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Oral history transcript, Mary Michelson Fish Johnson Haselton, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • else. G: What was his mood at that point? H: He was rather melancholy. We did our best. We'd try to keep his spirits up. Sam would come in every evening and talk to him about an hour after he came back from the office and give him all the news about
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 3 (III), 3/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the relations were not So when--and I think I've discussed this to some extent earlier--when Ted had corne in we had talked a little about 1968. Ted and John Criswell and I had a lunch discussing the forthcoming New Hampshire primary, and Ted was suggesting
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • commentary on the office operation, on the day we walked in--incidentally, we had to leave on very short notice, and we drove over the long New Year's Day weekend in a driving rain to get up here. The day we arrived here was the day the Congress began
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • on to India as head of the AID--brought in a clipping from McClean's column in the Daily News in Washington which said, "Waiters are reporting an enormous increase in tips since the tax cut." Lewis LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
  • Troika; Quadriad; Council of Economic Advisers; administration differences; details of tax cut; trade-offs with Congress on budget cuts; Wilbur Mills; Harry Byrd; origin of tax cut; Samuelson Task Force; “new economics;” tax increases; Vietnam’s
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • daily? N: Not daily, 0:: Cape Cod at the time of the second primary? but I telephoned. I bought the New York Times. Boston pa?ers didn't report anything. The The New York Times would have very confusing information, and I remember I called
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • know whether they ever made their ways into the Library or not. G: That's a new one on me. Let's see if I can find some. Was that the last year you were there? J: Probably so, because actually I was only there two years. G: Any other activities
  • . Johnson writing for the Daily Texan; early career plans and ideas; how attending UT changed Mrs. Johnson's life; exploring Longhorn Cavern; Captain Roy Wilkinson Aldrich; land Mrs. Johnson's father purchased from the Haggerty family.
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Gentleman from Texas, well. This v1as the New York Daily 11 He wrote a piece called and I remember that piece very You say that it appeared about four weeks after the hearings? G: Yes. R: Same piece. I know what I'm talking about now. man's name
Oral history transcript, Frank Ikard, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . And each member of the committee on Ways and Means, Democratic member, has a region that he represents. Well, I represented Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma. And I was 5 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 7 (VII), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • my staff people to be anonymous." It was interesting, because once news got out that I was on the staff my local paper called me one day, the Long Island Daily Press, or something from Queens. There was a reporter named Tony Viglietta or somebody like
Oral history transcript, Mildred Portner, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Portner -- I -- 12 was some system. The functional furniture was installed in both the old and new offices and had relieved fatigue, improved morale, lent orderliness to the processing of correspondence daily. Then there was a desk to be used
Oral history transcript, John M. Steadman, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • participating, virtually all of them had been around here for the last couple of years; they knew each other, they knew I guess who was a real grabber of turf and who was a team player and all. But to me everybody was new, and it's remarkable how, looking down
Oral history transcript, John L. Monahan, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and all their staffs. ever seen. He was the best man for the job that I've I didn't get along So well with some of the people that worked for him, in both administrations, especially when they were relatively new. That may have been because when I
Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • thought that I was T. R. B., who was writing [in New Republic] the anonymous column--knifing him. And he used to glare at me across the Senate chamber so--when I barely knew the man--and one day I remember asking Bobby Baker as to why I’d earned this harsh
Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • then Congressman Sterling Cole and I authored, he in the House and I in the Senate, took a little different tack on this Atomic Energy situation. We rewrote, in fact, we wrote a new bill, that's exactly what it amounted to, and we opened the gate for cooperation
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • months. I hadn't known the man. really, until December 1961. when I was picked by my squadron to take the then-Vice President Johnson on his first Jetstar trip. I took him from Washington, where he wanted to leave from National Airport. to Chicago
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • handsome Chippendale chairs with leather seats, at which first and last I expect a quorum of the Senate sat, and [there was] an awful lot of good talk around it. Lyndon, of course, was just settling in to this huge new job. He would get an enormous amount
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • so new and young at the thing, you know, obviously Johnson had a good bit to do in Texas without coming up here. As it turned out, it was one of life's first and great lessons about politics. The fact that things shifted to Washington really made
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that--particularly thought of serving at the UN. that I wasn't interested in the UN Not but I was doubtful if I could afford to live in New York at the United Nations, because it's a very expensive post. Probably, if I had realized how expensive I couldn't have
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was the turning point in those hearings for two reasons. One, he was a very incoherent witness and the record of the [John] Stennis hearings will show that. And number two, he slugged a reporter. He hit a reporter on the way out, from the Daily News. F: Who
