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Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the end. As we know, he stayed Do you think that his association with Mrs. Johnson gave him a sort of dimension and perhaps an endorser in the White House, or w·e?:ie. the pundits just way off base? C: I think the pundits were way off base

Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

for a number of its participants, especially in the early days. I graduated from Columbia College, went to Columbia Law School for a year, worked for a while in the book publishing business and then got a job as a reporter for a Long Island newspaper~ After

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 59 (LIX), 1/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

remember more about that. (Long pause) We then got some settlements, but again, the problem turned out to be the IAM [International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers], the electrical workers, the firemen and oilers, the sheet metal workers

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and back and forth, along with other problems. But anyway, I think that President Johnson simply associated me with the Vietnam problem, and he also knew of my newspaper back ground, and they had to have a spokesman, and there wasn't anybody else he

Oral history transcript, Edith H. Parker, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Parker -- I -- 2 P: I had worked for the newspaper before I had worked for Senator Connally. G
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Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

found a great interest in public service. had that interest ever since I was a young man. I've My father, who ran a weekly newspaper in a small town near Fort Wayne, was interested LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

--it was Xavier's registration that I went to. Many of us were involved in the organization of National Students Association, which was in its time what the SDS is today, you know, radical type students groups in the nation. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the University of Texas in journalism. WPA offered me a job of handling public relations for the state of Texas for the agency at a salary of about double what my newspaper salary was. So I went, with some trepidation that I was leaving direct newspapering

Oral history transcript, Richard Spinn, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or twice for, you know, reunions, but that was about it. Because I got interested in my law class. We were a close-knit law class of sixty-five of us in 1934. We have had our annual get-together every year at the bar association. We have never missed a year

Oral history transcript, Harold J. Russell, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

a lot of wonderful changes. P: Since 1948 besides serving on this committee, you have served in the American Veterans' Association, on committees and as national commander. You were one of the founders of the World Veterans Federation, and LBJ
Biographical information; first association with LBJ; present relationship with LBJ; interest and work with handicap people; summary of advances in field of the handicapped; role of advisory committee and its effectiveness; assistance from Senator

Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it to conference and see what we can do." from my Republican friends. I couldn't get the same cooperation And he did, and went to conference, and finally we got the amendment in the final bill. So my first contact, or association, with President Johnson

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

basketball player, too, you know, because he was so tall and thin. But I think really that Lyndon just-- I think. he was still growing physicall y. G: I noticed one of the earliest things he did on campus was to write editorials for the newspaper

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

that's not recorded and has never been in the newspaper or anything else--is his feeling about anybody who works for him. doesn't believe in the caste system exactly. He If you work for him, you're LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. "Well," he said, "the surtax has now reached the point where he's not talking to me, and I think that's a good sign." It's that kind of a thing. M: Do you think he held it against you at any point that you were associated with the Kennedy aura

Oral history transcript, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

were in HEW at the time and how you were drawn into the task force. H: Well, I was associate general counsel of HEW, working only in part on matters related to what eventually came about in the Economic Opportunity Act. Mankiewicz. I think I got

Oral history transcript, Lawrence Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

agency Is the chief goal to act as the businessman's arm in promoting the nation's foreign commerce? F: I believe there is a misunderstanding of the Department of Commerce, at least so far as this bureau is concerned. We are a free enterprise economy

Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 3 (III), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

about it because he wanted him to go back and put it in The Milwaukee Journal, which is one of the great newspapers, and certainly one of the two or three best in that part of the country. So he really gave him what was called the treatment. He was just

Oral history transcript, John Ben Shepperd, interview 1 (I), 12/30/1968, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)

title--was under some discussion as to how the monies had been acquired for the purchase of this property. Those of us who read the newspapers--this was what we saw, the difficulties that were involved; and then we read that you were appointed to--well

Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

at a lot of the newspaper columnists' analysis of how I'm Lyndon Johnson's protege, not that I consider that not complimentary because I really do. I'm a great admirer of President Johnson's, but President Johnson did not really know me until after he got

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

The American Trucking Association took the lead in sponsoring legislation to correct that. And the allegation that it was throwing to the railroads, I don't quite understand. If the newspaper article to which you refer and which I don't recall ever having

Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

anxious to do anything he wanted. Of course I've always felt that, and I think subsequent events again have proved right, the newspapers did this to him. You know, Nixon has been in now while we're talking nearly two months. According to the press he

