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Oral history transcript, Donald A. Williams, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • have been of group nature rather than individual nature. B= Have all of these meetings been in connection with the work of the Soil Conservation Service? W: Related to work of the Soil Conservation Service. For example, the Keep America Beautiful
  • Biographical information; contact with LBJ; Keep America Beautiful; LBJ strong support of conservation and development; Soil Conservation Service; Lady Bird’s interest in the outdoors and natural beautification; Great Plains Conservation Program
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it has been a change of pace to have the Democrats in the majority. But to get back to what I was telling you about refining my interest in politics. I went to work for the United Mine Workers in 1935, after I was out of college several years
  • Rowe’s upbringing; working for the United Mine Workers; early social interaction with LBJ; Maury Maverick; how Jim Rowe came to work for LBJ; LBJ’s mentee relationships with Sam Rayburn and Alvin Wirtz; how LBJ hellped Jim Rowe get into the Navy
Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • or five years old. He was very poor. It was depression down there. school wherever the ice trucks stopped in Miami. public high schools. [He] went to Miami He, then, went to the University of Florida. dropped out a year and ran his father's farm
Oral history transcript, Laurance Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • document which he, I think, never published. But he and Secretary [Stewart] Udall considered it a very important document. Actually as a result of this, we put it in book form, A More Beautiful America -- Lyndon B. Johnson, you see. This was done I think
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to the United States of America by terms of this instrument available fo= research as soon as it has been deposited in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Lib_rnxy . 3 . A revision of this stipula tic :: governing access to the material for research ray be entered
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • -sawmill-farming community west of Jacksonville, which was where I grew up . I attended the public schools there, and I also attended the public schools in New York and Massachusetts . M: Your family must have moved some then? B: No, I had a lot
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • called Mr. George Sokolsky, who then became very famous in the United States, where he was the main editorial columnist of the Sun. He also became an LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
  • to the United States and involvement in the microfilm business; New York Governor Alfred Smith; a plane crashing into the Empire State Building; marrying Charles Engelhard; Engelhard’s political career; Engelhard’s involvement in the gold business; race
Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in Appalachia? Well, it's as old as the New Deal. The first study of Appalachia was done in 1936, by, interestingly enough, the United States Navy Surgeon, who somehow had been appalled by this degrading poverty he had seen and launched a study. It really
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Shipbuilders, in the sense of the workers in the shipyards, wanted a larger domestic shipbuilding program. One of the main policy contro- versies was generated by the proposal of the Commerce Department, under Alan Boyd's leadership as under secretary
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to second the nomination. He was so pleased with that honor, he was one of the best workers Roosevelt ever had! F: It made a convert out of him. C: Oh, it made a convert out of Irim. he knew it. F: He was speaking for Roosevel t before It was just
Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 1 (I), 7/3/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • States Code and subject to the terms and provisions hereinafter set forth, I, Phillip Tocker of Austin, Texas do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recordings and transcripts
  • Biographical information; how Tocker came to know LBJ; the billboard bonus law of 1958; Tocker’s work for the Outdoor Advertising Association of America; passing an amendment to the billboard bonus law; LBJ’s stance in regard to the billboard bonus
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 2 (II), 5/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • give, donate, and convey to the United states of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therein by the authorities thereof, a tape and transscript of a personal statement approved by me
Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • of Title 44, United States Code and subject to the terms and provisions hereinafter set forth, I, Phillip Tocker' of Austin, Texas do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recordings
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therein by the authorities thereof, a tape and transscript of a personal
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for deposit in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therein by the authorities thereof, tapes and transcripts of a personal statement
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , hereinafter r e f e r r e d t o as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United S t a t e s o f A m e r i for eventual deposit in the propsed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therin by the authorities t h e r o f , a t a p e
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the United States. That was the best thing that got done with the money, and that was a great thing, because intensive care centers saved lives. G: How did that get accomplished? L: It was a concept that people had. volved. There were a variety
Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and photographed and so on, I said, "Kennedy is really the second President of the United States who has shown any interest in Washington . Jefferson ." Th.e first one was So I thought with that kind of reception we had a good chance . ­ I suggested to each one
Oral history transcript, Lowell K. Bridwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in Westerville, Ohio, in 1924 . B: That's correct . M: Educated at Otterbein University? B: Otterbein College, which is in Westerville, Ohio . school associated with the United Brethren Church . It's a denominational At that time, it was the United
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • is," and that's when the call went out all over North America, "Find him!" And the FBI officers, for example, in Rapid City, not knowing I was going to be flying to Washington, said: "I would suggest that you and your family LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • more education, desalinization, health--a variety of things. I was interested in the efforts of Paul Hoffman in the United Nations Development Fund. It was really an effort to put our relations with the rest of the world in perspective and LBJ
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • fteocrfhvsetindSeais.t 2. It is the donor's wish to make the material donated to the United States of America by terms of this instrument available for research as soon as it has been deposited in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. 3. A revision of this stipulation
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • put through that civil rights bill, nobody but him could have put it through. There isn't another man in the United States who could have gotten it through. You had to be the man at the right time at the right place. Four years later he couldn't
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • System of the United States. The public generally doesn't think of it in that sense, but the fact is that, as one of our national treasures, it is a member of our great National Park System. F: So you have supervision of it in one sense? C: We do
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)