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- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- . an opportunity to form an opinion of me and as to whether, in his judgment, I would be suitable to fill the post that was available. I went to Washington, met in his office in the old House Office Building, and had a very thorough discussion with respect
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
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- . G: Is he the one that Johnson got so mad at? C: Yes . He was a very controversial guy, but I forget where he left us . I guess he left us in--we were taking him out to his post, and I don't know which post it was . But Johnson got angry at him
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Antonio.” And I said, “Well, I don't know anything about a Post Office, and I've got a good job, and I don't know whether I'm interested in a thing like that.” He said, “That's the only good job I've got and you’re going to have to take it.” So, he said
- on the Hill? A: No, we did very little of that. We testified, you know, fairly .1 frequently for the Joint Economic Committee, and occasionally before Ways and Means on major tax legislation. I testified a few times on post-war reconversion--we were
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/11/1968, by David G. McComb
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- research . In 1949 I went to the Johns Hopkins University and spent one year in post-graduate training in pathology. � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- . You hit him in the head with a cedar post . G: B: G: Let me ask you some more about the--we could go in any direction . We're not getting down to any bases here . I know that . Okay . Let me ask you one more thing about that staff meeting which you
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- came through here to get his support. W: I imagine it could have been quite interesting. F: I think it could have been quite. Did you ever consider taking any post with the government? W: No. No. As a matter of fact, in, I think it was, December
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 22 to them. And of course all of the rest of us, who kind of like to read the thing, had to smuggle it in. And no offense to the St. Louis Post-Disoatch, which is a good newspaper, everybody who had been getting
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- the clippings from the Ho us ton paper. Let me know how my health problems and everything are being reqarded down there. Go by the Chronicle and the Post and see what you can find and nose around a little bit. 11 This is early in the campaign. weren't off
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- was a controversial post. You could be asked t o do so much in directing the affairs of the Senate that you'd have to neglect your af fairs at h6me. I think he felt at t hat ti me tha t he was in a good, strong enou gh position back home that he could risk it. I
- Moody, and Magnolia Oil; LBJ's 1955 heart attack; first post-heart attack appearance at Whitney; LBJ excels as a rural campaigner; LBJ in the 1956 campaign; Price Daniel; the state 1956 convention; as executive secretary of the SDEC; "Dollars
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- , and it dissolved. That's what a task force is supposed to do. Well, this post-inauguration group was to be an operational task force. Berle was given the title of chairman of the Task Force on Latin American Policy. He was given an office in the new State building
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- -- Interview I -- 15 what you were doing and give it narratively. H: Incidentally I wrote an article for the Washington Post that very afternoon. I don't know whether you have a copy of it or not, but as soon as it happened I wrote it down so that I can send
- visit a little bit. 11 "Sure, no problem. Sure. Of course he can. 11 And nobody had ever seen this guy have a nice kind word for anybody. He said, "You come out to the barracks and to this post and meet the commanding officer while Walter gets his
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- started? J: Well, he had to get some decent committee assignments. G: Did he have help on those? J: Yes, I'm sure he did. Mr. Johnson did. I can't tell you just what, but he didn't go on Post Office and Civil Service. He went on Armed
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- person, somebody who could and would do a good job for the post office, for the government, and for the congressman. When you got ready to go home and make a speech in Lockhart or Luling, first person you wrote was the postmaster. He would set about
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- mother's estate, or anything, we would buy a good-looking dining-room table or chairs. One of the family jokes, which was much resented by Luci, was that in trying to date a picture that appeared on the Saturday Evening Post, a family picture of Lyndon, me
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, James E. Chudars, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , and this was a rather detailed process at the time and the men need special tools. G: Did you have any maintenance facilities while you were in Texas, at different airports or places? C: We really didn't need anything. Other than the running post-flight and pre
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- there can be. Well, there have been taps on foreign establishments--embassies, U. N. posts. Thousands of people call embassies for a variety of reasons. A mother wants to get some information for a paper that her son's writing on the country; a person's
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- to be another way, he'd never catch up. M: You can't retract a story like that. C: Right. And I remember the Star was quite good about it. Then we went to the News, and then we went to the Washington Post, and then we went back to his house, and Walter
