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Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • thing. They didn't want anything to do with it, so they always gave us the editorship of the Cactus. The con- test was the president of the student body and the editorship of the Daily Texan, and they won it every time. But that's just background. I
Oral history transcript, Bart McDowell, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . It seems to me we left on Labor Day, ahead of schedule, which is typical--impetuous--off to Europe. My o~~ position on it, I wasn't, of course, filing any daily stories on the thing. I was to take notes along the way, particularly listening to both
Oral history transcript, James Cato Pattillo and Nettie Pattillo Woodyard, interview 1 (I), 6/27/1968, by A.K. Johnson (Item)
  • your time? W: I guess we went swimmi ng more than anythi ng el se. local creeks. We swam in the two Several summers we made almost daily trips to Gores [?] Pond in Clanton. We had watermelon cuttings, and I went with her on many occasions
Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , but if you're a member of a field office, you don't participate necessarily on a daily basis on protective work. investigations-- M: Only when he moves then? You have the other LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org Y: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , everybody'd get involved in the sense that he'd call around and he'd say, "Who do you think ought to be on the Supreme Court? Who do you think ought to be the new secretary of commerce?" M: Call around to his staff, you mean? C: My feeling was that you
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 4 (IV), 4/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • permit; Reverend James Bevel; Resurrection City city managers; Jesse Jackson; press and visitor access to Resurrection City; demonstrator demographics; Mayor Walter Washington's involvement with the demonstration; Julian Dugas; daily meetings
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • season matter? C: I think that made us want to deal with it and the fact that it really did hurt, if you will, thinking, writing America. It was a bigger thing to the readers of the New York Times and the newspapers than it was to the average guy
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was being moved routinely, and Johnson was not resisting. The State Department then selected, to be his successor and to do sort of a new job as foreign affairs aide with some substantive overtones-selected Eugene McAuliffe. Gene was somewhat senior to me
  • Mondale’s trip to Paris; how a trip to Italy led to a job working on LBJ’s staff; Scandinavian trip with LBJ; LBJ “misbehaving” on VP trips; LBJ and foreign affairs; LBJ’s old-fashioned nature; LBJ’s ability to win over a crowd; delivering important daily
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • under James Eastland. S: Right. F: And I forget who you've got in the House, but undoubtedly-- S: Manny Geller from New York. F: You didn't have any problem as far as the committee in the-- S: In the House. F: What do you do to jack it out
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Judd -- III -- 10 [inaudible]. What he said, "In October, 1977 [1917], we parted with the old world. We are moving toward a new world. A communist world. It's all there. We will never part. Never stray away from that path." Now after
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 3 (III), 1/17/89, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Judd -- III -- 10 [inaudible]. What he said, "In October, 1977 [1917], we parted with the old world. We are moving toward a new world. A communist world. It's all there. We will never part. Never stray away from that path." Now after
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 15 (XV), 8/30/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • could contribute more to the Judiciary Committee than Lehman could. Lehman was, with all due respect to New York, not 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the Subversive Activities Control Board. We talked about that didn't we? G: Yes. This was Dirksen's man on the-- C: I just noticed before the bipartisan [congressional leadership] meeting he's got, [reading from President's Daily Diary] "Off-the-record Senator
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 60 (LX), 1/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • circumstances takes time before it has any impact. He said--Clifford--if there was a lock-out of the Teamsters he would go for Taft-Hartley. And he said maybe the people don't feel the situation enough in their daily lives. Go to Punta del Este; even if they do
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 5 (V), 7/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the first one I encountered was New Zealand. couldn't believe thac all of that was necessary. Thev jusc 3ut thev didn't realize that when the Ame-::-ican President travels, he travels with dozens and dozens of press. The British might have three or four
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . He He had time to study them. He could later ask, questions about them, and they were closely, well-written documents all the way from the President's daily brief, which he got every night and which gave him a quick rundown on important things
Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and LBJ and some of the New Dealers were supporting Roosevelt. forces? Do you recall that issue, the stop-Roosevelt LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org L: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 7 (VII), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Clint Anderson of New Mexico. Do you have any kind of an account of what happened? G: Let's see. R: Well, it's irrelevant. That's easy enough to get. The important point was that while with those two amendments the important--all
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • . The reasons for describing this will come out in a moment. Mr. Johnson had requested that I try to find him someone else to help in this work, and I had employed a young man named Horace Busby who was at that time the graduating editor of The Daily Texan
Oral history transcript, William R. Desobry, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and the senior advisor came with him to escort him around the States. So they replaced him with somebody else, so I lost that job. So I went down to IV Corps later on. G: Were you given any special training, any special briefing for this new assignment? D
