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Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . Nobody did, generally. Oh, some of my damn contem- poraries and classmates used to get mad because they were colonels, and again, I was by that time like a major general in equivalent rank in the State Department, and they would never paid any attention
Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • there . variance . There's just one little For awhile I was Counsel and not the Staff Director, for a period of about two years, but the rest of the time I was the principal staff person for the Post Office and Civil Service Committee of the House . P: When did
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be a member, a lobbyist, or someone else to speak to the group and answer questions about a pending bill or some other timely issue. to be qu ite a popu 1ar event. Club." This got We ca 11 ed it the "Tuesday Luncheon I was one of the organizers
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as far as Dallas and I call him and say, 'Come on, George, let's come back. I'll send a plane for you.'" This happened time after time. I guess George told all this, too, if you've ever read his stories of it. G: Anything else on the problem that he had
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • -- 3 finally, at that time, the Bell-Dillon-Heller layer. This served both as a kind of factual agent to give the President something like a quarterly review--I don't know that we were quite that systematic but that was the objective--of the economic
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • been working as a newspaper reporter for a medium-sized daily in Pennsylvania and felt that I wanted to go abroad. I wanted to go abroad as a correspondent. At the time, among other subjects and people, I was covering Congressman Francis E. Walter, who
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • working as a newspaper reporter for a medium-sized daily in Pennsylvania and felt that I wanted to go abroad. I wanted to go abroad as a correspondent. At the time, among other subjects and people, I was covering Congressman Francis E. Walter, who was from
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 2 (II), 2/18/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • WHITE INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ February 18, 1971 Tape 1 of 1 F: This is a second interview with Mr. Lee C. White in his office in Washington, D.C. on February 18, 1971. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mr. 'White, last time we just got you
Oral history transcript, Javier Baz Manero, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • States, I think in Texas, spoke English. Therefore, he used to be the person in the hotel that would come and take care of the influential or outstanding men coming to Acapulco at the time. Through that he knew President Johnson, I think as a senator
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Of course, a lot of things have happened since then. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh But at the time that was certainly heralded
Oral history transcript, June White, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in 1944 as a You're from Massachusetts? correspondent for the Boston Herald , at which point I met President Roosevelt, who was simply wonderful to me . I met Harry Truman . Later Then I married Bill and stopped working . G: You became a housewife
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the Speaker's birthday, Sam Rayburn's, which was, I think, the sixth of January and always heralded by a big party, most often given--well, there were many parties for the Speaker celebrating his birthday, but always a very important one given by Dale
Oral history transcript, Stewart J.O. Alsop, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • last year, a book on current times and power in Washington. I know you did cover LBJ to a certain extent in the 1950s. I'm familiar with one feature you did that you mention in the book. How closely did you follow his activities in the Senate years? 1
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • - - - -he must be learning all the time. He used to have just kind of kitchen Spanish. F: But he could get around with a non-English speaking group. N; Yes. F: "CNhat do yo:.: 1:'::0"\"· about him as a teacher? Do you remember anything frOT:: :hose
Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LYMAN LEMNITZER INTERVIEWER: Ted Gitt i nger PLACE: General Lemnitzer's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: All right, sir, please go ahead. L: It was about that time that General [George C.] Marshall took over from Louis Johnson
Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • not before Congress as a platform for the Democratic party in '56 and again in '60. Most of the time I was governor of New York--a considerable part of the time I was. Then afterwards I still remained as a member because we were very much concerned
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was living in Japan, Dien and I began to hear and read about this place called and so I went down there for the Chicago Daily News what turned out to be the end of to the Viet Minh Dien Bien Phu fell Accords . it . and at the time of the Geneva
Oral history transcript, Paul H. Douglas and Emily Taft Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Marine Corps was the most tightly segregated unit in our armed services, and I was a loyal Marine. But I real ized the time had come when American citizens should not be divided on the basis of color or previous condition of servitude. The Consitution
Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as a correspondent in January of 1930 and was a correspondent for our three Texas papers-lIm sorry to say we only have one now--a paper in homa~ and two in Tennessee. G: The three Texas papers were? M: We had the Houston Herald-Post. Press~ Alabama
