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  • Secret Service. interview is in his office in Washington, D.C. 1968. The time is 10:45 a.m. The The date is December 17, My name is David McComb. First of all, may I ask you something about your background? I'd like to know where you were born
  • rapidly what all you did up to the time that you came to Washington and the Interstate Commerce Commission. D: I was born in Stockdale, Texas, in Wilson County just east of San Antonio; lived on a farm until I was eighteen or twenty years old. I became
  • of country for about two and a half weeks. I went from Rome back to Washington; as I mentioned earlier, I arrived there the day of the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas. Then I went back via the Far East, stopped off and saw our embassy
  • substantial gaps. He got through all of 1961 and 1962, as I recall, except that we did not tell much of the story of the tax cut, which is a very vital part of both the Kennedy and Johnson economic programs. At that time we didn't go through the wage-price
  • such impact. I recall that he had some input into some problem--whether it was an oil problem or a steel price problem, I'm not sure; but I was not personally involved, and I was not aware of his involvement in other economic problems up to that time. F
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 8, 1968, in his part-time home in New Orleans, Louisiana B: I have the machine on now, so if we can go ahead and start. I'd think a logical starting place, sir, would be with when you first met Mr. Johnson. C
  • nineteen at this precise moment, I was about that at that time. F: You know, the past few years makes an old-timer of you in a hurry. D; Absolutely. I worked for Tom Connally then, and Senator Tom Connally was chairman of [the Senate Foreign
  • at KTBC as an announcer. B: And after being hired as an announcer, Mr. Pryor went on to be program director and master of ceremonies of, I should say, national fame. You ha ve done shows all ove r the count ry since that time, have you not? P: Yes
  • : More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is the second session with Kenneth M . Birkhead . Sir, we were talking last time about your position right after the 1960 election at the beginning of the Kennedy
  • -time job, and supposedly was given a half-day Ivork. So during that summer I went to school from eight to twelve, reported to ,mrk immediately thereafter, and asually left about twelve or one that night. I found out most of my part-time jobs
  • for approximately a year--which, by the way, is the length of time people ordinarily stay with the Supreme Court as youngsters because it's a very low-paying job. It's more for the training and the honor than it is for the pay. Governor Daniel hired me
  • ticket; LBJ becoming Minority Leader in 1953 and Majority Leader in 1954; time following LBJ’s 1955 heart attack; LBJ vs. Price Daniel on civil rights; Majority Leader LBJ’s attempts to balance his duties to Texas and the nation; LBJ’s talents as Majority
  • of discrimina- tion against females, some of our rulings in that area were of greater significance at the time, seemed to be, than those against blacks. Of course, [there was] greater resistance from the outside community as it was not as "fashionable
  • . You ' re Kenneth O' Donnell, and your off icial pos iti on 1·1 i th the Johnso n Administration was as specia l ass istant to t he president from the time he took offi ce, a job you continued in from t he Kennedy Adm i n i stra t ion , on unt i l
  • - - - -he must be learning all the time. He used to have just kind of kitchen Spanish. F: But he could get around with a non-English speaking group. N; Yes. F: "CNhat do yo:.: 1:'::0"\"· about him as a teacher? Do you remember anything frOT:: :hose
  • Press-Herald was this beautiful picture of Lyndon Johnson and the Republican governor in a victory salute surrounded by this huge crowd. Isn't that a great story? Well, by the time we get down to the city hall steps where Johnson was to speak, Reed
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 24, 1969 F: Let me make a brief introductory statement. This is an interview with Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, long-time Prime Minister of Australia, in the Sheraton-Crest Inn in Austin, Texas, on November 25, 1969
  • to be governor. S: Well, I got into politics a long time before 1968. F: Yes, sir. S: My first venture into politics was in 1932, when I felt not an obligation, but felt that I wanted to help the Democratic candidate for governor at the time who was Henry
  • , and what you have been doing. P: I came to Washington in June of 1919 in response to an offer by the then-Senator Sheppard of Texas of a place in his office for the summer. I can well recall that at that time I had the understanding that the position
  • discussion last time, Dr . Baker, one aspect of our two prior meetings has occurred to me that I thought I might make a matter of record . I have not undertaken any preparation for our discussions . I have not known in advance the subject matter that you
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh April 25 ~ 1969 Mc Let me identify this tape as the second session with Mr. John W. Macy, Jr. The date is April 25, 1969, and my name is David McComb. Last time we were talking about your career and had gotten
