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Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it was when he was Majority Leader. The first time I met him was when Clyde Tolson, Associate Director of the FBI, and I was an assistant director, called me to his office and indicated that wouldn't it be a good idea if Mr. [J. Edgar] Hoover were
  • LBJ’s relationship with J. Edgar Hoover; legislation providing for Hoover’s retirement salary; Billie Sol Estes; White House hiring procedures during LBJ’s presidency; LBJ’s income tax information; LBJ’s concern over the assassination and the Warren
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • retaliated subsequently to this J. Edgar Hoover--you know, the J. Edgar Hoover-Robert Kennedy confrontation over who authorized wiretapping. Do you know if this was related? M: Well, the Hoover incident was earlier. The Hoover incident was in December,1966
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • recollections from the President or from other people of his feelings about the policies of Mr. Hoover? R: No, I don’t. I don’t remember. He has made some statements in speeches that I would personally have been happier had they not been said. For example, I
  • impressions of Hoover; LBJ’s attitude toward public service
Oral history transcript, Andrew Young, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Johnson Administration, and I guess even back starting with the Kennedy Administration, was a whole series of ideas involving premises such as "the FBI doesn't like the civil rights movement"; "J. Edgar Hoover and Martin Luther King have a vendetta
  • ;” work for Senator Joseph McCarthy; Justice Department and Ramsey Clark; Community Relations division; Roger Wilkins; Leroy Collins; FBI and J. Edgar Hoover; 1965 Voting Rights Act; solution to race and peace problems.
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 18 think he thought J. Edgar Hoover went bonkers on some things and shouldn't be allowed to do it. G: But then on the other hand, did he like to read the reports that came from this material? B: Loved to read them, and loved to read them out loud
  • surtax and Wilbur Mills; LBJ's concern for the people at the 1968 Poor People's Campaign demonstration; gun control; LBJ's view on wiretaps and his relationship with J. Edgar Hoover; mistake regarding letters to Congress members following the signing
Oral history transcript, Elmer Graham, interview 1 (I), 4/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • really know. I guess, as I recall the Populist attitudes, he was more of a Populist. He believed that the United States should take a leading part in the world ... I: In domestic affairs, did he make fun of Coolidge and Hoover as too con­ servative
Oral history transcript, Burke Marshall, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and gotten him to call up Mr. Hoover, but they were scared to. B: Did you find the FBI generally cooperative in these crises in the South? M: No. They got more cooperative as time went on. And Mr. Johnson, after he became President, maneuvered the Bureau
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • impatience; MLK and Resurrection City; Ramsey Clark and his relationship with LBJ; wire-tapping; J. Edgar Hoover; Robert Kennedy’s assassination; getting Secret Service protection for Presidential candidates; the Commission on Violence; Lloyd Cutler
Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Edgar Hoover and Robert Kennedy was surfaced, the Department under Nick Katzenbach attempted to find a middle ground; one that would not embarrass, or unduly embarrass, Robert Kennedy, and one that was nonetheless candid and honest as to the prior
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 12 (XII), 10/29/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to one of the pieces of legislation; I can't remember. It was one of the civil rights bills. Also, on the Vietnam thing, yes, there was concern. I remember [J. Edgar] Hoover was also playing out here in this. Hoover was circulating memos about
Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 2 (II), 7/20/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Finch, Assistant Secretary for Administration; evaluation of LBJ’s long-term contribution to civil rights movement; Senator Fulbright; 1965 change in the priorities of the LBJ administration; concern regarding wire-tapping; J. Edgar Hoover; FBI tapes
Oral history transcript, Michael E. DeBakey, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the, you might say, organizational and administrative roles in medicine. Then I served on the Medical Committee of the Hoover Commission, and this gave me further opportunity to study the organizational and administrative matters that relate
  • ' Administration; Medical Committee of the Hoover Commission; instrumental in the establishment of the National Library of Medicine; service with the Department Medical Advisory Council; involvement with many study section of the National Institutes of Health
Oral history transcript, Floyd E. Dominy, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ~ power revenues, and then you could put it through the Hoover, Parker, and Davis turbines and get some more of it back; and it's interesting to note that you'd pump it ,.,rith lm..rer cost energy than you'd get for the energy you made on the other might
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 5 (V), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Edgar Hoover's power; LBJ's relationship with MLK; contrasting JFK's and LBJ's approaches to what became the 1964 Civil Rights Act; JFK's physical condition; LBJ as storyteller versus JFK as listener; LBJ's outward showing of emotions versus JFK's
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 3 (III), 3/25/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in there of a subversive nature that really upset Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover, and even those in the FBI who were less witch-hunting than Hoover. They worried about King. King was not a person--he was extremely controversial. G: But there was a lot of evidence
Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: DAVID DUBINSKY INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Dubinsky's office, 201 West 52nd Street, New York City Tape 1 of 1 (Interview begins abruptly.) M: . . . Roosevelt. D: Hoover--Republicans too. M: Oh, Republicans too, yes! D
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 3 (III), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 11 looked like what was the best source of ideas was the Hoover Commission Report, in which they had added up what each of these savings that they recommended would come to. They had a total for it. Well, Proxmire wanted to put all these bills
