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Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • remember listening to the car radio then, and the only thing you could get, I always associate it when I hear it now with Bird and driving to Karnack, around Karnack--is country-western or western music--the first time I'd heard any. right for that time
Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • them go with it. Sarge Shriver got it. I know at the time that the newspaper articles were saying that I was bucking Mr. Shriver for it. opposite. M: That's how The fact was exactly I didn't want it! That's the kind of thing oral history
Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -eight depressed counties that comprise Appalachian Ohio. national newspaper and magazine publicity. As a result, we received -Time magazine ran a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , and successively you have worked for the Wisconsin State Journal, the Milwaukee Journal, the United Press Association, Christian Science Monitor, the International News Service and as Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Record. You were co-author
Oral history transcript, Ralph Dungan, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Newspaper leaks of appointment 21 Cy _Vance; Kennedy ' s Latin-American policy; NSC 22 . Self-appointed ·1iaiso!l for Africa · and Latin-Ai-nerica; respon.sibilities in the foreign . aid field 23 Bundy very high on totem pole 24 Carl Kazen; Panama
  • and LBJ's first days as president; LBJ mistreats staff aides; difficulty in getting proper appointees; Robert McNamara characterized; Liz Carpenter; JFK and LBJ administrations compared; newspaper leaks; Panama; McGeorge. Bundy operation; civil service
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wrote articles for the union's magazine and newspaper and did a little bit of speech writing. Hill. My boss His name is Paul Sifton. ~"as the lobbyist for the UAW on the He was a real salty character, an old newspaperman from the [H. L.] Mencken
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 2 (II), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Chiarodo -- II -- 28 know I've learned this from him; it's one of the things I took from our association. Don't complain about it, go
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • continuingly pleasant and fruitful association in his capacity as Vice President and leader of the Administration and in my capacity as an Undersecretary. M: I've heard that when he was Vice President that Johnson in Cabinet meetings would take a decidedly
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the newspapers out there. And some other responsible people, who gave us a pretty good breakdown.But I should say that by far the largest part of the information we got was over the media. And as you remember, in those days, the chief villain of the liberals
Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , their presence on the floor of the House, the speeches that they make, the effectiveness of their speech, logical, sound, their contributions, their associations with their fellow colleagues, their personality. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . This happened on two specific occasions, I can recall, concerning Vietnam mail. Such newspapers as the New York Times and the Washington Post also became quite interested in late '66 and early '67 on the specifics of Vietnam mail. They wanted to know
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • like to be on the school newspaper, which was called the Parrot. I did write some articles for it which appeared. I think they had bylines. Anyhow, a time or two through the years people have sent me a copy of an old Parrot, the Marshall Parrot. I don't
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • wrong, no matter what the reason, then OEO can deal with that in its own way. B: Yes. G: But there is outside pressure, either newspapers or Congress or what have you, then OEO is sort of in the limelight and has to make decisions. B: Well
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • governor was invited to the inaugural, so far as I know, always. G: Was that your first association with him? J: That was the very first time I remember him in our life. He became one of the staunchest friends. So we went on up and we watched
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be associated 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 2S with Wirtz and some of whom
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • a politician can get out of courting the press are some favorable adjectives. I long ago came to the conclusion that the average American when he reads a newspaper story--his eyes opaque every time he comes to an adjective. B: Did Senator Johnson understand
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , there was another aspect of it, too. One of the things that has never been sufficiently explored is the fact that after World War II it became unfashionable to be an isolationist. Nobody wanted to be an isolationist because the isolationists were associated
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • during my freshman year. I later became Rice correspon- dent for the Chronicle, and went on into journalism. went into politics. years. President Johnson Therefore we still had a close association over the We saw each other a great deal, communicated
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 3 (III), 1/2/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with Japan on trade matters.We are very large trading partners with each other.Both countries have a system of private enterprise, a surging economy. Both of them have an almost insatiable kind of economy--nothing is ever enough. Regardless of what happens
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 5 (V), 10/30/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , Mayor Ivan Allen, Mills Lane of Citizens Bank, Sherman Drawdy of the Georgia Railroad Bank, Jim Carmichael of the Scripto Corporation, and W. Brooks of the Cotton Producers Association. Do you recall that meeting, that dinner? H: What year was that? G
