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Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . This invitation came from Mr. John Lord O'Brian, the General Counsel, who I had been associated with when he was Special Counsel for the Tennessee Valley Authority in it's constitutional litigation. Mr. O'Brian was, and still is, generally esteemed as one
Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • communities. That meeting was an organizational meeting of mid-Western--I don't know what the exact name of it is, but in effect it was an association of citizens organizations involving the Model Cities Program. And Kincy Potter, my press person, had been
Oral history transcript, William A. Knowlton, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • easier to pull these things together. I'd like at this point to go back before I go on to the Delta or anything else [and] mention one subject which I think is very badly misunderstood and which gets a very bad play from the press because I don't think
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to make Lyndon had called a press conference at five o'clock. At that meeting were Senator Wirtz, John Connally, Jesse Kellam, Claude Wild, and myself. meeting. I think that was all that were in that Lyndon started it off. The first thing he did, he
Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • . it caused trouble, as it should have. A stupid thing to do, and And while this was done at the campus level, it quickly got into the press and to the governor's office and the board of regents, and I was in the midst of that, including eliminating
Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • would have made the same choice or not. F: That closed that conversation, didn't it? BH: Dick, in retrospect, thinking about that convention, you know we had gotten very bad press. There are simply not the facilities, unfor- tunately, in Atlantic
Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 1955. You had been at Brown University since 1946, rising from Assistant Professor to full Professor of History in 1951. In 1948 you became Associate Dean of the Graduate School, and in 1953 Dean of the College. K: I also was Dean of the Graduate
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 3 (III), 4/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was among those that was persistent in pressing the case that this was a justifiable thing for his class, perhaps in civics, to do. At any rate, he let them go to this trial. G: Did they ever indicate what trial it was? R: No, I don't know. On another
Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to the press which finally killed it. before we had consulted the Germans. M: And this hurt him politically? Mc: Yes, it hurt him politically. M: What about Erhard? It was done It caught Schroeder by surprise. There were two meetings with Mr. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ? 0: Oh, it would come from any direction--internally generated or generated from the White House . into blocs . groups . It's hard to define . Let's see if we can break it One bloc of work was associated with some continuing interagency Probably
Oral history transcript, Howard Bertsch, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . For example, we don't advertise in the local press ; we don't buy spot commercials on rural television and radio stations . We do, however, believe that doing good work in a community is perhaps our best advertisement . Neighbor-to-neighbor, man-to-man
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , Justice Black is not a chief justice; he's one of the associate justices. It's just as fascinating. I've been rather interested in the recent controversy on Justice [Abe] Fortas' appointment. So few people have realized that an associate justice has
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • sorts of miscellaneous civic leaders, PTA [Parent Teacher Association], BNBW[?], Civil Defense, a cross section of the country, farmers' wives from Grand Prairie and Cedar Hill, the sort of people whom we hoped would be our supporters. We were trying
  • to be on the ballot for more than one office; Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners; Mrs. Johnson's ability to remember names; Hubert Humphrey's political defeat; the Women's National Press Club and May Craig; Mrs. Johnson's uncertainty regarding LBJ's rise in political
Oral history transcript, Harold Fleming, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1986, by Michael Gillette (Item)
  • ." Well, that of course was indignantly reported and commented on by Pat's partisans in the press, and I'm sure it didn't please him very much, though I don't recall talking to him after that was [said]. I'm sure he didn't hang around for the whole thing
  • of the conference; the impact of the conference on related legislation; White House reception for conference organizers following the conference; the impact of the planning session on black leadership; press coverage of the conference; the relationship between
Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • supervised elections, whatever that might mean; it surely doesn't mean everything that it implies. But [it means] at least certain supervision of the fairness of the elections. Nevertheless, most of the press interpreted the elections as another
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Associate Director by prearrangement of the Florida Legislative Reference Bureau. I had a couple of years there. There was a link that's interesting in this Administration. One of the leading Senators of that time was Leroy Collins whom I worked
Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to Washington in behalf of some company business, in the interest of a company with which I was associated. I always had wanted to meet and get to know Lyndon Johnson, ever since 1941, when he had come so close to winning a special election against . . . F
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 13 (XIII), 9/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . So the manufacturers were not in a very good position to be selling their bill of goods. They had some buyers, but the buyers were people who were sympathetic to them or closely associated with them. G: Were there segments of American industry
Oral history transcript, Harold Howe II, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • discussed. I think perhaps I ought to say, just to make this record complete, that back in September and October of 1965, Frank Keppel had discussed with me at some length the possibility of becoming the Associate Commissioner of LBJ Presidential Library
  • Profession Development Act; Fine Affair; Equal Education Opportunity Survey; HEW/Labor rivalry; U.S. Employment Service; Higher Education Amendments of 1968; Vocational Amendments of 1968; 1967 Title III proposals; National Education Association; major policy
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • mentioned two areas which you thought would be of interest to incl~de here, one being the presidential additions on the letters, and another would he the development of how letters began being press. rele~sed to the I think I'll just turn this back
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • were going along as they were then; you had to have additional costs which were associated with the war, then Congress would be impelled to raise taxes. This was not the major consideration about the speech, but it was a part of it. 9 LBJ
