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Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , of course not publicly in the Bonham daily paper. But the word was gotten around because Dwight Dorough's * father-- Mr. Deets Dorough, the County Democratic Chairman for all the years that Mr. Rayburn was in office, I guess, let me know pretty quickly when
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 3 (III), 4/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in these appointments. Each state in the union has at least one appointee, with the leading states being the District of Columbia, New York, Maryland, and California, Virginia, and Texas." He was pleased to note for the Cabinet that Texas was in sixth place
Oral history transcript, William M. Blackburn, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • born, when, where did you get your education? B: Well, I was born in 1939, February 17, in Shreveport, Louisiana, and lived there through about the first or second grade . After spending about a year in New Mexico after that, I moved to Stamford
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that there was such a thing. Sometimes those only filtered to the West Wing and never touched me. F: The reason I ask--you know, it was news anywhere, and people just kept bringing up disclosures, particularly some of those that were critical of the President and some
  • Wear Daily; Lady Bird’s friends in Washington; Senate was Lady Bird’s great love; LBJ ran the Presidency like a Majority Leader; Leslie Carpenter.
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there would be any advantage in going into all of them. But let's talk first of all about the technique of setting up these trips you made to New England, the trip up the Hudson, the trip to Big Bend, the trip to Padre, the trip in Utah and Wyoming
Oral history transcript, Jule M. Sugarman, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency had put us in touch around several matters and I had done a number of chores for the two of them in various efforts to draft new legislation and new programs. So in the summer of '64 Dick called to ask if I would
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Emergency Relief Mission and came back and briefly resumed the special assistant post while I broke in a new man when Joe Califano went to the White House. in John Cushman. I broke Then I became principal deputy assistant secre- tary of defense
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • there was not a strong and yet poorly articulated commitment. During the first many months of his Administration Johnson did nothing either very new or very definitive to try to reduce or indeed to increase our involvement. It was basically, from his point of view I
Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • by political philosophy or conviction? A: Yes, I would have looked on Mr. Johnson in those days as part of the New Deal, a young man that came up during the Roosevelt days that had been liberal and progressive in his thoughts. Of course he came from what
Oral history transcript, Helen Thomas, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1977, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • growing years, and went to college at Wayne University in Detroit. Detroit is really--I still consider it home even though I came to Washington in World War II, 1942, and got a job as copy girl for the old Washington Daily News. I then went to UP
Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , I know that a great many of my friends, my historian friends, look on the period of the New Deal as a period of outstanding progress unequalled before or since. I lived through the years of the New Deal as an adult, teaching economics, involved
Oral history transcript, Houston Harte, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • : Big Spring, Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Corsicana, Bryan and Huntsville. Two are Week"lies which we expect will become dailies--Co~merce and Huntsville. 8: That largest newspaper in this group-- H: --is the San Antonio Express and Evening News
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, 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 3, Side 1 G: Let's start with some of the legislative developments in 1967. The Republicans gained forty-seven House
  • ; the rail strike settlement; funding proposals for rat control; William Manchester's book, The Death of a President; Doris Kearns' involvement in a 1967 New Republic article that was critical of LBJ; a July 1967 memo regarding Irish airlines' opposition
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, 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 4, Side 1 G: [I'd like to] have you focus on that list of the congressional liaison people and assess the value of each
  • and Appalachia; LBJ as a supporter of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and his deep commitment to helping people; Sargent Shriver's early leadership in the War on Poverty; Phil Landrum as a leader in supporting War on Poverty legislation; the poverty bill's referral
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Daily News, Keyes Beech, who had heard of the thing and wanted to go. In the meantime I think there was also a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • article before there was a White House [Historical Association], and we published a few along the way. But these news pictures, these daily event things, we don't publish them. Life publishes them, the newspapers publish them. He don't. But without
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was living in Japan, Dien and I began to hear and read about this place called and so I went down there for the Chicago Daily News what turned out to be the end of to the Viet Minh Dien Bien Phu fell Accords . it . and at the time of the Geneva
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 3 (III), 3/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the relations were not So when--and I think I've discussed this to some extent earlier--when Ted had corne in we had talked a little about 1968. Ted and John Criswell and I had a lunch discussing the forthcoming New Hampshire primary, and Ted was suggesting
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • commentary on the office operation, on the day we walked in--incidentally, we had to leave on very short notice, and we drove over the long New Year's Day weekend in a driving rain to get up here. The day we arrived here was the day the Congress began
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • on to India as head of the AID--brought in a clipping from McClean's column in the Daily News in Washington which said, "Waiters are reporting an enormous increase in tips since the tax cut." Lewis LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
  • Troika; Quadriad; Council of Economic Advisers; administration differences; details of tax cut; trade-offs with Congress on budget cuts; Wilbur Mills; Harry Byrd; origin of tax cut; Samuelson Task Force; “new economics;” tax increases; Vietnam’s
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 15 (XV), 1/4/1980-1/5/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Mayo's for a checkup, and I went to New York on a city trip with Gene Boehringer Lasseter, and we did a lot of sight-seeing. She went to see a young man from East Texas who was destined to make quite a mark for himself in the world of music. He was Van
  • Closing up LBJ's Senate campaign headquarters after the 1941 loss; trip to New York City with Gene Boehringer Lasseter to see Van Cliburn; the political importance of postmasters; LBJ's involvement in the extension of Selective Service and the draft
Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • shall ever have. A few things become quickly apparent. This is a whole new ball game. If I am to continue on the debate team, my outside activities will be largely confined to after-school practice and visits to the city library in the search of arcane
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • daily? N: Not daily, 0:: Cape Cod at the time of the second primary? but I telephoned. I bought the New York Times. Boston pa?ers didn't report anything. The The New York Times would have very confusing information, and I remember I called
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • know whether they ever made their ways into the Library or not. G: That's a new one on me. Let's see if I can find some. Was that the last year you were there? J: Probably so, because actually I was only there two years. G: Any other activities
  • . Johnson writing for the Daily Texan; early career plans and ideas; how attending UT changed Mrs. Johnson's life; exploring Longhorn Cavern; Captain Roy Wilkinson Aldrich; land Mrs. Johnson's father purchased from the Haggerty family.
