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Oral history transcript, Sim Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • "will you put me to work?" and they came in here all the way from New Jersey and Minnesota when they found out there were jobs avaiiable down here. money on a loan and grant basis. back at 4 per cent. So what LCRA did, it borrowed the The money that's
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 2 (II), 6/1/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : And helicopters. G: And helicopters. T: Well, I'd forgotten about the armored personnel carriers. And some armored personnel carriers, I think. In fact, I don't recall them. G: Well, I have seen in various reports--I'm not even sure where now-the new M-113
Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • battal ion; most local battalions have about three hundred and fifty people, so it's three hundred and fifty people," and so forth. But as they discovered new units, it suggested that the total number of Viet Cong was on the rise. Whereas when you
Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was advancing a trip that very day, in fact, for then-Vice President Johnson to New York. I was in New York with Secret Service agents for the big B'nai B'rith meeting at Madison LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • recently, Mr. Johnson was present in St. Francis Xavier Parish in Stonewall for the dedication of a new rectory. I also said a few words on that occasion and defended the policy of the Administration in Vietnam. During the LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the press releases seem to have gotten out, and I know Bill Blair of the New York Times has the story." I said, "Stew, I'm sorry but the President still hasn't made a decision. You will have to ask them not to print it." He said he would. So then we had
Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of the Select Committee on Small Business. In 1967, when so many new Republicans were elected to LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Boyd L. Rasmussen, Jerry O'Callaghan, and Irving Senzel, group interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • transferability of skills from one area to the other, so that you didn't learn a new job in a sense when you came here. You just improved on what you already had. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on at the time. B: Where did the ideas come from or can you pin it down? W: The idea for legislation. B: No, the ideas in the bill. For example, one of the major things you set up was a brand new civilian agency taking over the old NACA. Was there LBJ
Oral history transcript, James W. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a young man who was going to stay with the law practice, or was the feeling around the firm that this was just a kind of transient position, until he moved on to something else? W: Well, I was so green and new that I probably really didn't know much
Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McCarthy -- I -- 4 G: How was the Job Corps organized? How was it planned? M: Well, the basis for the Job Corps was first of all the old CCCs [Civilian Conservation Corps] from the New Deal days. We had people from Interior
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 4 (IV), 3/8/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • be no new entity that had control of nuclear weapons. If the countries of Western Europe were to merge, if they were to create a unified Europe which had control of foreign and military policy, then that Europe would be nuclear by direct succession
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • dial. We were at his home a few times·•. And, as I said earlier, I think sometime in '63, his staff was, at his request, asked to put together some me~sures, . provisions to incorporate in a new civil . . rights bill. Because as I understand
Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . For example, in those days the Vice President was chairman of the Space Council, a new organization created by Congress. The congressmen who created it didn't fully understand the relationship between the Vice President and the President. The Space Council
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Howard] Edmondson of Oklahoma, who was soundly defeated by the [Robert] Kerr forces, and the Mayor of New Orleans, who was just--Mayor deLesseps Morrison's support really was religious. He was a French Catholic who liked John Kennedy. have any lines
Oral history transcript, Roger Blough, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh July 29, 1971 F: This is an interview with Mr, Roger Blough in his office, 14 Wall Street, New York City, The interviewer is Joe B . Frantz, and the date is July 29, 1971. Mr, Blough, just to get started
Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in those days. The sum paled by comparison with the current fund requirement. We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 2 (II), 2/18/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • started in the Johnson Administration, and you had agreed to remain as an assistant special counsel :for the new president. We've talked about the problems of getting a Kennedy staff reoriented into a Johnson staff and meshed with 2. Johnson staff
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 3 (III), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you put in new equipment. And the way they contrived it, it was new equipment in excess of the amount of depreciation that you were taking. So it was a very, very narrowly focused tax break. It was focused so narrowly that the average business guy
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Get him." So I went hunting for Joe Zimmerman. All I had was the name. Found him in New York. Got him on the phone. G: I show November 16 in my-- C: No, he came down for a meeting we had on the thirteenth, on a Saturday. G: I see, yes. C: I
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • after 1960 South Vietnam might even be able to reduce its defense budget. But in 1964--and I'm referring again to the interview that you gave to the U. S. News and World Report-you said that when you left Vietnam in September of 1960
