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- to go up there and cut General Marshall's hair and General Arnold's ha i r and Secretary of War [Henry L.] Stimson, and Mr. Bundy, McGeorge Bundy's father, Mr. Ball, many of the big people who didn't have the time to come down to the regular barber shop
- ? M: That is correct. B: At any time in your career, have you had any direct political activity in the sense of open partisan campaigning? M: No active political activity. I have, of course, supported candidates LBJ Presidential Library http
- topic of interview: Date ___4_1_3_0_1_6_9______ Place ______________________ Length Tape I - 32 pages Tape index: Page or estimated time on tape Tape I - 1 Sub;ect(s) covered Biographical 2 Personal contact with Johnson; the Johnson technique 3
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 10 (X), 6/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
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- regional meetings that you held around the country in 1964. I think there were only half that many, perhaps, in 1960 when you traveled. You talked some about that assignment last time, but one thing I wanted you to elaborate on today. Was there a feeling
- at regional campaign meetings, including the lack of campaign materials to distribute; speculation that O'Brien would replace John Bailey as chairman of the DNC; the likelihood that O'Brien would consider a Senate campaign of his own; O'Brien's time working
- ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 B: Did you have the same sort of problems with Mr. Johnson's relations with the press during the campaign that you had before that that you were describing last time
- , 1969 . INTERVIEWEE: GERALD W. SIEGEL . ยท T. H. BAKER INTERVIEWER: Mr. Siegel's office, Washington, D. C. PLACE: Tape l of l B: Sir, we had gone in time up to about. 1960. We have covered legislative matters when you were on the Senator's .staff
- , Collegeville? B: Collegeville, Pennsylvania . M: In 1908, is that right? B: 1908 . I grew up in the town which at that time was slightly less than a thousand population, I guess . It derives its name from the fact that there is a small liberal arts
- , does it? A: Oh yes, we have enormous photographic archives on everything, but there just were no pictures made of the White House because Presidents did not permit it. In fact, in the earlier times reporters had nothing. I can't remember right now
- for the Kansas Association as its first employee; my title was assistant And I was also editor of l"iidwest r'junicipa1 Ut"ilities, the six-times-a-year publication. Then I worked also for a brief period of time, less than two years, for the U.S. Department
- Cabinet approach--that this in terms of the modern realities is not the best use of the Cabinet either. I'm not faulting the Presidents I worked for not having the Eisenhower type Cabinet, because it seemed to me this was not efficient use of time. Yet
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
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- with many of those Jews and continued to be throughout his political career, while having a kind of amused, Texas view of Jews. I remember one time when I kept pushing Johnson to take up a bill that would achieve some immigration reform and let a lot
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
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- in the Pentagon to make sure everything was okay before I sent him over to, I think it was, Jack Valenti who ultimately interviewed him to give him the final okay. G: Let me ask you about the violence that summer. You talked about Watts last time but racial
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 57 (LVII), 12/12/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
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- . As it turned out in this budget, because of the tax increase and everything else, we assumed the war would continue, for the first time. And that was creating a problem, and just the inability to predict what would happen in Vietnam, the lack of success of our
- for four or five years we would find that at that time instead of deploying additional units, we merely change the units we deploy, take advantage of the research and development during that four-year period we would be deploying systems that were at least
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 4 (IV), 8/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- . (Interruption) In answer to your question. In those final days in January, at the time the negotiations, I might say, were going on between Secretary Udall and the President--and I know DeVier Pierson was largely acting in the President's behalf in this matter
- . F: This is not the usual road to the presidency. T: No. F: By mathematics. T: That was in 1946-1947. time. I was already working at the university by that I became dean of the school of economics of our university in 1952, and the dean
- an outstanding job for young people. He was, with some of the rest of us, one of the strong supporters of many of the well-conceived New Deal measures that were at that time so vital, really, to the saving of the country, from our point of view at any rate
Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
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- in Washington, and at that time I didn't feel I was ready to move to Washington. But a little later on when I decided that I would like to live in Washington, Walter Jenkins called and asked me to come over to Austin for an interview, which I did. After some
- and mother's guests for dinner. But I, must have been about eight or nine years old. thing to me except that there was company. at that time, It didn't mean any- (Laughter). I don't remember anything, really, about it. Mc: Well, then, when did you meet
