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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • for appointments, positions, being heard. And here he was, and he just drew a little circle around it and just worked away, beautiful work. I do want to talk about the new building at KTBC. Does that come along later? M: Yes it does. Here on the twenty-fourth
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the editors of the conservative publications that were not sympathetic to Johnson anyway were not present at this thing--the Dallas [Morning] News was not there; maybe one editor was, but not the top people. They were dissatisfied by and large. They did
Oral history transcript, Lester D. Johnson, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 5 only at the present time--it's in effect at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York; at the San Antonio International Airport; and at Dulles Airport here
Oral history transcript, A. Ross Eckler, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . The news came while I was over there, and he was very happy and congratulated me on the fact that it had come through. B: Sir, you brought up an area that I think is of interest. If I may LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , then I got there about the tenth of December. I got there about two weeks after the assassination. G: Okay. F: When I got back to Saigon I obviously had a lot of catching up to do because I was out of touch, you might say, with the members of the new
Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to it and others contributed, of course, but he is entitled to a lot of credit. F: When you were holding those hearings, was there a great deal of controversy or were you mainly just trying to figure out--you're into something new here. S: That's right, a new
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • went to Florida, I was responsible for the state of Florida. I went to New York and saw people in New Jersey and was in Washington some. M: So I worked around all [inaudible]. That must have been difficult for you. As I recall, Johnson wanted
Oral history transcript, John Harllee, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , and then two years overseas in New Guinea, New Britain, and the Philippines. Then, during the Korean War I served at the front, so to speak, on a cruiser. Mc: And rose from the rank--what did you start out as? H: I rose from the rank of midshipman
Oral history transcript, Ben W. Heineman, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • should be given the chance as a new President to show what he could do. It was a highly personal pressure LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, John N. Luft, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to establish our rates, then of course when we go into new crops we have to write a new program. There's been a lot of progress made since the fall of 1938. when we talk about insurance, '39 was the first crop insured. insured in the fall of r38, because
Oral history transcript, Sidney P. Marland, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to be. We early found that we had a new kind of relationship with children. The early measures on this, even after the first year or so, showed significant gains in the child's readiness for school. We didn't try to teach them to read at age three
Oral history transcript, Ruby G. Martin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • need to to talk to Congressmen and their new school people that are coming up, at any time, at their convenience, in the Congressman's office, a hotel, wherever it was. We try to be accommodating. And I think in the last year of the Johnson
Oral history transcript, Florence Mahoney, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to school or universities or anything. You wouldn't remember it, but it's true. So I guess that's how I got interested in it. I was always interested in mental health and when I was in school they sent us one time to a big public hospital in New York
Oral history transcript, Thurgood Marshall, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • at the beckoning of one person. Secondly, it was a $4500 cut in salary. Third, the living expenses in Washington would be twice what I was paying in New York. So she said okay. We kept thinking about it, and the next day the phone rang. He was on the phone again. I
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that ran the paper at that time were not pro-Johnson . I had a friend who was editor, but he died and a new regime came in over there in 1939 or 1940 and they didn't like Johnson's politics very much . G: On the other hand, I guess Mr . [Charles] Marsh
Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the Senate at the commencement of a new session of Congress to proceed with the consideration of new rules and not to be bound by the rules that had been adopted by the previous Senates in the past. This was an effort, of course, to modify Rule 22
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • morning at the old :Fast Office Cafe iri Sari la'arcjs at 'clock. I zx et him Ind jeElse Kellam . Pardon Y -,e, what were you doing in South America? I had been an accountant for Gu genbeirn Brothers of New s ,ark at the old nitrate company
Oral history transcript, Richard G. Stilwell, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • at that time, and then turned around and tried to be an objective chronicler of what happened. G: That's interesting statement. In what respect was he an actor? S: He was an actor in the sense that with the New York Times as his outlet, and his reporting
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of dollars going out by competitive bids. We created a whole new procurement appeal system with one board LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and Senator Connally, and Democratic Leader [Ernest] McFarland, and all of his--he really did his best for them. Then, we also went up to New York, and [I] have a delightful picture of all the six of us on the Empire State Building. In fact, that was our