Oral history transcript, Betty Furness Midgley, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the afternoon. in her office in the Executive Office Building, Room 100. We are My name is David McComb. To start off with your background, according to my information you were born in New York City in 1916 and educated in New York City and New York area
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , "I'm working very closely with him on the new civil rights bill," which Acheson--somewhat to my surprise because I hadn't been aware of any particular interest of his in this--he evidenced an interest also. And he said when he came back that Senator
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 41 (XLI), 1/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • clasp; he gave me cigarette lighters. And I ended up walking with my arms full of all these presents, to say goodbye to him. And he then proceeded--I'll have to look at the daily diaries, but [he] constantly called me and they were twelve hours
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • more and more on a daily basis. I think this was probably the point where [Robert] McNamara and Rusk had--I hate to use the words lost credibility with him, I think everybody had lost credibility with him at that point, or he felt that nobody
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that the New Deal and organized labor, which to most Texans was equivalent to the Politburo, were pouring money into Johnson's campaign here in Texas, and poor Texas people, honest Texas opposition couldn't stand up against this great plot that was hatched
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for the President's brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, who has just started this new thing called the Peace Corps." had read about it. do." He said, "Do you want a job?" I said I I said, "I think I So he wrote on a piece of paper in his notebook the name "Bill
Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • great peeves of all peeves; everything was just haywire that afternoon, as you can well imagine it was. The Johnsons had a new Chrysler--an~vay, some new car that I was driving, and I always drove those new cars like I was handling glass an~Nay
Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Defense College when a telephone call came through from the State Department asking me to return immediately to discuss a new assignment. what they had in mind. This was in December [1963]. I was not told The Imperial Defense College had not concluded
Oral history transcript, George G. (Admiral) Burkley, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , I had no call to be of any personal assistance to President Eisenhower . THB : Then, sir, after the election of John F . Kennedy as President, what was your status? B: The election of John F . Kennedy was general news and information to all of us
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (TAPE =lF2) April 22, 1969 This is a second session with Mr. Henry H. Fowler, former Secretary of the Treasury. I am in his offices in New York City. The date is April 22, 1969, and my name is David McComb. Last time you
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ackley -- II -- 3 tax but certainly it was some time in the latter part of increase~ 1965. The tax increase discussion was given a new urgency in December, when
Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Then the one that came in at twelve o'clock would be there until he left, which was eight or nine o'clock. G: W: G: I see. And that would rotate on a daily basis? Yes. Tell me what it was like in the White House after President Kennedy's assassination
Oral history transcript, Herbert N. Blackman, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • event, the negotiations with the Japanese went on almost continuously from July of '56 into January of a 1 57 and it was pretty much full-time operation with almost daily negotiations with the Japanese, with the industries preparing new pieces
Oral history transcript, Antonio Carrillo-Flores, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • said, "All right, Mr. Senator." I went there. That's when I met Lady Bird. It was a very interesting meeting, because at the end it developed into some kind of polemic about the policies of the new administration in Mexico regarding foreign
Oral history transcript, Robert F. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • an evidence of change which really is an extremely welcome change on the whole, and which indicates a new sense of being a person, of individuality, and of actually being a part of the community on the part of a great many people who heretofore have not been
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • your chronology here gives the reason, is Johnson's resistance to the idea of tax cuts as an antirecession measure. He was for big spending in response to recession, and part of that I guess is just the classic New Deal and southwestern, midwestern
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • as chief executive; withdrawal of Title I funds from city of Chicago; poverty program; education acts; task forces; MHMR Act of 1963; Clean Air Act of 1963; Water Pollution Act of 1961; Hill-Burton Act; Elementary and Secondary Education Bill; Truth
Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 2 (II), 2/23/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . paper clippings of things. Dan ~'oody I think I still have some news- I had written in to the newspaper chiding for his actions and what he had been accusing Lyndon of and things like that. Mrs. Moody and I almost had a. . . . And Ed Clark took
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the apologies were addressed? G: One would have been Senator [Arthur] Watkins of Utah, and the other--the name slips [from] me--was from New Jersey; it was a long name, I can't remember. He called Watkins a "handmaiden of communism," and the other one was just
Oral history transcript, Allan Shivers, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • into the convention, if he'd wanted to. I talked to Mr. Rayburn on several occasions about it, before and after we got to Chicago, and told him that we could not pledge that we would vote for whoever the nominee was-and would not!--that as of that time we had
Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • covering the city--the county seat, Newton, for the Hickory Daily Record, L. C. Gifford's paper. And then at eleven, I would sell insurance ‘til about four and at four-thirty I would be due up at the yarn mill, Clyde Fabrics, where I worked until two-thirty