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • Means, Mrs. J. H. Means; her husband was a professor at Huston-Tillotson College for black students; and Ada Anderson, an activist black, well educated; her husband was in real estate; and Arthur Dewitte, he was a news journalist LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Gentleman from Texas, well. This v1as the New York Daily 11 He wrote a piece called and I remember that piece very You say that it appeared about four weeks after the hearings? G: Yes. R: Same piece. I know what I'm talking about now. man's name
Oral history transcript, Frank Ikard, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . And each member of the committee on Ways and Means, Democratic member, has a region that he represents. Well, I represented Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma. And I was 5 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 7 (VII), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • my staff people to be anonymous." It was interesting, because once news got out that I was on the staff my local paper called me one day, the Long Island Daily Press, or something from Queens. There was a reporter named Tony Viglietta or somebody like
Oral history transcript, Mildred Portner, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Portner -- I -- 12 was some system. The functional furniture was installed in both the old and new offices and had relieved fatigue, improved morale, lent orderliness to the processing of correspondence daily. Then there was a desk to be used
Oral history transcript, John M. Steadman, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • participating, virtually all of them had been around here for the last couple of years; they knew each other, they knew I guess who was a real grabber of turf and who was a team player and all. But to me everybody was new, and it's remarkable how, looking down
Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • then Congressman Sterling Cole and I authored, he in the House and I in the Senate, took a little different tack on this Atomic Energy situation. We rewrote, in fact, we wrote a new bill, that's exactly what it amounted to, and we opened the gate for cooperation
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • handsome Chippendale chairs with leather seats, at which first and last I expect a quorum of the Senate sat, and [there was] an awful lot of good talk around it. Lyndon, of course, was just settling in to this huge new job. He would get an enormous amount
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • so new and young at the thing, you know, obviously Johnson had a good bit to do in Texas without coming up here. As it turned out, it was one of life's first and great lessons about politics. The fact that things shifted to Washington really made
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • stood in all of those doors that read Look Magazine and New York Herald Tribune and a lot of publications that I was too intimidated to even go in. bureau for twenty-six dailies in Michigan. She had a news For twenty-five dollars a week I could
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • from New York--Brooklyn, who is the chairman of the Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee that deals with State Department appropriations, and consequently has to do with this program. Rooney calls Fulbright "half-bright" just as [Joseph
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that--particularly thought of serving at the UN. that I wasn't interested in the UN Not but I was doubtful if I could afford to live in New York at the United Nations, because it's a very expensive post. Probably, if I had realized how expensive I couldn't have
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was the turning point in those hearings for two reasons. One, he was a very incoherent witness and the record of the [John] Stennis hearings will show that. And number two, he slugged a reporter. He hit a reporter on the way out, from the Daily News. F: Who
Oral history transcript, India Edwards, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • expected to go and it wasn't until I was ready to make all my plans that my father said no. "You can't go to New York--a girl alone." F: It's a little bit bigger than Nashville. E: And that I could go to college some place near home. Chicago and got
Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • this, as Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division? R: I was Chief Counsel, thoroughly enjoying my job and working at it diligently. When Louis Oberdorfer resigned from office, since these two jobs have a great deal of daily contact, I was quite interested
Oral history transcript, Betty Furness Midgley, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the afternoon. in her office in the Executive Office Building, Room 100. We are My name is David McComb. To start off with your background, according to my information you were born in New York City in 1916 and educated in New York City and New York area