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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, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in 1959 had brought the dollar under pressure for the first time since World War II. During that period, the dollar, as planned in designing the International Monetary Fund in 1945, had in effect replaced gold as the basic reserve money of the free world
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . (Interruption) --I went to the British Embassy for a celebration of the coronation of Elizabeth II, and picked up Hubert Humphrey and Muriel, always glad to be able to have somebody to go with because Lyndon just didn't put things like that at the top of his
  • governess; LBJ's support for working women and daycare facilities; LBJ's smoking and stress; Gene Autry at the 1953 Texas State Society barbeque; a British Embassy celebration of the coronation of Elizabeth II; seeing the Trumans in his post-presidency
Oral history transcript, James A. Lovell, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • encour­ aging remarks there. M: Well, that was bigger contact then. L: Oh, yes, it was a much bigger contact we had. M: You might talk about that a little bit. That was right before Apollo VI II? L: It was just before the launch of Apollo
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 6 (VI), 9/16/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • sure you've gone over some of his subcommittee actions both in World War II and later. G: Yes. Did he do any selling of that legislation on the Hill, do you know? J: I don't remember that he did. G: No, let's see, this was 1947, so he was still
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in China. G: How was your position affected then, to back up just a little bit, at the end of World War II when the Nationalist Chinese Army came into the North? BD: Oh yes, it was a very, very turbulent period, and somehow I got involved in politics
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 3 (III), 7/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • these things down every time, and it was never possible to get a bill on the President's desk. The President then--or somebody, I don't know who--actually concocted this formula. But we had passed after World War II not long after I came to Congress the so
Oral history transcript, Lindy Boggs, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Boggs' earliest memories of the Johnsons in 1941; LBJ's World War II military service; LBJ's 1948 Senate election; socializing with the Johnsons and Sam Rayburn; Boggs' and Rayburn's interaction during the 1960 presidential campaign kick-off; how
Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in the countryside, and rarely did a fight last more than a day. [There] might be a succession of contacts over three or four days, but in 1965-1967 rarely did the same unit stay in contact for days at a time, in contrast to Korea and World War II, except at some
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • run for governor they would not seek the office. See, on the eve of World War II he had made this race for Senate and in all but the history books he won it; it was stolen from him afterwards. John very much wanted him to run for governor and use
Oral history transcript, Ardis C. Hopper, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • day and said, IITom Nichols wants to see you. Well, Tom Nichols was the II President's secretary and really had charge of those things. So I went in to see what Tom had to say and he said, "I hear that you and Lyndon and Boody and a whole bunch
Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh CE::ERAL SEEV ICES Amn:.iI STEll nON NATIO:iAL ARCHIVES A~D RECORDS SEHV ICE Gift of Personal St3tem~nt
Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Fowler's guy Donnelley. Leave him alone." I said, "So?" wouldn't touch you with a htmdred-foot pole. II at the same time angry. this was not my idea. He said, "We Well, I was flattered and I talked to Mr. Fowler about it. He said, "Dixon
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 3 (III), 7/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • War II, because you know you're going to deploy all the resources that you can without disrupting your on-going civilian economy. But in a conflict of this sort of a highly limited character, a good deal of the pace and scale of the war depends
Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at Baton Rouge campus of Louisiana State University and then entered medical school in July of 1942. Since this was the World War II period, we were on the accelerated program, and I completed medical school in June of 1945, a three-year program. I
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it and gave it to the Vice President. And soon after, the Vice President saw me in the hall and said, "Cecil, I want you to come over sometime and make a picture like you just made of the President. II Just like it, same pose, hand on the desk, and every
Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and he would get out and help the candidate whom he thought would be a better official, not only to our community but to the state and our country. So that when I came back from the service after lid been in the service six years in World War II, he
Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 1 (I), 7/3/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • and maintenance of all outdoor advertising signs, displays and devices in all areas within a thousand feet of the outer edge of pavement of the primary system and interstate system of highways be controlled. II I'm reading from the panel report. "A majority
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (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: October 18
  • Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 3 (III), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that period of time have been performed by my principal deputy, Mr. P: [Ralph] Earle [II]. Mr. Warnke, how much do you think that our commitment in Vietnam has LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ! That he could think that I think that I could buy his support with a turkey! II Very disgusted. I remember also going to their house when their girls were very small children. Bird had bought the radio station by that time. She took money that she
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the words. F: I can go back before that because I was in the British Navy in World War II, and I know what they thought of him there as a politician. H: He could get along with people. He could get people in the room, and as I have often said I think
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Johnson wanting him to come down and see him before he went. Lyndon was trying to put the last screw into everybody, turn the ratchet one more time. So Sherrod was in a situation like that. He was a very good World War II correspondent, I think
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on here. news conference has not materialized yet. Senate Majority Leader. This I haven't even seen the He's around here somewhere, but I haven't really seen him, and I just don't know. said, "What the hell is going on? II He kind of pressed me
Oral history transcript, Horace E. Richards, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was elected anything, "You know, Lyndon is running night and day for president of the United States. to talk about. II He wants to be. And I know that was true. That's all he wants He had his eye on that job back ten years before he was ever elected
Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • up to run for governor some day. II Now this was in the back of my mind. However, when Henry Norgenthau's son--what's his name? C: Robert. F: Bob Norgenthau. R: Bob Morgenthau was running. Lyndon was in town and was supposed to speak for him
Oral history transcript, Will R. Rogers, interview 1 (I), 10/9/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 I-rR : Yes. PB: c.e.c., WR: That I s right. PB: ')'ii:.a t WR : Then we built the park out here. wasn't it? did they do? All the buildings and everything in that park was built by the C.C. boys and the materials
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • , but back in those days right after World War II and the factories could not make delivery anyway, and I had enough orders stacked up in San Antonio that if there was any suffering it was possibly at a later date as they caught up on deliveries. And too I
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (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: September 16
  • Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Oral history transcript, Polk Shelton and Nell Shelton, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • both very much. love him and Lady Bird. [End of Tape 1 of 1 and Interview I] In fact,II just LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • World War II, the fraternities never won the presidency. what the independents gave us. The only thing they won were The independents never challenged the editorship of the Cactus, for example, because that was not a magazine but sort of a social
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • here, and weI re about to allow it to be taken away from us. II That was particularly evident from the labor people and the more liberal element in the party. They seemed to have a distrust for this switchover, and so in order to make it official
Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • not frequently but once in a while during the war [World War II]. Army. I was here [Washington] about three and half years in the He went into the Navy for a tour of active duty. I saw him a few times during the war; saw him more often after the War, but my
Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • II of asserting its role in the foreign policy business. But earlier, within the Senate, there had tended to be a deference to the Foreign Relations Committee and very often to the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. You remember
Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • this up. Bennett came back and held a press conference. And he retailed stories that had been wholesaled to him by the military at San Isidro, the loyalist military, about beheadings and things of that sort. II He made one mistake in his press
Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to the legislators. was my main function. I was to circulate around through the crowd and I was to go with him and say, "Thi sis Senator Jones, forth. That So that was my function. II and so I was down here working on that at the time that I received the news
Oral history transcript, Eugene McDermott and Margaret Milam McDermott, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McDERMOTT -- I -- 3 its present location about 1941 burned down in 1945 or '46, and then ~ was rebuilt and it's been building since. ON: Whendi d you fi rst meet up \'Ii th Lyndon Johnson or the Johnson family? EM: Oh
Oral history transcript, Cameron McElroy and Lucille McElroy, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , "I won't run. II 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 McElroy -- I
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and we worried lest both the kids and the faculties were becoming lethargic. F: Yes, I remember that complacent generation. It worried me as a history professor. M: After World War II, we always blamed it on World War II because you had a double
Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Australian But it's because we do in fact have exactly the same outlook broadly on world issues. F: My feeling in Australia during World War II was that these were an LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B