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Oral history transcript, Harvey O. Payne, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

that it was the place, I would mark the site with streamers of yellow crepe paper here on a fence post or somewhere. Yellow is more visible from the air; that's why we used the yellow paper. And then the next thing we'd do, we'd go to the newspaper and we would place

Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

that I worked \'lith in the Post Office .. PB: You didn't have any Inspector General investigating you during that time, did you? BP: No. - l' And I think they never connected me in any \'lay with that Army investigation. thing ab ou t i t anyr.:my

Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 2 (II), 4/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

up to the first landing and I would tear out, flying down, and they wouldn't be on the first landing. By that time I was so shaken lid hop on the bannister and go scooting down the bannister. And the newel post had a curve like this and many times
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. Now as far as Valenti's calling and calling on editors and asking them to drop our column, that, I'm sure, came from the President, because Valenti wouldn't ever do a thing like that on his own. The Houston Post was one, the Los Angeles Times
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William McChesney Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

ahead of us. I just want to keep you posted." He said, "You really think it's that serious?" I said, "Yes, I do, Mr. President; I wouldn't be wasting your time if I didn't think so." He said, "We'll talk about it." I don't know how well you knew Lyndon
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, in 1944, in Austin meeting with the mayor and the city council and other people on post war planning and discussing employment and conversion back to a civilian economy and housing, and things of this nature, to prepare the Tenth District
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a message that was etched onto a sterling silver plate--a rectangular piece of sterling silver. The message is in her own handwriting. The words Mrs. Mellon wrote allude to the dedication of the garden, the name of it, the datej this was posted on one
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Clinton P. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of furious about that. He didn't want I found later that he knew there was a story coming out in the Washington Post about him as a possibility for the Presidency. He didn't want to knock it in the head at the same time; he didn't want to kill it right
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

for Alaska and for Hawaii, giving all the reasons that both statehood advocates of Hawaii and Alaska gave. He really worked for it, too. M: He would have been more or less working on the R e p u b l i c ~ n s . B: Yes. M: And he was in a cabinet post
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with that firm. John didn't go with that firm, as I recall it. I could be incorrect, but I think he came here and opened his own office. Now, whether he came here simply as a listening post for the Congressman, whether he ever intended seriously to practice law
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 2 (II), 12/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

ought to be called back to their posts of duty. And it ought to be made plain when they called them back that they were not calling them back to get them out of positions of danger but that they were calling them back to what the President thought
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 3 (III), 1/21/70, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

helping in the course of the campaign. I think Sarge Shriver had made a commitment to the President about going ahead to France. F: This was, of course, at this particular point one of the more sensitive posts. It's always major-- K: That's right
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the Post or the Times, get them over in my office--I have a dim recollection that it was Ed Dale--and tell them we were going to put out even more aluminum. And that clearly was enough to break the price. (Long pause) There is one other thing I should
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

one, wasn't it, in the [Washington] Post and the New York Times? C: The story was page one. Well, it's New Year's weekend. There isn't a hell of a lot of other news. G: What was the industry reaction? C: The industry was, well, the industry
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

recommendation should be accepted. "I've got reports that have been submitted to the President on what was happening. I've got reports from Defense and Commerce and the Post Office because of the impact of the strike on the mails. I would not conclude
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

milling around out in a field with tents, and tractors, and a table full of food, and hopeful candidates, and at brief times of each one getting to speak. It was sort of a Saturday Evening Post cover, a little bit of Americana. And there were the lively
; protocol at government social events; decorator Genevieve Hendricks; the many people with whom the Johnsons socialized; Marjorie Merriweather Post; Lady Bird Johnson's interest in parties and other cultures; Mrs. Johnson's interest in cooking; the Johnson's
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

for the War Department School of Civilian Personnel Administration. With the post-war decline of the War Department and the passage of the unification legislation of 1947, I transferred to the Bureau of the Budget at the Bureau's request. There I became
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

by the wire services. About four or five days later, there was a little story on the front page of the Washington Post which said, "Five days ago Secretary Wirtz spoke in De troit, or Chicago (uhichever one it was), and expressed views against the Vietnam
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

