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Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEHER: David G. McComb DATE: M: April 21, 1969 This is an City. intervie~v ~'lith Mr. 'Francis Keppel in his office in New York The date is April 21, 1969, and my name is David McComb. Can you briefly give me a sketch of your background, how you
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Is that correct? Well, of course it had been in the mill for some time before I arrived, and the history of the Department of Transportation is not new. It had been proposed over a period of twenty or thirty or forty years by several presidents, but President
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • there was the MURA issue, the Midwestern University's Research Association, which was a proposal for a new and very expensive high energy accelerator to be built in Madison, Wisconsin, with federal funds as a consortium of about ten or a dozen midwestern universities
Oral history transcript, Harvey O. Payne, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • reminiscences about because it seems to me that that was a turning point in Mr. Johnson's career. Anyway, what was your capacity in this 1948 campaign? HP: Well, let me make a few little comments here. In 1948 in my opinion he introduced a new dimension
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • came down here, and I worked for the Dallas News as a kind of part-time employee in Austin and worked for United Press on the same basis. I graduated in 1935. United Press made me a correspondent. Then I went to Dallas News in 1942 and worked for them
  • News' lack of support for LBJ; Texas Democrats in the 1900s and late 1800s; the rise of Republicans in 1960; Governor Beauford Jester and his campaign against Homer Rainey; Jester overhauling the Texas prison system and state hospitals; the Texas
Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • for the Chicago Defender. I stayed here a few months and then in June of the same year, 1936, I went to Detroit to help establish and edit and publish the new newspaper called the Michigan Chronicle, which I still retain some proprietary interest in. From
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Zorthian? Yes . it a little tough for him to do his job, doesn't it? Well, I had first known Alan Carter in New Delhi, seemed to be a pretty able guy . G: shall I say, That's another parallel, I think, India, too? He worked for Ken Galbraith
  • Cabot Lodge; the new regimes
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in educational television were all ready to call on the President to set up a task force to come up with a new initiative in this field. M: About what point in time is this? C: I cannot give you a precise date on that. I would suppose that was probably
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ." We only had two, so we called one of them the "old building" and one the "new building." M: Like the Senate does now. H: It was the East Building for housing members of Congress, their offices and so forth, and I was on the east side--a long ways
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 7 (VII), 2/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEW VII DATE: February 12, 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 G: [Let's begin with] the assassination. Did the fact that the assassination
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that Ambassador /Henry Cabot/ Lodge took under those instructions--which was, in effect, to go to the military and say if you want to start something new, we won't be against you--those had the effect of setting in motion all the thinking and so on that in turn
Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the Daily Cardinal, the student newspaper, that a [Wendell] Willkie For President Club was being formed, and a prominent student orator named Henry Maier was the president, which created consternation among all of the proRoosevelt people. So we put our
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 28 (XXVIII), 9/24/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 24, 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3, Side 1 G: Let me just go back to yesterday. You discussed [Hubert] Humphrey's pre-inauguration visit to you
  • the state of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) when O'Brien became chairman; O'Brien's immediate reorganization of the DNC and new priorities; efforts to build the relationship between the DNC and Congress; DNC help with 1970 off-year
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and she gave money and plants to the City of New York. in evidence. To this day the beginnings she made are still Park Avenue and other places in New York, as a result of her work, are still beautified every year. As I said earlier, one of the things
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to New York, I seem to recollect it had something to do with NATO. But the President called me in the afternoon, about two or three in the afternoon, and he said, would it be possible to do this." My attitude in working with President Johnson was always
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • or the appointment of a new one. In a business way, though, I've bumped into him perhaps half a dozen times, not on Defense matters, but during the period that I was General Counsel of the Army and in charge of the civil works program. Do you know what the civil
Oral history transcript, Helene Lindow Gordon, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . F: And wandered down to Washington at what late age in life? L: I was about seven or eight years old, I think. My father got a new job in Washington. F: Well, basically you are a Washingtonian, as far as you're concerned. L: I am
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 2 (II), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this occasion? B: We did have some review meetings, yes. I don't think we had very many, but we did have a fairly comprehensive review of the situation at the time in regard both to the military and pacification situation. I reported, I think, that the new
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • in the Dodge Hotel . was a vacancy there . that . He wanted to know if there He said, I'll move there . Started right off like Turned out Mrs . Garner had given him. a ticket too . Of course, she had given them to the new young employees . G: What part
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 30 (XXX), 11/4/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: One point on something we discussed yesterday: your continuing as national chairman. McGovern in his book
