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Oral history transcript, James W. Smith, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

expressed in that meeting was whether or not the people of Texas any longer had any confidence in the New Deal politicians and the people that had inherited the Roosevelt tradition in Texas. I remem- ber telling Byron in a speech to his first meeting
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

thought that he could get Lyndon's assistance . G: But he didn't seem to want to do it . There was a regional state directors' conference in New Orleans . Did you go down for that? Yes . G: Can you recall that trip and seeing Lyndon Johnson there? B
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

increased during the '60's. A new and junior Congressman is not very often called for consultaion to the White House, perhaps unfortunately. M: Did you feel that Mr. Johnson lost much of his party support with his cooperation with General Eisenhower
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, pretty weather . about 75° , and the sun was out . 17 It was a good San Antonio day ; it was Cantinflas would get up and say, "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year," and he would sit down . But this wowed the crowd and they loved to see him
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of poor people, and he talked about that a lot. G: He talked about expanding the Social Security system as a way to avoid a budgetary increase. Any recollections of other ways to fit these new programs into your existing budget? C: No, but eventually
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: All right . G: You say you went to work on Monday morning after that . B: On the Monday morning after the Sunday [meeting] . He called me to meet him at the Old Post Office Cafe in San Marcos, six o'clock, Sunday morning . I walked in and saw
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was older by a good bit than I was. But the Governor--we met in 1946 and he talked to me a lot about the Rainey campaign, and I was very flattered. So in 1947 I was at that point working at the State Capitol in the International News Service Bureau
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the infiltration thing. And I have no doubt that in the subsequent programs a new phase will pop up, or in his book a new phase will pop up. He spins off of this central core of the guerrilla strength and whether these odds and sods, as the British would call
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

knowledge and this can be fed to him under cover story of some sort, although it may be shallow. He knows he must respect this confidence, but it will at least cause him to start looking in a new direction and reorienting his thinking as to how he shall
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the South Vietnamese to the peace talks before the elections in order to help Humphrey. And of course there's the story that Beech's dispatch was misrouted and ended up in some isolated place instead of the Washington desk of the Chicago Daily News
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 4 (IV), 3/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there we shared, and we fought for audience in that overlap of our signals when they were operating before they went to the tall tower. They encroached on the mileage separation with their proposed new facility with the distance to the Weslaco station
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

ministers--on crises and they all exchange information back and forth between each other and get to be very good friends. They all poured into Germany--into Bonn. We set up a command post over in the White House. were here, and Fowler and Deming were over
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was coming down from his communism and he was criticized. He had to defend himself. And he did in a speech in their party circles. Those secret speeches almost always leak. The Washington Post has got a long section this morning on something in the Justice
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 3 (III), 1/17/89, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was coming down from his communism and he was criticized. He had to defend himself. And he did in a speech in their party circles. Those secret speeches almost always leak. The Washington Post has got a long section this morning on something in the Justice
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

?" This went on for some time, and they finally told me that they'd had my orders changed and rewritten and that I was going to be in charge of a training group on Martha's Vineyard. They were opening a new training school at Martha's Vineyard, and they were
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

not too much attention to that election. lid read the paper every morning but I wasn't just carried away with all the news about it. I read the paper every morning now. live always read the paper every morning, just to see what's going on in the world
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Texas, in Belton, and lived there a good portion of my early life. I graduated from high school in the Depression years, when it was practically impossible to get any \vork. In 1933 I was offered a job as an employment service manager for a new U. S
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 2 (II), 2/23/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. paper clippings of things. Dan ~'oody I think I still have some news- I had written in to the newspaper chiding for his actions and what he had been accusing Lyndon of and things like that. Mrs. Moody and I almost had a. . . . And Ed Clark took
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

immediately assumed that somebody had duplicated the key. Now in the case of Vietnam, I've always had the feeling that we reasoned from the analogy of our experience in post-World War II Europe. We looked at Communist China as though it were Russia; we looked

