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Oral history transcript, Antonio J. Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • merchant, landowner, cotton farmer, engaged in a type of operation that is practically extinct now, known as "advancing." He advanced the land and the equipment to farm it and the seeds and the sustenance of the tenants, and the reckoning came in the fall
Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , which certainly transformed the economic, and cultural, and social life of a nation as occupation needs shifted from the unskilled to the skilled. And of course people continued to move from the rural areas into the urban areas. So that we were faced
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • a fellow was subject to an injunction, he really thought before he did anything because that judge could commit him for contempt. And this was something that people didn't want to have happen to them so they followed the law. The Restaurant Association
  • Biographical information; Hobart Taylor, Sr. and LBJ; civil rights cases in Michigan; NAACP; Export-Import Bank; Cliff Carter; early association with LBJ in 1960; 1960 and 1964 campaigns; JFK; Plans for PROGRESS; Jerry Holleman; RFK and LBJ
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , got there a little ahead of the presidential p~ane, as did Vice President Johnson. So we saw Kennedy and Jackie get off of Air Force One; Johnson and Connally and, I guess, Yarborough were there in line--the people who greeted them as they LBJ
  • had to LBJ; 1964 campaign; LBJ’s inability to announce travel plans in advance; LBJ choosing a running mate; LBJ lying to the press; comparison of LBJ’s press secretaries; the Walter Jenkins incident; off-the-record interviews; naming Nicholas
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • - national Affairs at Princeton on the expropriation of American property in Cuba in 1959. After the election and the inaugural in 1961, Bill and Sarge were very helpful getting me interviews with certain people I needed in the State Department for my
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be manufactured by an advance man. You can bring out several thousands of people, you can get the school dismissed, etc., and these are ageless and wellused advance men tricks. But you cannot generate hundreds of thousands of friendly people, thronging every
Oral history transcript, Oscar M. Laurel, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • prejudice? L: I think they're helpful with regard to letting people know that regardless of their own individual prejudices that America is not about to stand for any distinction between nationality groups or colors or religions, or whatever it may
Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • into the state and helped our people advance. F: There wasn't any suspicion whatsoever that this might cause you trouble? $: On anyone's part. I can say that we thought that he was strictly going for the benefit of the Senator's campaign. As to the manner
  • Biographical information; what his jobs were for LBJ; how the staff decided which invitations LBJ would accept; Senator Dodd; advance work; Bobby Baker; working with the Kennedy staff; the JFK assassination and Sinclair’s work in the following days
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and people in various government departments in my capacity as president of the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association primarily. That was a non-paid job, it's just an elective like any other of these associations. LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • low key, at least to start with. People were just speaking their minds. It was almost an academic sort of seminar. Indeed it was interesting how many people there were Ph.D.s or were backed up by a scholar who was associated with the work. ple
  • Initial involvement with the War on Poverty; work with the Council of Economic Advisers; income distribution; tax cut; 1964 campaign and poverty problem; meetings on poverty issue; differences in concept of poverty; key people involved; rejection
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that coverage by a group of younger reporters, good journalists, but young mavericks, rebels, young Turks, whatever label you want to put on them. David Halberstam of the New York Times, Malcolm Browne of the Associated Press, Neil Sheehan of UPI, Nick Turner
Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there on a mission involving LeRoy Collins, who was then the head of the National Association of Broadcasters, and Justice Douglas with some foundation money to see about setting up a literacy program. They had a television station which had belonged to the old
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a liking to Johnson as a young Congressman and wanted to make sure that he got broader acquaintanceship with people throughout the country, and he asked Hopkins to put him in touch with someone in New York who could introduce him around, and Hopkins picked
  • Natural resources and national parks
  • of the Democratic Party; Young Citizens for LBJ in 1964; Birch Bayh; ran Associates Division of President’s Club; McSurley case; 5th Amendment; Bill Moyers; importance of Jack Valenti; reason Katzenbach moved to State; comparison of Katzenbach and Clark; Task Force
Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ? No, the reason I didn't go to Los Angeles was that I was for Jack Kennedy, but I had a long, close association with Stevenson, and I was one of the people that was caught in that bind. PM: There were a lot. M: Yes, that's right. Jack Kennedy asked me
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a national party; he didn't know how to handle people outside of the narrow acquaintanceship that he had, and this contributed to his downfall as much as the Vietnam War. F: Well, now then, why didn't Bailey move into this vacuum and run an organization
  • Natural resources and national parks
  • of the Democratic Party; Young Citizens for LBJ in 1964; Birch Bayh; ran Associates Division of President’s Club; McSurley case; 5th Amendment; Bill Moyers; importance of Jack Valenti; reason Katzenbach moved to State; comparison of Katzenbach and Clark; Task Force
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and then walk down with the color guard, so that we would receive the state guests as a foursome, the President and the Vice President . Every time we had a private party, which was about five times I think in the time we were there, we'd always ask
Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh SUNDQUIST -- I -- 13 to these measures. They consisted of people, to a considerable extent, with rural backgrounds. They had come out of the Agricul- ture Department or associated fields of academic work. The econo- mists
Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , you just don't have a party organization and then we'd be in much the same role as the people we criticized in the early fifties. It just wasn't a role I cared to further. OM: This reminds me, did you happen to go to the national convention in 1956
Oral history transcript, Joseph D. Keenan, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Committee die, and the National Committee is the politician's life's blood. He brought on .his crony- ism; he brought a lot of people in that COUldn't help him any. I think in order to have a successful pol itical orga'nization that y"ou bring in all
  • campaign for Truman; LBJ’s social legislation while president; labor’s support of social legislation to help working people; wage-price control; LBJ’s decision not to run for re-election in 1968; LBJ’s relationship with the Democratic National Committee.
