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Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: FRANK STANTON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Dr. Stanton's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Moving to the next presidential election in 1964, was there any effort made to have a debate between President
  • the burning of a Vietnam village; television news coverage of Vietnam; Stanton's belief that the Vietnam war would have been shorter if there had been presidential debates in 1964; Walter Cronkite's effect on public opinion and LBJ's concern over Cronkite's
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , an old patrician, delightful character, so far removed from Lyndon geographically and socially and in so many ways, but always very fond of Lyndon. And [he was] seconded also by [Dennis] Chavez of New Mexico. The fact that Chavez was Latin American
Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 2 (II), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that money would be put. I was opposed to that. For one thing it would make these cases interminable. For another thing, what it did, in effect, was give us a new and very extensive jurisdiction. We had no licensing authority over either transmission lines
  • suggestion that Securities and Exchange Commission powers over the utilities be transferred to the FPC; LBJ's influence on Swidler's work; Swidler's talk to New England power companies and the resulting efforts to integrate and coordinate systems without
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 6 (VI), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: NASH CASTRO INTERVIEWER: Harry Middleton PLACE: Mr. Castro's office, New York City, New York Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 M: We're going to talk now about the establishment of the Wildflower Center. Ted Gittinger on our staff prepared a chronology
Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/12/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • missions better or offers new military missions of importance. 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 32 (XXXII), 7/12/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to learn about the problems there," and I did learn. I mean, water is something I never understood, I don't think, until I went to both the University of Texas and New Orleans. I went somewhere in New Orleans, I think--but I think it was just the sense
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: THOMAS CORCORAN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Corcoran's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Let's talk about the New Hampshire primary in 1968 and what happened to the President there. C: There was a primary
Oral history transcript, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a Texan? H: I was born in San Antonio, and I grew up here in Austin. lJhen my family moved here, I was just a little fellow, about seven or eight years old. F: When did you join the Dallas News? H: 1916, on the old Dallas Journal, which
Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that year for the San Antonio Light as a cub sports writer and each summer thereafter for three years, coming home from school for the summer months, and then went to work full-time for them about 1930-31. I left the sports arena and went into general news
Oral history transcript, Mollie Parnis, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1983 INTERVIEWEE: MOLLIE PARNIS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Miss Parnis' office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 G: I want to begin by asking you to tell how you first met the Johnsons. P: Well, I first met Mrs. Johnson when she
Oral history transcript, Najeeb E. Halaby, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: NAJEEB HALABY INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Halaby's offices, Pan Am Building, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: This is an interview with Mr. Najeeb--to his friends known as Jeeb-Halaby. First of all, I'd like to know something about your
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Democratic Party dinner in New York. He came right from the airport to the dinner and delivered a rather flowery tribute to the President. That sort of stilled things for a while. But it wouldn't stay down, and I think the President r s response
Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 3 (III), 1/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • force version of the aircraft, both here in the U.S. and overseas, though in my opinion these have not been abnormal incidents, but typical of the kind of difficulties one has with the deployment of a new aircraft. In the case of the navy, however
Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • during the first five years of the Kennedy-Johnson Administration when the rate of economic growth was twice as high as in the previous years. And we began to get the new and recent price inflation when the economy got into trouble again. There has
  • interest rates; Rexford Tug-well; Keyserling’s influence on the New Deal; lasting effects of New Deal reforms; military spending and the economy; Vietnam war; planning public spending; jobs and on-the-job training; evaluation of LBJ’s domestic policies; how
Oral history transcript, Alfred Rosenthal, interview 1 (I), 10/29/2010, by Claudia Anderson (Item)
  • the arrival in New York was like cattle. It is true they had a sort of a board, and you had to report to it; you stood in line. And, of course, everything was done long before I ever arrived in New York. The consul in Trinidad, American consul in Trinidad
  • family home in Cologne, Germany; photography methods and a photograph of LBJ in Austin with the Jewish Brotherhood; the work of the Joint Distribution Committee and Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) in New York and Amsterdam; LBJ's involvement
Oral history transcript, James W. Gulick, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • going to be in the future. 1 believe--\vhen the Department of Transportation was created, was it not part of the administration put the Maritime Administration in that new department? pol~cy to LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org G
  • capabilities; nuclear power; safety regulations; cargo preference legislation; new maritime program; transportation revolution; relationship between government and maritime industry.
