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Oral history transcript, Sidney Dillon Ripley II, interview 1 (I), undated, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in January, 1963 when he came for the dedication of the new Museum of History and Technology of the Institution. I was then the elected Secretary, but didn't take my post until February. Mr. Johnson spoke at that speech about his personal interest
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 5 (V), 5/3/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson, but she's from Chicago. My God, we have taken our best room; we've put in all new wallpaper, all new drapes, a new mattress, new everything, but Mrs. Johnson from Chicago is in there. Why didn't you tell me? give you as nice a room for Mrs
Oral history transcript, Helene Lindow Gordon, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . F: And wandered down to Washington at what late age in life? L: I was about seven or eight years old, I think. My father got a new job in Washington. F: Well, basically you are a Washingtonian, as far as you're concerned. L: I am
Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was when he was in the Senate back in the fifties. How close did you actually cover him personally during that period? S: That was a very close relation. I remember the first time I met him. I came down from New York here, and I was here in this bureau
Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 2 (II), 1/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • for the three health agencies for which I have responsibility, what I would describe as briefing materials. This of course has been done in all of the departments. These materials were particularly developed for the new assistant secretary; LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was to illustrate the fact that Mr. Weisl, who is Johnson's long-time friend in New York and his lawyer, became his committeman in New York City. Yet he had met few members of the press. Mike O'Neill knew the President very well; if I gave the impresston otherwise
Oral history transcript, James Robinson, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to New York to see, on his next trip, what he could do. And his notes indicate one or more houses said that's an interesting idea, yes, there's a market for that that would make us a little money. But several in a row rejected it on what I call
Oral history transcript, James A. Shannon, interview 1 (I), 4/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • which we can then go into some of the material. S: Okay. Well, I was born and brought up in New York City and spent the bulk of my time there, except when I was away at school, until about 1946. I graduated from the College of the Holy Cross
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 48 (XLVIII), 6/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • extending the executive order, or, as I said here, "presidential memo to the departments that would prohibit discrimination in all new housing, financed by any institution, supervised, regulated or insured by the federal government," which we figured would
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 52 (LII), 8/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • little success in doing anything about it. I think we talked about it in New Jersey; we tried to do something there to no avail. We also had going at the same--in these times--the labor part of it became very sensitive because we also had going
Oral history transcript, Henry M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Jackson -- I -- 2 the fact that he came from Texas and was in the thirties, as I understand it, a New Dealer. And that liberal image in the eyes of Mr. Roosevelt gave
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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and a new life beginning. It was roughly divided between business school, which took up about five or six hours of the day [and the office]. I went to a very ordinary sort of a loft place and took typing and shorthand for about three hours and then studied
  • in the Washington, D.C., area; the news that Austin had been approved for a military installation; a petition campaign for LBJ to run for congressman again and support for a possible Senate race; LBJ's frustration with his work in the navy; LBJ's relationship
Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • counties on the coast to make a new district, and Dick Kleberg ran and was elected . My best recollection is that he came to Congress January 1, 1933 . G: No, it was earlier than that . Lyndon Johnson went up there I guess the first time in December
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEW VI DATE: February 11, 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: [Let me ask you about some] issues in 1963. O: Yes. First of all, [I'll try
Oral history transcript, Louise Hermey Stanford, interview 1 (I), 9/6/1989, by Sybil Jackson (Item)
  • a little bit about your background in civil rights, particularly how you became involved with SNCC [Student National (formerly Nonviolent) Coordinating Committee]. S: I was a college student at Drew University in New Jersey and was in the class of 1964
Oral history transcript, Boisfeuillet Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Jones -- Interview I -- 10 to President Kennedy, whom I had never met, for this position. I told him I had obligations at Emory, I had a new
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, Alan L. Dean, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • program of the new depot. I then went with the office of the Secretary of War in San Francisco as an inspector of civilian personnel programs. In 1946 I was called to Washington by the War Department to help organize and eventually become the director
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, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • as a nation of antagonists and dissidents. I just think he's the past master of it. The difficulty with him, when he moved into the presidency, was that he obviously didn't have the new technique for building of massive public support for your programs. He
