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Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • seem to want the trip made itself, think it was necessary? Y: As I understood it, the trip was really pretty much against his wishes. I don't think he really wanted Kennedy to come to Texas at that time. F: It was part of a package to Texas
  • back to Washington D.C.; LBJ’s first night as President; the combined LBJ/JFK staff; Ted Sorenson; LBJ’s State of the Union address and concern over the budget; Senator Harry Byrd; getting the budget under $100 billion; task forces; Negro voting rights
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that first meeting after you saw him as President of the United States. Perhaps some positions he indicated he held at that time, if he did so. C: Let me think about it a little while now and let's see what I can come up with. M: It's kind of hard
Oral history transcript, H.S. Hank Brown, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • miles that I could get into . I guess in three months, every union meeting I just worked because I disliked Richard Nixon and I still do, if anything more so . the time about that fellow . He's only proven what I knew all I think he is a terrible
Oral history transcript, John Harllee, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the Department of Transportation. Mc: Did you have anything to do with that controversy with the Maritime industry and the unions in the shipbuilding program that was proposed at the same time the department was being formed? LBJ Presidential Library http
  • of shipbuilding and sea-going unions; control of foreign steamship lines; containerization of shippers; inspections; origin/scope/work of FMC; White House support of commissioner; Robert J. Blackwell; transition from LBJ Administration to Nixon Administration
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to amount to anything at that time--the big unions were taking kind of a peripheral interest and raising Cain all the time. They were, of course, institutionally opposed to all importation of foreign farm workers, except that Roosevelt just made them take
Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • you first meet Lyndon Johnson and what were the circumstances? F: I first met him when coming to Washington to meet with the President for the first time with regard to his nomination of me as the director of Defense Research and Engineering. We met
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, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , except that I would like to ask you this same sort of question in regard to relations with Communist China, perhaps not in terms of relations, but developments over the same period of time since 1960. N: My mind was going back earlier than 1960. P
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to the U.S. House in the 79th Congress. He was an advocate of statehood for Alaska throughout his entire delegate days, and of course when Alaska was admitted to the Union in 1958, he was elected to the Senate and was re - e l e c t e d in 1960 and in 1966
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 34 (XXXIV), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and if this did blow up, and the union didn't settle or we had a major strike after the time period ran out, and it were necessary to get legislation through the Senate, as it turned out to be, that would have provided an additional cooling-off period and nostrike
Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Los Angeles and the East Los Angeles Community Union were others in time. very effective organizations. They were I confirmed in my own mind that my approach was better than the Alinsky approach. Nevertheless, when my son wanted to learn
Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • where he subjected this concept to some scrutiny down there. L: No, I don't. G: Right. L: Yes. Do you recall Heller--? Was this after he became president? Well, there was this time period between November 26 and the State of the Union Message
  • of draftees from disadvantaged backgrounds; income maintenance programs; campaign program proposal; January 1964 economic report on U.S. poverty; Sargent Shriver; community action; employment and poverty; labor union viewpoint; budget problems; Defense
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • didn't think that way. She wanted to be able to put the dress on, try it on. Most of the good bridal houses at that time, and probably still are, are non-union. They tell me that they pay higher wages, but that they are not union houses. So the President
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • unnecessarily and therefore compromise even further the position of Soviet Jewry. The main concern of the government of Israel, of course, was to get their people out of the Soviet Union. G: Right. So did they eventually give some aid to South Vietnam? F
Oral history transcript, Richard E. Neustadt, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • this union at this time the White House got committed to the Board's report and to a deal with the AFL-CIO--Meany was supposed to influence the union; he couldn't. Then that's what got repudiated, you know. M: The ~: Yes. ~~ite House let itself
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of Communism? P: Appealing to these more politically aware young people. A: Well, every time, of course, that the trusteeship council meets, the Soviet Union makes a great pitch to try to tell these people--there are LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 2 (II), 9/13/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • we are dealing with our allies as equals, where within the other side of the Iron Curtain there is a certain semblance of some--and I don't want to overdraw this--increase of independence of the eastern bloc from the Soviet Union. But you have
  • in Vietnam may have affected its standing within the UN: policy changes in regard to China and Taiwan; UN reaction to the Tet Offensive in 1968; the assassination of John F. Kennedy; obstacles to negotiation in times of war, such as in Vietnam in the 1960s
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ent that in J a nuary to use at the State of t h e Union i f he chos e to do so . He decid ed agai nst do in g it then, so from J anuary to March it was a que stion of when. I think all during that period the President was seek i ug a time when he
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, Morris Abram, interview 2 (II), 5/3/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Union, I don't think either of these countries are quite as evil. I think you could have more free speech in Greece at the time of the junta than you possibly could have in the Soviet Union. G: How was Johnson's anger relayed to you? A: Only through