Oral history transcript, Frank Ikard, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and very interested in Lyndon Johnson. And Rhea Howard, who I'm sure you know, publisher of the newspapers-F: The Record Times? I: Yes, and the firm I was with represented both of these people and while I had no intimate contact with Johnson, at least we
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to be the director of this commission and if you were surprised at the source of the phone call. DG: I was surprised by both. I had not been associated in any active way with the civil rights movement. I had not been associated with the problems of the blacks
Oral history transcript, Solis Horwitz, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it was convenient. H: The payroll was just where he could manipulate, best use his funds. M: How did your association, your fairly close association, with him get started? H: Well, after the Eisenhower Administration came on and they announced their intention
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of government information for war purposes, and I did the study that led to the creation of the Office of War Information. And later--I'll come to that in a moment--I became its Associate Director. I scarcely finished this subject when the President called me
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • made that first trip through space as first astronaut. of Broadcasters was meeting in And the National Association ~Jashington. could I please try to get [Shepard]. They called me and said Kennedy was going to come to LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , if I may use that term, with Kennedy. He was a part of them, and when he left, the Africans were afraid that the association that the United States had built up with the Africans and a feeling for them, a sympathetic feeling, was all over. So I had
Oral history transcript, Logan Wilson, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Also you have numerous honorary doctorates of law degrees. Also according to my information, you worked as an assistant professor at East Texas State in 1928 to 1930, and again in 1932 to 1936. You were research associate at the Massachusetts
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 10 (X), 6/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • result? We could win a little bigger. He'd like to win by getting 100 per cent of the vote. G: One of the newspaper articles on your trips indicated that after your return the campaign emphasized the "man with his hand on the trigger" theme, the nuclear
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the files [and] newspaper stories [is] Vice President Johnson's efforts to combat segregation at Houston hotels, particularly the Shamrock and I guess the Rice Hotel. Any recollections of that? R: None at all. Not on that one. Do you have any idea
Oral history transcript, Darrell Royal, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • they presented the trophy? R: Mrs. Johnson was there and presented the Associated Press trophy to the squad. G: Right. I have a note to that effect. Now, I may be talking out of school, but you said on the phone that you didn’t know anything about politics
Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 16 S: It all came from my association with this Mexican restaurant owner in Houston, whose philosophy was that they should learn English early. They had a better opportunity in our culture if they did. Shivers had a lot of supporters like this man
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that was Another one though, I think this was the opportunity to see the Peace Corps ; there was a big Peace Corps mission there, I believe, and it was an opportunity to see what was happening . G: Anything on his association with LBJ that you observed during
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , that is, in the years that I knew him and worked for him . Now, I had what you would call a casual acquaintance with him when he was in the NYA and when he was a congressman . Then our association started when he was a senator . G: Right . You had talked about
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Judge Powell, who was the uncle of his long-time secretary Mary Rather. Anyway, through the years Senator Johnson had many ties and associations with this firm. F: Let me intrude just a moment. You mentioned the five most important. Can you name
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to run and would not run--that he had too much to do in the Senate--but still there was a tremendous amount of speculation and comment in the newspapers that he would be a candidate. M: And his immediate staff acted like he might be running? V: Yes
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • about this aspect of it. There are very practical political reasons for that. If you advertised a big rally in Hermann Park and you get two hundred people or three hundred people to show up, it did look bad in the newspaper. But that was the kind
Oral history transcript, Edward P. Cliff, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . She was attending the joint convention of the National Council of State Garden Clubs in the American Forestry Association. This was one of the first trips, one of the first follow-throughs, after the White House Conference on Natural Beauty_ TOg
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Association about ten days ago, and I had lost that card, so I went out to the back of my office where my father's trunk is . in his trunk . I felt I'd find another one of these cards What I wanted to emphasize to the Northeast Texas Bar Association
Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • finally formulated and encompassed in a report called "American Women,ll which was presented to the President. of 163. That was in October At that point the com.mission went out of business. The people who had been associated with the commission
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Presidential years. K: Well, of course, some of that is tactics on Johnson's part. He was wise enough and clever enough to know, once he became President, that the more he could associate Eisenhower in his own actions, the better likelihood there would