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Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

but not a whole lot of outspokenness; whereas Ramsey and Dean Rusk were very steadfast, quiet, immobile to a certain extent, and got away with it. F: Did the President, in a sense, cool off on Clark Clifford as a result of the new postures? J: I think very

Oral history transcript, Roman Pucinski, interview 1 (I), 12/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of on a Saturday afternoon, who's a good friend of mine, Walter Krawiec, K-R-A-W-I-E-C, who was the editorial cartoonist for the Polish Daily News, but who is a very talented artist in his own right and did a lot of fine work. I called Walter and I said, "Walter

Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)

that the New Deal and organized labor, which to most Texans was equivalent to the Politburo, were pouring money into Johnson's campaign here in Texas, and poor Texas people, honest Texas opposition couldn't stand up against this great plot that was hatched

Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

INTERVIEWEES: ARTHUR E. GOLDSCHMIDT and ELIZABETH WICKENDEN (Mrs. Goldschmidt) INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MULHOLLAN PLACE: The Goldschmidts' home, 544 East 86th~ New York City Tape 1 of 2 M: You don't have to talk into it [the recorder] or anything. pick you

Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Where did the impetus for that come from? c: Paul Butler, who was then chairman of the Democratic committee, I had known favorably for some time. Bi 11 Baggs, who at that time was the editor of the Miami Daily News, was a close friend of mine

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

session about once every other week and I got to know him then. He called me one day in New York and suggested that I come down and talk to him. I did. F: It must be quite a wrench, in a way, for a young lawyer who's just getting set up

Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of that was more than anything else a feeling that I liked to be involved in major new initiatives. come in. I had been involved in a lot of them since Kennedy had Not only the Peace Corps, but I had been involved in the task force that rewrote the foreign aid

Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

four feet? G: Did you read the coverage it was getting in the New York Times? A: I read a fair amount of it; I didn't read it all. G: What did you think of the way the major papers covered the trial? A: It improved with age, and I think it's

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in awhile there was an effort to set them up on some sort of a schedule, but it always seemed to me to dissipate. I believe that there were routine and periodic, probably daily, meetings 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh CLIFTON C. CARTER--l6 independents around. We had a second newspaper at Bryan at that time--the Bryan Daily News--that supported Mr

Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, James H. Tate, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

National Municipal Association, which is now the National League of Cities. We had with us Mayor Daley of Chicago, Mayor Dilworth of Philadelphia, and Bob Wagner of New York was the mayor of New York at that time, to call on the then Democratic leader
Contact with LBJ; 1956 and 1960 Democratic Conventions; 1963 Philadelphia speech; Green funeral; 1963 meeting of American Municipal Association in Houston; city program; HHH; urban disorder; 3/31 announcement; 1968 campaign

Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

.. F: Then where were you when you received news of Martin Luther King's assassination? H: I was speaking at an Urban League Meeting on the thirty-third floor of the Philadelphia Saving Fund Building, sort of giving them, a talk to motivate
Reform Bill; participation in Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence; evaluation of LBJ; visits of LBJ and Sherwin Markman to Philadelphia; Virgin Islands cases

Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

believe. And we had to wait until some transportation was arranged for us by the Philadelphia police department, in a station wagon, overland to Glassboro. When we arrived there, the Soviet motorcade from New York was just pulling in. And here

Oral history transcript, Louise Hermey Stanford, interview 1 (I), 9/6/1989, by Sybil Jackson (Item)

a little bit about your background in civil rights, particularly how you became involved with SNCC [Student National (formerly Nonviolent) Coordinating Committee]. S: I was a college student at Drew University in New Jersey and was in the class of 1964

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? F: No. The only difference was one in degree, not in kind. There was just as much discrimination in New York City as there was in Birmingham, Alabama, except Birmingham was more blatant and more widespread. It didn't matter. When you look
employees in the Department of Defense; John Macy's federal executive councils; complications within the Post Office; TVA's lack of compliance with minority hiring; federal scholarships; labor unions; Philadelphia Plans; state employment services; corporate

Oral history transcript, Anthony Partridge, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Partridge -- I -- 2 P: Oh, it was chaos, marvelous chaos. We were in the New Colonial Hotel up on 15th Street, and there were

Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

have another trouble spot in New England, but we've recently convicted the leader of Cosa Nostra in New England; you have another trouble spot in Miami; you have another trouble spot in Philadelphia, where we now are you have another trouble spot in-I

Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 3 (III), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

these two objectives, one important one was in the Manpower Administration. deal of money involved. from growing pains. There was a great It was an administration which was suffering It was a whole new dimension in terms of the Labor Department's role

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that. They were part of whatever little machine there was. In Cleveland, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, you really had machines, fairly active machines. In Pittsburgh, there was a Republican machine. Not Pittsburgh, Harrisburg. Pittsburgh, we had--all right
Shepherd. Also mentions Hobart Taylor, the President’s Club, Adam Clayton Powell. DNC activities in Detroit, Chicago, New York, Atlanta

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 5 (V), 9/9/1982-9/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and I have talked about Harry Coles and speculated about on where he might be. He's from New York, isn't he, or lived in New York? R: Yes, he was from Washington, D.C. Then after his naval career, term or service, he went first I think to Philadelphia

