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Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • commentary on the difficulty of governmental coordination, and it's the kind of thing that has me just sitting here tapping my fingers and smiling, watching the new administration set up their Council on Environmental Quality. Because they're going to run
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ; with the new plant and equipment 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 SCHULTZE
Oral history transcript, Henry Bellmon, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • an important term--appearance in connection with dedicating what we called our Oklahoma Ordinance Works Authority Industrial Tract . I received word of this trip through the news media on a certain afternoon, and it troubled me all evening because
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 11/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the New Haven and the proposed Penn Central system which is satisfactory to the New Haven trustees and to the district court, then, unless circumstance of material change, it would be my recommendation the Department of Justice not continue opposition
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • for newspapers in Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and was editor of the Santa Fe New Mexican in Santa Fe. At the time I came to Washington, I was editor of the Laredo Times, Laredo, Texas, I wrote political columns at most of the places I worked. Incidentally
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was the knowledge that Washingtonians have from the daily papers and from the talk of the town. When I went to college I went to Bryn Mawr, and there were only a handful of Democrats - -this was before the Roosevelt era - -and they were for the large part
Oral history transcript, Gordon Bunshaft, interview 1 (I), 6/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE : GORDON BUNSHAFT INTERVIEWER : PAIGE E . MULHOLLAN PLACE : Mr . Bunshaft's office, 400 Park Avenue, New York Tape 1 of 1 B: This started the whole thing . You lose track of years . Here's a telegram from Mr . Heath, who
Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 F: A lot of the time, and, therefore, while I saw him when he came to Paris and did occasionally see him here in New York, it wasn't anything like as close as during the time we were both
Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • we call Long News Service which is an independent Capitol News Service. We correspond for eighteen daily newspapers in Texas. Among them the San Antonio Light, Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Beaumont Enterprise, EI Paso Herald-Post, Texarkana
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • more. I talked to about three people, I really talked to I talked to Henry Hall Wilson, who is now the president of the Chicago Board of Trade and prior to that was administrative assistant to Mr. Johnson and to r~r. Kennedy. He was my assistant
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • everybody about it, and the Chicago Tribune did, and they damn near got their ass in jail. And they should've. But all the questions from the Congress, all the questions from the media, the answers sometimes are well known, but they are given
Oral history transcript, Marjorie Lawson, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • approached my husband first. Shall I tell you that story? G: Yes. Please. L: Okay. 1956 was the first year that the District of Columbia could vote for delegates to the national convention, and my husband was elected a delegate and went to the Chicago
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there was nothing there for me to do. The boss said, "I can send you to Panama, and you can catch up with them or better still, why don't you stay here and start a nucleus of a new outfit which we hope to have here, because we have this big lab." to stay. So I
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • either late, late the night of the speech or early the next morning to go tv Chicago on the morning of April 1. F: This was a sudden decision--the overt part of it was sudd0n? T: Well, it was something he'd sort of been holding in abeyance
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , and successively you have worked for the Wisconsin State Journal, the Milwaukee Journal, the United Press Association, Christian Science Monitor, the International News Service and as Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Record. You were co-author
Oral history transcript, Edward R. Fried, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • primarily in the economic area, such things as statements on the Kennedy Round after its conclusion, on the messages to Congress, on the special drawing rights legislation, on the amendments to the fund, the rather dramatic New Year's Day balance of payments
Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to wait a little while. So we advised And finally, then, on December 15th, as I recalled the dates he did recognize the new government. What I'm trying to say is that the death of President Kennedy actually delayed recognition of the Dominican
Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • forces commander, oh, engineer detachments and some psyops people, and medics. They were called Special Action Forces, and that's when counterinsurgency was brand new. We were all very naive. We did all the things that Americans know how to do, like build
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • bought me a new one, which worked out fine for me. I don't say that I anticipated that Daddy would or anything like that. I don't see how it taught Lyndon a lesson much, but Daddy thought it did. He made him give the money back, as far as that's
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , myself, there was the new group of [Walter] Jenkins, Bill Moyers--I guess, [Jack] Valenti and others, and then there were three old friends, Clark Clifford, [Abe] Fortas, and Jim Rowe. And you could see those geological layers from the life of President
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD H. NELSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE· PLACE: Mr. Nelson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with your association with the Peace Corps. How did you get involved with that? N: I had met Bill Moyers and Sarge
