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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 13 (XIII), 9/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Oh, yes. That was referred to often as an outstanding example of the seriousness of this problem nationwide. That probably was the reason that Johnson made specific reference to the Potomac, because the Potomac was in a sad, sorry state at that time
Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Commission. I don't want you to go into your background; I want to save that for a subsequent session. C: For some other time, yes. Well, I was at the White House with Brooks Hays, who had been a very dear friend of Berl Bernhard, and we were even really
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 5 (V), 5/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Rusk's son [David], who at that time was quite active in civil rights matters, was involved. He worked with Sterling Tucker, who is now the vice chairman of the District of Columbia City Council, and he sat in on the meeting with us and was our principal
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • : We were college students at San Marcos, Southwest State Teachers College. We both entered in what was at that time called the spring term. It was a short term that no longer exists but about the first of April or something like that. My first
Oral history transcript, Gould Lincoln, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • together? You gave me what I was looking for. I was trying to think at that time, did Lyndon Johnson already evidence the ambition and the drive and the motivation that has characterized his whole career, and you think he did? L: I think he has ever
Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there since except to tour the town to find out, which I had difficulty in doing, where I was born. F: Wasn't anything you recognizedl P: Right. Then I went to Alabama and lived there, aside from the time I was at various boarding schools and military
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 2 (II), 4/17/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of time. I also spent a considerable amount of time with Bill Spell and Bo Statham of Senator [John] Stennis' office staff, trying to neutralize some of the more blatant things that were going on. To a lesser extent, Congressman [Jamie L.] Whitten
Oral history transcript, A. Phillip Randolph, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • leaders were in his office at the time, and we were discussing this question with him. The next time I met him was in a conference with President Kennedy. A number of the civil rights leaders were involved in a conference with President Kennedy and Vice
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . As a matter of fact, Patton at one time had been the regimental commander of the Third Cavalry, in the pre-World War II days. After the war I went to Leavenworth, and upon graduation from Leavenworth was picked up in the staff and faculty in the School
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 2 (II), 11/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT M. MONTAGUE INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: General Montague's office, Washington, D.C. Tape l of 2, Side 1 G: What was Hop Tac, where were you, and what was your role in that operation? M: Well, at the time of Hop
Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • great crusade when I lived in Washington. It remained my crusade, and it still is in a way because I'm still fighting to get people out to vote. When I first knew Lyndon and Bird, which was about 1937, wasn't it, at that time I had just begun to catch
Oral history transcript, Kenneth Torp, interview 1 (I), 6/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • independence to union with Greece--which had been at one time the acceptable Hellenic goal--for his own interest. He wanted to, and we think he continues to want to be the president of the independent republic, of a full UN member state. So we think his
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: KERMIT GORDON INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Gordon's office, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: Last time, Dr. Gordon, we were talking about the transition to Lyndon Johnson after the death
Oral history transcript, John A. Hannah, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the days when I was in the Defense Department, and had met him socially a few times, we were not close personal friends. I raised the question with him after we offered our resignations and there had been no action for some time, suggesting that with all
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -time resident and valued its parks and its beauty, but I didn't realize what LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: FRANK MANKIE'"wICZ INTERVIEWER: STEPHEN GOODELL PLACE: Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 G: I think last time we were talking about 1967 and the last topic we discussed was your urging Senator Kennedy in 1967 to run in 1968. M: Well, I think
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , to work with her in redesigning the garden. I saw the East Garden was in 1961. The first time I thought it was a rather shabby garden, quite unworthy of the dignity of the White House. It was very plain, very vanilla-ish and I'm delighted that Mrs
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • . (Interruption) Mrs. Johnson the last time we talked about this, we went right into the campaigning season without talking about your father's death. Why don't we go back into it and have you record what you remember of that painful experience. J: It became
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 21, 1968, Washington, D. C. B: Sir, to begin with, do you remember the first time you met Lyndon Johnson? K: Yes. I wrote something about that in a book I recently published [Memoirs: Sixty Years ~ the Firing
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and invited her for dinner to our house. And at the same time invited a man who is now dead named Aaron Schaffer, who was head of the French Department, or maybe the Romance Language Department, at the University of Texas. He and his wife Dorothy were
