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Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 6 (VI), 9/16/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on foreign policy, either a colleague in the Senate or an adviser or someone like that? J: Let's see, who was chairman of Foreign Relations at the time? G: Wasn t Tom Connally still [chairman]? J: Yes, but he never really leaned on Tom Connally
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 2 (II), 12/6/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -year cut-off. C: Well, it was one that labor had been so strong for. To me it was--being a party man, and I don't think there's many times in my life that I hadn't been considered a party man or felt that I was a party man. I was raised
Oral history transcript, William H. Darden, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , was it not? And they had quite a few things going before I started, and, of course, for a long time after I started down there, I was learning and I was not privy to a lot of the important things, things that were going on. G: Was there any significance in your move from
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 2 (II), 5/3/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that no, the matter was no longer alive because the President of the United States had decided that [Jack] Valenti would have the job. Now, Valenti at that time had been serving in the White House, had married Johnson's secretary, I believe. G: Former secretary
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 7 (VII), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • to Washington in the family plane. As we were approaching National Airport, with Laurance, Brooke, and I engaged in a three-way conversation, Laurance said to me, "Nash, it's time to start thinking about a memorial to President Johnson." I said, "Well, Laurance
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • stage. This was after we got the act passed. The act attracted active support from key people in Congress. John Brademas took a particular interest in it. It got caught in a last-minute time squeeze, as frequently things do. We were able to get
Oral history transcript, Ardis C. Hopper, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and go to school, whi ch worked out about that way. G: So you arrived on campus in the fall of-- H: In the fall of 1926, yes. G: Do you recall the first time you met Lyndon Johnson? H: Well, yes. I can't remember the first time I ever saw him
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • have them I served my last term as Supervisor--I ran for the I was elected in the 1922 election, when Governor Alfred Smith was reelected Governor. So I served one term in the state legislature. At that time there was a bill introduced known
Oral history transcript, Victor Ferrari, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • what they call the black lung at the present time. used to call it, back then, miner's asthma. We My mother had eight children to raise during the Depression, and that was quite a challenge. Now as I reflect over some of the things in my early
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1b (I), 2/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , which was North Vietnam. We did not recommend it in 1961, hoping that we could settle the issue of aggression within the confines of South Vietnam without going to the North. However, by the time I got there as Ambassador, following a disastrous
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 3 (III), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , too. W: You have to consider China, but fortunately the Chinese are still several years away from having a deliverable nuclear weapon. Not only that, but we have the capacity at the present time to develop and deploy an ABM system which would put
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • never heard of anything like this, and I doubt that it's true. I don't think that we were in any way organized at the time of Dien Bien Phu to have been assisting the French in any logistical way. G: Well, live asked a couple of military officers
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • knocked around on the Hill for about four or five years just as Truth in Lending was knocked around and discussed heavily for four or five years. There came a time for Truth in Lending as there came a time for Truth in Packaging when the consumer wave
Oral history transcript, Thurgood Marshall, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • compromiser, but I've always thought that he had the compromise in his pocket when the thing started each time. He just waited for the right time to take it out. B: You mean he had already figured out what was going to happen? M: Sure. He always won. Well
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , that was for it. And then Johnson had his remarkable election in 1964, and that was a campaign issue. I thought then the time had come to enact something, and he recommended that we take care of the hospital costs only of people over sixty-five under Social Security, in connection
Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in 1937. R: Right. No, actually, I was probably not too close to the White House day-to-day functioning until about the summer of 1936. Then I went with my father down to South America and back, and at that time he asked me to come into the White House
Oral history transcript, Gordon Bunshaft, interview 1 (I), 6/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • guessed it either . M: The time's gone pretty fast, sometimes, they said . That's why I looked it up . Let's begin by identifying you, sir . You're Gordon Bunshaft, and you're an associate with an architectural firm in New York City . B: I'm
Oral history transcript, Emanuel Celler, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • came out of the Senate, that was the only bill that could have been passed? C: I think that's a good statement. B: Yes, of course, at that time. At that time. Was there much distress among the liberals at what had happened to the bill? C: No, I
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and as a consequence, he was hospitalized and \.;1as in a recuperation situation until the spring of that year. And I don't believe that he returned to v]
Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and civic affairs in 1960. And all during the fifties I had an association with the state government and served as head of the executive staff of the state government at one time and attended, I think, nearly all of the Democratic conventions from the time
Oral history transcript, Charles Timmes, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the advisory effort in Vietnam with the advisory effort in Korea? T: I was in Korea November 1956 to about March 1958. At that time, of course, South Korea was not at war. Of course, this makes the extreme difference. Also, Korean officers I thought were much
Oral history transcript, Anita P. Winters, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , then? Older, younger? W: No, Lyndon was older than me. G: I see. By about how much? W: Oh, about maybe four years. G: I see. So you were probably in the same schoolhouse with him at one time or another. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 11/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • regarding the administration's commitment to help the [Penn Central] merger along. C: Saunders had talked to me on the phone and he (inaudible) to see me prior to that time. And I had asked Ramsey [Clark] his view--as had others like Marvin Watson, I guess
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Komer's office, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 F: Bob, let's talk about what we were talking about at the end last time. We were talking a bit about Libya, and I wanted to get Libya sort
  • “pacification”; comparison of Ky and Thieu; differentiating between ambassadors in Vietnam; working with General William Westmoreland; Bill Moyers; problems with being the only full-time high-ranking government official workingon the Vietnam situation; who
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Leisure, which was supposed to be sort of a cross betw"een Sports Illustrated and Esquire or something. Anyway, we almost t,vo years. twenty-seven. ~.,rere greatly underfinanced. This lasted for about I was very young at the time, I guess twenty-six
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 3 (III), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : They complicated it, but, interestingly enough, each one was based on totally different sets of things. I was assistant to Dean Acheson the whole time he was secretary of state. I was his personal assistant, and we were involved heavily with the Far East
  • at the time of Battle's departure; whether Nasser intended to start the Six-Day War with Israel; U.S. goals for Egypt; Battle's relationship with Anwar Sadat; Sadat's visit to the U.S. and rise to power.
