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Oral history transcript, Claiborne Pell, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • on the Foreign Relations Com- I went to Paris where he was there as the leader of our delegation to the NATO Parliamentarians, and sought to secure his support for this appointment at that time. me. He was exceedingly receptive and cordial to I remember, I
Oral history transcript, Clarence S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . In the meantime I had worked for the state auditor and state agencies and worked my way through law school working for the state and stayed with them until after the war. M: Coming out in the mid-1930s was a tough time to be looking for a job. R: 1931. I
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 that in Montana . He talked me into extending my leave of absence another six months and going to work on one of these bridges, which I did . When my leave was up by that time I
Oral history transcript, John M. Cabot, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was passed at the end of '62, and it was repealed toward the end of '63, as I recall it. But it was just about the same time that Congress passed this law forbidding the surplus agreements in the same terms that had been held before. M: Poland is one
Oral history transcript, R. Conrad Cooper, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Administration--I guess throughout the Johnson Administration--you were vice president for Personnel Relations of the United States Steel Corporation. C: I was executive vice president. M: Right. C: Personnel Services. M: And you were, at the same time
Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 2 (II), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but that we became more amenable to congressional control. For example, at the time that I took over we were confronted by the fact that many hydro licenses would soon expire. The commission had done no research and had developed no rules on how to handle
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 18 (XVIII), 1/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think he wanted to be a judge. That's my recollection. I mean I was not in the White House at the time. I may have been there at the time the switch was made. I don't think I was there at the time Celebrezze decided to go but, yes, he wanted
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • . And during your Army service from 1964 to 1966 you were assigned to the White House beginning in February of 1965. Is this background information correct? J: That's correct. Actually I was Marvin Watson's assistant from the time I came to the White House
Oral history transcript, Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1967, by Mary Walton Livingston (Item)
  • , and the cheapest and roughest sort of food. I think the first time my social conscience was stirred was when I was working through Junior League. I was Vice President of the Junior League and we worked with the Red Cross and we would go out and visit
Oral history transcript, Courtney A. Evans, interview 1 (I), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh MARCH 27, 1969 This is the interview with Courtney Evans. Sir, would you just summarize briefly your career up to the time you joined the Office of Enforcement Assistance? E: After my graduation from law
Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was true. Bedell Smith told me that one vote was needed. General Walter At that time, I think General Smith was the congressional liaison with the Pentagon on this. General Smith was a great fisherman, and he invited a congress- man who always wanted
Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • times earlier to join the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy and turned them down the first two times, saying that I was not an expert in radiation and besides, I was a reassurer of parents, not an alarmer. Homer Jack, the director
Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • D. KRIMER INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette DATE: March 2, 1984 PLACE: Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with your background. K: My background? In 1961 I received a contract as a contract interpreter with the State Department. I was at that time
Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 2 (II), 5/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • such as, "Should we send more troops?" or, "Should we start or stop the bombing?" But rather [I participated] in the solution of questions such as, "If we decide to send more troops, how many more can we send and on what time schedule and what would be the effect
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , not me. But I had the distinct impression that Johnson was trying to capitalize on the defense issue politically and at the same time was trying to show himself not as being bellicose but as being large in scope, so far as foreign relations were concerned
Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh - 2 B: That's going to come up later in the interview when we get into the area of personnel. Have you had in your career at any time any strictly political activity? R: No, I haven't. My wife, as an active Democrat
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • know how to read the figures at that time. We weren't aware of the fact--you know, most Americans have the concept that figures don't lie. Well, of course they don't, but people looking at the figures can lie to themselves if they don't understand
Oral history transcript, James Adler, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . (Interruption) G: Mr. Adler, I want to begin by asking you to describe where you were in the government at the time the War on Poverty was planned. A: I was at the Department of Commerce but on the payroll or being paid by the University of Pittsburgh
Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1977 INTERVIEWEE: LUTHER E. JONES, JR. INTERVln~ER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Corpus Christi, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: One thing that you didn't mention in that earlier tape that I'm going to ask you to recall is the first time that you met Lyndon
  • LBJ’s speech class and debate team at Central High School in Houston; LBJ being action-oriented; LBJ’s work with, and loyalty to, Richard Kleberg; Roy Miller; Senator Alvin Wirtz; Little Congress; LBJ’s short time in law school; Maury Maverick
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • programs and in beautification, things which you are associated with--desalination of water, the whole myriad. L: I'm interested in health programs because as a child I had poor health-- F: This is in Wisconsin? L: In Wisconsin. At one time I
Oral history transcript, Ross D. Davis, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh December 9, 1968 M: Let's begin by identifying the interview. You are Ross D. Davis, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development; and, at the same time, Administrator of the Economic Development Administration
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • fill in briefly here? Well first ~ want to thank you very much, Paul, for not attempting to tell the entire story of my checkered career! have, as basic job of course, f~r most of that time I been teaching at the University of Texas; and for brief
