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Oral history transcript, Levette J. (Joe) Berry, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was a public school superintendent, and the first twelve years of my life we lived in small towns northeast and west of Dallas . Then we moved to San Marcos when I was twelve, and I went through high school and college there . was only twenty, After I
Oral history transcript, Fred Korth, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Administration. K: Actually November 1 of 1963, and January 4 of '62 was when I was sworn in as the Secretary of the Navy. M: In your career in Texas--your business career--between the time you were with the Truman Administration and when you came back
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in August of 1964? M: Yes. At that time we were doing what we called peripheral reconnais- sance, and it was conducted by aircraft, by submarines, and by surface ships. This type of operation was not limited to Tonkin Gulf by any means; it took place
Oral history transcript, Omar Burleson, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • (D-Tex, 17th District) Interviewer : Paige Mulhollan October 3, 1968 M: Did you know Mr . Johnson before you came to the House? B: Yes, as a matter of fact, I knew him before I was a member of the House . I was here for a time . I was here
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [and] asked me to come over, and I did. At that time my office was just across the street from the Executive Office Building. He asked whether I would take some responsibility for dealing with the platform on his behalf. In particular he was concerned, as we
Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of that group and came to the University for, I hoped, a full-time basis. It turned out to be part-time. G: How did you come into contact with Lyndon Johnson? L: He put out the word that he wanted an information officer. A friend pointed out
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 5 (V), 10/30/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • they were traveling in Dallas. And Johnson was ever so grateful and kept talking about Rufus and how heroic he had been. He also was looking at TV, sipping orange juice. He would occasionally look up at a photograph of Sam Rayburn that was on the wall
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • going to do, you're going to-- M: Be as expansive as you feel like being because the more you add, the better the interview is. So don't, when we've got plenty of tapes and, I think, plenty of time. So, okay, we begin with then on the third
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • this will be interesting down the line. C: Joe, there were forty trips covering what we estimated at the end of the time two hundred thousand miles. F: First of all, you had no precedent for this, did you? C: No, only that Mrs. Roosevelt had gone and seen coal
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was the vice president was chairman, the secretary of labor was vice chairman, and there was going to be an executive vice chairman who would be the full-time executive officer. The reason they missed is that it had been Lyndon's expectation that he would name
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • substantial gaps. He got through all of 1961 and 1962, as I recall, except that we did not tell much of the story of the tax cut, which is a very vital part of both the Kennedy and Johnson economic programs. At that time we didn't go through the wage-price
Oral history transcript, Lawrence Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • more serious, it occupied more of the personal time of higher officials of the Executive Branch and the President; so I would not characterize the support by any President as different in quality. I simply think that, as the problems became more
Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was unhappy about Dallas, and they urged him to use the bubble. My understanding, which was I think pretty accurate, was that the President didn't want it and said, "What are you going to do? Next time you're going to take me in town in a tank or something
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins and Alice Hopkins, interview 4 (IV), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the first time you met Lyndon Johnson? A: It must have been with Welly Hopkins. I don't remember where. (Laughter) W: He used to come to Austin occasionally when I was in the [state] senate. We would visit around. A: I think we had a meal or two
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • papers are your columns carried in now, sir? T: Twenty-two. I only send columns to the papers that I send news to. M: How often do you write a column, as opposed to sending news dispatches? T: Until recently about three times a week; but right now
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , the Blackstone Hotel one time and he was in the elevator along with other folks. I shook his hand. But of course I'm sure he doesn't recall that because he shook hands with many people, and he was very prominent at that time. Evidently his suite
Oral history transcript, Thomas C. Mann, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • back to Washington and stayed for a time here. Then I was sent to Caracas. Walter Donnelly was Ambassador there. I stayed there for awhile as political officer and petroleum attache. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 11 (XI), 7/24/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEW XI DATE: July 24, 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 4, Side 1 G: Okay, why don't we begin 1965? You talked briefly last time about the impact
Oral history transcript, Ruby G. Martin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the things that we were looking forward to under Kennedy seemed to have just sort of--my reaction was that they were killed with him in Dallas. B: Did this opinion change? M: Absolutely. B: Do you recall when and why? M: In retrospect I think
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Then as an afterthought she said, "I wouldn't have had the stinking stuff either!" F: West was primarily a farming community, right? B: West is a community of Bohemians and farmers, sausage makers, bread bakers; it's a great place for sausage and salami. At this time
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that as a preliminary. S: All right. F: How did you get involved in it, how was it broached to you, and what in effect were you supposed to do? S: At that time, I went up to Justice Department from Dallas the last of February 1965. So as you recall the Selma
