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Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in the North Carolina Senate from 1936 to 1941. After service in World War II you served in the North Carolina Senate from 1947 to 1952, at which time you were elected to Congress and have served continuously since that time. F: That's right. McS: You

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)

Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and that was what the old NACA had and it worked for them. But it wasn't going to work for a total U.S. space program. So we had Title II in the act setting up "Coordination of the Space Activities", and space was at the top level of the government. The president

Oral history transcript, William S. Gaud, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

://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 9 to go through what we call the Development Loan Committee. II m the chairman

Oral history transcript, Sim Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on my wrist here which I bought in Hong Kong in 1953 \'Ihen I was there with then-Vice President Nixon. was a great buy. II It He said, "Theis, why don't you keep your mouth shut?" Well, that triggered something in my mind. He landed at our first

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 4 (IV), 3/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

no need to talk to him this morning. II So that got up into what over the years proved to be a very profitable minority role with some people who had some ability, some resources, to expand further which--let me say before we get into KWTX, they are all

Oral history transcript, Francis C. Turner, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

being under the Public Works committees, and the financing part, Title II of the '56 act, came under the jurisdiction of the Ways and Means Committee in the House and the Finance Committee in the Senate. The bill was split into these two parts, Titles

Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

serving in this position since 1961. Is that correct? "\1: Since July 1961. M: You were an appointee, then, of President Kennedy and served through the entire Johnson Administration. W: Yes. ~II: For many years you were associated IVi th various

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

start by summarizing what I know of your career here subject to your corrections and additions. You were born in Pittsburgh in 1918; educated at Amherst; University of Chicago Law School; Georgetown Law School; World War II service with the U.S. Army

Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

if he would come up and help him on the civil rights legislation. So my husband just moved in with him for three days. F: By "help, II is that trying to draft a good bill? G: Exactly. I think it was touching a lot of bases to see who would stand

Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz

Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 5 (V), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: No. G: Anything on his service in the navy during World War II? R: Yes. No, I don't remember--I remember when he came back he gave me his coat, because I was on my way into the navy, a beautiful blue coat which I never used and I eventually gave

Oral history transcript, Willard J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

served through World War II. Where was your duty then? S: My first duty was at sea in the Gulf of Mexico. flight training and became an aviator. Later I went on to During World War II, I served on both the west and east coast in anti-submarine

Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

on this whole thing is the Balcones Research Center which was a magnesium plant during World War II and is now LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ

Oral history transcript, J.C. Looney, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

cousin. F· Well, people have said "yes, he's his cousin, II and others have said, "no, there's --L: That's it. He always kidded me, called me his country cousin. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

Oral history transcript, Robert Q. Marston, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

in consultation with II-Jr. Cohen, Kelly, Lee and the others in the department. Now when did leave none of us knew what was going to happen. l~lr. Gardner Subsequently Secretary Cohen did--I remember this--call me out of my hearings on the continuation

Oral history transcript, Steve Martini, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Tomorrow you go for a tour and enjoy everything. II I said, "Fine, Mr. President," and we said goodnight. The next morning we got up and somebody came over to the cottage and said, "The President wants you to go to church with him if you want to go

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Mayborn -- I -- 10 Ninth Air Force PIO [public information officer], that worked for me when I was acting chief and assistant chief of SHAEF [Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force] public relations in World War II. This boy was the Ninth Air

Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

their soil. First the Japanese--when they stood with us' in World War II, in a kind of a underground sense; then the French, they fought for eight years and finally threw the French out. Then what do we do but stumble into the same trap that the French

Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McLEAN -- I -- 3 just didn't undertake a business venture prior to World War II. But as soon as I got home, I was able to borrow and beg enough money and to buy a small

Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

said, liAs far as other people are concerned, the Secretary and the Under Secretary speak as one, and when either one of them says anything, you take it as coming from both. II No one else ever knew precisely LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the floor, they go on the ca 1endar. Then the cha i rman can say, II I'd 1ike it to come up, II but it's up to the leadership to decide which bills on the calendar to bring up and when. And they have to make a judgment; often the judgment is based

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz

Oral history transcript, Boyd L. Rasmussen, Jerry O'Callaghan, and Irving Senzel, group interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Act, we gradually started managi ng them. We prepared inventories of the areas to show the needs. "conservation needs inventory. We call it II What we do on a piece of land is to examine a watershed. By watershed, we mean an area that flows in one

Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on the wall there that says, "My dear friend of many years. II That refers back. He seemed to think that I was a part of the NYA, which he was for so long, but I never was and I never was able to disabuse hi.m of that. F: But we met during those days. Did

Oral history transcript, Will Wilson, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

went in the Army. Army until after World l~ar I was in various posts in the II, and came home in December of '45. I went back in the Attorney General's Office for a brief spell when Grover Sellers was attorney general of Texas; then resigned to run

Oral history transcript, James W. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

always had a feeling that he made you incapsulate things more than was really good. the time to get out what the problem was. (snapping of fingers) II He would not give you He would be wanting . . • Well , now, come on, get on. with it. is it you

Oral history transcript, Robert F. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and K: SO?II Surely, because on a trip like that there was a close knit group and you worked together and you were all there at the same time, but Johnson would sometimes forget--everybody would leave and suddenly he would see two or three people still

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. There was a complication there, too. It had become unre spectable to be an isolationist after World War II, and yet there were an awful lot of people who were really isolationists and wanted to be isolationists. One of their ways of doing it was to support Chiang Kai

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz

Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and he was going through the pile. There were thirteen of them. He got down to the 1etter to you, and he looked up and he sa i d to me, 'You know, I used to \'lOrk for that guy.' II I was amused duri ng my subsequent weeks as T noticed the extent

Oral history transcript, William B. Dale, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sam Fore, Oliver Bruck, Dan Quill, & William S. White, group interview 2 (II), 1/20/1965, by Douglass Cater (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sam Fore, Oliver Bruck, Dan Quill, & William S. White, group interview 2 (II), 1/20/1965, by Douglass Cater

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] '-1"- .'",';;;iI''¢~'"'l-_~' More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ackley -- I -- 26 Usually, though, he was really just awfully sweet

Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)