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Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ." One was 24-inch, and I think the other was 12-inch, if I recall. Came from Texas up to New York. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library
Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • account of what happened on that day, to keep the wire services happy and the radio and the TV news happy. That's where most of the daily newspaper lead story came from. And the communique many days was like a police blotter, you know, incidents here
  • Braestrup’s work as a journalist in Southeast Asia for the New York Times; New York Times coverage of Vietnam compared to Time magazine; how journalists covered Vietnam and the danger involved; how Braestrup became Washington Post Bureau Chief; Joe
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to contract with a New York company, and they provided us with a great number of teleprompters. Now, these were heavy, very heavy things to haul around. There are generally three things that looked like podiums that sat out in front of him and through a piece
  • for a possible 1968 nomination in Chicago and quietly clearing out WHCA staff members when it became apparent that Hubert Humphrey would be nominated; Johnson’s weak support of Hubert Humphrey; a system of lights to keep track of LBJ’s whereabouts in the White
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • --was there as president of the National Governors' Conference, and Governor [Richard] Hughes of New LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , [William] Langer and some of the others who might vote with him on certain things. J: Do you have any recollections here? Oh, of course, of course. Now, you take it up in New Hampshire. We never had a Democratic senator from there, but he [Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that just between January 1 of '64 and the end of December '65, that one hundred new appointments of women had been made to top posts. this continued. Then in 166 and '67 There were well over three hundred appointments, as far as I can find, but the full
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • not terribly good. P: Who chaired that task force? G: Paul Ylvisaker chaired it and Julian Levy from the University of Chicago was the vice chairman. And Dick Leone who came down from New Jersey and had been working in some capacity for Governor Hughes
Oral history transcript, George Hartzog, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/20/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a lawyer then? H: Yes. Shortly after that, I left the Department to go with a private law firm in Washington. I was out only a matter of a few weeks when the National Park Service offered me a job as a lawyer in Chicago where their headquarters were
Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to go to Baylor University. I graduated in 1937 with a Bachelor of Arts and a major in journalism and came up the street and went to work June 11, 1937, for the Waco News Tribune as a copy editor, and I have been with the paper ever since. M: You
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was always left sort of vague. Now this matter was studied and until quite late in the game, until some time in 1966, the U.S. drafts all had so-called European clauses in them, designed to make it possible for there to be a new state, a new non-state
Oral history transcript, Richard A. Prindle, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and got very interested in the activities there. I went ahead and had my internship at Columbia Presbyterian in New York City in surgery, again because I was somewhat interested in the possibility of going into surgery of heart deformtties and so forth
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in 1917 in Chicago-­ R: East Chicago, Indiana--it's in a different state. B: And became the United Press' Congressional correspondent in 1938--from '38 to '41--in Air Force service, 1942-45; and then again after the war from '46 to '51 with UP
Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • against a black anywhere in the nation--New York, California, Chicago, Mississippi, Arkansas, any place else. The South is no mutation in condoning racial violence by whites against blacks. B: Then, where it's a really dismal part of this, shortly after
  • of 1964; Voting Rights Act of 1965; work on minimum wage; the Neshoba County deaths; Council of Federated Organizations movement; FBI opens new office in Mississippi; RFK, Hoover and LBJ told FBI to get on the job in Mississippi; Freedom Democratic Party
Oral history transcript, Daniel Garcia, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Garcia -- I -- 13 distribute here. It was a publicity action, publicity [inaudible] from Chicago, the Democratic national headquarters somewhere up there. They sent me about three stacks of like newspapers about this high
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • looking all along for new legislation and new techniques and we came right into Title II, the public accommodations section, and I would say even at that first meting we decided after a statement by Louis Martin that was terribly forceful that public
Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • is trying to keep from going to New Orleans. P: He said , "Ed, I want you to get hold of my good friends in the University of Texas and also get hold of Brown [George] and tell them how we can make the University of Texas as great as the University
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . We were not just finishing the New Deal agenda; we were coming in with a whole lot of new ideas, new roles for government. And that was the first couple of years. The last year or so we really were involved in the management of programs and it's
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and economic and social orientation. But he had not through all those years communicated that to the liberals or to the people like me at all; that was a new awakening. B: Back in the 'SO's, the late 'SO's, you were close to Rubert Humphrey who was also
Oral history transcript, Boisfeuillet Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Jones -- Interview I -- 10 to President Kennedy, whom I had never met, for this position. I told him I had obligations at Emory, I had a new
Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , he would wait until the last moment before he would personally authorize the wheat shipments . As a result, the Indians found it very hard to maintain a rationing estimate, because they couldn't know what to count on . The American Embassy in New
