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Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , so I turned on the television then. By that time it was on the news. F: Were you able to keep up with Jack during this next several hours? Or did you kind of have some idea where he might be? V: He called me from Dallas and by this time President
Oral history transcript, John L. Monahan, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and all their staffs. ever seen. He was the best man for the job that I've I didn't get along So well with some of the people that worked for him, in both administrations, especially when they were relatively new. That may have been because when I
Oral history transcript, Claud Kellam, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • about the same salary, I guess, but he had a number of children)as I recall. G: I ~ay be wrong. Was he the sort of man who would have thought that the New Deal was good? K: Greene? I \'JOuld say so, yes. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Llewellyn B. Griffith, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/15/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was glad to help him. A few days after he had been fixed up, so to speak, his son. Lyndon Johnson, came to see me and asked me to have a talk with him about this new agency that he was going to be the head of, the NYA. It seems that the NYA was in some
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to the Dallas News, which is the example of what I would think would happen. M: Mr. Jacobsen, one of the reasons for asking this is that there is a lot of material written about the fact that this is somehow indicative of Mr. Johnson's early aspirations
  • into Washington and Jacobsen’s job; Larry O’Brien; morning bedroom duty with Marvin Watson; LBJ’s morning routine; Jacobsen’s duties on visits to the Ranch; LBJ’s personality and compassion; foreign relations; President LBJ’s relationship with Congress; trips
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • here that ,.,as at that time Powell, Rauhut, Maginnis, Reavlcy, and Lochridge. After having been in that law Eirm practicing law for some two-and-a-half years, when January 1963 carne around Governor Connally was looking for what he referred to as new
Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with usually in the Senate? B : No, but on occasion it would happen. a very important point . My wife raises a point that is It's not unimportant that she was born in Fort Worth and lived in Dallas until she came up here with the Kennedy Administration
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Boatner -- IV -- 3 still was apprehensive, but I went ahead with the plans and got an airline to say that it would bring them in on a training flight. They were training some new pilots to go to Australia, and they would
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • his best judgment and go forward. F: Let's go back to that first morning you reported in the Littlefield Building . The NYA in Texas is new, right? B: Right . F: So you don't really have any organization . You're there to get started
Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with the President, too? R: What happened was, they sent me out to Manila with the Secretary of State. The President headed for Pago Pago. We, came back on Sunday or Saturday night; the President left Monday morning for Hawaii and Pago Pago and Australia and New
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • put us out of the steel making business for eighteen months. With the help of Dallas bankers we went to New York to a big bank that could have made a $75,000,000 loan just like a peanut loan, and we couldn't get any attention from them at all
Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the President just sort of verbatim repeated everything he'd said all along the way and impressed him so much. He never forgot that. So he said, "Well, we'll have to think about it." So Dale came home. They called him again the next morning for him to come back
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 6 (VI), 8/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • kep t helped. If he couldn J t see you eight to five, he could see you five to eight the next morning. T: That's right. r.~obe= I do not know of a single instance in which a Cabinet . or a key member of Congress asked to see the President that he
Oral history transcript, Myron R. Blee, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • o'clock in the morning to the center where the training had taken place . She had specified in accepting the invitation that she wanted to get out where these people were working, where they had been trained . had been working, and she did . She wanted
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 11 (XI), 7/24/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEW XI DATE: July 24, 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 4, Side 1 G: Okay, why don't we begin 1965? You talked briefly last time about the impact
  • demonstrations like the one in Selma on the Voting Rights Act; LBJ's support for voting rights; the negative effect of American media coverage on public perception of U.S. involvement in Vietnam; O'Brien's concerns over television news presentation of events
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ; served some in New Orleans; I served Some in the Atlantic and some in the Pacific. My last tour of duty was at Kwajalain in the Pacific; I was there when the Japanese surrender took place. And as quick as I could get passage, I carne back to America
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 6 (VI), 4/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of them here fortunately right away. Others were much slower than we anticipated because we couldn't get the transportation. So I asked that a new organization be set up. Space was provided. A new command center was created in the Pentagon. A general
Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the air force, and in 1966 a temporary duty assignment came down--I was in New Mexico at the time--and it was for "a photographer in Washington," and that's all it said. assignment. I only had about three months to go. September of 1966. I got the I
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Calvert, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • has it I said, "All hell's going to pop So, the next morning the committee met, and they took these certificates. They had adding machines, and it was just a simple matter of adding the totals shown on these two hundred fiftyfour certificates
