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  • , that was pretty horrible. G: The President had gone to New York. R: We were in New York. G: Al Smith dinner, was that it? R: I've forgotten what the dinner was. I was the first to know. I think I knew even before he did. Oh, I think the Associated Press
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . I stepped out I'm sure he called Roy Swift up at Blanco, and he said, "How about this guy?" When I went back in he said, "Roy says that you may not be quite ready to settle down just now. You may be dazzled by the bright lights of New York
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . And then lots of other little places like the Iron Gate and the Parrot. So Dorris and Diane and I got on the train and went up to New York, and saw some plays and went to some museums. Lyndon, I think he went with us for about twenty-four hours, but not for long
  • visit to Washington, D.C. and Mrs. Johnson's trip with them to New York City; F Street Club; Joseph Davies' home, Tregaron; visits to Senator Harry Byrd's home; "Byrd houses" along the Appalachian Trail; socializing with the Texas delegation; Tony Buford
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the freshmen. It was part of a Hell Week, or something like that. F: Where is Bennett? L: Millbrook, New York. You know, all schools have that sort of thing. It was sort of a ritual. And so my roommate and I had locked our door that night, because we
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • which we can then go into some of the material. S: Okay. Well, I was born and brought up in New York City and spent the bulk of my time there, except when I was away at school, until about 1946. I graduated from the College of the Holy Cross
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Truman Democrat and I am an Orval Faubus Democrat." F: And never the twain shall meet! H: That experience~ of course, is beside the point, except that it brings us together in this matter of geography. F: I think New York City is beginning to get
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , the New York Times carried a front page story saying he was leaving and it was decided it was too late to remedy the situation; he had become a cause célèbre. F: He and Johnson never actually broke, though? C: No, in fact . . . . F: I know Gardner's
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • that that was the case. His instinct as a politician told him that he was being undercut, and that there was a very strong feeling in the New York Times and some parts of the Washington Post that was determined to bring about his downfall. B: May I ask you one more
  • of the problem. B: My chronology was off. In '64, that summer came the murders in Philadelphia and several disturbances in northern cities, in New York and Rochester. C: Yes, I particularly wanted to mention those. Of course, the Philadelphia murders were
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ://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 Ramsey Clark -- Interview I -- 10 Attorney for the Southern District of New York
  • deterred a very high riot potential on one or two occasions, and again in '66 by effective early call of national guardsmen and pre-positioning. And we hadn't seen this in many places. Mayor Lindsay had just done a magnificent job in New York City under
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Busby -- VIII -- 15 Villard, a very nice man, descended from the Villards in New York, who
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • me for more information--I still couldn't file until I'd pleased everybody in the press corps--and that was Tom Wicker of the New York Times. Natur- ally the New York Times, the newspaper of record, had to know every smidgen of this thing, so I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh October 23, 1968 M: Let's start with your background. According to my data, you were born in New York State at a place called Saranac Lake. Is that right? 0: That is correct. M: In 1905. 0: That is correct. M
  • a chance to weigh in anywhere, let alone New York. G: Did you have a chance to observe President Johnson's reaction to the withdrawal of the UN force? S: No, not directly. Usually the pattern of interaction between the NSC operation and the President
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • with the provisions of Chapter 21 of Title 44, United States Code, and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Marian B. Javits ofNew York City, New York, do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all rights, title
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • than a big city, indicates to me that people who would not normally bring wives, children, teenagers, grandchildren, will bring them. Furthermore, [there's] the proximity to the New York World's Fair. A lot of people are planning to come to Atlantic
  • Meeting LBJ in 1959; Governor of New Jersey, 1961; LBJ and Kosygin held a meeting at Glassboro State College; Kosygin’s daughter, Dr. Gvishiana, joined Lady Bird, Lynda and Mrs. Hughes for lunch at Island Beach; Ramsey Clark; candidates, 1966-1968
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • and a reporter for the Baltimore Sun and the publisher of the Washington Post, somebody in the New York Times and what not of the Texas papers that have known him intimately longer, but he's got new areas of interest. He sees--you know, where are the papers
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • [Estes] Kefauver visited New York State recently, not a single member of the Democratic hierarchy showed up to greet him, including Averell Harriman. An aide to Kefauver said that Harriman wants the Democrats licked so he can jeer, 'See what happens when
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • was charmed with some five and six-year-olds who were dancing to rock and roll better than any teenagers I've seen for some time. I was going up to New York that evening and rode up with now-Mayor Washington, sat together on the plane, and he told me what had
