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Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

believe Paul Ylvisaker was the principal spokesman for the state of New Jersey at which there were also representatives from the city of Newark, I continued to play a coordinating role for the goods and services that were made available by the federal

Oral history transcript, Eugene R. Black, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. This was a presidential committee, and it was headed by Mr. Perkins, the president of Cornell University, and we were supposed to advise the President from time to time on various aspects of foreign aid. M: This is a new committee? committee
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Kathy Teague and Weeze Pollei Shumate, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

on the payroll. G: Just brand new then. I see. What had his background been? What was his professional experience? T: Whose? G: Mr. Teague's. T: He flew for Herman Heap here. G: Herman Heap? I see. T: And Continental Gas Pipeline in Houston, quite
(then) belonging to Emil Hartmann; the search for the plane; waiting for news of the wreck at the Teague home; events leading up to the plane's departure from Austin; Harold Teague's conversation with Homer Thornberry regarding the flight; the layout of the plane's
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 2 (II), 8/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, at quite an early age, like eighteen--how old would I have been then? Ten. He was sick, and he got what was diagnosed as TB [tuberculosis]. They decided the best thing for him to do was to go to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and he liked that idea. He had been out
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Margaret (Mrs. Jack) Carter, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the liberal journals of opinion. So I discovered the Nation and the New Republic in college and began to be interested in seeing the country come out of the Depression, so that the opportunities of many people were enlarged. (Interruption) M: Now, you were
Background in politics and participating in the New Deal; Democratic party state machinery in Texas; 1956 Democrat Party convention; role of Texas Democrats in national conventions and elections
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

this--in order to get to MAAG, we had to go by this big Binh Xuyen post that's right in back of what was then MAAG headquarters, which was down in the middle of Cholon. Xuyen were, manning the ramparts there. Here all the Binh We went in and we started
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ella SoRelle Porter and Mike Porter, interview 1 (I), 11/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that lie took tn.at position as simply a messenger boy position and parlayed it into a reasonably influential post. P: Do you have any recollections of that? No, I don't, but that's perhaps the most logical explanation of it that I've heard. He
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, L. Wade Lathram, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Lathram -- I -- 8 hell out of Saigon port, build their own new port further up the Saigon river. Which eventually was done, by the way, at great cost, but they built a beautiful port to do the job
the new name Civil Operations Revolutionary Development Support; the ability of the military to work well with civilian province chiefs; the Hamlet Evaluation System and its reliability; the lack of appropriate weapons and training for the Regional Forces
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Thomas D. (Tom) Mills, interview 1 (I), 8/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that was not working that he wanted to work, and they'd had a big diesel engine on it, and he took a mechanic down and had that repaired, and all the pipe in the well had to be pulled and a new pump put in the well, and [inaudible] say we helped with that. He took down
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ewing Hass, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. There was an existing canal bringing the river water over there, so it was not an entirely new project with them. So Kuchel was opposed to the Udall decision at that point that imposed it after all these years, and he did hold hearings on it. Incidentally, Warren
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

issue? G: The Social Security amendment. H: The disability amendment. That was in the mid-fifties. G: Right. H: Johnson, you have to keep in mind in order to understand him, was a protege of Franklin Roosevelt. He always considered himself a New
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 6 (VI), 9/16/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on New Year's. Do you recall that at all? J: Yes. And I certainly recall Aunt Effie. They were very close. Mrs. Johnson used to go down to see her and she was very close to Aunt Effie. Aunt Effie left her I guess some of the Alabama property. She
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 2 (II), 12/6/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

else's mind, but I can just tell you that he was for the Strauss nomination originally. There were very few people opposed to the Strauss nomination. But there was one very strong opponent to that nomination, and that was Clint Anderson from New Mexico
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 7 (VII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, or Illinois anyway. I think there was something like that involved. But once we thought we had Dirksen. Once we found for sure that we didn't have Dirksen, then it was a whole new ball game, 11 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of photos, talking about their completions of the Soviet world and so forth. It was something very new for me. But somehow--I don't understand even now--it was perhaps a matter of traditions in the family or something else, I don't know. But I opposed
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

suppose, with the New Deal . Z: Oh, yes . G: Could you sense an admiration f'or President Roosevelt on his part Yes, yes . . then? Z: Yes . Yes, yes . Z: Yes, there wasn't any question about that . G: Can you recall anything in particular
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 1 (I), 7/3/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)

do recall very vividly that he was a reporter for the Washington Daily News, the ScrippsHoward paper in Washington, at the time the billboard bonus law of 1958 was enacted and at the time it was amended in 1959. The Department of Commerce kept
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, the Texas Election Bureau on Sunday morning declared Johnson the new United States senator from Texas. I think he was ahead by some five thousand some odd votes I believe. (Interruption) G: The 1941 [campaign]. S: Right. My job was to tabulate
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ralph Moreland, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