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 3 (III), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • actual dams and courthouses and such things. G: Didn't the Appalachian Regional Commission address itself to a lot of that? . B: Hell, you get two stories. I thought so. Hammer Associates here in town? You know Phil Hammer, Phil was my successor
  • Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association); Mississippi food situation; inter-agency departmental board; regional discrimination; cabinet officers; OEO programs and policies
Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -on NYA experience, he had announced a project in advance and had gotten the press there; it was maybe a roadside park project or something. All the media people showed up, but the youths didn't show up so the project fizzled out, at least on the first
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • could notice the tension between the two from time to time, but it wasn't so marked that it marred the hearings in any way. M: No, those hearings got very good press by-and-large, as I recall. What about the impression that you had regarding Mr
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • around the table asking suggestions as to what he ought to be doing. Somebody brought up that he ought to go out and confront the demonstrators if necessary, but go out and press the flesh. And his feeling was [this]. I know he quoted John Connally
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins and Alice Hopkins, interview 4 (IV), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • did some lobbying before the Texas legislature, I guess in two instances: one, when he \'Jas teaching in Houston, he went up and lobbied for some cigarette tax that would benefit the Houston Teachers Association, or something like that. Do you
  • Early association with Johnsons; LBJ at Southwest Texas State Teachers' College; LBJ as debate coach; Alvin Wirtz; secretary to Kleberg; Maury Maverick; Al Smith; redistricting Blanco County
Oral history transcript, Richard A. Prindle, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • interest? P: Very definitely. And I would say the same with the Manufacturing Chemists Association and some of the others. M: The chemical industry is the same? P: Yes. Again~ one that originally had been quite difficult to deal
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , headed by Sam Rayburn of Texas, in connection with the big financial bills for fiscal reform in the SEC [Securities and Exchange Commission] and the utility field which Roosevelt was pressing. I was particularly fascinated by the Texan contingent
Oral history transcript, Roger Blough, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Council or to one of the groups that I was associated with in which he laid great stress on the then-improvement in business and the fact that profits had come up considerably since 1961, which at that time was true--not necessarily very true with respect
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 3 (III), 5/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Woods -- III -- 9 G: Now, I have a note that in April of 1930, you were initiated into the Press Club. Can you tell me about the Press Club more? Do you recall what
  • Association with LBJ; Blanco County; Johnson family; college life; White Stars; student activities; Houston; Professor Greene; assistant to Kleberg; Maury Maverick; 1937 campaign; campaign advisers
Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in, maybe twenty people, in this suite and said that he had this offer and that he wanted to let us know before the press knew it because we were his good friends. So to the few of us there he explained that he had had this offer, and that he felt
Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • no to aye. didn't have enough, and he headed my way. to get recognition. They still I was standing there trying I knew that if he managed to get to me or managed to say anything to me, the press was going to say that Lyndon Johnson changed my vote. I
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh December 17, 1968 F: This is an interview with Mr. Charles K . Boatner, the Director of Press Information for the Department of Interior, in his office in Washington, December 17, 1968
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 5 (V), 12/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Defense, which we were talking about in an earlier interview, and trace your association with its evolution and with some of its reorganization, and most particularly let's talk about the Department as it existed as a Department under your administration
  • Secretary of Defense appointment; hosted Inaugural Day luncheon for Johnson’s; associations with Department of Defense; inheritance of McNamara team; programs to eliminate racism in services; discrimination at bases; domestic contributions
Oral history transcript, Herbert N. Blackman, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • [Walter S.] DeLany, called the Economic Defense Advisory Cormnittee. There wa~ This was an attempt to coordinate the effort. to answer your earlier question, almost continual congressional criticism of the operation from those associated with Senator
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was organ- izing a campus club, Young Democrats, and asked if I wouldn't be interested. Somehow or other he had gotten my name through Texas Press, Intercollegiate Press Association. But we did organize the first young Democratic club in Denton, County
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /oh very first campaigns--which he incidentally lost--was charged in the public press of Texas of being the Communist organization supporting Mr . Yarborough . I suppose by the old technique of association they would make our local people Communists
Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Thursday, October 17, 1968, 3:00 p.m., at office, Jess McNeIl Machinery, San Antonio, Texas P: Mr. Bardwell, you've had a long association with politics, particularly San Antonio and Texas and among some early politicians
  • Discusses his early association with LBJ as Secretary to Congressman Kleberg; LBJ's wedding; NYA appointment; LBJ's early working habits; the 1941 and 1948 Senate campaigns; the War Production Board; Kilday-Maverick relationship; Taft-Hartley Act
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • together longer than anyone else assumed they could be kept together. His principal constituencies were three:the Negro press, with whom he had totally amiable relationships and out of whom he could get the damndest editorials at any point, praising any
  • Clark; pardons and paroles; LBJ’s relationship with Hoover; Omnibus Crime Act of 1968; Model Cities; Robert Weaver; Bob Wood; tariffs; press relations; overseas airline decision; 1968 LBJ campaign and decision not to run; political activities after the 3
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 28 (XXVIII), 9/24/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was received. O: It was received well by the audience, but you'd expect that. It's the Democratic Party chairman making a speech attacking a Republican administration, specifically Richard Nixon. As far as general press reaction, my recollection