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • kept in the early years of the agency, which would include also whatever I had retained from task force days, because it wasn't that there was a clean beginning of OEO as such. Many of us, by the time the agency had gotten its authorization
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , who later became, you know, very famous in systems analysis. G: You recruited Mr. Enthoven? M: That's right. G: I didn't know that. M: Well, I tried to recruit him for the army; at that same time Mr. [Robert] McNamara recruited him
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on three and a half months in the Nixon Administration and am now out of office . M: You had been Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for ISA for some time prior to the assassination? B: Yes, I was appointed by President Kennedy at the very outset
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • never did take it out the whole time and did not intend to, because I hadn't met him, and I had plenty else to do. Cecille and I thought that to travel on a boat would be the most glamorous way in all the world to take this trip. In those days
  • of Washington, D.C. and the sites she visited; career plans; projects Mrs. Johnson planned at her father's Brick House; how Mrs. Johnson met LBJ for the first time in Austin; LBJ's marriage proposal and their brief courtship; meeting LBJ's family; Sam Ealy
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • at that time, over the phone. Most of it was Sunday afternoon and the problems were related to--my memory is very hazy on this, but the main issue I remember was when to move army troops, if and when. We and the Justice Department both made an enormous
Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , almost all my life, went to school there and became a lawyer and started practicing law in Junction about 1935. Coke Stevenson was in the legislature at that time, had a law office in Junction, and encouraged me to study law. university. I didn't get
Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • " as they call it at those magazines, doing every department where someone else were unavailable, sick or on vacation . BA : What was the name of the book? BE : Time and a Ticket , it was called . BA : You may be too modest to mention this, but are you
  • Biographical information; TIME & A TICKET; LBJ's remarks regarding Vietnam; LBJ's reading and general knowledge; speech writing and the staff; "cussers/doubters/nervous-nellies;" consumer interest information; speech schedule put out on Fridays
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • authoritatively about what Lyndon Johnson was doing, what he was like and all that, and to my knowledge, in the four years I was there, the only time he saw the President was at that ill-fated Arts Council display on the South Lawn and it was only a passing thing
Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and how you happened to be in Europe at the time of LBJ's trip in May 1945. E: I was stationed at that time at the Rainbow Corner in Paris, and I had been there since about February of 1945. I had been in correspondence with the Johnsons, both Bird
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • , and they 't'Tere probably worse in NYA. PB: In fact, you scarcely had time to eat back in those days, isn't that right? BP: That's about true. I guess as far as Nr. Johnson's con- cerned that ••••• I believe he must have eaten more ha~~urgers than any man
Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • views to the attention of the President. As I mentioned last time, the great difficulty involved the people surrounding the President. If you have a filter between a special assistant, like Esther Peterson, and the President, I don't think that he
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --at least it's easy to think of his time as a long, continuing honeymoon. It wasn't. There were rising tides of dissension and anger from a lot of groups, from the doctors, and the conservatives, and the people bent on peace, and the people bent
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 3 (III), 1/21/70, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the most revealing would probably be the discussions, conversations, that took place between Robert Kennedy and the President during that period of time. I'm not sure within that given framework whether this included the time that Senator Robert Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 3 (III), 7/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • then it seems that time has caught up. C: Time has caught up. It wasn't that the problem with water that summer was unpredictable; it was just two things, I think. One, when you start to measure the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL