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Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • always suspected that that was one of the communication gaps between the doves and the President. That the President was looking at the Joint Chiefs and Senator Russell and Senator Stennis and John McCormack and Paul Douglas and the whole military group
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 13 (XIII), 9/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recall that we got deeply involved. There were several matters that obviously needed attention. For example, truth-in-lending, truth-in-advertising, the Paul Douglas role in those days, clean air, water quality. It was our conviction through the New
Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cikins -- I -- 17 some meeting. But he was strongly committed to going forward. Douglas
Oral history transcript, Ralph Dungan, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • my direct contacts with him in that period were infrequent, although when we got bills to the .floor in the labor fi~ld, especially rni n i::-.uo wage, Dr. Douglas' Pension and Welfare Fund Bill, a."ld Senator Kennedy's T.andrum-Gri ffin Bill-­ N
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Louise Casparis Edwards, interview 1 (I), 1/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1982 INTERVIEWEE: LOUISE CASPARIS EDWARDS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mrs. Edwards' home, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let me ask you first about Johnson City in those days when you were growing up. E: What was the town like? Oh
  • Description of Johnson City and life there; churches; Mrs. Rebekah Johnson as an elocution teacher; Mrs. Johnson's influence on LBJ; lead in play; working in Johnson; description of Johnson home; impressions of Sam Ealy Johnson; Lady Bird
Oral history transcript, Elaine Fischesser and Ellen Taylor Cooper, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1967, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • it was, and what the circum­ stances were. What is your first m.e mory of her? MRS. FISCHESSE R: When she was six months old I had t he pleasure of visiting in the brick home at Karnack for six ·yfe eks. She was a great, big, chubby baby with :~ . large
Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Howard. Miss Minnie came home to Karnack, and Mr. Taylor asked if she could stay at our house, because he was boarding with one of his clerks down in Karnack. Now the Brick House, as you may or may not know, is some three or four miles from the little
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in my office. We got it over to him. With Goodwin and Moyers. Valenti went home. Goodwin, Moyers and I stayed up all night and produced this final draft. Bundy did not like Goodwin. In substantive terms they argued like hell because, you know, it is true
Oral history transcript, Louis F. Walter, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is an interview with Mr. Louis F. Walter at his home in San Diego, California, on February 18, 1969. Mr. Walter, tell us a little bit about yourself. You are a native
Oral history transcript, Truman Fawcett and Wilma Green Fawcett, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: MR. and MRS. TRUMAN FAWCETT (Truman and Wilma Green Fawcett) INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: The Fawcett home in Johnson City, Texas Tape 1 of 1 M: Let me start off by asking you, Hr. Fawcett, something about your background. When were
  • home; campaigning for LBJ in central Texas; admiration of Lady Bird; effect of LBJ’s fame on the Fawcett drugstore and Johnson City in general.
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • DATE: September 26-27, 1980 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas Tape 1 of 3 J: It was such happiness to be back at home in Washington. Our back porch always in the summer
  • The back porch and yard of the Johnsons' Washington, D.C. home in 1943; Aunt Effie Pattillo's visits to Washington, D.C., her personality and her friendship with LBJ's mother, Rebekah Johnson; Jesse Kellam joining the navy; the end of the National
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with the idea of either winning the peace, or losing the peace, whatever one does when he comes home. D: I had helped people close to me that I had met in Paris after the war was over, and they were devoting their lives to things such as the practice
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • way to do that was to get some company with a plane just to fly them out there and back. He had lined up some outfit, and I honestly couldn't tell you to this day--it was one of the big companies, it was like Boeing, or Lockheed, or Douglas, but one
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • relationship by then. Let's go on to the [General Douglas] MacArthur hearings. You say that you had only been on the staff a few days when-­ R: A few weeks. I've forgotten precisely how long now, but the selection of Russell to chair the inquiry
Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , "No, that's Elliott; that's not me." So I never knew whether he ever really arrived at a date when we first met, although my inclination is to say that I first met him at the home of Amon Carter in Fort Worth. What the occasion was I just have no memory
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: DOUGLAS PIKE INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Pike's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Would you recount how you came to enter government service? P: I worked for the United Nations in Korea during the Korean War and then came
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Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and it happened that one of them, a man by the name of Ganson Purcell, who was then chairman, was I think I could say a fairly close friend of Justice [William O.] Douglas, who as you know was one of the early chairmen of the SEC and who was put on the Supreme
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , in which Paul Douglas was up and some fellows in California were up and Lyndon had agreed to come out and campaign for them. They always said that when he got back and he found the tide running against him, he cancelled it because he was tired after his
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 25 (XXV), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • when he worried about Ramsey Clark. G: Clark has been described as unique in that he did retain close ties with Robert Kennedy and he was someone who, like John Douglas in Justice Department, who was sort of an avenue between the two men. C: Well
Oral history transcript, Tommie W. Glick and Sarah Taylor, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , 1971 INTERV IEL~EE: MRS. TOMHY WURTSBAUGH GLICK (with occasional comments from her sister, Mrs. T. J. Taylor, Jr.) INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mrs. Glick's home in Jefferson, Texas Tape 1 of 1 Mc: To straighten out the family connection