. Well, he drove us three men around the Ranch and showed us the Ranch, which was most pleasant, a beautiful site. At one point there, he reacted to a question of Nash Phillips' as to how he thought the new Administration's economic policies were LBJ
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Milton R. Young, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

talk to the President after that second trip? V: Yes, I did. of that time. I was there three times. You might want to look through some of my news releases I remember I dealt with the Vietnam War. meetings twice with President Johnson. I attended
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to weld when they built these iron foot bridges. But I'd say he got a lot of people to work right quick. G: He seemed to identify, I suppose, with the New Deal. Z: Oh, yes. G: Could you sense an admiration for President Roosevelt on his part Yes
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 27 (XXVII), 12/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. And the differences are rather extreme. We had a new maritime commissioner, the name was Johnson, Nicholas Johnson, I think--and he thought, and he was quite right, that this thing was getting silly, that the ship owners were not really negotiating in the hard
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or fifteen of those people who came to me and said, "I wish I'd had the guts to do that." And I said, "Well, it doesn't take guts. By gosh, it just takes honesty. You did what you did to kick them out and to have a new start and then you want to leave them
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 2 (II), 2/28/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there, because I'm not sure my recollection is very good, but at any rate, she had lost six pounds and she was pleased with her progress. G: Did he adapt to this new diet reluctantly? V: I don't really recall. I remember Mrs. Johnson saying he was a man who
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 6 (VI), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that they started looking for a new home. And he was living at Wardman Park, is that right? V: Yes. It was called something else by then, I forget now what it was—Sheraton? I can't remember. But yes, I do recall they lived there awhile. G: Why did they move from
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to Chicago, you had some of them. Of course you did, because you had Frankie Randolph as the new national committeewoman. Who was the committeeman? G: It was Byron Skelton, wasn't it? W: Was it Skelton? I thought it was. Johnson could always get along
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, everybody'd get involved in the sense that he'd call around and he'd say, "Who do you think ought to be on the Supreme Court? Who do you think ought to be the new secretary of commerce?" M: Call around to his staff, you mean? C: My feeling was that you
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

it myself, but in many instances, Lyndon was very thoughtful. John Connally would call the affected Congressman and say, "Well, so-and-so department has just anno1.ID.ced a new post office or a new reclamation project, It something like that. He'd say

Oral history transcript, Samuel V. Merrick, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

were? M: Yes. I think there were seventeen cities or something like that. I can remember Chicago. New Haven worked fine because the Mayor of New Haven-G: Richard Lee, I think, wasn't it? M: Richard Lee and the people that subsequently got
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Murphey -- I -~ 13 that he thought Lyndon was an opportunist, that Lyndon was a New Dealer, whom Mr. Stevenson utterly
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1980 INTERVIEWEE: ADAM YARMOLINSKY INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: I think we were just at the point of going into the question of Robert Kennedy's view of whether a new agency was needed
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

wasn't an organizational matter, it was a matter of policy. When it came up then in the fall of 1965, when they were reviewing this task force and what was the new legislative program going to be, I think by then I sort of decided, "Well, the only way
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Albert W. Brisbin, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

had a favorite project or type of project? B: It's so hard to separate that sixteen or eighteen months that he was with NYA there while I was from the rest of it . very strong on our public relations activities : He really was getting the new
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Douglass H. Hubbard, interview 1 (I), 6/4/69, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that people in a leisure situation don't like to be educated, so we found a new word. He have a list of taboo words such as 11lecture and "interpretation" activities 11 and 11tourist and things that we don't use, is one that we have sort of used to cover
birthplace; historian Jerry Rogers; the homey character of the Ranch and the hospitality of the Johnsons; anecdotes of LBJ guiding visitors about the Ranch and showing off the new State Park Visitor Center
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 3 (III), 8/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

bodyguard came in and said the President wanted to speak to him on the telephone. Everybody was pretty set up about the fact that the new President wanted advice from Walter and wanted his help. We all thought that was great. About five minutes later
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

officials. Now, just to give you an illustration of what I'm talking about, at one point the U.S. Customs and Immigrations had constructed a new office building at the border--a new U.S. Customs and Immigrations building there-F: This is at the bridge? T
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

? L: I can't remember. I appeared there so many times, but I'm sure I probably did. F: But you have no clear cut memory of his presiding? L: No. F: As a committee chairman? When 1961 came along you had of course a new team in Washington. Now
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 3 (III), 6/21/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

this for that period of time it's awfully hard to remember. As I said to you the other day, one of the greatest capacities of the human mind is the ability to forget. You have to learn how to erase so that you can add new things in; otherwise, the computer gets
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

familiar with what was then a new field of the law. I think his practice and his influence and activities as a mem- ber of the senate put on the statute books a lot of the present Texas water and irrigation law of today. So 1 don't think there's be any
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

by the way, 'tvhich is another story I hadn't thought of that has some interest. But one of the vacancies that was open because of, I believe, retirement as opposed to the creation of a new position, was the United States Court of Appeals for the District
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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