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Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Well, the Regents' action in July of 1967 was to thank and discharge the committee. Now the question was to create a new committee to do whatever else was necessary. (Interruption) At the July meeting, the Regents accepted the report and accepted
  • The creation of a new committee related to the LBJ School of Public Affairs; how the committee members were appointed; the committee duties of administration, budgeting, architectural planning and searching for a dean; Norman Hackerman; considering
Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to be because the development of today is, or will be, the weapons system of five to ten years from now . The Air Force, I think, is particularly dependent upon the state of technology and the development of new weapons systems � � LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1981 INTERVIEWEE: DONALD C. COOl( INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Cook's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2 By terms of the legal agreement, pages 1 through 10 will not be available during the lifetime of Robert McNamara. LBJ
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of a The problem there was that on the very day that we did this, we bombed the hell out of Haiphong, a new target in Haiphong. And while LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, John W. Black, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . He said to Lem, as we call him, "I want you to get in contact with Senator Magnuson and make sure that bill goes through, because I would like to make this program a part of the New Frontier ." I'll never forget the day Mr . Billings arrived
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , thought about what I would do when I finished school; I knew I wanted to travel, I had never been out of Texas, and either perhaps have a job in New York or Washington or Europe. At any rate I happened to be discussing with Judge Powell's secretary one day
Oral history transcript, William F. Jackson and Lucy Ginter Jackson, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Slocum, New York, at the time I was first approached by a member of Mr. Deegan's staff in New York City, Tom [Thomas] Deegan, and asked if I could come down to talk about an interview with Mr. Johnson, perhaps, after I had a chance to talk to him. I went
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . The experimental college was an attempt to produce some new thinking in the whole field of education. I mention it because subsequently when I became the secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (although I had been somewhat an expert on social security
Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • should have his equal rights, and the responsibility is ours to take care of this thing. We'll see to it 1aw and order prevails." Well, that was something new coming out of Mississippi, but he did it. B: That would have been in 1965 or 1966? E
Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 2 (II), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Corps volunteers in and see whether they can help do something." That kind of concept doesn't have any relevance to Harlem, New York where you obviously have an awful lot of people around there, there's no shortage of people, there's no shortage
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ought to enter the twentieth century. Letrs get going with it. I felt that this was strong enough motivation for the simple reason that Wyoming has two Senators just like New York or California or Texas; and that therefore a new Senator LBJ
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • what I was getting to. VM: He ran in 1941 and was defeated. OM: That's right. F: You were still pretty new on the ground yourself. OM: Well, that was the year we moved to Washington, you see. No. I misunderstood the date. That's the one you
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that meant that every single one of his news columns would be devoted to you. And if he was against you, that meant every single one of his news columns would be against you. And you know, the Texas press could go pretty far in those days. I'll never forget
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • mixed up on dates at this point, but-­ G: The letter was 1957. R: It was 1957? The letter itself was actually written by Jim Rowe, but the concepts were Johnson's. I think that the letter leaked out to the [New York] Herald Tribune somehow. We
Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a job that I thought would be constructive . Government Operations fitted that category . be done . It was available, it could They were putting some new members on it . The Republicans controlled the Congress, you understand, in January of '53
Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the Kennedy Administration, particularly the poverty program which was in the mill, so to speak, at that time, there was some concern over whether the new President would support it and push it in the manner that it was being pushed by the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Price Daniel, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in this because you are the attorney g:!neral of Texas, and the Republicans want to place you, as well as Governor Shivers and some others on their ticket,which in my experience is something new in Texas history. Did that create any problem for you in this sort
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was chairman of the Preparedness but only marginally one incident grounds, and slightly coffee, instead was in such great Ye;-,~ excess the news story supply did, We had that coffee in the Air Force tha~ New Mexico Air Force Base to sweep
Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • than Bo Byers that--well, Dick Morehead was there before the war, Dick, with the Dallas Morning News, was there. Sam Kinch, Jr., is there now and his father was there when I was there. In the legislature when I was there in 1941 and again even in 1947
  • ; LBJ's behavior at a 1956 event for JFK in El Paso; Bean's efforts to build a new port bridge along the El Paso/Juarez border; LBJ's involvement with the bridge in El Paso; the Chamizal agreement between the U.S. and Mexico and its relation to the port
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • government entering into some new kind of activity, there's a great ideological debate over it for a long time, but once it's done, then there's no question about it anymore. This happened with housing; it happened with federal intervention into the economy
