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Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it at the reporters. You can imagine what a spectacle that was with the leader of the Soviet Union throwing handfuls of corn at people because he didn't understand why all the reporters were there. He did complain to Eisenhower. He asked Eisenhower to get
Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Your trips abroad perhaps present one of the greatest challenges to the overall protective picture. You normally send a team of advance special agents who work with people who are communicators
  • Secret Service car following him on the highway; paint throwing incident in Melbourne; death of Clarence Kretsch’s child at LBJ Ranch; nationally televised remarks to Secret Service personnel on the White House lawn
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • County--Russellville. It's in the Arkansas River Valley halfway between Little Rock and Fort Smith. We had a good-sized colored population~ I would suppose about twenty per cent of our people in the town were black. challenge~ ism there. And it had
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, Jesse Kellam, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • would have wanted to have been a good one. If Mrs. Johnson had gotten into automobile manufacturing, he would want it to be successful. He, Mr. Johnson, is a competitor at heart. He likes to be associated with enterprises and people who are successful
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 24 if you want to call it that, of CIA support of National Students Association and some publications. I presume this goes back to the period in which you were
  • ; CIA role exaggerated by press; National Students Association; Watts and racial problems; Kerner Report; CIA relationship with other organizations in Vietnam; raw information provided for by the CIA
Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • done nationally. Then of course we had six different organizations working at the local level. And people came with leaders. Every bus that carne in had a particular leader, and he had certain very important things to do, and did them rather well
Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • at KTBC as an announcer. B: And after being hired as an announcer, Mr. Pryor went on to be program director and master of ceremonies of, I should say, national fame. You ha ve done shows all ove r the count ry since that time, have you not? P: Yes
Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • want to get associated with it. B: Was one of the ideas of the train at its inception to kind of make people stand up and be counted? S: That was one way, I think, of bringing some of the, you might say reluctant, so-called Democratic leaders out
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with companies--potential advertisers. F: He was seeking national advertisers? W: Both local and national. Most national advertisers have local interests in the Texas area. F: And so he was hoping to work through the horne office to induce local people
Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Johnson treatment that he used to give people in the Senate particularly, Congress a little less so. As a member of the staff, did you see evidences of this? Is this legitimate, or is this something that his associates and the press have invented? P
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • up a great deal of strength on the second ballot. What Johnson's problem was, I feel there were just too many strong people in the rtmning, and that the nation didn't know him too well, even though he had been Majority Leader. I think those were
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • be on the side that Texas was on, irrespective of the fact that he did occupy some national position. However, among the informed people, this was not really a major problem. They understood that he had a dual function and they understood that he had to take
  • Biographical information; working for Price Daniel; Jacobsen’s personal political philosophy; 1940’s and 1950’s political climate in Texas; LBJ’s reputation as a congressman; LBJ’s early advisers and associates; law suit involving the 1948 election
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, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Assistant Director of the Office of Tax Analysis, which was the successor organization to the Division of Tax Research. The Division of Tax Research--and now the Office of Tax Analysis--is the place in the government where advanced research and thinking
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . But it was a colorful thing. They sang, liThe Yellow Rose of Texas lt and there was a lot of activity. It got off to a bad start which is a famous story by now about the first stop outside of Washington was Culpepper, Virginia and there were about fifteen people out
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and went to Houston and worked for the Federal Land Bank as a junior attorney for about a year and a half; then moved to Austin to help my friend LBJ organize and initiate the National Youth Administration program in Texas. That was in the summer of 1935
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was responsible for setting up and organizing training programs for the Latin American countries in the aviation field. And I was in charge of the maintenance of their airplanes and actually the housing of their people LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was right and to be a strong advocate of Roosevelt's policies and programs. He seemed not to have his own interests foremost, except that he subscribed to whatever his interpretation was of Roosevelt's political philosophy and wanted to advance it. B: Do
  • First meeting with LBJ; LBJ’s relationship to Rayburn; Carl Vinson and FDR; LBJ in the House; Lady Bird; Civil Rights Bill; LBJ’s relationship with Humphrey, Truman, Eisenhower and the Kennedy’s; LBJ’s opinion of career military people; 1956
Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was viewed by our people as being much more conservative. prevailed until he actually became the Majority Leader. This His attitude toward the things that we were interested in, I would say, became more favorable as time went. But still
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • will then be placed in the Library, to be administered by the people at the National Archives incidentally, and this will be used as Mr. Beckworth wishes. B: Thank you. That's very fine. M: This is an interview with Mr. Lindley Beckworth. outside of Gladewater
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was up at the United Nations. And so his first inclination was to choose his own staff, when he had the clout to do it. President Kennedy did tell him he could take anyone to Saigon who was willing to go, and he could send anyone home whether he
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
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Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 1 (I), 1/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Pollak-- I -- 15 P: That there was some feeling of that kind. The group that I became associated with that was working on the National Service Program included a number of people who had worked with the President's Council
  • Biographical information; Tidelands Act; Old Miss and the James Meredith crisis; early work in anticipation of the Peace Corps; VISTA and poverty program; National Service Program; Sargent Shriver; recollections of day of the JFK assassination; RFK
Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • I know are reconstructed Southerners. I'm a Southerner myself, and I know that Southerners--I have yet to see a single Southerner who didn't have the capacity to like, if not love, and feel very close to individual black people, though the problem
  • government positions; reaction to Kerner Commission report; MLK; Vietnam War criticized by black people; innate compassionate nature of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • career, subject to additions and corrections, you were born in 1911 in Jersey City ; you worked as an instrument repairman for Western Electric ; and in 1938 organized and became the president of the National Association of Telephone Equipment Workers
  • Biographical information; organized labor's view of Senator Johnson; initiatiing new labor view in Texas; CWA; local union; union at the nation level; 1968 Chicago telephon strike before convention; 1960 campaign/convention; LBJ's effectiveness
Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • these people that could and would testify--in advance. Meanwhile, Hess just sat there with a kind of frozen face and wouldn't say or do anything. But he had been assigned two good German lawyers. After we all--Jackson and I and the two German lawyers--had
Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in that campaign of his in '48 . B: Well, actually, I was involved in it to a limited extent . work, typing work . work, just paid letters on manual typewriters . I did some That's when they used to type form That was the hard, slow way . Some people don't
Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and simply a need to return to more productive employment. F: This was April 1, 1965. Just what were your duties as president of the National Association of Motor Bus OWners? H: Well, the association is the National Trade Association for the Inter-City
  • in work of ICC; JFK assassination; President of National Trade Association for Inter-City Motor Bus Industry; return to government service in DOT; maritime industry; Urban Mass Transit; formation of DOT; Alan Boyd; party for Luci and Pat; LBJ established
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the nation and abroad. After LBJ Presidential Library http://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 Goldberg
Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on various I saw him there. I met him as a U.S. Senator, because I always went to the Congress and said hello to the people. But I had a chance to know him better in the late fifties when I was Governor of North Carolina and he was invited to make
Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • this or that is because the Secret Service was opposed to it, you know, from a security standpoint. But he did say and very eloquently that one of the great people that he would miss when he left office was the Secret Service. M: I think that is a fairly common comment
Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • how and whether it can be done. But basically of course they do have constituencies that are represented by public spirited organizations; they have foreign policy association, United Nation associations. And then they have some that go further, like
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that was not really secret. There was no real national security reason to keep it secret, but I didn't release it. Why? I didn't throw it out on the open market. Because I'd save it as tidbits to give from time to time to people just to improve my relation
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • interesting experience because, as I men- tioned in the earlier interview, one of Mr. Johnson's closest and long time associates was Irving Goldberg, who now serves as a judge on the Fifth Circuit. Mr. Goldberg agreed to become vice chairman of the Texas
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that he was Lyndon Johnson of Texas, people didn't know how this was going to translate into the politics of a national administration. His intelligence, his ability to grasp things and so forth was never questioned. M: Did you ever fear that he would
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, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (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 8 Association. I was living in Dallas but the award was presented at the National
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that would have to be made the way these judgments have always been made in our national history, in some sense a reflection of the attitudes and visceral feelings of the President, the Congress, the people. But, within the educational sector
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • happened to come to Washington. I'd been associated with a nonprofit manage- ment consulting firm in Chicago for about a year and planned to go back. In the meantime, "the head of the company became assistant director of the Budget Bureau, which