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Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • language on Viet Nam. I was not on the plane going to Chicago the night the President made his "nervous Nellie" speech. I was horrified by that. I wasn't on the plane going down to New Orleans during the [1968 presidential] campaign when he added
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of fact . F: By the time we get down to the end of the year--December of '63--Kennedy has been assassinated, and you have a new ball game in the sense that Johnson is President . And Unruh is on record as having backed you for the Vice Presidential
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to refresh my recollections. G: LBJ moved into that new office, the Capitol office, P-38. Let me ask you to just describe it and the circumstances around his acquiring that office. R: I'm not too sure of the circ1.111stances under which he acquired
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Singleton -- II -- 6 during the war. business. It was growing very rapidly and eagerly seeking new The Wood, Gresham part of the firm, McCorquodale
Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Chicago or Kansas City and New York and Newark and Baltimore and Atlanta--we saw no way in the world for them to get it. But they should have expected and they should have acted just as they acted. that's the realistic approach. To them To us
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 5 (V), 11/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE E. LEVINSON INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Mr. Levinson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 F: Larry, we haven't in previous interviews said much on the personal side. We've been strictly programmatic, you might
  • White House staff deciding what to do after LBJ's presidency; LBJ asking Levinson to move to Texas rather than work for Gulf and Western; LBJ's expectation of long-term loyalty; final Cabinet meeting; Levinson's decision to move to New York; where
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Goldberg -- I -- 17 me copies of the briefs that were submitted to New Orleans and to New York. F
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • than some, saw what it already meant to the people of our state ... and what it could mean in the future. The primary had scarcely begun when Downey withdrew from the race. Manchester Boddy, the owner and editor of the Los Angeles Daily News, my friend
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • only three lawyers in my class, one of whom was from Mississippi and another from New Mexico. At the same time there was a great shortage of lawyers due to drafting of lawyers in military service of the bar. Here I was with a relatively low average
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • what Johnson's personal position was, but the position of KTBC's news department was I'm afraid a little biased in favor of Rainey, not the political campaign, but all the other stuff leading up to the political campaign . Were there any particular
Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in geriatrics, would call in new freshmen congressmen and tell them some of the realities of life and say, lIyou have to be here at least six years, then they know who you are." And there's LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that that was the main purpose, because they used him in 1 places that you'd have thought Kennedy would have been strong. They put him in the New York Citys and the Chicagos and so on. Although, yes, they also wanted him in the Oklahomas and the Texases
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and did use someone like Hubert Humphrey. I think he always felt that--well, he did try to get New Dealers that he had known in effect to talk to the other senators and say, "This fellow is a good fellow," that kind of thing. body within range. He used
Oral history transcript, Margaret (Mrs. Jack) Carter, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the liberal journals of opinion. So I discovered the Nation and the New Republic in college and began to be interested in seeing the country come out of the Depression, so that the opportunities of many people were enlarged. (Interruption) M: Now, you were
  • Background in politics and participating in the New Deal; Democratic party state machinery in Texas; 1956 Democrat Party convention; role of Texas Democrats in national conventions and elections
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
  • because so many of our people had carried him around in our airplanes, but I had not met him until December 6, 1961. He called, or his office called, for one of our planes to take him from Washington to Chicago to his Ranch here in Texas, and I
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Sandy" Keith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to Kennedy. [Richard J.] Daley made his commitment. He was, as you know, the king of Chicago at that time, and a terribly interesting and able man. He made the commitment, and, of course, John Kennedy promised him everything from soup to nuts. Anything
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . He was pounding on the table and saying, "You men have got to realize that there is a new force sweeping this country." Whew! I could almost hear the knives being sharpened. He made one very bad mistake. This was in a closed hearing. I wasn't
Oral history transcript, Sim Gideon, interview 2 (II), 10/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • Hamilton Dam after the engineer for Insull. The Insulls had this holding company. I believe, out of Chicago. There were two brothers, They were going to build this dam on the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • ; Texas Power & Light; transmission and distribution lines; cost of LCRA System; Pedernales Electric Cooperative; Bluebonnet Electric; pooling systems; Lake LBJ; Young "New Dealers"
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE SID DAVIS INTERVIEWER Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Davis office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 S: Election day was the third. Well, I believe we were in New Orleans on the weekend before election day in 1964, and the President
  • LBJ's visit to New Orleans with Louisiana Governor John McKeithen; LBJ's relationships with Mexicans; White House press conferences and how they changed in the television era; LBJ's use of television; LBJ's response to civil rights-related violence
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Washington in May of 1942 from Pennsylvania, \"here I had been state m,anager of International News Service. ing to get back to being a reporter, I managed ~~ant­ to get transferred out of the administrative and back into the reporting business
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 10 (X), 10/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The Armed Services CoITTTlittee gave him an allotment; I don't remember how much it was, but it came out of the Anned Services Committee authority. G: So he could then go out and hire new people? J: And did. G: Anybody in particular who's worth
Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • up there, is that right? M: Yes, and went to a school which I learned two months ago has now been destroyed--Brackenridge High School. and then on the News. Then I went on the Light there On the News I was an assistant sports editor. From there I
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 3 (III), 1/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • me all of the part of the prior draft which had not been included in the new draft. draft. I would staple pieces of the old draft onto the new I considered it my purpose to endeavor to include in the new draft all of the provisions that I piled
Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • thing on the question that the office sent on the problems of HEW, I have noticed that's in the news again. I believe even your predecessor Mr. Ribicoff said it should be dismembered when he left the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . on with you about developing." invitation to fly immediately to Then he said, "I'd like to have Mr. Shriver explain what this is all about." to an being Sargent Shriver said, "We want to talk part of an exciting new program we're I replied
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • go up East somewhere, to New York sometime, to Chicago sometime, once a year to listen to the opera. She loved grand opera. She had stacks and stacks of Red Seal records by people like 11 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • a very strong man for a very long time, was finally getting gnawed at by age and physical problems, and financial problems. To begin new endeavors when you are in your seventies and eighties is, I think, an unwise thing, and Daddy had made, actually, he
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • executive officer, as I told you in the first session, I came in just enough too late to be involved in the very early processes of the substantive divisions. So I was really handling more the daily paper, meaning paper like the thousands of letters
  • the program; Shriver juggling poverty programs and Peace Corps; Ruth Atkins and New Yorkers concerned about their school.
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • buzzed me and said Mrs. Johnson had called. She was inundated by mail on the subject of beautification. She'd had an interview with U.S. News and World Report, which I think had come out in either a December or January issue. In this she had particularly
Oral history transcript, Emmett Shelton, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Shelton was going to kill them. -~ I -~ 8 So then he gave a news release and said that he was going down to the Ku Klux hall and find out who else belonged to it besides those he knew, on a Thursday night. nights off
Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • to go to the urban centers, and they were not equipped to earn a living in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, you name it. And they became recipients of the welfare system. Therefore because of this mobility of the American population
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • brief and yet curiously intense.I was marched across the well of the Senate by Gerry Siegel during a break in the proceedings and introduced to my new boss, and he said, "Glad to have you, do your best," somewhat abruptly but with full force. B: From
  • Civil Rights Bill; LBJ’s 1964 campaign speech in New Orleans; Johnson treatment; immense capacity to judge people; Johnson-Rayburn relationship; first signs of Presidential ambition; LBJ’s relationship with oil and gas industries; relationship
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Hardesty, interview 1 (I), 3/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ." And old Charlie Schultz, the Budget Director, used to accuse the speech writers anyway of spending half his budget. He said, "You guys have spent a hundred million dollars just getting a news lead for a speech." I said, "Well, that's just what the man
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 17 (XVII), 12/17/1986, 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 G: Of course [in 1966] you had big majorities: sixty-eight Democrats, thirty-two Republicans in the Senate
Oral history transcript, Ernest W. McFarland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • slowed down because the New Nexico people wouldn't sell them the gas. They had to have a firm contract with the Federal Pm.;rer Commission. So anyway we had this bill up. Lyndon and I being on the Commerce Committee, the Interstate and Foreign
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • notes," "economic news notes." And it was about the last thing we did every night, sometimes it was 3 a.m., but we always got off our daily news note on the statistics of the day and what they meant. They were not designed really to advocate a policy
Oral history transcript, Raul Castro, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the elections in El Salvador had less stigma than some elections I've read about in Chicago, and sometimes even New Mexico, and other eastern states. F: You can count Texas if you want to, in certain precincts that I won't get into. Had you ever met President
Oral history transcript, Walter T. Kerwin, interview 1 (I), 9/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • forth. And it finally was resolved after a while. G: Okay. Let's talk a little bit about Tet; that always strikes chords. What was your personal vantage point to observe the kickoff of that and the ensuing days? K: That was New Year's, Tet. I can
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • Anyhow, we became good friends and she [Bernstein] was a very fine lawyer. Later she became the Regional Attorney in New York, which did not have the same status, of course, but her husband [Bernard Bernstein], who had been in the service during the war
Oral history transcript, William G. Bowdler, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be a lead to a new opening? B: That's right. There were daily sessions with his two colleagues and the staff members of the three delegates, at which we examined the state of play at the end of each day and decided what strategy to follow on the next one