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Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES S. MURPHY INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. Murphy's office in Washington, D.C., Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, last time you were talking about briefing former President Truman on the behalf of President Johnson, and after the tape
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 22 (XXII), 6/19/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • motivated. We want to thank them in advance for what they were going to do. The bottom line was we ought to try to at least informally organize them rather than be totally dependent on brief telephone conversations that had taken place over a period of time
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to be at a particular place to pick up some people who belonged to one of the unions who were having a meeting but would be finished with their meeting about the time the Larry O'Brien meeting was going to start. These people were going to get in these two b u s e s
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 2 (II), 5/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 Mc Let me ask you about a point in time. Is this before the State of the Union
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • do things. If you have a family planning program, you've got to worry about the Catholics, the fundamentalists. At the same time you've got to keep Planned Parenthood from going too far. Even when I was secretary [of HEW] they had a terrific anti
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • did; the chap who handled Western Europe and the Soviet Union did. I was in a somewhat strange situation because Vietnam became so operational that Bundy spent a very substantial proportion of his time on Vietnam and much less on other hunks
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of South Vietnam--I never could say that man's name--again hoping that that was going to move the whole process forward. I think the amount of time he put into like the briefing with Nixon and briefings 1 LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Humphrey; LBJ's desire to be liked and needed; cancelled plans to go to the Soviet Union for negotiations; mistake regarding letters to Congress members following the signing of the Nonproliferation Treaty; the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of having a lot of younger, liberal men, most of them not accustomed to being even congressmen or senators for a very long time, not accustomed to "going along in order to get along," coming from governors' offices, lieutenant governors' offices, in some
Oral history transcript, Kittie Clyde Leonard, interview 1 (I), 7/27/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • mention, for the sake of the tape, that you and Lyndon Johnson are contemporaries, that you grew up in the same period of time in Johnson City. So, can you tell me a little bit about life in Johnson City? L: Well, life in Johnson City then was so
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 14 (XIV), 9/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 O: [The Higher Education Act of 1965] considerably broadened the areas of the involvement. For the first time
Oral history transcript, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the Senate? I wouldn't say that I knew him well. However, while I served on the House side, I would get over to the Senate side from time to time to see the Senate in action. Of course, Lyndon Johnson was very prominent in those days as the Senate's
Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • . And he said what followed from that was a--what he called a loud six- or eight-hour meeting with Califano and Schultze and some others in an attempt to salvage key elements of the program, the President’s program, in time to adjust the State of the Union
  • the Bureau of the Budget and HEW; John Gardner; dispute resolution between HEW and the Bureau of the Budget; lack of funding for domestic programs; credibility gap between State of the Union and the published budget; events leading up to the tax increase
Oral history transcript, Louis Shanks, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1987, by Gina Gianzero (Item)
  • what they cost in those days--and proceeded to learn how to drive in a week's time, and I was out on the road. I stayed on the road until 1945. At that time, 1945, I had worked myself up to where I had made fifty thousand dollars a year. I was thirty
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of effort, out of which some specific pictures emerge. There was one time that Lyndon got a movie star-G: Gene Autry. J: Gene Autry, whom somehow in the course of our--I guess it was in our work on radio we had come to know him. They liked each other
  • at KTBC; attending the State of the Union Message; 1947 legislative issues; Aunt Effie's estate; President Truman sending Herbert Hoover to Europe to study food and fuel shortages; Mrs. Johnson's pregnancy; the backyard and garden at the 30th Place house
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • we begin, because I think this is a time period central to our area of discussion. I have down here that in 1960 to 1962 that you were director of the Joint Staff organization within the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This would be here at the Pentagon. W
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 3 (III), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there in the [DB? R: Well, I didn't get there ahead of time. ·F: Were there a lot of people in the halls, or were people there that night? Was it pretty full? R: Yes. I don't know what was gOing on outside that suite. wasn't a crowd; there were no curiosity
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recall about that is that Mary Rather was his chief secretary at the time. Mayo Clinic. She was sending things to him at the She addressed a whole bunch of stuff to Rochester, New York that the Senator was most anxious to have and became quite
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • #2) INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. McCOMB May 8, 1969 M: This is the second session with Mr. Douglass Cater. Once again I'm in his office at the Brookings Institution. The date is May 8, 1969, and my name is David McComb. Last time you mentioned that you had
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • incidents that you remember taking place in Austin during the fifties or early sixties relating to civil rights, either regarding school integration or housing or--not only school integration but integration in other areas? L: Yes, we had quite a time
Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • it says something about being suspicious of labels, and I am. I am just now working on an autobiographical book in which I say even good labels are bad for you because they limit you. I guess I hope I defy all labels. There was a time when I used
Oral history transcript, Samuel V. Merrick, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on Unemployment Problems, which produced the standing subcommittee called Employment and Manpower in 1960, of which Senator Clark was the head. So I got in the manpower business at that time. That subcommittee dealt with a number of things which then much later
