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Oral history transcript, Lewis W. Walt, interview 1 (I), 1/24/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . M: And how long have you been in that pOSition, sir? W: I've been here since the first of January 1968. M: For the last year of the Johnson Administration, then. At the beginning of the Johnson Administration, you were commanding in the I
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh June 24, 1969 B: This is the interview with Luther Holcomb. Sir, to begin in the beginning, do you recall when you first met Mr. Johnson? H: Yes, I can reconstruct. It was during the campaign of--the one when W. Lee
Oral history transcript, Roy Wilkins, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER April 1, 1969 B: This is the interview with Roy Wilkins. Sir, when were you first acquainted with Mr. Johnson, either directly or indirectly? W: I can't remember the exact date or even the exact year, but it was long before Mr
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: WALTER JENKINS INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Jenkins' office, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Walter, let's go back. You came out of North Texas, right? J: Yes, sir, my home is Wichita Falls. F: How did you happen to get
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 6 (VI), 10/31/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1995 INTERVIEWEE: J. WILLIS HURST INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: LBJ Library, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: You want to start with-- H: New Orleans. G: --with New Orleans. All right, sir, go ahead. He called you there on--I
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (TAPE #3) July 21, 1969 This is a continuation of the interview with Orville Freeman. Sir, to deal with the international applications of the Department of Agriculture, one of the central points here is the use of PL 480
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , 1968 INTERVIEHEE: WARREN M. CHRISTOPHER INTERVIEWER: THO~IAS PLACE: Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. H. BAKER Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, there is one whole area here involving urban disorders, the major city riots, which I believe you've been
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 2 (II), 2/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Union and China, Moscow on the way and I think Peking on the way back, I'm not sure. But he did make all three capitals, spent a lot of time in Hanoi, carried our message. It was reported by one of my ambassadorial colleagues, Sir George Clutton
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXXVII -- 3 And our business at home, our radio and television station which was KTBC, was still at the edge of our
  • Stanton gave the Johnsons for the LBJ Ranch and the Johnsons' relationship with Stanton; Lady Bird Johnson's father, T. J. Taylor, in his later years; the Southern Manifesto; meeting Sir Lawrence Olivier; attending events at the Olney Theatre
Oral history transcript, William A. Knowlton, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : Ted Gittinger PLACE: General Knowlton's residence, Arlington, Virginia Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: All right, sir, shall we begin with the years you were in the Pentagon in 1965 and 1966. What were you doing then? K: Well, let me put
Oral history transcript, Abe Fortas, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and Exchange Commission with Professor William O. Douglas, now on the Supreme Court. That was in 1935, as I remember. J: Had you had courses with him? F: Yes. I had also been his assistant in some of the courses at Yale. Then when he went on the Court
Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: OTTO KERNER INTERVIEWER: Paige E. Mulhollan PLACE: Judge Kerner's chambers, Chicago, Illinois Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by identifying you, sir. You're Otto Kerner, currently United States judge of the circuit court, and during most
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • address? Voice: Yes, sir. G: Dig it up, will you? He might be a big help to you. F: Yes, I'd be very interested. Johnson, of course, in this period became the Senate majority leader. Did that make any great difference in the operation of the Senate
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • favorite. G: Did she refer to Sir Walter Scott at all? R: I don’t recall that she did. G: Some of the accounts mention that the room to the right in the Johnson City home was filled with books -- R: I can imagine this was true. She wrote
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , standing at the dais, was sit ting front and center. I remember Hrs. Johnson When it came my turn to go up to the front of the room to receive my certificate the President asked me where I was from. I replied, "New York City, sir. I'm not a farm boy
Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ) INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER March 13, 1969 B: Sir, may I summarize your career very briefly. Born in 1915, bachelors and law degrees from Tulane, first elected to Congress in 1940 as the then youngest member of the 77th Congress, service in World War II
Oral history transcript, Carl Vinson, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1970, by Frank Deaver (Item)
  • of the Oral History Project, The University of Texas, compiling the reminiscences of President Lyndon B. Johnson. With your permission, sir, I'd like to pursue a few matters which you have mentioned here and perhaps add Some detail. bit that's quite all right
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • at the Gondolier. FR: Yes sir. PB: Perhaps now that he is ••••• will be out of the Presidency by that time ••••• perhaps you can get the guy who started the whole thing to come down to the dinner. FR: There has been some discussion among us that possibly he
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , "Well look, go home and get it and bring it to Sarg." Strange request; you could have gotten a black tie anywhere. "Bring it to Sarg over at the White House. cleared at the northwest gate." Mind you, I'd never been in the place before. the tie
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 2 (II), 10/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • virtually everyone but George Reedy was a Texan. AG: Right. MG: And this was traditional, to hire people from your home state, is that right? AG: Yes. That was pretty well true throughout the Senate. You know, every Senate staffer came from the home
Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • about broadening the thing to include accidents and illnesses as well as combat wounds, because down at the unconscious level where people are safe or unsafe, you are developing a secondary game. So that if I wanted to be home with my family at Christmas
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • is worried about staff, and I think you ought to go out there with him." And they invited me up to the family home in Beverly, north of Boston--I was in Washington--to LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Henry Hirshberg, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • year would this be, sir? H: Well, it was about '32. P: Late '31 probably. H: Late '31. It was bound to be '32, I guess. In any event I became manager of Dick Kleberg's campaign for Congress so far as Bexar County and Comal County and other
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the convention, and what you recall about it? A: I recall the convention, but I was not a delegate to the convention in 1960 so I didn't go out there. I stayed at home. M: Here on the Hill during that last session were you aware of any movements either
Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • born, sir; I was about four years old. W: Well, you don't know how hard it was to make a living. money. Nobody had any The bank closing certainly didn't affect me, I didn't have an account anyway. Most people didn't. Most of them were like Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Gould Lincoln, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • hanging in my room at home. I didn't think you were going to ask me that question, because they have a similar picture on hand hanging in the library already, the Lyndon Johnson Library. P: Yes, I have seen a copy. The one seated with three of them
  • First newspaper interview with LBJ in 1933; LBJ’s relationship with FDR and Rayburn; Carl Vinson; Clark Clifford; 1924, 1956 and 1968 Democratic conventions; LBJ’s techniques; civil rights legislation; Home Rule for D.C.; LBJ’s relationship
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 9 (IX), 7/14/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • do you can correct me. I believe that they asked me to come out to the LBJ Ranch. They were home on a--like he used to come as often as he could just to get away and go home and relax and think about things when he wasn't so busy, like he
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (TAPE #2) March 12, 1969 This is a continuation, the second interview, with Orville Freeman. Sir, if you can, could you begin with your appointment as Secretary of Agriculture and trace the process of how you go about
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: Oren Harris INTERVIEWER: Paige Mulhollan M: Let's begin, sir, by identifying you. More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at 30th Place, N.W. In fact, Mr. Johnson's home was right across the street from Mr. Hoover's, maybe about ten yards to the left, otherwise they would have been facing each other. The Johnson girls, Lynda Bird and Luci, would occasionally go over and pick
Oral history transcript, Tom and Betty Weinheimer, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , somewhere along in there when he bought some of the properties that adjoined us. G: Did you know LBJ when you were a young man before you left home? TW: No, I did not. I mean I'd seen him, but as to knowing him personally, I did not. I knew him when I
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . COHEN INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. McCOMB DATE: December 8, 1968 PLACE: Mr. Cohen's home, Silver Spring, Maryland Tape 1 of 2 M: First of all, to identify this tape. It's with Wilbur J. Cohen, secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • well Now, if you were down there in the Delta and you were going to get this piece of land you had lived right next door to for a long, long time, why, that's home. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 6 (VI), 8/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • had your shots." I said, ''t-lell, no, sir." He said, ''Well, if you're leaving in the morning with me to go to Australia, you'd better go get your shots; and you'd better get your bag packed." F: Did you have a passport? T: No, I didn't have
  • Westmoreland; Kaiser estate; joint statement from meeting of country leaders; story about LBJ and President Park of South Korea; LBJ gift-giving; trip to El Salvador; taking Central American leaders home on Air Force One and related security problems
Oral history transcript, Walter T. Kerwin, interview 1 (I), 9/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . Military Assistance Command, Vietnam], is that right? K: That's what very few people realize. I went over there to be his chief of staff. G: And when was this, sir? K: This was in May of 1967. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • thing. G: All right, sir. LBJ 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 DePuy
Oral history transcript, John E. Stavast, interview 1 (I), 3/12/84, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • /loh/oh Stavast -- I -- 3 and using up fuel like crazy, and a lot of times picking up a tanker on the way out so we'd have enough fuel to get back to get back to home base. But at night, you always could see them when they were shooting at you. Daytime
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to run for the Senate. you want my real honest opinion based on r~ If observations and all, I think if Mrs. Stevenson had still been alive that she may have wanted Governor Stevenson to run for the Senate, but I think he would have gone home
Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1978 INTERVIEWEE : RUSSELL MORTON- BROWN INTERVIEWER : MICHAEL L . GILLETTE PLACE : Mr .-Brown's home in Palm Beach, Florida Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with the circumstances under which you met Lyndon Johnson in 1934 . B: The date
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • at me for ten days in the joint hearings that followed the relief of General [Douglas] MacArthur. When President Truman relieved General MacArthur and MacArthur made that magnificently demagogic speech-- M: It was piped in, as I recall, to every high