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Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , but that was a pro forma exercise in all likelihood. So, as long as Idris was in charge in a very conservative monarchial government in Libya, it was really a separate account. That has all changed, of course, since the ouster of Idris and the advent of this new
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . Johnson was taking her farewell trip Mrs. Cohen and I went with her to New Orleans. And she went on to Denver. And in the 5 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • fields, the concept of working with news men who really are--there's only one way to put it--they're the best in the business. They're far a nd away above the average newspaperman, including myself a s a reporter. F: By and large they are, by nature
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and now you've got someone else. Most of you have been very kind, and I know it's your duty to report the news as you see it. But I don't think that it's your duty just because someone says this and that [to say] that there's a credibility gap. I
Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • an assistant to the Governor of New York State, who at that time was Averell Harriman. From 1957 until 1962 you were an assistant to Senator Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania, and from 1963 until 1965 you \'/ere the
Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • twenty years of government service which began in 1948 after completing your law degree and an association with a New York City law firm. From 1948 to 1955 you were associated with the Economic Cooperation Administration, and your last position
Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • this young congressman around who wants to become a senator. He started his election campaign late, but thinks he still has a chance. We're interested in helping him out because helicopters are new and if we get an important person such as a congressman
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to refresh my recollections. G: LBJ moved into that new office, the Capitol office, P-38. Let me ask you to just describe it and the circumstances around his acquiring that office. R: I'm not too sure of the circ1.111stances under which he acquired
Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of meetings with Ylvisaker and Mike Sviridoff, who was then at New Haven, Yale. And yes, as far as I could tell they were talking about something else. were really very superficial. The resemblances Now, I checked this out because I thought maybe I'd
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the Office of Management and Budget, not to the Executive Office Building, but to the Executive Office Building number two, the new one which had just been built, which was just a block away, and then spend the rest of the day there. At the end of the day, I
  • sources of information, such as the Office of Economic Opportunity and Tom Bradley; visiting Newark, New Jersey, to talk to citizens about rioting; John Lindsay's involvement with the Commission; the chain of command within the Commission; late night/early
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was exercising a good deal of influence. B: That's right. Exactly. No, that's news to me. I had not known that. G: One question relates to your speechmaking function, and you evidently did travel around the country a good deal. To what extent were
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Mulhollan PLACE: Mr. Bundy's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by way of identification. You are McGeorge Bundy, currently president of the Ford Foundation. Your government service, insofar as President Johnson's administration
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • him home. Hoover wasn't there, but he sent a special message he couldn't come. Robert Trout. Have you ever heard of Robert Trout? G: No. J: That news commentator. G: Oh, yes, I have. J: He called me to fi nd out what the he 11 was goi ng
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /loh/oh 2 K: Because he was new and Douglas knew that I didn't know him and he thought perhaps, I imagine he thought, that I could be of use to Johnson in his career and that Johnson would eventually be a man of influence that I should know because
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of me to come in. I said, "Can I think about it?" And he said, "Of course, just let me know by tomorrow," which I did. M: And then you were appointed? D: I was nominated. I guess the news that I was to be appointed came just after Christmas; I've
Oral history transcript, Thomas J. Dunlap, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • high and that he will be considered one of the great presidents. Beyond question, I think that will be the fact, and that all of the new ground his administration has plowed--it has caused disturbance, it has caused controversy. But anything that's
Oral history transcript, Terrel Maverick Webb, interview 1 (I), 1/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that was one of the cutest things that ever happened. F: I want to get .it down. W: All right. Just before we were married, in December of 1961, I was in New York, about in November--October or November--at the same time Lyndon Johnson and many of his
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . various places. Just met them--met him, rather, at Of course, they didn't campaign together. They didn't go too many places together, but sometimes our paths would cross at airports. M: Were you in New York when they had that meeting
Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , the most talented people that they had to help set that up were my battalion people out there on temporary duty working for then-Brigadier General McChristian, who had been assigned out there to be [William] Westmoreland's new intelligence chief. During
Oral history transcript, Leverett Saltonstall, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 procurement of new capital costs, as I recall it, after several years now, was somewhere around sixteen