Oral history transcript, Myron R. Blee, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Petersburg? B: Yes . F: Governor Bryant went to head up the OEP in March of 1966 . Did you have any idea you were going to follow him at that time or did that come later? B: No . We were in Chicago for a meeting of the Association of Higher Education
Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to Chicago and New York and the east wherever we had contacts with the Mexican-Americans. And of course I have a lot of close Negro friends and as soon as he became president, the Negroes--the blacks-also had accepted Johnson as a humanitarian and as a good
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • fully meant. If it was implemented and carried forward administratively, you had a complete change in history in a major sector of our country. It was not just the South that was affected by this, this affected just as much the city of New York
Oral history transcript, Lester D. Johnson, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 5 only at the present time--it's in effect at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York; at the San Antonio International Airport; and at Dulles Airport here
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- I -- 3 about, were there at a small family dinner. I was very taken by the whole thing. I went back to Washington [New York?], and then he called me a week later, and I came back down. He said that they had done a background investigation on me
  • from diplomacy in current politics; the riots in Washington, D.C., following the assassination of Martin Luther King; LBJ's confusion over the riots, their purpose and leadership; being in New York City for the ordination of Cardinal Terence Cooke
Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • for a short time. B: Of course, the surpluses diminished, too. J: Yes, the surpluses diminished, only in part, however, because of the food shipments, but also because of the acreage restrictions--the philosophy had changed under the new administration
Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh March 10, 1969 G: This is an interview with Mr. Herbert J. Kramer, formerly the Director of Public Affairs of the Office of Economic Opportunity, and presently consultant to OEO. Mr. Kramer was born in New York City in 1922
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Congressman Kleberg. Now those were the days--we were contempo- raries of a sort--where the young New Dealers around Washington congregated at all hours of the day and night, particularly at night. I came to Washington in 1933. F: You P
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , but one of particular relevance here, which was a conference in New York sponsored by an organization called Peace Without War. November I believe. It was last And there then that was all on the record. I gave a talk on the issues of press relations
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 23 (XXIII), 8/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XXIII -- 2 R: Oh, sure. It's rather strange. I've got to recapitulate the background here. One night Dave Broder, the Washington reporter for the Dallas News--I think you have
  • of producing a unanimous committee report; problems in the New England watch-making industry; Reedy's concern that committee staff were taking on investigations without appropriate jurisdiction or resources; problems with government bureaucracy; trying
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 4, Side 1 G: Let me start with a couple of general points that were raised by your papers. One, the problem
  • and Republican opposition to national Democratic Party policies; anti-Catholic sentiment in Louisiana that diminished JFK support; the role of Mayor Robert Wagner in New York City patronage; Democratic Party organization in Chicago and Philadelphia; judgeships
Oral history transcript, Janet Wofford Ingram, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • for about a year-and-a-half, and then I married, and then the war came along, and my husband went into service, and my sister had married a Chicago dentist, and he went into service and was sent to San Antonio where we were, which was one of the many
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was the first. H: The sequence of that, as I recall, was that Wirtz became interested first in the development of the Guadalupe River, forming some connection, live forgotten just how. with a firm out of Chicago. G: Emery, Peck and [Rockwood]. LBJ
Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 2 (II), 3/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • excluded from the political processes in the South and elsewhere would nonetheless participate in the benefits of Community Action programs of the new legislation. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : That's correct. F: It must give you a certain trust in patience and persistency. D: Well, it's a testimony to the fact that an idea takes a long time in its incubation and its ultimate growth. I think Chauncey Depew, celebrated raconteur from New York
Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • funny, because in California I am a Democrat, but in New York [Jacob] Javits, I think, is a fine, fine man, and I love Rockefeller. So I'm sort of in-between, sort of a liberal Republican in New York and as I go West, I get more and more Democratic. F
Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that's how I got interested and that's how it sort of came on the agenda, as I remember it. The council then carried forward with sort of not only responding to questions from the White House but putting new thoughts forward. I notice in April 25, 1963
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 11 (XI), 4/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with a bayonet, I believe. There al so were a whole series of investigations of military indoctri­ nation centers and how their programs worked, what their facilities were like, and just the processing of these new recruits. They were Fort Jackson, South
Oral history transcript, Sim Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . That was a receiver for the private interests? SG: Yes, the Insuls had started building a dam. nOH call it Buch::aan Dc'ITl. They called it Hamilton Dam. We And they had gone broke, Dnd their co:npany had gone into receivership in Chicago. Nmv they had
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 3 (III), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • conceivably they could have beat us. But they were still a divided party. And Chicago, of course, I think pretty well left them in shambles. I think that the attractiveness of Ed Muskie had probably a great deal to do with the fact that they made as good