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was a man who had been, I believe, editor of the Daily Oklahoman and perhaps at one time the San Antonio Light, and had 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, Ava Johnson Cox, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that Uncle Sam worked with and worked hard. We were quite young, and we didn't have a daily newspaper. The San Antonio Express came out weekly, or semi-weekly is what it was called, and of course our mail service wasn't the best in the world, so we didn't
Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : It did? 0: Yes . It. would come over a town, and a lot of people would come out to see it . And it really was very effective . But Coke Stevenson was just like the Coca-Cola . state-known product . Everybody knew who he was . News had built up his
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 3 (III), 11/8/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • humor. I recall the day Lester Maddox was inaugurated governor here in Georgia, he called me at home in Atlanta and said, "I was just calling to congratulate you on your new governor. I've been looking at the TV. I was surprised"--or something like
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 4 (IV), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the amount of money we could get. This is no news to me. We've been fighting this battle for a long, long time, and the people that have been fighting it and the people that are managing the program, and I think doing it well, are discredited in a significant
  • of surplus commodities to Third World countries; the Rural Development Service; daily Department of Agriculture staff meetings led by Freeman; legislation Freeman proposed; food stamp programs in relation to direct distribution; Freeman's efforts to keep JFK
Oral history transcript, Carl T. Curtis, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that particular day, but I do recognize this statement here, "LBJ postponed the vote for two hours while they got some Democrats to the floor. II That was a daily practice. G: Really? C: He got the votes there and they voted, and he being the leader, we
Oral history transcript, John W. Gardner, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of acquaintances begin there and professional relationships begin there, but there was a very strong identification of education with the Johnson Administration as a result of that conference. it M: ~ Everybody felt that the dawn of a new day in education. Do
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 5 (V), 8/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 10 grandson and ULcd to sl!()\" hil~l He" off ane! liked to have him around. called Luci and told her to bet Lyn ready, that he uanted to take Lyn over to meet a new friend
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 2 (II), 2/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • time and all of a sudden to start bombing Hanoi at the same time you're on a peace offensive just doesn't make any sense." At any rate we had almost daily meetings. Each day I pressed for the opportunity to sit down and talk to the Hanoi Ambassador
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the traffic that was made available from all the embassies. The cable traffic you showed me, for example, part of the daily fare would be a stack of it. Some of what you showed me was SI, was back LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 15 (XV), 6/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The workers in that industry are paid almost entirely on an hourly or a daily basis, because they don't work every day. This is one of the reasons, by the way, that the wage rates in the building trades industry are so terribly high. They look terribly high
Oral history transcript, Robinson Risner, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • people are going to get hurt or killed. G: Did you have an opinion on the way that Hanoi was apparently able to convince some Americans that we were, in fact, bombing the civilians? Harrison Salisbury, I think, of the New York Times, was perhaps the best
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 46 (XLVI), 5/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • beating up on people who were raising their prices. And the President was sensitive to that, and that may have been what ultimately led him to conclude that at least we should make some attempt to deal with this, with the situation in New Jersey
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 2 (II), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to create new institutes of health, what I used to call them, and I think others have taken it up now, the disease of the month club. You know, "Mothers March for . . ." and all that sort of thing. 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with the 1941 campaign was four or five days after the election and when the Texas Election Bureau made another late return. F: It looked as if he had won, didn't it? K: It looked that way long enough that, as I remember, the Dallas [Morning] News
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh May 12, 1969 This is an interview with Chet Huntley in his office in New York on May 12, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. First of all Mr. Huntley, you have one thing in common with Lyndon B. Johnson, that is you
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and press assistant to then-Representative Jacob K. Javits from what was then the Twenty-first Congressional District of New York, which is the upper west side of Manhattan ranging at that time from West 114th Street north to the end of the island
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 5 (V), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was primarily on bird life and in the last few months the focus has been on what effect this has on man himself. In this way it's sort of indicative of the whole sweep of the conservation movement and the fact that it's taken on new dimensions in the last few
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ARTHUR KRIM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Krim's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Krim, let me just begin by asking you to sketch the origin of your friendship with President Johnson. Do you recall the first time you
  • Meeting Vice President LBJ; Ed Weisl; birthday event for President Kennedy in 1962; occasions where Krim saw LBJ before he became President; Krim’s work producing films for President Kennedy and LBJ; New York fundraising for LBJ; history
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XVII -- 3 got to know Don Cook from New York, who became special counsel of one of those subcommittees. Absenteeism involved his hours and his brain and his passion, but some of his thoughts were
  • in the 10th District in 1943; Mrs. Johnson's teeth; portraits and photos hung in the new KTBC office.