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Oral history transcript, John A. Hannah, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • counted because of race, religion, color or national origin. It was contentious back in 1958 as to what was the truth. Pretty early, after many months of argument among ourselves and prolonged sessions of continuous discussion in which we would begin
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • friends answering some of the charges. [W. E. "Ed"] Syers answered the one about us owning KVET and I think pretty much refuted it in the minds of people who could bear to give up the idea. Then Lyndon would go down to the other end of the district
  • of the campaign; Jane McCallum's support; "I Remember Johnny" story of LBJ helping a woman locate her soldier son during World War II; calling people and driving people to vote; LBJ's relationship with Dan Moody; Wesley West's ranch; Johnson City parade that LBJ
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . And then these same people had a· high regard for him and I can remember-F: Vlho were they, may I ask? K: It was Cl ifford Durr, D-U-R-R, who ~"as Communications Comrnission, and his ~"ife. New Dealers. Mrs. Durr was the a member of the Federal They were
Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Your trips abroad perhaps present one of the greatest challenges to the overall protective picture. You normally send a team of advance special agents who work with people who are communicators
  • Secret Service car following him on the highway; paint throwing incident in Melbourne; death of Clarence Kretsch’s child at LBJ Ranch; nationally televised remarks to Secret Service personnel on the White House lawn
Oral history transcript, Douglass H. Hubbard, interview 1 (I), 6/4/69, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • California and from there transferred National Park, where I was one of the park naturalists. became chief park naturalist, and I transferred to Hawaii Then I and after almost five years my family back to Yosemite National Park, where I was the associate
  • Biographical information; involvement in the LBJ State Park; George Hartzog, director of the National Park Service; Charles Krueger, assistant director for design and construction; the involvement of LBJ and CTJ in the park design; the consulting
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • mising his securi ty by not telling · the Secret . Servic e." The Presid ent But I think in the Presid ent's mind he figured that perhap s the greate st· danger is in too much advanc e plannin g--with advanc e word people lay on a lot elabor ate prepar
  • of troops in domestic disturbances; the Chicago riots in 1968; the media and the riots; the National Guard and riot control; the Army Cemetery System; the Civil Works Program of the Corps of Engineers; Governor Branigan of Indiana; the Trinity River Project
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and John Cofer-- · P: No. F: That was really out of his hands too, wasn't it? P: Yes. And Everett Looney. Those people either planned or directed the legal hearings . None of us, at that point, could do anythin g abo ut it because i t
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of politics, that there were people in the Kennedy entourage who really would never forgive him for his race against Jack Kennedy for the nomination and particularly for his attacks on Kennedy in seeking to get the nomination. I never felt that President
  • JFK presidency; House Rules Committee 1961; Bobby Baker scandal; JFK legislative program; LBJ and John Connally; patronage appointments; Hale Boggs; agriculture bill; “Five O’clock Club;” Walter Jenkins; Bill Moyers; Democratic National Committee
Oral history transcript, Jesse Curry, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the color of this wall, about eggshell or off-white. M: Dirl it have the police insignia on it? C: No. r,1: Just a plain car? C: Yes. M: Then the people got in your car, and I've read that Johnson for security rreasures sat on the floor
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Calvert, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the State Democratic Executive Committee, 1946-48. I've held various otherm.inortype jobs, like president of the Hillsboro School Board for a period of time and things of that sort. I was nominated in the Democratic primary in 1950 for an associate justice
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Sr., interview 1 (I), 1/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : What was it like when you were a little boy in those days? T: I would say that we had such a thing as understanding among white and colored. And if you were progressive, the white people went along with you in Wharton County. I don't know anything
Oral history transcript, A. Phillip Randolph, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Wilkins [of the NAACP]; Mr. Whitney Young, Jr., National Director of the National Urban League; Walter Reuther, President of the UAW;-- B: Would Dr. King have been there? R: Dr. [Martin Luther] King, Jr., was there, and a number of others--I don't
Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . There was a good deal of interchange because they had groups--private groups with all the civil rights people in the government that met privately over a six-month's period. We were not ever in very close liaison--let me put it this way--with the White House
  • House Conference on Civil Rights; Cliff Alexander; National Science Foundation Board; Jim Webb's acceptance of Administrator of NASA; campus unrest; Vietnam; Perkins Commission; Walt Rostow's Policy Planning Commission; Wise Men; role as Vatican
