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Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: BARRY ZORTH IAN INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Zorthian's office in the Time-Life Building, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by identifying you. You're Barry Zorthian, and your main official position during the Johnson
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : It is now. I was just indicating that--perhaps as useful background, even though it's in the Kennedy Administration--you were of course involved in Viet Nam from a very early time, and I'd like to get some indication as to how much Mr. Johnson as Vice
Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 2 (II), 4/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • parties. It was That's where At Christmas, the Christmas tree was in the log room. One time, at least one time, she gave a party for the help, the colored people who worked for her, and they came and brought their families and their children
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . And Congressman Johnson was partial to young men rather than too many women around. I guess for one thing maybe the men could work harder, and the women would lots of times have to go home and cook supper for their husband when he got off from work. Then he'd call
Oral history transcript, Eugene R. Black, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , so for several months before he was killed I spent practically all of my time working on a report to him as to whether or not it would be advisable for the U. S. government to build a supersonic transport plane. During that time I visited with all
Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 2 (II), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh -2- The one time I had met him, I think, before he became President was when he was getting an honorary degree at Tufts--!'ve forgotten when this was, maybe the spring of '63 or somewhere in there, and he made a speech which
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • down there, if not every day, several times a week. So the only alteration in the travel plan that was made to pick us up was Washington to New York, and then we went directly down to the Ranch. Mrs. Johnson met us at the ramp and took us in to the old
Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Allan Shivers for control of the state Democratic Party and chairmanship of it. S: Okay. What do you want to know? G: Well, just simply how the battle took shape from your point of view. You were down here in San Antonio at the time. S
Oral history transcript, Charles Fitz Baird, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in financial management and policy. Is this background information correct? B: That's correct. P: On what occasions have you met Hr. Johnson, both the first time and subsequent meetings? B: I did not know the President at the time I was appointed
Oral history transcript, Henry M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • from the Congressional Campaign Committee, [of] which he was then serving as chairman, the sum of two hundred dollars. That might not sound like a big contribution from a congressional cam­ paign committee today, but it was a lot at that time. It came
Oral history transcript, Oveta Culp Hobby, interview 1 (I), 7/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Were they good friends, do you think? H: Yes. I don't know how close, but I know that they were friends. M: Did Governor Hobby have any relationship with Lyndon Johnson that you know of? H: The first time that I can recall was when young Mr
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . GILLETTE PLACE: Casa Leonor, Acapulco, Mexico More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tape 1 of 1 J: Well, the really funny incident that time when he was in the hospital--at least it was funny to me; it sure
  • and the friends he made there, such as Carl Vinson and Warren Magnuson; LBJ's father, Sam Ealy Johnson, his declining health, and death; LBJ's time in his district when Congress wasn't in session; LBJ's role in his family after his father's death; Sam Ealy
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 2 (II), 8/14/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to start in the period of 1953 because 1953 was the period during which Mr. Diem prepared of his coming back to the country. I was at that time special assistant to Dr. [Phan Huy] Quat, who was minister of defense in the government of Prince Buu Loc
Oral history transcript, Ben W. Heineman, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Lyndon Johnson for the first time when he was in the United States Senate, I think, about 1956 or '7. F: Was this official or social? H: Social. I have forgotten really who introduced us. I think it was Senator Paul Douglas, but it was a very
Oral history transcript, John N. Luft, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • --selling automobiles in the retail trade and implements, employed by J. I. Case Company as a retail salesman, out of the Kansas City office for a couple of years. B: Is that the Case Farm Implements? L: J. I. Case, at that time was known as the J. I
Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • paid a courtesy call on Senator McFarland, but went to Lyndon Johnson? D: I think that it WeS very evident that he was the mover in that duo. But, of course, we were controllers at the time. I think that Senator Johnson at that time
Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh October 29, 1968 M: The tape is now running, Mr. Finletter. Let's start in a very general way. Can you recall the first time in your career that you came into contact with President Johnson? F: I really can't. My
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the same time he did as a legislative draftsman for the Senate and the first I remember knowing of him, he was a member of the House of Representatives. I probably knew him at that time, although I did not get to know him well. B: Yes, he would have been
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • around and see him from time to time, and he does make some avuncular comments about it, but he's not really engaged in the day-to-day operations of it. One of the reasons, I think, is because of Congressman [John S.] Rooney [D.-N.Y.], the Congressman
Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , Maryland, visiting my parents for the weekend. I got a phone call. My boss at that time was a guy named Frederick Stalfort, and he called me up and he said, "Coffey, where in the hell are you?" And I said, "I'm home." "Vlell," he said, "You're going
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • the University of Minnesota. you joined the United Press in Detroit. In 1948 And in 1949 you joined the Detroit Free Press and became a labor editor. You, at that time, also acted as a correspondent for the New York Times, Business Week, and Newsweek
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 29 (XXIX), 5/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the issue of whether the President should himself put out a statement. And once the President issued a statement in a situation like this it was our belief that we had to win whatever it took. G: The press suggests that this was the first time that Johnson
Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 2 (II), 9/15/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the mountai n people were essentially roving tribesmen at the time, migratory types. Wolf Ladejinsky did work with Diem on getting Vietnamese LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Zephyr Wright, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wright -- I -- 2 W: Well, part of the time. in Marshall. time. Most of th~ last part of her life she lived She remarried and lived in Louisiana
Oral history transcript, Walter Washington and Bennetta Washington, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with the National Capital Housing Authority bring you into contact with him on legislative matters? W: Not too much, no. There may have been an occasional visit, but I don't recall anything of great significance at that time. B: Did you ever meet Mrs. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Horace E. Richards, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Marcos. a sub-college over there, the tenth and eleventh grade. I was They had I entered over there and had a pretty rough time because this was more or less of a country school that I'd been going to. But I finished the tenth grade and the eleventh
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • at that time. F: You hadn't declared? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 6 (VI), 3/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • where we really hammered out a draft of the National Defense Education Act. At that time it was limited to, and only to, engineering, the sciences. I don't remember in categories exactly how it was spelled out, but that's the way it was. This expansion
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • or to food's potential. As a matter of fact, I felt that up to the very end and said a number of times in my judgment we might very well have fdund Red China in Viet Nam by now if it hadn't been for their internal food prob­ lern, and the fact
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 6 (VI), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • there, her lifelong love affair with nature which began there. It occurred to me that it would be appropriate to suggest that her girlhood home might be established as an historic site. At that time no former first lady's home had been so recognized
Oral history transcript, Sim Gideon, interview 2 (II), 10/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • Angelo and Brownwood in 1906. I lived there and went through high school there and then came to the University of Texas. I received my law degree at the University of Texas in 1929. M: Did you get a B.A. degree before then? G: No. At that time I
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it was, and it extended on through his time. And Nixon actually asked us to reduce it to 5 per cent, you remember, at one point after he'd been in office, I believe. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1972 INTERVIEWEE: RALPH K. HUITT INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Dr. Huitt's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: The last time we talked about your experience with Johnson, and this time I thought we would get specifically
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • PLACE: Martha's Vineyard More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 M: When we left 1959, the Connallys were at the Ranch and they're still there. This must be either the first time, or one
Oral history transcript, Louise Casparis Edwards, interview 1 (I), 1/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : It was church-type entertainment. We usually all went to the same church, and that depended on whether you had good strong leaders for young people in that church. At one time the Methodists were pro- moting a program that we all enjoyed, so everybody went
Oral history transcript, Henry Hirshberg, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and have been such since December 1954. P: That has been continuous since 1954? H: Since 1954. Prior to that time for a few years I was in private practice of law following a term as General Counsel for the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration
Oral history transcript, Otis Arnold Singletary, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • right down to any specifics. He wanted to see whether he was interested in you and whether you had any interest in what they were doing. I went back a second time. This must have been in bout October of '64. F: You were named on October 21
Oral history transcript, Herbert N. Blackman, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , The interview is in his office in the main labor building in Washington, D.C. time is 2:05 in the afternoon. The date is January 8, 1969, and the My name is David McComb. First of all, Mr. Blackman, I'd like to know something about your background, where
Oral history transcript, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • considerable nationwide publicity. The first time I ever met former President Johnson, to the best of my recollection, was at the Convention in Chicago in 1952. Governor of Georgia. I was then I was chairman of the Georgia delegation to the National
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • other line. case. So he took them out of the He eliminated the international route to Japan that had been proposed for them. I thought at the time, '~ell if there's any act that will ever make it clear that he had thrown politics aside in deciding