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Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , graduated from North Dallas High School, then took a B.A. degree from the University of Texas and an LL.B. degree from Yale Law School. M: From what I've read in the newspaper clippings, you made some friends at the Yale Law School that later had some
Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • -Idaho] who has since passed away of Idaho, Senator Schoeppel [Andrew F. Schoeppel], who has since passed away, of Kansas, Senator Cotton [Norris Cotton] of New Hampshire, and his then associate, Senator [Styles] Bridges of New Hampshire. I believe
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1983 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT W. INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Murphey's office, Nacogdoches, Texas f~URPHEY Tape 1 of 1 G: All right, Mr. Murphey, would you begin by telling us what your association was with Governor Coke Stevenson? M: I
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 2 (II), 1/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • you take up that story where you became associated with it? P: Yes, Mr. Baker. February. The starting point is really in middle or later President Johnson established the Task Force on the War on Poverty--I think that was its official name--early
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • -- I -- 2 being there about a year or a year and a half, I became associated in the practice of law with Martin B. Winfrey. I was with him until I went into the navy in 1943. I went to boot camp and received a commission and was assigned to Washington
Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 2 (II), 11/25/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • with a small group of inside people--people that he had been associated with for some period of time largely, and people who were of his particular bent, very imaginative, very humorous, very light and gay. I didn't fit into that particular category, so
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to remember the helicopter over the years and associate it with him. J: Yes, it became a kind of a trademark. He called it the Johnson City Windmill. G: There have been stories told about him pitching his hat to the crowd from the helicopter when
  • and other newspaper men; effort to avoid alienating Senate candidate George Peddy and his supporters; support for LBJ among African-Americans; waiting for election results at the Driskill Hotel in Austin; LBJ's loss and the prospect of a runoff against
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : In this early association with the President, did you have any awareness of his temper? 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, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was called to the service right after I got out of Hardin-Simmons; well, I say right after. I spent a year in Amarillo working for the newspaper. F: Did you know the Hardin-Simmons journalism man that got killed in San Angelo? S: I didn't know
Oral history transcript, Rutherford M. Poats, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the position you still hold? P: Right. M: Did you ever have, in your career prior to joining the AID agency, any relation with Mr. Johnson back in your newspaper days? M.I LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • been working as a newspaper reporter for a medium-sized daily in Pennsylvania and felt that I wanted to go abroad. I wanted to go abroad as a correspondent. At the time, among other subjects and people, I was covering Congressman Francis E. Walter, who
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • working as a newspaper reporter for a medium-sized daily in Pennsylvania and felt that I wanted to go abroad. I wanted to go abroad as a correspondent. At the time, among other subjects and people, I was covering Congressman Francis E. Walter, who was from
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it personally. Since this question will obviously arise in your mind I will go onto another episode. When the problem of the National Student Association arose in February of 1967, I happened to be out in Albuquerque. I was doing something in conjunction
  • ; not involved in policy making; Fulbright letter and the ruckus McCarthy made; February 1967, the National Student Association problem; Pueblo Mission; Tuesday lunches in 1967; halt of bombing in Vietnam; 3/31 speech; Six Day War; Kosygin on hot line; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
  • , and he beat Mr. [Robert] McNamara in, which I believe was what his objective was! (Laughter). And therein began our association--mine with the Vice President, later the President. And I must say that it was a wonderful, exciting experience for me
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 43 (XLIII), 1/23/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • with the President and other staff members to Hyannis Port [Massachusetts]. Was that your first trip there? J: Yes. My first trip to any kind of what might have been an intimate association with 5 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • about? Bo: Yes, the commission idea itself was mine, and it came about in this fashion. The day that President Kennedy's body was here in the Capitol in the Rotunda, a newspaper friend of mine in whom I have great confidence--his name is Edmond
Oral history transcript, Sim Gideon, interview 2 (II), 10/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • think, one of the first lawyers in Texas who made a particular study of the water laws of Texas. At that time there never had been much water law practiced in Texas, and he had been associated with the development of a small dam on the Guadalupe River
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to court-martial him, but they didn't probably because of his association with a man who later became vice president, a man by the name of [Nguyen Ngoc] Tho, T-H-O. I LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • you to Mr. Johnson when he was majority leader? N: I became the Senate correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in September of 1958. Previous to that, I had been with the Associated Press, and I had not been close to Johnson at all with the AP
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • completed, and we will have sent it to all of the judges and all other interested parties for their comment . But we are seeking a year's extension . F: Governor, let's talk politics today . In your association with Mr . Johnson personally, when did you