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
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph Palmer II, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and means of being responsive to the challenge of development in Africa, and to have a good hard look at our aid programs, see whether they were responsive, to what extent they were responsive, and in what ways they could be improved--new approaches tried

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Williams started because he became interested in a letter that he got from somebody saying that there was an awful lot of fraud and chicanery in some post office or--I forget what it was. He personally went up and investigated it and found out
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 2 (II), 2/25/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

told him not to worry about it. We went down there and built that runway while he was still in the hospital. [Inaudible]. He was governor at the time. G: Where were you when you heard the news that LBJ was president? W: We were at home. G: You
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 3 (III), 3/3/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

/show/loh/oh M. Winters -- III -- 2 W: One of the issues is, you see, her husband had held that post, and then A. W. ran against her. She was in the office at the time. G: Yes. How old a woman was she at that time? W: I don't remember. Tom Martin's
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and going, and I got a message then telling me to proceed immediately to Vietnam. In the end of the thing, they put "God bless you" on it. I said, "Geez, They knew. that's bad news, whatever it is." G: Who sent the cable, do you remember? L: I don't
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Here I was the new one from the outside, but I knew my state, I think. G: What was he like, Bobby Baker? P: Oh, a very sharp guy, very, very sharp guy. he was tough to work with. was very headstrong. I liked him. You know He was a great deal like
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Rutherford M. Poats, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of President Kennedy? P: Not as a presidential appointee, as a so-called administrative appointee of Fowler Hamilton, the new administrator of AID. M: Then you were in this agency then during the course of the Kennedy Presidency, and have remained

Oral history transcript, Eugene Williams and Helen Williams, interview 1 (I), 10/27/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

]. there are jokes on me that wouldn't hurt. I guess I remember one time - -I gues s a lot of people know it, too--but when he would get his new shoes, he would ask me to wear them and break them in for him. So one day when we were at the White House, I met him
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, David S. Black, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

law with the law firm of Preston, Thorgrimson and Horwitz for about two and a half years at which time I was appointed an Assistant Attorney General with John J. O'Connell, who was the new Attorney � � � LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 5 (V), 3/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the campaign I to1d you that I had been to Washi.ngton, that I was familiar with Washington, I knew where the offices were, and I knew who was in charge, and I had had some experienc e, and you wouldn't have to break in a new man; that I could go
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 4 (IV), 6/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

u k ind of ran a ge ne r al accoun tin g o ffice on t hat, too , and then illed them? C: The White House transportati on o i fi ce prorated the costs o f a ll o f th i s and j us t b il le d the news age ncy o r the news paper o r t e n etwo rk. r
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John Holton, interview 1 (I), 6/19/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and a supporter of Roosevelt, interested in people. New Deal legislation that was going through and all that sort of thing, I suppose. But I don't see how in the name of God they could be opposed to him as far as their own industry is concerned, because he did
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to the annual race track event that Jim Auchinshcloss used to give in New Jersey, took a bus trip from the train over. Mr. Rayburn said, "I want to sit with you on the bus trip. I want you to help get this thing through when it comes back from the Senate. It's
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a commission on silver and put Wright Patman and a bunch of the congressional people on that thing to help us make the transition from the silver coins into the new clad coins. I'll never forget the day I had to take that coin over to show it to Lyndon Johnson
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph D. Keenan, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh KEENAN -- I -- 8 ~1: How soon after Kennedy' s assassination did you meet with the new President Johnson? K: Almost immediately
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: There again that was a close vote. T: A very close vote. against it. I spoke for it. [Clinton] Anderson of New Mexico led the fight And Lyndon helped to defeat it. G: Do you know how that defeat came? Who the crucial senators were? T: No, I don't
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

interest for the community, to find out what went wrong. Then that was the period when there was some violence in Clinton, Tennessee, and some in New Orleans. I visited those cities. any political connotations at all. It did not have In those days
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)