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Oral history transcript, Cameron McElroy and Lucille McElroy, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of Title 44, United States Code and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Lucille McElroy of Marshall, Texas do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recording
Oral history transcript, Cecil D. Redford, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title, and interest in the tape recording and transcript of the personal interview conducted with my uncle, Cecil Redford, on July 8, 1969, in Corpus Christi, Texas, and prepared for deposit
Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • started attracting favorable attention very quickly and -F: How do you account for that rise? Did he just get along with the right people? S: You can't account for all of it in anyone point, but he's what I call a natural worker. He went to work
Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • affecting the American people and affecting the American economy. Those would be: spending policies; tax policies; social security policies; housing policies; monetary policies; farm policies; international economic policies; and basic regulatory policies
Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 2 (II), 11/25/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of this material into the physical custody of the Archivist o£ the United States. 2. It is the donor's wish to make the material donated to the United States of America by terms of this instrument available for research as soon as it has been deposited
Oral history transcript, Rutherford M. Poats, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • will sound very simple, but people thirty or forty years from now might not consider then quite as simple as they now are. Don't let them limit you. If you want to ramble around and talk about something else, by all means do so. You were with United Press
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the provisions of Chapter 21 of Title 44, United States Code and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, John Sparkman of Washington, D. C. do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest
Oral history transcript, A. Ross Eckler, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • connection with the political side or having been identified as a party worker, anything of that sort. B: Did you have in this time, while your appointment was being considered, any personal talks with Mr. Johnson or any of his staff about the matter? E
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the message, I think. G: And the migratory farm workers. C: If there's a message on that, we ought to cover it. More veterans' benefits. Did we go to random selection? We ought to have a separate session on the draft thing, because it's [Lewis] Hershey. Do
Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • do hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recording and transcript of personal interview conducted on March 19, 1971 at Chicago, Illinois and prepared for deposit in the Lyndon
  • ; Shapiro’s role as chairman of the Rules committee; the unit rule; black demonstrators at the 1968 Chicago convention; trying to convince Humphrey to visit Illinois in his campaign; LBJ’s relationship with Illinois politicians; Great Society legislation.
Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the United states was directly caused by cigarette smoking. That was the first time that had ever been nailed down that strongly, and they did reach that conclusion unanimously. All of their decisions were unanimous or they didn't get in the report
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • out in the country, the main thing you saw were tractors, lots and lots of tractors; it was a farm show. And it just reminded you that this piece of America is the bread basket, you might call it that, and they just must have--these great mammoth
  • . Johnson's appreciation for the variety in lifestyles around the United States; voting and election day 1960; the Johnsons' activities in the days following the election, including John F. Kennedy's visit to the LBJ Ranch; the apartment on the fifth floor
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there were a bunch of men running one of these little repair car things, just an open car, couldn't have been more than four or maybe eight men on it. He hovered low and talked to them. And I know that he did it sometimes if there were a lot of farm workers
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Senate; served in World War I; entered the United States House of Representatives in 1933 and served until 1946 or '47. must have been a lap of terms. R: Yes. I was elected in 1946 to fill a vacancy. There LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 3 (III), 4/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • hereinafter set forth, I, Emmette S. Redford of Austin, Texas do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recordings and transcripts of the personal interviews conducted on March 31 and April
Oral history transcript, Mamie Allison, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1986, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recording and transcript of the personal interview conducted on October 13, 1986 in Houston, Texas, and prepared for deposit in the Lyndon Baines
Oral history transcript, Wayne Aspinall, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Lyndon Johnson. But \'Iherever Lyndon was people got to know him because he was always involved. F: He never stayed just on the Senate side, but a good many congressmen did get to know him? A: Oh, yes. He was a very astute member of the United
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the field of communications. F: And you stayed with that then until the 1960's? M: Until the President appointed me as the Director of the United States Information Agency, I practiced in that field. F: Right. Did you get tq know Mr. Johnson during
Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , don't like those they owe something to . F: No one likes the banker . B: We also told the American people that it would buy votes for us in the U .N . On the contrary, as a sensitive state when you get aid from America, you're inclined to disagree
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a leader of a Mexican band that followed Mexican farm workers who had left on the Sunday after the election and had gone, 1 believe, to Longview or Tyler or somewhere up there. 1 assumed he was the one who had voted. I never did contact him
Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • did you first start getting really actively involved in it? H: Well, following high school and going into the service after high school, being stationed in army camps that were near larger communities or cities that had NAACP units, I found that one
  • Biographical information; murder of civil rights worker Andy Goodman in Mississippi; SCLC; James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss in 1962; assassination of Medgar Evers in 1963; funeral of MLK; JFK’s assassination; LBJ as President; Civil Rights Act
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Stuart Symington of Washington, D.C. do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recordings' and transcri pts of the personal i ntervi e
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • assisted in this by sending troops, sending their people into Africa and into Latin America. over the place. There were Chinese all So there was a basis, it wasn't just a . . . . But I think the mind set of even the liberals in the United States
  • of Americans for Democratic Action; the Democratic Farm-Labor Party; the Sino-Soviet bloc; Humphrey's good relationship with JFK; Ed Lansdale; Humphrey's relationship with LBJ; the Diem assassination; Humphrey's trips as VP to Vietnam, India and other places
Oral history transcript, Louise Hermey Stanford, interview 1 (I), 9/6/1989, by Sybil Jackson (Item)
  • and then there was a lawyer's project with the national ACLU and another national organization. J: Was the COFO project an effort to unite all of the civil rights organizations since it was an umbrella entity for the civil rights movement at that time? S: That was my
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Sr., interview 1 (I), 1/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • hundred men all the time. And he had virtually the control of the workers in the city. When it was rice farming in the fall of the year, he'd use about six hundred men. F: All Negroes? T: All Negroes. F: That would make him a pretty big employer. T
  • Biographical information; Hobart Taylor's birth and youth in Wharton County; race relations; transportation business in Houston; Wharton; NAACP; education; automobile sales; Taylor's father's contracting and farming businesses; cowboy; Jesse Jones
Oral history transcript, J.C. Looney, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • power in the United States Senate. And I just felt like Johnson had the best possibilities--was the best man in the group. And that was more or less the basis. Anybody that's involved LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • in Latin America that would like to come and live in the United States than there are people who come and live in the United States. I think that would be a fair statement. But this gets so involved LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and internst in the tape recordings and transcripts of the personal interviews conducted with me and prepared for deposit in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. A list of the interviews
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • what happened. I went directly to Peru with the Peace Corps, and I stayed there until May of _1 964. 'lben I became the Latin America regional director of the Peace Corps until around April of . '66. But in February of 1964, . . . I think
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • very much out of the whole business of military reports, all of which they insisted demonstrated that the United States had been weakened, had been sapped by corrmunist spies, things of that nature. As I recall the Gaither Report, I think we finally
Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] size of the agreement. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 21 But in that case you have a union in the United Steel Workers and an employer-bargaining group which
Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: DOUGLAS PIKE INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Pike's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Would you recount how you came to enter government service? P: I worked for the United Nations in Korea during the Korean War and then came
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 17 (XVII), 12/17/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh O'Brien -- Interview XVII -- 19 G: Was there any effort to include farm workers in this? O: There was discussion about it. More than just a passing reference. G: I noticed that the Senate
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , as amend an4-re&~ations issued thereunder (41 CFR 101-10), , hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby gtve, convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therein
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the provisions of Chapter 21 ofTitle 44, United States Code, and subject to the tenns and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Frank Stanton ofNew York City, New York, do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title
  • opinion; the military's truthfulness in reporting what was happening in Vietnam; Don Cook talking to LBJ about Vietnam; CBS News program Harvest of Shame about migrant agricultural workers and hunger in the United States and the BBC's efforts to show
Oral history transcript, Stanley Ruttenberg, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the President of the United Steel Workers. Director of Research and Education for the CIO. In 1948 I became the [I] maintained that position until the merger of the A.F. of L. and the CIO in 1955, when I was selected as the Director of Research of the merged
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Actually there were only a few instances of genuine I think there was one in the Teamsters. And also I think that in the case of the United Mine Workers--and naturally John L. Lewis was the one that started that whole thing of the health and welfare fund
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • legislative representative for the AFL-CIO in the decade of the 1950s. P: I started off as representative for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. M: Do you remember Johnson from that far back? P: He was in the House then. ~·1: In 1948. P
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . C: Yes. I would say generally he liked Senator Kennedy, they had a pleasant relationship, he felt that he could augment Senator Kennedy's strength in the middle west, with farm groups, with labor, et al.; that it would make a good ticket
Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • remember that they ever applied. After all is said and done, the United States only grew, when I was active, I think it was 3 per cent of the rice consumed in the world. M: So you had the support of the farming group and the laborers, as well