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

Association? M: Correct. F: You've had a varied career, most of it of course oriented toward Central and South America, and have seen quite a number of changes in that period. To get personal for a moment, when did you first meet Mr. Johnson? Was it here

Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, and Birney Brenner of United Press International, and the AP guy . This is not my day to remember names--one of the loveliest guys in the world . He was at the Department for thirty-five or forty years covering us for Associated Press . But unless you

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, concluded that a telegram should be sent. In any event, as this evening continued to unfold, another matter came up. Press and network people were anxious to have a spokesman for the Kennedy side in the ballroom. I was a little intrigued to find

Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 2 (II), 11/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

at that time was General William E. DePuy, and General DePuy was quite interested in pacification as an element of the overall strategy. I would be hard pressed to remember exactly the date of Hop Tac, but it was sometime in late 1964 or very early 1965
to improved the placement of new chiefs and staff; dealing with questions from the press; how Jack Cushman dealt with the press; Montague's role in planning the Hop Tac operation and why it was unsuccessful; General Westmoreland's request for an estimate

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 2 (II), 7/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

rinky-dink contractors out there; we're talking about very big companies, okay? And there was a great fear that these big companies were getting off the hook, so to speak, by their association with the so-called Plans for Progress program. G

Oral history transcript, Michael E. DeBakey, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

and from many organizations, like the Heart Association and the American Medical Association and the College of Cardiology, and so on. Once we had all the facts that we could collect, well, then we sifted these, analyzed and reviewed them, and drew
; associated with LBJ both in Congress and when VP about health projects; LBJ's sense of humanitarianism; early Medicare conflicts; LBJ's success in Medicare Bill passage; assigned chairman of the Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston

Oral history transcript, George Hartzog, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/20/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

St. Louis were also directors of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Association, which was a cooperating association on that project. That's how I got to meet them. F: And then you rejoined the Park Service? H: In '63 as the Associate

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

the portrait in the White House. The President was away at the time, and it was unfinished so I didn't want hinl to see it anyway, nor Mrs. Johnson either. But he had arranged to have it shown to some of the people on the White House Historical Association

Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

beginning to take the view that as long as they're white there's no difference. B: That bloomed a little later. It's associated publicly with the Meredith March in '66. was really asking was how early first signs of it began. R: Oh, there were signs

Oral history transcript, Norman M. Clapp, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh December 6, 1968 B: This is the interview with Norman Clapp, the Administrator of the Rural Electric Administration. Sir, to begin, back in the early stages of your career you were associated with Congress for a good many

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

at a very delicate stage in our association just at that time on settling the claims, and the State Department--I speak of "the" Department as if it were an anonymous entity--which you do, you know, when you are in it--but actually by that time I really

Oral history transcript, Myron R. Blee, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

wanted by the White House? B: I had been associated for many years with Farris Bryant, who had been governor of Florida . President Johnson asked him to come and be the director of the Office of Emergency Planning, and it was through my association

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

remember? This was a question that was raised a lot in the press. J: I don't remember. But let me ask you a question. Was this before we went in or after we went in? G: No, after. After. J: Oh, I wouldn't be surprised. No, I don't know, but I wouldn't
of the war and the information and advice he was receiving; how LBJ obtained information; LBJ's secrecy and relationship with the press; LBJ's travel planning; LBJ's opinion of William McChesney Martin; Joseph Swidler as head of the Federal Power Commission

Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the real estate business, managing apartment houses in syndication in New York City. I had gotten into interpreting quite accidentally, at first for the Carnegie Foundation; subsequently the Young Women's Christian Association, the national board

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for leadership in this problem? In othe~ words, they'd like for the commission to show a strong hand? W: No. In one of my half-a-dozen going-away press conferences when I left the commission, I was asked at each one of them the same series of questions like

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. They set a lot of store by their annual summer barbeque, or their dances, or their camaraderie. G: You were elected vice president of the UT [University of Texas] Ex-Students Association in Washington that year. J: That was something else, a much
and letters to high school graduates; John and Nellie Connally's wedding; LBJ's respiratory problems; friends in the press and the Johnsons' widening circle of friends.

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

, l985 INTERVIEWEE: WILLIAM D. CAREY INTERVIEWER: Janet Kerr-Tener PLACE: Mr. Carey's office, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 K: I wanted to start by asking you just to tell a little bit

Oral history transcript, Tommie W. Glick and Sarah Taylor, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

. She's extremely All of these things are already well I think she'd do a good job or be a great help to anybody she was associated with or cared about. I think this is the sort of person she is. Mc: Do you think that it's made any difference in your

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

in at the last minute and saved the day. So we had two or three of them that saved the day when they were certifying. But I think, when it was all told, that they did have votes enough that they weren't worried about it. B: How did the press handle this issue

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 2 (II), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

; and another associate counsel who is really rather separate. B: I think the point is that most of them, I believe, are lawyers. W: They are lawyers, and each has a very different role, depending upon the particular matters that are coming up, but also upon

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 25 (XXV), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, unanimously incidentally, despite threats of filibusters and what have you. I have no idea what it took to do that but I'm sure it took something. But right around the time he goes to work on the board for what was then--the press was calling it a thirty

Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the Eisenhower Administration. Then I went back to Kansas State University as an associate professor in the fall of 1959. At that time I was partly politically motivated because I left the government principally to go back and get interested in the John F

