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Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • and providing for the tape some background information, at the end of which time I'd like you to fill it in or complement it in any way you feel fit. You were born in 1900 in Atlanta. In 1923 you received the bachelor of arts degree from Morehouse College
Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Johnson happened to be in Austin at that time and was gracious enough to come down to the meeting. So I've known Mrs. Johnson through the broadcasting field, and [I met] the President, as I recall, at a meeting in New York. senato~ He was then U.S
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 5 (V), 3/14/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in terms of how they dealt with Congress? C: Well, I think simply here that again it's--we'll never know whether or not the same contributions would have flowed at the end of the same period of time. There's just no way we can ever measure that except
Oral history transcript, Terrel Maverick Webb, interview 1 (I), 1/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVla~EE : r,1RS. HALTER PRESCOTT WEBB (TERRELL HAVERICK HEBB) I NTERVI D~ER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Where did you first get into the Washington scene? W: Well, the first time I really ever thought anything
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 2 (II), 12/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Any insights on that? W: I'm afraid that I'm going to have a hard time in keeping my recollections from becoming co-mingled with some of the things that I've read that others have said. But my best recollection about it, just thinking about
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and take the combination B.A./LL.B. This is really what I had had in mind. Upon transferring here I became engrossed with the government department, particularly [because] Dr. Redford and Dr. O. D. Weeks [?] were there at that time, and a young bright star
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 5 (V), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to a conversation between President Johnson and Secretary [Robert] McNamara in my presence in the Cabinet Room late in the afternoon of May 3, 1965. My reason for being present at that time was a previous session that had been held with the President and Secretary
Oral history transcript, Thomas J. Dunlap, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • : For the Office of Economic • • • • • TD: Yes, for the regional office here. We handle eleven states out of this area office. PB: Mr. Dunlap, I understand you were at San Marcos in Southwest Texas College at the same time as Mr. Johnson. We are trying to get
Oral history transcript, James H. Tate, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • when he was the Democratic leader of the Senate during the Eisenhower Administration. I was with a group of railroad executives and mayors headed by former Mayor [Anthony] Celebrezze of Cleveland. Mayor Celebrezze at that time was president of the old
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: RAMSEY CLARK INTERVIEWER: HARRI BAKER PLACE: His home in Falls Church, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 B: This is a continuation of the interview with Ramsey Clark. Sir, last time, we carried the story up to the summer of 1966, which was another
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 2 (II), 12/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to Cyprus with the first stop being Ankara." I said, ''If you're really serious, I don't see how I can possibly do it. I'm terribly busy at this point. What sort of time pressure is there?" He said, "The time pressure is immense, and if it's decided that you
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that first meeting after you saw him as President of the United States. Perhaps some positions he indicated he held at that time, if he did so. C: Let me think about it a little while now and let's see what I can come up with. M: It's kind of hard
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : Mr. Johnson was a Congressman at that time, only two years himself from being a freshman. Did you have occasion to be a reasonably close acquaintance of his during those first 8 years, I guess, when he was still in the House of Representatives
Oral history transcript, Frank Pace, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: FRANK PACE, JR. INTERVI EWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Pace's office, 545 Madison Avenue, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: You're Frank Pace, and your last full time government occupation was in 1953 \"lhen you retired as Secretary
Oral history transcript, Marjorie A. Delafield, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • the matchbook covers for the canteen. Being in the City Hall frequently, I met Mrs. Bess Beeman, who was at that time a receptionist at City Hall. She came to the canteen often for coffee and she had a need to have some typing done for the Austin
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at Harvard and joined-- M: That was 1948 by that time? C: Yes. Joined, in the fall of '48, the staff that was planning a new magazine which subsequently in '49 was The Reporter magazine. Sent in 1950 to Washington as the Washington editor of The Reporter
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • we begin, because I think this is a time period central to our area of discussion. I have down here that in 1960 to 1962 that you were director of the Joint Staff organization within the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This would be here at the Pentagon. W
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, III, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • down to Washington with him. What did that do to your own lifestyle? You had to go off and leave all your little friends. H: Well, I don't know whether I had that much of a lifestyle by that time. Actually, my growing up was suburban Maryland. I
Oral history transcript, Myer Feldman, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • help staff that committee. Lyndon Johnson went to Donald Cook, his protégé and his friend, who was chairman of the SEC. Donald Cook said, "I can't do it because I have a full-time government job, but I have a young lawyer who I think is able to handle
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 3 (III), 7/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , but it did make a start in that whole civil rights picture, and we anticipated there would be additional legislation from time to time. And so we were context to take what bread we could get if we couldn't get a whole loaf at the time. F: In the situation
