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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, 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, 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, (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
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . But the first opportunity, Mr. Roosevelt made it apply to all people who had a worthy project that was in the public interest and couldn't get financing locally at reasonable rates. He said go to the RFC and get it. You know when World War II started
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • stamp, in a sense? W: Exactly. F: III'm for the administration. II W: I never heard him, not one single time, ever put a bad word on President Kennedy. Never. That's not to say he didn't do it, but he certainly never did it to me. By then, you
Oral history transcript, Jesse Curry, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • commotion in the President's car. About that time a motorcycle also pulled over, and I asked him what had happened, if s9meone had been hurt,and he said yes. I tol d him, "Take us to Pa rkl and Hospital. II M: So you were in the lead car then to Parkland
Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • from 1940 until 1942. While there, I ran for the House of Representatives of the Texas legislature, and served until 1944. Meanwhile World War II had come on and I entered the U.S. Navy in 1942 as an apprentice seaman and continued on active duty
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, 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, 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, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , it looks to me 1ike you have written III i noi s off. II The answer came back over the phone, "You said it, I didn't." And I learned later that that was true. least, it was told to me as being true when I was on the plane At LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 1 (I), 1/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and I was involved in the litigations during the period of 1961 to 1964. B: I know that Attorney General Kennedy on occasions used what he called a "team approach II in various matters in the Justice Department where people, regardless
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and I was an officer for three and a half years, an infantry officer in World War II. about how the machine works and how the mind works. I know something I know, for exam- ple, that as a young cadet and as a junior officer, I was taught what every
Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Thornberry--I--II F: Then you went over there, as I recall, with some regularity. You were his big domino convalescent partner. T: Yes, I went there, I think, practically every evening. I would go out there and we would
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and just didn't have the capability that the others had. I understand that General McGarr was one of the great regimental commanders with the Third Division all through World War II, and in my opinion and for what it's worth, I think that his great service
Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • would not mean oblivion . Although we couldn't carry it all out, it fulfilled a very big function . The Germans could have fought for perhaps two more years if it hadn't been for that . During World War II, outside of the vague "four freedoms" we
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • have said, we [retaliated]." II Yes , they hit us, so He couldn't conceive that they would have conjured up something and faked it. But then when you got into sustained bombing, heavy, heavy B-29-or whatever the hell we were using then--bombing
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
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, 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, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
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, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the newspaper business, magazine business, World War II service in the Air Corps, and, after the war, your own public relations firm. When in this process did you first meet Mr. Johnson? M: I saw him when he was running for the Senate in 1948. I did
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • home he ca 11 ed me, and I sa i d, want to come out and talk to you." this to him. II I I went out and got out there about one o'clock in the morning to his house. ever met the man. I called I don't know whether I'd I sat down with John and his
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh April II, 1969; Washington, D. C. F: This is an interview with Mr. Willard Deason, Commissioner of the Interstate Commerce Commission, in his office in Washington, D. C., on April 11, 1969, and the interviewer is Joe B
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . And I won't run without you. II F: Do you think Jack Kennedy felt then that this was as good a Vice President as he could have gotten? W: Yes, he ~id. He had a very high respect, I'm sure, for the Vice President. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , "You kno1-1 , this is a real error. don't debate \
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • background and how I got started in Texas politics, I was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and came to Texas during World War II. As a relatively young man and with very little interest in politics, I met my wife in Austin, Texas and went to law school
Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the line of, ''When we get in, we wi 11 do this, you're included in the S: Surely. II and you just assume that '~e"? ''When we get in, we've got to move fast on wheat," or, ''We've got to move fast on feed grains and cotton." One simply knows
Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • later came back after the war and continued my education at Georgia Tech. I graduated from Georgia Tech as a bachelor of industrial engineering in September of 1949. M: What did you do during World War II? Y: I was in the Army Air Corps. I started
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that l'd thought of running for things, but nothing of long, involved conversations where there was advice involved because ii never reached that stage with me, where I was actively after a given job. F: Did he ever talk to you from the other side, as he
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)