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Oral history transcript, Lewis Mayhew, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • . Professor Mayhew, I would like to start with a brief biographical review, and I think I'd let you do the talking on this. M: Well, I'm a native of Illinois. I was born in the central part of Illinois but reared in Chicago on the campus of a private
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 Go and sell it ." So we did . Went to Chicago and sold it just about three months before the crash. So when it hit we had money in the bank and we survived and could keep the key men
Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ever went so far as to actually misstate things, lie to the press in his own behalf? A: I think every president has told little lies to the press at times. Kennedy told a lie about having a cold and having to cancel a speech in Chicago, and there have
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 2 (II), 11/23/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • as that was concerned. He knew that I had had the confidence of civil rights groups and a good reputation with the bar, and I think he was just concerned about having to start all over again to some extent with a new Attorney General. M: Right in the middle
  • 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, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Ginsburg -- IV -- 5 of some sort, at least the commissioners, the staffs, should know what it is that the White House is trying to do. There was no discussion with me about concerns about the Mayor of New York and his ambitions, or about Fred Harris and his
  • in the National Guard; visiting Newark, New Jersey; proposed creation of jobs; prioritizing the areas of need; gun control; the decision for commissioners to stay out of the legislative process; "Harvest of Racism" report; the exclusion of representatives
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • is a former newspaper reporter for the Dallas News, Chicago Tribune, but at that time he was working for the United States Information Agency. He said, "That's all right." Of course, that Saturday, July 2, he called me about at noon, about one o'clock
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /loh/oh 2 K: Because he was new and Douglas knew that I didn't know him and he thought perhaps, I imagine he thought, that I could be of use to Johnson in his career and that Johnson would eventually be a man of influence that I should know because
Oral history transcript, Terrel Maverick Webb, interview 1 (I), 1/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ; there wasn't any quesTruman and Maury came to ~~ashington at the same time; I forget the Congress that it was, but that's how it was that I got to know them. And I was in Chicago at the time he· was nominated for Vice President. F: Were you associated
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • one of the best nominees that the Democratic party could have. I had never heard much about Stevenson. I think I'm a one-speech convert. I had never heard him speak. I had been at Chicago at the convention trying to build up a bonfire for Speaker
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the summertime for the Humble Oil Company in Baytown, Texas, in the research department . I dropped out of the University of Texas, where I had been going to school . I stayed at Baytown, and during the course of my employment there the New Deal came along
Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in to Galveston from the sea and took a train across Texas. And James V. Allred, who knew Roosevelt at least casually, suggested that he ought to invite this young congressman aboard, with the result that Johnson, who is just a brand new congressman got to meet
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : I believe that Steve Mitchell was an Irish attorney from Chicago, but respected. I mean, he was not the bombastic type that Paul Butler was. He was a fellow that professionals could deal with, could talk to, and he would not violate a confidence
Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to the Kennedy Administration to have any Admin~tration. contact with Mr. Johnson back in your news career or in private career? D: Only vaguely in my news career. However, in 1955 and 1956, I was on Capitol Hill associated with Senator Estes Kefauver
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • one, was quite conservative. paper~ I Jim Free of Birmingham, I think, as southerners go, is quite liberal; certainly more so than the . Birmingham paper. I was. Bruce Jolly, of the Greensboro Daily News, at that time, was I thought more liberal
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ranging from six to seven o'clock. could make the very early morning shows here. They used The wire services And even the dailies, the specials, the New York Times or the Washington Post, could make a late edition, you .see. And every other period
Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • for John Kennedy, I thought Bob Kennedy a little shit. w~s We had almost had a couple of fist fights in the course of ten years, one being in 1960 when I wrote an article in the New Republic before the election saying, "Everybody's sitting around passing
Oral history transcript, William J. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and, of course, the great many foreign heads of state and heads~of government coming to the funeral. Of course, a situation like that, as far as the daily operation of the office is concerned, is not as drastic from a standpoint of our operating groups
Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • counties on the coast to make a new district, and Dick Kleberg ran and was elected . My best recollection is that he came to Congress January 1, 1933 . G: No, it was earlier than that . Lyndon Johnson went up there I guess the first time in December
Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • vice president of the First National Bank in Chicago, John-- (I've got to get help on this one, I just never can remember this man's name)--Gleason, John Gleason. John Gleason had been head of the Veterans Administration under President Kennedy, I
Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McCarthy -- I -- 4 G: How was the Job Corps organized? How was it planned? M: Well, the basis for the Job Corps was first of all the old CCCs [Civilian Conservation Corps] from the New Deal days. We had people from Interior
