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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? Because Eisenhower had a good smile, [was] very diplomatic, and believed in carrying out orders. Winston Churchill was trying to get us involved, to get us to help invade Africa. Every time he'd come to Washington to see * Mr. Johnson's readings

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 7 (VII), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

cannot hire from anybody The union shop on the other hand, he can hire anybody he wants to, but that person must join the union within a set period of time. Now, the trouble with the damn thing is that the closed shop is really a provision that's

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE E. REEDY INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Professor Reedy's office, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: Last time you mentioned briefly that the Johnsons had moved into the Sheraton Park. [They] sold their house

Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the air force, and in 1966 a temporary duty assignment came down--I was in New Mexico at the time--and it was for "a photographer in Washington," and that's all it said. assignment. I only had about three months to go. September of 1966. I got the I

Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the Congress to support the President's proposal on this open flight business. At that time Mr. Johnson--President Johnson--had had his major heart attack, and he was at Bethesda. Clements of Kentucky. and I said, The acting Majority Leader was Senator So I

Oral history transcript, Milton P. Semer, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that were going to get planning money and grant money, because Bob Weaver made a speech in Dallas saying that he was encouraging the administration not to take the time to have just an initial planning phase, but to actually ask for the appropriation

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 4 (IV), 1/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

yesterday that there were a good many interagency committees and panels where the members were designated as the secretaries in charge of the cabinet departments. In fact, the time of these cabinet officers would be wholly consumed if they attended even one
; early Committee meetings; resistance to the terms of the commitment, conflicts of interest, and fear that time spent in government work could hinder career development; LBJ signing a work program executive order January 19, 1969, so that the Nixon

Oral history transcript, Raul Castro, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a little difficulty getting a teaching job because of my ancestry. In those days it was not customary to hire people of Mexican background F: Your timing was wrong, wasn't it? C: That's right, the timing was wrong in those days. So what happened

Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, it seems to me, of the delegation from Florida in 1952 . I don't believe I was invited in 1956 because I was involved in the campaign . F: Had you gotten to know Lyndon Johnson prior to this time? B: Only to see him as one of the people on the scene

Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

-time job, and supposedly was given a half-day Ivork. So during that summer I went to school from eight to twelve, reported to ,mrk immediately thereafter, and asually left about twelve or one that night. I found out most of my part-time jobs

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

generation in there and so many fellows were so busy making up for lost time that we thought they didn't have time to get involved in activist politics. F: You are from that part of the world? M: I was born and raised in the state of Nebraska, but we had

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

29, 1984 INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE E. REEDY INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Sheraton-Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start first with the Kennedy-Ives bill. We discussed that some last time but not in any

Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to Washington from your home state in Texas, and you worked with them until 1945. From 1945 to 1958 you were with the New York Times and rose to the position of chief congressional correspondent. In 1958 you left to become nationally syndicated. Your column

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

for approximately a year--which, by the way, is the length of time people ordinarily stay with the Supreme Court as youngsters because it's a very low-paying job. It's more for the training and the honor than it is for the pay. Governor Daniel hired me
ticket; LBJ becoming Minority Leader in 1953 and Majority Leader in 1954; time following LBJ’s 1955 heart attack; LBJ vs. Price Daniel on civil rights; Majority Leader LBJ’s attempts to balance his duties to Texas and the nation; LBJ’s talents as Majority

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the maximum extent. At that time, we were talking about three miles beyond their border for Tidelands. Now we're talking about two hundred miles, and it looks very much like this is what the world's going to come to, and the reason being that the Japanese

Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to be his newsboy; I delivered newspapers to his home. At that time he was an alderman. F: Right. M: As the years went on, I believe he and President Johnson became quite good friends. F: Yes. M: But at the outbreak of the war, or shortly before

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

talking last time about the Post Office. First of all, it's under Mr. Johnson's presidency that you were promoted to assistant postmaster general? A: That's correct. B: What were the circumstances there? A: The full details, I don't think are too
Braestrup’s work as a journalist in Southeast Asia for the New York Times; New York Times coverage of Vietnam compared to Time magazine; how journalists covered Vietnam and the danger involved; how Braestrup became Washington Post Bureau Chief; Joe

Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

, and when I came out of the Army, I went into the University of Texas again . At the same time I was in the state legislature from Falls County . H: All right . When did you go into the state legislature? What was the date on that, approximately? 0

Oral history transcript, Robinson Risner, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: Okay. Now, of course in retrospect, everyone is expected to have a view on the war. Did you have a view on the war at the time when you were flying? R: Yes, I did. I still have the same view; it has never changed. And you might place me

Oral history transcript, Tom and Betty Weinheimer, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to this place in 1954 then? TW: Right. G: I see. And, of course, the Johnsons had just had their place for about two or three years then, I guess, at that time? 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 2 (II), 3/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

came aboard? s: Only the most general kind of instructions. At that time Henry Wilson had been in charge of the House side of Congressional relations for the President-well, he'd come in from the Kennedy days, he'd been there since '61

