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Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to New York, I seem to recollect it had something to do with NATO. But the President called me in the afternoon, about two or three in the afternoon, and he said, would it be possible to do this." My attitude in working with President Johnson was always
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • or the appointment of a new one. In a business way, though, I've bumped into him perhaps half a dozen times, not on Defense matters, but during the period that I was General Counsel of the Army and in charge of the civil works program. Do you know what the civil
Oral history transcript, Helene Lindow Gordon, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . F: And wandered down to Washington at what late age in life? L: I was about seven or eight years old, I think. My father got a new job in Washington. F: Well, basically you are a Washingtonian, as far as you're concerned. L: I am
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • in the Dodge Hotel . was a vacancy there . that . He wanted to know if there He said, I'll move there . Started right off like Turned out Mrs . Garner had given him. a ticket too . Of course, she had given them to the new young employees . G: What part
Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . As such, in a federal agency, particularly a temporary federal agency like the WPA was, a New Deal agency, I was pretty much on my own with no supervision. I was told what they expected, then I did it. The boss, the state administrator, was Harry P. Drought, a ranking
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and a new life beginning. It was roughly divided between business school, which took up about five or six hours of the day [and the office]. I went to a very ordinary sort of a loft place and took typing and shorthand for about three hours and then studied
  • Lady Bird Johnson's daily activities in Washington, D.C., while LBJ was serving in the navy in 1942; LBJ's congressional office staff and Lady Bird Johnson's role as manager of the office in LBJ's absence; correspondence with constituents; living
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 1968 when you were defeated for reelection. I'd like to begin the interview and just ask you what made you decide to enter public life and politics back in 19391 M: I had been a political writer on the old Oklahoma News, had covered a number
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . He was probably the only governor that ever had a daily news briefing. He would meet with the Capitol press while he was governor every day. He might not have any sensational revelation to make to them or any announcement that was earth
Oral history transcript, Harold H. Saunders, interview 1 (I), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • I got to the NSC. In between my job with Amory I had served as a desk analyst in the Office of Current Intelligence, working on Japan, which was good experience just in terms of doing that kind of daily analysis and reporting job, but it didn't have
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . White -- Interview I -- 5 and went with the New York Times, I was assigned to the Senate, covered it, among others--principally me. Of course I, saw Lyndon Johnson daily in those days, because right away--he had been there scarcely any time before he
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Boatner -- IV -- 3 still was apprehensive, but I went ahead with the plans and got an airline to say that it would bring them in on a training flight. They were training some new pilots to go to Australia, and they would
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , I didn't mean to. But he was here as the head of the bureau, and then he was transferred to be the editor of the entire New York Daily News. So I had arranged for him to have a luncheon for Weisl and myself, so that the people at the News might
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 2 (II), 10/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ) Then on New Year's Eve, the Johnsons arrived in Washington and we all met over at Scooter and Dale Miller's house--wait a minute, I beg your pardon; it was the Thornberrys' house, it was Homer and Eloise's house-for a New Year's Eve party. Scooter and Dale
Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • willing to assign that man. R: Well, yes, certainly, because there's a rapport there, and when a new man comes in it's an advantage because there's an understanding there and and it makes it much easier for us to present our problems to the extent
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Novak -- I --4 M: What they call the new journalism now, but it was being done fifteen years ago. N: That's right. So I did a lot of stuff on Johnson. It tended
Oral history transcript, Robert F. McMahon and Mark T. Muller, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Field, I had a total of fourteen hours in fighter aircraft, four of which were in a P-36, and none of them in the new P-40 E. But we did get them assembled, more or less, with the aid of some Aussies and the tutelage of a few sergeants that were destined
  • McMahon met LBJ; air combat in Papua New Guinea; McMahon meeting LBJ again after LBJ had become a U.S. senator.