Oral history transcript, Clement J. Zablocki, interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • week, didn't you? I believe that's the same time that Mr. Johnson-­ Z: Was elected to the Senate, yes. M: Did you have, in those early years, the late forties and early fifties, any instances of direct contact? Z: Hardly any at all. Very, very
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 3 (III), 12/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Soviet Union and the United States, that we were behind? C: No particular insight. I remember the climate at that time, that we were behind. And I remember in 1957 when Sputnik went up, because Senator Hill and I were in Europe at the time. I think we
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 3 (III), 7/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • by this time, was U.N. ambassador, I'm not sure. If he wasn't U.N. ambassador it's even more sensitive. Clifford was a privately practicing lawyer. But they both had experience in this area; Goldberg had represented the steel unions at one point and Clark
Oral history transcript, Donald F. Hornig, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • grant and a Guggenheim grant, so I was spending the year in Oxford. At that time, I was asked to join the so-called Von Neumann Committee, which was the ballistic missiles committee. People had gotten alarmed at the intelligence about the Soviet Union
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • arranged to have a plane pick Elva and me up at Dallas and fly to Little Rock, where we transferred to a smaller plane to Wilbur's home town. He and I spent some time that day discussing his views on his candidacy. At that time, he didn't ask me
  • support to Democratic Party unity; Jimmy Carter's role in the 1972 presidential election; Edmund Muskie's campaign leading up to the 1972 election and how it was affected by attacks in the Manchester [New Hampshire] Union Leader; John Lindsay's 1972
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ], and many times has said to me in conversation, that the labor union leadership was misleading the average workingman, that the unions were usurping the workingman's name and numbers to try to enhance themselves. Of course, he was an ultraconservative man
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • a big bureaucracy on both and that's the way they're handled. But without making any predictions about the relationships, I said, well, I had been studying the Soviet Union for a long time but I am also keenly interested in China, and I think it would
Oral history transcript, Ben W. Heineman, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Lyndon Johnson for the first time when he was in the United States Senate, I think, about 1956 or '7. F: Was this official or social? H: Social. I have forgotten really who introduced us. I think it was Senator Paul Douglas, but it was a very
Oral history transcript, Marjorie Lawson, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the apprenticeship programs, and it was like a brick wall. Nothing really came about because there was no forcing the unions to do it until later. But with the tools that we had at that time, they just resisted. G: Were some government departments and agencies
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the first part of the Eisenhower Administration I think the efforts of both Eisenhower and Johnson for that matter were bent toward trying to calm things down. The nation needed a rest. It had been living at much too high a level for much too long a time
Oral history transcript, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • election for the first time in history. by about 97 or 98,000 votes. Goldwater carried the state Georgia was the last state in the Union to vote for a Republican candidate for president; prior to that time it never had. No amount of activity on anyone's
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Intelligence, not Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. When the agency was established by law under the National Security Act of 1947, the individual who held my job at that time was given the title of Director of Central Intelligence
Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to be governor. S: Well, I got into politics a long time before 1968. F: Yes, sir. S: My first venture into politics was in 1932, when I felt not an obligation, but felt that I wanted to help the Democratic candidate for governor at the time who was Henry
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1972 INTERVIEWEE: RALPH K. HUITT INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Dr. Huitt's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: The last time we talked about your experience with Johnson, and this time I thought we would get specifically
Oral history transcript, Louise Casparis Edwards, interview 1 (I), 1/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --we called it BYPU [Baptist Young People's Union] back in those days--they went a few times, a few years, when all the young people were going. But no, Mrs. Johnson did not really take an active part. G: You say she was ill a lot. What sort
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was attorney general of Texas then. Oh, Bill Douglas and Fred Vinson were often there. Judge Marvin Jones and Bob Hannegan and Ed Clark and dear Albert Jackson from the Dallas Times Herald, and Bill Kittrell, who could tell some of the best stories of anybody I
  • for the University of Texas; Lady Bird Johnson's input on LBJ's decision-making; Dr. Everett Givens; Texas friends who kept LBJ updated on 10th District events and opinions; LBJ's efforts to balance his time in Texas and Washington, D.C., during his campaign; 1946
Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , for one year and transferred to TCU for a year and, of course, no degrees either place. I entered the business world just before the stock -market crash of 1929, a very inappropriate time to start something, but [it was] a very educational experience
Oral history transcript, Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • it . But in his State of the Union message in 1965, President Johnson was persuaded, and I might say parenthetically he was persuaded by people in this office at that time, that he should include a sentence about this . The result really, I think, has been
  • Biographical information; appointment; LBJ's attitude toward staff of OST (Office of Science and Technology); functions of OST; world food, pollution and population problems; federal programs; access to BOB; State of the Union message; Commission
Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of pacification, political, and military stories--the Buddhists; the labor unions. The country was big. They only had three full-time staff reporters at the Times, and they were plainly shorthanded and they were always glad when I showed up to help. And the New
  • Braestrup’s work as a journalist in Southeast Asia for the New York Times; New York Times coverage of Vietnam compared to Time magazine; how journalists covered Vietnam and the danger involved; how Braestrup became Washington Post Bureau Chief; Joe