Oral history transcript, Eugene Williams and Helen Williams, interview 1 (I), 10/27/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • • • . probably about 160, I believe. MG: What do you r'o:member about that? HW: Well, I remember when they were beginning to hj re blacks [Whittington] Azy Taylor? these positions. £01' He asked me one morning, "Helen, do you know a smart, attractive
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • easy to be a Monday morning quarterback on events like this. I was at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked, and there's no shock greater from an individual to shift into a shooting war at the pop of your fingers. I don't give a damn who you
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 1968 when you were defeated for reelection. I'd like to begin the interview and just ask you what made you decide to enter public life and politics back in 19391 M: I had been a political writer on the old Oklahoma News, had covered a number
Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there was much chance of it passing in the Senate, and we were probably going to have to wait til next year. I immediately got on the phone with Bridges. He was up in New Hampshire at the time. He indicated that he would come back to Washington. I had an FBI
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • people would even go so far as to cut out chunks of the telephone book. or course, it was easy enough in the morning, because you had the Washington Post, the New York Times , the Congressional Record , the Federal Register, and then whatever memoranda
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ," I'd talk about "the economic-fiscal-financial group." It got to be such an awkward handle that I one time decided that if we had the Troika, which had already been named, the least I could do was get a new handle for this group of four. So I looked
  • Troika; Quadriad; Council of Economic Advisers; administration differences; details of tax cut; trade-offs with Congress on budget cuts; Wilbur Mills; Harry Byrd; origin of tax cut; Samuelson Task Force; “new economics;” tax increases; Vietnam’s
Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • by here and for him to brief him. 'Course, he knew nothing about his campaign, so he came here and spent the night that night, and they stayed up till two o'clock in the morning talking over this thing and taking down notes. Sam knew every newspaperman
Oral history transcript, James A. Shannon, interview 1 (I), 4/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Mulhollan PLACE: Mr. Bundy's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by way of identification. You are McGeorge Bundy, currently president of the Ford Foundation. Your government service, insofar as President Johnson's administration
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • York. Lyndon usually attended both things, quite often with Johnny Runyon and the Dallas Times Herald people. The American Legion had a big dinner. G: Did you go to that event in New York with him, the newspaper--? J: I often did, and I think
Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , was [a] fairly new aircraft in our wing there at SAM [Special Air Mission]. They came out in 1961, late 1960 and 1961. And Cross had flown Johnson several times and Cross married a local Austin girl. In conversations, the Vice President at that time learned
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • days. He had worked for the old New York World and the National Farmers Union. [He was] really an interesting guy and knew a tremendous amount about Congress and the way things were done, not the textbook kind of legislative process, but the way
Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . on with you about developing." invitation to fly immediately to Then he said, "I'd like to have Mr. Shriver explain what this is all about." to an being Sargent Shriver said, "We want to talk part of an exciting new program we're I replied
Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was for Homer's benefit that he was giving me this going over because I had done what LBJ really wanted done. G: Oh, really. How did you find that out? H: Well, I got a couple of new shirts. He never would say he was sorry, but that's when you would get
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Well, yes, but the point of it is she wrote for several papers. She wrote for the Dallas News, San Antonio Express, Austin American, before she met Daddy. G: Is that right? J: Then Daddy married her shortly after her father died. Daddy
Oral history transcript, Fred Korth, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • helicopter which was being manufactured between Fort Harth and Dallas in Tarrant County. of the name of the pilot. I can't think I think it was Mashburn, I believe was his name, who flew Mr. Johnson on many occasions thereafter. Actually, I had arranged
Oral history transcript, Thomas D. (Tom) Mills, interview 1 (I), 8/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • this was the same time--I went out to The Elms early one morning and drew some blood work on him. G: What was that for? M: Well, it was just a follow-up to see if he had infections, fasting, chemistries, and things. I 2 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • remember that the WPA had control of the NYA purse strings and had ultimate control over the employment of NYA personnel. I know that Mr. Johnson and Mr. Kellam frequently went to San Antonio. They'd go to San Antonio in the middle of the morning
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • but cannot be expressed in simple terms. And I think at that particular point, Texas was beginning to suffer from a feeling that it was looked down upon by the rest of the nation. That you had all of these eastern liberal snobs up in Washington and New
Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the morning, and my name is David McComb. Mr. Hall, first of all, I'd like to know something about your background. Where were you born, and when, and where did you get your education? H: Dr. McComb, I was born in Houston on May 30, 1907. But I've lived
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • DATE: January 9-10, 1982 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas Tape 1 of 2 J: The winter and spring of 1950 began a new thing in my life and that is carpooling. Lynda, at six