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Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in that division was spent in working on the growing interest of the federal government in medical care and in the shortage of manpower. I was Executive Secretary of the Bane Committee, which developed the document "Physicians for a Growing America," which formed
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • descriptions of the kangaroos? B: Oh, "magnificent" was the word, and also he said that there was no long jumper in the United States that could in two leaps cover the ground that those kangaroos could cover . they were jumping about forty feet . that's
Oral history transcript, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be a supreme example of that. I'd put Jim, people like that, on the other side, hard workers, good minds, and just opening, continuing to peel the layers off the onion or whatever the simile ought to be, to just see to it there was a lot of information
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ships, and things of that sort. Our primary concern was with shipyards, spread, as you know, throughout the United States, at least at that time. Congressman Johnson at that time wanted to know if I would like to join the staff doing that sort
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • -- 9 Pedernales River Authority, the Blanco--which had a larger acreage, a larger spread for a rural electrification project, probably fewer farms per mile than any other--that is, the largest electric cooperative in the country. We did this for Johnson
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the children called him Uncle Dick or something like that. From the time Lyndon Johnson was elected senator from Texas, he made his number-one project to pay attention to the most influential United States senator, and that was Richard Brevard Russell. So
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • figure, but just a good human being that people believed in. Today's word would have been "credible," I guess; we didn't use that word then. General Bradley said MacArthur's plan would have put the United States in the wrong war, at the wrong time
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and then somewhere along the way as a paid worker. And to begin with, there was Charles Henderson, but he left before long for a bigger job, as I remember, I think in Senator [Tom] Connally's office. My place in the office had to emerge by doing, because
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the United States, half the voters in the United States, are under forty years of age. old man. And they think anybody forty-five is an I'll be seventy-four years old, and it just doesn't make any sense at all. No, Stevenson ought to be the nominee. He's
Oral history transcript, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • people in government. It has certainly proved a great boom to our recruiting program. We have men stationed strategically throughout the United States who do nothing but visit colleges and universities in an endeavor to attract to this office the most
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • became more and more interested in politics. Daniel was obviously in politics and he ran for reelection as Attorney General. I helped a little bit in the campaigns. Senate. Then he ran for the United States Actually while he was running for the United
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Times, assistant to James Reston. I stayed on in Winston-Salem for a number of years. F: Winston-Salem. Is the New York Times running a farm club down there? W: Well, in a way. But I stayed down there for a long time, and ulti- mately, early
Oral history transcript, William S. White and June White, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a very social type. hard worker. He was very rich, you know. Dick Kleberg was He was not a Johnson used to say that Kleberg's congressional salary wouldn't pay his club bills. But Johnson, when I met him--it was late in 1933--was immensely active
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • the major thing that occurred in the Senate side during the committee deliberations was the adoption of the migrant worker provisions--the housing, education, sanitation, day-care operations-- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • professional fashion. Whereas we were just sort of the good guys of America. had, I think, one delegation the night before the roll call. the devil was it? Kansas, I think. We What We had it by one vote, and went to bed on it, and woke up and one vote had
Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , "Are you coming to Washington?" P: He said that there were two spots that he wanted me to consider; that he wanted me in his Administration, and that he was going to have to make an appointment for treasurer of the United States, that the lady who
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a candidate. Everybody knew nothing was going to happen, but the end product was that Governor Stevenson made a deal with Walter Reuther, who was the president of United Automobile Workers, who had about three hundred delegates to the convention from all
Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of people. it wasn't to me. But It's got a lot of the old [people] as live out in the farm country now, it's got a lot of that in it even now. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about that one time. Did you? I was the top man in Ivlemphis. a regional director, but he traveled all the time. I had Anyhow, Lyndon had the best NYA office in the United States when he was director, and Jesse Kellam was his assistant. Jesse took
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • off well and I was satisfied, and a lot of teachers from Monahans had gotten to shake hands with the Vice President of the United States and could go home and tell their high school superintendent they'd been somewhere, that sort of thing. Also
Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to run for the United States Senate. This was a seat currently held at that time by Senator O'Daniel, and that he, Mr. Johnson, wanted me to handle the 6th Congressional District for him--to be the campaign manager in the 6th Contressional District
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in 1949, I went to work for the legislative department of the UAW--United Auto Workers union--here in Washington. My job was mostly research; I read the [Congressional] Record every day and I came to the Hill to get bills and attend hearings. I also