- in the afternoon. The date is March 4, and the time My name is David McComb. P: The year is 1969. M: Yes, you might add that, 1969--somebody may wish to know that 50 years from now. First of all, I'd like to know something about your background, where were
- , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: STEPHEN POLLAK INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: The National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 B: We're in time now to 1967 when you became the presidential advisor on National Capital Affairs. I think I
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 4 (IV), 1/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- ] Clifford's time it has had a chance to demonstrate how smoothly it could work and without being further changed. Mr. Clifford came in a year ago, and the transition was very smooth indeed, and the whole Department mobilized itself to his support; and I LBJ
- and ran for Congress on the Democratic ticket in 1950, so I didn't waste too much time getting involved in party politics once I had made the decision. M: Can you briefly tell me why you switched? Q: I think maybe the war and all those mid-watches I
- Room; the 1960 Democratic National Convention and Quigley's view of LBJ at that time; JFK's decision to ask LBJ to be his vice-presidential running mate and LBJ's decision to accept; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) Abraham Ribicoff
- of Texas, attended the meeting and shook the then-Senator Johnson's hand. The meeting was very casual and he would have no reason to remember meeting me. The next time I shook Senator Johnson's hand was when he was a candidate for vice president
- about the President going to the Pope. As I recall it, there was a bill that was signed on Bedloe's Island on which the Statue of Liberty is located, and that was the reason that the President, by happy coincidence, was in New York at the same time
Oral history transcript, Albert C. Harzke, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
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- : --graduating, say, in 1925. H: 1926. G: 1926. 'And Lyndon Johnson did not arrive I guess until 1927. you ever see him before then? Or did Do you recall the first time you saw him? H: No, I never did see him before then. The only time, like I mentioned
- departments had, and they felt that this would give the research in the department a better stature than it had had heretofore. B: You were in the Agricultural Research Service at the time, were you not? M: Yes, sir. B: Did you participate in the work
- for the agricultural committees and members of Congress on agricultural matters. During that period of time, I had a leave of absence one year with the Food and Agricultural Organization in Chile, and I made two trips to Africa and one to Latin America on a leave
Oral history transcript, Merrell Blackman, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
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- I left school then I just paid Miss Pirtle--my wife and myself helped make money to pay up my room and board for that two years . Then my folks moved to San Marcos in 1927 and 'I lived with them. a boarding house that time . We ran That's when
- be done. But in due time--I've forgotten the date, but it was May by then. Was it May 11? Do you know the date? G: Let's see, I've got it. R: Or May 21? G: Well, let's see. The opening campaign speech was on May 3, according to my notes. He 1
- , stayed on good relationship with him the whole time, except that I was on the other side. So, there wasn't any doubt in my mind that the election was a grab-off deal down there in Alice, wasn't it? G: Do you remember how you arrived at that conclusion
- agreement get that, that if we got it And that prior to that to be the most important point to the South Vietnamese. our election. circumstances time, that of comment on the timing at all, since right without a bit came to. on the advice
- of a high school. I did some work at the University of Cincinnati during that time. M: You were teacher of history in 1940 to 1941 at Darrow School in New York. H: In New Lebanon, New York. M: And then shortly after that you must have gone
- there. There's no excuse for those towns now, because they can go to the county seat in less time in an automobile on a good highway than they could get in a horse-and-buggy or a wagon into the town and do their shopping and get back out to home in time to milk
- Coleman -- I -- 2 it a pretty good organization while he was president? F: ~las C: Well, he had been speaker of it before I got to Capitol Hill but evidently, it must have been, because after his term as speaker for a long time his leadership generally
- very vividly because it's so belied by what has happened, even in recent days of the birth of Lynda Bird's daughter. It amuses me that--the girls are big and I remember the time he told us, when Lynda was about five, how he took her to Neiman-Marcus
- by President Truman in 1946, right after I left the Navy. In those days the Wagner Act was the labor law of the land, and I was regarded as the conservative member of the three-man board. I had dissented a great many times with respect to what I regarded
- of knowledge, why I had no interest particularly in Stevenson until I heard this midnight speech which was, I think, one of the great speeches of all times. Instantly I took up the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
- , and I met him on the morning after the nomination in Los Angeles. What had happened was that I had been campaigning for President [John F.] Kennedy for about three or four years on a part-time basis. I hadn't left my office, but I would go out on trips
- : Quite a man. P: A beautiful story about Mr. Sam: Mr. Sam never called me Pucinski; he had some sort of a mental block. Every time I was in the well seeking recognition he would say, "The gentleman from Illinois, Mr. Puccini." He did that for, oh