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Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of January 1965; but on the 9th of December 1964 was invited down by then Secretary of the'Treasury Douglas Dillon, who took me over to the White House where the President asked me to become undersecretary of the treasury for monetary affairs. I can remember
  • Biographical information; Douglas Dillon; Jack Connor; Henry Fowler; restructuring international finances; Work Party Three; Bob Roosa; Group of Ten; Denis Rickett; Frank Figures; Khrister Wichman; Ottmar Emminger; Rinaldo Ossola; Frank Schiff
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • and a Democratic Congress. Senator McNamara and many of his colleagues, such as Senator Douglas and Senator Lehman and Senator Humphrey--I remember later when the large class of 1958 came in, Senator Clark and Senator Hart and others were very eager to use
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Well, in spite of all this, the bank did blow up, and after it blew, then I went to the President. I went to [Douglas] Dillon first and I said, "Listen, this has gone too far. This man is a menace, and we've got to get rid of him. Something's got to go
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • by the home that General Harkins lived in. pondent saying, "There it is. And that corres- There's where that son of a bitch lives," and waving his clenched fist at him. It was that kind of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of 1959, when we had finally wrapped up the Labor Reform Bill, I called up about two o'clock in the morning and asked to see Kennedy. He said come on over. I went over to his office and I told him I was going to go home and go to work for him. My idea
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was far-reaching. A note I have says, "Nine years after the first such bill had been introduced," so that was a long struggle, a struggle that Senator Paul Douglas engaged in for a number of years when he was a member of the Senate. G: Of course one
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? I knew him quite well, and he visited me quite often about it, but I had pressure from my doctors down home, even, about it. And they didn't understand it; they were just reflecting what they were told to tell me. And I could always get around
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 12 (XII), 4/25/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the firing of [Douglas] MacArthur for mail, just piles and piles of it. G: Was this in reaction to the Korean War, do you think, or to some of the treaties that had been signed? J: Probably. 11 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, William H. Darden, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Armed Services Committee changed during Darden's tenure; the Armed Services Committee's relationship with the Pentagon, secretaries of defense and secretaries of the military departments; General Douglas MacArthur and his relationship with President
Oral history transcript, Roswell L. Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • .] Douglas, my predecessor as the deputy secretary of defense. From the beginning I found him a very useful, knowledgeable assistant. He was a soldier-of-fortune type. He was not trusted by the professional foreign service officers because when he'd been
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- X -- 18 representative, period, and with a letter to Churchill, with a letter to Stalin, and with a letter to [Douglas] MacArthur. me right before he left. Then he called He'd taken some shots and he was sick, and he
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • then, when did you see him first? M: I saw him almost immediately upon his arrival in Washington. I think he arrived, as I remember it-F: He arrived late evening on Friday. M: Late evening, and I think I saw him at his home that night. F: What
Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : It was in June or July of 1942. President Johnson was a reserve naval officer. He went on active duty as a lieutenant commander and went down to [Douglas] MacArthur's command, and served there for a few weeks and went on several missions, I know, air missions
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . But we were looking for signs of hostility Of course, there was the Dallas Morning News of that morning, with a very unfriendly ad. IIYankee. Go Home" and so forth. mostly friendly. We saw signs like, But the crowd at the airport was Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to run that third time. H~ thought he might make a good choice himself. These boys really had been working for Bill Douglas, Justice Douglas. Then later when Douglas wouldn't consider it at all, then these fellows all pretty much turned to Ickes
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • but that the wetto residents are the people who suffer the most from this because they suffer the dislocation of their homes, the dislocation of the services that exist there, and a disorganization of an area which is already fairly disorganized. But I think
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh He didn't ever really trust Joe Clark very He was skeptical about Paul Douglas. Did it seem to you sometimes he was more suspicious of fellow Democrats than he
Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • child; she went home to have her first baby. But I lived all of my life in Piedmont, North Carolina, but the last forty years in Chapel Hill. I went to Wake Forest College on a scholarship, and then to NC State when I graduated in 1941. Then I spent four
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 2 (II), 1/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the funds they had on deposit overseas and brought it back to the United States. The rules of the foreign investment program required them to keep within certain limits on the amount of funds that they had overseas, and they brought that money back home
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and accepted the vice presidential nomination? W: Yes, I was. I was very surprised and very shocked, in fact. F: What was the reaction of the New York delegation generally.? W: Well, I don't know, because I was already on my way home; I thought
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] Family relationship with LBJ; visits of LBJ to Weisl home; Preparedness Subcommittee after Sputnik launch; role as special counsel; Department of Defense bureaucracy; Eisenhower Administration; cabinet secretary; George
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • experience in that region . I had many impressions, but I don't have any overwhelming-G: Did you base yourself someplace in Vietnam and make field trips or--? 0: Yes . What I did, as most correspondents did, was that home base was Saigon, and I got