  • and Kennedy’s staff; Diem’s assassination; Vietnam; trips to New York and Benelux region; LBJ as president; transition after assassination of JFK; the 1964 campaign; civil rights meeting with black leaders; LBJ’s ethics and relationship with staff; Walter
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 3 (III), 8/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • bodyguard came in and said the President wanted to speak to him on the telephone. Everybody was pretty set up about the fact that the new President wanted advice from Walter and wanted his help. We all thought that was great. About five minutes later
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 5 (V), 12/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the Pentagon. A man by the time he reaches an important position in the Army will maybe have been in the Pentagon six, seven, eight or ten years. In comes a new civilian Secretary, so he's just not a match for these men who have spent their entire lives
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the hours and the strain. It brought some new figures into his life, at least in more common daily contact: Les Biffle, who was secretary to the Senate, and Felton Johnston, whom he called Skeeter--everybody did--who was secretary to the majority. Besides
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • rose to the occasion. I had Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Vermont and New York. F: You didn't have any easy task, did you? M: And when we would report almost on a daily basis our success, he would say to me, IIWhy can't you get delegates
Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • predicted my appointment in the spring, I think it was, and I, therefore, concluded I was safe. M: Did you know anything about it at that time? R: No, I knew nothing about it at that time. M: How was the news broached to you? In what manner did Mr
Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ticket for Governor Stevenson and Sparkman, and Governor Stevenson and Senator Kefauver. F: Were you a delegate to either of the conventions? T: Yes, I was a delegate, I believe, to the Chicago convention, which renominated Stevenson. F: So you
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with each other a great deal over the years. The part where perhaps I came to know him best, and had the closest association with him, was right after he became president. He requested a news media liaison from Texas in Washington, and I was the one
Oral history transcript, Leo Gehrig, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and served a full career with them. thoraci~ I have been trained and have my boards in general and surgery. After being chief of thoracic surgery in both our hospitals in New York and Seattle, I was brought into Washington at that time largely
Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in June of 1965 to succeed Stephen Ailes. Earlier in 1965 you had been appointed Under Secretary of the Army and prior to that you were an attorney in New York and also active in Republican politics. R: Substantially correct. Is this information
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Is that correct? Well, of course it had been in the mill for some time before I arrived, and the history of the Department of Transportation is not new. It had been proposed over a period of twenty or thirty or forty years by several presidents, but President
Oral history transcript, Harvey O. Payne, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • reminiscences about because it seems to me that that was a turning point in Mr. Johnson's career. Anyway, what was your capacity in this 1948 campaign? HP: Well, let me make a few little comments here. In 1948 in my opinion he introduced a new dimension
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ." We only had two, so we called one of them the "old building" and one the "new building." M: Like the Senate does now. H: It was the East Building for housing members of Congress, their offices and so forth, and I was on the east side--a long ways
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 7 (VII), 2/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEW VII DATE: February 12, 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: [Let's begin with] the assassination. Did the fact that the assassination
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that Ambassador /Henry Cabot/ Lodge took under those instructions--which was, in effect, to go to the military and say if you want to start something new, we won't be against you--those had the effect of setting in motion all the thinking and so on that in turn
Oral history transcript, Edgar L. Ball, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , national figure, that we had that had stayed and really tried to help in 1952, and we considered him a loyalist. He had been a New Deal supporter, speaker of the House, had done a great many things. G: Now I guess we should go on to 1956. shaped up
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • News said that LBJ and organized labor had made their peace and that organized labor was now going to support him. I wondered if you had any insights on that. W: No. I don't remember. G: What did organized labor in Texas feel about Shivers? W: I
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and she gave money and plants to the City of New York. in evidence. To this day the beginnings she made are still Park Avenue and other places in New York, as a result of her work, are still beautified every year. As I said earlier, one of the things
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 5 (V), 5/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] very interesting political news. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Those things were happening all over the country
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ; and New Year's Eve, as I think I mentioned previously, I spent up here calling around to tell everybody that the President was going to announce the next day that they were going to work right away. But some people apparently had told the President