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Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

going to go to Santo Domingo and take command of the forces." The press later said that the President had told McNamara and Wheeler to send "the best goddamn general we could find" to the Dominican Republic. I didn't believe any of those stories

Oral history transcript, Rutherford M. Poats, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

will sound very simple, but people thirty or forty years from now might not consider then quite as simple as they now are. Don't let them limit you. If you want to ramble around and talk about something else, by all means do so. You were with United Press

Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Provence -- I -- 5 press. I was editor or managing editor, whatever year it was, on the campus paper. M: Well then, you went ahead and worked through that 1941 campaign which Johnson

Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

press him on it, and I don't know why he chose me, so I can't really answer the ultimate question, which is how come Livingston got so much involved? It's perfectly true that I have another academic interest in the comparative study of federal systems

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 12 (XII), 7/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the House. It was all right for the Washington Post to editorialize and press its position. Now reality faced us, and we felt that perhaps the Washington Post had an additional responsibility to be helpful in moving the legislation.So the result was that we

Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

at the airport and arranged a press conference for hUn. That was my only contact with him. M: What did these big city northern mayors think about Johnson being the vice presidential candidate in 1960? C: I personally thought it was a very good choice, I
legislation; Senate vote on Medicare testifying on the hill; civil rights bill; duties as Secretary; expansion of Office of Aging; women in government; appointment by Secretary; birth control report; surgeon general's report on smoking; LBJ and the press

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

"Alliance for Progress" had been coined during the Kennedy election campaign for use in a speech which was never delivered, a speech somewhere in Florida, but the speech was mimeographed [and] had been given to the press. Dick Goodwin, I think

Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Johnson a couple of times on specific requests froT:l President Johnson to speak to him about this or that bit of legislation, rr.ainly in my field. And he _vas ahlays very professional about it. The press at one point thought--and had it in the paper

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: SARGENT SHRIVER INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Shriver's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 3 G: Feel free to deviate from this outline. This is primarily designed to trigger memories and to amplify things that you may think

Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Digest had carried an article in 1959 in which Mr. Johnson had stated that he was, in this order, a free man, an American, a United States senator, and a Democrat. These were the things we were then beginning to line people up to work. With respect

Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and I think that she felt that he was Father's boy and not particularly hers. G: Did she press him on social issues, do you recall, such as civil rights or things like that? R: No, I don't think she thought she had to press him. Because I think she

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

manner or means. G: She became rather famous for making certain statements to the press later on, and the one that sticks in my mind at this time for some reason is that after 1963, she went on record as saying that the Americans were to blame for it all
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Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

evening ." But he culti vated the press very assiduously . G: Even then? B: Oh, very much so, very, very much so . G: HQV( B: Well, one example would be that Lyndon was very friendly with the so? people in .Senator .Tom .Conna.lljr-t s ;office

Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and a doctor that was diagnosing their ills sort of nunc pro tunc as we say in the law, now for then. Oh, the Houston Press ran a hell of a story on it. one young doctor in a bunch of trouble. It got But we issued a statement that these people had been

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of fact, what we did was, when I flew down to the ranch for the January 1st press briefing so that the President would sign off on it--it was January 1st and no work was done that day--when I flew back the first place I went was the Archives, and I

Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

political mechanism is closely associated with the dairy industry. And Mr. Mills, there- fore, pressed for certain types of adjustment to the pricing and support activity of that industry, which, again, was my responsibility. LBJ Presidential Library

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and his predecessor Dwight Eisenhower said was critical to the free world." That's murder. Anyway, there was everything--The investment was tremendous. And now you get slugged. You get the Tet offensive and all the doves and the doubters who are, as you

Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Mills -- II -- 3 which was a pretty strong endorsement of it, I thought. I thought the time had come to pass it. I don't think we could have passed it in 1961. I told Kennedy that, and he agreed, I guess. He never did really press me about it. G: Did

Oral history transcript, James A. Shannon, interview 1 (I), 4/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

. The department at that time was not inclined to press for this, nor indeed was the Congress. But with Fogarty's death, actually the first day of the opening session of the last Congress that met in 1967, there was an upsurge of interest in trying to find some way

