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Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • exactly vihat all the inner struggl es staff membfi' in the M: edj'llei~ fail~ly \.yC:I~e ff)l~ a years. You'r0 also perhaps in a position to answer a general question. In the sixties there was a great deal uf talk about the so-called new economics
  • Biographical information; the Eisenhower, JFK and LBJ Administrations and the Council of Economic Advisers; new economics; Troika; tax cut; contact with Congress on economic matters; Appalachia program; SST; Agriculture Department budget
Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 2 (II), 7/20/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , understand, I'm an Independent. M: All recent appearances to the contrary! F: That's right. In New York, I was a registered member of the Liberal party, and now I'm a 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • first trip to Washington. I was a new member, I met all of the Texas members, of whom there were twenty-one, including myself, at the time. them, probably, on the opening day of the session. I met all of I'm sure I did. That included Mr. Rayburn
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 14 (XIV), 9/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 O: [The Higher Education Act of 1965] considerably broadened the areas of the involvement. For the first time
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Well, the Regents' action in July of 1967 was to thank and discharge the committee. Now the question was to create a new committee to do whatever else was necessary. (Interruption) At the July meeting, the Regents accepted the report and accepted
  • The creation of a new committee related to the LBJ School of Public Affairs; how the committee members were appointed; the committee duties of administration, budgeting, architectural planning and searching for a dean; Norman Hackerman; considering
Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in Louisville, Chicago, New York, Boston, and so on. M: Did you see President Johnson during that week? G: No, no. That was a source of great disappointment to me. I saw Tom Mann briefly on Wednesday, January 22, and then at length on Saturday, January 25
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the establishment of a new executive department. 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
  • in legislation; urban mass transit situation; problems of highway beautification program; rapid rail transit to New York; the SST program; employee transportation; miscellaneous organization problems; Nixon transition
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • -range payoff. There's not going to be an immediate payoff in my judgment, because the traffic is too thin in most parts of it. The traffic is much less in some areas in the East Coast, say, from New York and Boston down to Florida then for some
Oral history transcript, Lawrence McQuade, interview 1 (I), 1/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • fond of him. I know just before he got his appointment they flew up to New England to talk to Governors and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
  • ; Cissy McQuade; LBJ’s famous phone calls; Califano; LBJ’s staff; Punta del Este speech; Bill Roth; Kennedy Round; Maurice Stands; “The American Establishment;” Wilbur Cohen; impact of the Commerce Department; New England foreign trade zone; Secretary
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • were a research secretary at the radio office at the University of Chicago. S: Yes. G: Then in 1945 you were with the Department of the Military Government--or is that the military S: governor~ During my military service I was assigned
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • so well, a 1924 model new Ford, Model T, that did not have a battery ; we always cranked it . He wasn't privileged to campaign very much because my mother was ill and because he was making a crop, as well as teaching school . went with him, I'd say
Oral history transcript, William M. Colmer, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . So I started up the ramp--I guess it must have been half-time--looking for a friend. I met Lyndon coming down the ramp alone. F: Was he a congressman by then? Was he a new congressman? . C: He had just been sworn in. I guess one reason that I
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was practicing law, simply on some sort of business or other, and my mother and father were invited to the home of the Johnsons for a quite large party which they gave for three new congressmen from Texas. B: That would have been to the Ranch? W
Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • secondary school in Chicago, Illinois; was graduated from Howard University with an A.B. degree and from George Washington University School of Law with a J.D. degree. S: What was your A.B. in? H: Government and economics. I'm a member of the bar
Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIHJEE: GEORGE L. MEHREN INTERVIEHER: T. H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. Mehren's office, The Agribusiness Council, Inc., Park Avenue, New York City Tape 1 of 2 B: This is an interview with Dr. George L. Mehren. Sir, let me summarize your
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • know. I was·at the Harvard Business School, teaching at that time. But I remember coming down once, at the request of the Senator, to take a look again at a new draft of the Conciliation Service legislation for possible use in 1 59. It didn't get
Oral history transcript, J.C. Looney, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • into effect, of course, but they're going to divulge a new project, as I understand it within the next [year]. F: Is there still some pressure along this line? L: Yes, sir, there's a lot of pressure. of pressure for it. Of course, there's a lot
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, III, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a Texan, I should add, in case that's necessary. [Laughter] But that far away, we were very much interested in the new mayor of Minneapolis, and, of course, it made him a national figure when he went to the Senate. Then you, of course, being young, moved
  • his father did not win the election; Humphrey Jr.'s activities after the 1968 election; LBJ's and Humphrey Jr.'s talkative natures; Humphrey Jr.'s at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago; Skip's reaction to the lack of liberal support
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • President Kennedy LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] did, very candidly, was to get it a new euphonious name. Alliance for Progress. More on LBJ Library
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • into a world of communication, rather new, and quite strange to me, I a must ask you, Paul, to provide and a reasonable modicum of lot of caref~l guidance to·me deletion from the finished proauct -- lest this become a ,biographical sketch of a lniversity
