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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it was enacted in the Nixon Administration. That involvement obviously was time-consuming. Additionally, I had a legislative item on the agenda involving postal rates, which became a sticky situation. Pressure groups were in heavy action; it took a lot of doing
  • Richard Daley about rising concerns about Vietnam; William Fulbright's opposition to U.S. involvement in Vietnam; Bob Hardesty's work providing congressmen with statements and material for their newsletters that were favorable to LBJ's legislative program
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and the only committee member that had enough intelligence to direct that kind of an investigation was Dick Nixon. That was a very poor committee, very poor committee, and the staff was even worse. found Alger Hiss. They could never have In fact, I don't
  • LBJ and Senate activities, 1957; Middle East problems; disarmament issue; open curtain proposal; USIA; J. Edgar Hoover; 1957 Civil Rights Bill; Little Rock crisis; Senators Walter George and Richard Russell; Sputnik; space hearings; Johnson
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 5 (V), 8/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • foreign knOll fror.l later accounts, \-las apparently offered the position of Secretary of D~fensc by President Nixon nine months later-- the Pn.:sjdcnt th(:i1 il;:::-;cdi.:ltcly dc.ci.dcd that he Hanted to get on the phone with, as I recall
  • LBJ’s gift-giving; LBJ signing autographs; Bill Hopkins; how becoming President affected LBJ’s friendships; learning that Hanoi had accepted LBJ’s 3/31/68 initiative; Tuesday luncheon group; appointment of federal judges; Senator Richard Russell’s
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • basis they dealt with us on, as long as we were able to get these programs and money. F: In these early War on Poverty days did mayors like you and Richard Daley and John Lindsay pretty much support the administration's efforts? C: Yes. John Lindsay
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • within the Wh i t e House, and I think it deprived the public of a really full understanding of the problems that the Eisenhower Administration were up against. My view of it is that the open approach, as the Nixon people call it, is really a pretty good
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of conversations; William Gulley’s Breaking Cover; recording in the Cabinet Room; Robert Kennedy interfering with recording; LBJ’s love of gadgetry; getting small tape recorders from Japan for LBJ; removing recording devices from the White House before Nixon came
Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1977 INTERVIEWEES: Lady Bird Johnson [CTJ] , O. B. Hardeman [OBH], Ralph Huitt [RH], Lindy Boggs [LB], J. J. Pickle [JJP], Lynda Robb [LR], Luci Nugent [LN], Dean Reid [DR], Patsy Steves CPS], Carl Albert rCA], Beryl Pickle [BP], Richard Neustadt [RN
  • Neustadt, Richard E. (Richard Elliot), 1919-2003
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , friends to all the people, including Zephyr Wright, the cook and others, including the chauffeur. The President was trying to get the driver to accept the position to be Senator [Richard] Russell's chauffeur. The driver had originally been from Georgia. He
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that one of the most faithful, and one of the nicest, ones we ever had was Pat Nixon. I don't think she missed a Tuesday unless she was out of the country with her husband. We took it rather seriously. I, too, later on acquired that job. We had a high point
  • ; the relationship between LBJ and Richard Russell; Robert Taft; tidelands controversy; Felix Longoria's burial; a letter from Herbert Hoover to Harry Truman regarding Hoover's public service; buying souvenir pieces of the White House during its renovation; Paul
Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • itself by way of my Vietnam adventures. Can you give me any commentary on the effect on the agency of the changes of leadership which took place in the decade of the sixties? C: Do you mean [John] McCone to [William] Raborn to [Richard] Helms? G: Yes
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 3 (III), 5/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the polls, and he loved tinkering with that, and he loved interpreting what did that mean and if he were really to go for it, how much could he really defeat Richard Nixon by? Yes, he really got into all of that. And then there would be days when he would
Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that he took. F: I don't know either. J: I don't recall whose seat that Kleberg took, but he went in at that time as secretary to Richard Kleberg. It was during that time that he met Lady Bird. My wife lived with the Terrells, C. V. Terrells, Judge C
Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in New York. of fact, I uas sent off to try to persuade Allen to do it. at that tim" As a matter He refused and I take a certain sardonic pleasure in having devoted my attention in the last few months to getting him to do it on behalf of the Nixon
Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to give one more example of that. When we held a counterinaugural--in 1969, it would have been--to the first inauguration of Richard Nixon, a wounded Vietnam veteran who was not supposed to leave the hospital sneaked out of the hospital--against doctors
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • connection? T: When Representative [Richard] Kleberg had been elected to Congress in LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Richard Goodwin; Great Society speech; initiation of Great Society programs; major legislative acts; Everett Dirksen; Bill Moyers and his use of power; Horace Busby; Walter Jenkins; Valenti’s 'I sleep better because Lyndon Johnson is in the White
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : At any rate, in the letter you sent to Dr. Frantz, you pointed out that you were on a committee with Richard Kleberg. You were the chairman .... R: Yes. M· In such a capacity you must have run into his young as sistant, Lyndon Baines Johnson. R: Oh
Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 1 (I), 1/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , there was no policy in the State Department, there was no policy in AID to provide direct assistance. ~ere was a policy which was articulated at the U.N. in 1962, December, by Mr. Richard Gardner, a lawyer who has gone back to Columbia--he was Deputy Assistant
  • to Nixon Administration; changes in doctors’ attitudes towards working with government; Gardner’s leadership.