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- when the local District government made its request to the White House for federal troops. F: Where is the command post in this case? Who coordinates? Does it come out of the White House? C: Well, yes. After the President-- F: I can see people
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, William H. Darden, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , and we still were working for Republicans and Democrats alike. That was a post-1968 development that I sort of deplored, as far as the Armed Services Committee at least. It was--as far as the staff was concerned, it was a very happy arrangement to work
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
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- for LBJ? E: Well, we felt a certain rejection. We were always friends, but something happens when young people--Washington was like doing post-graduate work after you've lived in Austin for a while. You know, that's the real thing there, so you grow up
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- . It wasn't a very attractive post as of that time, but it was the general feeling that the President should be supported, and while many of us had reservations as time went on about [policy]--including McNamara himself by the end of 1967 or 1968--we didn't
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Ashbrook P. Bryant, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
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- up with that preliminary draft of the Claremont Terminal report and wrote a column about it. It was ultimately published; I've got it somewhere. Whatever his name was, who's the editor of the [Washington] Post? [J. R. Wiggins?] They apparently had
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 2 (II), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
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- the [Washington] Post, I've mentioned Butterfield, several others. [End of Tape 1 of 1 and Interview II] 20 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- , there were quite a few, not only black people, but white people as well. I spent all of that day in the Mayor's command post at 3rd and Indiana Avenues, because we thought that decisions might have to be made in a hurry and sometimes in consultation
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- to the nuts and bolts with the AID people, they always had more immediate needs that they wanted, things like building highways or building businesses. So getting a bigger share for something like education was not always easy. I haven't seen any post mortem
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- -- III -- 17 coming out. He was quite unhappy. He said, after all this was his White House, and here someone had been selectedCthat really made him feel like an idiot. G: Did he attempt to have her relegated to a lesser post than the White House? C: I
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- of that; that's my recollection. Of course, in the White House itself, much of the activity in those first few days was by the Kennedy staff making the arrangements for the funeral. They sort of had a command post there. Dungan was the man there. Ralph
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb
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- plans, after this newspaper man had done the final write-up and Mr. Johnson had checked it and double-checked it, had been typed up. I took it to the post office late at night to go to Washington so you could get the green light. M: In living
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- that if one were sitting in Washington and reading the newspaper every day, the Washington Post, the New York Times and so on, I think the conclusion would have been inescapable that the Vietnam problem as seen by the LBJ Presidential Library http
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- . They worked on the domestic part of the book, although she didn't do that much. Bob Hardesty and Harry Middleton did most of the work on the domestic side. G: How was LBJ to work for, "post-pres"? You said he was imperious and impatient. J: I enjoyed
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Skelton; LBJ’s acceptance of VP; covered VP while in Austin; move of press from Austin to San Antonio; Eastern press; post-Presidential press conference; John Connally’s dissatisfaction for some of LBJ’s policy; off the record meetings; Sam Kinch, Jr
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- , the welcome back, what was happening out there; getting the Cabinet plane out over Japan back; alerting the bases, the posts overseas. So that really not; I can't say that I could focus on that [Johnson and the Kennedy programs]. As you move along
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- ://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 11 in the amazing resurgence of the German economy in the post-war period, making
Oral history transcript, Donald Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- , with the balance of payments problem arising out of the dollar-gap years, that this had to be done and felt that I had a total war and post-war experience which qualified me to take a crack at it. It didn't take me too long to find out that it was going
- with the poor and bypass some of the traditional local, state power? S: I don't have any idea. Anything like that would be ex post facto. I mean I was taking these ideas as I was told to put them in and just wrote them. G: Was there a faction within
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- the election, also participated in several others -I'm sure in other campaigns -- both when he was in college and right after . But as you say, he never sought or held state office . G: How did he come to seek the post in Congress? J: The story, I believe