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • arranged to have a plane pick Elva and me up at Dallas and fly to Little Rock, where we transferred to a smaller plane to Wilbur's home town. He and I spent some time that day discussing his views on his candidacy. At that time, he didn't ask me
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 23 (XXIII), 8/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XXIII -- 2 R: Oh, sure. It's rather strange. I've got to recapitulate the background here. One night Dave Broder, the Washington reporter for the Dallas News--I think you have
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 5 (V), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and looking around, Robert Weaver, I think, almost had a trauma over the length of time that Johnson took to name him as the head of HUD. Do you have any idea why Johnson took so long, other than the fact that he is sometimes slow and careful? W: I know
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 15 (XV), 12/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • which we did over time, but one of the things that he was not prepared for was an increase in the discount rate. I think certainly Gardner Ackley aggressively shared that view and the whole Council [of Economic Advisers]. And Wright Patman came out
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the rumors. The only other thing, I do know that Russell had originally been opposed to any sort of intervention in Viet Nam, but here I'm going back to 1954 or in the late 1 1 55, at the time of Dien Bien Phu. 60 1 s--it must have been '66 or 1
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and guidance. And in retrospect, I just think it disturbed the President a great deal that he was not used more by Nixon. Although Nixon did meet with him several times. They never had the kind of relationship that he had with Eisenhower and Truman, which
  • of Distinguished Service Medals; LBJ's preference for organization and good management of time; LBJ signing photographs and his use of photography; LBJ's teasing; how Bonanno learned from LBJ to use her temper to her advantage; LBJ's moods; Lady Bird Johnson's
Oral history transcript, Francis C. Turner, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 12, 1968 M: First of all, Mr. Turner, I'd like to fill in your background. According to the information I have, you were born in Dallas, Texas, in 1908, educated at North Texas Agricultural College, got a degree
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • time you can recall being involved in any way in one of his campaigns? M: Well, of course, up until he ran for lieutenant governor he had never run a statewide campaign. Governor Stevenson had been county attorney of Kimble County, and at that time
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • remembrance of when I first met Lyndon Johnson was he came through Buda with his father and, because of the close family relationship and the old time acquaintance, why, they stopped in to see us . I'm sure that's the first time I met him . F: Probably two
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • birthday. Another annual one was the Clark Thompsons' party, which this particular year took place early in February. The Speaker had such a busy time, one had to stand in line to help celebrate his birthday. Then a custom of those days was stag parties
  • Churchill; LBJ's opinion on the timing of trying to pass difficult legislation; the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); Lynda's fifth birthday.
Oral history transcript, Peter Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • it said, "Dear Lady Bird"--I remember he addressed her by her first name, and the gist of the letter was this: "When the time comes, as it must soon now, for you to choose a painter for the official portrait LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Stanley Marcus’ recommendation that Hurd paint the official portrait of LBJ to hang in the White House; Hurd’s request that LBJ pose for him; time spent working on the portrait; LBJ’s reaction to the partially finished portrait; LBJ’s inability
Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it was when he was Majority Leader. The first time I met him was when Clyde Tolson, Associate Director of the FBI, and I was an assistant director, called me to his office and indicated that wouldn't it be a good idea if Mr. [J. Edgar] Hoover were
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Hardesty, interview 1 (I), 3/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to go to school at George Washington University in 1951. school with time out for the Army. It was almost night I spent almost ten years at George Washington in English literature and working on my master's. F: Why did you pick George Washington? H
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • such impact. I recall that he had some input into some problem--whether it was an oil problem or a steel price problem, I'm not sure; but I was not personally involved, and I was not aware of his involvement in other economic problems up to that time. F
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in which Eisenhower was elected. Then along in about December was when it really began to jell. Lyndon himself hadn't decided at the time and hadn't taken any--he was there to see who was going to be the Democratic leader. He had urged [Richard] Russell
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • -- Interview I, Tape 1 -- 3 At any rate we made the connection and I went down and was interviewed. About the same time the word went from Senator Johnson through Dean Page Keeton, the University of Texas Law School, that he was looking for someone and two
Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 8, 1968, in his part-time home in New Orleans, Louisiana B: I have the machine on now, so if we can go ahead and start. I'd think a logical starting place, sir, would be with when you first met Mr. Johnson. C
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the Congressional records. But just to begin with, you were elected to the 76th Congress in 1939 as a Democrat from Oklahoma, and you were succeSSively reelected to the House through 1951. At that time you were elected as Senator and served in the Senate until
Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • nineteen at this precise moment, I was about that at that time. F: You know, the past few years makes an old-timer of you in a hurry. D; Absolutely. I worked for Tom Connally then, and Senator Tom Connally was chairman of [the Senate Foreign