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • I was talking about a rather obscure and insignificant little country and that it really didn't matter all that much. As a matter of fact I decided myself some weeks later with the death of President Kennedy, and a new President coming into power
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and public meetings all over the country. Then I would grab my hat at noon and fly across the country to make the speech to some place in Alabama or New York City. Quite often, the only speaker I could get on short notice was myself. I became acquainted
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the summertime for the Humble Oil Company in Baytown, Texas, in the research department . I dropped out of the University of Texas, where I had been going to school . I stayed at Baytown, and during the course of my employment there the New Deal came along
Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • possible ever, simply by reading news dispatches and having a general LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • and the Texas delegation; Wright supports LBJ for vice president; Wright's campaign for the Senate; President LBJ and the Texas delegation; LBJ and the Highway Beautification Bill; persuasion vs. pressure from the White House; LBJ as a reformer; LBJ and news
Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . I was of the opinion that he was a very effective leader in Congress ; that he was substantially more liberal than at least the average Minnesotan thinks a Southern leader is ; that he was a supporter of the New Deal and so on . I had enough
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 10 (X), 6/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • around the country. I remember sitting with Tony in New York exchanging ideas by way of spots. If you remember, we were pretty hard-hitting, to the extent that they are still talking about the little girl with the daisy. You know, that is cited
Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Is that correct? c: Well I was appointed in January of '68, and actually came into the office early in February of '68. M: You came here, I believe, from private business with Goldman-Sachs of New York? C: Yes, I had been an economist for Goldman-Sachs. M
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with whatever U. N. facilities, translators and so forth, which could be made available. And that, as I understand it, is the essence of what U Thant told Stevenson. Stevenson apparently did not write any of this down, and subsequently when I went up to New
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Here were people big in the oil And nevertheless, here was Clint Murchison writing to Johnson in 1952 that it may be that there is going to be a new party formed here and you should be a part of it, which Johnson didn't take. Johnson was sort
Oral history transcript, Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at Grady Memorial Hospital which is one of Emory University's teaching hospitals . In 1952, having completed my post-graduate training, I accepted an appointment as assistant professor of medicine at Yale University in New Haven. After two years
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the . F: No, I mean after the assassination and the coming of a new President . B: It was a smooth transition . State . . . Yes, we had the same Secretary of There was really little change in terms of operating procedures, and in terms of what we
Oral history transcript, Myron R. Blee, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • boards in Florida are elected on the basis of political affiliation, and the Broward school board changed its complexion. Three new Republicans were elected to the school board. F: This was after you had been sort of stockpiled for Broward? B: Right
Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • are getting pretty far from Johnson on this thing. M: Hell, no, I'll get back to it here. here. I'm not trying to preempt your material I was driving toward this--the growth of this sort of new agency in national security affairs, advisory staff
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in to the Congressman from John Connally. And it was perfectly obvious that whatever disagreements there had been over the manner in which his health news was handled, it was gone by the board. I knew everything was back on the track. I think it is interesting
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- V -- 9 perhaps, or Birmingham? I don't remember which one, because from time to time she would find some new doctor or some new source of help. I think perhaps this may
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 57 (LVII), 12/12/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- LVII -- 3 majority. And with the new House, as Henry Wilson's memo of November 22 indicates, we were faced with a continued
Oral history transcript, Vasco Leitao da Cunha, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1973, by Dr. Richard Graham (Item)
  • -- I -- 7 G: I see. Did you meet him in Honolulu and then accompany him? L: I went to fetch him in Honolulu and accompanied him all through the rest of the journey. And then, from Washington, he went to New York; from New York, [he] came back
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , myself, there was the new group of [Walter] Jenkins, Bill Moyers--I guess, [Jack] Valenti and others, and then there were three old friends, Clark Clifford, [Abe] Fortas, and Jim Rowe. And you could see those geological layers from the life of President
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 14 (XIV), 7/19/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and then he'd have another period of despondency. G: Did you do anything during these periods to cheer him up? J: I tried to, or we did. We tried to tell him everything that happened at the office, all the good news, all the wires and letters and so
Oral history transcript, Manuel Cohen, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . For example, when Mr. [Robert] Haack became president of the New York Stock Exchange, I brought him in to introduce him. But I know that on occasion people associated with the Exchange would come to visit him just because they, one, liked to meet the president