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh October 5, 1968 M: The machine is now on. You can lean back and it will pick you up from the back of your chair. Your career, as you have no doubt realized from time to time, is in many ways parallel
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: HARRY McPHERSON INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. McPherson's office, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 B: This is a continuation [third session, fourth tape] of the interview with Harry McPherson. Sir, we were talking last time about
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 2 (II), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • last time about the election of 1946, and we'd just finished winning the Clay. box. '·' I thought we 1 d pick it up from there •. P: Well, that was just one of the experiences in the campaign of. 1946. It was the first time that the President
Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in May and we had to define each of NYA's programs, and establish the procedures for these programs by the time students came back in the fall. And these college and university presidents, fairly enough, wanted to know what the procedures would be well
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • every aspect of that statement. I don't think that the Arab world is yet in the Soviet camp. Soviet influence in the area has been increasing for quite a long time, but not allover the area. The Soviet influence is primarily in Algeria
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • was something of a secretary to Dick Kleberg. That's when I first met him. I had a great affection for Kleberg. He was a very interesting person. But the time came when a vacancy developed in Texas; and Lyndon Johnson went back, announced his candidacy
Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 3 (III), 1/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • not aware that the information at this time indicates any defective planning or operations on the part of the navy. It is quite possible, however, that we may find that the loss of that sub was due to a malfunction of a particular component and in turn
Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • , which at that time was recently established on the initiative of Governor Earl Warren. Then I became, as a young faculty member, under some very special circumstances, the first chancellor of the Berkeley campus in its history. K: Was that because
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 3 (III), 7/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . As time went by you didn't hear much more talk like that. clich~ It seemed that the war was absorbing more and more of our re- sources, and more and more of the President's time and his Cabinet officials as well. Is that a correct impression or do you
Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 1 (I), 7/3/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • -- 2 T: I knew President Johnson when he was on the staff of Congressman Dick Kleberg of Corpus Christi. At the time I represented the national cotton council and endeavored to activate beneficial legislation for the cotton interests of Texas
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 3 (III), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • him to inform He told Christian as soon as he talked with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Rowe said Dudman had called seven or eight times, and it was getting quite obvious that Rowe was ducking. And here's a transcript: Dudman: I'm calling about
Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : That would have been some time, I imagine, in the late 1930's after you had moved to New York with American Air Lines. Did you have any close personal contact with him then, either social or political? S: I could not claim I've been an intimate, that would
Oral history transcript, Milton R. Young, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a Republican." "That doesn't make a damn bit of difference," he said, "I want you to get some delegates." I think I did help get one. Another similar occasion happened when he was president. was easier to see. He I was over to the White House one time and had
Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Whitney Young -- Interview I -- 2 the statement many times that some of the best liberals
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • it and trace it? M: I think the New York Times' version, which appeared a few days after Newsweek was published, is a better version, at least so far as I know. I saw Charles Roberts on the Friday before this piece was published for lunch. He had completed
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the rail on the House floor. F: Did you develop a fairly close relationship in that time? M: I thought we had a very close relationship, yes. F: I presume that Sam Rayburn sort of acted as, to use the expression, midwife in this in a way. M: We were
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 53 (LIII), 8/16/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1989 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR., with comment by Marcel Bryar INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: Some time in either late 1965, probably early 1966, when we were
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • trip to Texas. Did we mention this last time at all? M: Yes, we did. F: Yes. I think I felt then that the press coverage was so extensive of the trip that there was no particular need to rehearse where we went or what we did. If I'm repeating, we
Oral history transcript, William A. Knowlton, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • had served several times before, each time at a successively higher level. In 1947 to 1949 I had handled all the JCS [Joint Chiefs of Staff], CCS [Combined Chiefs of Staff], political, military, strategic intelligence and other papers of that kind
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • mentioned, at Defense. I don't recall General [Charles] Roderick's activities in detail, which should not be taken as meaning that he wasn't good; it's just a matter of recollection after a long period of time has elapsed. But it's interesting, as I go
  • efforts to stall the cotton-wheat bill; the relationships between different pieces of legislation and how to time legislative activity to the advantage of the administration; Carl Hayden and the Central Arizona Project tied to his vote on cloture