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • your own Department? U: Well, with my Department, and you know my Department is not one of the big major Departments in terms of its programs and responsibilities like HEW has been the entire 1960's. We were initiating a lot of new programs. I think
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of Congress, we were trying to develop some new legislation that we might put through after the election of '58 that would improve the situation for producers of various farm commodities. And Mr. James G. Patton, president of National Farmers Union, and I
Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1977 NTERVIEWEE: ANNA ROSENBERG HOFFMAN INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Hoffman's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 H: I wasn't active on the passage of the Selective Service Act, but I heard a story about it that I later found
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , although Lyndon Johnson always thought I was from the Northeast. I'll explain why later. I was born in Chicago the day the United States entered World War I, April 6, 1917. parents had migrated westward from New York two years previously. My My father
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Nay 13, 1969 F: This is an interview with Mr. Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., in his office in New York on Hay 13, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mr. Weisl, you're out of Illinois, right? W: Yes, sir. F: Tell us a little
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Adlai Stevenson fan in both of his campaigns. Looking onto the 1960 election, of course, I felt this was a great opportunity for the party. As late as early 1958 I think I was still a Stevenson man. In fact I wrote an article for the New Republic which I
Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : I've got the recorder on. T: All right. But what I did, I wrote these myself, not speech writers. Because the speech writers assigned just weren't good enough in that sense, and I used these as policy speeches to float new ideas and to try
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 20 (XX), 4/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 O: We have a white paper dated late September, which was a detailed presentation of a campaign in the form of a campaign manual
  • -finding and support for LBJ in his travel throughout the country; growing concern among Democratic leaders about Vietnam; presidential campaign work and organization prior to 1968; problems in the New Hampshire and Massachusetts primaries; lack of support
Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1974 I NTERV I HJEE: NELSON ROCKEFELLER INTERVI E~IER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Oa 11 as, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: This is an interview with former Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York in the Sheraton Dallas Hotel in Dallas, Texas, on February
Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 2 (II), 7/18/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : No. I think it was in the Rose Garden. I think it was, but that's vague in my mind. Where is--yes, 6/19. It says "fundraiser," but I didn't go to the fundraiser with him. I stayed at the hotel. G: How about going to New York to open the World's Fair
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • incident. Did I ever tell you the story about Cassie Mackin, who since has become quite well known as an NBC news commentator, very prominent in covering the conventions. She replaced Marianne Means on the Hearst headline service. Marianne Means had sort
  • and President Kennedy; Presidential scholar ceremony invitee list; Laitin losing his code name; LBJ not wanting people to know who he was taking to Camp David; how the press manipulate the people who release the news; LBJ’s relationship with the press; the focus
Oral history transcript, Tommie W. Glick and Sarah Taylor, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , I married in New York. How did you get to New York? the war had a great deal to do \,/ith that. path and my husband's path crossed. That's how my During the war I was in the Red Cross, and he was a surgeon in the Army. Mc: Oh. And so you went
Oral history transcript, Willard J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • given the commencement address and it was a very special occasion. The President had an opportunity to get off what I felt was a delightful quip that was reported in the New York Times the next day. In congratulating the class he told them he hoped
  • Biographical information; LBJ’s June 1964 Coast Guard Academy commencement address; DOT formation and transfer of Coast Guard to DOT; position of the Coast Guard; PPBS; obtaining new equipment; control of ice-breaking operation; Arctic exploration
Oral history transcript, Walter Washington and Bennetta Washington, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • had a way of doing it that you had to learn to understand. S: When that discussion took place there in 1966, was there already for you a possibility of the New York housing job? W: In the housing field, I had had at that time a number of other
Oral history transcript, Stanley Ruttenberg, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of employment on the part of the employers and then a decision was made to set up a training program in that area, which meant, really, a new developing concept. The Secretary of Labor would determine what occupations there ought to be training programs
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: MARY LASKER (Mrs. Albert D. Lasker) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mrs. Lasker's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 1 F: Mrs. Lasker, let's start by talking a little bit about how you first became interested in health
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 27 (XXVII), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 23, 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 O: On the evening prior to inauguration, my wife and I were visited by Hubert Humphrey and his wife
  • to McDonnell and Company with O'Brien; the state of McDonnell and Company when O'Brien came to work for them; selling seats on the New York and American Exchanges to make McDonnell and Company money; the McDonnell family's wealth and influence; a merger
Oral history transcript, David W. Angevine, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the Cooperative News Service; I was director of information. And in 1963 I moved to Washington, D.C., still with the Cooperative League as its public relations director. live been in Washington since that time. I went to work for the Department of Agriculture
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 7 (VII), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: NASH CASTRO INTERVIEWER: Harry Middleton PLACE: Mr. Castro's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 M: We are going to talk about some of the things that have not found their way into the oral histories in the Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, John Ben Shepperd, interview 1 (I), 12/30/1968, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • of West Texas and of southeastern New Mexico. K: I understand, Mr. Shepperd, that you also had a good deal to do with the Chamber of Commerce and when you were younger with the Junior Chamber of Commerce. S: Is that correct? Yes, that's correct. I
Oral history transcript, Radcliffe Killam, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , there was a so-called old party and new party in Webb County politics. The old party was primarily the party of the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Stewart J.O. Alsop, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • A: Of course, when he was the majority leader of the Senate, it was essential for anybody who was trying to keep on top of the news to see the leader fairly frequently. I don't mean every day or every week, but to be in touch with him and his people. M: He
Oral history transcript, Courtney A. Evans, interview 1 (I), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • new major policy decisions made that affected the department. B: But this is only a natural development. During these years in which there were three Attorney Generals--from Robert Kennedy to Nicholas Katzenbach to Ramsey Clark--did there occur under
Oral history transcript, Roger Stevens, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Fortunately, many that were elected in that year are still with us. F: Could you use Johnson to go out and help you raise money? S: No, I never did that. I remember he did come to a fund-raising affair with Sam Rayburn in New York once, for the purpose