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, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • detail. R: Sure. This all arose because of some rather smelly revelations that came out about that time of the uses to which they were putting these various health and welfare funds that a number of the unions had come through with. scandal
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 2 (II), 3/31/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at that time may be of interest. We took a train from San Antonio to San Marcos, spent the night in San Marcos, rode the next day from San Marcos to Blanco on a hack which was the term we used for an undecorated surrey--just a plain, two-seated buggy. We
  • Circumstances of Redford’s arrival to Johnson City in 1912; Johnson City at that time; handling the mail; Redford’s mother as postmistress; working at the Post Office; people in Johnson City and their way of life; roads; building the highway
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 3 (III), 4/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • state and local officials have been called upon for 37, or 6.5 per cent. have appointed 5 appointees. Labor unions 25 of the full-time appointees have been 35 years of age or under at the time of their appointment by the President." The President
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 4 (IV), 10/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that into the State of the Union Message? U: No, no, I didn't go into that. F: He didn't comment on it when you suggested this was the beginning of the reporters. U: That's right. Then this same time, and the time sequence was important-- some later 8 LBJ
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 54 (LIV), 9/11/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were concerned personally? C: Well, all of this is happening pre-Nader's book. At this point in time, the answer is no. When did Nader's book come out? G: November-- C: --thirty; wasn't it the end of the month? November 30. This is all pre-Nader
Oral history transcript, Joseph D. Keenan, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh KEENAN -- I -- 2 a messenger boy, worked in a ladies' hat shop, and worked in a millinery dyeing room. Then I had my first chance, through my uncle, to enroll as an apprentice in the Electrical Workers Union, Chicago Local
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, Edgar L. Ball, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- I -- 2 G: Who was involved, do you recall? B: Generally it was people like Sam Low, J. Edwin Smith, Chris Dixie, Bob Eckhardt, Arthur Combs. G: Was it largely Houston-based? B: Well, those are the ones I know and was working with at the time
Oral history transcript, Dwight A. Ink, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • is February 5; and I am in his offices in the HUD Building in Washington, D.C.; and the time is 2 in the afternoon. My name is David McComb. First of all, Mr. Ink, I have some information that you were born in Iowa in Des Moines in 1922, and educated at Iowa
Oral history transcript, John Brooks Casparis, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Washington, D.C. in the early 1800s which at that time was the meeting place for the diplomatic corps. It was known for its Swiss cuisine and wine cellar. When my father's grandfather died, his children, which was my father's father, they were minors
Oral history transcript, Chris Dixie, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about the state in the Johnson City Windmill bragging about his vote for the TaftHartley Act, and criticizing Coke Stevenson for accepting organized labor's endorsement. That would be the AFL endorsement at that time, the state AFL endorsement meeting
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the Union message was going to be delivered on the evening of January 17. Well, you can't time all these things. And the President wanted to say something about it. Incidentally, purely a personal sidelight on that--when Roshchin made sort of a counter
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • as separate speeches would add to to knowledge of the Johnson Presidency. To me they are all fused together in a kind of cohesive whole, including even such outwardly singular speeches as the State of the Unions of the various years. Mc: Did you being
  • State of the Union messages; 20-30 versions of March 31, 1968, speech regarding Vietnam bombing pause and the postscript of LBJ’s withdrawal as a presidential candidate; detailed account of March 31; work on final draft of speech, presentation
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in this pre-assassination period. I d o n ' t know whether [Adam] Yarmolinsky was in on i t at that time. It seems to me like [Richard] Goodwin was in on it. It was fairly low key and there wasn't a n y feeling of great urgency or "hurry up and get
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? I'd really like to know. He just walked away from it, I'm sure. Of course, you know Bobby stayed on a time at Justice. I don't know whether Hackett went to his Senate office or not. The suspicion of the people I've talked to yesterday and today
  • Busby’s involvement in an oversight commission on the poverty program, Maurice Leibman, trying to find out who filled all the White House offices, meeting Dr. Warren, Theodore Sorensen, Appalachian poverty and jobs, writing the State of the Union
Oral history transcript, James W. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that. And as we go along, I'll tell I came to Texas as a very small child-- less than a year old--and lived in San Antonio through high school. [I] did one year of college at Tulane; the rest of the time, here [University of Texas], through law school, and I've
Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • days of the New Deal. I went down to Washington in the fall of 1936, just at the time of the second election of President Roosevelt. when it was, but I did meet him. I don't recall exactly I think he was on some coal com- mission or something
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 16 (XVI), 11/21/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • feeling that Gronouski was having some problems? O: No, I don't think that existed at all. It had to be solely the President determining to retain me in the administration and at the same time saying "I'm not violating any agreement we made." His whole
  • methods; the decline of railroads and growth of trucking; encouraging government offices to use zip codes; overnight mail delivery; monitoring delivery times; increasing postal-window hours and six-day-a-week delivery service; opposition to legislation
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • at that time. F: You hadn't declared? 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh