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Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • already a couple of times the general subject of the organization 1 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
Oral history transcript, Robert Bennett, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • is a small Indian community near Green Bay, Wisconsin. My association with Indian affairs goes back to the time I was a student in a government boarding school at Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, from which I graduated in 1931 . F: As a personal note
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 3 (III), 3/25/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • because this is a religious country. At the same time, on several occasions I remember, he'd ask Luci to get the priest--her friend in Washington--to pray for the boys in Vietnam particularly. This 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Ebba Jansen and Alvin J. Jansen, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • so cold we had to break camp, the first time we had to break camp. tie couldn't sleep it was so cold. P: You were camping J: In the desert. out? Oh, yes. There was no such things as motels those days, and we had our own tent and our cooking
Oral history transcript, Donald Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • "lciatit"ln with all of them. They each had the right tf"l terminate my (appointment). one was designated. I presented my offer to move on each time a new As a Foreign Service Reserve Officer, one l s appointment is theoretically good only for as long
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • are a Washingtonian. Yes, I feel I am a Washingtonian. I was born in Maryland, but I lived there only three months and came back, so all my memories are of this city. My mother and her family were long-time Washingtonians, so I consider myself a real native. I
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the President came as a congressman, and sometime subsequently, we met; I don't know when. M: There's a whole scale of subjective values that people have who've known another person over a long period of time. You're in a parti- cularly good position to make
Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • have held this time since 1967, but earlier you held it from 1957 to 1961? Ma: Yes. I've been in it about two years this time, not quite two years. That's right. M: October '57 until February '61 the first time. Let's go back to that first time
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [for Senator Johnson]? M: What year would this be? G: This was 1953 also. [Shivers] attended a Texas congressional delega- tion luncheon and spoke heartily in favor of Senator Johnson at the time he was considering running against Senator Johnson. M
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, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • another infantry officer. My army career up to that time, both enlisted and commissioned, had been strictly TO & E [Table of Organization and Equipment] type jobs. That is, as an enlisted soldier in the 82nd Airborne Division performing regular peacetime
Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh Sauvageot -- III -- 2 everybody, including all the student cadre and the faculty people at the National Training Center for the training of the RD cadre. Of course, nobody knew at that time but what the assault wouldn't come down
Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: BROMLEY SMITH INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Smith's office, Department of State, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: I know you don't have any means or necessity of recalling what we talked about last time, but we
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • appropriations to the Senate, he had time to open the hearings. He didn't stay there for all the hearings, but he opened them and I was always intrigued, though at a distance. I was at a table making part of the presentation, but I was always intrigued
Oral history transcript, Richard G. Stilwell, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • about that time. S: They were latent when I first got there. Well, like any professional soldier, I set about very assiduously making trips, getting briefed from the various parts of the--not only from MACV, but from the U.S. mission as a whole. I went
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . It was done down at the Ranch. I was much more in synch with him in this point in time, so there was a lot more conversation, oral conversation along the way. I think, to the extent I remember, the briefing was short; he knew where we were. I'm just going
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . At the end of most days I spun a piece of paper through my typewriter and recorded that day's conversations and events. Thus this journal supplements my memory. I grew up in Seattle and spent a great deal of time in the out of doors which is so close
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Convention, because they were having a problem with the r'~ississippi Freedom Democratic Party and that the President's, President Johnson, major concern at the convention was to keep that from blowing the convention apart. At that time and until
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • to call on him--it was one of the first times that I really got to know him--when he was recuperating from his heart attack down on the Ranch. A story had appeared in the New York Times that he was at work building a southern conservative coalition
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there was a need at that time for me to issue a press release. Throughout the years of his political life, the press had been extremely curious about my affairs, the President's business affairs, and those of almost everyone who touched his life, for instance
Oral history transcript, Carl Hayden, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • been a long time resident of Arizona, came first to Tucson in 1872 as a trader with a mule train. You buy things in the East, ship around Cape Horn to San Francisco, then go up and transfer them to a smaller ship and send them from San Diego
Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to that, in the immediate past, you had served as Ambassador to OEeD and then prior to that in the Kennedy Administration, both as Director for the United States and the World Bank for a short time-L: Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs
Oral history transcript, George Silver, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1991, by Molly Malone Chesney (Item)
  • that it meant a substantial cut in salary and a move from a place where I had been established for fifteen years, where my children were going to school--and I still had one daughter in school. But the climate of the times was such that everybody was very
Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a little less than half, were Democrat at that time, much more now, and in those districts, it became the senator's privilege--if you can call it that, I don't--to recommend a postmaster. In the districts represented by a Republican, of course, he did
Oral history transcript, William B. Dale, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • title is executive director for the United States> the International Monetary Fund. You've held this position since 1962. p: Since November 1, 1962. M: Did you before your appointment to this position or at any time since have any opportunity
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to get him out of the country . And I was chargé at the time ; so it was very interesting . F: And then to Quito? B: Yes, then I went to Quito as Deputy Chief of the Mission . F: Did you anywhere--we'll move ahead--prior to 1960, ever run
Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • official capacity during the Johnson Administration was as ambassador to the uominican Republic for his first few months in office, after President Kennedy's assassination. Then you came back as special presidential troubleshooter at the time the Dominican
Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with Mr . Johnson . When did you first meet the man and have knowledge of him? B: I first met President Johnson when he was a Senator . As you know, he occupied a particularly commanding'position there and I had occasion from time to time in connection
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to step into the breach with tight money and really slowed the economy down consid­ erably; so much so that 1967 became the year of the famous "mini­ recession. II By that time, we had persuaded the President to propose a tax increase
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 15 (XV), 8/30/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • senators. But I think primarily during this period the thing that surprised me is how many times I talked to people or they talked to me about the gas bill and reported on their conversations with [Albert] Gore or [Stuart] Symington or different senators
Oral history transcript, Ben Crider, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • there where the old Johnson City homestead \s now. We visited quite often and were lifelong friends with most of the family since Indian time. B; Your father was a rancher? C: A county commissioner and a rancher. B: I thought he was a merchant. C
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . This is an interview with Mr. Willard Deason, who is a Commissioner of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The interview is in his office in the Interstate Commerce Commission Building, Washington, D. C. The time is 9:45 in the morning; the date is February 17
Oral history transcript, Ann Oppenheimer Hamilton, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a graduate student in London until January of 1961 and came to the States at that time. It was a natural time for an eager young thing to come to Washington and start pounding the pavements, which I did, and ended up almost by accident being hired
Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 1949 consecutively. H: That's correct. M: Which happens to be the same year that Mr. Johnson went to the Senate, He was a freshman there at the same time you were here. How well did you know Mr. Johnson in the early years of your career? H: Really
Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ~arch INTERVIEWEE: BAILEY SHEPPARD INTERVIEHER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Sheppard's office, the Bramlette Building, Longview, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: I wanted to ask you about the first time you met Lyndon Johnson. S: The first time I met
Oral history transcript, William McChesney Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • always run into in government. Dick Russell would call me and tell me what the expenditures were at the time, you see, and I'd say, "Well, that isn't what I'm getting from the Treasury." G: Is that right? M: This happens all the time in government
Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , but there was no direct personal M: No direct personal reaction . reaction . You were a consultant for the State Department at various times during that period . B: Yes . M: Did any of those tasks bring you in direct contact with him? B: No . M: Not until you
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 2 (II), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • there had to be a Department of Justice, and beginning in 1870, there was. Since that time, the attorney general has, of course, become the chief law enforcement officer of the federal government. B: I was going to say, one thinks of the attorney general
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • rp e n ter' s e ast s ide pre ss offic e . Oc cas i o n a lly, the r e we r e potential conflicts, thoug h, frankly because President Johns on some times expresse d dis pleas ur e with s ome thing tha t was going on o n Mr s . Johns on' s side
Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in 1954. M: Right. Is that correct? How well did you get a chance to know Mr. Johnson in the period when he was still leader of the Senate and you were a young Congressman? D: I had occasion to needle him many times because at that time he