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to help him when Johnson was wanting the presidential nomination, and I at that time had said I was already lined up with Kennedy. So things were a little tense there. In the Moss campaign where Bobby Baker was sent out with a lot of money to get Ted's
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that had been created. B: Was there any temptation at that time on the part of anyone in the Senate to indulge in a little recrimination against the Eisenhower Administration for political advantage? W: Yes, there was, but not by Mr. Johnson. Mr
Oral history transcript, Roland Bibolet, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • time I was his administrative assistant and he had risen to be majority leader Let's see, Johnson . of the United States Senate . I guess you want me to talk a little bit about Before I went on his staff--I had met him when he was a congressman
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 3 (III), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Well, I know about your congressional career. B: You do? G: You've covered that in your first interview. B: Did I? All right, okay. I did tell you that I had gone back to work in Indianapolis, and Kennedy--by that time Larry [O'Brien] had
  • ; Sam Rayburn and Judge Howard Smith; Barr's relationship with Sam Rayburn; bond interest rates; time Barr spent with the Senate and House; Harry Byrd, Sr.; Robert Kerr; funding the Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT); backdoor spending; Social
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that this wasn't as bad a bill as it had been painted in the press. I wrote out a couple of amendments finally that I wante d to offer. Along abou t Fr iday when all the time had run out and I had been . attempti ng to be r ecogniz ed, I couldn't get the floor
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Saunders, who was at that time chairman of the Pennsylvania Railroad. You had two prominent members of the business community in the leadership. That was important in the overall lobbying effort because you were invoking some new taxes. There was a great
  • Hampshire primary; the timing of RFK's announcement; Eugene McCarthy as a presidential candidate in 1968; O'Brien's trip to Wisconsin; a run-in with Jesse Unruh the night before O'Brien's son left for Vietnam; LBJ's March 31, 1968, announcement that he would
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it on. He was not confirmed by the Senate, and Secretary Connor wanted to have some people of his own choosing. He offered the job to me, and I thought about it for a relatively short period of time and said ''Yes.'' It was a job which encompassed many
Oral history transcript, William Lewis and Margaret Chase Smith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1975, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: MARGARET CHASE SMITH INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Senator Smith's home in Skowhegan, Maine 20~ 1975 Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 F: Coming in and out of the:inter~iew was General William Lewis, Senator Smith's long-time administrative
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 2 (II), 09/10/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Commission. He went back to Truman. He had been reappointed a couple of times and had been in the Eisenhower years I know and of course the Kennedy years, since John F. Kennedy was very fond of his son, or at least leaned on him. I would presume he was fond
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : Gittinger Mr. Adams' residence, Purcellville, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 A: Okay. The last time I talked to you, which was in Austin, what, last year, was it? G: Yes, about a year ago now. A: Yes, about a year ago. I was, of course, in the middle
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Gillette PLACE: The Ramada Renaissance Hotel, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: I want to ask you a few preliminary questions about the time of your appointment. One of the memos indicates that Senator Willis Robertson wanted you to go
  • with a San Francisco national bank; William McChesney Martin's leadership in the Federal Reserve System; legislation covering instances when banks changed hands; bank failures; ceilings on rates for time certificates of deposit in 1965; Andre Meyer's idea
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Vietnamese, so that my reaction to the Guam Conference was that the feeling in Vietnam was fairly optimistic as to the progress that had already been achieved. G: Was this your first meeting with Thieu and Ky? B: Yes, the first time I had seen them. G
  • November 1967 report to LBJ by Bunker; Bob Komer and General Westmoreland; pacification progress and military situations; 1968 Tet offensive; Bunker's reputation that the U.S. had prior knowledge of the timing of the offensive; Bunker's impression
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 8 (VIII), 4/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • printed it, and what needed to be pointed out that wasn't pointed out was, one-- G: Johnson didn't own The Elms. B: --there was six feet of snow on the ground at that time. You weren't going to be sitting out at a garden table talking about
Oral history transcript, Michael E. DeBakey, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , in the Department of Surgery as a full time member of the Department of Surgery at Tulane University with Dr. Alton Ochsner. M: And then where did you go from there? 0: I was there until 142-- M: You must have been in the Army. 0: --and then I went
  • Biographical information; time in New Orleans at Tulane University; studying in Europe; member of the Department of Surgery at Tulane; military service in 1942-1944 with the Surgeon General; post-war medical research program with the Veterans
Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Blundell. E: Jim Blundell--we would talk to them and then we would say, "Well, we'll see if they're in." Our little people that just walked in there had a time getting up there; they had to be pretty high on the list. But we had the drop-in people
Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 2 (II), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and how would they spend it? Gradually the states were able to better come up with estimates of the numbers of retarded individuals they had within their states, but I don't think at any time we could really say we had an "accurate count." I think
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : ~- IV -- 2 I wasn't present to hear it, and all I would have heard would have been how many times--hearsay I don't know--but I know Lynda, and I knew that she could say harsh things. But at any rate, that apparently was the background of the early
Oral history transcript, Willard J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • is in his office in Washington, D.C. at the Coast Guard headquarters. The date is December 10, 1968; the time is ten-thirty. My name is David McComb. First of all, Admiral Smith, I'd like to know where you were born and when. S: I was born in Michigan