agricultural economics at the University of California Is that from California? from '46 on, and were head of the department there from '57 on. You have an impressive list of advisory and consultant posts. M: I was also Director of the Giannini Foundation
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the close' friendship of those two men, and I can tell you that it was because of Earle Clements l friendship with Lyndon Johnson that I was called to the White House to meet with President Johnson when he asked me if I would consider a couple of posts
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

thing begat another as a result of this one visit. Mr. West told me that Mrs. Kennedy was thinking about publishing and selling post cards on the White House at the White House, and he wondered if the Park Service had any kind of vehicle which might
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. Obviously, I don't remember perfectly . G: But that's still pretty tough talk . B: Yes . And Pepper Martin and I, Pepper had been in Asia pre-war, prePearl Harbor, and I had been there almost since post-Pearl Harbor and so forth . We sort of looked
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

they fixed up that Jordan ranch for one of the security guards. They had fenced all the way around the Ranch and these security posts, cattle guard and security posts and these guards who were civilians, but they--one of those families moved into the Jordan
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

was not there at the time that it was passed. But do you remember anything about its significance at the time, or his discussion of it? J: Not intimately. I knew, of course, that the bones of the treaty were that basis on which a post war foreign policy was built
on civil rights over the years; socializing with Marjorie Merriweather Post and Senator Theodore Francis Green; Miriam "Ma" and James "Pa" Ferguson; Stuart Symington; President Eisenhower's heart attack; LBJ's depression after his heart attack; LBJ's
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

surrender; preparing for the return of U.S. soldiers; the housing shortage in Austin; University of Texas married student housing; President Truman's decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan; a post-war planning conference in Austin; Jesse Kellam coming
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

from his office asked me for it. And no one in the State Department asked me for it. M: When this was disclosed, did you get any flack from above about this? D: No, I got a query from the Washington Post and they asked me why and I told them

Oral history transcript, India Edwards, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. But this was with the idea that I should say what I would like in the way of a reward, and did I want some post in the government? And I said, "No, I don't want anything. All I am interested in is, I'd like to stay with the committee, if the President wants me
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Leo Gehrig, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on and was there for the first two years of the Peace Corps program. Later, after I returned to the service as the chief of the Bureau of Medical Services, I was selected by then-Surgeon General William Stewart for the post of deputy surgeon general, and it was in that position
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Deerfield Academy, he went into the government as Surplus Property Administrator, and my grandfather was still in the House. I think I recall my father asking my grandfather if he should accept a post under LBJ Presidential Library http
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

demonstration and dissent in prior commitments of our troops? For instance, now we have some of these coffee house organizations outside of our Army posts. R: I think the coffee houses are something I am not aware of the Army having had before. But from

Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

thinking more in the vein I suppose of Tad Szulc-- PM: Theodore Draper. M: And Draper, and Homer Bigart, and Dan Kurzman of the Washington Post. ~lell, first of all, I think they are honest reporters. think they wrote what they believed. otherwi se
of 1963; causes of Dominican Civil War, 1965; military intervention; posting Martin to negotiate a cease-fire; LBJ’s fear of a communist take-over; Ambassador Bennett; Martin’s negotiations in the Dominican Republic; Martin’s book Overtaken by Events, 1966
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Gerald N. McAllister, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

was to be there, the agents would come and go through the church quite carefully and they also would post themselves on the streets outside and around the building and so on. The little church is quite small and it's an easy place to provide security. Normally one

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. days. Wyoming had only one House seat, back I would certainly have been clobbered in those But meanwhile it did whet my interest in state-wide political matters and although I never held an official party post, I did attend party conventions--things
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 2 (II), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Judd -- II -- 10 United People of America. And see, little by little without realizing the whole thinking has changed completely. Not completely, but substantially. G: Would you add the post office? J
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

totally involved with the program through 1966. At the end of 1967, I found that it became more and more difficult to balance responsibilities in the Post Office Department and my continuing responsibilities regarding the legislative program. However
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

efforts; literally started a campaign for the post. I was able to persuade Pat Harris to accept the role of chairman if she were elected. She accepted with considerable reluctance. She recognized that this would be very controversial. She was not enamored
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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