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to convince them that this was a great addition to the national ticket and would help the Democratic Party in the November election. F: Fortunately, that worked out. On an occasion like that you have got very influential people like Walter Reuther, Soapy
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the American public been willing to listen to the people that they now glorify as the moderates when they were considered radicals--I remember my own confirmation when I was considered by some to be a Communist because I had been the chairman of the national
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
  • Biographical information; Adviser to Secretary Ickes on Negro affairs; National Committee on Industrial Recovery; Harvard thesis research; integration of cafeteria services at Department of the Interior; “The Black Cabinet;” duties at Department
Oral history transcript, Conrad L. Wirth, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and state park people, I was president of the American Institute of Park Executives, and chairman of the board of the National Conference of State Parks and director of the National Park Service. We got them to have a joint meeting in Washington. If I
  • Natural resources and national parks
  • National Park Service, 1928-1964; CCC; New Deal; LBJ State Park; National Capital Planning Commission
Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of breakthrough on the color line. I was becoming a Washington correspondent, the first among black people to represent the mainstream media. It also meant that I would have a chance to cover national news and a shot eventually at being a foreign correspondent
  • offers in the Johnson administration; Terry’s religious background; George Davis of the National City Christian Church; covering LBJ’s presidency; LBJ eating other people’s food; Thurgood Marshall; military integration; LBJ as civil rights leader; career
Oral history transcript, Clinton P. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • could make that one So we did, and I still enjoy it. At the time, it was quite different. rising of the question of color. At the time, there was just a Many people were talking about it; but not very many doing anything about it. After
Oral history transcript, Roy Wilkins, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , 1923-31; asst. sec. Nat. Association Advancement of Colored People, 1931-49, acting sec. 1949-50, adminstr. 1950, exec. sec., 1955-64, exec. dir., 1965-77. Editor Crisis mag., monthly ofcl. N.A.A.C.P. organization, 1934-49. General topic of interview
Oral history transcript, Jule M. Sugarman, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • -in period, but he really isn't considered to have made it until he has advanced to a Community Action analyst. G: I wasn't aware of that. You did mention briefly the problem of the antagonism, if it can be put that way, that people within Community Action
Oral history transcript, Antonio J. Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • merchant, landowner, cotton farmer, engaged in a type of operation that is practically extinct now, known as "advancing." He advanced the land and the equipment to farm it and the seeds and the sustenance of the tenants, and the reckoning came in the fall
Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • official position with the Johnson Administration at its close was as United States representative to the United Nations, a position to which Mr. Johnson appointed you in the fall of 1968, and you served for a few months. Before that you had been
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 2 (II), 09/10/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • you ask what you hope are intelligent questions. One thing I wanted to throw in because it's one other Johnson relationship [is that] somewhere back there, I'd say around 1964, Arthur Schlesinger, Sr., was on the National Historical Publications
  • How Frantz joined the National Historical Publications Commission; LBJ’s practice of allowing other people to announce good news; Nixon administration’s trouble finding Frantz’s replacement; Marietta Brooks; assembling an advisory board for his
Oral history transcript, Sidney P. Marland, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that that Ford Grant . . F: This in a way is your national emergence. I mean at Winnetka you had been, of course, noticeable, but at Pittsburgh you really became a national figure to deal with. H: ~~ell, this may be true. I hear what you're saying. I
  • Advisory Council; LBJ’s interest in OEO Council and also National Advisory Council on the Education of Disadvantaged Children; initiation of Upward Bound program; John Gardner and the Gardner task force; White House Conference on Education, 1965; HEW
Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . the Is there anything you'd like to add to this? N: Do you have the American Bar Association? G: The American Bar Association. N: I think this is enough of those. I'm on the board of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company and the First National Bank
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • never got to take the advance trip, which would have been great fun. It was setting down all kinds of detailed planning with people in the State Department, sending cables back and forth, saying, "this is what she would like to do. What are the 11 LBJ
  • Early association of Johnson and Clement families; the Johnsons' wedding reception for Bess and Tyler Abell; Tyler Abell joins Johnson campaign; work at the DNC; joining Mrs. Johnson's staff; LBJ as Vice President; Mrs. Johnson as a wife and mother
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , not to mention the association and the hotel, which had put on a lot of extra help. This wouldn't of course be the same sort of thing, but I was a little bit wary where national political figures were concerned for fear that you could, often with good reason, get