Oral history transcript, Roger Blough, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh July 29, 1971 F: This is an interview with Mr, Roger Blough in his office, 14 Wall Street, New York City, The interviewer is Joe B . Frantz, and the date is July 29, 1971. Mr, Blough, just to get started
Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in those days. The sum paled by comparison with the current fund requirement. We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Get him." So I went hunting for Joe Zimmerman. All I had was the name. Found him in New York. Got him on the phone. G: I show November 16 in my-- C: No, he came down for a meeting we had on the thirteenth, on a Saturday. G: I see, yes. C: I
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • the President and yourself? Gu: Colonel Cross said, as I recall, I~r. President, this is a new man that I've brought in to be my administrative assistant. He's a Marine." The President said,"I understand from Cross that you can walk on water and replace
Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • things he did was to send Dale out to buy a new herd bull, because they 3 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
  • to Acapulco; LBJ's memoirs, The Vantage Point; LBJ's daily routine at the Ranch following the administration; LBJ's interest in golf; the Malecheks' home on the Ranch; Scott's work as LBJ's post-presidential secretary; Scott's experience talking to the press
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • what I was getting to. VM: He ran in 1941 and was defeated. OM: That's right. F: You were still pretty new on the ground yourself. OM: Well, that was the year we moved to Washington, you see. No. I misunderstood the date. That's the one you
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and then they changed that title . Incidentally that job paid a new sum of $1800 . F: Oh, you got a big raise . M: So I got a raise . here . That was during the time that Mr . Johnson was Lyndon was here and he and Lady Bird were the office forces around here
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • mixed up on dates at this point, but-­ G: The letter was 1957. R: It was 1957? The letter itself was actually written by Jim Rowe, but the concepts were Johnson's. I think that the letter leaked out to the [New York] Herald Tribune somehow. We
Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a job that I thought would be constructive . Government Operations fitted that category . be done . It was available, it could They were putting some new members on it . The Republicans controlled the Congress, you understand, in January of '53
Oral history transcript, Robert M. White, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the Department of Commerce, revised in the White House before going down, of course, and we took this to be the general intentions of the President in regard to this new organization. M: Where did the inititative for the reorganization originate? W: It's hard
Oral history transcript, James E. Chudars, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? C: No. These were brand new. There was very little helicopter flying at that point. They had training classes, but there weren't any units. There were some R-4s that were sent out to China. They did some things, but they weren't too effective
Oral history transcript, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the top job of the world. M: Yes. Did you happen to go to any of the conventions? E: No, I've never been to a national convention. Well, as a child, went to Chicago convention when Roosevelt was nominated. [It was] LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . B: Did you see or [lear any signs of presidential ambition, say, in 1956? S: I didn't. I was not that close to him. I was not in Chicago in 1956 \vhen Jack Kennedy almost got the nomination for vice president, so I really \vas not that close
Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • Symposium. As you said, it stems from a magazine that you were responsible for producing in New York many years ago. I am one of your fans who was there at the time. I was a young man in New York, and I remember quite well what a celebrity you were, and how
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Daily. You had all this problem with Women's Was this just the most obvious of the problems with the various magazines and other news media, or was Woman's Wear Daily a sort of a special case? C: We 11, i t was one of the problems, and one
  • Luci and Lynda; Luci’s wedding; trips to Marshall to be with her father; Lady Bird’s encouragement for Lynda to leave U.T.; Warrie Lyn Smith; categories of news; commercialization of the White House; Luci’s job with optometrist; Lynda’s motive
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Research Institute of America, again, one of these news services for big business executives like the Kiplinger Washington Letter. Toward the end of World War II, I went out to the Far East as a war correspondent for Reuters, the British news agency, and I
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • thing that ought to be part of some record. Naturally you get curious about a new president, so I pulled the Lyndon Johnson file--Congressman and Senator Lyndon Johnson file--after he became president of the United States, or maybe even while he was vice
  • treatment of Gronouski, 1964 campaign and the Post Office, Bob Hardesty, Bobby Kennedy, news media’s treatment.
Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , but there was a senator running from New York State at the time, who, by the way, was defeated, who was supposedly getting all kinds of rumors that there were offensive weapons going into Cuba from refugees supposedly coming out of Cuba. The whole thing was we were unable
Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Truman was for Mr. Rayburn, too. So I went into Chicago hoping that perhaps we could get some steam up for Mr. Rayburn. I tried to get Mr. Rayburn to come up. We found that you almost have to be on the ground to get any support. He had an opponent
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the staff. I never shall forget the neutrality session. Even though I lived at the Dodge and worked at what was then called the New House Office Building--I believe it's now the Longworth Building--and I walked right by that Capitol twice a day at least, we