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Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

desirable. 4. The mate rial donated to the United States pursuant to the foregoing shall be kept intact permanently in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. Signed /JY~t ~ I~'- Date Accepted Date Je?7

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 4 (IV), 8/8/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to get furniture and get II people and get the program started. what I could. So I pitched in to help him do Toward the end of the two weeks he said, "Well now, we don't have this thing under way. I still need you some." Being the great salesman

Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 3 (III), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

those excise taxes had gone on in World War 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

Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the Press." The relevant part to this was that the program had not been over more than thirty seconds when one of the assistants in the studi 0 said, IIGovernor Brovm, Senator Johnson is on the phone. II LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. KTBC--TBC stood for Texas Broadcasting Corporation, which came into existence subsequent to World War II. nally. I don't remember what the call letters were origi- Maybe they were KTBC. As I say, that was before my time. And as I told you in our

Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Johnson ran back to my seat and said, IIDon't you want to be on the Armed Services Committee?" I said, liVes, I would like to be." And he said, IIAnd you voted the other way here. II I said, "Yes, I did." He didn't say any more. I learned later

Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. Signed /II! Da t e ' / . ' i "( /-hHi-/~· t{,~{'~- ~v \""J Accepted .. :Archiviist'of the United States Date March 12, 1975

Oral history transcript, Llewellyn B. Griffith, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/15/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

anything to be distasteful to them. it~ "It's a and I don't I think that they would be very much incensed over the idea of having to play nursemaid to a bunch of kids~ no matter how worthy Jhe cause. II I said, IIWell ~ will you try it in some

Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at the agricultural side, we remembered, we had experience in World War II of converting a lot of farming in the Midwest to sugar beets in order to produce alcohol. And they converted, in that instance almost overnight, farms that had traditionally raised corn

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

II and-- B: Last throes of the New Deal. Can you recall freshman Congressman Lyndon Johnson about 1937? H: Well, yes, I was conscious of his being here. It was later before I got closely acquainted with him. B: About when would that have been

Oral history transcript, Henry Hirshberg, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of the fellowship? H: I can't remember what that issue was now. He fell out, but I just don't-- I think he thought Roosevelt was too liberal. That's certain. Garner was an arch-conservative. P: This, of course, is just prior to our entry into World War II

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

is made sub ~ect:'G L:1"'~,:;1..-,-cwing term~ a~d conditio~s: 1. ':::'i ::le to the 'S.13.·c_":ialc:ra'i"csferred :lere p:.:'J?2rty rights, will pas~ to the Gnited Stat~s as ~~ delivery of this material ii:1.to the ?hysical cus tody c

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to come down and meet with him in Georgia and they d idn t do it. I LBJ made the remark that II it I S my understand ing LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the Daily Cardinal, and whether to intervene in the war or not was the big issue of our time as students. I think some time in October 1941 I took my stand; I wrote an editorial supporting intervention in World War II, contrary to the position taken

Oral history transcript, Stanley Marcus, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

names like some people are. F: She didn't eagerly seek for one type of designer. She didn't like some women burn for a dress by '~II designer. She just wanted something-M: And she found that, by and large, Adele Simpson pleased her and her figure

Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

responsibility for procurement. This involved the placing of a vast number of very large orders, and the reactivation of World War II plants that had been shut down--and various actions. Of course, we were in very close consultation with the Senate LBJ

Oral history transcript, Patrick V. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the captains in the police department. He was an experienced man. retired from the Army Reserve as a lieutenant colonel. He had been He had a distinguished war record in World War II and Korea, and I felt he was qualified in every respect. Eventually we

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Development is a non-profit organization consisting primarily of businessmen, but also some educators. It was created during World War II to investigate matters of public policy relating to business and economics. They have been the most responsible

Oral history transcript, Claiborne Pell, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

be kept intact permanently in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. Signed Date Date II

Oral history transcript, Robert M. White, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of World War II, you had the beginnings of a growth in this country within the private sector of private meterological services, people who provide a specialized weather service for profit to individual companies. These people, then, in the private sector

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

quizzed Lyndon about what he was going to do and Lyndon said, !lI'm going to go into public service. tics?" and Lyndon said, "Yes." II Jesse said, "You mean poli- This girl from E1 Paso that he took to Monterrey" when he and Welly and the other girl

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh J J Woods -- IV -- 27 !I II W: I took him out to the Tom Millers' house late one Sunday afternoon, and I think I sat in the car--I know I did

Oral history transcript, Florence Mahoney, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. So he had other people come to testify and that was the first outside witnesses that I know of that ever testified in the Congress before a senator for money for anything connected with health. G: And this was right after World War II? M: Yes

Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and the world. When he came back from the war in the Pacific, or rather World War II it was, he had some of his friends there in his home and he was showing us all these movies and whenever there was a fellow from Texas he would point to him, and, "There's so

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Edward J. Brenner, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

in this area? B: Yes, it's been recognized for at lease since the end of World War II that computers D Q G s i m i l a r d a t a p r o c e s s i n g equipment should find a great � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

remember we used to talk together a lot, I don't remember the details because I was not really interested in whether he sought my advice . G: Let me ask you a couple of questions about Lyndon Johnson during World War II . I know that you visited

Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Clifford P. Case, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

don't think had to say, "We 11, you know how to vote on oil dep 1eti on, II but he voted right. There were occasional instances of this sort of thing. I do not recall any myself and that was probably because of several things. One, he maybe sensed

Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

was there for about four or five years, it was the middle of World War II, and I was transferred to Washington permanently at that time. My first assignment here was in connec- tion with the war and was handling Forest Service work on forest products

Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, and we did work it out. Again, there were questions remaining as a result of World War II between the United States and the Republic of the Philippines, and a joint commission was formed of which I was a part, and we worked those things out. Things

Oral history transcript, J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER February 5, 1969 B. This is the interview with J. Lindsay Almond, Jr. Sir, let me read an outline of your career subject to corrections and additions. You were born in 1898 in Charlottesville, served in World War II

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and clear. Indeed he is. background that interested me, and partly because it's timely--I noticed that you were for a period of a year or more director of the land reform program for the U.S. military government in Korea after World War II. B: Right. M

Oral history transcript, Richard G. Stilwell, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

information was a-[Interruption] One of my closest friends who was with me--and with Sam Williams, too, in World War II--who I'd brought into the agency in my OPC [Office of Policy Coordination] days and stayed in the agency, who was on the scene as one

Oral history transcript, Roy Wilkins, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, who went through World War II and what he went through physically, and then who won the nomination at Los Angeles and capped the climax by inviting Lyndon Johnson to be his running mate, you can't say he's naive, no. So, I have to take that back. But I

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

experience prior to World War II, that if you were in Congress you should not attempt to run the foreign policy of the United States, that you should not embarrass the president when he had to deal abroad. It didn't mean that you didn't assert your views

Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

into World War II. N: I did. Immediately preceding my going into the war, though, I had my first contact with President Johnson, and it came in this way. Senator Morris Sheppard died, and there was a special election for the United States Senate. President

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

all. G: Did that accident and the subsequent-- C: Put that in the miscellaneous. (Inaudible) under Searcy, Arkansas, explosion. G: That accident and the subsequent-- C: Titan II missile. G: --report cause locales to be more reluctant to have

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and Johnson, had come out of World War II; they had come out of the Cold War and they had--there was plenty of reason to be suspicious, in any case. But I think the struggles, the things, all the attempts all were--if he could have turned that war off, boy, he