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . And I remember a meeting in the Cabinet Room--in fact it was almost the first day I reported for work in the summer of '62--with Kennedy and Wi 1bur Mills, and I don t know whether Mahon was there, I but one or two other people from the Congress were
Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that, but I didn't involve myself as much as I did in the 1964 campaign. Then I really attacked it. I said, "Whatever you want me to do, I'm there. I'll be there, whatever you want." F: To whom did you say this? To your California people
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • advanced up the ladder? R: I don't know. I think the jobs, in a sense, are not comparable, because it was much easier to have security in the Senate. He was dealing with a handful of people, senators, and I think he could more or less do all
  • at start of LBJ presidency; LBJ and his advisors; LBJ’s method of operation; press comparison of LBJ and Nixon; 1964 campaign; LBJ and Mike Mansfield; Democratic National Committee; fund-raising committees; Lady Bird and Mrs. Rowe
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and there was no program. F: Who was advancing for the Kennedys? Was O'Donnell on that? V: Not O'Donnell. The key Kennedy advance man was Marty Underwood. One of the best advance men for the Secret Service was Ron Pontius. I began to work on the program. I worked my
Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE P. MILLER INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: The Millers' 22~ 1974 home~ Washington~ D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: My association with Lyndon Johnson was a very pleasant one. F: You overlapped in Congress, didn't you? M: Overlapped
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in trouble in the different instfiutions that it had around the country, including National Training School r~ght here. But it wouldn't have had any preventative experience except what Bob Kennedy had kind of absorbed personally through two or three people
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . He'd made a good governor, most people in And it ,,,as a political race, and feelings were aroused. Naturally I was working as hard for my man as I could. B: What made Hr. Johnson seem liberal? M: I suppose association in the minds of many people
Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://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 2 at that time helped to form, the Independent Petroleum Association of California
Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that people did in those days. I did the usual I looked for any kind of a job that would help us pay for the groceries. My dad was working about two days a week and not making an awful lot of money in the mines at that time. The best I could do
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --speaking nationally and internationally on American foreign policy; and so from my point of view this was the crusade to try to stand for international questions. Of course, aiding and abetting this was the fact that I had crisscrossed the state, every
Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • not be descriptive. I've known him for a long time. I've known him well and favorably for a long time and I've been an admirer of his, as have most people in Texas. B: About when would you say your fairly close relationship with him began? S: I saw him
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • had 3500 people, knew everybody else, so of course I knew him. F: Now you would have been in junior high probably, or the equivalent? N: We just had grarrnnar and high school. F: Was he in another school from you? N: Yes, He taught
Oral history transcript, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the position it was a National Democratic Party-- T: The national Democratic Party had taken positions that \'/ere repugnant to many of the Southern states, and our people were in rebellion about it. Georgia went for the Republican candidate in the 1964
Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 2 (II), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you recall that? S: Yes. I wasn't there. I sent my under secretary to that meeting. [LBJ] got along very well with business people. No problems. G: Were they at all apprehensive about him at first? S: No, I don't think so. G: Now, you worked
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and television [people] at a big meeting in a tent someplace. said he drove up in the car with Johnson. Johnson saw all the television equipment and said, "I'm not going in." "Well, why not?" He Hayes said, He said, "You didn't tell me this was supposed
  • ; 1968 convention; Anna Chennault and Nixon; LBJ and the Kennedy people