  • the National Parks Advisory Board; Stewart Udall; meeting Mrs. Johnson at the White House to discuss Big Bend National Park; traveling to Big Bend with Mrs. Johnson; the press at Big Bend; Judith Axler Turner; instituting a White House historical program
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the logistical arrangements, which were never my strong point. There were many people who were very good at it, like Marcia and Marta. Cynthia worked into trip advancing and became extremely good at it also. But sort of in the last minute, I think maybe to fill
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Regents [of the University of Texas] and a former congressman; and a large number of people who have later been associ. ated with all the Lyndon Johnson activities. F: Pretty good breeding ground. P: The key tie in all of this was John Connally
  • Biographical information; University of Texas; campus politics; National Youth Administration; 1941 Senate race; speakers bureau; war years; 1946 congressional race
Oral history transcript, Lawrence McQuade, interview 1 (I), 1/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • don't know. Some people would say, '~hy should you enshrine one segment of the business community when you're supposed to be serving all the nation. M: But they are the ones you talk about as being the first level of business moguls here. Mc
  • Biographical information; Hodges’ resignation; John Connor; Sandy Trowbridge; Howard Samuels; C.R. Smith; Andrew Brimmer; Herb Holloman; Commerce internal management problems; effectiveness of Commerce Secretary; Georgetown group of Kennedy people
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 11 (XI), 7/24/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the difference. It was a very productive session of Congress, it impacted on the vast majority of American people. Medicare was pre-eminent in that regard. Of course you had voting rights, you had higher education, you had the whole field of medical research
  • education legislation under JFK; O'Brien's work with congressional relations people and representatives from the National Education Association (NEA) and National Catholic Welfare Conference (NCWC) in developing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • mean just poorly written? M: No. Bills that were not in the public interest in our judgment; relief bills that gave relief to people who shouldn't have it. B: "Our judgment," being the judgment of this committee? M: Of this committee. I would
  • Civil Rights Bill; LBJ’s 1964 campaign speech in New Orleans; Johnson treatment; immense capacity to judge people; Johnson-Rayburn relationship; first signs of Presidential ambition; LBJ’s relationship with oil and gas industries; relationship
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • produce fifty." So Bobby, Dave Mann and I gradually had to enlarge the number of people working on it because you had to have other people go to some of these companies at least in advance, tell them what we wanted and how the system worked, what they had
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh O'Brien -- Interview XV -- 2 G: Did the book's publication exacerbate tensions between the Kennedy people and the Johnson
Oral history transcript, Zephyr Wright, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson always tried to find someplace nice to eat and someplace nice to sleep, and we never had too much trouble, although at that time most of the places that we stopped didn't want colored people to come in and eat in the same place. They wanted you
Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a general anti-national party votes? B: That's correct . Some people even today, if you associate with President Johnson or those other liberals, you're stamped . F: Florida in a sense has a schizoid political personality, doesn't it? That is, it's
  • Political career background; 1960 National Convention and presidential campaign; Cuban refugee problem in Florida; Bay of Pigs incident; 1964 Freedom Riders; Office of Emergency Planning; 1966 trip to Asia with LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Electric Association] lines for the Pedernales Electric Co-op out of Johnson City and the building of the co-op building itself. He got an architect whom he had known in NYA [National Youth Administration] days to design it and NYA labor participated
  • Political issues of 1939; where the Johnsons lived; the Johnsons' friends; raising the height of the Marshall Ford Dam; the extension of Rural Electric Association lines and building of the Pedernales Electric Co-op in Johnson City; Lady Bird
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in going with the Department of Defense because I had met McNamara, knew Cy, and was very impressed with the caliber of the people here and the nature of the problems. My specific interest was in the field of national security, and this struck me
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the West Coast. He had a close association with Adlai Stevenson initially. He was an early Kennedy supporter. He was recommended to us when we were sorting out cabinet suggestions by some people on the West Coast. The President-elect had an interest
  • the announcements locally; Dick Donahue's work with patronage and members of Congress' efforts to get jobs for their constituents; the role of the Democratic National Committee; criteria for ambassadorships; career versus political appointees; politicians' view
Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , which certainly transformed the economic, and cultural, and social life of a nation as occupation needs shifted from the unskilled to the skilled. And of course people continued to move from the rural areas into the urban areas. So that we were faced