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and the Kennedy supporters, with which I agreed fully; that was the smart thing to do. Third, as time went on, it was very obvious that some of them weren't ever going to be digested into the new Administration. They couldn't get over it. There was Kenneth 9
Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • was president of Princeton, and he and I got to be very good friends because we were the new presidents in the AAU. We sat with each other and talked with each other about the extent and kind of federal aid, what should we be planning? And he reached down
Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • cent funded by state funds, really was placing too great a burden not only on Illinois. I had discussed this with Governor [Pat] Brown of California, Governor [Nelson] Rockefeller of New York and Governor [John B.] LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . When he becomes vice president he's no longer part of the legislative branch, in spite of presiding over the Senate. He has no right to speak on the floor; he is looked upon as an outsider really by the members of the legislative branch. for a new
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • would assume you heard of the news of the assassina- tion over the radio, or did someone phone you? H: Oh no, I was in that planeload of cabinet officers going over the Pacific. You see there were seven of us who were members of that Japan-U.S. Trade
Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Rayburn. B: You and he in those days shared interest--the New Deal in general-- H: That's right. B: Franklin Roosevelt's policies, the TVA. Did you ever get together on bills or legislation? H: The truth is by the time he got to the House, we had
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • conservative man. thought probably he was more of a moderate than Dick Kleberg. I think he supported practically all of the Roosevelt New Deal program. I supported a good deal of it. too much. Relief spending got to be inefficient and The CCC camps, a good
  • Biographical information; LBJ; heart attack; LBJ’s capacity for friendship; FDR New Deal program; support for LBJ in 1960; Sam Rayburn; lobbyist; Bobby Baker; JFK’s New Frontier program; civil rights; education; Vietnam; civilian control of military
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of him was] reading in the Dallas [Morning] News that he had been appointed NYA director for Texas. It surprised me a bit because a few weeks or a few days before I had read that a fellow from Port Arthur or Corpus [Christi] somewhere down there, had
Oral history transcript, Steve Martini, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Martini -- I -- 3 I continued to cut his hair, and then General Eisenhower left the Pentagon and went to New York to the university, as president of the university. He left the Pentagon
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : No. G: We've looked for a maker and can't find it. P: I don't. Let me give you the history of this organ. It was owned by Walter Hornaday, who was the political correspondent for the Dallas Morning News during the thirties, forties and fifties
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • any post-colonial country, as they evolved, including that obviously Diem was like Syngman Rhee, a man of one generation, and then a new generation would have come in at some time, just the normal problems of development. They never would have had
Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • survived that test. \Vhen we went into that series of conventions, we had control of the majority of the delegates. That was the convention in which Price Daniel took over as governor and his Executive Committee was elected. Some of the members of the new
Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • until we had been there about a year. G: Anything about the operation of the Ranch when you moved there that you thought was significant? Was it in need of a new manager? M: Well, perhaps they didn't have the time or the money to spend on the cattle
Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a little in awe of him. He was a brand-new senator when this damn thing happened. And then there were a couple of others. Jack Kurtz [?] was one, and I don't know the rest of them, but anyway, he rationalized his vote against the censure of McCarthy
Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that Lyndon Johnson was more satisfied with what the commission was doing. If Lyndon Johnson hadn't been satisfied with the commission, he would have moved fast to get a new staff director. The fact that he would allow it to move ahead for two years
Oral history transcript, Norman M. Clapp, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • administrator in '61 with the Kennedy Administration. of the REA, this position, Could you describe how you got the job? C: Yes, it's an interesting story. guess in early December. I was in Madison one evening I At least it was at the time the new
Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 1 (I), 6/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this funding would be provided and the fact that we would be in a negative position for a period of time, at least in the absence of new taxes. G: How did you learn of it? C: There was an in-house meeting of the economists representing nearly all
Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the Richmond News Leader. To the best of my knowledge, he brought my name to the attention of Aubrey ~li 11 iams. (Interruption) G: --through Aubrey Williams, you were saying. C: Frank Bane, then--in 1935--was the executive director of the American
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • the University of Minnesota. you joined the United Press in Detroit. In 1948 And in 1949 you joined the Detroit Free Press and became a labor editor. You, at that time, also acted as a correspondent for the New York Times, Business Week, and Newsweek
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 43 (XLIII), 1/23/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • didn't want him to. But I was not the fellow that was going to have to do the job, bear the burden. So I just really drew back from trying to influence anything. I did not know which was right. But this was so new and strange and such a break with much