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Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Johnson before your appointment in 1968? P: No, the first time I talked to Lyndon Johnson was in connection with the appointment. B: Had you formed any opinions of him--for example, his attitude toward science generally and the space program
Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • because the economy was operat­ ing at full steam, and there was a strong capital investment program going on within industry and more than full employ­ ment, according to measures at that time. And unless some steam was taken out of the economy
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
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in excess of two hundred thousand jobs were found for disadvantaged kids that summer at no cost to the government, and some one hundred and fifty thousand full-time jobs for the hard-core unemployed. What makes it really remarkable is that the whole
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • who felt that he was overstepping and overplaying his hand. Once again, Goodwin was exiled, this time to the Peace Corps, where he became a speech writer for Sargent Shriver. It was in this kind of obscure post which someone said is as far as you can
Oral history transcript, Elmer Graham, interview 1 (I), 4/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • was several years older than he was. for some five years and then gone back. I had dropped out of school As I recall it, at the time of our debating together, I was a senior and he was about a sophomore. So I was several years older than he was. I: You
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • shellers in San Antonio since the wages of this rather small group of workers were about fifteen cents an hour. that time was in the House of Representatives. Mr. Johnson at He replied that he would do all he could, but of course he realized, and I did
Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: BRUCE PALMER INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: The Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: General Palmer, would you describe a little of your professional background in the late fifties, leading up to the time that you took over
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • he was at that particular time or not I'm not sure. The President, as was so often the case with President Johnson, engaged more or less [in] a monologue. dialogue. It certainly wasn't quite a But the President was, as he was so often during the few
Oral history transcript, L. Wade Lathram, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to Washington as assistant secretary, and at that time I had decided to stay on with AID for a few months to help them out, because they had an appropriation before the Hill. So the first thing he did was call me and say, "Why aren't you over here?" I said
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • COOPER INTERVIEHER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN DATE: July 17, 1969 PLACE: Mr. Cooper's office in Arlington, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 M: We had reached, chronologically, last time right to the brink of 'Marigold,but there are a couple of things I wanted
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in this pre-assassination period. I d o n ' t know whether [Adam] Yarmolinsky was in on i t at that time. It seems to me like [Richard] Goodwin was in on it. It was fairly low key and there wasn't a n y feeling of great urgency or "hurry up and get
Oral history transcript, Robert J. Kleberg, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was then teaching public speaking in Sam Houston High School in Houston, hav­ ing graduated from Southwest Texas State Teachers• College at San Marcos the year before. He \'las twenty-three at the time. His appoint­ ment to the secretarial position was announced
Oral history transcript, C.W. Price, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • told you. P: So when he got this, I mean he had about ten names in this last two All right. hundred names, and so we made an effort to contact these people that they said had voted. The ironic thing was that from the time that the last person
Oral history transcript, Robert M. White, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • administrator this agency has ever had. W: That's right. M: You began with it. Is that correct? Prior to that, you were the chief of the National Weather Bureau. W: United States Weather Bureau. M: United States Weather Bureau--from what time, sir? W
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • left that under unhappy cir- cumstances in the end of August, beginning of September, 1964 [and] spent time from September to June more or less sitting in the White House doing nothing. Then I went down to the Dominican Republic as chief of the U.S
Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • you recall the first time that you met Mr. Johnson? McG: I don't really, because I suspect it was at some kind of formal function or reception or otherwise. I think the first time I net him other than in such a group was in the Cabinet Room, probably
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . This interview is in his home in Silver Spring, Maryland. The time is 3:30 and the date is December 8, 1968. My name is David McComb. Mr. Cohen, first of all, I would like to know something about your background--where you were born and when. C: I was born
Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that people did in those days. I did the usual I looked for any kind of a job that would help us pay for the groceries. My dad was working about two days a week and not making an awful lot of money in the mines at that time. The best I could do
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: HARRY McPHERSON INTERVIEWER: T. H. Baker PLACE: Mr. McPherson's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 3 B: This is a continuation of the interview with Harry McPherson. Sir, we were talking last time about civil rights activities generally. To talk
Oral history transcript, Earl Howsam, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and, as I recall, he was on that committee at that time. G: What were your impressions of him at the time? H: That he was a tall, outstanding Texan, and he seemed very impressive. I had heard about him before because we were interested