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Wilcox, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended (44 U.S.C. 397) and regulations issued thereunder (41 CFR 101-10), I, W~ C't)~, hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for eventual
  • service; land consolidation and mechanization; chemical farming; desalination of water; OEO; Farm Bureau; Consumer's Interests
Oral history transcript, Howard Bertsch, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to recognize that the way American people were living had changed pretty much in the 1950s, so that by 1961, as I say, 80% of the people living in rural America didn't farm, so they didn't have access to either of these two types of institutions . We created
  • Committee for an Effective Congress; George Aiken; biographical information; Resettlement Administration; changes in FHA; needs of rural communities; loans; social purposes of agency; American Farm Bureau Federation opposition; dissemination
Oral history transcript, Milton R. Young, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recording and transcript of the personal interview conducted on July 18, 1978 in Washington, D.C. and prepared for deposit in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • these were discussions of such things as NYA, in which Lyndon Johnson was interested; WPA; Farm Security Administration; other public policies of particular interest to orderly economic development of [the] South. M: Just general problems that might apply
  • Development Service; Johnson's role in legislation; REA; Clyde Ellis; American Farm Bureau Federation; civil rights problems and the Agriculture Department; Agriculture Department's evolution
Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Robert G. Lewis of Washington, D.C., do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recordings and transcripts of the personal interviews conducted on February 6, 1986 and May 9, 1986
  • Early political interest and involvement; work with Wisconsin Electric Cooperatives; editing the National Farmers Union newsletter; views on Benson's farm program; work on Senator Proxmire's staff; LBJ and Proxmire; 1959 Proxmire speech; support
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • a theocracy. So you run into that--just the kind of opposition that the Farm Bureau, that the Chamber of Commerce, that the anti-government activity people will put up, which, as I say, is philosophical perhaps and held very strongly just as a matter
  • and LBJ; rural-urban basis; White House involvement in agricultural programs; feed grain program problems; wheat referendum; Farm Bureau; relations with Congress; wheat program bill of McGovern; 1964 wheat-cotton program; debate regarding one price vs. two
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ., 1943-47, pres . Communications Workers Am . (successor union), 1947 - ; v .p . CIO, 1949-55 ; v .p . AFL-CIO, 1955 -- . Vice pres ., dir . United Community Funds and Councils of Am., Inc ., 1956 -- . Interviewer Thomas H . Baker Position
Oral history transcript, Otto Lindig, interview 1 (I), 3/1965, by Jessie Hunter (Item)
  • , Reno Lindig, hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America for deposit in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therein by the authorities thereof, tapes and transcripts
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 6 (VI), 5/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was occurring from the southern farms and towns into the southern cities and the northern cities, creating altogether a different America right under our eyes. Very few people, very few politicians had the foresight and sagacity and perception to see that. G
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it has been a change of pace to have the Democrats in the majority. But to get back to what I was telling you about refining my interest in politics. I went to work for the United Mine Workers in 1935, after I was out of college several years
  • Rowe’s upbringing; working for the United Mine Workers; early social interaction with LBJ; Maury Maverick; how Jim Rowe came to work for LBJ; LBJ’s mentee relationships with Sam Rayburn and Alvin Wirtz; how LBJ hellped Jim Rowe get into the Navy
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 3 (III), 7/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therein by the authorities thereof, a tape and a transcript
Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that that was very definitely in the American interest. In other words, the Marsha.ll program, while it was regarded by some people as simply a program. to help European countries, it was also a. program to help the United States of America -- both from
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , by work unit, by geographical location, and I can draw you a map up there and show you that chart and how it floated out. I'll give you all the GS-7s and below, and below that Mason-Dixon line that's where they were. Okay? Ask yourself a simple question
Oral history transcript, Payne Rountree, interview 1 (I), undated, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • ) and regulations issued thereunder (41 CFR 101-10), we, Mrs. James Stiles and Mrs • .E. S. Lomax, hereinafter referred to as the donors, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for deposit in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the provisions of Chapter 21 of Title 44, United States Code and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, William R. Poage.of Waco, Texas do hereby give, rlonate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 3 (III), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 as amended (44 U. S. C. 397) and regulations issued thereunder (41 eFR 101-10), I, Paul C. Warnke ,hereinafter referred to as the donor hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therein by the authorities thereof, a tape and transcript of a personal statement approved
  • Appointment and confirmation to the ICC; Charles Webb; farm co-op cases; structure of ICC; regulation; record disposal; appeals to board of suspension; determination of rates/fair profit; merger cases; LBJ's appointment of Virginia Mae Brown; work
Oral history transcript, Louis F. Walter, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • literary property rights, will pass to the United States as of the date of the delivery of this material into the physical custody of the Archivist of the United States. 2. It is the donor's wish to make the material donated to the United States of America