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Ginsburg -- IV -- 5 of some sort, at least the commissioners, the staffs, should know what it is that the White House is trying to do. There was no discussion with me about concerns about the Mayor of New York and his ambitions, or about Fred Harris and his
  • in the National Guard; visiting Newark, New Jersey; proposed creation of jobs; prioritizing the areas of need; gun control; the decision for commissioners to stay out of the legislative process; "Harvest of Racism" report; the exclusion of representatives
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . B: You were the latayer retained in the case . Schwille case that Yes, and worked with another lawyer by the name of James P . Donovan who is now deceased, who was a member of the Texas Bar and the New York Bar . LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Durr--l5 That was the heading. The New York Times made that a feature story the day
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • right. I'm from New York. the end of 1951. Wilson there. I left New York and went to Texas at I worked at Lackland Air Force Base and met Glen I married Glen Wilson in June of 1953. gets me to Austin. Okay, that I went to work for Max Brooks
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ., John, and others of us. John Ochs, who was editor of the editorial page of the New York Times. Oh, gee, I can't remember--do you know who was in that first group? T: I--let's see-- F: [Edgar?] Edwards? David Gold? [Inaudible]-- T: No, I don't. I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • my tastes were still bounded by a limited life--an exciting event at the Congressional Club or the 75th Club to take constituents to. One event of the spring was to go to the New York World's Fair on a special train with a whole lot of congressmen
  • Johnson's time spent sight-seeing and attending events at the Congressional Club or the 75th Club; visiting Bill White in New York City; Sam Rayburn, Wright Patman, Nat Patton, and other Texans in Washington, D.C.; visits with Aunt Effie Pattillo; summer
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ~ through the years he was a photographer, too, in his early days. He worked with the New York Times, and he worked in th~ Seattle Post-Intelligencer s so he was photo oriented and knew the value of pictures. He was a real sharp editor and knew pictures
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • National Municipal Association, which is now the National League of Cities. We had with us Mayor Daley of Chicago, Mayor Dilworth of Philadelphia, and Bob Wagner of New York was the mayor of New York at that time, to call on the then Democratic leader
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  • . wanted after a it was time for me to do a little magazine And I got in touch with my agent in New York ; I began to think about some articles that this question, Of And after the campaign and after I got started covering the White House, writing
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . Mulhollan PLACE: Mr. Bundy's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: This time the subjects I want to talk about--and for your time benefit I hope we can wind it up--are Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East, particularly. Suppose we begin with Latin
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of the Eighty-second Airborne Division, who followed Bob [Robert] York. He was sort of the acting commander of Bragg and the Eighty-second, what was left of it. sion was in Santo Domingo. At one time the whole divi- He was trying to run Fort Bragg, and I had
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • INTERVIEWEE: MARY LASKER (MRS. ALBERT D. LASKER) INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Lasker's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's talk about the genesis of that commission, Mrs. Lasker. You were saying that there was a reason
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • it on the front page of New York Times and the Post the next morning. But not a line. But the interesting thing was that the wire services did summarize it and send it out. So that the small papers throughout the country got the news that Senator Ernest
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • in New York parks in doing outdoor living rooms for all ages, old people to sit in the sun, ' young people to have some instructible kind of playground equipment. And so once when she was in New York, she asked Mrs. Astor if she would take her
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of the work on that was done by the Director, Bill Foster, and Sam DePalma and George Bunn up in New York. Sam DePalma is an assistant director of the agency [ACDA] and George Bunn is the general counsel. They would be assisting Mr. Foster while he
  • Adlai Stevenson fan in both of his campaigns. Looking onto the 1960 election, of course, I felt this was a great opportunity for the party. As late as early 1958 I think I was still a Stevenson man. In fact I wrote an article for the New Republic which I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 Then, of course, when he got back to New York, he got back on a Sunday. Newsweek was in the habit then of promoting, on the Sunday news, its lead Monday story. I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • York, and whatever we wanted to put on was usually paraphrased out of the newspaper, and we put on very little news of that kind. There was just no press as we know it today. one thing. So it was a one-on- My friend from the Houston Press, who was my
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • because of the growing difficulties we saw across the country in municipal public servicelabor relations, particularly in New York City. And although the federal government was in no way exercising any kind of guidance or restraint on labor relations
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • went to Florida, I was responsible for the state of Florida. I went to New York and saw people in New Jersey and was in Washington some. M: So I worked around all [inaudible]. That must have been difficult for you. As I recall, Johnson wanted
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)