  • set aside who wrote Mr. Truman's speeches for the campaign. I think at that time I met Mr. Johnson briefly when he was here for some trip. Really I first got to know him in 1951 when I came here to work with the Democratic Congressional Campaign
  • ~ and then when he would still call. It was~ "This Also when a man voted He satd to me one time, just \n visiting, that you want to find out exactly why, and then start doing your groundwork for the next time. But I think this was so true. I've heard men who
  • government. In this picture, we were always walking a difficult line of wanting to assist the cities in their relief and rehabilitation, but at the same time not wishing to have the occasion of a riot made the reason for a city to get preferential treatment
  • is in his office in the District The date is March 5, 1969, and the time is 11:40 in My name is David McComb. First of all, Mr. Fletcher, I'd like to know about the circumstances of your appointment as deputy mayor. F: that was probably the most exciting
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 21, 1968 B: This is the interview with Mr. John A. Schnittker, the Under Secretary of Agriculture. Sir, would you start by outlining your career up to the time of your appointment as Under Secretary here? S: Yes
  • frequently in those Congressional days? W: Yes. I saw him--each time I carne to Washington I visited with him. And each time he carne to New York he stayed with us at my horne. F: Did he come frequently? W: Well, no, not very frequently. F: Did you
  • , 1969 INTERVIEHEE: KERMIT GORDON INTERVIEHER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Gordon's office, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: We can start at the top of the list here and take up where we left off the last time. I'd like to know
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh October 10, 1968 B: All right, sir, if we may start here, when did you first get acquainted with Mr. Johnson? H: I met Mr. Johnson some time in the forties. assignments--OPA, Agriculture, other things. I was in Washington
  • never heard of anything like this, and I doubt that it's true. I don't think that we were in any way organized at the time of Dien Bien Phu to have been assisting the French in any logistical way. G: Well, live asked a couple of military officers
  • , and as a consequence, he was hospitalized and \.;1as in a recuperation situation until the spring of that year. And I don't believe that he returned to v]
  • and civic affairs in 1960. And all during the fifties I had an association with the state government and served as head of the executive staff of the state government at one time and attended, I think, nearly all of the Democratic conventions from the time
  • B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Komer's office, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 F: Bob, let's talk about what we were talking about at the end last time. We were talking a bit about Libya, and I wanted to get Libya sort
  • “pacification”; comparison of Ky and Thieu; differentiating between ambassadors in Vietnam; working with General William Westmoreland; Bill Moyers; problems with being the only full-time high-ranking government official workingon the Vietnam situation; who
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is an interview with Mr. Everett Hutchinson in his office in Washington, D. C. the evening of October 28, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz Mr. Hutchinson, you and I have somewhat similar backgrounds in time
  • INTERVIEWEE: CARL SANDERS INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: Governor Sanders' office in Atlanta, Georgia Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, do you recall if you met Mr. Johnson any time before the 1960s while he was still a senator? S: Oh, yes, I had met Mr
  • several times. And my real contacts on what you might call almost a weekly basis really began when he was Majority Leader. Mu: You were working with him then on legislation of various kinds? Me: Yes. I had occasion to talk to him many times on our
  • . The time is 10:45 in the morning, and my name is David McComb. To start off, Dr. Pechman, I'd like to know something about your background--where you were born, when, where did you get your education. P: I was born in New York City and went through
  • there in 1952 and took command of the 25th Infantry Division. General Van Fleet, one of the best in our army was 8th Army commanding general. I stayed with that elite division and that assignment up until the time I left Korea, which was shortly after
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 21, 1968, Washington, D. C. B: Sir, to begin with, do you remember the first time you met Lyndon Johnson? K: Yes. I wrote something about that in a book I recently published [Memoirs: Sixty Years ~ the Firing
  • ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Whitney Young -- Interview I -- 2 the statement many times that some of the best liberals
  • of the Department of Justice at the time, and I met a Mr. Pollak, who at the time was on the White House staff in District of Columbia affairs. He had for a year, approximately, been working on the legislation for reorganization of District government. The mayor