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Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a chance between stops to visit with some rif the local people and to make himself known as a human being and not just as a politician. The problem that I find which [makes] national campaigning so awful and so gruesome is that a plane lands, and you run
  • Biographical information; Senator Wirtz; associations with the Johnsons; travels with LBJ; impressions of LBJ; 1960 campaign and convention; vice presidency; NATO trip; LBJ and art; LBJ’s humor; Adenauer visit to the Ranch; Pakistan camel driver
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • had the congressional committees on our side. Even the city organiza- tions like the National League of Cities and the Conference of Mayors, which some HUD people thought would oppose the plan, refused to opposed the transfer. I say a few hard
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • a fellow was subject to an injunction, he really thought before he did anything because that judge could commit him for contempt. And this was something that people didn't want to have happen to them so they followed the law. The Restaurant Association
  • Biographical information; Hobart Taylor, Sr. and LBJ; civil rights cases in Michigan; NAACP; Export-Import Bank; Cliff Carter; early association with LBJ in 1960; 1960 and 1964 campaigns; JFK; Plans for PROGRESS; Jerry Holleman; RFK and LBJ
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • at home. I was president of the Shreveport League and was extremely interested in politics and people who made the government work. I had read about Mr. Johnson and all of the things he did and was trying to do, and I just simply wanted to go to work
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was an advertising executive--was for his entire career until he retired in 1951. He was associated primarily with Field and Stream magazine, so I have something of an outdoorsman background via the advertising route. had been a school teacher. My mother [I
Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the International Association _C?,f Chiefs of Pol ice, which put .me further out in the national scene, rather than :. the local scene. B: How effective w~s the Federal Community Relations Service which. was ·. established in these years? J: · Well, those
  • .; Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee ; J. Edgar Hoover; LBJ’s visit to Atlanta during presidency; Atlanta riots, 1966-1967; National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, final report of the Commission and LBJ’s response; Martin Luther King’s
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 12 (XII), 7/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • contacted Kay Graham and put a responsibility on Kay and her associates to work particularly the Republican side of the House to assist us in acquiring signatures. We enlisted the Washington Post as a lobbying entity in this instance, which of course
  • and the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO); conflict between John Connally and Ralph Yarborough; National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965; immigration reform and the national origins quota system; organized labor's involvement
Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 2 (II), 4/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • parties. It was That's where At Christmas, the Christmas tree was in the log room. One time, at least one time, she gave a party for the help, the colored people who worked for her, and they came and brought their families and their children
Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • knew quite a number of people associated with that publication. In later years, his focus was on the national arena and the New York Times could really impact his programs. But, when he was senator and even during the years of his vicepresidency
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the landscapes that we passed through in Texas. M: I believe you told me that that trip was a little bit overshadowed by some national events at the time. F: Yes. The death of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the subsequent riots in the nation's capital were
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
  • thing for your people, especially with what they give you to operate here, and whether or not you're wasting any of your government's funds. However, to get back to my association with the President. As our lives became more and more intertwined, as he
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , l987 INTERVIEWEE: FRANK STANTON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Dr. Stanton's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Dr. Stanton, let's begin by asking you to recount your earliest association with the Johnson family and, if you
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in Texas incidentally--in 1956 I was editor of two trade magazines in Stanford, Connecticut dealing with the inland commercial marine industry--tugboats, barges. Then in 1959 or '60, I guess, I started with a friend of mine a national magazine called
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • on the part of some of my associates as to whether or not this was a good idea, and what sort of a return we would get, we put this out as a contest to the ninety-odd thousand people through � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • of the Department of Transportation; Urban Mass Transit; Maritime Administration; National Transportation Safety Board; appointment as Secretary and confirmation; reflections on LBJ; domestic legislative achievements; international relations; effects of Vietnam War
Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
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Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , and he's now executive director of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, a very distinguished political scientist. Number three: Charles Schultze who was then director of the budget, has now resigned and is at the Brookings
Oral history transcript, Donald F. Hornig, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the Milwaukee Public Schools through junior high school and part way through high school. Then I received a scholarship to Milwaukee Country Day School, where I did my last two years of study. I subsequently received a national scholarship to Harvard and took my
Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh CLIFTON C. CARTER--2 C: No, I don't believe that I did. I think I just shook hands along with great numbers of other people
Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://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 Bolling -- I -- 5 M: Not the kind of personal leadership that he is associated
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • we're doing, of course, is just trying to fill in pieces here and there in the affair. We have your book on Alaska and its coming to statehood, and so I thought we'd just emphasize your association with Johnson in this. When did you first meet him? G
Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Thursday, October 17, 1968, 3:00 p.m., at office, Jess McNeIl Machinery, San Antonio, Texas P: Mr. Bardwell, you've had a long association with politics, particularly San Antonio and Texas and among some early politicians
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