Oral history transcript, F. Edward Hebert, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • s t r i c t , New Orleans, Louisiana. Mr. Hebert, I would l i k e to summarize b r i e f l y your c a r e e r before we begin. I t ' s a very b r i ef summary. Orleans, Louisiana in t h a t c i t y . You o f course come from New and were educated
Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • years. he was thro.ugh the news· med ta and so forth, but Of course, I knew who r never had any persona 1 contact with him. B: Th.at would apply even to his acttvtties while he was vice president, . as chairman of the Equal .Opportun1ties
Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , in which we sometimes get a historical coincidence. time in both parties. It happened about the same First of all, when I came to the Senate in 1945, the elections of 1946 made quite a turnover in the Senate on the Republican side. We had a lot of new
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Bailey and John Cris':vell, and Valenti "las in on it. I forget \.;ho ~vas Everybody was trying to do-- running the New Hampshire campaign, but you know, it \,Tas highly disorganized. President, didn T t go The candidate, the potential candidate
  • LBJ and anti-war demonstrators; George W. Romney; New Hampshire campaign; getting ready for the 1968 election; writing for Hubert Humphrey; the Humphrey campaign and LBJ’s role in it; Moyers leaving the staff; becoming a full-fledged LBJ staff
Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • the Statehood party to participate in the plebiscite recommended by the status commission. Ferre wanted them to participate so he broke with his brother-in-law and formed a new party for the purpose of the plebiscite, and then ran again as governor
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • an apPointee of President Truman's, I think he had been solicitor general, I'm not sure, and a man called Paul Ziffren, from California-M: Is that Z-- L: Z-I-F-F-R-E-N, who was then committeeman, or had become committeeman; and Camille Gravelle of New
Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIHJEE: GEORGE L. MEHREN INTERVIEHER: T. H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. Mehren's office, The Agribusiness Council, Inc., Park Avenue, New York City Tape 1 of 2 B: This is an interview with Dr. George L. Mehren. Sir, let me summarize your
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Escapee Program in Nuremberg in the early fifties. I also had considerable experience in advertising and public relations. In early 1960 I decided to leave that world of advertising and public relations and return to Columbia University in New York City
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Then sometime early in 1949, Dave Better, has now passed away, had a cocktail party for the then-Senator Johnson to which he invited a number of correspondents; I was one of them. B: Is this a routine sort of thing to introduce the new Senator to the press? R
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and stay in the Waldorf­ Astoria Hotel in New York City"--how the Waldorf got into it I don't know! Well, he didn't think too much of it at the time, but later on after we returned to the United States we got an almost panicky cablegram from the American
Oral history transcript, David E. Bell, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was but it had to do with an appropriation- -and V i c e President Johnson wanted to impress upon me as a new budget director the extraordinary importance, in his view, of being careful to inform and to work with and to be acquainted with the individual members
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of operation. There's nothing structured about it. The whole idea is to get from within government the ferment, the yeast, the new ideas that produce something with which the President can go to the Congress saying, "This is what I am going to do
Oral history transcript, Lawrence McQuade, interview 1 (I), 1/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • fond of him. I know just before he got his appointment they flew up to New England to talk to Governors and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
  • ; Cissy McQuade; LBJ’s famous phone calls; Califano; LBJ’s staff; Punta del Este speech; Bill Roth; Kennedy Round; Maurice Stands; “The American Establishment;” Wilbur Cohen; impact of the Commerce Department; New England foreign trade zone; Secretary
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 Now, I didn't go to Australia and New Zealand, so I can't comment on those phases of the trip, but I do recall very vividly the Manila part of the trip and the President's performance
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • thing that ought to be part of some record. Naturally you get curious about a new president, so I pulled the Lyndon Johnson file--Congressman and Senator Lyndon Johnson file--after he became president of the United States, or maybe even while he was vice
  • treatment of Gronouski, 1964 campaign and the Post Office, Bob Hardesty, Bobby Kennedy, news media’s treatment.
Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , but there was a senator running from New York State at the time, who, by the way, was defeated, who was supposedly getting all kinds of rumors that there were offensive weapons going into Cuba from refugees supposedly coming out of Cuba. The whole thing was we were unable
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was to have a conference and call the party together when there was an issue on which they could, without any question, get together. There was one meeting, for instance, in which one of the issues was the contested election of Senator [Dennis] Chavez of New
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • precious glass. She was a great companion, and I was so glad for every one of those trips she made. And we went to New York--well, I can't say that I know much about that. I do know that I took her to a play or concert. Another interesting thing I
Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , made a lot of new friends, and he soon became the Democratic Chairman. So during this period he was the Democratic Chairman. You remember the one before him--what was his name, he was a theater man up in Pennsylvania, I played poker with him. Mr. Frank