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with, I suspect, a certain feeling about King.He had been terribly disappointed in King for good reasons or not. King had become increasingly anti-Administration, particularly on the war. Hoover had supplied the President with a vast amount of scurrilous
  • Clark; pardons and paroles; LBJ’s relationship with Hoover; Omnibus Crime Act of 1968; Model Cities; Robert Weaver; Bob Wood; tariffs; press relations; overseas airline decision; 1968 LBJ campaign and decision not to run; political activities after the 3
Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • is the 7S foot set back of all. buildings on the north side . We had a major problem with the new F .B .I . building at 7th and 9th and the Avenue .­ We needed cooperation from J . Edga r Hoover, who was supposed to be impossible to get at . I tried the only
  • historic sites; Willard Hotel; J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI Building; Lady Bird’s time and attention; Federal Highway Commission; National Plaza; Owings close to the Nixon Administration; Nixon’s interest in the National Plaza; LBJ Library; Skidmore-Owings
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • pretty common knowledge that Mr. Hoover and the FBI can on occasions be jealous of their independence and their prerogatives. Has the FBI worked well in cooperation with the other agencies? V: They work very well now. That was not always the case
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 first move in an attempt to hold down some of these foreign costs that we were incurring as a government. F: You served on the Hoover Commission in there too. B· I did some
  • Biographical information; House Banking and Currency Commission; Sam Rayburn; Inter-American Bank; International Development Association; Hoover Commission; campaigns for Congress; Kennedy appointment to the Treasury; Chairman of the FDIC; May 1965
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • part of it stemmed from the fact that he was so uninhibited--he was manipulative and calculating in many ways, but he was so uninhibited also on the phone that he thought he was entitled to some sense of privacy. G: Did he distrust J. Edgar Hoover
Oral history transcript, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/8/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • -- 30 it been three months later we would have had all the information on it. No one else had them infiltrated. Director Hoover came down and set up an office at Jackson, Mississippi. He gave me a list of eighty or ninety names that they had, and I
Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Service and the Soil Conservation Service and the Farmers Home Administration, who had their alliances with their committees and their industries and so forth. classic problem of who's running the government. Edgar Hoovers and the Ed Cliffs, It's
  • over PPBS; J. Edgar Hoover; LBJ evaluated in some detail; the Labor Department reorganization infuriates LBJ; LBJ characterized as to temper, language, schedule, intelligence, energy, vigor; Califano, McPherson, Levinson, Cater evaluated; the RMN
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were on the Appropriations Committee, nobody touched Nevada unless McCarran wanted it done. McCarran was notorious for making enemies. Hoover were great buddies. He and [J. Edgar] He set up that Senate Committee on Internal Security because Hoover
Oral history transcript, Perle Mesta, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • they all mixed up? M: I went to both. F: Have you been to White House parties under what Presidents? M: Hoover. F: Roosevelt. M: Roosevelt. F: Then Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy-- M: Truma~ F: Did you ever go under Kennedy? M: No. F: You
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 17 (XVII), 1/5/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • card and burn it but it wasn't a draft card. It would be a Xerox copy of a draft card because they didn't want to get in trouble. But Hershey was--he was somebody you couldn't talk to. He was terribly out of touch. He'd become not quite J. Edgar Hoover
Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • about him. Sa7t Houston lived with Lyndon when he lived out across the street from Hoover. F: J. Edgar Hoover. H:· He used to ride to work with him in that black limousine. Sam [Houston] I Was that out on Woodway? ~!ould And call every once
Oral history transcript, Donald Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and build it up, whereas their diplomatic colleagues were responsible for the negotiation of treaties of friendship, commerce, and navigation, U. S. property protection and so forth and so on. Then, of course, after Hoover's service as Secretary
Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , just as Hoover was leaving office. And the column was beginning to get going when Roosevelt came in in March of 1933. F: When did you first become aware of Congressman Johnson, or do we have to come down forward of that? P: I don't remember exactly
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of a functional bureau of that sort, where you have overlapping responsi bilities with geographical bureaus. Bear in mind that when the Hoover Corrmission some thirty years ago recorrmended the original organizational structure of the State Department, ··t hat
Oral history transcript, Ewing Hass, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 8 the--I can't think of the name right now, but when the Hoover Dam legislation was passed, there were either two or three occasions when the Senate voted to specifically omit the 160-acre limitation because the growers down there had built a canal
Oral history transcript, Claud Kellam, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • . wouldn't class as a liberal to the extent that Dr. Greene was. he was a liberal, yes. He But There's no question about that. G: Coolidge and Hoover were presidents then. K: Yes, Greene G: Did he lambast K: He was outspoken. He was rather
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to President Hoover. JBF: Roosevelt ran well ahead of the national ticket-- F: He ran well ahead of the national ticket. Well, then, I remained as Secretary of the Democratic State Committee during those following two years and a convention that was held
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 4 (IV), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • at the Georgetown Club asking me to dictate the memo over the phone. And that became rather impossible, but I got the memo done that evening; and it showed that until Roosevelt's time no President had ever gone to the convention. And then Hoover had done his
Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)