Oral history transcript, Guy S. Meloy III, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Meloy -- I -- 19 put some stability into a district or a province so that the people felt, one, free to vote without getting

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, ,which leaves the General Counsel free to undertake special tasks for the Secretary and the Deputy Secretary of Defense. So, as a consequence, Bob McNamara first brought Cy Vance in as General Counsel, then after a period made him Secretary of the Army

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of us wives would wind up joining our husbands on the Hill to work in his office, addressing envelopes to send out free Department of Agriculture seeds or farmers' bulletins or baby books, or what have you. F: Did you get involved at all in his

Oral history transcript, Robert Q. Marston, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

. feel free to call me. If you need any help, then you should The President is interested in this program, and he's interested in you." G: What was your mandate at that time? What were you charged to do? t~: To start a new program that many fel

Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the extreme liberal wing of the Democratic Party. Johnson thought they were impractical legislators . did anything to impede Kennedy. But Johnson never I remember on one occasion he gave Senator Kennedy free rein to call up a bill of his on the floor

Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and there was a half bed in one room, and a whole, big bed in the other room. So I marked that vacant, and Lyndon and Boody Johnson and I stayed down there, free, of course, because it was marked vacant. month. We ate at Mrs. Gates' house for sixteen dollars a So

Oral history transcript, Myron R. Blee, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that tried to decide how those things could be accomplished . It apparently went well enough that Mrs . Johnson felt free to come down to deliver the commencement address . F: Of the first class . B: Right. So those two contacts were the only contacts

Oral history transcript, Roger Blough, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and quite free with his time . Of course, the steelworkers and Dave McDonald, in particular, had supported him very strongly . So he may have felt some obligation there . But I believe he was intensely interested in this problem and he wanted to know what

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, such as budget-which I didn't handle--and press relations which George Christian handled before he left--with those exceptions most of the ultimate responsibility on the other matters relative to the Governor's office rested with rne insofar as the Governor

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 4 (IV), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of light on that. Of course, there had been other moments of this sort before, like when Cy Vance went out to--was it Detroit?--there was a similar kind of thing. But this, right on the back doorstep of the White House, was a shocker. I remember

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in this society as they ought to to read the black press when the Kerner Commission Report came out. It was said that the President ignored the Kerner Commission, didn't like it, didn't like what it was dOing. What he didn't like was certain ways

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

with a But they're human beings too so those frictions sometimes came up. F: Did you press for cease-and-desist power? A: Oh, yes. years. And so did Johnson. And we didn't get it. It just didn't come through. A couple of Then as I left-- F: Was this a kind

Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)

, if they got in any trouble with the local PTA they could say, "Well, the Vice President said in Austin--," which was one of the things I had hoped for. We got good press coverage, I might add. KTBC, as you would guess, Channel 7, covered it. M: One of our
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Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the same kind of John got it from talking to the press; he'd talk to Halberstam and Sheehan. I didn't make complaints. I was complaining--not complaining, I was telling him what was a fact, and he was shouting back at me so loud that they could hear him

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 5 (V), 12/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for that, but it only does it in the instances where it is this country's policy to do it, and the CIA is instructed to do that either by the highest authority or by State. It does not--in my experience with it over seven years--go off free-wheeling on its own. F

Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

happened with that? F: Because of the fact that the university was such a free place--we had people speaking here that they thought were outrageous. T: This was during the McCarthy period or after? F: Afterwards. On the last day of a session, without

Oral history transcript, Herbert N. Blackman, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

was that that escape clause action would be put aside and the Japanese issue--or we had a joint press release actually--the voluntary arrangement covering all this cotton textile shipments to the United States for a five year period, with built-in growth. Stanley

Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

work needed to be done--supplementary work, that we would be free to do it. But that we would be embraced in this matter, taken into it, in all respects--with nothing kept from us. I was selling the Chief on the idea that he needed us in Texas

Oral history transcript, Truman Fawcett and Wilma Green Fawcett, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

well acquainted with the Johnson family. A lot of the stories that come out in the press about Johnson and elsewhere indicate that this was a poor family. Now is that true? TF: No, that isn't true. I mean they were poor, but everyone was poor. WF

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