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Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , aild would you tell how you would rate him? F: He was a fairly effective member dealing with those subjects in which he specialized, particularly matters of national defense. He was a very close associate of the chairman of the committee, Nr. Vinson
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , got there a little ahead of the presidential p~ane, as did Vice President Johnson. So we saw Kennedy and Jackie get off of Air Force One; Johnson and Connally and, I guess, Yarborough were there in line--the people who greeted them as they LBJ
  • had to LBJ; 1964 campaign; LBJ’s inability to announce travel plans in advance; LBJ choosing a running mate; LBJ lying to the press; comparison of LBJ’s press secretaries; the Walter Jenkins incident; off-the-record interviews; naming Nicholas
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh his tent, but not wanting to be associated with a Johnson Administration enterprise particularly, and busy
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • numbers on paper, but votes. In the 1964 campaign DSG had worked very closely with the Democratic National Committee and with people involved in the Johnson campaign. We provided them with copies of all our legislative research materials, which at first
Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • too many people in the campaign that were willing to concede that we even had a chance. F: In something like that, there's not really any relationship between you and the national ticket, is there? C: Not directly, nOa F: You don't tag along
  • . Conference of Mayors; National League of Cities; July 1967 riots in Detroit; Kerner Commission Report
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that these efforts came piecemeal--housing and then renewal, then community facilities loans and advance planning--and they came bootlegged under the title of another national purpose. You either had to save a money market as in the establishment of "Fanny May
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in not giving things away and having people work for them . I think that was the main difference between Mr . Jones and Lyndon Johnson . Jones was a businessman who had come up from the bottom and made everything he had for himself, and so he felt
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to protect the sanctity of his paragraphs against the onslaught of people like me, and even the President! But at any rate he's a practitioner of the first order in this very difficult art form called the political speech. Now the President liked the speech
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was right and to be a strong advocate of Roosevelt's policies and programs. He seemed not to have his own interests foremost, except that he subscribed to whatever his interpretation was of Roosevelt's political philosophy and wanted to advance it. B: Do
  • First meeting with LBJ; LBJ’s relationship to Rayburn; Carl Vinson and FDR; LBJ in the House; Lady Bird; Civil Rights Bill; LBJ’s relationship with Humphrey, Truman, Eisenhower and the Kennedy’s; LBJ’s opinion of career military people; 1956
Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • I know are reconstructed Southerners. I'm a Southerner myself, and I know that Southerners--I have yet to see a single Southerner who didn't have the capacity to like, if not love, and feel very close to individual black people, though the problem
  • government positions; reaction to Kerner Commission report; MLK; Vietnam War criticized by black people; innate compassionate nature of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • from people who were hoping for favors than from the one person who has received them than the nine who were disappointed. G: In those memos there's a notation that LBJ was intrigued by the suggestion that there be a national foundation to fight
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the Kennedy people were still [here]. C: Yes. A majority of the staff, in fact, is still Kennedy people. Ralph Dungan [who] was one of Kennedy's close associates was my boss. Ralph had somewhere between twenty-three and thirty-five people working for him
Oral history transcript, George Pazianos, interview 1 (I), 8/30/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • very unusual. The social health legislation--Pell had been a leader in the fight against venereal disease and the American Social Health Association is the private sector group that was pressing this on a national basis, the programs to alleviate
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • say is national and we say is international, fifty million things like that. But I think those of us who were concerned with Vietnam--it was held very closely because it was such a mess. I don't mean we were trying to conceal from people
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • had perspective. Johnson seemed to handle both the sort of small town voter as well as the city voter. S: Very well. You know, even in a motorcade, he'd stop the motorcade I don't know how many times, and he'd get out amongst the people. When he
  • His political background; campaigning with LBJ in IL in 1964; Martin Luther King’s assassination and subsequent activities in Chicago; Shapiro’s involvement with the 1968 Chicago convention; the National Guard at the 1968 Chicago convention
Oral history transcript, Ed Gossett, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • he was elected in 1964, assumed that he'd be still a somewhat middle-of-the-roader. of the things that we approved of. We thought that he would do some But the people that I associate with, by and large, were very disappointed in his domestic
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • selected because of my past association with the President. arrived in Washington on January 9, 1964. I I was managing editor of the Chronicle still, but took on the additional titles of national political editor and White House correspondent. September
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 4 (IV), 4/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . There were a number of Cabinet members around the table, Clark Clifford was there, Abe Fortas was there, and I'm sure Larry OrBrien was there. And a number of other such people, to talk specifically about the poverty program. The one thing every person
Oral history transcript, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT P. GRIFFIN INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Senator Griffin's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 MG: Senator, let's start with a survey of your association with Lyndon Johnson. RG: Did you know him before you came
Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Opinion of Johnson political stance 4 The liaison between Johnson and Rayburn 5 Transition for southern politicians to a national politician; LBJ ego 6 The election of and description of LBJ as Vice President 7 The operation of the House and Senate
  • Biographical information; contact with LBJ; LBJ’s techniques; opinion of LBJ’s political stance; LBJ-Rayburn liaison; LBJ’s ego and the transition to national politician; LBJ as VP; operation of Congress after LBJ and Rayburn; JFK-LBJ transition
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of hand and they haven't been well administered. It's become just too easy for people to get handouts from the government. And I think it's very damaging to our national economy. F: You've managed to keep a batch of balls in the air at the same time