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , first, secretary of Congressman [Richard] Kleberg and then elected a member of the House. M: I did not know him when he was secretary for Congressman Kleberg. I did not know him personally until after he was elected to the Senate. Beyond perhaps
Oral history transcript, Eugene Williams and Helen Williams, interview 1 (I), 10/27/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Vice President? The year President Kennedy beat Richard Nixon. HW: We must have been at the ranch. EW: What was that question? MG: In 1960, rernember, when he was elected Vice President, the night of the election, I was wondering if you were
Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • became a special assistant to the undersecretary, Robert Wood. I left the government on January 19, 1969, just after President Nixon was sworn in, and went into private practice of law. I practiced law until two years ago and then became Washington
Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • explanations, but I mean they are-­ S: Well, I later talked to Rayburn about it. As I recall, he said that the notion of Nixon becoming President was intolerable to him, and he thought that if Jobnson could make the difference he should do it, Vice
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 9 (IX), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the riots in 1968, Governor [Richard J.] Hughes told me that the city itself was very close to bankruptcy; they simply did not have the money from their tax revenues to undertake the projects that the situation following the riots required. This becomes more
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • sent me off to Doubleday and they thought it was a grand idea. I came down here to Washington and got to meet Dick [Richard] Scammon who was director of the Bureau [of the Census], 1961-1965 • At Doubleday's suggestion, it was just sort of a co
  • Biographical information; Wattenberg’s publishing and writing career; Richard M. Scammon; meeting Bill Moyers and LBJ; being hired as a speechwriter; speechwriting process in the LBJ administration; LBJ’s young staff; working on speeches with Moyers
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on up through the Eisenhower Administration. national estimates business. Estimates. F: I was one of the charter members of the We wrote the National Intelligence I wrote some of the first estimates on the Soviet threat. I might add we got Richard
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • departments, and I guess Mr. Nixon is also still working on that. Presumably his successor will still be working on getting the Department of Agriculture and Department of Interior into some kind of Department of Natural Resources and so forth. I wasn't
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with good grace just as Richard Nixon did in 1960 when he probably had some grounds to make a loud cry--I suspect that Nixon wouldn't be president today if he had made a fuss about the Kennedy election in 1960. Politically, you've got to learn to be a good
Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to take himself out, because I didn't think he could be nominated, and I was afraid if he was nominated, he might lose to Nixon, which, I think, would have been a personal disaster for Stevenson. As long as Stevenson didn't take himself out, I felt loyal
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • real affection for Johnson. Johnson and [Richard] Neuberger got along very well, too, which kind of surprised me. You could never be quite sure just who Johnson would get along with and who he wouldn't. For instance, he and Bill Fulbright got along
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • being authorized and then appropriated for. But my recollection is that because of Johnson's friendship with Senator [Richard L.] Neuberger from Oregon and Wayne Morse, while Neuberger and Morse disliked each other intensely, Johnson was friendly
Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • as a passenger; specific trips Thornhill flew for LBJ, including flights that involved dangerous situations; flying LBJ back to Texas after Richard Nixon's inauguration; reports of secret trips LBJ took to Mexico; LBJ inquiring about Thornhill's career plans
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of garrulous fellow and Jack was sort of neat and tidy. (Laughter) Let's face it, we've seen more and more of it since the days of Kennedy and Johnson and the advent of television, going all the way back [to] the Nixon-Kennedy debates, and the realization
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Biographical information; duties in Manpower & Reserve Affairs; civil works program; overcrowding at Arlington National Cemetery; McNamara; Project 100,000; Adam Yarmolinsky; Steve Ailes; Senator Richard Russell; Mr. Vinson; Operation Transition
Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Johnson? G: The ftrst time I met him was when he was vice president and he kindly came to the dedication of the Richard Byrd Memorial Statue out on the approach to Arlington. The National Geographic supported Byrd for many, many expeditions back
  • Contact with LBJ; dedication of Richard Byrd Memorial Statue; award for the Hubbard Medal; Senator Byrd's garden party; Jane N. Smith Medal; building dedication; White House Historical Association; presidents book; The Living White House; LBJ
Oral history transcript, William S. White and June White, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as [Richard] Kleberg's assistant at the time. W: They used to call it secretary, but, yes, it was the same thing. G: Do you recall the situation there in the office? W: Johnson was really in a real sense running the office. a very genial, nice man, but he
Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • organization, he was the biggest wheel I had ever heard about in barbering and he ought to be the national president. He bought it like it was a godsend to him. He loved it. It was for these Democrats, because Chicago was Democratic, [Richard] Daley