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Oral history transcript, Roger Stevens, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the one shot sort of situation? S: I was chairman of the finance committee of the Democratic Party at that time and we would meet from time to time, and also when he was vice president, we would run across each other in various situations. F: Just
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , from the time he went there until he left . F: You were educated entirely in California? B: Yes, both my wife and myself are products of Lowell High School in San Francisco . She went on to the University of California . I went to San Francisco
Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: WALLACE TERRY INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: LBJ Library Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Terry, would you begin by giving us just a little background of how you came to work for Time? T: I was a reporter for the Washington Post from 1960
Oral history transcript, William F. Jackson and Lucy Ginter Jackson, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Slocum, New York, at the time I was first approached by a member of Mr. Deegan's staff in New York City, Tom [Thomas] Deegan, and asked if I could come down to talk about an interview with Mr. Johnson, perhaps, after I had a chance to talk to him. I went
  • How Jackson became military aide to Vice President Johnson; LBJ's vice-presidential trip to Asia and members of the press on the trip; LBJ's time management; arranging for a photographer to accompany LBJ; the ability of the South Vietnamese to fight
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • as we would like to have it. Would you describe that as fully as you can? WH: That time I recall in detail because I was running for Democratic nomination for a place in the Texas Senate. It was the 19th Senatorial District, composed of six counties
Oral history transcript, Allie T. Hughes and Lorena D. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • that. I was glad to let Lyndon have the floor because I profited from listening. EG: Could I shift over here now to Mr. Hughes for a moment? Mr. Hughes, you also went to San Marcos, with the President? AH: Not at that time. I was married at the time
Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Johnson? S: I guess that was probably in 1962. M: After he was already vice president? S: When he was vice president. I spent from June 1961 until July 1962 pretty much in Geneva on the Laos talks, and I think the first time I met him
  • to negotiate; drafting a congressional resolution and comparing it to the Tonkin Gulf Resolution; meeting with Canadian officials about U.S. negotiation goals; J. Blair Seaborn; LBJ balancing time devoted to domestic affairs vs. Vietnam; how Sullivan was chosen
Oral history transcript, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the Senate? I wouldn't say that I knew him well. However, while I served on the House side, I would get over to the Senate side from time to time to see the Senate in action. Of course, Lyndon Johnson was very prominent in those days as the Senate's
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • : And that is spelled R-O-T-H? FR: That's right. PB: Mr. Roth, it is my understanding that in the early days you were a classmate of Mr. Johnson at Southwest Texas State College. I believe it was called Southwest Texas State Teachers College at that time. FR
Oral history transcript, Cecil D. Redford, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in Johnson City with two teachers in the high school and three in the elementary schools. Of course, there were eleven grades only in those years. I finished there in May of 1923. During the last few years, in order to make more time for teaching classes
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 2 (II), 11/13/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: EDWARD KENNEDY INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Majority Whip office, Capitol Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 F: Senator, last time we closed with a question of mine on whether the Attorney General seriously
Oral history transcript, Joseph Bruno, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , and then I went to work at the Library of Congress as a research assistant. Actually, I had no interest in politics at that time. But while I was working at the Library of Congress, I was approached by a friend over there who said that there was an opening
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Kennedy at that time, Archie asked me a few times to prepare some speeches on housing. And I did that. I prepared a couple of speeches for John F. Kennedy, and of course, I had met him when he was by here. But that was really where my expertise
Oral history transcript, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that service and met President Johnson at that time. Of course we had many mutual friends, men who knew him well and who knew me well. I had opportunities to know him, so to speak, indirectly. But my friendship for him goes back a good many years
Oral history transcript, Toinette Bachelder, interview 1 (I), 2/11/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . you would call it. I was the swing shift, I guess The President's secretary at that time, Missy LeHand, had a good many calls on her time, and his stenographer at that ttme, Grace Tully, also was kept busy in the day. And in the evenings
Oral history transcript, David S. Black, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of law school . I was in the National Guard at the time and when the Korean War came along, my unit was activated and I spent some 21 months in the service, all in the state of Washington in an anti-aircraft batallion. When I came out of the Army, I
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the same age myself, and it was just fun talking with him. Clearly, he was serious-minded, ambitious--you had a feeling of intensity. I knew him later, of course, but even at that time he was to me very impressive. Then the war came and in the early part
Oral history transcript, William G. Bowdler, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • from 1957 to 1961 when Castro threw us out. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bowdler -- I -- 2 F: You picked a vital time
Oral history transcript, Emma S. Webb, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1978 INTERVIEWEE: EMMA S. WEBB (MRS. CHARLES 'HLSON HEBB) INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Hebb's office, Elgin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Mrs. Hebb, let's begin with the first time Lyndon Johnson came to Elgin to campaign in 1937. H
Oral history transcript, Tommie W. Glick and Sarah Taylor, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to New York with your work and met him and married there? G: Well, while I was working I met him. Then the war was over just about that time, and I went to New York and was married there. ~lc: And you lived then since then in the New York area? G
Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • just strictly politics. You of course are a long-time Californian, and as you know, California was crucial in '60 to the ambitions of Lyndon Johnson, and again in '64, and I think in '68 also, so you have those quadrennial periods. begin, when did you
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: D. B. HARDEMAN INTERVIEWER: T. H. Baker PLACE: Mr. Hardeman's residence, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 B: Last time we were talking about Mr. Rayburn in Congress. During those years there, after you got with Mr. Rayburn from the late
Oral history transcript, Daniel Boone Porter, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Porter--I--2 the work that they did. (Interruption) The statement that I just made, that I felt at times they did appear, especially in the presence
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tape II 2 (Nov. 13, 1968, Nov. 14, 1968) A: I felt this was one of those times when it did make a difference who was the American chief representative in this mission--in this case, Sofia. That, quite possible, if I had been
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 3 (III), 6/21/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in committee, but Senator Johnson got it out on the floor and brought it to a vote. Do you remember that? H: What resolution was that? I haven't the slightest recollection at this time. G: It was a resolution that would more or less tie Eisenhower's hands
  • in 1950’s; Construction and aid to impacted areas; LBJ’s interest in education; LBJ’s position on “liberal” issues; LBJ’s impact on Eisenhower’s foreign policy; LBJ’s instructions to HHH in political maneuvering/timing.
Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with people in the House and the Senate that were important. No one, of cour se, was more important in that particular capacity than Senator Johnson at that time. So I did see him quite often and would go to his office and talk with him- -meet with him
Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : Hoover, Eisenhower. First of all after Hoover, Roosevelt; and after Roosevelt, Truman; then Eisenhower; Kennedy; Johnson. six Presidents. topics. This is with five, Naturally all this time we had conversations on various I would not say the same
"LBJ as I Knew Him," by Mildred Stegall (Item)
  • lived six more months it would have been forty years, even longer than Mrs. Johnson knew him. He was a man of many moods. It was as though he was several people rolled into one. At times he could be as hard as nails. Yet, at other times he was as gentle
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 8 (VIII), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in that day in time. And the more we talked, and we talked an awful lot about it, I kept using that word, "It will take a gargantuan effort. You can do it but I would have had to have left out of here a week ago now." Then two weeks ago now, and so on and so
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 2 (II), 3/31/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at that time may be of interest. We took a train from San Antonio to San Marcos, spent the night in San Marcos, rode the next day from San Marcos to Blanco on a hack which was the term we used for an undecorated surrey--just a plain, two-seated buggy. We
  • Circumstances of Redford’s arrival to Johnson City in 1912; Johnson City at that time; handling the mail; Redford’s mother as postmistress; working at the Post Office; people in Johnson City and their way of life; roads; building the highway
Oral history transcript, Will R. Rogers, interview 1 (I), 10/9/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • was ....• going to put in ..... had to. build a ·schoolhouse. You see, at that time, the school was under the supervision of the City, and the schoolhouse was about to fall down and we had to build a new schoolhouse. And then's when I think the first real
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 2 (II), 2/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , and had lunch with the Poles, Mr. Rapacki-- M: He was the foreign minister at that time? G: Foreign Minister Rapacki. Mr. [Jerzy] Michalowski, who is now ambassador to the United States but was then their key person in the--he was what they called
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you recall your first impressions of him? I know it's a long time ago, but . . . C: I don't even know what time in 1945 I met him. I was just one member of the House. I was born in 1896. It could have been in the first few months that I
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 3 (III), 7/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • estimate or good reaction. We stopped last time in the middle of some discussion on Vietnamese events in which you indicated you were fairly saturated at the current time. You indicated that the second Wise Men Meeting, the one in March of 1968, had
  • for peach commission; speech conference; Aug-Sept 1968 North Vietnamese offensive; Hanoi’s desire for substantial time period between total bombing halt and beginning of substantive discussions; South Vietnam’s delay tactics; Madam Chennault.
Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , that is directly. I started working for Time magazine in Paris in 1950 and at that time the French war in Indochina was going on. So I had a good deal to do from the Paris end of covering the story, that is, from the French end of the story. And [I] became
Oral history transcript, Stanley L. Greigg, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : No. No. MG: Let me ask you to begin by just tracing your background very briefly here and explain how you ended up in the Congress. G: After graduate school, I went on in to serve some active time in the navy, and while I was in the navy, I was contacted
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . For some reasons, perhaps good reasons, at that time they didn't seem really a responsibility of the federal government. Only the week before August 11, '65, and what must have been the most impressive single civil rights ceremony of the Johnson
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 2 (II), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : Yes, that's correct. He had been the White House correspondent for many years and he was in his sixties and they wanted two people there. So I went down for the first time in 1961, although I had covered the White House some before, but just filling
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 2 (II), 10/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , [1957?] and I had only been in the office a week or two working for him. In I guess two days' time, he came in to me and he'd said the most important thing that had to be done was to get Christmas presents done for the county men. He said, "I need you
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • in general? Were there more newspapers supporting Johnson or Stevenson during this whole time that the election results were being contested by Stevenson? L: Well, of course, Stevenson was governor, and he was quite powerful and he had lots of friends. He