Oral history transcript, M. J. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)
  • to two. The Frisco one, I was not a delegate. I was just there, but the one in Atlantic City and the one in Chicago. Those I was a delegate to. Another interesting thing to you. Back in 1983--1963 rather, of April, I've a letter here from Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • convention was at Chicago. M: Did he think and did you think that he had any chance? H: No. We thought he had no chance. He didn't think he had a chance. But it seems that at the last minute he began to get some hope We were never quite sure what
Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 2 (II), 4/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • academic year, really ready to tell my tenant to get out of my house back in New Haven, and end my lease here and so forth, that I think Gardner made a stronger plea to the President for authorization to leave his job . It was during the week that Gardner
Oral history transcript, Jerre Williams, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : It was in a New York paper. Well, then the other time was a barbe- cue and we were both there. That was during the campaign. night of the election, we were in the Driskill [Hotel]. upstairs. The He came I remember we were standing there and he shook hands
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ; God, it was effective. It was effective. G: His [October 9, 1964] speech in New Orleans was a very good-- R: The Johnson speech? G: Yes. R: Boy, that was great. G: Were you there for that? R: Goddamn right I was. I mean, the one--"nigger
Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • election to Congress in 1937 in that special election, what was the significance of Texas to your father and to the New Deal at the time, politically? R: Well, of course, it was a very important state to have good contacts and good people with whom he
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 3 (III), 4/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in these appointments. Each state in the union has at least one appointee, with the leading states being the District of Columbia, New York, Maryland, and California, Virginia, and Texas." He was pleased to note for the Cabinet that Texas was in sixth place
Oral history transcript, William M. Blackburn, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • born, when, where did you get your education? B: Well, I was born in 1939, February 17, in Shreveport, Louisiana, and lived there through about the first or second grade . After spending about a year in New Mexico after that, I moved to Stamford
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there would be any advantage in going into all of them. But let's talk first of all about the technique of setting up these trips you made to New England, the trip up the Hudson, the trip to Big Bend, the trip to Padre, the trip in Utah and Wyoming
Oral history transcript, Jule M. Sugarman, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency had put us in touch around several matters and I had done a number of chores for the two of them in various efforts to draft new legislation and new programs. So in the summer of '64 Dick called to ask if I would
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Emergency Relief Mission and came back and briefly resumed the special assistant post while I broke in a new man when Joe Califano went to the White House. in John Cushman. I broke Then I became principal deputy assistant secre- tary of defense
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • there was not a strong and yet poorly articulated commitment. During the first many months of his Administration Johnson did nothing either very new or very definitive to try to reduce or indeed to increase our involvement. It was basically, from his point of view I
Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • by political philosophy or conviction? A: Yes, I would have looked on Mr. Johnson in those days as part of the New Deal, a young man that came up during the Roosevelt days that had been liberal and progressive in his thoughts. Of course he came from what
Oral history transcript, Helen Thomas, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1977, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • growing years, and went to college at Wayne University in Detroit. Detroit is really--I still consider it home even though I came to Washington in World War II, 1942, and got a job as copy girl for the old Washington Daily News. I then went to UP
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • by the wire services. About four or five days later, there was a little story on the front page of the Washington Post which said, "Five days ago Secretary Wirtz spoke in De troit, or Chicago (uhichever one it was), and expressed views against the Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , I know that a great many of my friends, my historian friends, look on the period of the New Deal as a period of outstanding progress unequalled before or since. I lived through the years of the New Deal as an adult, teaching economics, involved
Oral history transcript, Fred Korth, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • idea and had some company in Chicago mass produce them because we couldn't very well produce these sterling silver ones in any mass quantity. M: Haltom's is not exactly a mass production house anT-.ay. K: Tllat' s right. But we really did. He sat
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Republican party as an isolationist party, because after all you had that whole New England group with men in it like Saltonstall and Warren Austin, George Aikin, who also agreed very strongly with the foreign policy that had developed over the years
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to establish the policy of new senators getting one good ยท major co11111ittee assignment before passing out other assignments to the older senators. G: He himself moved from Conunerce to Finance. S: Again, that would have been to block, probably
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 2 (II), 2/25/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was there. (Laughter) G: Do you recall anything in particular about that convention? W: No, as far as I was concerned, it was just a big get-together. (Laughter) G: Okay. Then they had the Democratic Convention in Chicago, I guess it was, that year. Do you
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 3 (III), 3/3/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • here from 1947. It says here that Mrs. Johnson's Aunt Effie died on New Year's night of 1947 and she was very depressed about that. Do you recall anything of that? W: Well, that aunt raised Lady Bird from the time she was five or six years old. She
Oral history transcript, Houston Harte, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • : Big Spring, Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Corsicana, Bryan and Huntsville. Two are Week"lies which we expect will become dailies--Co~merce and Huntsville. 8: That largest newspaper in this group-- H: --is the San Antonio Express and Evening News
Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEES: ARTHUR E. GOLDSCHMIDT and ELIZABETH WICKENDEN (Mrs. Goldschmidt) INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MULHOLLAN PLACE: The Goldschmidts' home, 544 East 86th~ New York City Tape 1 of 2 M: You don't have to talk into it [the recorder] or anything. pick you
Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • article before there was a White House [Historical Association], and we published a few along the way. But these news pictures, these daily event things, we don't publish them. Life publishes them, the newspapers publish them. He don't. But without