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Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • by political philosophy or conviction? A: Yes, I would have looked on Mr. Johnson in those days as part of the New Deal, a young man that came up during the Roosevelt days that had been liberal and progressive in his thoughts. Of course he came from what
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • a little I believe it was three more meetings that you had with Mr. Johnson. A: Yes, I would like to. Last fall, I believe it was--must have been maybe fairly early in November--I had come to the conclusion that I really could not afford to stay in New
Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • starting their new programs, getting more up-to-date plants, particularly right around here because this is an old city and some of these plants were old- -a number of them had closed down. M: Incidentally, beautiful job. ject, B: this is my first
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 5 (V), 9/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: MARY MARGARET VALENTI INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mrs. Valenti's residence, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: There was a New York Times story at the time he was in Mexico that he had received ten thousand
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 20 (XX), 1/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in California, I got desperate calls. He wanted to announce some new weapons systems of one kind of another and we announced the over-the-horizon radar and one other weapon systems from the steps of the Capitol in Sacramento as I recall. Pat Brown and I got
Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Adolph Berle in New York--whom I knew not intimately, but in a casual way--saying that the President-elect had asked him to form a task force on policy toward Latin America. They wanted an economist and they thought I would be the best person. I tried
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • DATE: January 9-10, 1982 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas Tape 1 of 2 J: The winter and spring of 1950 began a new thing in my life and that is carpooling. Lynda, at six
Oral history transcript, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in New York City. I also have honorary degrees, one from my own alma mater, Doctor of Divinity, and one from Midwestern University in Wichita Falls, Texas, an L.L.D. My pastorates have been rather long for our denomination, and most of them--all of them
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , of course. A: Liz was during the campaign but, you see, Liz was going back to work with Les in the Carpenter News Bureau. She went back there before she joined the Vice President's staff the second time around. So really it was just me. Before that Grace
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that there was such a thing. Sometimes those only filtered to the West Wing and never touched me. F: The reason I ask--you know, it was news anywhere, and people just kept bringing up disclosures, particularly some of those that were critical of the President and some
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . There is a Texas Society still operating. K: They had monthly dances at the Mayflower. Somehow or other we would manage to rent a tux and go to those things. And of course there were a lot of things to see around W'ashington for people like us that were new
Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , I know that a great many of my friends, my historian friends, look on the period of the New Deal as a period of outstanding progress unequalled before or since. I lived through the years of the New Deal as an adult, teaching economics, involved
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • President Kennedy LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] did, very candidly, was to get it a new euphonious name. Alliance for Progress. More on LBJ Library
Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: HARRISON SALISBURY INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MUu-iOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Salisbury's office, New York Times, NeVI York City Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by simply identifying you, sir. You're Harrison Salis- bury, and you've been with the New York Times
  • Working for the New York Times; Salisbury’s trip to the Far East in 1966; getting permission to go to Hanoi; a possible connection between Salisbury’s visit to Hanoi and the Marigold negotiations; trying to convince the Vietnamese
Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Smith -- I -- 10 a French-American investment firm called Lazard Freres, Lazard They're in New York even now. Brothers. the objective of dividing
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , those Then there were various conferences. I can't put my finger on a single one, but I'm sure that there must have been Some conferences when he was called down from New York and I was present in the conference. M: After Mr. Johnson became first
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the Operations Coordinating Board of the National Security Council, which was a new board. The purpose of it was to try to coordinate overseas opera- tions of the federal government. B: Were you formally disassociated from the Bureau of the Budget in those
Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was sent down there the deal and it was just a possibility at that point, of three or four ministers in a closed TV studio. evolved down there, and of This was an entirely new format as it course~ they weren't on the scene and I was. Woodrow Seals
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • into a world of communication, rather new, and quite strange to me, I a must ask you, Paul, to provide and a reasonable modicum of lot of caref~l guidance to·me deletion from the finished proauct -- lest this become a ,biographical sketch of a lniversity
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of the news if I'm not mistaken, was an the Buddhist monk so-- in those days . And it's sort of a puzzling story, because I gather he was a puzzling sort of a person . Is that accurate? � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • handle the news press, they would talk to the local politicians, but they actually ran the campaign . Completely innovative ; some- thing like that had never happened in American politics before . It worked tremendously . Well, we got to the convention
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 2 (II), 1/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in their official undertakings. B: Was it jus.t assumed by everyone at this stage that Sargent Shriver was going to be the head of the new office to be created by this bill? P: Sargent Shriver was a special assistant to the President in undertaking the War
