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Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that had come out at that time, I know. C: Yes. Second, you did know that you were dealing with someone who might not necessarily be a friend. And I think that he proved that he under­ stood easterners a lot better than [he did] southwesterners. He
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • #2) INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. McCOMB May 8, 1969 M: This is the second session with Mr. Douglass Cater. Once again I'm in his office at the Brookings Institution. The date is May 8, 1969, and my name is David McComb. Last time you mentioned that you had
Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is an interview with Mr. Everett Hutchinson in his office in Washington, D. C. the evening of October 28, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz Mr. Hutchinson, you and I have somewhat similar backgrounds in time
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 2 (II), 6/1/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: MAXWELL D. TAYLOR INTERVIEWER: TED GITTINGER PLACE: General Taylor's residence, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: General Taylor, can you tell me the reasons for your trip to Vietnam in 1957? T: By that time, I was chief of staff
Oral history transcript, Estelle Harbin, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Miller and said that I wanted to go to Washington with Mr. Kleberg. He said, "All right, I'll see what I can do about it." In just a few days his secretary called and told me to go to Mr. Kleberg's house at such-and-such a time, that he wanted to see me
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in aeronautical engineering from the University of Texas, worked for Lockheed, [saw] World War II service in the navy, and in 1952 [received] a doctorate in psychology from the University of Texas. Then after a time at teaching and as a research psychologist
Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was 31, I decided that I would run for Congress and either enter this work full time, or get it out of my system. F: You had Fort Worth in your district? W: Fort Worth was in the district, yes. F: And it's traditional that where you have a major city
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 6 (VI), 8/18/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the White House, and she joined me on the dock. There we were, pulling up to the dock--we got there about the same time--and there was a naval officer, a CPO, very smartly dressed, giving the salute. We got on the yacht and [were] there just looking around
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . You'll recall that one of the things that committee staff worked very hard on, and I spent a gre~t deal of · time on, was the investigation that was conducted jointly by the Senate Armed Services Corrmittee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • working all the time, evenings as well I said, "Well, if Idon't get a job I'm going to have to quit studying and go home ." I've got a job for you . He said, "Now, don't do that . You come by my office in the morning . I work in a congressman`s
Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : Did you have any occasion during your time either in that job, or previously in the various capacities you were in, to come into contact with Mr. Johnson, either before he was President or after? C: No, I did not. The contacts that I've had have
Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • grade at Tandy School in Fort Worth, Texas, and I must also confess that in the fifth grade I wasn't ready for all of it, but it made me very early in life aware of the Daniels. And so from the time you emerged, then--I suppose I'm a small generation
Oral history transcript, Roger Blough, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , when did you first meet Lyndon Johnson, do you have any memory? B: F: B : F: I probably met him while he was still a senator on several occasions, but I really had no personal acquaintance with him at that time, You never had to appear before any
Oral history transcript, Vasco Leitao da Cunha, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1973, by Dr. Richard Graham (Item)
  • you give us your personal impressions of the President, either at the time when you were received by him and were in official relationships with him or at times when you saw him in action in other circumstances? L: When I presented my letters
Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was then the National Tuberculosis Association, [when] they went to President Kennedy and asked him if he would appoint a blue-ribbon group to study the cigarette smoking situation and report on it. They felt it was timely, that there was evidence in the medical
Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CARL SANDERS INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: Governor Sanders' office in Atlanta, Georgia Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, do you recall if you met Mr. Johnson any time before the 1960s while he was still a senator? S: Oh, yes, I had met Mr
Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • several times. And my real contacts on what you might call almost a weekly basis really began when he was Majority Leader. Mu: You were working with him then on legislation of various kinds? Me: Yes. I had occasion to talk to him many times on our
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . The time is 10:45 in the morning, and my name is David McComb. To start off, Dr. Pechman, I'd like to know something about your background--where you were born, when, where did you get your education. P: I was born in New York City and went through
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • and Root was a very well established construction firm at that time . GB : That is correct . PB : Now, Mr . Johnson was first elected to public office in 1937 . Do you recall, did you know Mr . Johnson yourself at that time? I h-ad not met him
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , but that's characteristic of this government anyway, during election time or non-election periods. After the election, Bundy then asked me if I would move directly onto the White House staff--his staff--and take over the Asian responsibilities and for some
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • emeritus at Texas A & H and was working for me at that time, did learn. And that is that sometimes staid 0l d husbands who get out of tmJn on a migratory farm worker trip to Oregon are liable to come home and spend the first three days with a girl
