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Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that goes back a third of a century, both in the House and the Senate and then during his Vice Presidency and Presidency, and I thought we would approach issues in this, and take them sort of one at a time and bring them through. It seems to me a good issue
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with the Johnson family continued during those years. B: Yes. My personal relationship continued throughout the time he was president. I felt not only that I served as his physician, especially in any matter related remotely to his heart, but that our
Oral history transcript, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/8/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • any signs in those days of ambition for higher office in Mr. Johnson? J: Yes. You could see that all the time. He was making statements that were beneficial to him politically constantly. 6: In those days, say as late as the 1950s, it was just, I
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 3 (III), 12/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in July of 1953, so I really hadn't been around a whole long time at that particular point in time. But the natural gas bill was one that we received an awful lot of correspondence on, but one that I really wasn't involved in. G: This was the point
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 's, I would like to make touchstones of your various services and assignments during that period. This is more for my benefit and to be sure that I have the times correct on them. Staff in 1959. You retired as Chief of This is, of course, under
Oral history transcript, Florence Mahoney, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to school or universities or anything. You wouldn't remember it, but it's true. So I guess that's how I got interested in it. I was always interested in mental health and when I was in school they sent us one time to a big public hospital in New York
Oral history transcript, Abram V. Goodman, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1996, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , they failed. After he became senator I visited him several times in Washington. My last visit must have been 1941. I went up to his office and his clerk said to me, "He's not available today, but next time you come to Washington, let us know, and I'll arrange
Oral history transcript, Lewis W. Walt, interview 1 (I), 1/24/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Corps in Vietnam, is that correct? W: No. I went out to command in I Corps in May of 1965. M: And then carne back in a little over two years-- W: I carne back in June of '67. M: Did you ever have the opportunity during any of that time
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, Benjamin H. Read, interview 2 (II), 3/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . It became more and more evident that fall that the South Vietnamese were not capable with the level of support that we had there to hold their own. And then of course at the very end of '64 after our elections and right about the time of the turn of the year
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • as a group and we made decisions as a delegation. So, while I did specialize in these questions of colonial issues, African issues, and trusteeship, nevertheless, I was involved in the other issues, particularly at the time of the Middle East crisis
Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to be governor. S: Well, I got into politics a long time before 1968. F: Yes, sir. S: My first venture into politics was in 1932, when I felt not an obligation, but felt that I wanted to help the Democratic candidate for governor at the time who was Henry
Oral history transcript, Ben H. Powell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • father was a lawyer and he was one time district judge in East Texas, in Walker County and the adjoining counties. He was appointed to the Commission of Appeals by Governor Hobby in 1919. He served on this branch of the Supreme Court of Texas until
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Johnson, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in attendance because they stayed home so much, and they visited. There was no requirement that they stay in school all the time. We had a good music department started by the young teacher from San Antonio who was quite talent_ed with the piano and voice
  • in Cotulla at that time; LBJ's rapport with other teachers.
Oral history transcript, Dorothy V. Bush, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • -raising dinners . Back in those days we had the twenty-five-dollar-a-plate dinner which just seemed fantastic in those days . Of course look what has happened to them since that time . But during those years, I met not only Lyndon Johnson but also
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • andp~ssibly myself--i't might be more economical for a family with modest means to be able to go to that college there, which was a junior college at the time, a two-year college. But their roots were so deep in Houston, both his and my mother's
Oral history transcript, Olga Bredt Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • , who was, at the time of his death in 196l, Dean of Men at The University of Texas. A daughter, our only daughter, who is now Barbara Norwood, was also a graduate of The University of Texas. I worked--I have been associated with many figures in public
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • . JACKSON, EDITOR, CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER- TIMES . DONE BY ERIC F . GOLDMAN IN MR . JACKSON'S OFFICE, CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS , April 5, 1965 . ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------G: Mr . Jackson has been discussing
  • , required very little sleep, thought movies were a waste of time; LBJ tended to all the duties Congressman Kleberg neglected: veterans' pensions, etc.; attending night sessions of Congress; the Texas Club; LBJ dating in Washington; no hobbies; no reading
Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: HARRISON SALISBURY INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MUu-iOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Salisbury's office, New York Times, NeVI York City Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by simply identifying you, sir. You're Harrison Salis- bury, and you've been with the New York Times
  • Working for the New York Times; Salisbury’s trip to the Far East in 1966; getting permission to go to Hanoi; a possible connection between Salisbury’s visit to Hanoi and the Marigold negotiations; trying to convince the Vietnamese
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 6 (VI), 10/31/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . G: So you satisfied yourself that what he was suffering was angina. H: It was angina, but at that point Dr. North and the others that were treating him there were doing all that was known to do at that point in time. G: Right. H: And after
  • Trip to the Ranch in February 1970 to evaluate LBJ’s angina; 1972 heart attack in Charlottesville; moving LBJ back to the ranch; LBJ’s return to smoking; changes in treatment for heart attack patients from LBJ’s time to 1995; personal impressions
Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to see was ~don B. Johnson. I think he was senator at that time. F: He was elected to the Senate in 1948. H: I think he'd just been elected senator. But even as a new senator he still had unusual influence in the Senate. As I slW, he
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Lehan, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • is the assistant secretary for research and technology in the Department of Transportation. The date is December 4th, 1968, and the time is 2:12 in the afternoon. I am in his office in the Department of Transportation, and my name is David McComb. First of all, Mr
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 7 (VII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • these things you just enumerated--minimum wage and the whole nine yards--these really didn't come up in that period of time. So while I don't remember--which is the honest answer to the question you've asked--I doubt that it would have made a whole lot
Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • went to Saigon. B: I started out in May 1966 as the New York Times Bangkok bureau chief, which essentially in theory kept me in Laos, Thailand and the rest of Southeast Asia outside Vietnam. But within a week of my arrival, I was happily in Vietnam
  • Braestrup’s work as a journalist in Southeast Asia for the New York Times; New York Times coverage of Vietnam compared to Time magazine; how journalists covered Vietnam and the danger involved; how Braestrup became Washington Post Bureau Chief; Joe
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • campaign. I believe you indicated you were at the University of Texas at the time. S: Right. I was in summer school in 1941 and John Connally was managing Johnson's campaign for [the Senate]. Sheppard had died. I believe it was Senator Morris
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 22 (XXII), 6/19/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • motivated. We want to thank them in advance for what they were going to do. The bottom line was we ought to try to at least informally organize them rather than be totally dependent on brief telephone conversations that had taken place over a period of time
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 10/30/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • previously. In other words, get us from the time that you were born up until 1964 or so. K: Let me just say I was elected in 1962. My first real direct contact with President Johnson was in an indirect kind of way; it dated back to 1956
Oral history transcript, A. Ross Eckler, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with him; but this was quite distant really--was a time when he talked to some of the officials of the Department of Commerce while he was Vice President, to express his interest and support of the Equal Employment Opportunity program. I believe
Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and what you have been doing. P: I came to Washington in June of 1919 in response to an offer by the then-Senator Sheppard of Texas of a place in his office for the summer. I can well recall that at that time I had the understanding that the position
Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that period to come into contact or have acquaintance with Mr. Johnson, either when he was Senator or later when he was Vice President? R: Limited, but some, yes. I had an amusing experience because there was a long period of time when President Johnson
Oral history transcript, Lowell K. Bridwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in Westerville, Ohio, in 1924 . B: That's correct . M: Educated at Otterbein University? B: Otterbein College, which is in Westerville, Ohio . school associated with the United Brethren Church . It's a denominational At that time, it was the United
Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • l had not covered the Hill in the days when he was majority leader, although obviously everybody in town knew him. M: You were. overseas, l suppose, most of the time. A: Much of the ti;ne, I. was. terribly well. I was in and out, but I never
Oral history transcript, Robert Q. Marston, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • and then became dean of the new school of medicine in Jackson, fVJississippi, in 1961. During the time I was there I continued to have contact with NIH and was chairman of the postdoctoral fellowship review conmi ttee over a peri od of some years then. Duri ng
Oral history transcript, James W. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that. And as we go along, I'll tell I came to Texas as a very small child-- less than a year old--and lived in San Antonio through high school. [I] did one year of college at Tulane; the rest of the time, here [University of Texas], through law school, and I've
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • interviews you talked about Viet Nam) and talk a bit about the time from when Mr. Johnson became President in November, 1963, and how this affected your relationship with him. I know you were brought back in a much closer connection, and so I think we'll pick
Oral history transcript, John Holton, interview 1 (I), 6/19/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at that time. She liked that, so she put me to work around the office voluntarily to stamp the farmer's bulletins [and] infant care and that type of stuff, and to get the mail out. I did a little bit of that at spare times, other times walking the streets
  • and his time spent in Texas; comparing the political philosophies and methods of LBJ and Rayburn; LBJ's and Rayburn's work on the 1957 civil rights bill; Rayburn's involvement in Dr. Walter Splawn's appointment to the Interstate Commerce Commission
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 3 (III), 11/8/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • attack in 1955 goes like this. He came out to see me at Emory University Hospital in the fall of 1955. He was doing quite well. At that time Dr. Paul White was one of the leading cardiologists in the world, and it had been my pleasure to have worked
Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Newton, North Carolina, which is in Catawba County, where my people had been for quite a long time. I finished high school there in 1933 at the age of 16. We didn't have but eleven grades and I didn't go to but ten. Well, I went to eleven but, you know
Oral history transcript, Sidney P. Marland, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • suppose that at the time I went to Pittsburgh I happened to be at the right place at the right time. This was a large city with the typical problems of big city education. I was sufficiently credible, I suppose, with the Foundation people who thought
Oral history transcript, Leslie H. Gelb, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . II I didn't know at the time who had written them, at that exact time, but I found out several months later that the handwriter had been then Lieutenant Colonel Robert Gard, G-A-R-D, who was the military assistant to McNaughton at the time
  • Times; order of battle controversy; reflections on JFK and the Vietnam War; present and past views about the Vietnam War