  • Presidential Task Force on the War on Poverty; drafting War on Poverty bill; Shriver’s dual responsibilities; Community Action; Adam Yarmolinksy episode; problems of the new agency; Legal Service problems; return to the Justice Department
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • commentary on the office operation, on the day we walked in--incidentally, we had to leave on very short notice, and we drove over the long New Year's Day weekend in a driving rain to get up here. The day we arrived here was the day the Congress began
Oral history transcript, Marie Wilson, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • right. I'm from New York. the end of 1951. Wilson there. I left New York and went to Texas at I worked at Lackland Air Force Base and met Glen I married Glen Wilson in June of 1953. gets me to Austin. Okay, that I went to work for Max Brooks
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 5 (V), 11/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and Governor Connally did, and plenty of mayors did. The mayor of Oakland, California, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, the mayor of Syracuse--it wasn't political, you understand. They reacted--and not all of them reacted that way. And I want to give you one
Oral history transcript, Wayne Aspinall, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the northeastern part of the state, Larimer, Weld, Logan, Morgan, Sedgwick, and Phillips. F: You had to go out and develop a whole new constituency. A: I went from Julesburg, northeastern corner, down to Towaoc, the southwestern corner. F: That's bigger
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Committee with him were an absolutely outstanding group of senators. It was because of their prestige and their power and their impression with the news media that we were able to start a space. program. Jack Kennedy never did understand what space
  • acceptance of the vice-presidential nomination; whistle stop train trip through the South; Bart Lytton; helicopter incident in Rocky Bottom, South Carolina; New Orleans
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • appointed, of course, is the correct phrase--as public news officer for some military-related job. The legislative events of that spring and summer: price supports for farmers ground on and on. It's amazing to remember that one of our problems were those
  • visit to Washington, D.C. and Mrs. Johnson's trip with them to New York City; F Street Club; Joseph Davies' home, Tregaron; visits to Senator Harry Byrd's home; "Byrd houses" along the Appalachian Trail; socializing with the Texas delegation; Tony Buford
Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • school at the end of the Eisenhower Administration. As a means to an end I signed on with the Park Service to work I knew not where, but I was assigned to what was then called the Custis-Lee Mansion, Arlington House. As a native of western New York State
Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for installations in the new Defense structure. Floete went to the Hill to testify from time to time on Defense Property matters. I was a back-up, supporting witness. So when he later--about 1954, I believe, or 1955--went to GSA as administrator, the Public
Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and he came And Wolf did a very fine job basically in that field and other agricultural developments, helping with the rubber and new plants and that sort of thing. But there was no [disagreement there]. They fought over other things later, because he
Oral history transcript, Victor Ferrari, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in England. We were Our first leg was to Syracuse, New York, followed by stops at Goose Bay, Labrador, and then into Iceland. You notice how short those legs were. Because of our inexperience we were assigned very short legs. On our flight to Iceland
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • Means, Mrs. J. H. Means; her husband was a professor at Huston-Tillotson College for black students; and Ada Anderson, an activist black, well educated; her husband was in real estate; and Arthur Dewitte, he was a news journalist LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, William S. White and June White, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would compete with the people, say, in Tom Connally's it. office, to release announcements of new projects first. W: Yes, he did. G: Can you elaborate on that? W: Well, he was almost the scourge of the Texas delegation about that matter of getting
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • realized that Johnson \vould work much harder simply because it could be regarded as an advancement. He had very correctly gauged Johnson as the kind of a man who would work his head off if he were presented with a new challenge. Now, how the thing
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was living in Japan, Dien and I began to hear and read about this place called and so I went down there for the Chicago Daily News what turned out to be the end of to the Viet Minh Dien Bien Phu fell Accords . it . and at the time of the Geneva
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 10 (X), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with the creation of new laws. Too many people think that laws come only from Congress. It's true that statutes come only from Congress, and then with presidential signature, or at least approval. But there is a very substantial body of what can properly be called
  • assassination; the occasional need to make sure the president understands the situation about which he is making a decision; the president's authority in lawmaking; interagency action; the 1967 New Town in Town program at Fort Lincoln in Washington, D.C
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • but not a whole lot of outspokenness; whereas Ramsey and Dean Rusk were very steadfast, quiet, immobile to a certain extent, and got away with it. F: Did the President, in a sense, cool off on Clark Clifford as a result of the new postures? J: I think very
Oral history transcript, William A. Knowlton, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , the new chief of staff, Harold K. Johnson, was appointed. Harold Johnson was a man I had not known before. He came up from the position of DESOPS, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, who is the army's strategic planner, and he came up with a burr under
  • of Vietnam; problems with civilians and military personnel working together, especially in terminology; Senator Edward Kennedy's visit to Knowlton's operations; Knowlton's work to secretly employ over 800 new White House staff members during LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that the New Deal and organized labor, which to most Texans was equivalent to the Politburo, were pouring money into Johnson's campaign here in Texas, and poor Texas people, honest Texas opposition couldn't stand up against this great plot that was hatched