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] O'Brien -- Interview III -- 5 hadn't changed my practices. G: One of the press
legislation; JFK's personal interest in Medicare; the American Medical Association's lobbying effort against Medicare; the Kerr-Mills Act of 1960; a Madison Square Garden event to pressure Congress to support Medicare; Orville Freeman's assistance

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 11 (XI), 4/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to it? J: Very much to stay away from it because he had two [friends running]. Actually Price Daniel was a closer friend, but Tom Connally certainly had been an associate longer and perhaps more intimately in legisla tive matters and in colTITiittee

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- X -- 5 decided, after quite a while of seeing the fair, we would slip away and see our old friend, Bill White, who had been transferred by the Associated Press to New York. [He] lived in one of those huge apartment
Political issues of 1939; where the Johnsons lived; the Johnsons' friends; raising the height of the Marshall Ford Dam; the extension of Rural Electric Association lines and building of the Pedernales Electric Co-op in Johnson City; Lady Bird

Oral history transcript, Patrick V. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

/loh/oh 10 people concerned, was that the Secret Service people who had supervision over the White House police tried several times to get people from the Metropolitan Police Department assigned into the White House. Of course we were pressed

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

he slept. There's too much history associated with that period, even though in retrospect it seems like maybe it was a year, or a year and two summers, it could easily have been just two or three months periods. G: What did his father do while his
Biographical information; Association with LBJ; Blanco County; Johnson family; college life

Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to 1969. Mr. McGiffert, I'd like to begin the interview with briefly recounting your background and your various government positions. You were a lawyer associated with a Washington, D.C. firm for the period from 1953 to 1960 and [you were] also

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in one of those pictures you've got-and had been Freeman's press man or whatever you [call it], spokesman. I got old Rod to prepare a reply and I kept trying to get hold of Sarge. The switchboard said they couldn't find him, and they said there wasn't
Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association); Mississippi food situation; inter-agency departmental board; regional discrimination; cabinet officers; OEO programs and policies

Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

!.> and who was my very c1oses t associate- I had not known him before I went to the White House, but we had come to be very congenial and friendly during the time I was there, so being with him accentuated it. This was really a traumatic experience
to the UN relating to Texas; story of Mrs. Hays being robbed; handling church-state relations for LBJ; selected associate director of the Community Relations Service; Governor Faubus; regrets the Southern Manifesto; Faubus helps unseat Hays in the election

Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

magazine went to press on Sunday night, but they did most of their editing through Saturday. He knew that correspondents had to file overnight Thursday, so that the editors in New York got the raw copy on Friday morning. zine's night. Now, I want you
Sidey’s contact with LBJ during the Senate period; his work with Time magazine covering LBJ; 1957 Civil Rights Bill; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s relationship with other politicians; press coverage of LBJ in the Senate years; difference between Senate

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

, and President Johnson was president at that time, and I thought it would just be an outrage for the city of Austin to have a Republican mayor, with Lyndon Johnson and all the Washington press coming to Johnson City and Austin. I reminded the President that I had
Long as mayor pro tem, 1967-1969; appointed to World Population Commission by LBJ; Stuart Long’s appointment to National Water Pollution Commission; liberals; Senator Ralph Yarborough; LBJ and civil rights; LBJ’s press relations; Stuart Long’s letters

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

should point out here for the record that since 1960 you had been with the Washington Planning and Housing Association, a private group, on the board and for a term the president of the group. P: That's correct. S: I assume that that is a private

Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

pretty much today. But even when he was Vice President, of course, we weren't pressing him on legislative matters. We did have a number of contacts with him. Mu: Did Mr. Kennedy use him for anything that involved organized labor--? Me: Not directly

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on Johnson's part. This I believe I think if we knew the other side of Stevenson, had we had the association and so forth to sit down and talk like you and I are, for weeks at a time, to know their families and the way things are going, which they didn't do

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 12 (XII), 10/29/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: I remember dimly, so my recollection may not be right, that we were constantly pressing [Attorney General] Nick Katzenbach and the Justice Department to get more and more people into the voting arena in the South. The Wiley Branton move as a special

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 3 (III), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

there numbered about six or seven people at that time. The New York Times was there, AP [Associated Press], a few others, a couple of British; two or three people in Beirut came over regularly. The press was handled by the USIA [United States Information Agency
; Nasser's ignorance of American government; Battle's relationship with the press; information leaks; the Arab understanding of breaking diplomatic relations; Nasser's goals for Egypt and his increased recognition among world leaders; the state of Egypt

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in '60, and then went for Johnson rather heavily in '64. In 1960 did you work with the business community at all? W: No. Of course, I was--I didn't because, again, I was in on trial so much of the time that I was very hard pressed to do anything
; problems with Interior Department; shift to Civil Division; Pure and Union Oil; critical of Ramsey Clark as Attorney General; LBJ’s difficulties with Establishment press; missile/satellite program investigation; LBJ’s neglect of functions as leader

Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

endorse- ments. G: I'm sure the Chronicle did; I'd forgotten about the Post. S: Endorsed Coke you mean? G: Yes. S: The Post could possibly--and the Press was an active newspaper at that time, and I'm rather certain the Press did not endorse Johnson
Association; theory of LBJ’s success as a legislator; 1956 precinct fight; LBJ and Shivers; 1956 national committeewoman controversy; 1956 Democratic National Convention; LBJ and Yarborough; LBJ’s 1960 Presidential aspirations; reaction to acceptance of VP

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

that danger, unless this corporation and its members exercise very wise and judicious leadership. M: At this same period of time, 1967, you got into the difficulty with the National Student Association. Apparently that news story broke in February 1967

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