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

politicians. There are very few politicians that believe that newspaper stories are written just because they happen. Usually I think most politicians believe that newspaper stories are inspired by somebody. If you didn't inspire it yourself then your opponent

Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

would you like to work for Congressman Lyndon Johnson?" I had heard of Congressman Johnson, had never met him. Of course, he was all over the Austin newspapers in those days; he had excellent contacts with the newspapers here. So I said, "Well, yes, I

Oral history transcript, Homer E. Dean, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

this trial over in the Duval County Courthouse. While we were here we met the Lloyds, because Frank was associated with Ed Lloyd and Frank Lloyd in the trial of this case. And due to Frank's connections, the Lloyds were looking for a younger lawyer to come

Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 2 (II), 3/31/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of three days to get there. It was a rather isolated community. The weekly newspaper--I believe H was then called the RecordCourier--was enblazoned on the front page across the top with some words 1 ike this, "Most Progressive County in the State wlthout

Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

consisted of getting people who shared our views to contribute some money for a series of newspaper ads. B: In the California area? P: In the Santa Barbara area. B: Then you didn't actually meet Mr. Johnson until your appointment was being considered

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 10 (X), 5/13/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

program that was very much less than what Kennedy had introduced and than the traditional Social Security-Medicare program. That is a politics that I was not privy to. I was aware that it was going on; there were a lot of newspaper stories, but I

Oral history transcript, Jesse Curry, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the Southern Police Academy. I've been active in the IACP for several years, not qui te so acti ve now as I was \l/hen I was chi ef, but I am still a member.' I'm also active in the Texas Police Association and the Texas Police Chiefs Association, which

Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

a couple of years just to pay them back. But that wasn't what I wanted to do, and I knew it. From the time I was little, I knew I wanted to write in some way or other, and when I was in college, I knew I wanted to be a newspaper reporter. So I had to teach
Biographical information and family history; Scott's hearing and health problems; Scott's educational background; Scott's early work experience and how she became a newspaper reporter; Scott's work for the Houston Post and Hulsey Theatres; Scott's

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. In brief response to that, and this will be a detailed description of our affairs documented I think thoroughly as we go along, if I survive to tell the whole story, I just will answer Mr. Goldwater and I will say that in my association with President

Oral history transcript, Francis C. Turner, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

there, an A.S. degree. Is that an Associate of Science? T: That's right. M: In 1927. T: Right. M: Where was that, incidentally? T: It's at Arlington. M: That's now the University of Texas at Arlington. T: At Arlington, yes. M: I understand

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 30 (XXX), 3/22/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to make it to the presidency. He really felt he could. He made the statement that he could defeat Eisenhower. He actually softened his views on Taft-Hartley; I find that hard to believe, but to read some of the newspaper articles, he may have been saying

Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, let's talk about some other activities here at the university. S: Okay. G: I gather that she was on a council of the UT sports association or an association for intramural sports. about it? S: I'm sorry I don't. Do you remember that or anything

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a great job and you should be re-elected without opposition. II We made sure that the newspapers in Texas got hold of that. G: Do you recall having good contacts in the Dougherty campaign that viOuld sort of serve as intelligence sources for you? ~{1

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Calvert, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

of the State Democratic Executive Committee, 1946-48. I've held various otherm.inortype jobs, like president of the Hillsboro School Board for a period of time and things of that sort. I was nominated in the Democratic primary in 1950 for an associate justice

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a hotel room when they were in town and when the American Association of Newspaper Editors was there, followed by the Associated Press gathering. Of course, since those days, conventions have proliferated, but the two months of April and May were certainly

Oral history transcript, Toinette Bachelder, interview 1 (I), 2/11/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

knew best, because of our early association, and he was a hard worker. dent. He worked from the time he awoke; like any other Presi- When they wake up, the first thing they get is the newspaper or the dispatches. They can't even have breakfast like

Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

a close friend and associate of then Congressman Johnson, you see. M: And remained so? F: And remained so until this day. We had lunch there with Francis Biddle, and we were all sort of getting together and breaking up, really. I then saw him next about
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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 11 (XI), 7/24/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of assignment, appointments secretary. The nature of the assignment called for you to be at the right hand of the president every day. With me, obviously I was in the White House because of a long association I had with Jack Kennedy. So Ken and I discussed
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Oral history transcript, Phillip S. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of associating myself still wi. th the Johnson Administration. This administration is probably going to end up doing the same thing, simply because it has to, and will pay the price for it. M: When you say a political price, what do you mean? H: Oh

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