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that could cause hardship to millions of people in this country ; used, transported heating homes . by high prices- on pipeline all gas over that the was widely country for use in And at that time [gas was] more [in] use for homes than
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 3 (III), 1/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : Yes, or in what we call the D.J. file on the bill. I suppose that I may have some personal notes of my own at home on it as well. I tried to save this marked-up redraft so that one could compare it against the earlier draft and see what the changes
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • her before she fell off the cliff near her home. But what that document became was essentially an effort at an analytical document and as an indication of new directions to persuade the President of the character of the urban crisis. We were trying
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that moved Dick Russell very early. doesn't matter. When was the year of the Suez Crisis? It [1956] Russell and I became very close very early, because LBJ put me on the corrmittee investigating the [General Douglas] MacArthur return. was really the whole
Oral history transcript, Roland Bibolet, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and good for the country . G: How about the [Douglas] MacArthur hearings? B: Now, I don't have any recollections about Lyndon Johnson's activities . I remember Senator Kerr made a great speech on the magnificent MacArthur . I can't remember a single
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , was very keenly attuned to political overtones. Occasionally he would go around the table and get a reaction from everyone with regard--. F: Well, when you have, in a sense, a foreigner like Douglas Dillon in there from the other party, does that hamper
Oral history transcript, Howard Bertsch, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • BERTSCH Administrator, Farmers Home Administration Interviewer : Paige E, Mulhollan October 21, 1968 [Mr . Bertsch was discussing his support of the Committee for an Effective Congress when the recorder was turned on] I was contributing money B
Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , Stars and Stripes. I could hardly, on the strength of a Stars and Stripes article, go to my commanding officer and ask for transportation home. But in about five days the official cable from the Governor caught up with me. F: Your thoughts
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 4 (IV), 12/4/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and there was a vacancy on one of the key House committees. Your office helped find the appropriate guy to fill this slot and even looked around for someone to run for Riley's seat back home. Was this fairly typical? O: Yes. I don't think by that time we had any
Oral history transcript, Emma Boehringer Tooley, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the weekend with her. mysterious. Her home was beautiful but rather Many stories tell about the ghost in the house and I used to tremble from fright imagining that I heard all kinds of weird noises. Mr. Taylor always retired when the sun went down for he
Oral history transcript, Otto Lindig, interview 1 (I), 3/1965, by Jessie Hunter (Item)
  • , of Stonewall, Texas. Done by Mrs. Jesse Hunter and Mr. Norman Dietel, in the boyhood home of President Johnson in Johnson City, March, 1965. ["L" is Lindig. "I" is used when it is not clear whether Hunter or Dietel is asking question.] D: We are seated here
  • LBJ’s early days; Johnson family; marriage of Sam and Rebekah Johnson; LBJ’s birth; LBJ’s school days; selection of the name Lyndon; Sam Johnson’s Model T; LBJ’s boyhood hobbies, pleasures, pastimes; LBJ Ranch House; Johnson homes; LBJ’s grandfather
Oral history transcript, Myer Feldman, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . When Senator Russell formed the select committee composed of the Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees for the purpose of investigating the discharge of General [Douglas] MacArthur by President Truman, he asked Lyndon Johnson whether he could
  • Feldman's involvement in a select committee that investigated the discharge of General Douglas MacArthur; Senator Richard Russell's role in that committee; the relationship between Russell and LBJ; Walter Jenkins.
Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --I--20 It wasn't wrong to do it. hard for election. They were people that were working So they used it effectively on the stump and at home, and they continued to use it. Maybe there are those from New York or Illinois who haven't heard
Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh time I saw him because I had written my mother and daddy and told them that it was good to see Lyndon and he was just like having a relative from home and that he carted me around in a--he had a fine fat navy
  • visits with other Texans overseas; arrival in Washington at the Johnson home; Mrs. Johnson's illness; substituting as hostess for dinner party; Lynda 1941 campaign in Austin headquarters; John Connally and office staff; LBJ and campaign staff; O'Daniel
Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • had mobilized them, by now the units that would have been used in Vietnam would have been returned home demobilized and we would have had to start from scratch to form new units. That's one of the considerations that entered into the decision
Oral history transcript, John E. Horne, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with the Johnson Administration was as chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. H: That is right, although I had served as a member of the Board before Johnson appointed me to be chairman. M: You held that position from 1965 until what time exactly? H
  • desired presidency; Stevenson’s assistant campaign manager 1956; campaigned in 1960 for JFK-LBJ; LBJ helped JFK with Southern states; 1961-1963 Small Business Administration; 1963 Federal Home Loan Bank Board, 1964 Chairman.
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --three, I guess. Nixon to Rome. I was away from Rome on home leave when Johnson came there as president. Buzz once accused me of doing it deliberately to avoid it. I handled Ford's first economic summit in Paris; as DCM [deputy chief of mission] I made
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to pressures from Senator Paul Douglas to designate Percy Williams as the deputy executive director for government contract compliance. I recommended the other deputy and Holleman quickly agreed to it. The other deputy was a guy named John Hope [Franklin]. John
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it. I'm going to go home." F: More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is what I have accomplished. Now I didn't pay a bit of attention to it. Well, I think practically everyone I have talked to about