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Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a little in awe of him. He was a brand-new senator when this damn thing happened. And then there were a couple of others. Jack Kurtz [?] was one, and I don't know the rest of them, but anyway, he rationalized his vote against the censure of McCarthy
Oral history transcript, Donald F. Hornig, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that I had a call from Santa Fe, New Mexico from Kistiakowsky, and Kistiakowsky said, "What the hell is going on down there? Everyone's mad that you said no. You are the first person that has said no." So I explained to him that his call had helped me
Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • ://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 Kennedy -- I -- 2 B: Then you became bureau manager for the International News
Oral history transcript, W. True Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • say, the FBI--to the FBI agent in the Embassy that would say, "A known Chicago gangster had left New York and is arriving in Zurich on such-andsuch a day. Was there any way we can find out what he is doing there." Things like that, you know
Oral history transcript, Roy Wilkins, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://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 Roy Wilkins -- Interview I -- 11 W: Yes, yes, here in New York,and in Chicago
Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this young fellow could just go down to the White House almost any time he wanted to, figuratively having a key to the back door. So he did go down there a lot, because that's the way I'd get the news a lot on things happening. On the other hand, some
Oral history transcript, Eugene B. Germany, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • i·f that convention did anything to embarrass Mr. Garner, then we didn't--we knew we didn't have a chance anyhow. But we did want him to go to Chicago as the nominee and we wanted Texas to nominate him, which we. did. [nominate him]. We managed
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1977 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH LAITIN INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Laitin's residence in Bethesda, Maryland Tape 1 of 2 L: We never got into the [subject of the] Pope in New York. G: Okay. Do you want to take that up? L: Yes
  • Laitin’s work related to the Pope’s visit to New York and meeting with LBJ; press coverage of LBJ’s meeting with the Pope; how LBJ liked to be positioned for photographs; Yoichi Okamoto; advancing trips to visit President Truman; how LBJ treated
Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Yes I went to New York. for Vice President? Did you go there? I did New York with him. No, I was not in on that one. G: How about Chicago? L: Yes, I did Chicago and Mayor Daley. You mean when he ran I'm sorry, I was not. He found out
Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • this kind of thing worked was very simple. Mr. Kennedy called me up in Chicago once about eight o'clock in the morning, and he said, "Say, the New York Times is after me, and the astronauts apparently have been offered free houses in Houston
Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • McComb. Now, Mr. Sweeney, to take up your background, I have some information on it from what you have given me and what I was able to get elsewhere--that you were born in Chicago in 1928, educated at Michigan State, got a B.A. degree in 1951. S: History
Oral history transcript, Homer E. Dean, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , that their strength--because Duval County after all was a pretty small county as far as population goes--their strength lay in being able to produce a large bloc of votes, same kind of thing that made the Irish in New York and Poles in Chicago [powerful]. They didn't
Oral history transcript, Ashbrook P. Bryant, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was the Empire Ordnance investigation, which had a life of its own, a long story of its own, and we ultimately had to present that to the grand jury in New York. I was pulled back out of the army; I had gotten into the army by that time. We had submitted
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 2 (II), 7/9/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE BALL INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Ball's office in New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: I think maybe a good thing at the beginning would be to put on [tape] that I've read through your file of memoranda, and your caution
Oral history transcript, Lawrence Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • provision for continuity. M: Is it weaker because of the varying attitudes of the individuals who hold the job, or because simply as new men, they--? F: Well, as new men it takes a while for them to appreciate the problems. The export expansion program
Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • special personal relationship with him at that time? Mundt: Yes, we served on committees together. At different times. We served on the Building Commission, for example. It built this new Senate Office Building in which we're transcribing
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to Washington, as was customary with new Congressmen, he had to take what was available in the way of office space. Congressman Albert Thomas had Come from Houston the same time I did. We had offices on the fourth floor of the old building about as far from
Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • than Bo Byers that--well, Dick Morehead was there before the war, Dick, with the Dallas Morning News, was there. Sam Kinch, Jr., is there now and his father was there when I was there. In the legislature when I was there in 1941 and again even in 1947
  • ; LBJ's behavior at a 1956 event for JFK in El Paso; Bean's efforts to build a new port bridge along the El Paso/Juarez border; LBJ's involvement with the bridge in El Paso; the Chamizal agreement between the U.S. and Mexico and its relation to the port
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, 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 2, Side 1 O: There was additional evidence concerning ITT that underscored the existing concern during the period when
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 8 (VIII), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to New York and back. And he asked me what I thought. I said, "If you're going back to Alabama and you're going to live there, you don't need this trip." He went, and I give him good for it, but I still think I told him right. But he ruled otherwise
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Sr., interview 1 (I), 1/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the legislature of Texas, owned my people in slavery time. I understand that he came from Attica, New York into Texas be- fore the Civil War. able to say. Where my people came from I don't know, I'm not But I do know that my grandfather Mr. Shoemaker
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 6 (VI), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Committee. G: Do you think Johnson grasped the significance of the space program early on? R: I don't know whether he grasped it, but he knew it was a new vehicle and he wanted to grab it. G: Did he see it as a vehicle for political advantage? R: I
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 27 (XXVII), 12/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . One rather bad deal was Hubert Humphrey. Hubert almost got euchred into [out of?] being the candidate out at Chicago. But Johnson was blowing hot and blowing cold on Hubert. I think Hubert could have made it with a little more cooperation. But he
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 2 (II), 2/28/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there, because I'm not sure my recollection is very good, but at any rate, she had lost six pounds and she was pleased with her progress. G: Did he adapt to this new diet reluctantly? V: I don't really recall. I remember Mrs. Johnson saying he was a man who
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 6 (VI), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for vice president—that he didn’t think they would win the election—and there are some people who think they didn’t. (Laughter) Mayor Daley helped a good deal in Chicago. G: What do you think about that? V: What do I think? G: About the irregularities
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Chicago, you had some of them. Of course you did, because you had Frankie Randolph as the new national committeewoman. Who was the committeeman? G: It was Byron Skelton, wasn't it? W: Was it Skelton? I thought it was. Johnson could always get along
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins and Alice Hopkins, interview 4 (IV), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Hopkins -- IV -- 8 that he didn't attend and "Mefo" Foster spoke. What do the news accounts show on that? G: They show that you attended and they show that Neff was invited, but I'm
Oral history transcript, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: HER~lAN TAUIADGE I NTERV I El4ER: THO~1AS H. BAKER Mr. Talmadge's office, New Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. PLACE: Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, to begin at the beginning, do you recall when you first either met or had any knowl edge
  • Biographical information; met LBJ in 1952 at Chicago Convention; close relationship with LBJ as Senator; Russell was LBJ’s mentor; LBJ was mentor to Talmadge; LBJ recognized as the ablest of parliamentarians in the Senate; most Senators except
Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to Chicago in 1952 as one of the delegates to the Convention. But as I say, when he departed the Democratic ranks, then I departed his ranks. I didn't feel like the commander-in-chief should take the whole staff and run off with them in the middle
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • flight, and LBJ went to New York with the Glenns for a ticker-tape parade after that. Any recollections of that? R: Nothing that is of any great importance; it went off according to schedule. I think that's the main thing that I remember
Oral history transcript, William S. White and June White, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would compete with the people, say, in Tom Connally's it. office, to release announcements of new projects first. W: Yes, he did. G: Can you elaborate on that? W: Well, he was almost the scourge of the Texas delegation about that matter of getting
Oral history transcript, Patrick V. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • impression that the White House tried to let the new D.C. government stand on its own feet without too much direct supervision from the White House? M: From what I could see of the operation of District government, certainly the mayor gave me a very free
Oral history transcript, Earl Howsam, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in that first day. G: When did you first become acquainted with Lyndon Johnson? Do you recall? H: I think it was soon after that, after we were in the Senate with all the new senators. I was over at the Committee of Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • understood it was [John] Kennedy; he understood it perfectly. Johnson never really understood how the party worked. He didn't like the bosses; he thought they were crooked, the big New York bosses or the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • believe Paul Ylvisaker was the principal spokesman for the state of New Jersey at which there were also representatives from the city of Newark, I continued to play a coordinating role for the goods and services that were made available by the federal
  • . and Chicago riots; police violence; D.C. city council
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • getting telegrams from governors and mayors from the harder-hit cities like New York and Miami, Chicago. Jack Connor wanted to move to support the legislation. Ginsburg wanted to move to support it and base it on stabilization. Larry O'Brien wanted to get
Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • with the Daily News editorial staff to tell them his aspirations for the City Council. And the News--nobody had this story about his being withdrawn but the Post, and until the Post said it, of course everybody I guess was trying to investigate it. So he told
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 5 (V), 8/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • come from all over. Special trains had come in early that morning from Detroit and Chicago and New York, and so on. They demonstrated on the Capitol steps. them but they stood there chanting, 11 We were ordered to move 1 shall not, I shall
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • he is. A: When we were sitting in the office, aides kept bringing him, as they did from time to time, these clippings off of the news machine, and there was Joe Rauh making a speech or some comment about the failure of the President to enforce
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 5 (V), 5/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • cities like Philadelphia and New York and Chicago. The first indication we had that they planned to hold a Solidarity Day exercise came from the press. Progressively, as we had visits with their leaders about matters relating to Resurrection City