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Oral history transcript, Harry Nachlin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this during World War II, or did he talk about--? N: No, I don't think so. Actually, World War II--the only helicopters that made it into World War II arrived almost at the end, and they arrived in the China-Burma-India LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Archer Parr, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1984, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , sir. Yes, sir. I was going to school at Texas A&M when he died, and came home for the funeral. Shortly after that I joined the Marine Corps. F: Where did you serve? P: In the South Pacific. F: This was in World War II? LBJ Presidential Library
  • Family background and biographical information; Parr's military service in WW II and Korea; Luis Salas' role in LBJ's 1948 U.S. Senate election; George Parr's contact with LBJ; George Parr's role in the 1948 U.S. Senate election; disagreement
Oral history transcript, Nelson M. Bortz, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , the Resettlement Program, and things of that sort. O f course, when World War II came along, there was the need to reduce the number of publications. This publication was not eliminated, as I recall, at that time, but it was reduced. Meanwhile, there were other
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • office . M: Wherever was convenient . Did you ever meet at your ranch? I believe you had one in Falfurrias, or somewhere near there? B : No that was years later . That was after World War II . This was all in the '30's and '40's . M: Would you
  • Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Baker -- IV -- 6 farmers were big employers of hired labor. I,Jhereas in the Depression years and Horl d Bar II years, where Department of Agriculture
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the paper that Ike didn't know what he really was, was he a Democrat or was he a Republican, because he had been taken out of the ranks of the army military as an obscure colonel and made into the most popular military leader of World War II by his mentor
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • ilk;} :at to cs3s I ~~ iose I :L:247t=1 . ~,c ii~?ilt''.i: ; You c?-4n'1 wa to c allc" ;e with -aim, cad yotz ? r 1-low hid ii corfs.e to he associated witii him in the NYA Project? I had been in South America a few years and after returning I
Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • start until I came back to active duty. I was recalled to active duty at the time of the Korean War in September of 1950. My entire previous experience was in World War II, close to four years, and I was an infantry platoon and company commander
Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • brought him into the loop. I participated, still as a guerrilla, in the drafting of the Economic Opportunity Act. Boone called one day to ask me to come over to a meeting at Justice where we spent the day working over the draft of Title II with a most
  • of OEO; Congressional issues that slowed the passage of Title II War on Poverty legislation, such as family planning and programs in rural areas
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • say the rate of entertaining in the White House seemed to go up much more rapidly than our population explosion. In looking back on the records, not just during the Johnson Administration, but since the end of World War II, I went over the figures
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEW II DATE: April 4, 1969 INTERVIEWEE: ELIZABETH CARPENTER INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mrs. Carpenter's home, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Liz, we'll dispense with formalities on last names. Did Mrs. Johnson
  • Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh AC ot-1/ June 28, 2005 Geraldine (Gerri) Whittington White House Secretary Interview I: June 5, 1990 Interview II: July 18, 1990 The Library is making these interviews available without a signed legal
Oral history transcript, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , there were doc- And all that business had ended up in Title II about having community action organizations. were direct recipients of grants. That was deliberate. I guess they It may have been a bad idea, but it was surely deliberate. G: What was your
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 2 (II), 5/2/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • attempt at statehood was made right after World War II, and that went on for nearly 13-14 years. We had, as far as we were concerned, demonstrated most ably to the nation our esonomic ability and independence, our political stability. But there were
  • Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 2 (II), 5/2/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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: MRS
  • Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on out there. Then I told him it was a group of neighbors that came out there to meet him, and he said, come?" II Well , Mr. J. Edgar Hoover is his neighbor. Did he I said, "No, he's out of town, but I just let one of his aides go upstairs
Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • tried not to show his disappointment. His friends had urged him to contest it, but he said, "No. the way the ba 11 rolls. There'll be another day. II That's And so he 1et it go at that. Well, we go now to the matter of his security. One day he
Oral history transcript, Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Lasseter -- I -- 11 because she alvfays had a car. But I said, "I just don't knov:. thi nk you're too young to marry, II or somethi ng 1 ike that. I I really di dn' t \\fant her to marry just then. G
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 5 (V), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for a little while, and I said, IYoung man, sit down. I For the next hour and half I gave him a lesson in water rights. advi se me after that. I never had any trouble with him trying to II G: (Laughter) That's a good story. 0: Yes, it is. G: Do you
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 2 (II), 1/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , to say something about the balance of payments problem. My understanding is that the balance of payments deficit--so-called deficit--has been with the United States almost since World War II, and that it is now recently, just this year, being brought
  • Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 2 (II), 1/17/1969, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • there were any "had to be's." However, it soon became apparent that there were several "ought to be IS. II And it was the work of the task force to take a look at, first, whom were we talking about. kinds of needs do they have?" "Who are the poor people
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with the President, because of the position he occupies. But she came back that afternoon, when she came in she was smil ing, and she said, "Well, you were right." about it." I said, II Well , tell me She said of course she sat up on the front row, and he paid
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • immediately assumed that somebody had duplicated the key. Now in the case of Vietnam, I've always had the feeling that we reasoned from the analogy of our experience in post-World War II Europe. We looked at Communist China as though it were Russia; we looked
  • Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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: March 12, 1969
  • Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker
Oral history transcript, Elliot Richardson, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • badly wants to be President, and he may very well be President someday. F: II Johnson never exhibited any sort of real corn pone qualities in the Senate, did he? He hit people pretty well on their own level. R: He was crisp and in command. He had
Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • should receive II I talked to Walter about it and I said, "I'll undertake this if you want me to," and I did. F: You worked around the clock. S:· And I immediately became just swamped with correspondence, but we did try to get out-- F: You had
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of World War II, and I think it was most helpful. it was. It was a friendship visit, that's what And I believe that every member of Congress ought to be--. I have profited greatly from my travels. There was a time when I could say that I had visited
Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • wanted to know what kind of student you were in college and wanted to know whether you had any subversive tendencies and all of this sort of thing. aBout you. lies?" II He wanted to know what I knew IIWell ,II I said facetiously,lIdid you tell
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Affairs Committee. He was always looking out after things for the State of Texas, particularly the location of bases and the development of military structure of the country because World War II had broken out, and he was concerned with what the outcome
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ." G: I was about to ask-- P: And he said, Warfare]. II I'm (Laughter) Well , here's Paul Linebarger's book on it [Psychological Read it and then try to figure out how you might apply something to the Vietnamese situation." So I studied
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 3 (III), 1/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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 INTERVI EW II I DATE: January 30
Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • to the ESEA 25 The White House exerted power on the Democratic members of Congress 27 "Cre di bi Ii ty gap" 28 White House briefing 29 The Great Society; Vietnam War, Tonkin Resolution 32 Quie interpretation of Johnson as President LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • there in the Pedernales, Mr. Johnson tells me, multiply so fast that by the time you authorize this land and get it built there will be four of them to a mile, the standard was. electricity was M: II or whatever So they went ahead and they okayed the project and bro
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in aeronautical engineering from the University of Texas, worked for Lockheed, [saw] World War II service in the navy, and in 1952 [received] a doctorate in psychology from the University of Texas. Then after a time at teaching and as a research psychologist
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Kong, the more mature, older, some of the World War II and Korean [War] vintage correspondents out of Hong Kong, Tokyo, Bangkok, points east and west who would come in periodically to cover. Even Time magazine's bureau chief at that time, a fellow
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • -American Affairs. Then during World War II I did a variety of jobs--the Board of Economic Warfare, the Foreign Economic Administration, the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey. In the State Department I had been director of the policy planning staff. P
Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 3 (III), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Long -- II I -- 2 Johnson had never personally expressed unhappiness about the matter, · but I had reason to suspect that he was unhappy about
Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bird -- I --3 B: Yes, I commissioned him. G: Did you? B: Yes. G: Do you recall the circumstances? B: Well, now let's see, we're talking about the beginning of World War II now. G: He got
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 37 (XXXVII), 11/14/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • pads here in this? [In] any case, promptly after the federal court rejected the railroad's bid, Stuart Saunders was back on the White House phones. The appeal to Justice [John Marshall II] Harlan to stay the order of the three-judge federal court Harlan
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 12 (XII), 8/19/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • insight here on LBJ's thinking? Do you think that he foresaw World War II, and if so, when? J: Well, he early became a strong defense man. I couldn't cite to you just when, but as I think I've probably mentioned to you, it was Charles Marsh who
  • II; attending a dinner honoring Sam Rayburn and his sister, Miss Lou; the State of the Union address in 1941; listening to Franklin Roosevelt's Fireside Chats; LBJ's exposure to culture and music by the Marshes; LBJ's desire