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Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and Mr. Johnson as Vice President. So Mr. Wilkins said to his associates, "Suppose we go over on the Hill." He did not spell out to them just what he had in mind. over there, they go to the office of the Vice President. very late in the afternoon

Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, a Democrat of Alaska. Mrs. Bartlett, you have very generously consented to let us interview you about your husband's associations with Lyndon Johnson and the very important events surrounding the granting of statehood for Alaska. I'd like to just mention

Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 3 (III), 1/21/70, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-- K: Well, I think there were some heated words on that. As I understood, there was some leak from over in Paris which was unknown to Robert Kennedy and eventually the leaks got out through--the newspapers came out as I understand it, and I haven't

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 25 (XXV), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that--the filing of the IBM case and the newspaper case on January 19, 1969, cases he knew he never could have gotten clear to file during the administration, that kind of thing. So it became a difficult relationship. G: But it does show, doesn't it, a degree

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as chief executive to prevent inflation. I'll have no choice. I will have no chance to go to Congress. I am not announcing this wire so that you and your associates can consider the interests of your country, and you can act with complete freedom. The best

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

see, one of our friends also suggested that we watch the newspapers for births and deaths and golden wedding anniversaries and all that sort of thing and write the letters of congratulations or condolence. That first became Mary's job
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Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of the President's speech at the Smithsonian where he laid down the call for an international program in education that would be as imaginative and enterprising as the one in domestic affairs. Out of that a task force was set up that tried to bring together all

Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

remember it, and was really the basis upon which the Job Corps program passed in the Congress, because people could associate the Job Corps with what CCC did. That was really the basis upon which Job Corps was accepted by the Congress. G: Initially

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 10/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in that, too. J: Oh yes, he did. Ray Lee was with the newspaper. G: Let me ask you about the press in that campaign. He had, I guess, some good friends among the newspaper publishers. Do you remember any of them, and the reporters and the editors

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

truer at the end. I remember the Vice President coming over one day to meet with him, and for some reason they put the Vice President in our office. And the poor man was sitting there reading the newspaper and the time kept dragging

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in describing what happened. I'm talking about a piece of paper on which I can only assume that what was written there, was what he said was written there. He called me in and he had this one-column newspaper clipping, four or five inches long, four inches long

Oral history transcript, Alfred T. "Boody" Johnson, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/show/loh/oh Johnson -- I -- 9 G: Now he enrolled there in the spring of 1927 and I noticed in going through those newspapers that one of the first things he did was to organize a Blanco-Gillespie County club. J: Do you remember that? No, because I

Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Sauvageot -- I -- 5 indicate the tones and how to put these together. That gave me the building blocks to purchase Vietnamese newspapers and develop vocabulary, both by reading

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on Johnson's part. This I believe I think if we knew the other side of Stevenson, had we had the association and so forth to sit down and talk like you and I are, for weeks at a time, to know their families and the way things are going, which they didn't do

Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 2 (II), 2/23/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

did. But he had met Senator Wirtz. association with Wirtz. That was when he started forming an I recall one time that--this is getting off the subject a little bit--he got into an argument with someone LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh March 13, 1969 F: Mrs. Graham, when did you first get to know the Johnsons beyond just an ordinary business relationship in your position with the newspaper? G: I got to know them

Oral history transcript, Horace E. Richards, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

belonged to the Press Club. this column, "El Toro." that'd stack up. ~- 17 I was associate editor and I wrote You know they couldn't get rid of the newspapers Nobody wanted that College Star. Some of us got to writing things like that, you know

Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

know that he could, by talking, get people to do things that they would under ordinary circumstances never think of doing. G: Well, one was publicity I suppose, is that right? L: Publicity. At that time there was a newspaper called the Houston

Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

affairs . He had an absorbing interest in public affairs . It was about that time that he started,'I think, to clip arti cles out of the newspapers . There were various newspaper columnists who were particularly impressive . He used to read what

Oral history transcript, G. Preston Smith and Ellen Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Teachers College and there met Lyndon Johnson. My association with him was personal and professional and educational, and I held the members of his family very close to my heart. his sister Rebekah. I knew his father before him, I knew I did not know

Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: I am now President of a management consultant firm known of Schriever and McKee Associates, at 1400 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia. P: Why did you resign? M: In my letter of resignation to the President, I pointed out to him that I had
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Oral history transcript, Patrick V. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in the military who would accept appointment as police officers. The first emphasis was put on Washington, although some other cities benefited from the program too. B: I've been confused by stories in the newspapers recently. Was the police department up

Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

? 0: Oh, it would come from any direction--internally generated or generated from the White House . into blocs . groups . It's hard to define . Let's see if we can break it One bloc of work was associated with some continuing interagency Probably
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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 30 (XXX), 11/4/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the campaign unless--? O: There were press stories--I don't know whether they were stories or a story. But there came at some point-- G: September sometime. O: Yes. There was a story in a Chicago newspaper. I knew the writer well. We had had

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

for the signing ceremony, trying to bring in everybody we could think of in the various transportation interests including all of the modes, some of the suppliers, and such organizations as the Transportation Association of America and the National Freight Traffic

Oral history transcript, Clifford P. Case, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVI EWEE: CLIFFORD P. CASE INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: The Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Perhaps we can just proceed chronologically. C: All right. G: Do you recall your first association with Lyndon Johnson? C
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Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Baker - IV - 23 G: Did Hubert Humphrey take an active interest in that council? B: Yes. G: I gather he was chairman. B: Hubert Humphrey ~ms never associated with anything that he didnlt take an active interest in, period
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Oral history transcript, Andrew Young, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of them were pastored by young men who had had some previous movement experience. One was Dr. King's brother; one was a young man that had been Dr. King's associate pastor in Montgomery; others had been in the student movement here in Atlanta. When you

Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in progress right now--and your membership in several medical associations. If they come up later, you can mention the specific ones. Is there anything that should be added to that outline, sir? H: I would think not. That covers it pretty well. B: All

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

sorts of miscellaneous civic leaders, PTA [Parent Teacher Association], BNBW[?], Civil Defense, a cross section of the country, farmers' wives from Grand Prairie and Cedar Hill, the sort of people whom we hoped would be our supporters. We were trying

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the decision finally to send the telegram. I can't remember although I was in on the process, but of course once the telegram was sent out, no matter what the telegram said and you'd have to refer to the telegram, as far as the newspapers were concerned, what

Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

purpose, of course, in saying that he was supporting George Grant would be so the newspapers would pick it up and say George Grant is being supported by Aubrey Williams, and Aubrey Williams has repudiated James. That was the tenor. Now to digress and go

Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to the Kennedy Administration to have any Admin~tration. contact with Mr. Johnson back in your news career or in private career? D: Only vaguely in my news career. However, in 1955 and 1956, I was on Capitol Hill associated with Senator Estes Kefauver
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Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on the advisory committee. It was certainly in the early days. G: Do you recall anything between the association, Lyndon Johnson and Alvin Wirtz, in this period that you observed? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT

Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 1 (I), April 1963, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

you were associated with him in the first Congressional campaign, weren’t you? K: Yes. G: In your view, what was the President’s basic strategy? K: I think he used the same technique when he first ran for Congress that he does right now - to see

Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

friend of Mr. Fred Basham and they were both good friends of Mr. Johnson, and they wanted to introduce me to Mr. Johnson. Mostly the associations I had with him in those days, in the NYA days, were just friendship and all of us were interested

Oral history transcript, Emanuel Celler, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

during those activities? C: No, I did not. B: Was the adding of Mr. Johnson to the ticket acceptable among the political groups you were associated with--the liberal groups in New York? C: Yes, it was. B: There were some liberals

Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 10/30/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

me up one Sunday morning and asked me if I'd read page 78 of the New York Times. I said, "No." It was down three flights of stairs from me. And he said, "Well, you go downstairs and get the newspaper, the New York Times." And I went down and got

Oral history transcript, Sidney P. Marland, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and my insistence upon good quality work from students had a good effect. To this day, I'm afraid, it is a source of dismay to my associates sometimes. I'll bounce materials back that came to me for signing and say, "Look, this can be better written

Oral history transcript, George A. Smathers, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the lines that we thought would be practical, [would] be more [a] private-enterprise-type of a bill. It became quite evident as we sat at conference with the House on this thing that it was going to pass sooner or later. It was just a case of time

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