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Stevenson might say or do, especially in view of the tidelands issue at this particular time. As you will recall, Stevenson publicly announced that he was opposed to the giveaway of the tidelands, and I think that was his position. Notwithstanding

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 6 (VI), 8/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Sanders was one, is that UpO::1 at the time that Congress adjourned and took its Well, in fact it was the end of Congress. No action was taken. When the Congress reconvened in early January, during the last two or thr...: .:».3 of the Johnson
that Connally was secretly helping Nixon; LBJ briefing Nixon, Humphrey and Wallace; phone communication on airplanes; a cancelled trip to Russia; transition among the staff; Stuart Udall renaming D.C. Stadium to Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium; the time

Oral history transcript, Sam Fore, Oliver Bruck, Dan Quill, & William S. White, group interview 2 (II), 1/20/1965, by Douglass Cater (Item)

and it has gone right on up to now. He would have been in his early twenties. F: I think so, I think that is correct. Of course, we had occasion to be associated with him many times while he was a Congressman’s secretary. Along about --when
Group interview with Texas newspapermen and long-time political supporters of LBJ

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to affronts . He also I remember one time--I don't know whether it's on the previous tape or not--he came to Fort Worth to speak . He � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

you were, I believe, assisting Marvin Watson as appointments secretary, which would really go from 1964 to the time in which you assumed the actual position in 1968. So you would have been assistant to Mr. Watson during that period. Could you tell me

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to explain some thing, I like to go back and explain why. very impatient. Something that always made him He had some remark once that he was afraid to ask me the time because he might get a lecture in the sidereal movement of the stars

Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. This was when Bernard Baruch was the chairman of the delegation, and we were trying to negotiate the so-called Baruch Plan for international control of atomic energy. But in the summer of 1967 I was asked by a war-time friend who was then deputy assistant

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to make it pos sible for him to have either his first or, if not that, his second choice. F: As a new senator came in, did he tend to invite him in and get acquainted with him, or did he just wait for time to have them brush up against each other? 1

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of discrimina- tion against females, some of our rulings in that area were of greater significance at the time, seemed to be, than those against blacks. Of course, [there was] greater resistance from the outside community as it was not as "fashionable

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in that? J: He passed a law, a blue sky law that ran them out of Texas. come in now under Esso or Humble. They But that's quite interesting because I was offered a job as vice president with Standard Oil down in Venezuela one time. Tom Armstrong [?J, he

Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, served for approximately three years. M: Were you overseas? C: No, I was en route overseas twice, once when we invaded Europe and the second time when we dropped the bomb at Hiroshima. So I spent all my time in the States, which I thought

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/show/loh/oh O'Brien -- Interview II -- 3 was at Budget and that would be a source in that you could be advised and counselled by Budget, [which] in turn would probably give you a little lead time in some departments and agencies at times so you could
. C. in time for a vote; Bay of Pigs events and JFK accepting responsibility for failure there; JFK's trust in the CIA and military; education legislation; opposition from James Delaney to aid to education; Cardinal Richard Cushing's visit to the White

Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. You ' re Kenneth O' Donnell, and your off icial pos iti on 1·1 i th the Johnso n Administration was as specia l ass istant to t he president from the time he took offi ce, a job you continued in from t he Kennedy Adm i n i stra t ion , on unt i l

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

elected in a regular election. J: He had been in office two years--first in a special election and then had been re-elected in one regular election. F: Up until that time had you taken any great part in politics, either campus or otherwise? 1 LBJ

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

ten months, selected as one of the first fifteen White House Fellows. I decided at that time to leave the University, though my dissertation was still hanging, because I could not resist the irresistible, which was a chance to work for the State

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Lucas had a tough race because Dirksen had tremendous popular support, newspaper support, and Illinois was a state that could go either way, but Senator Myers' defeat was a big shock. Senator [Richard] Russell at this particular time had more votes

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

perquisites available to the floor leader of the Senate, to the majority leader. times. He had different people staffing it at different Ashton Gonella, as a general rule, was in the outer office, and I think Mary Margaret [Wiley Valenti] was in the inner

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. From 1936 through 1963 you were associated with the Chattanooga Times as a reporter, then Washington correspondent, and finally editor of the News Focus service. This last period was from 1958 to 1963. In 1963 you became a columnist for the Chicago
Outline of journalistic career; LBJ's unique handling of press during both Senate and White House years; Kennedy and Johnson humor; Jacqueline Kennedy's appreciation of LBJ; LBJ's swearing-in ceremony in Dallas; Kennedys thoughts of death and LBJ's

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at Stonewall. You have My two sisters, Rebekah I was conceived on the Ranch and born January 31 right after we moved to Johnson City in November 1913. So I used to kid Lyndon all the time that more people came by to see my home than they did his. G: Your

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