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 2 (II), 11/23/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • people at that time, in a way everybody else is playing marbles. M: This is where the action is--over here? K: It's tremendously important ~ and if you really look at Cabinet posts, I think the Assistant Secretary, for example, handling European
Oral history transcript, Ava Johnson Cox, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • have too much. But we took the Pathfinder, which was a little current event paper that came out, and we took that every week. And as we would go along, Uncle Sam would coach us in asking current event questions. At that time the Socialist Party was just
  • ; LBJ breaking his leg; Cox's horse, Old Kussie; lessons LBJ learned from his trip to California in 1924; LBJ's time in Robstown; campaigning for LBJ; Cox attending the 1965 inaugural; LBJ's later visits to Cox's home; Robert McNamara; the Boyhood Home
Oral history transcript, India Edwards, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was very pleased that he was kept in this country. I found out later that they, at that time, tried not to send boys overseas until they were a little older. And at the time he got his commission he was eighteen. F: Very young. E: Yes. He enlisted
Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • returned. F: March 1, and live never been back. Right. M: Did you have any contact with Mr. Johnson prior to the time ·he became vice presldent, back in the fifties or any time earlier than that? F: Yes. But it was entirely social. friend of my
Oral history transcript, Mildred Portner, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • governor. I was secretary of the Young Republican Club at that time and became involved in a general [way]. [It] at least gave me a general knowledge of politics in Michigan, and I became very interested in that sort of thing. Then of course we came
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • people, would you say? O: I don't recall the book specifically in that regard. I'm trying to determine the time frame of the book. When was the book published? G: I'll have to get the date on it. It was sometime before your appointment, I assume
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Sandy" Keith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Democrat from the St. Louis area in Missouri even at that time. And Tom had the same problems at that time as he got into subsequently. In other words, he learned to drink too much, which led to his demise--not as a senator; he's still there, and very
Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: WILLIAM CLYDE FRIDAY INTERVIEWER: Janet Kerr-Tener PLACE: Dr. Friday's office, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 F: There's an interesting little footnote here, if I have the time sequence correct. Robert Goheen
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and discussed the matter with my wife, and then called him back, said yes, that I would. I thought the issue was important, but also told him I did not wish to be compensated by the government, that I wanted to work on my own time, in my own way, and at my own
Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in the North Carolina Senate from 1936 to 1941. After service in World War II you served in the North Carolina Senate from 1947 to 1952, at which time you were elected to Congress and have served continuously since that time. F: That's right. McS: You
Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Soviet Union being first to orbit a satellite. Then he told Lyndon Johnson that he thought I could help him with outer space hearings. Johnson at the time was chairman of the Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee. So then Lyndon Johnson called
Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • through my husband in about 1956. I believe it was then that we perhaps had dinner with them two or three times. F: You didn't have more than a casual social relationship during his early days as a Senator? G: No, we knew them a little bit, but I
Oral history transcript, Thomas Royals, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of war from February of 1945 through May of 1945. I was wounded three times during the time I was captured and received medical attention from the Germans, and finally was freed in May of 145. M: Were you in on the Normandy invasion? R: No, I
Oral history transcript, Harold J. Russell, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • this. This year marks the twenty-fourth observance of the National Employ the PhySically Handicapped Week in October? R: Yes. P: So it does make it all the way back to '48, and you have served on the committee for the entire time. R: Yes, I have. I've seen
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. O'Connell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a member of the bar in Washington, D.C. in 1947. You worked as a lawyer, starting off in New York City in 1930 to 1933. 0: Those must have been tough times. Well, that was the beginning and the middle of the deepest depression, I guess, that anyone now
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • country and we had such an elaborate intelligence liaison operation at that time that I was treated as a regular official in the country team. Accordingly, I was instructed from Washington to get out and meet the Vice President when he arrived
Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • --it was Xavier's registration that I went to. Many of us were involved in the organization of National Students Association, which was in its time what the SDS is today, you know, radical type students groups in the nation. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on that telephone, really almost commanding the controllers at the tower to get the plane in. He had called our office to find out what the flight number was and what time I had left Minneapolis, what plane I was on. And he did get the plane in; there was a car
Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 1 (I), 10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ) INTERVIEWER: HARRI BAKER October, 1969 B: This is an interview with James Farmer, who at the time of the interview here in October of 1969, is assistant secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for Administration. F: That's right. B: And just very