Oral history transcript, Conrad L. Wirth, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CONRAD L. WI RTH INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Wirth's office, RCA Building, New York City Tape 1 of 1 F: Mr. Wirth, tell us first briefly something of your own background and how you came to be looked upon as an outstanding
  • National Park Service, 1928-1964; CCC; New Deal; LBJ State Park; National Capital Planning Commission
Oral history transcript, Homer E. Dean, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • riding on the train back, sort of outlined some goals I wanted to achieve. That's been a habit of mine through the years. Amazing. Every five years I'd set new ones, and they've generally happened. One of them was I decided to get better acquainted
Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , he would wait until the last moment before he would personally authorize the wheat shipments . As a result, the Indians found it very hard to maintain a rationing estimate, because they couldn't know what to count on . The American Embassy in New
Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that we were wordsmiths . The only instance I know of anybody our level having made a definite contribution to new policy was Jack McNulty, who through reading � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , "Just look out there at them, and imagine that they came from Dime Box or Rosebud." Those were two of the most country towns in our beloved 10th District, or so we used to say. M: Before that, I note here that you hosted a lunch for the wives of new
  • Lady Bird Johnson's first impressions of Fidel Castro; Hester Beall Provenson's public speaking course; the Johnsons' 30th Place home in 1959; early impressions of Jacqueline Kennedy; hosting a lunch for the wives of new senators; Sam Houston
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 3 (III), 7/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of a state like New York, but you go out to North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, there the question of public housing isn't nearly so important as it would be in the metropolitan center. But conversely you take New York again, where you have a consumer
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to New York, I seem to recollect it had something to do with NATO. But the President called me in the afternoon, about two or three in the afternoon, and he said, would it be possible to do this." My attitude in working with President Johnson was always
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE BALL INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Ball's office in New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by identifying you, sir. You're George Ball, and during the Johnson Administration you served as under secretary [of state
Oral history transcript, Peter Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: PETER HURD INTERVIEWER: ELIZABETH KADERLI PLACE: His studio at Sentinel Ranch, San Patricio, New Mexico Tape 1 of 1 K: I have come here to talk to Mr. Hurd about a painting he did of President Johnson which caused a good deal of interest
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 2 (II), 1/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • administration because the problem was new, and it takes a little time for it to register, and there's no question but what there was concern about the balance of payments in 1959 and in 1960. All I'm saying is that there wasn't what you might call a program
Oral history transcript, Truman Fawcett and Wilma Green Fawcett, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to each other for two or three years and then we moved to another house further away. WF: The TF: We moved just a few blocks aVlay from the old house. WF: But Lyndon had lived out on the farm until he moved in at five years Fawcett~ built a new home
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • first trip to Washington. I was a new member, I met all of the Texas members, of whom there were twenty-one, including myself, at the time. them, probably, on the opening day of the session. I met all of I'm sure I did. That included Mr. Rayburn
Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • region. M: How did you happen to get that position? T: That came open as a result of the new Higher Education Facilities Act. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • not before Congress as a platform for the Democratic party in '56 and again in '60. Most of the time I was governor of New York--a considerable part of the time I was. Then afterwards I still remained as a member because we were very much concerned
Oral history transcript, Elliot Richardson, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the contrast between the easygoing, relaxed, drawling Southwesterner and the somewhat up-tight Ohioan. I always thought that Bob Taft looked more like a New Englander than a New Englander; he could have posed for "American Gothic," and this was vivid
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, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 14 (XIV), 9/11/1986, 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 2, Side 1 O: [The Higher Education Act of 1965] considerably broadened the areas of the involvement. For the first time
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on those two points--I think the question of supply of military equipment is a very difficult one indeed and would have been difficult in any measure. But we had at that time embraced rather strongly the new Nasser regime and at least they considered
Oral history transcript, Robert Bennett, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • either actual scholarship funds or in some cases trust funds to support a scholarship program for higher education. F: Has the introduction of new claims about reached its peak, or did you envisage a continuing group of claimants? B: The time
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