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Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • talked too much and demanded too much and was never satisfied and was a lot of fun, all the things that we kind of associate with Jewish people. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Services in which Dr. [Jerrold] Zacharias [physicist] was the leader; he and Wiesner were very close and intimate associates. I had brought both of them into the government in the Troy Project when I was Under Secretary of State; had worked closely
Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Service regulations and other problems that were confronting people who had bachelor's degrees, the American Bar Association several years ago suggested that law schools should give doctoral degrees. So now I am a Doctor of Jurisprudence. LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 12 (XII), 7/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • contacted Kay Graham and put a responsibility on Kay and her associates to work particularly the Republican side of the House to assist us in acquiring signatures. We enlisted the Washington Post as a lobbying entity in this instance, which of course
Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the Kennedy people were still [here]. C: Yes. A majority of the staff, in fact, is still Kennedy people. Ralph Dungan [who] was one of Kennedy's close associates was my boss. Ralph had somewhere between twenty-three and thirty-five people working for him
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • 6, 1967. He also circled "The Public Health Service has found that cigarette smoking is associated with--" He was even bothered with--this was a memo to you--the phrase "is associated with." C: Yes. Well, no, there he might have been saying
Oral history transcript, Peter Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • the portrait in the White House. The President was away at the time, and it was unfinished so I didn't want hinl to see it anyway, nor Mrs. Johnson either. But he had arranged to have it shown to some of the people on the White House Historical Association
Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • beginning to take the view that as long as they're white there's no difference. B: That bloomed a little later. It's associated publicly with the Meredith March in '66. was really asking was how early first signs of it began. R: Oh, there were signs
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, Ruth Prokop, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • followed him and hounded him throughout his time in Washington. G: He seems to have been at odds with the Texas Observer for a long time, never appreciating their attacks on him. Do you think that got his goat more than non-Texas newspapers criticizing him
Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • an associate in the firm in which my father was one of the senior partners in the summer of 1937. Except for two interruptions, which I'll mention briefly, I've been an associate and later a partner in that firm continuously since 1937. I was away from the firm
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . From 1936 through 1963 you were associated with the Chattanooga Times as a reporter, then Washington correspondent, and finally editor of the News Focus service. This last period was from 1958 to 1963. In 1963 you became a columnist for the Chicago
Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , that basis title. That job also carried with it the executive directorship of the World Bank and the International Development Association and so forth. Since then it's been changed. M: That's why I was confused. I knew that now those weren't the same
Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • thing that Lyndon Johnson did in 1941 was promote navy advertising in small Texas newspapers, navy recruitment ads. B: Through his stations there? G: Well, no, in Texas newspapers. He tried to get the navy to take out ads in small weeklies
Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ? C: Yes. P: Mr. Carter, for purposes of touching base with your career as it comes in closer and closer with president Johnson, would you summarize your career associations in terms of when you assumed this position and when you moved on to another
Oral history transcript, Conrad L. Wirth, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was even thinking about what you were saying, and all of a sudden, he would come--bang!--out with the whole thing: "Why not do it this way?" And it was a good solution. F: Yes. W: Consequently, I can see how he got along so well with his associates
Oral history transcript, Emmett Shelton, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that they gave degrees there, you see. something that. . . . So it wasn't a social deal. It was just I know our student body was thoroughly democra- tic, and we associated with each other whether you were in a fraternity or not. It didn't make any difference
  • Reflections on Southwest Texas State Teachers College in the 1920s; the college newspaper; Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s in Texas; Shelton's father's opposition to the Klan; Shelton's father and Jim Ferguson; type of students at Southwest Texas; Dr
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and always have wanted, and always will want, a foothold in the city of Austin, a piece in the life of Austin. It was out of reason for us to ever imagine we could have a newspaper. We didn't have that kind of money. This little station went off the air
Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • it, I agreed to marry him. I became its associate editor which turned out to be a difficult situation as the boss's wife. 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , Hollis Frazier, a few other fellows, give them some competition. We got most of the class officers and the charge of the college newspaper and of the college annual, things like that, and the student council for a year or two or three. F: Was young
Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • killing yourself. speeches? So we went in and What good are all these You're going to speak in a Texas high school. knows it? You're vice president. Who the devil You ought to get national publicity." He pulled out a newspaper clipping; I think
Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was not. M: Either to Vietnam or to Berlin? S: No, no. M: Your most famous association, of course, is the one that came in December of 1966 in connection with your visit to Hanoi. S: That's right. M: I know that you've written a full book as well
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and the interviewer is Joe B . Frantz. Mr . Boatner, first of all, tell us a little bit about your own background and how you came to this spot in your life . B: My background is that of a newspaperman and my newspaper was the Fort Worth Star Telegram . I
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • headquarters for Johnson people, wasn't it? J: That's right, where John Connally lived and where several people that had been associated with Mr. Johnson [lived], some of whom were still on the Hill and some of whom had gone to government agencies, young
Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • disappointment of the Kennedy White House group, who largely blamed the National Education Association for spraying the town with telegrams objecting to the bill on the grounds of church and state. M: Was this the true reason for the failure of the bill? K: I
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to the American economy? P: That was when they said I was going to ruin the free enterprise system and the whole world was going to come tumbling down. I thought, "Bless you, Halter Jenkins.1I But I have always interpl"eted his note to mean that the President
Oral history transcript, Jule M. Sugarman, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • joined with the Office of Economic Opportunity at the time of its creation, if not prior to that during the task force stage, in 1964. And in 1965 you became the associate director of Head Start as well as the Deputy Associate Director of the Community
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • associated with the same sort of operation back in Texas, except that you are, of course, dealing on a much magnified scale? C: There was a gre a : deal of difference. I think the fact that I was, in a sense, a profes s·anal press secretary--had been do
Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • u p such as the e VFW- A m e r i c a Legion c o n v e n t i o n , American M e d i c a l Association convention, the l a r g e g r o u p s that would gi.ve t h e c a n d i d a t e s g r e a t e x p o s u r e . Yet at the s a m e time, t h e r e w e r
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Let me ask you about the newspapers in Houston during that election, the Post and the Chronicle in particular. S: I'm not sure but what they both endorsed Coke. remember. I'm not sure. I can't I'm not sure we got either one of the newspaper
  • Association; theory of LBJ’s success as a legislator; 1956 precinct fight; LBJ and Shivers; 1956 national committeewoman controversy; 1956 Democratic National Convention; LBJ and Yarborough; LBJ’s 1960 Presidential aspirations; reaction to acceptance of VP
Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . I did have the impression that the relationship between Stevenson and Johnson was a good one. I think that Stevenson was a little more warmly associated with Sam Rayburn than he was with Lyndon Johnson; that's the impression I retain; I may
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • never forget, I saw him in Paris. He was in NATO. I called on him one day with a friend, an associate, of mine in Paris. At that time I kidded him. I said, "This is a Tammany Hall Democrat calling on you, and I'm probably one of the few persons who
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, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • my life. I loved it, but I mean that just wasn't my idea of a long-term career. Arthur told me quite a bit of the background he had had with Johnson over the years, their close personal association when Johnson first came to Washington
Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , tell these people we are newspaper reporters and we are making a survey of the house." We walked into a house which wreaked with urine. I told them I was with the Philadelphia newspaper the Philadelphia Tribune, which is a black paper, and they said
  • Biographical information; problems of blacks in colleges in the 1940s; appointment to FTC; association with LBJ after U.S. judgeship appointment; meetings and activities following assassination of MLK and related disturbances; work on Federal Jury
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . There was a song, "Harbor Lights," that I will always associate with that period of time. (Interruption) An influence that was to permeate our lives for the next, oh, many years, I think started that summer of 1937. That was Lyndon getting to know Charles Marsh. I
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- IX -- 9 G: As long as we're talking about re-election, I notice a lot of the newspaper publishers
Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • - tures of him at that time, he was very slender. was characterized by enormous physical energy. And then as now he In fact, all the quali- ties that people associate with him as president were manifested at this early period. I mean, the human dynamo
Oral history transcript, Louise Casparis Edwards, interview 1 (I), 1/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? E: I don't know except read. G: What did she read? E: I don't really know. G: Did she work on the newspaper at all or write or edit a newspaper at What kind of books? I didn't pay that much attention. any time? E: I don't know. did. Since