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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for a couple of hours, and then [by] the time you went back and forth, it was a good six hours probably. Then I was taking exercises. That's gone on and on throughout my life with very mediocre results I would say, but I had the instinct to make the best out
  • with the press, specifically newspapers; LBJ's interest in Lady Bird Johnson's appearance; Lady Bird Johnson's efforts to get Tom Miller, Jr., into Officer Candidates School; time LBJ spent with Ed Weisl while in California in the navy; Lady Bird Johnson's
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was. This was a very great challenge for NASA, but one which we were well prepared to meet. The financial status of NASA at the time that I became Acting Administrator was very sound indeed. had been conservative throughout in our programs. The financing We had
Oral history transcript, John Brooks Casparis, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Washington, D.C. in the early 1800s which at that time was the meeting place for the diplomatic corps. It was known for its Swiss cuisine and wine cellar. When my father's grandfather died, his children, which was my father's father, they were minors
Oral history transcript, Anita P. Winters, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • house to deliver the gifts or would he-- W: Oh, yes. G: I see. On Christmas Day? W: Yes. G: I see. W: And at birthday's he would come. I know he's been to the house several times when we'd have birthdays, and he'd bring gifts to us. G: You
  • ; the last time the Winters saw LBJ; LBJ at Dolph Briscoe's gubernatorial inauguration in January 1973; the LBJ Library dedication; LBJ's feelings about his health and his death; LBJ's death, funeral, and burial; LBJ's reaction to birds the Winters cared
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it was a gigantic papermill and that such things as arguing over whether we should be leaders in space--which later President Johnson and President Kennedy solved very quickly-occupied an incredible amount of time. So, to make a long story short--when Kennedy came
Oral history transcript, Roswell L. Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was just in charge of it up until the time the President considered the report and made his decision and then it reverted to the usual channels. TG: So you're suggesting that there's not much to the reports that this decision was due to the tendency
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . But that was due to Clarence Cannon and Sam Rayburn. M: Have you had opportunity to see Johnson operate in the Senate? H: Oh, yes. I wasn't, not being in Washington much at the time, but I was well aware that he probably was the greatest Senate minority
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CECIL STOUGHTON INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 - begi:ns at about 350 F: Okay, Cecil, this is the next morning, March 2nd now. S: Right, I've got a little time left. F: Yes. And we'll go on from
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to himself as the education President. Did the two of you ever get together and discuss education and what to do about i.t? Were you sort of a kitchen advis S: I don't think that would be fair. to me casually. on this? From time to time he would mention
Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Daily Cardinal, and whether to intervene in the war or not was the big issue of our time as students. I think some time in October 1941 I took my stand; I wrote an editorial supporting intervention in World War II, contrary to the position taken
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 30 (XXX), 11/4/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the discussion hadn't occurred when he returned, said he had a problem and he had committed to recognizing a woman in that role. Jean Westwood, as I recall it, was in the room with him. She was an ardent, long-time McGovern supporter. The view of his advisers
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Administration. S: That is correct. M: ~!he n was the first time that you made any personal acquaintance with Mr. Johnson? S: Sure. Remember that far back? In many ways, I think this is going to prove about the only real contribution that I can
Oral history transcript, Dwight A. Ink, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • is February 5; and I am in his offices in the HUD Building in Washington, D.C.; and the time is 2 in the afternoon. My name is David McComb. First of all, Mr. Ink, I have some information that you were born in Iowa in Des Moines in 1922, and educated at Iowa
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • not discussed it because it was a matter of such vast importance and still is a matter that's of tremendous importance and is very much before the public and before the Congress at this time . That [matter] deals with the deregulation of natural gas
Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • for a substantial length of time the editor and executive vice president of the Washington Post and held previous editorial positions with that paper, I guess, on back into the late 1940s. W. 1946. M: Right. You were a Washington correspondent in the thirties
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the Army and as Deputy Secretary [of Defense]. Then after a time out of the government, you came back as Deputy Chief Negotiator in the Paris peace negotiations in 1968. Your first contact with Mr. Johnson, I suppose, comes in the 1950's while he is still
Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • little time before, so I should have at least Some memory and some responsibility from the beginning of the system. M: Right. Now, I wonder if you could begin, perhaps, by recalling any early acquaintances that you had with Mr. Lyndon Johnson prior
Oral history transcript, Robert Vincent Roosa, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : I was born the twenty-first of June, 1918, in Marquette, Michigan. My father was at that time the principal of the high school there, and he later, when I was two years old, moved down to the Detroit area. When I was four he moved to River Rouge
Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 21, 1968 B: This is the interview with Mr. John A. Schnittker, the Under Secretary of Agriculture. Sir, would you start by outlining your career up to the time of your appointment as Under Secretary here? S: Yes
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was at that time, I don't know what the term was, but the staff director of the Democratic Policy Committee. So I was placed over in the Senate Democratic Policy Committee office with George Reedy, and with Pauline Moore, and some other people working