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 3 (III), 2/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • this period of time that is of consequence, do you think? G: Well, I think there's only one instance that is worth dealing on at all, and that came in June of 1966 or 1967, but it's something that broke in the newspapers so it's easy to check. But the only
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • mixed up on dates at this point, but-­ G: The letter was 1957. R: It was 1957? The letter itself was actually written by Jim Rowe, but the concepts were Johnson's. I think that the letter leaked out to the [New York] Herald Tribune somehow. We
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Senate. You know, Lausche had made a lifetime political career out of being a Democrat only in the sense of being on the Democratic side of the ballot. Johnson at that time thought that quite possibly Lausche was holding out to ask for something
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was trying to fix the date when you scheduled this informal discussion, and my mind went racing back. As near as I can fix the time, it must have been in his first term in Congress. I don't think that I had met him, I may have, when he was on the staff
Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Communism in government. that there w a s The story that I believe to be true was a luncheon held across from the Mayflower Hotel at which there was a Catholic priest, a fired correspondent from the old Times Herald in Washington, and somebody else
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • others and I think everyone of us was from [the South]. I was from Alabama, Tom Wicker was from North Carolina, The New York Times, Doug Kiker from the Herald Tribune was a Georgian, and there were several others. have made this charge? So how could he
Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 5 recommended by John Brademus, a classmate of his at Notre Dame. So by the time I got down here I found that Mr. Kelleher had
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • fandangled him into the presidential car. The Governor [John J. McKeithen] had his own car at the airport, but Johnson got him to ride in the presidential limo into town. Johnson stopped along the way several times, most often in black neighborhoods, to greet
Oral history transcript, Laurance Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 R: That's right, '61; this report initiated in '58, presented in '61. So we had the pleasure of meeting him for the first time, and he received our group representing
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 2 (II), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • down there? S: Well, my recollection is that he went--didn't that [heart attack] occur at George Brown's place, where, in Alexandria or something? G: Yes, Middleburg, I think. S: He spent a lot of time telling me about the complications
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Press-Herald was this beautiful picture of Lyndon Johnson and the Republican governor in a victory salute surrounded by this huge crowd. Isn't that a great story? Well, by the time we get down to the city hall steps where Johnson was to speak, Reed
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in collusion with parties like Walt Rostow, Clark Clifford, Dean Rusk; the President had his own small set of advisers looking over these drafts as they would be presented over the period of this six weeks. It was a particularly exhausting time, I recall
Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • political you must have been aware of him for a long time. C: Yes, I was aware of him quite well because of his Senate career particularly, congressional career, and his early days with the New Deal. I was just starting practicing law at that time, and I
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • was on loan, in · . But at ·tt
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and his secretary of defense, his various secretaries of state and so forth. And I thought that they would come out of it, that they would come out of it in time. G: I think, in fact, you said in a letter to Senator [Mike] Mansfield that you thought
Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • activities with that of Mr. Johnson and the events that occurred during his time. You began your news career with the Chicago Sun Times in 1948 and moved into broadcasting in 1950. You went with Station WNBQ, the NBC station in Chicago. From 1950 to 1965 you
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • DATE: August 27, 1969 INTERVIEWEE: ELIZABETH CARPENTER INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mrs. Carpenter's home, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Liz, last time we just raised the subject of mistakes that might have been made, either wrong
Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • -- 23 for Hiroshima. Mike Cowles understood that. In fact, I did one thing which for a long time preyed on my mind; I was actually filled with guilt although I had been right to do it. Helen Reid, owner of the New York Herald Tribune, once presided over
Oral history transcript, William M. Capron, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Council--and my memory is not sharp enough on the exact timing and just who said what to whom at this point--was already, I know, in June talking about the need to think ahead to the legislative program that President Kennedy might introduce in 1964
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 4 (IV), 12/4/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3, Side 1 G: Let me start with one note that I have from last time that you were going to talk about
  • separation of church and state; O'Brien's work with the timing of votes before the congressional session ended; 1962 welfare reform bill; the appointments of Byron White and Arthur Goldberg to the Supreme Court; Thurgood Marshall's appointment to the Second
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1990 INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE REEDY INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Reedy's office at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: --1964 last time. R: Right. G: You had begun a discussion of the vice