  • ; the McGovern campaign's relationship with the DNC and its new chair, Jean Westwood; organized labor support for McGovern; a meeting of congressmen and senators to discuss Democratic discontent related to party reforms; attempts to increase congressional
Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [Mitchell] Sviridoff, who was running the New Haven organization, and Joe Slavet, the director of ABC in Boston. All of these organizations were organizations that had been initiated in various ways but they had some form of Ford support together with other
Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . As such, in a federal agency, particularly a temporary federal agency like the WPA was, a New Deal agency, I was pretty much on my own with no supervision. I was told what they expected, then I did it. The boss, the state administrator, was Harry P. Drought, a ranking
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and a new life beginning. It was roughly divided between business school, which took up about five or six hours of the day [and the office]. I went to a very ordinary sort of a loft place and took typing and shorthand for about three hours and then studied
  • Lady Bird Johnson's daily activities in Washington, D.C., while LBJ was serving in the navy in 1942; LBJ's congressional office staff and Lady Bird Johnson's role as manager of the office in LBJ's absence; correspondence with constituents; living
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 3 (III), 4/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of oversight and control. You only permit people to act promptly and efficiently on a daily basis. The reason why I say no inconsistency between central- izing audit and decentralizing operating responsibility is that internal audit is not an operating
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 1968 when you were defeated for reelection. I'd like to begin the interview and just ask you what made you decide to enter public life and politics back in 19391 M: I had been a political writer on the old Oklahoma News, had covered a number
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . He was probably the only governor that ever had a daily news briefing. He would meet with the Capitol press while he was governor every day. He might not have any sensational revelation to make to them or any announcement that was earth
Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • believe, is suffering from a systemic sort of cancer, I think? N: Well, with the contaminant that's in Agent Orange, the dioxin that causes the trouble, it's not good at all, it's bad news. But I don't think that the problem is anything like it's exposed
Oral history transcript, Harold H. Saunders, interview 1 (I), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • I got to the NSC. In between my job with Amory I had served as a desk analyst in the Office of Current Intelligence, working on Japan, which was good experience just in terms of doing that kind of daily analysis and reporting job, but it didn't have
Oral history transcript, Robert Bennett, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • either actual scholarship funds or in some cases trust funds to support a scholarship program for higher education. F: Has the introduction of new claims about reached its peak, or did you envisage a continuing group of claimants? B: The time
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . White -- Interview I -- 5 and went with the New York Times, I was assigned to the Senate, covered it, among others--principally me. Of course I, saw Lyndon Johnson daily in those days, because right away--he had been there scarcely any time before he
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEW VI DATE: February 11, 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 4, Side 1 G: [Let me ask you about some] issues in 1963. O: Yes. First of all, [I'll try
Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with him until that day tn Dallas. M: That was obviously the next question. How soon after the assassination did you see him? S: I remember. It was a very curious thing. Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News and I were standing in that parking
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , I didn't mean to. But he was here as the head of the bureau, and then he was transferred to be the editor of the entire New York Daily News. So I had arranged for him to have a luncheon for Weisl and myself, so that the people at the News might
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • for one of the local Saigon or in the making I went Paul was then work- newspapers, either the Saigon Guardian the Saigon Daily News , and he was tremendously helpful to me because of his Vietnamese We went language ability . to Hue in the middle
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 2 (II), 10/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ) Then on New Year's Eve, the Johnsons arrived in Washington and we all met over at Scooter and Dale Miller's house--wait a minute, I beg your pardon; it was the Thornberrys' house, it was Homer and Eloise's house-for a New Year's Eve party. Scooter and Dale
Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • willing to assign that man. R: Well, yes, certainly, because there's a rapport there, and when a new man comes in it's an advantage because there's an understanding there and and it makes it much easier for us to present our problems to the extent
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Novak -- I --4 M: What they call the new journalism now, but it was being done fifteen years ago. N: That's right. So I did a lot of stuff on Johnson. It tended
Oral history transcript, Robert F. McMahon and Mark T. Muller, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Field, I had a total of fourteen hours in fighter aircraft, four of which were in a P-36, and none of them in the new P-40 E. But we did get them assembled, more or less, with the aid of some Aussies and the tutelage of a few sergeants that were destined
  • McMahon met LBJ; air combat in Papua New Guinea; McMahon meeting LBJ again after LBJ had become a U.S. senator.
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 50 (L), 7/19/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in, no matter how inadequate their plan was [inaudible], because we wanted to give it as much push. It was a very optimistic view of the situation. At that point he also, in classic fashion, said that he wanted daily reports to really put a torch to the Office