  • spoke for greater periods of time; LBJ's interest in the Joseph McCarthy issue; George Reedy's understanding of Huitt's desire to work under LBJ; the difference between being a politician and observing politics; LBJ's relationship with the Democratic
Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on the force now. This man told me he came in Truman's time, so he didn't see anything of me, except if I went to the White House. F: Well, we'll get started then. When did you first meet the Johnsons? T: I've been trying to think of that. when I was up
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • frequently in those Congressional days? W: Yes. I saw him--each time I carne to Washington I visited with him. And each time he carne to New York he stayed with us at my horne. F: Did he come frequently? W: Well, no, not very frequently. F: Did you
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • a White House appointment. P.: I'm an attorney from Oklahoma. I had been in private practice in Oklahoma City and in business there. to come back to Washington. In 1965 Mike Monroney asked me Mike and I were long-time friends. My wife is related
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 2 (II), 1/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on and interested myself through conversations with my old associates on the National Service Program, some of whom had low-level staff positions or very intermittent relationships with the task force. It occurred to me at the time, and it certainly occurred
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason and Jeanne Deason, interview 6 (VI), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • purposes, and that's what you remember about the first time you met Mrs. Johnson, anything that either of you might recall. You met her at I guess a decade apart for the first time. WD: I'll let Jeanne go first on that. G: Would you, Mrs. Deason, go
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , except that I would like to ask you this same sort of question in regard to relations with Communist China, perhaps not in terms of relations, but developments over the same period of time since 1960. N: My mind was going back earlier than 1960. P
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. Kuchel, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • but because of what Nixon did I think I was a little ahead of him in seniority. I'd forgotten that. G: Do you recall your first impressions of Lyndon Johnson? K: That was his first time as majority leader and I have some recollection of Senator Johnson
  • ; public works; LBJ manipulating Senate votes; LBJ’s reputed power of persuasion; LBJ’s time in California as a youth.
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: RAY S. CLINE INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Dr. Cline's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 C: Well, lim sure you recollect the timing and the formal definitions of the Mongoose operation better than I do, but as I recall
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to move on it. So what happened was the next day, as I recall, the New York Times had two announcements on its front page. One, the American initiative about extending the DMZ in an effort to de-escalate the thing, and the other that we'd bombed a new
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 2 (II), 5/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the bill, saw to it that the language got incorporated into the act, against the wishes of the Bureau of Public Roads at that time. So in that back-hand, off the record matter, it seems to me that we did have something to do with that aspect
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . At that time he was a young 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 Bartlett -- I
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Pickle was one ; Harvie Yoe was one ; Ben Crider was one ; and I believe Harvey Payne was the other one at that time . They were told, as they worked their particular area within my ten-county district, to cultivate them, and they did . So Lyndon
Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . This was in 1944, and at that particular time it was extremely difficult for blacks to get into engineering schools. As an example, even Drexel University had many, many subtle barriers. Purdue University had the lowest tuition of any first-rate engineering school
Oral history transcript, Birch Bayh, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : Did you have any association with Lyndon Johnson prior to the time you came to the United States Senate? B: No. M: None at all? R: None. M: When you got here, he was Vice President for that first full year that you were in the Senate. Was he
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEHEE: KERMIT GORDON INTERVIEHER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Gordon's office, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: We can start at the top of the list here and take up where we left off the last time. I'd like to know
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • 1966 when I came to the White House as a Marine Corps sergeant major to work as Jim Cross'--who was the Armed Forces Aide at that time--as his administrative assistant. He was in the process of reorganizing the Armed Forces Aides office at the White
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 12 (XII), 10/29/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • I got, but going through these papers on the conference-- G: This whole period almost seems to have been a time when the President was trying to garner affirmation of his civil rights programs and was a time when some of the civil rights leadership
Oral history transcript, Lindy Boggs, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be completely and totally immersed just in the political scene, where to shop. We consulted about pediatricians and things of that sort. Of course, at that time, Lady Bird did not have children. G: Do you remember your first impression of LBJ? B: Of course
Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with General Curtis LeMay who made his home in Newport Beach, California. just to get started. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. with Mr. Johnson? General, Incidentally, I'm a World War II veteran so I have been following you for a long time. L: More
Oral history transcript, Bart McDowell, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • as a writing tablet. So that's essentially the approach we had. I had a fair amount of time, not perhaps as much as I'd have liked, with all three of them. Of course Mrs. Johnson and Lynda Bird were more accessible because they had less substantive work to do