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Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to go back and see what's happening in the way of population growth to my home State. I came to Washington on my third tour of duty in 1961, as Assistant Superintendent of National Capital Parks. At that time we had a quite different organizational

Oral history transcript, Father Wunibald W. Schneider, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh SCHNEIDER -- I -- 2 S: Dr. David McComb? M: Yes, sir. The first thing we need to do is find out something about you and your

Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

very brief? F: Correct. Yes. Mc: Sir, have you ever participated in any other oral history project of this type? F: No, I have not. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh June 16, 1969 M: To begin with, let's just identify you, sir. You are Governor Averell Harriman and your list of offices held is quite lenghty. But during the Johnson Administration you served as Under Secretary of State

Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 1968 M: Let's identify you, sir. You're & K D U O H V E. Bohlen, currently Deputy 8 Q G H U 6 H F U H W D U \ of 6 W D W H for political Affairs, and \ R X have held this position since what date, sir? B

Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of that. I've thought about this, and so far as I'm concerned, not participating, not debating, is not being a senator. And I'm going to be a senator like Wayne and Paul"--meaning Morse and Douglas--"I'm going to talk whenever I want to, on whatever subject I

Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 Well, during the time that Mrs. Felix Longoria was making the arrangements in Three Rivers with the Rice Funeral Home, they refused her the use of the chapel. already on his way back. By this time Felix Longoria

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins and Alice Hopkins, interview 4 (IV), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1977 INTERVIEWEES: WELLY K. and ALICE HOPKINS INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: The Hopkinsl home in Culpeper, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 G: Your maiden name is Wyatt, is that right? A: No, Isaacs. G: Oh. A: G: Alice Isaacs. That's the way

Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. It was Russia, The President represented us, Khrushchev and Bulganin--they were still doing the dual act then--they represented the Russians of course. Sir Anthony Eden represented the British, I believe; Pinay the French. It was at this conference

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

companies and a savings and loan association. I really couldn't quite figure whether I would go back fully into the newspaper business or watch after some other things I was trying to develop. In the middle of this, I got a call from Washington at my home

Oral history transcript, David S. Black, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

years, And frankly, I I had gone back home . and I wanted to really--had adjusted emotionally really to leaving Washington for the long haul. And so I really resisted the suggestion, and my deputy, he didn't want to be Bonneville administrator

Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cochrane -- I -- 2 year, fall of 1935, I went back home and worked for twenty-one months in a cotton mill. Well, I'd start the day out up ‘til eleven

Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Gorman -- I -- 3 intelligence for the 45th [and] later went way up the hierarchy, [and] later went over to the Pacific for [Douglas] MacArthur, became his chief

Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

scientific and technical personnel would be needed. I remember the day after Sputnik. I was at home with the flu. At that point I headed a division in the Bureau of the Budget dealing with science and labor, manpower, and a good many of the civil domestic

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

; that it was not really parochial interservice bickering as sometimes it was described. But it was a question of two contending strategies of great national importance. To air the issue in this way would be a profitable and useful exercise. P: And did you air it, sir

Oral history transcript, Ed Gossett, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. I'm the oldest of nine We lived in poverty, I might While I claim to have been reared on a farm, I never enjoyed any part of it, because we were always poverty-stricken. I left home when I was sixteen years old, went to Nebraska, worked

Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

of the campaign. Since it was a winner take all and he had about 9 or 10 opponents, the vote was naturally split. We engineered a little strategy. G: Excuse me, sir. Had you known Mr. Johnson before this? W: No, I had never met him until that afternoon when

Oral history transcript, Merrell Blackman, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: November 15, 1979 INTERVIEWEE : MERRELL BLACKMAN INTERVIEWER : MICHAEL L . GILLETTE PLACE : Mr . - Blackman's,residence, Bastrop, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with how you came to San Marcos . B: Hutto, Texas, yes, sir . school diploma

Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

, and succeeded in getting a scholarship to A&I for two years--Texas A&I University in Kingsville . I could live at home in Bishop and commute back and forth for the six miles there, and I did ; I hitchhiked back and forth every day . Then in 1933 I left Bishop

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 7 (VII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. While I haven't always agreed with the action taken, whether it be Roosevelt or whomever, I've always felt that they had information I didn't have and I had to go ahead and salute and say, "Sir," and hope for the best. So that looking back, I don't

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 6 (VI), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, everybody else said, "Sir." G: Why was this? Was he a commanding figure physically? B: Big man, great big man. Very droll, very witty, most of the time. Sometimes it wasn't so funny. But he had the confidence of political men more than almost anybody

Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh March 13, 1969 M: Let's begin, sir, by identifying you. You're Charles Diggs, a member of the House of Representatives from the State of Michigan, where you've served consecutively since 1955, I believe. D: Elected

Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, but we can fix you up in the dining room. And I don't believe you'll be identified if we just go in two at a time. We arranged that, in order to avoid creating a scene, there would just be two or three cars going to my place. I said, "I'll drive home

Oral history transcript, Robert Taft, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT TAFT, JR. INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Congressman Taft's office, Cannon 315, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's just identify you, sir. You're Robert Taft, Jr., Republican from First District of Ohio in the current

Oral history transcript, Harris Melasky, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

? M: Quickly, yes, sir, with the utmost dispatch. Mc: For the sake of the typist, I need to know how to spell these names. You mentioned someone by the name of Rowsey. M: Rowsey. R-O-W-S-E-Y. Mc: And the Chevrolet dealer? M: McConchie. M-C-C

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

--I use the word "whiz" advisedly. B: Does this putting together the commissions mean that you get involved in selecting the people to be on them? G: Yes, sir. And it's an education in itself. B: Is it difficult to get people to serve on those

Oral history transcript, Peter Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)

, and we'll see what happens from there." "Could you do that? essence." "Yes, sir, I promise. Time is of the I'll get hold of my secretary in New Mexico and have him scout around and send 35mm transparencies of some of my better portraits." it terminated

Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

with this firm ever since 1931? J: Yes, except for the war years. M: And during the war you were in the Army, were you not? J: I was in the Army, yes, sir, and I received a commission in June of 1942, which I requested that I be admitted to serve--I

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

school, I had worked my way all the way, I left home with six dollars. And I say that because I was the kind of populist that the President was, and he always accused me of being the bomb-throwing member of his LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Thomas C. Mann, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and in the streets. We spoke English, of course, in school and in the home, in my case. I went to Baylor University in 1929 and graduated five years later--going most of the summers as well as the winters--with two degrees, one an A.B. and one an LL.B. In that period

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 6 (VI), 8/18/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to Washington. There was Gale McGee, sitting all by himself at the front end of the boat looking up at the stars. He said, "It sure is pretty here. It kind of reminds me a little bit of my home state, Wyoming. I look up at these stars. You know, sometimes it's

Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

I NTERVIEl~EE : KENNETH O' DONNELL INTERV I EHER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr . O'Donnell' s office , Park Square Building , Boston , Massachusetts Tape of 2 M: let ' s get your i dentification on the beg i nning of the tape here , sir

Oral history transcript, Robert M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh 10 G: You don't recall any that tie was against, do you? J: No, sir, G: On this question of . . . . J: Excuse me . G: You were for it and he was against it? J: Well, I don't know what I was but the Congressman that I worked

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1b (I), 2/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

become a political football in which we've been unjustly criticized. Although I must say that many times the criticism of the foreigners has simply echoed the criticism of our own press here at home. M: The phrase "credibility gap" has so much centered

Oral history transcript, Gordon Bunshaft, interview 1 (I), 6/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

guessed it either . M: The time's gone pretty fast, sometimes, they said . That's why I looked it up . Let's begin by identifying you, sir . You're Gordon Bunshaft, and you're an associate with an architectural firm in New York City . B: I'm

Oral history transcript, Andrew Young, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER June 18, 1970 B: This is the interview with the Reverend Andy Young. Sir, if I may just briefly give a bit [of] background here. You are an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ. After a good deal of activity in youth

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

room with another fellow over a garage and it would cost you somewhere between six dollars and ten dollars a month for room rent. Many of the boys did their own washing or they sent it home to mommy and she'd wash and iron them and send them back

Oral history transcript, G. Preston Smith and Ellen Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of that, there wasn't any other kind of popularity that we could have had. G: Well, did the students, for example, meet your train when you would come back from a victorious debate? S: Well, of course, we went in a car and were delivered to our homes and our

Oral history transcript, Jack Hood Vaughn, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for Senegal. Sargent Shriver. It was at this point that I met This was in the summer of 1961. F: Did you meet him there? V: Yes, sir, just after Peace Corps was started. And he was looking for a man to head up the Latin American region which

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

] President's abilities. Although I knew he was interested in the program, sincerely interested in the program, I didn't get the idea that he was too happy with having this kind of thing he had to work with. M: Sir, who was the gentleman you mentioned? Z