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Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Nay 13, 1969 F: This is an interview with Mr. Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., in his office in New York on Hay 13, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mr. Weisl, you're out of Illinois, right? W: Yes, sir. F: Tell us a little
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, is a product of Georgia. MOrris Abram's effort as a young attorney in Atlanta made a great impact. Of course, he has moved to New York and now on up into the Boston area. But I never see him that he doesn't bring up the issue. And he would be one who
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh May 12, 1969 This is an interview with Chet Huntley in his office in New York on May 12, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. First of all Mr. Huntley, you have one thing in common with Lyndon B. Johnson, that is you
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
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. The time is 10:45 in the morning, and my name is David McComb. To start off, Dr. Pechman, I'd like to know something about your background--where you were born, when, where did you get your education. P: I was born in New York City and went through
Biographical information; Arthur Burns; Committee for Economic Development; Herbert Stein; Howard Myers; Ted Yntema; Walter Heller; Brookings Institute; relationship with LBJ; termination of consultantship; development of new economic theory; Paul
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

make them? Aren't you liable to slander? K: What did Coach [Darrell] Royal do when he was quoted as having made a derogatory statement about one segment of our population, and having made the statement in New York, whereas in truth and in fact, he
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT BASKIN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as well go on there. Lyndon Johnson? B: Briefly, when
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

in the South didn't have the financial base in the early days to support it. So I got Reverend Kilgore involved, who was up at the Friendship Baptist Church in New York; Gardiner Taylor in Brooklyn; and others, so that this thing had some financial base
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Truman Democrat and I am an Orval Faubus Democrat." F: And never the twain shall meet! H: That experience~ of course, is beside the point, except that it brings us together in this matter of geography. F: I think New York City is beginning to get
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

me for more information--I still couldn't file until I'd pleased everybody in the press corps--and that was Tom Wicker of the New York Times. Natur- ally the New York Times, the newspaper of record, had to know every smidgen of this thing, so I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that they had indirect control of where a missile could reach Washington or New York and not reach Moscow. So the situation was somewhat different. Furthermore, the bulk of opinion was that what we were witnessing in the build-up in the summer of 1962
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

into the public. Now he couldn't, in many instances, he couldn't commit himself even for a dinner in New York, but then when things subsided, particularly in various parts of the world, he could then go up to a dinner in New York, and with the aid of a jet, you
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

me to New York to work at the United Nations and all those kinds of things. But that is how I got to know John Connally, whom Senator Connally wanted to run his re-election campaign. John Connally refused him. There was really very little doubt
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

yacht, which I guess is how New Englanders analyze character. anything. I didn't drive the boat into any rocks or But, more seriously, we talked about the mission and his plans, and I think it was largely just a question of being personally acceptable
before the coup; an offer to move Diem out of the country to safety; visiting the Presidential palace the day after the coup; flying with the Nhu children to Rome; JFK assassination; post-Diem conditions in Saigon; Georges Perruche; an explosion
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

worked on for almost six or eight months leading up to the announcement and then later there was a magazine article on it in the New York Times and then later in my book, To Be Equal, which went into it more in detail. Mr. Johnson is mentioned in the book
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was advancing a trip that very day, in fact, for then-Vice President Johnson to New York. I was in New York with Secret Service agents for the big B'nai B'rith meeting at Madison LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

so well, a 1924 model new Ford, Model T, that did not have a battery ; we always cranked it . He wasn't privileged to campaign very much because my mother was ill and because he was making a crop, as well as teaching school . went with him, I'd say
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

deal. Of course, the FBI was here, and they We examined various items and questioned where certain things happened and all that sort of thing. I'll get to Warren now. He had a very brilliant lawyer from New York that he was fond of, and he made him
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of them--as the guest of Argentina and Brazil, we got off at one of those places down there. There was a New York Times article that they were quoting that it was rumored that I was to be selected as Secretary of Commerce. But that's all I knew, and I

Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and their house in New York and their place at Majorca,and they're looking forward to going back the next summer . Well, you can't run the government like that . You've got to come prepared to stay with it . F: They sort of like the trappings of office rather
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Executive Committee. M: Yes. I was not there. was there. I was in New York, but my business associate Yes,- it ,vas very wild, I understand. B: Of course, Johnson was certified by one vote-- M: One vote. Charlie Gibson's vote from Amarillo, who
Biographical information; first meeting LBJ; LBJ’s liberal and New Deal identification; Gerald Mann; President’s court packing plan; 1948 bitter campaign; Taft-Hartley Law; Horace; Busby; Roy Wade; Walter Jenkins; John Connally; Sam Houston Johnson
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

goes on in the political life in the United States . And I unhesitatingly say the brand of politics being played in Texas, in all of my memory, is entirely different from that that's playing in Mississippi, in New York, in Pennsylvania, in Illinois
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
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

realized that he was being surrounded by men who shared the grief of the family. Then, much to our surprise, as we were getting ready to leave for Steve Smith to return to New York, he asked if it would be possible to go by the area where the President--we
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, but that was a pro forma exercise in all likelihood. So, as long as Idris was in charge in a very conservative monarchial government in Libya, it was really a separate account. That has all changed, of course, since the ouster of Idris and the advent of this new
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

a 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 14 talk in New York a few days
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Goldberg -- I -- 17 me copies of the briefs that were submitted to New Orleans and to New York. F
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

background and how I got started in Texas politics, I was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and came to Texas during World War II. As a relatively young man and with very little interest in politics, I met my wife in Austin, Texas and went to law school
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 H: Yes, the legislature adopted a new legislation code or a revision of the Texas election laws in 1951, I guess it was. And one of my duties as executive assistant attorney general was to handle
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

; served some in New Orleans; I served Some in the Atlantic and some in the Pacific. My last tour of duty was at Kwajalain in the Pacific; I was there when the Japanese surrender took place. And as quick as I could get passage, I carne back to America
for only VHF channel in Austin; JFK assassination; ICC Commissioner; change in LBJ after his heart attack; post-Presidential visit to Ranch; LBJ as a very sentimental man
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, then I got there about the tenth of December. I got there about two weeks after the assassination. G: Okay. F: When I got back to Saigon I obviously had a lot of catching up to do because I was out of touch, you might say, with the members of the new
Van Kim; Ton That Dinh; Mai Huu Xuan; David Nes and Mike Dunn; management of the American Embassy in Vietnam; Lodge leaving his post as Ambassador and his political involvement; Flott duties under Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson; Max Taylor; comparing
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 1 (I), 1/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the new 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 Pollak -- I -- 2 Solicitor
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of the Operations Coordinating Board of the National Security Council, which was a new board. The purpose of it was to try to coordinate overseas opera- tions of the federal government. B: Were you formally disassociated from the Bureau of the Budget in those
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. forgotten a coupl e of others that were therec I have I think Arthur Schl es inger \'Ias in there and a coupl e of others. B: It was generally assumed at the time in the newspapers that you '.'Jere there as kind of a representative of the New South. S
; LBJ’s reputation in the South; LBJ’s strengths and weaknesses; LBJ’s post-presidential activities.
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

for a short time. B: Of course, the surpluses diminished, too. J: Yes, the surpluses diminished, only in part, however, because of the food shipments, but also because of the acreage restrictions--the philosophy had changed under the new administration
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

teaching post, which was at Williams College, early in 1963. In the late fall of 1962, the directorship of the Agency for International Development became vacant. President Kennedy, after surveying the problems, decided that the right man to put

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

would assume you heard of the news of the assassina- tion over the radio, or did someone phone you? H: Oh no, I was in that planeload of cabinet officers going over the Pacific. You see there were seven of us who were members of that Japan-U.S. Trade
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

officials. Now, just to give you an illustration of what I'm talking about, at one point the U.S. Customs and Immigrations had constructed a new office building at the border--a new U.S. Customs and Immigrations building there-F: This is at the bridge? T
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

interest for the community, to find out what went wrong. Then that was the period when there was some violence in Clinton, Tennessee, and some in New Orleans. I visited those cities. any political connotations at all. It did not have In those days
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

for our This was some few months after Mr. Johnson became President. Well then, what contact did you have with the new President Johnson? Did he enlist your help, for example, for a legislative program? P: Oh, really not. I had not more than a total
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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