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Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

upset. It seemed as though President Roosevelt had been campaigning in New York and the impetuous, southern born, Steve Early had kicked a Negro policeman in the groin. This had been played up quite a bit, and Jonathan suggested that I get the boys
to LBJ Ranch regarding housing message; his impact on LBJ’s thinking; reason for resignation; prejudice; feeling that the new administration will attempt to make administrative reform

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

going through the Mansion. Mrs. Kennedy did not know anyone else was with him, and just called out: "Jack, guess what I've found! I've found a new piece of the Lincoln china." So the way Mr. Wilkins related it to me, she was in a very excited mood

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 8 (VIII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. This is an interesting situation because it brings to bear almost every part, every major branch, of our federal government. Back in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the airlines were in considerable need of financial assistance to pay for the heavy new load of equipment
to permit supplemental carriers to charter planes to travel agents for domestic travel; the president's required approval of foreign charter permits; the airlines' appeal to the Second Circuit in New York of the District of Columbia court's decision

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 5 (V), 4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEW V DATE: April 7, 1983 INTERVIEWEE: ARTHUR KRIM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Krim's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 1 K: Now you can start with the tax thing or-- G: Let's do. Let me ask you about the effort to enact

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 13 (XIII), 9/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: Well, let's start today with the Water Quality Act, an effort to establish quality standards for interstate
of new towns; the creation of the Department of Housing and Urban Development with Secretary Robert Weaver as the first African-American cabinet member; how the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) was affected by the creation of HUD; a constitutional

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and not very flexible, and not very quick to produce new policies. The problem is so complex, because there isn’t an Indian problem, there are eighty to ninety various Indian groups all over the West, in Alaska, all the villages in Alaska, and people

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 16 (XVI), 11/21/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City G: I want to start with a few miscellaneous questions. First, do you have any insights as to why [John A.] Gronouski was made
for new employees; seasonal temporary post office jobs; the Post Office equal employment opportunity task force; Ronnie Lee and the White House Fellows Program; curb versus door mail delivery and new mail pickup ideas; the problem of developing new mail

Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 2 (II), 1/6/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Is that right? E: To discuss, I don't recall if it was a party or some new decoration or some new furniture that we were supposed to purchase for the White House. We had a quiet lunch, both of us upstairs in her small room off their bedroom, which

Oral history transcript, Harfield Weedin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Weedin -- I were so bad and so few. ~~ 13 I told you there were only three in Houston. And we didn't have a news department. there, there was no news director. At KTRH in 1936, when I went We got what news we got from CBS in New

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 29 (XXIX), 5/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

doing something on New Year's Eve, Friday, December 31--I think it was a Friday--that they thought they could get away with. And it was like surreptitious action, number one. Number two, there was a strong feeling that they were, in fact, taking

Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

news organizations, to my recollection, had staff correspondents based in Saigon, I think except for the news agencies. correspondent. The New York Times had a visiting Usually it was a person from Hong Kong who came down just the way I did. LBJ
into the South; Abe Fortas; reporters and public opinion on the war; the effect of the news media; evaluation of other reporters in Vietnam; American generals in Vietnam; locations and dates of his field reporting; covering the Communist side of the war; books

Oral history transcript, Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1967, by Mary Walton Livingston (Item)

of Montganery, Alabama. Mrs. Durr has came to the National Archives today, October 17, 1967, to record her impressions of the JOhnsons as newcomers to Washington in the early days of the New Deal. Mrs. Durr, would you like to tell us how you first met
Impressions of the Johnsons as newcomers to Washington in the early days of the New Deal

Oral history transcript, Ernest May, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

you have any great difficulty persuading people to your point of view? M: Oh, yes. In this county it was impossible. Mc~ What was the difficulty here? M: This county had turned against Roosevelt--turned against the New Deal
Biographical information; Judge Frank Culver; Sam Rayburn; LBJ; George Petty; Coke Stevenson; Dan Moody; Carter vs. Tomlinson; FDR and the New Deal

Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in space, utilizing the facilities that we built over the last decade but not plunging into new facilities. What would be the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Act; transition to the new administration; Bob Seamans.

Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

hustled newS on their own, a few but not many. F: They took it off the ticker. R: Took it off the ticker. They were really more announcers than they were reporters, and I never was a very good announcer. I aspired to be a reporter. At any rate

Oral history transcript, Robert Vincent Roosa, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, 1969 HlTERV I E\'JEE: ROBERT ROOSA INTERV I HJER: DAV 10 McCOMB PLACE: 59 Wall Street, New York City Tape 1 of 2 M: First of all, I'd like to know something about your background. Where were you born, when, where did you get your education? R
Biographical information; Federal Reserve Bank; new economics; Treasury Department; Organization for Economic Cooperation; Organization for European Cooperation and Development; working parties; Group of Ten; ring of swaps; London Gold Pool; Robert

Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on a non-commercial basis. There were a substantial number of those already in existence, but they lacked substantial funds; could not enter into the FM spectrum, which was a new field that had just opened; they had poor equipment, and they certainly did
Biographical information; public educational broadcasting legislation; 1960 campaign; liaison with Eastern states; vice presidential nomination; media campaign; LBJ and JFK in New York; LBJ and television; Cuban Missile Crisis; USIA; Vietnam

Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

up the FAA as an independent agency reporting directly to the President. P: How were you informed that the FAA was going to be included in this new departmentZ M: I first heard a rumor that such an organization was being considered, but I knew

Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

losing the initiative in space to the Soviets. On September 16th, he went over to the White House to discuss with the President how best to handle the problem of continuity at NASA after the election and a new administration had taken over
Act; transition to the new administration; Bob Seamans.

Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and wondered if the Senator would object to his offering me a job as his secretary over in the House. Shortly after that Mr. Connally announced his candidacy for the Senate, and was elected. So I returned to the Senate with the new Senator from Texas. F

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 31 (XXXI), 12/10/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3, Side 1 O: Watergate has been part of our discussions throughout this oral history. At this point, it might be helpful

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/oh Shriver -- I -- 2 to working with poor people, you might say almost exclusively; third, to pacifism. I used to work from time to time in the office of the Catholic Worker, which was down in the Greenwich Village area of New York City. So
to that column; Shriver’s opinion of LBJ keeping Kennedy’s cabinet members; Shriver’s ideas for new vice presidential duties; Shriver’s conflicts with Secretary of Labor Wirtz; the Neighborhood Youth Corps; Shriver’s determination to solve problems without

Oral history transcript, Nelson M. Bortz, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

with that effort which really was very good in the sense that it was not a confining sort of job, but it permitted contacts with key people in a number of the New Deal agencies to get material to write a story explaining the Rural Electrification Program

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

-sawmill-farming community west of Jacksonville, which was where I grew up . I attended the public schools there, and I also attended the public schools in New York and Massachusetts . M: Your family must have moved some then? B: No, I had a lot

Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 3 (III), 7/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and the President said, "What's going on here?" He wanted us to find out. So Stu peeled off--he never did get to talk with the President--and he was on the phone the whole time trying to find out what had happened. It was the same story as the one in New York except
, or administrative law judge's, work in deciding the FPC's cases; Seymour Wenner; the questionnaire FPC distributed to obtain data from the gas producers; hearings in connection with Wenner's two-rate system for flowing gas and new gas; the expansion of natural gas

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

on, but it was the way in which it was presented more than anything else. I don't think anybody was surprised by the fact that a new Secretary was discussing or reviewing the situation in Vietnam, but it was the way he presented it which at least led me to believe

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

never gotten published) but which if the library wants, it can have. critical points in decision-making. It was my last effort to think out these new Following that, the Kennedy brain trust emerged and those details, I think I have set down on record

Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that Bill I really For the Dallas Morning News , I can't person with a particular candidate but probably like Allen Duckworth, who was of course I would say the prime political correspondent for the Dallas Morning News , probably Dawson Duncan to some

Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 8, 1968, in his part-time home in New Orleans, Louisiana B: I have the machine on now, so if we can go ahead and start. I'd think a logical starting place, sir, would be with when you first met Mr. Johnson. C

Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

little they were paid. But you were given freedom to go into town and take part i.n things. So, I was such an enthusiastic New Dealer and such an admirer of Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

for that kind of a phone call was an upcoming Presidential speech and they want some new idea or initiative to put into it . M: Was the Policy Planning Council a frequent contributor to Mr . Johnson's speeches as President? 0: I think Walt contributed some
Contact with LBJ; Walt Rostow; Dean Acheson; Policy Planning Council; bureaucratic resistance to new ideas; multilateral force; non-proliferation treaty; Andrew Copkin; MLF; PPC's contacts in academic community; Vietnam policy; Bureau

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Wilcox, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

analysts weren't in agreement on some aspects and we needed to take another look at certain aspects of the data, I was asked to get them together and to come up with a new estimate that took into account the things that were discussed in that office

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

groping for new ways to get on about this job of handling the impact on the environment. And I think that Hr. Ruckelshaus, the head of the new Environ::iental Protection Agency, demonstrates he's a pretty con scientious fellow; he's pretty bright

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of friendly senators: one in New York, the one in Massachusetts that you mentioned, one in Gaylord Nelson's state of Wisconsin, and 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Ross D. Davis, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

these things. At the end of the war--we're getting to about 1945 now, '46--1 returned to Columbia and graduated from their law school in the class of October '48. From there I went into private practice--a small firm in New York City located on Wall Street

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 12 (XII), 7/25/1986, 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 2, Side 1 G: Let's start with this. I was asking you about Katharine Graham and the D.C. home rule. O: Well, this of course

Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

problem at that time, going back to the rheumatic fever bit, and I ended up with a series of five heart attacks in three days. And so my army career was finished just under ninety days. This was at a time when the new person going into the army wasn't

Oral history transcript, Erich Leinsdorf, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

time with them after the termination of my first season with the Metropolitan. Before I left New York to go to Virginia and to enjoy the country and the beautiful estate, I filed an application with the Immigration (Bureau) which was at that time, I

Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 10/30/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to prior to the convention itself. The two states in which President Johnson had the strongest support were New Mexico and Arizona. There was a very strenuous struggle for both of those delegations, which is a very interesting development. I hope you get

Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 2 (II), 11/13/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, was the one in New Hampshire. K: That's right. F: Did you work in that? K: No, I wasn't involved in that, actually. 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

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