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Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 4/16/1970, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Lyndon Johnson -- Special Interview -- 5 J: Yes. Secretary Ickes did. Tommy Corcoran did. Ben Cohen, Justice [William] Douglas. Senator [Alvin] Wirtz was the general counsel for the Lower Colorado River
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 6 (VI), 9/16/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • m not sure the people really understood how 1 important it was and how critical--! don't remember that we got a lot of flak over it, as we did, say, like the firing of [Douglas] MacArthur, and the sort of things like that. G: There was also
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . G: I think in Senator Douglas's book, In the Fullness of Time, he indicates that a lady was responsible for securing the needed money. P: I wonder if he means me? G: I was wondering about that. P: Because, boy, 11m trying to think of how much
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • into the Capitol every morning before it gets real light and then crawl home at night after dark. I felt a lot of guilt about leaving my children, and Lyndon was always very empathetic about those problems on the staff. He even imported this really nice black girl
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of which was at the home of the publisher of the Louisville paper. Gosh, how names do elude me now. A very handsome, now white-haired man, very patrician, was with me on the White House Fellows Board. G: Did other senators make that trip? J: Oh, yes
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 11 (XI), 7/24/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and impact. And of the four we failed on, one of them was the old Taft-Hartley 14(b) and another was home rule for the District of Columbia, and there were a couple of other matters. But when you look at that record in one session of Congress, it's just
  • ; James Eastland's charge that the Voting Rights bill had been drafted to exclude Texas; controversy surrounding whether or not to include a poll tax ban; D.C. home rule and the related discharge petition in the House; proposed elementary and secondary
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 4 (IV), 1/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to further the cause. There was one example where one very nice lady decided that she would sponsor a conference at her home in Martha's Vineyard, and she thought it would be nice to get 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • on Interchange of Executive Personnel; commission funding and the Russell Rider, which limited funds available to executive branch-created commissions; the Kaiser Commission; the Douglas Commission; the National Advisory Commission on Selective Service and its
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was antipathetic to the, quote, gas lobby and much more on the side of Senator [John O.] Pastore [D.-R.I.] and Senator [Paul H.] Douglas [D.-Ill.] and the others who were for preserving the FPC's regulatory power. B: Did you ever talk to Senator Johnson about
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 2 (II), 2/25/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • a great interest in the LCRA? W: Yes, he was interested in that, very interested. And the PEC, both of them. G: I have a note here he came home for Christmas in December of 1931. Do you recall anything about that one, anything special about that trip
Oral history transcript, Harold J. Russell, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , and I've never really forgotten it. As a matter of fact on my mantelpiece at home I still have a picture of Betty and myself and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • Rusk; communication efforts; travels; foreign programs; Dr. Soharso, Henry Kessler and Douglas Toffelmier; World’s Veteran Federation; appearances before the U.N.
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , inefficiency, red tape, foot-dragging; that became evident both in the military and in the private sector at home. He was at war against it, using as his tool the Naval Affairs Committee. That, from beginning to the end, was always one of the things he loved
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • know, now I wish I had just shared every bit. I guess actually I just wouldn't have been that tough. G: When he would come home at night, would he recount the day's campaigning to you? J: Usually he was too weary. He would recite some
  • the Johnsons went to relax, including Brackettville, Texas; Bess Beeman and other women who worked to support LBJ; Aunt Effie Pattillo's death; the Johnsons' home at 30th Place in Washington, D.C.; dancing at the Shoreham Blue Room; Lady Bird Johnson's role
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 33 (XXXIII), 6/13/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • pursue it with are dead probably. Fortas and [Earl] Warren. I mean, I don't know how we'd do it. [William] Douglas was over there, too, I guess. G: Was there anyone in the White House who was sort of a link to the Court? C: No. G: Would [Nicholas
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 3 (III), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in that. So in spite of the fact that my responsibilities were legislative, I was intimately involved all over the Treasury. And it was such an intimate relationship that I saw the Secretary, Doug Dillon, every night before he went home. He went home about
Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • man, You know, he did tend, 1 think, toa kind of hyperbole when he got away from home. I thought his early reference to President Di em as the Churchil 1 of Southe·ast Asia reflected less careful thought perhaps than might have gone into that kind
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 45 (XLV), 5/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • went to Gusty's with my wife and we had a babysitter at home, and we came back home and I didn't tell the White House switchboard where we were going and we came home from dinner and this babysitter was in tears and her mother was over there, and said
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • people up there regarding what they perceived to be Johnson's idea of what his continuing role should be. I guess I've referred to it before in these early stages. I don't have the date, but I spent an evening with him at the home he had recently acquired
  • in working with the Senate; Mike Mansfield's personality; an evening at LBJ's home, The Elms with LBJ, Bobby Baker, Jack Brooks, and their wives; Frank Valeo's role as bridge between Majority Leader Mike Mansfield's office and the White House congressional
Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a very warm--I've got a number of pictures at home, "To Jack," or "To Jack and Nell, wi th my warmest. . . ." There would be those. He could never say "I'm sorry." But you knew when, in a day or two, on your desk would be this picture, or as I say
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
Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • then. F: Let's talk a little bit about something we haven't explored, and that is the role of the entertainment industry in politics. I've got a right-wing friend who told me recently when he was out at my house and Melvyn Douglas was on, "Well, I never
  • ' and Vietnam; LBJ’s public relations and popular public personalities over time; attending White House functions; arranging a mobile home for LBJ to use for freshening up before a Los Angeles appearance; LBJ’s interest in movies and television; 1968 campaign
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Ward -- I -- 6 have done it in quite such a concentrated fashion but still in as a person who was at home with them. congressman. II "I am Lyndon ~ he went Johnson~ your Held eat a bowl of chili, and held brag on the chili. Now I do remember
  • 1946 campaign; 1948 Senate campaign and the Fort Worth Democratic Convention; LBJ's relationship with Sam Rayburn; social gatherings at the Johnsons' Washington home; LBJ and the press; 1954 Senate campaign
Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on this program. M: And,of cour~e, Helen Gahagan Douglas was in my class. Helen and I were very good friends. F: Nixon did a good job of cutting both of them up. M: Oh, he cut them up. roost! (Laughter) I just say that maybe the chickens came home
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the President, who certainly looked like an angry robi n. F: In spite of being from his home state. C: Yes. He was a limited man. But it was a clash of identities. He was entitled to the job of majority leader or speaker, I forget which now
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • readily in our hearts and lives. I remember at that time, when I took her home, I believe I put her in the front room--we had just three bedrooms at that dear old house on Thirtieth Place, on the second floor, all small. Ours was the largest
Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Other senators were very, very reluctant to become involved personally. In fact, when they called me about my speech they would call me at home, they wouldn't call me here in the office. be tapped. They were afraid the lines might There was a real
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1977 INTERVIEWEE : ROBERT OLIVER INTERVIEWER : MICHAEL L . GILLETTE PLACE : Mr . Oliver's home, Washington, D .C . Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start out with your background basically, where you came from and how you became interested and involved
Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • home--I filed another story to the Washington Post from the same place, and then moved quickly to Saigon to take over there. G: Is there anything that we should know that's relevant or interesting about that transfer? B: The Post was beefing up
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , or they ran for cover, they'd go to a hospital, couldn't reach them, or something. John White was the only statewide state official that came out for the tickety. So Mr. Rayburn had to come home and take the campaign over, nobody else to do it. Well, he'd
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in the Marine Corps, and then went on to Stanford Law School. Following that in July of 1964, I served as a law clerk to Chief Justice Earl Warren, and then spent nearly a year in the Justice Department as special assistant to John Douglas, who
  • Biographical information; Joe Califano; Nicholas Katzenbach; John Douglas; formation of yearly legislative program; task forces establishment; outside task force organization; regional diversity within task forces; finding qualified people to serve
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • work on the [George] Peddy voters. I think it was because of that that we decided to open the second primary in the little East Texas town, in Shelby County, wasn't it? I think in Center, because that was his home area, and we had tested the waters
Oral history transcript, Ben W. Heineman, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Lyndon Johnson for the first time when he was in the United States Senate, I think, about 1956 or '7. F: Was this official or social? H: Social. I have forgotten really who introduced us. I think it was Senator Paul Douglas, but it was a very
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • there's so much background noise in the intelligence . You have to pick out what's important and what's not and put it together . Douglas Pike at all at this Were you talking to time, or was he still around? the LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Florence Mahoney, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: FLORENCE MAHONEY INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Ms. Mahoney's home, Washington, DC Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Now I want to begin by asking a general question and that is, how did you become interested in health issues? M: I
Oral history transcript, Robert F. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • someone home, which of course would be a very drastic solution for any problem of lack of coordination and which the Ambassador would avail himself of only in the most extreme instances � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • lived right around the corner from me here, and I brought him home in my car. "Oh," he said--I had used as one reason for not going back my mother was getting very old and I didn't want to leave her; she wasn't living here, but I did want
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . This is the kind of thing that makes you think about Johnson's varied agenda. "Riesel wanted me to pass along his views that Horston [Herbert Holmstrom] [and] [Douglas] McMahon of the TWU [Transport Workers Union of America] are very much activists and that McMahon
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 1 (I), 9/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • will be out in a few days, William O. Douglas, Rexford Guy Tugwell, Dr. [Harry] Carman. him. And Leon Keyserling was my classmate; I sat alongside of He was a high formative influence in the Roosevelt Administration through Senator [Robert] Wagner
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 11/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and that is in January of 1968, within a year, down to the ICC and back. And that decision is written by Justice Fortas approving it. G: With Marshall abstaining? C: With Marshall abstaining and, in both cases, William Douglas dissenting in part. G: Do you have any
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1975 INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE REEDY INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: A friend's home in Washington, D. C. G: (Tape 1 of 2) Let's talk about, first of all, your role as policy advisor to Lyndon Johnson while he was Senator. R: Yes. G
Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 2 (II), 2/23/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there. on a bluff, and he would come on around. house. I lived up He would visit or stay at my He would go in the refrigerator just like it was his own home and help himself. He came in as if it were his own home. blocks down the street, Ed Clark lived