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 2 (II), 6/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT FINCH INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Finch's office, Pasadena, California Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Last time when we concluded you were discussing President [Lyndon] Johnson's interest in finding a cure for cancer
Oral history transcript, Mylton Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in January, 1929, is that right? K: Right. G: And LBJ, at the time, was in Cotulla teaching. Do you recall the first time you met him? K: Not specifically, but it was undoubtedly at the end of his schoolteaching year and close to the end of the spring
Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in that time did you first meet or hear of Mr. Johnson? T: Of course, I had heard of him for many years, from the time he was in the House of Representatives and of course his work in the Senate. So I guess it's been kind of a name that's been known to me
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with Rowland Evans, and author of Lyndon B. Johnson, An Exercise in Power, as well as other books, including one now on the Nixons. To begin with, you were still a fairly junior congressional reporter at the time your book begins. How close on that level were
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3, Side 1 G: We finished last time with a discussion of the Salt Lake City speech which, I believe, was the end
  • City speech on Vietnam; Nixon's continued refusal to debate Humphrey; buying television time for Humphrey; poll results; Humphrey dealing with hecklers; a lack of funding for campaign materials; television advertisements for Edmund Muskie; Humphrey's
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . But it was a terrible position for the President to be in, and I don't just mean in small political senses--I mean in terms of a distinct upset to the country just at a time when it needed to settle down and digest what had happened in the way of the election ; and he
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 5 (V), 7/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and wanting some help. We usually tried to get up ahead of time what sort of American involvement there was in a country, if there was any at all--if so, what was it, what type of aid was the US giving them, and the monetary levels, and that sort of thing
Oral history transcript, Solis Horwitz, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • for a year and was here every Friday. But full-time I'm very new, beginning around the middle of April. M: When did your first contact with Mr. Johnson take place, back when you worked for the Senate Armed Services Committee in the late 1940s? H
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the main Treasury Building in Washington, D.C.; the date is January 7, 1969; the time is 11:40; and my name is David McComb. Mr. Deming, I'd like to know something about your background, where you were born, and when. D: I was born in Des Moines, Iowa
Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to the time you came into the Kennedy Administration? H: Had you ever had any contact? I had had some indirect contact with him when he was on Capitol Hill. I was chief of the Foreign Affairs Division of the Legislative Reference Service, and then I
Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh October 10, 1968 B: All right, sir, if we may start here, when did you first get acquainted with Mr. Johnson? H: I met Mr. Johnson some time in the forties. assignments--OPA, Agriculture, other things. I was in Washington
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 4 (IV), 7/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh July 21, 1969 Mc This is the fourth session with Mr. John W. Macy, Jr. offices in Washington, D.C. I am once again in his The date is July 21, 1969, and my name is David McComb. The last time we talked a great deal about
Oral history transcript, Ella SoRelle Porter and Mike Porter, interview 1 (I), 11/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [when] my parents though_t we shaul d go back to the farm wfLere we could be sure of food and that sort of thi ng. thr~ugh the elementary time--and t~e But wHh the exception of one year I went school-~the sub-college we called it at the college
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 14 (XIV), 9/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 O: [The Higher Education Act of 1965] considerably broadened the areas of the involvement. For the first time
Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • for Dick Kleberg for Congressman--I mean Richard Kleberg for Congress, which included Bexar County at that time. P: This is 1931? B: Yes. He was elected for Congress, and he made an appointment of a young man by the name of Lyndon Johnson to be his
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the beautification program, which of course led to the passage of the Highway Beautification Bill, and Mrs. Johnson's traveling to publicize the efforts of cities and states in the beautification projects. We had reached a point in time, I believe May, 1967, when
Oral history transcript, Guy S. Meloy III, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in the sense that it was the country's fire brigade. But of the nine battalions--eight battalions at that time they had in the division, I suspect five of those eight battalions were in combat at all times. We were, I think, from early March until late July
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . The ambassa­ dor there at that time was a man named Horace Smith, and he had a station chief named Henry Heckscher [?], and they disagreed very strongly . They both were very strong-minded men . I hope I have the details here right, but memory--I would
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 4 (IV), 2/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at that time. Of course, Vice President Johnson met with the leader, whose last name was Leopold Sedar, who was, as I recall it, a poet before he became a politician. But it was to participate in the celebration of the birth of that country. Vice President