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Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • at one time, just prior to your association with Mr. Johnson, the managing editor of the American or both papers? L: I had served on both papers, but in 1936 I was managing editor of the American when I terminated my connection down there. B: I
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, Antonio J. Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the time and paid a lot of attention to his business. T: Yes, he was a very busy man. My father traveled a little. He had very few interests or hobbies outside the little world--and all our worlds were little in those days I guess, thanks to bad roads
  • ; visiting the Ranch at the same time as Mexican President Adolfo Lopez-Mateos; trip to Oaxaca to pick up Senator Douglas; returning part of El Paso to Mexico and related events; experiences with Mexican officials at social events; Mrs. Johnson’s success
Oral history transcript, Allan Shivers, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • guess, about the time he became NYA director. That's my first recollection of him. F: Did you see much of him in those days? S: Not a lot, not a lot. F: He was just a name that was beginning to emerge? S: Oh, I would see him. I was in Austin
Oral history transcript, Ralph Dungan, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Subjc c t(s) covered time on tape - 9 .Johnson never could rccogn i.zc that he was no longer the Senator from Texas but the Vici? President of the U. 11 The Kennedy family and staff was treated very syr:ipathet by Johnsun 12 . Transition; Kenney
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , if you will, the issues in that campaign as you saw them. O: We had anticipated--we, the Kennedy people--that 1964 would be a relatively pleasant experience. We were anticipating an easy time of it. Just before the trip to Dallas we had an informal
Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • like the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. Sam Houston High School at that time was built around a sort of a half of a block, and it had a very large area in the middle. Every day those girls would go out there to practice marching and they would have
Oral history transcript, Emmett Shelton, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • during prohibition. during prohibition times. what it was. Williamson, the Williamson House, that's Mrs. Williamson was a real good cook, and that's where we had our training table. one year. And then Mrs. Penn ran the training table Then back up
Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and saw something of the then-Senator Johnson at that time. The first time I recall talking with Senator Johnson was during the fall of 1956 when Senator Kefauver and I were campaigning throughout Texas with Senator Johnson. Senator Johnson led us
  • House press apparatus; Dean Acheson; Dean Rusk; Senator Aiken; Congressman Moss; Mr. Rooney; Mr. Katzenbach; Eugene Rostow; the press; Joe Alsop; Vietnam coverage; mail; lag time in making records available; Douglas Cater; transition; Lady Bird; trip
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 5 (V), 3/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1972 INTERVIEWEE: J. J. (JAKE) PICKLE INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Congressman Pickle's office, Cannon Building, Washington, D.C. Tape l of l F: Jake, where were you at the time of the assassina tion? What had you been doing to set up
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • not have enough funds to develop good programs. It occurred to me that the time had come for federal assistance in order to make this possible. bne Sunday afternoon I do remember I was visiting at the Johnson residence and I brought the subject up. I
Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Opportunity; the time is 2:30 on Wednesday, November 20, 1968. Mr. Harding, perhaps I should start out by asking how you first became acquainted with President Johnson. H: Well, the first personal contact that I had with President Johnson was in probably
Oral history transcript, Darrell Royal, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • on down through the years and still exists in some blacks’ minds today, and I was having a hard time convincing black student-athletes that we wanted them on the campus. And he said, “Well, let me call Mack Hannah, and let’s just meet out here 1 LBJ
  • at the White House; Bear Bryant; visiting the Ranch with Colonel Harold Byrd; LBJ’s death; LBJ’s leisure time; LBJ’s health; how Royal met LBJ.
Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Because my wife and I were relatively young--I was thirty-eight at the time--and we had come from John Kennedy Massachusetts, we received a lot of press coverage. country in We were doing unusual things in the conservative State of Ohio. When
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Eleanor Roosevelt at the convention in an attempt to swing the convention with the enthusiasm of the moment. However, the efforts we had expended over that long period of time stood us in good stead because, again, there was no erosion. So when the actual
  • Virginia primary and what JFK learned from it; the JFK/Nixon debates; JFK's handling of the Bay of Pigs incident; O'Brien meeting with each cabinet member to review roles in the Kennedy Administration; JFK's and O'Brien's time spent learning their roles
Oral history transcript, Nell Colgin Miller, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and everything. meals. We didn't care for her She just didn't serve meals, and we would go to Wukasch's or the drugstore for our meals. So we ate all of our meals out. That was the funniest thing though. G: Do you recall the first time you met Mrs. Johnson
Oral history transcript, J. Roy White, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Richard Myrick from Dallas, who worked with me. was at the time of the bedroom additions in was. 1968~ This or whatever it She had Richard Myrick come in and confer with me and with her on landscaping and thinking on the entire surroundings
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • be useful to record it. But it would be just as useful to record how you felt about it if you were aware of it at the time. J: Well, yes, didn't take it seriously, didn't encourage it. I personally think he was scared to death of such a prospect
  • The prospect in 1955 of LBJ being a candidate for the presidency; Amon Carter and LBJ's relationship with Carter; John Henry Faulk; LBJ's 1955 heart attack; humorous story regarding suits a tailor was making for LBJ at the time of his heart attack
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 5 (V), 4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the seeds for inflation by not getting a substantial tax increase in 1966. But by the time he had decided not to run again, he obviously had reached the conclusion that a tax increase was absolutely essential. And he had tried for 2 LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Norman M. Clapp, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to '44. It was in that latter period that I was technically on the staff of the Senate Finance Committee. B: You must have been a staff assistant for Senator Lafollette about the same time that Mr. Johnson was a staff assistant for Congressman Kleberg
Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • , the survey that we made and printed in the paper, contrary to what a lot of people thought, that Johnson was just a young upstart, came out amazingly accurate in the final results of the election. PB: I believe the Dallas News made a survey at the same time
Oral history transcript, Gerald N. McAllister, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the church and duties and functions that I have within the life of the church occasionally bring me into contact with my father in his official capacities, but most of the time they tend to insure that we go separate routes. We're good friends, however
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ; second, to utilize the Soviet pressures for whatever they would be worth in the Vietnam situation, but, third, more than anything else, to move ahead with the antiballistic negotiations. I remember he said several times that if Nixon doesn't do
  • ; the threat of nuclear confrontation; Averell Harriman and Cyrus Vance at the Paris talks; Andre Meyer and the European monetary crisis; National Commission on Violence report; LBJ’s falling out with A.W. Moursund; Krim’s time with LBJ after 1968; Thanksgiving
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is the second session with Kenneth M . Birkhead . Sir, we were talking last time about your position right after the 1960 election at the beginning of the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • to report to President Kennedy just after he came back from Dallas. Then it did report finally to President Johnson just before Christmas of '63--had a meeting with President Johnson in the White House. G: Was that the first time you had met President
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , considerations of geography and seniority. I think that Russell was a little con­ cerned that McFarland wouldn't work hard enough at the job. McFarland, I don't precisely know what it was, but he seemed to be having some personal problems at the time
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • is a former newspaper reporter for the Dallas News, Chicago Tribune, but at that time he was working for the United States Information Agency. He said, "That's all right." Of course, that Saturday, July 2, he called me about at noon, about one o'clock
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • some advice. So he introduced me to then-Congressman Lyndon Johnson. From that time until 1965, when I left the practice, I was counsel to the radio station KTBC AM, FM, and TV and other interests which the Johnson family acquired. F: Well, as you
Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Mr. Jordan worked for Senator Richard Russell for many years and is going to focus on those years. You are welcome to state any restrictions now on the tape. J: Yes, Mike. It was during the time that Senator Johnson and Senator Russell were
  • /refusal to change as times changed; LBJ’s change from a 'southern’ to a ‘western’ outlook; Russell as LBJ’s senate mentor; LBJ’s dominant personality and power of persuasion; Senator Robert Kerr; Jordan’s activities as advance man for LBJ in the 1960
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • time. R: Well, the problems which we encountered at Chicago had already begun before we went to Chicago, and I trace a lot of them to that session that we discussed in our earlier meeting where he was so rude and loutish to the members of the labor
Oral history transcript, Don Hummel, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to the one that followed at a later time of which I was also chairman of the U.S. delegation, and that was the International Congress of Local Authority which met in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1960. I led a U.S. delegation, and we joined with the Canadian
Oral history transcript, Raymond H. Lapin, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , and the time is 3:35 in the afternoon. We are in his office in the new Housing and Urban Development Building in Washington, D.C. Mr. Lapin, can you tell me something about your background, where you were born, when? L: I'm from California, and I was born
Oral history transcript, Clement J. Zablocki, interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • week, didn't you? I believe that's the same time that Mr. Johnson-­ Z: Was elected to the Senate, yes. M: Did you have, in those early years, the late forties and early fifties, any instances of direct contact? Z: Hardly any at all. Very, very
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the war for a year, and read the Dallas News, which was in those days a rather jingoistic newspaper, which announced with regularity that Texans were bombing Berlin and invading Italy and so on. Anyway, we came down here never supposing that the first
Oral history transcript, Alfred Rosenthal, interview 1 (I), 10/29/2010, by Claudia Anderson (Item)
  • of the time." [I said,] "No we don't. We'll take care of it." Towards the end of my visit there, there was Lady Bird sitting there with the wife of the then-governor of Texas. And he was in that same motorcade in Dallas. And so she was sitting there. EL
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • knew to be Senator Johnson's tremendous skills as a negotiator, as a bargainer, as a manager or manipulator, if you will, in the Senate .a.t the time that he was mnjority leader. You will recall the desire of Estes Kefauver to be a member of the Senate
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was [Robert] McNamara's lawyer for those hearings. You may recall that as we saw the major issue in the hearings, the issue was whether or not the civilian leadership in the Pentagon and President Kennedy, at that time, had the right, in effect, to censor
Oral history transcript, Donnelly Bolton, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of things, and I became the assistant G-4 of the division, and stayed there for some time. Then right back to the Infantry School as an instructor. The first time I was there I was on the Infantry Board, testing weapons. [I] stayed there until the Korean War
Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of the government since that time. I have been on one or two advisory committees of government agencies, but I don't regard that as important. I have in an unofficial way maintained rather continuous contacts and talked with people in the government, exchanged
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was concerned, lasted from the time he became president, when you were national security adviser, until you resigned in December of 1965 and left in what, February of 1966? B: The end of February, 1966. M: The end of February. One of the most frequent