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Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • turned out to work this way, that there were two conservatives and two liberals and I was free to go either way, depending on the facts and the law of a particular case. I was the swing man on a good many votes, and I didn't always go with my liberal
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • debated it for one entir e week, besides the prelim i narie s and the buildups and the inser tions in the Record and the debates in the public press . We starte d on Monday and I don't believ e we finish ed that bill until late Frida y night . I
Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of these unani­ mous reports, with some very solid recommendations, [like] get a dollar's value for a dollar spent, and calling attention to our basic weakness in the military field . The national press and the world press paid attention to him because he
Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 2 (II), 11/9/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the South. The mission--Ambassador [Ellsworth] Bunker and [Sam] Berger and Westmoreland and [Creighton] Abrams and so on there got together and pressed [Nguyen Van] Thieu to get going now; here you've got an emergency situation, because you've got a lot more
Oral history transcript, H.S. Hank Brown, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • both on the Landrum-Griffin lawsthat they felt like that they were saying the right things, but they just weren't pressing, and that had they pressed, the LandrumGriffin law would have not been nearly as harsh and severe as it is . All of us who
Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • house. So we moved into the Stonewall Motel. And we got the same rooms every trip. Who was it? UPI [United Press International], Ferd Kaufman was with UPI and he had two rooms because he had an awful lot of equipment and I'll never forget him, but he
  • trips; LBJ as passenger; flying under conditions that were not ideal; providing an adequate number of pilots for long trips; the logistics of transporting the president, staff, security personnel, and press in two planes on trips; Sam Houston Johnson
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a good deal more candor and writing it in a more free and open style when it came over from the State Department, whose interest was primarily in the substance--and which wrote in that peculiar form that I've never been able to comprehend. F: Did
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 4 (IV), 12/4/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Boisfeuillet Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh Jones -- Interview I -- 15 for those who needed it--the indigent. They pressed so hard for this that Mr. Mills and his colleagues adopted this also as a part of the program, but did not discard the Social Security aspects of it, the end
Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to generate more liberal governmental procedures. The press began to talk about the corruption and the abuses and so forth, and the ambassador's role would have to be to try to move the government towards better imagery in that respect. This then put him
Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Board of Corrmissioners at that time, HUD and others working with us. By Tuesday we were ready to have a press conference on it at the White House. G: And the other elements were--you mentioned Tobriner from D.C. K: Yes. LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Julius Richmond, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • beyond Head Start, the medical facilities in the community beyond Head Start. So all of these issues were initially part of the program, but I wouldn't say that we specifically designed Head Start so that mothers could be free to work. We felt
Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, David E. Bell, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Heller rather than I . M: In 1962 you moved over to the AID. That caused some comment in the press at the time, that was known as the nastiest job in the government based on its part performance. Is it a fair question to ask you why you would take
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was afraid that to you any he finally think and he promoted you? Mr. Clark ever Johnson was aware of the kinds £!!B.have on this. in the press to his appointment, Did he ever indicate and I never complained. I think, in any-- Department rather
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that the climate was unsavory. up. There was rumbling of revolutions. Sun Yat-sen was coming My father and mother were quite close to Sun Yat-sen and many other important people of the revolution through the diplomatic corps and also through a press gentleman
Oral history transcript, Donnelly Bolton, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • particularly? B: Well, not crossing the border, except in the latter days. I had a boss, [Lt. General] “Swede” Larson, [who] came home and said to the press--without any coaching or anything, not being rebellious at all--said, "You can look across--when you
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a month which was a tax-free deal, have to be deducted from what life insurance I ever [sold], if I ever sold any. But I told him to go back, I'd take it, but I'd take it only as vice president of it, without anything to do except advisory. I got my
Oral history transcript, Victor Ferrari, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the future as not having too much opportunity, both for myself and for my family. About October or November I went to my mother, knowing that she was still pressing me to go off to college, and told her I had made up my mind that I'd like to go to school
Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Department of Justice. I And that's all I wanted to do--go back to my job--and in fact I did. F: You didn't know who they were going to move your life around, did you? T: No, I didn't, but they certainly did. to press me on the matter. My father
Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • my standpoint, better and better. Did he talk to you any about specific votes or did he pretty well leave you free to go your own way? T: He would leave me very free. As a matter of fact, I do not remember his ever, ever just coming directly
Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . The sale of computers even to the Soviet Union today, I don't know whether it's entirely free, but one would have to take those things up specifically because of the complete embargo on trade with China . The British had no sympathy with that, and the same
Oral history transcript, Price Daniel, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh DANIEL -- I -- 4 different and this Court decision will not apply to Texas." And he handed me the release that he had just given to the press. It was an all-out statement that Texas would
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • administering the grant. He would make the pitch why it ought to be refunded, say, at the level of two million dollars. Then he would call on his public affairs director and say, "How is the press going to handle this? Are we going to get any bad press
Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . ambassador was regarded to be next in seniority and protocol to the secretary of state. So as senior cabinet officer, I said in effect, "You've made the right decision," although I was polite, "we regret it." He had said "You're free, since I made
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 4 (IV), 3/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that was their type of investment. G: How about tax-free municipals or bearer bonds or anything like that? J: Yes, I think they did a good bit with governments. They felt like that was the thing to do with cash. But I don't recall--for instance, I don't remember
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in their states. Television at that time did not have the impact that it had in later years, but they need money for the organization within their states. At that time you could get a lot of volunteer workers that would work for free that you don't have today. Oh
Oral history transcript, Kenneth E. BeLieu, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /loh/oh Belieu -- I --17 ask Ike; I'd teach her questions to ask Eisenhower at the White House press conferences, which she started doing. He said, "Buy her a drink if you need to. Buy her a martini." Well, later on we're having a conference between
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a whole lot. We went down to the They had these free concerts during the summer on the Potomac where they had this bandshell out on the river. There was really a lot to do for young people that didn't have very much economically. H: Did you find
Oral history transcript, Ross D. Davis, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and appointment as Economic Development Administrator? A lot has been made in the press about the sometimes peculiar ways in which Mr. Johnson made such appointments. Was there any such circumstance in connection with your own? D: It was rather
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 3 (III), 4/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • piling up on his desk. And this is what happens under a decentralized system. The top official in an agency should be free to intervene when he has a good reason to do so but he should not have to carry the LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in the natural resources of Vietnam?" And there is one school of thought, which I think is represented by some of the left wing press, that says that really what we're doing in Vietnam is protecting American business interests--that we've got some kind
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . It was a fact-finding comrr.ittee really. F: Were you given a free hand in naming your assistants? W: Yes, sir. F: No political pressures then? W: None wha~ver. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, John P. (Gen.) McConnell, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • McCONNELL -- I -- 15 thought ought to be done without regard to any domestic political reverberations, which, of course, every president has to take into account. McS: I think I was thinking in terms of the Vietnam War really pressing him a great deal
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the CIO State Council T was from endorsing Coke Stevenson, but I knew I couldn't get an endorsement of Lyndon Johnson . Because this was as much as I could get, just to neutralize them and have no endorsement, which would leave all of us free