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 12 (XII), 10/29/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

know, we couldn't get passed until Dr. [Martin Luther] King was assassinated. And even if you look at that--I remember proposing it. It's the only time--and I think if you look at the New York Times or something--I was mentioned in the twenty-fourth

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

New York in two hours"--about what it takes to fly, really, really takes to fly--"with stops in Philadelphia or Trenton or what have you?" That was the dream we had. Now that hasn't come to pass, but I'd hate to think what this country would be like

Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

me to New York to work at the United Nations and all those kinds of things. But that is how I got to know John Connally, whom Senator Connally wanted to run his re-election campaign. John Connally refused him. There was really very little doubt

Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 2 (II), 3/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

to have it a viable, acceptable, legal entity, and for the first time in the history of the agency, we established a trustee ship . There were visits from delegations from Syracuse, and I remem ber very distinctly telling the new chairman
Confrontation in Community Action Agencies, especially in Chicago, Syracuse, Philadelphia and Cleveland; Community Action Agency guidelines; political involvement in local Community Action organizations; the Green Amendment; getting community action

Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to bring that about in Philadelphia, and Senator Bennett Clark from Missouri handled it, and John O'Connor, who was Congressman from New York, he handled it, too. And we abrogated the rule then. But I don't think he wanted to see those votes recorded

Oral history transcript, Dorothy V. Bush, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

was because we would have the largest television coverage . days, television didn't go beyond the Mississippi River . In those In the East, and in Philadelphia, we would have the New York audience and the Washing ton one . It was just a great big exciting

Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 1 (I), 9/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and subsequently became chief of the Economic Bureau for President Truman. F: We've interviewed Mr. Keyserling, incidentally. C: At that time I worked at tha [New York] Daily News during one summer only, and there met Lowell Limpus. This resulted in a lifetime
Biographical information; involvement with Roosevelt's administration; newspapers' importance to the government; summary of politics in New York State when Roosevelt was governor; genesis of the New Deal; Harvard graduates in FDR's administration

Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

House staff, and with Bob Kennedy. The March on Washington civil rights thing came on the scene very quickly after I left the government, and I became deeply involved in that. represented ~Ja Her I Reuther on the committee, both in New York

Oral history transcript, James M. Quigley, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

for politics. My father was always active in politics; he had been active as a Republican for the best part of his lifetime. But in the New Deal days, in the thirties, he became a Democrat. And as I thought my way through the process, I think I recognized
1958 election to Congress; JFK's role in Quigley's 1960 congressional election defeat; how JFK's Catholicism was viewed by Pennsylvania voters; the new House Committee on Science and Astronautics and why Quigley was interested in it; Quigley's opinion

Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. There is a Texas Society still operating. K: They had monthly dances at the Mayflower. Somehow or other we would manage to rent a tux and go to those things. And of course there were a lot of things to see around W'ashington for people like us that were new

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of the problem. B: My chronology was off. In '64, that summer came the murders in Philadelphia and several disturbances in northern cities, in New York and Rochester. C: Yes, I particularly wanted to mention those. Of course, the Philadelphia murders were

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 48 (XLVIII), 6/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

.], the President wanted me to get some advisers in, and I remember I got Judge Leon Higginbotham from Philadelphia, wherever he was, Pennsylvania. And I got Louis Martin off of a golf course. Martin was black and when he drove to the White House gate--it was very

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE E. LEVINSON INTERVIEWER: Paige E. Mulhollan PLACE: Mr. Levinson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: I think most of the things about the staff we talked about on the first tape, but one thing we didn't mention was whether

Oral history transcript, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

, and I was not in the service. only sole source of support. I was my mother's In March of 1941, I went to Philadelphia, and I was there until about September of '46, when I came back here to Washington. M: This is at a branch of your office. C: Well

Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, l987 INTERVIEWEE: FRANK STANTON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Dr. Stanton's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Dr. Stanton, let's begin by asking you to recount your earliest association with the Johnson family and, if you

Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Youth Administration made little impact upon the three-man staff of the International News Service at Austin. That staff consisted of Vann M. Kennedy, myself, and Walter Fleet, a youngster whose job it was to punch the tape which fed through
Texas press in 1930s; State Observer; first contact with LBJ; Alvin Wirtz; war years; KTBC radio station; 1944 Democratic state convention; 1944 and 1946 congressional campaigns; speech writing; KTBC and aggressive new policy; UN conference; San

Oral history transcript, Don Hummel, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the first presentation to President-Elect Kennedy for the establishment of a new department which we referred to as the Department of Urban Affairs. I represented the American Municipal Association and Dick Dilworth, the mayor of Philadelphia, represented

Oral history transcript, Milton P. Semer, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of Illinois, the late Senator [Herbert] Lehman of New York, and [Jacob] Javits when he came in in the fifties, and former Senator Joe Clark, who was from Philadelphia. That's how he put them together. G: Yes, but he convinced the Democrats to vote against
; the problem of OEO potentially taking over issues for which other departments had been responsible; why a new agency was created for the War on Poverty; the accelerated public works program; criticism of Community Action Programs; opposition to public housing

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