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • developed. I think that anyone coming into the presidency new, interested in how it's been done before, would want some detail in indicating how President Eisenhower had organized the White House. He at once was not amenable to that. M: Any particular part
Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . On one occasion this organization went to New York--J've forgotten why, but it was a convention--and we were on the train together. The thing LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 3 (III), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • answer to those that talked about giving the administration authority in both taxes without going to the Congress, or perhaps an amendment to that would be to invoke new taxes and if the Congress didn't disapprove them, they'd go into effect. But here
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • not many such criticisms in Washington or Baltimore in April of '68. Is it hoped that the kind of activity that the new Safe Streets Act is designed to encourage will perhaps help this sort of situation? V: Can't help but help. If you have more policemen
Oral history transcript, Ronald Goldfarb, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • associated with the War on Poverty. I understand that you are originally from New York or New Jersey. Do you want to explain how you got involved in the administration? RG: Yes. I was working in the Department of Justice during the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • these faucets on and off. But first of all, the extent to which you can do this is sharply limited. I ."ouldn I t want to pull a figure out of the air. But we've got now a new budget concept which is approaching 200 billion dollars. Only a very, very tiny
Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to have your name on my sleeve when I go for resources." [He said,] "You've got it." And that turned out to be essential. I embarked on that project as the new staff director, in a sense coming in at midstream. By that time the staff had been well
Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 2 (II), 10/3/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • as a campaign manager is concerned. The adding machine is what counts with him. And that's the way we planned it. M· Well, then your strategy was to corne out strongly for FDR and his New Deal Program. W: He had started that. That wasn't mine. This other
Oral history transcript, Marie Lindau Olson, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • just popped out of the wall and then the hordes of friends and people that were reading in the newspaper, they made a--they had a news release and announced this program. Then everybody just came in. But this organized man would have the mail on his
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to the President. I was on a vacation on a fairly remote lake in New York State when one afternoon in July somehow the White House operators got through up there, and it was Joe Califano at the other end of the line asking me whether I would mind coming down
Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McGiffert -- I -- 6 McG: No. You remember they had had some trouble during the previous evening. The news of the assassination, I would guess, came
Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Marshall, and I even spent one summer in New Orleans with Mother's brother and uncle. I don't remember too much about Miss Minnie in there. I picked up again when Lady Bird was a little thing. When Miss Minnie died, I was in college. I came home, and I went
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 24 (XXIV), 2/6/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of meetings with members of the press. R: Oh, yes. G: Were they trying to get a perspective on Lyndon Johnson, a new President? Is this why they would come to you? R: Basically what they were up to, Mike--it's funny what a difference it makes
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • to pay him for his wages . went to Temple and bought some new mules, younger mules, and better equipment on credit from a friend of his named Thompson . began to get into all sorts of, varieties of dirt work . Then he Levees on rivers, railroad dumps
Oral history transcript, William F. Billings, interview 1 (I), 5/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . B: You were the latayer retained in the case . Schwille case that Yes, and worked with another lawyer by the name of James P . Donovan who is now deceased, who was a member of the Texas Bar and the New York Bar . LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was practicing law, simply on some sort of business or other, and my mother and father were invited to the home of the Johnsons for a quite large party which they gave for three new congressmen from Texas. B: That would have been to the Ranch? W
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • by us is the highway system because we sure did get to work building one giant one across the United States. That was the spring, I think, that A.W. and Mary Alice Moursund and Melvin and Nita Winters came up to visit us, and we went to New York. We all
"LBJ as I Knew Him," by Mildred Stegall (Item)
  • administrative assistant. He was a real prankster in those days and Glynn was a good target as he had a tendency to believe everything anyone told him as being true. For example, Glynn had a brand new car and he was very proud of it as the country had just gone
  • LBJ's personality; how Stegall met LBJ; LBJ's prank on Glynn Stegall involving Glynn's new car; LBJ's involvement in the Little Congress; how the Stegalls went to work for LBJ; LBJ's efforts to make his staff work harder; LBJ's assistance when Glynn
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the fifteenth? C: Yes. Is that right? (Long pause) To meet with Governor Brown, yes. G: So it must have been the fourteenth. C: Well, it says, "Brown arrives in Los Angeles, vows to restore law and order. News conference." They have this August 15, page l
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 45 (XLV), 5/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to ration credit, and that the stock market is declining because of tight money and the possibility of new taxes. And Martin and [Frederick] Deming--Deming was the undersecretary of the treasury for monetary affairs then--said that we needed a slowdown LBJ