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there. There was one table in a corner that belonged to Senator [Pat] McCarran; nobody would have taken it over. There were certain things that were served. For instance, a senator would bring up a batch of the favorite food of his home state perhaps once a year, some
  • ; Joseph Davies' home, Tregaron; Vice President Alben Barkley; Speaker Sam Rayburn hosting evenings in his home; socializing with Senate friends, such as Lister Hill and Millard Tydings; LBJ's business dealings with Mrs. Johnson's father; attending
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 2 (II), 8/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • so that you didn't begin until up in September, and they would have had a sizeable part of August to pick, and then in the afternoons when they got home they could pick. There may have been some of the bigger boys that might have been kept home. G
Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • you that some terrible things have happened--I mean, the people don't get jobs when this gets leaked out." So he was bringing home what I already saw in the paper about Lyndon Johnson's proclivity to want secrecy--or he wanted to have the option
  • Macy; possibility of Home Rule; time spent with Congressmen; D.C. Committee; involvement in architectural changes; 1969 budget; working groups of Council; DC’s peculiar problems; commuter tax; Congressman Broyhill; Jack Nevius; Congressman Archer Nelsen
Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • worked on the one in Montana for a couple of years with registered Angus cattle and won shows all over the Northwest, then the ranch manager in Texas offered us a job to come back to Texas, near home, and work on their Hereford ranch in Texas. Of course
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , or the possibility of it? Why were you against it? Do you recall? J: I grew up in a milieu in which politics was not what you would want your son or your husband to go into, really. I remember in deep East Texas, which is my home, there was a sort of general
  • The Johnson family's home in San Marcos; what Lady Bird Johnson thought of LBJ's early career prospects; LBJ's response to a job offer from Charles Marsh; LBJ's ability to remember names; Mrs. Johnson's reluctance to marry LBJ; the weeks leading up
Oral history transcript, Frederick Deike, interview 1 (I), 4/xx/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • : Is that accurate? Yes, sometimes it gets rather cold here and during the summertime it does get hot. G: Could you tell me, Mr. Deike, when they were building the roads, did they go home at night or did they go to a place to sleep? 0: I don't believe I could
Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had gotten involved in the poverty question in doing a paper for Senator Paul Douglas' Joint Economic Committee of the Congress on the question of low income population in the United States. It was a kind of response to John Kenneth Galbraith's book
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • for. who were there John Douglas was another Johnson he was a man that for a history it, is either provided that they shouldn't may mess it up and the FBI will They're a very tight has been the problem all get agency and have along
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the druggist's home, a fellow named Truman Fawcett. Then when Congress reconvened in January we all went back to Washington, went back a little before January. 6 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 2 (II), 4/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? P: No, he lived at Mimosa Hall, the Blocker plantation. G: Had he also designed that or one of the Blockers' [homes]? P: He had designed other southern colonial homes in the area. G: You said that the foundation was a log foundation. P: Huge
  • The Taylor family life in Marshall; Lady Bird’s parents, habits, home arrangement, lifestyle; description of Lady Bird’s mother’s illness and funeral; Lady Bird at Marshall High and college years; Lady Bird’s father’s second wife (Ruth Scoggins
Oral history transcript, Kathy Teague and Weeze Pollei Shumate, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to the airport to make sure everything was going to be--the plane was secured and everything. And we got home from church and Teague wasn't home yet. The stereo was on so we knew where to find him, so we went on out to the airport. From there, then, we went over
  • (then) belonging to Emil Hartmann; the search for the plane; waiting for news of the wreck at the Teague home; events leading up to the plane's departure from Austin; Harold Teague's conversation with Homer Thornberry regarding the flight; the layout of the plane's
Oral history transcript, Georgia Cammack Edgeworth, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to her house from school, which was not too many--where his Boyhood Home now is--maybe eight or ten blocks. They had a fireplace room, we called it, and we all gathered there and sometimes sat in chairs, sometimes on the floor. But we all gathered
Oral history transcript, Philip N. Brownstein, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • on regulations, dealing with the home mortgages as well as in the home improvement program, and drawing instruments, dealing with satisfactions of mortgages . Just the journeyman kind of lawyer that the FHA would use at that level . M: Then you went
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • residence and thereby diminish the cost to them. instituted project? K: That was an NYA Is that correct? No, I have no recollection of that. the out-of-school NYA program: We had this in connection with Girls from disadvantaged homes who had been
Oral history transcript, Ava Johnson Cox, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cox -- I -- 6 effort at studying at home; he'd get
  • ; LBJ breaking his leg; Cox's horse, Old Kussie; lessons LBJ learned from his trip to California in 1924; LBJ's time in Robstown; campaigning for LBJ; Cox attending the 1965 inaugural; LBJ's later visits to Cox's home; Robert McNamara; the Boyhood Home
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and the others, to just bulldoze the house down, but we were making a big gamble to see if we could take this old place and turn it into a livable home for forever. I went down in a grey, bleak February weather, stayed with Mrs. Johnson in Austin, would drive out
  • 1952 trips to Texas to oversee LBJ Ranch house renovations; Max Brooks and Marcus Burg's involvement with the Ranch house; decorating the Ranch; visitors to the Johnson home in Washington, D.C.; the Johnsons' relationship with the Melvin Winters
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the home of Evalyn Walsh McLean, a very famous hostess of those days. This was a one and only time for a young congressional couple like us. First thing, Lyndon didn't like to go to parties, as I've probably said a dozen times, and kept on turning things
  • Visiting the home of Evalyn Walsh McLean and socializing in 1941; Lady Bird's participation in a 75th Club luncheon honoring Eleanor Roosevelt; riding in Sam Rayburn's car; diversity in the 10th District; Lady Bird Johnson using her movie camera