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 4 (IV), 10/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • saying, "It's going to be Thursday; it's going to be Friday; there'll be a press conference," and so on. Finally there were some of them who had Monday newspapers. He, even at one point, with my permission, passed out copies of the press release, White
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • sold Sherman Birdwell before he left on gOing to work for the NYA. G: So far as the operation of the NYA is concerned, would you characterize what you men working there, the President and his associates, felt to be the most important project you were
Oral history transcript, James W. Smith, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • conservative. S: Frankie had a way with those kind of people that her family had been associated with. She was enormously respected all through the East Texas lumber industry as a person. And rightfully so. She was a very LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --Mr. Roosevelt. I was at the head table, so to speak, in a very minor capacity. I was at the Democratic National Committee. I was the only man of the young men who had had a great deal of newspaper experience, and therefore I spent a great deal
  • Biographical information; involvement with Roosevelt's administration; newspapers' importance to the government; summary of politics in New York State when Roosevelt was governor; genesis of the New Deal; Harvard graduates in FDR's administration
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of small country newspapers throughout, I think Arkansas, some in Texas, some in Alaska. So the fact that he owned some in Texas would have a great deal of bearing on Lyndon Johnsono to say that he didn't know what he was going to do o He went on He
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of Humphrey's associates interpreted this whole process as sort of an empire-building operation on your part, which is in some respects kind of flattering since LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Reuthers traveled with me. Joe Napolitan, who was a long-time associate of mine and had been with me in the 1960 campaign, agreed to go along. We decided to structure some regional meetings, so that in a brief period of time we would touch base in a manner
  • status report to LBJ on his campaign and local races; the daisy campaign commercial; Tony Schwartz's work on commercials for LBJ; public opinion about Goldwater; opposition to LBJ by the American Medical Association (AMA); efforts to distribute campaign
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • destination on a number of sightseeing trips. G: I was going to ask if his association with them--I know that his family had known A. W. 5 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Johnson had developed a very kind relationship. I guess it was my association and my longtime friendship with Virgil Chapman, who came to the Senate at the same time that Lyndon did. It made it easier, I guess, for me to become close to Johnson early
Oral history transcript, Fred Schmidt, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a number of people on our national board, of which I was a member, from the trade union movement. So I do recall Johnson saying that he had a very close association with that young redhead from Detroit, that fiery young labor leader who, when he couldn't
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a great friend of Ed Clark's, a great friend of Jake Pickle's and many other people, I got to know Mr. Johnson. He was looking for help then and he would take on most anybody. In my particular town of Longview, we had a newspaper that was edited by a man
  • Biographical information; initial association with LBJ; 1948 Senate campaign; Carl Estes; 1952 campaign and Texas Democrats; Texas delegation to Chicago Democratic National Convention, 1956; Lady Bird; racism and civil rights; Democratic State
Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of them relating to ways in which they can assist in helping to lift people from deprivation. M: Excuse me a minute. When you say YW-- K: The Young Women's Christian Association. M: The YWCA. K: The YWCA. But the multiplicity of programs is really
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • "Cases on, Patent Trademark and Copyright Law." And then the University of Texas Press publication called American Enterprise and Scandinavian Antitrust Law; articles, lectureships at various places like the University of Puerto Rico, Luxembourg
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh his tent, but not wanting to be associated with a Johnson Administration enterprise particularly, and busy
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 7 (VII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to be straightened out. The only question was where the collective enterprise would go. The reason that they had not been put together earlier was a difference in emphasis and in support on behalf of these two organizations. The narcotics people had considerable
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins and Alice Hopkins, interview 4 (IV), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • did some lobbying before the Texas legislature, I guess in two instances: one, when he \'Jas teaching in Houston, he went up and lobbied for some cigarette tax that would benefit the Houston Teachers Association, or something like that. Do you
  • Early association with Johnsons; LBJ at Southwest Texas State Teachers' College; LBJ as debate coach; Alvin Wirtz; secretary to Kleberg; Maury Maverick; Al Smith; redistricting Blanco County
Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on that one. Anyhow, that was the way that was and then, as you know, later after that, the President went up to a meeting, I think it was the Associated Press editors, in a couple of weeks, repeated the same thing right smack on the record; and then later
Oral history transcript, Roger Blough, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Council or to one of the groups that I was associated with in which he laid great stress on the then-improvement in business and the fact that profits had come up considerably since 1961, which at that time was true--not necessarily very true with respect
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 2 (II), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CARROLL KILPATRICK INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Kilpatrick's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Kilpatrick, is it correct that you began covering the White House in association with Mr. [Edward T.] Folliard in 1961? K