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • resuming my activities among the students in Paris and at the same time going back to the university to finish one last part of my mathematics studies that I had before at the university in Hanoi, and then I came back to Saigon in 1954. G: I see. So you
Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • A tlantic and the North A tlantic, and it was between that time of the Air Transport Command and the Naval Air Transport Service that I was transferred. I stopped in to see my predecessor, Mr. A. B. Tol/ey who was the third person to serve since 7881
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and wondered if I might be interested in coming to Washington. I d~d not know, :~at I told him at the time t hat I didn't really think so. B: Thi s is whil e-; -: ·· -,;e r e on Gov ernor Conna lly 's staff? C: That's right. I was then working
Oral history transcript, Robert Taft, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • or appreciation of any relationship that your father may have had with Lyndon Johnson. T: No. My timing is such that I was never in Washington with my father, really. I graduated from college in '39, which is the year that he came to Congress, was married
Oral history transcript, Allen J. Ellender, interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , that's right, and both were consulted as I understand very much by the President, particularly the Speaker. B: Then, sir, when Mr. Johnson entered the Senate in 1948, of course you had been there for some time by that time, did he immediately begin
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES S. MURPHY INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. Murphy's office in Washington, D.C., Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, last time you were talking about briefing former President Truman on the behalf of President Johnson, and after the tape
Oral history transcript, William J. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of a civil service examination. At that time, the Bureau of Naturalization and the Department of Labor had an employee on detail at the White House. That young man left and the bureau was asked to supply a replacement and I happened to be it. I came over
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • for the Navy, was accepted and in early 1944 I joined the service as a Naval Reserve officer. I came to Washington for a brief time and transferred out to the West Coast and from there worked in the major effort of preparing the offensive that was to take place
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 1 (I), 9/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Cronin -- I -- 2 eye because of my activities and activeness on the campus. And in so catching Foots' eye then came the time I was graduating and--it happened to coincide. Foots was looking for somebody to send to Washington. I agreed
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on in as much detail as you can. Let me ask you first generally about foreign policy during the [Dwight D.] Eisenhower years and how bipartisan it was. The Democrats controlled Congress through much of that time and the Republicans--many of them--had a more
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Morris -- I -- 2 Actually I had really not enough time to get my feet on the ground while I was in I Corps as the J-2 adviser there. I did find an ARVN intelligence officer by the name of Thiep, who was later transferred to their JGS, and ended up
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 7 (VII), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the plan, but more the timing. C: It seemed to me that it had more to do with the timing, although there were facets of the plan which were not agreeable to the President. But apparently Wirtz, in some manner, had given a type of commitment. I think, as I
Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: WILLIAM F. KNOW LAND INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Senator Knowland's office, Oakland Tribune Tower, Oakland, California Tape 1 of 2 F: Senator, to get this underway, let's talk briefly about your early career until the time you came
Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 24, 1969 F: Let me make a brief introductory statement. This is an interview with Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, long-time Prime Minister of Australia, in the Sheraton-Crest Inn in Austin, Texas, on November 25, 1969
Oral history transcript, James A. Lovell, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in Wisconsin, which I now claim as my home since I went through most of my educational period [there] including two years at the University of Wisconsin. Upon that time, which I was in an aviation program, I left Wisconsin to go into the Navy under a Naval
Oral history transcript, Daniel Garcia, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • years a city councilman with him for a long time there. We have had our controversies, of course, but we always get along fine. Later on we were both businessmen. I've been a businessman ever since I got back from the service. I served in the army from
Oral history transcript, Carl D. Perkins and Donald Baker, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • an adult basic education bill, because I'd say a lot of our people at that time, if they didn't have a fifth grade education we called them functionally illiterate. to the Rules Committee and it would die. bills that I introduced. I'd get that bill over
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Lyndon Johnson was considered very conservative in Texas at that time, and part of liking him was in seeing him move more left. Probably we were working for him because he was trying to balance out his politics so he could be president, even at that time
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 18 (XVIII), 12/18/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the time Dirksen had notified Mansfield he was going to oppose it. According to Mike, Dirksen had on at least two occasions assured Katzenbach and Mike that he would support it and Mansfield felt that ended the effort. So this was a shocker, and then Mike
  • to schedule round-the-clock sessions on the vote to repeal Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act; efforts to control handshake-type photos of congressmen with LBJ, especially before election time; balancing postmaster general and congressional tasks by working
Oral history transcript, Mamie Allison, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1986, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • . My Then I was admitted to Rice--Institute at that time--the next year, and then I went four years to Rice; and then I was interested in medical technology, and so I worked in the Hermann Hospital laboratory four years. Then I worked for some