was full of us in those days going to Washington--and went as far as Roanoke. This again is sort of typical of that time. We spent the night in a tourist home. There were lots of rather nice-looking old homes, usually Victorian with white
  • of Washington, D.C., with Eleanor Roosevelt; friendships with intelligent, thought-provoking people; Mrs. Johnson's brother, Tony Taylor's divorce; a lunch at the home of James Forrestal; Senator Alvin Wirtz's appointment as undersecretary of the interior; Mr
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • mentor was Paul Douglas, and he never did anything without Paul Douglas' approval. In fact, I think that was the signal to show that he wasn't going to go for the repeal of the interest rate ceiling because Douglas was against it. But the "mentor
  • Career history; Novak's private meetings with LBJ; economic advisor Paul Douglas; LBJ drunk; Sam Shaffer and Newsweek; press coverage of the senate vs. the presidency; LBJ's attitude during the vice-presidency; Kennedy staff's disregard for LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • heard a lot, and Russia was always looming in the background. So I went home sometime that fall, early I think, and put Lynda Bird in Miss Hubrick's [?] school, which was just about a block and a half down the street from 1901 Dillman. Community children
  • throughout Texas; LBJ's relationship with people in the oil industry; the 1950 congressional elections; Richard Nixon defeating Helen Gahagan Douglas in the 1950 California Senate race and how it affected LBJ's relationship with Nixon; Anna Rosenberg
Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to modification of it; he wanted to keep it as it was. change. So Douglas was for In fact had called me at home before I ever came to Washington. He gathered a few of us senators together and we talked about it, because a nUrliber of the nev./ senators coming
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would have [been] ideal. We couldn't get him. He had other fish to fry. He didn't want to take it. He didn't see anything in it for him. He saw another monumental civil rights battle. G: Yes. How about [Paul] Douglas? C: Douglas was a wonderful man
Oral history transcript, Houston Harte, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • of three men to Washington to talk to Secretary Douglas of the air force. O. C. Fisher, our congressman, with them. Of course, they took He talked to them, and they LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • for the reason that while the people from Roosevelt's home country of New York and New England who were in some sense identified with the financial community were not willing to back him in the great LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Lewis -- II -- 2 agricultural programs, the Farmers Home Administration, rural credit programs for small farmers, for example, actually did represent a good economic
Oral history transcript, John Wildenthal, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • gOing out to his house and admiring the beautiful home that he had. how much he had enjoyed it. His face lit up, and he said He seemed to be not just proud of his pos- sessions, but enjoying life, enjoying a home and enjoying his work. G: Was he
  • Biographical information; Alvin Wirtz; Senate office; Drew Pearson; excess profits tax; LBJ's techniques; Presidential ambitions; Preparedness Subcommittee; firing of Douglas MacArthur; racial issues; other Senate staffers
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • many things were stag. This was a year when I had come alive to trying to make our home more attractive. I was busy. Hardly a week passed without conference with Miss Genevieve Hendricks, a wonderful decorator who became quite a friend of mine
  • Stag parties early in 1949; decorator Genevieve Hendricks; acquiring furniture for the Johnsons' home; LBJ's Senate staff; LBJ's interest in children who were named after him; social and service opportunities for Lady Bird Johnson
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tape 1 of 2 G: Now in January 1945 you gave a dinner at your home in Washington on Thirtieth Place for some very
  • A January 1945 dinner for Grover Sellers at the Johnsons' home; Franklin Roosevelt's 1945 inauguration; the relationship between Senator Alvin Wirtz and Secretary Harold Ickes; the Johnsons' relationship with the Henry Wallace family; LBJ's work
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Bristol we may have spent the night over there. Bristol was a place right at the line of Tennessee and Virginia where we usually spent the last night. In those days there were guest homes along the way. That perhaps was one of the 1 LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But the big battle in Wisconsin was between the stalwarts and the progressives in the Republican Party. I attended the Progressive Party convention in 1946 as a delegate from my home county--Trempealeau County--and I voted and made a speech
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Justice Bill Douglas was early a friend of ours; Jerome Frank, who I think took his place as chairman of the SEC [Securities and Exchange Commission]; Leon Henderson, an economist; and by now our old friends, Tom Corcoran and Ben Cohen and John Carmody
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Shoumatoff, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1973 I NTERVI EloJEE: MADAME ELIZABETH SHOUMATOFF INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Her home on Long Island, Locust Valley, New York Tape 1 of 1 F: Suppose you tell me at the beginning how you got to be a president's portrait painter. S: You
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Korea, we'd really been able to hold prices. We only had a 2.3 per cent increase in the past twelve months. Johnson talked some more about voluntary restraint, again driving home that wage increases should be in accord with productivity and prices should
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the White House on April 22. R: Yes. Well, I'm thinking about the opening of the campaign then on May 3. Senator Wirtz resigned as under secretary of the interior and went home, came back to Austin, to participate in Mr. Johnson's campaign. I came a week
Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • all in the service. So then he said they'd have to do one or the other--stay in Congress or resign and stay in the service. F: Did President Roosevelt agonize over this decision of calling the congressmen home, or was this something that was done
Oral history transcript, Milton P. Semer, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , was the depressed areas bill. And when that became the principal vehicle, Sparkman formed a natural alliance with the late Paul Douglas, the Democratic senator from Illinois, whose political base was primarily in Chicago, but also he ran strongly down state
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 3 (III), 6/21/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Home Administration. He tried to take away the autonomy of the rural electric system, as you may recall, and that will come out in here. I led the fight in the Senate to keep the Rural Electric Administration within the Department of Agriculture
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about his meeting with [Douglas] MacArthur? Anything else on that trip to Australia? I know there were some home movies of it. R: Yes, yes, you're right. He took the camera, I guess he took Lady Bird's camera or got another one. She
  • involvement in a home movie with Mrs. Johnson; the establishment of the LBJ Foundation; LBJ's early plans for a library and park in Johnson City; the circumstances surrounding LBJ's Silver Star medal; LBJ having to choose whether to run for House or Senate
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • when Paul Douglas had been introducing the textile workers, what we later called area redevelopment. the rural version. John 6SDUNPDQ introduced Neither of these got passed during the Eisenhower Administration, but Kennedy had promised to activate
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • when he first came in. I was in with Paul Douglas, for example, and Clinton Anderson and Estes Kefauver, and people of that group--our little group of twenty-five or so liberal senators were very suspicious of Johnson, in those early years, very
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • interested in in his home state and then he would try to become an expert on that so he could talk to him on an equal footing. G: That's Itlhat I'm trying to ask you. senators? M: vJhat were the interests of these For example, what was Bender's interest
Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz DATE: April 10, 1969 F: This is an interview with Mr. Drew Pearson, in his home in Washington D.C. on April 10, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Very briefly Mr. Pearson, for the sake of future historians, identify yourself
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 7 (VII), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that if the bill gets passed you had better not go home, because your constituents are going to be waiting for you with noosed ropes. And number two, that the second other members of the Senate start getting reasonable and are willing to meet some of your
Oral history transcript, Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • grower and Cousin Bob stayed home from the war. deferred by the draft board, and made the crops. He VJas So I don't knoVJ. Mrs. Taylor VJas an activist in politics long before the days that cinct against him. G: You described her coming to your house