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Committee with him were an absolutely outstanding group of senators. It was because of their prestige and their power and their impression with the news media that we were able to start a space. program. Jack Kennedy never did understand what space
  • acceptance of the vice-presidential nomination; whistle stop train trip through the South; Bart Lytton; helicopter incident in Rocky Bottom, South Carolina; New Orleans
Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the service and started as a news correspondent here at the National Press Building. That was June 12, 1944. F: That was right at D-Day in Normandy, wasn't it? M: That's right, that's right. She was nine days old when I started working here in the Press
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Service Commission branch offices, which are also regional headquarters for the U.S. government civil service. I believe Dallas was one, Denver was one, Kansas City was one, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 3 (III), 12/11/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • record on that. we can make peace have at a previous get anybody It's on their to talk period-- assessment to get out of Viet did. back then very hard to do and a new administration we simply take any direct today six months, a ago? K
  • policy on pardons; civil rights; riots in Oxford, Mississippi; integration of University of Alabama; Civil Rights Act of 1964; legislative maneuvering by LBJ; William McCulloch; Everett Dirksen; cloture threat; LBJ, HEW, and Chicago school funds; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . The experimental college was an attempt to produce some new thinking in the whole field of education. I mention it because subsequently when I became the secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (although I had been somewhat an expert on social security
  • as chief executive; withdrawal of Title I funds from city of Chicago; poverty program; education acts; task forces; MHMR Act of 1963; Clean Air Act of 1963; Water Pollution Act of 1961; Hill-Burton Act; Elementary and Secondary Education Bill; Truth
Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • for the nominee. Was there any chance at all of him actually beating Stevenson out of the candidacy? E: No, and I think everyone knew that. The Tennessee delegation at this particular convention in Chicago was seated just behind the Texas delegation, and so
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • strayed in a more easterly direction. We came directly from the University of Chicago to the University of Wyoming. nothing but teach. We came to Wyoming in 1946, but I had done I had been a professor of history for over twenty years in an assortment
Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the Kennedy Administration, particularly the poverty program which was in the mill, so to speak, at that time, there was some concern over whether the new President would support it and push it in the manner that it was being pushed by the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 18 (XVIII), 12/18/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: [In 1966 you] had a reorganization plan that transferred the Community Relations Service from the Commerce
  • with Joe Califano and remaining in daily contact with the White House.
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 2 (II), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there in the Indian Ocean, and then into India, and over through New Delhi into Burma, and there we had an air force base and flew over the Hump, nineteen, twenty thousand feet to get over the Himalayan mountains, and they're usually covered with clouds and we didn't
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , to give the South a chance to live with the new decision of the Supreme Court, I think Senator Russell would have been drafted for the presidency and would have been president. But I think that was the biggest political blunder in my lifetime, because
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • conversations with Walter Jenkins. I did go to Chicago. So we go on through that. I would imagine that Irving Goldberg served kind of like a doorkeeper for the suite. was not a big staff around. In those days there There was not a lot of space. However
Oral history transcript, George A. Smathers, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of New Mexico, was there. Johnson began to feel better with the ministrations of Lady Bird. We played dominoes for quite some time, which is a game he loved to play, an old Texas courthouse game. I didn't know how to play it very well and neither did
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 3 (III), 11/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there were eighteen new Democratic senators and he [LBJ] had looked in the paper and none of us had realized it, but at breakfast Sunday morning he announced that twelve of them were Catholics and that he wanted to find out something about the Catholic
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 22 (XXII), 6/19/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 O: I tendered my resignation directly to the President, as I recounted, on April 10 and that would
Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • an assistant to the Governor of New York State, who at that time was Averell Harriman. From 1957 until 1962 you were an assistant to Senator Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania, and from 1963 until 1965 you \'/ere the
Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • was president of Princeton, and he and I got to be very good friends because we were the new presidents in the AAU. We sat with each other and talked with each other about the extent and kind of federal aid, what should we be planning? And he reached down
Oral history transcript, Francis C. Turner, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in Washington, D.C. area, a subway; same in Newark, New Jersey, and Philadelphia, and Chicago, and San Francisco, and Los Angeles, New York, places like that. But the Highway Trust Fund was a solemn covenant, in my opinion. It was made between the people
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and Hale Boggs, that Charlie Davis had. Boggs'. It might have been at the Charlie Davis, you know, was the chief clerk of the Ways and Means Committee. been earlier. I believe he still was at that time, or he had That's right, he \vas in a Chicago law
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • conservative man. thought probably he was more of a moderate than Dick Kleberg. I think he supported practically all of the Roosevelt New Deal program. I supported a good deal of it. too much. Relief spending got to be inefficient and The CCC camps, a good
  • Biographical information; LBJ; heart attack; LBJ’s capacity for friendship; FDR New Deal program; support for LBJ in 1960; Sam Rayburn; lobbyist; Bobby Baker; JFK’s New Frontier program; civil rights; education; Vietnam; civilian control of military