  • Discusses his early association with LBJ as Secretary to Congressman Kleberg; LBJ's wedding; NYA appointment; LBJ's early working habits; the 1941 and 1948 Senate campaigns; the War Production Board; Kilday-Maverick relationship; Taft-Hartley Act
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • talking to his command. He's talking to the South Vietnamese people. He's talking to Hanoi, to Communist nations, to Allies, to neutrals. Finally, he's talking to the U.S. There are conflicting interests, certainly, and what is appropriate for one audience
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , aild would you tell how you would rate him? F: He was a fairly effective member dealing with those subjects in which he specialized, particularly matters of national defense. He was a very close associate of the chairman of the committee, Nr. Vinson
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • County--Russellville. It's in the Arkansas River Valley halfway between Little Rock and Fort Smith. We had a good-sized colored population~ I would suppose about twenty per cent of our people in the town were black. challenge~ ism there. And it had
Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Now he had been head of the National Youth Administration in Texas and had contacts there of course, with people like Hopkins and that group. And somehow he had made, and this I'm not clear about, a contact with Roosevelt, which he was very anxious
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , got there a little ahead of the presidential p~ane, as did Vice President Johnson. So we saw Kennedy and Jackie get off of Air Force One; Johnson and Connally and, I guess, Yarborough were there in line--the people who greeted them as they LBJ
  • had to LBJ; 1964 campaign; LBJ’s inability to announce travel plans in advance; LBJ choosing a running mate; LBJ lying to the press; comparison of LBJ’s press secretaries; the Walter Jenkins incident; off-the-record interviews; naming Nicholas
Oral history transcript, Terrel Maverick Webb, interview 1 (I), 1/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a young fellow feeling his way around, and smart and catching on. F: Do you know anything about his appointment to be the state director of the National Youth Administration? Did your husband have any hand in that? .W: Yes, indeed, he did. F: let's
Oral history transcript, Will Wilson, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Connally from the national Administration. It would look like the national Administration had endorsed a candidate against a group of people who had been their supporters. And more than that, I'd gotten out in front for him when it was unpopular just
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 12 (XII), 10/29/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I can sit here in a law firm and I can give--my partners are making more money than they ever dreamed they would make in their entire lives but they still want more. G: The NAACP [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 2 (II), 11/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • imagine growing in an increasing circle around Saigon. It was almost exactly circular. G: Rings of steel? Something like that? M: Right. But I don't think that most of the people involved really had given a whole lot of thought to pacification
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • whatsoever. merely a fund-raising office. It's The big meetings they hold, the national corrmitteemen, that's just a way of getting people together so you can keep in touch and be ready to go. Now, consequently when people get together for a platform
  • Democratic National Convention, 1956; VP candidate decision; Adlai Stevenson; 1956 Presidential campaign; earlier Fort Worth state convention; NATO conference; legislative issues in 1956
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to get the votes, they also would tell him. There was no double talk. There was no rather crude partisan politics between the three men. I think I could also say in the associations that I had both with the Speaker and Mr. Johnson it was exactly
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 4 (IV), 3/8/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • generalizations on such things as foreign aid, and so on.Taking the Middle East first, that's a crisis that arises in a very short time frame. I've heard people say that the government, under any Administration perhaps, can't really deal effectively with two
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • a one -man national committee, and was financing a lot of desperate House fights. G: Did it matter who these people were? A: Oh yes, unquestionably it mattered. I don't know how the choice was made but presumably anyone who was a Democratic
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . This [briefing] was a very difficult thing to get people to come to because color, putting together the budget, you know, [may seem like] columns of figures. But I sold a couple of people on it; I knew a lot of people in town. The Star had a four-column headline
  • of LBJ’s gall bladder surgery; how LBJ’s treatment of individual reports affected their stories; television coverage of a White House event regarding a Rural Electric Association meeting; press coverage of NASA events; the difficulty in denying rumors.
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of it was quite overt. Yes, people thought of it perhaps as, well, we just never thought of that. "But they did think the negative. They thought the exclusion through pretty carefully and thought of it as more Or less a male club that they wanted to run
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , by the National Association of Manufacturers. It was a puff, gut labor bill. They were trying to take advantage of the scandals in the Teamsters and other things that the McClellan Committee had dug up to really land some body blows on organized labor
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Oral history transcript, Rutherford M. Poats, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • will sound very simple, but people thirty or forty years from now might not consider then quite as simple as they now are. Don't let them limit you. If you want to ramble around and talk about something else, by all means do so. You were with United Press
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • sorts of miscellaneous civic leaders, PTA [Parent Teacher Association], BNBW[?], Civil Defense, a cross section of the country, farmers' wives from Grand Prairie and Cedar Hill, the sort of people whom we hoped would be our supporters. We were trying
  • ; protocol at government social events; decorator Genevieve Hendricks; the many people with whom the Johnsons socialized; Marjorie Merriweather Post; Lady Bird Johnson's interest in parties and other cultures; Mrs. Johnson's interest in cooking; the Johnson's
Oral history transcript, William G. Bowdler, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Frantz PLACE: Ambassador Bowdler's residence in San Salvador, El Salvador Tape 1 of 1 F: Mr. Ambassador, first of all, tell us a little bit about your background, where you're from, where you were educated, how you came to be associated
  • ; Dean Rusk; Bowdler’s involvement in LBJ’s trip to Central America; LBJ’s interaction with Latin American presidents and people; how Bowdler became ambassador to El Salvador; a pilot project in El Salvador involving instructional television programming