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  • , "No. I think that this is a decision that ought to go to the U. S. Supreme Court. It's a basic policy decision. to end right i:1 the Court of Ap;H,:als. ~he dent. i3s~e L~t We ought not II came to the President because Alan Boyd came
  • months. The mounting threat of Axis aggression was poised against the United States. Lyndon Johnson knew that World War II was going to involve the United States. He knew, too, that the extra period LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 2 (II), 1/28/1969, by David G. McComb
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Long -- I II -- 3 L: When we integrated the library? I don't remember. We'll just have to look that date up. [The] same thing about integrating the golf course
  • and as much as I must have bothered him at times, there were some people who would come to me and would say, [for example], one man always tells the story, he said, IILyndon can't keep from winking at you or smiling at you or looking through the crowd. II
  • much. II He then proceeded to give me the details as to.when they wanted me to report, which was in January. We talked about who would replace me as Commander of the XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. I had no contact
  • supports came in under the [Henry B.] Steagall Amendment during World War II to provide 90 per cent supports for the duration of World War II and two years thereafter. G: I think the following year, in 1955, the farm bill was regarded as one of the most
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEW II DATE: July 2, 1987
  • Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois
  • there; but the Sea Lab I and II were successful and it's the reason we decided to go ahead with Sea Lab III. P: Have you ever traveled with Mr. Johnson or been asked to travel somewhere for him? B: Never have. Never have. I've never traveled with him; I guess
  • , who also mined copper and other metals, said to us in the meeting was that they thought, as had been done in World War II, maybe we really should take a look at all the problems of raw materials and mining. And Paley had done that during World War II
  • just a very brief biographical background on your career, so we can kind of get started. D: All right. Basically, I am an artilleryman in the Army--or was through World War II. I was an artilleryman in General Patton's Third Army in the European
  • will be ready to move on this, Mr. President. II And'it was that advice, in my opinion, that tripped the decision for President Kennedy to seek the passage of a 1aw whi ch was di stasteful to 1abor because it came awfully close to compul sory' _arbi tration
  • Theater, which LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Roth -- II I -- 5
  • Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
  • information all correct? R: Yes, it is except for one of the organizations. I served as national commander for the AMVETS--the American Veterans of World War II. This is an organization composed of veterans of World War II at that time, and since
  • picture~ will treat you very nicely. II So that's a part of the space industry and the contribution it's made to us. And the other contributions, hell, I went over to West Virginia, to the University of West Virginia, to a conference one time
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: W. DeVier Pierson INTERVIEWER: Dorothy McSweeny DATE: March 20, 1969, Tape II Mc: More on LBJ
  • Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
  • the New York Times, the Congressional Record, and the Washington Post every day. II G: Did he do that? W: I think he fairly well did, or had them read for him. at the Dodge so that we could be available. closed day or night. He had Ed and me He
  • ; 1,_1 " t'" ,, q IIIII II i,';i :t'l i ! II i I I, I I,i As a former Marine it's good to get back to Quantico. I am especially pleased to share the next hour with you talking about a subject of vital importance to Marines the broad field
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEW II DATE: August 1, 1969
  • Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb
  • if that is II So the next day I went to the State Department and met a great, great friend. of mine, a great man, really I admire him, the then-Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, Mr. Richard Rubottom. And I said, IIWell, Mr. Rubottom, I'm here
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEW II INTERVIEWEE: CHESTER
  • Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEW II INTERVIEWEE: LEE
  • Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 2 (II), 2/18/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
  • degree in the Department of Fish and Game. From there I went into the Immigration Border Patrol down on the Texas-Mexican border for almost three years. This was at the beginning of Horld Har II, when I applied for a military leave from the Border
  • relationships with him, and I said, "Look, if there's any way that you think I might be helpful to you, I'd be glad to. I'd just like to let you know I would like to throw my oar in with you if I could be helpful to you in some way. II I guess part
  • like to talk to you. Can you come up tomorrow?" I said, "John, live got a dedication of a new industry. II said, "I'm going to New York on Saturday. II could you stop off in Washington on Friday?" certainly. II And he said, lit-Jell, So I said
  • , trying to learn more about the activities, to utilize some of the work that I'd had at the university. At that time the conflict in Korea started. I had been 4-F all during Horld War II because of a problem of health in prior days. had had a long period
  • to Paris again until this trip, because I was with him all those years. G: And then right at the end of World War II, I guess, he went for the first time. R: That's what I think may have been the other time. But if so, this would have been his third
  • in support of Henry Gonzalez's campaign for House of Representatives in 1961; LBJ's rapport with the Mexican people; traveling around the U.S. with LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Styles Bridges; the China lobby and isolationists during World War II and later
  • , humor . No humor . no Ernie Pyle . of the war- You know, you had no Bill Mauldin . There were a couple of old World War II who had been pretty well and tried to do in which there was no That was its chief characteristic except very black humor
  • and became II Field Force commander in July of 1968. (Interruption) G: We were talking about challenging aspects of the job of being chief of staff, and I guess that was one of the big ones. K: Yes. Aside from that, the question of personalities
  • reconcile a war--how we could get a war into an economy that was running full blast. We didn't have that problem, you know, in World War II. World War II, we were lucky. The country was running at about 50 per cent of capacity, or 60 per cent. We had 25 per
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERV lEW I II DATE: June 9
  • and intending to stay six months to a year but found one challenging assignment after another and completed that particular tour of service at the end of World War II in December, 1945. M: Is this when you were counsel for Tennessee Valley Authority? F: After
  • then after World War II, as to whether that would be under the military or be a separate entity, and it was decided to make it a separate entity and that had worked well. more than just a military matter. And the space venture was thought to be Von Braun
  • for the FBI? S: Oh, I went in about the time of the beginning of World War II and stayed in till the end of the war. I returned to Dallas then to practice law. [vi: Did you join this firm that you're now in at that point? '. LBJ Presidential Library http
  • ; Right. ~.]as appointed. They didn't think that somebody over sixty really ought to be appointed. So they put in a rule that ,,,hen something like this--I told you about the three categories, "Qualified," ''tie II-qualified," "excep- tionally
  • , by the way, administered a program of war claims, involving roughly 23,800 claims. We did that in a four-year period. M: This would be from World War II? R: These were World War II claims. The law was passed on October 22, 1962. LBJ Presidential
  • Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 2 (II), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb
  • signed. to the point where all Nimitz had to do was sign them. II We got them So he looked up the day we went down there , and said, "Oh, you two are here again." He was pretty busy, you know. So he signed the papers assigning me to go out to meet