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Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 3 (III), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • is the beginning of Mr. Johnson's presidency. We had brought you over then to his offices following the news of the assassination. Did you take part at all in the reception of Mr. Johnson when he came in? Where did he go when he came in, did he get in any
Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Clements was also impressed with your independence and helped get the money from a source in New York or some place, a liberal source. M: They did raise some outside money, and I never did know or pay much attention where it came from. The Committee
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • for yourself . Because you it as a journalist ; you go through the daily routine of reporting this story and reporting that story, and sort of face it and say, "All at the end of each of my visits and you rarely right, what does to Vietnam, sit down
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)
  • , and Mike Mansfield, the majority leader, came in and he said, "George, would you take over for Teddy? We've got some bad news there." I said, "Well, sure." As I remember it, as soon as I took the seat and Mansfield had told Teddy what had happened, he moved
  • and Robert Kennedy; civil rights legislation debate; civility among legislators; the New York Times not running a story about Senator James Eastland referring to Anwar Sadat as a "nigger;" McGovern and Frank Church meeting with Hubert Humphrey about support
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that would pass sometime in 1966 that would need at best a half a year's start-up money in that fiscal year. So the new legislation didn't have a lot of impact on the budget, even something as extraordinary as Model Cities. On drafting the message itself
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • as it was functioning, and consequently we proposed in 1967 that there be a significant change in the law to give it a different kind of a complexion. We had our last meeting in December of '67, which was the same month that we got our new amendments. I took
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • officer on his staff who kept him briefed on the daily reports from Viet Nam. So I would say that he had full information.He did make a trip to Viet Nam, as you will recall, and the historian will have a chance to read his full report on that trip. M
Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that was coincidental. News reports ranged from the totally pessimistic to--I can remember the quotes-- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, George McArthur, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . No, it wasn't the Majestic. But you could go in there and get information on anything that you wanted. You could go in there and get a helicopter; you could go in there and--you just name it, it was there. I've told you about Joe Fried, the New York Daily News
  • McArthur's work for the Associated Press; the difference between working for a wire service and a daily/weekly publication; Mrs. Eva Kim McArthur's work as Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker's secretary; Bunker's attitude toward McArthur's and Eva's
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recall about that is that Mary Rather was his chief secretary at the time. Mayo Clinic. She was sending things to him at the She addressed a whole bunch of stuff to Rochester, New York that the Senator was most anxious to have and became quite
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 8 (VIII), 7/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , big ones supported Stevenson, like the Dallas News and the Houston Chronicle. But the middle-sized dailies were mainly for Johnson, the Harte-Hanks chain in Wichita Falls and Austin and Waco and Port Arthur. G: Did you make any attempts to get
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and President [Richard] Nixon during LBJ's retirement. F: Well, obviously this ignores the striking earlier history between the two going back to the Eisenhower years, but Johnson made it a point with the [1968] election barely over--we were in New York
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 2 (II), 2/4/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Patman -- I -- 8 was along about the time of the War Between the States. they were rather affluent compared to my family. Of course They went down on a passenger train to New Orleans
Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • explain it. I think there was a bit of an analogy there with, "Only Nixon could go to China." Only Nixon could take advantage of this imperative that had been apparent in the late sixties and do something dramatic, not so much in new programs
Oral history transcript, Stanley L. Greigg, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • support from the administration for a new freshman coming in from northwest Iowa, I don't have all those details. MG: You don't have any indication of what the administration--of what the White House did, if anything, to assist that-- 6 LBJ
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 3 (III), 8/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and when I went out, obviously, I talked to a lot of old friends and new friends in the press business, and that was a major gripe. My recollection is that they were sending it through the telegraph office. I don't know which one, whether it was IT&T
  • McGeorge Bundy and the public affairs committee; Bill Moyers; press coverage of Vietnam; Dan Duc Khoi; Bui Diem; improving methods for transmitting news; American journalists from other countries; Morley Safer and Mike Wallace; Vietnam Psychological
Oral history transcript, Kenneth Torp, interview 1 (I), 6/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : No, none. F: Where had you gone to school? T: CCNY in New York. Got a bachelor's there in Modern American History, Modern European History. F: Well, you got in on some modern history. T: Yes. F: So, you showed up there, then, in a commercial
Oral history transcript, Keith Waller, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on the northeast coast-F: Yes, lIve been there. W: Well, he'd left there on a bombing raid over New Guinea. He'd spent some timein Brisbane, certainly a number of weeks, staying in a funny little country hotel, and he wanted to go back and see it, which he did
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 9 (IX), 7/14/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . And I went to work at the White House. (Interruption) R: Recently Nancy and Drew were on a trip to New York and New England, and then coming back they stopped in Washington and saw the sights there. Nancy told me that all of a sudden they passed
  • Rather rejoining LBJ's staff at the end of his presidency; Rather's nieces attending school in Washington, D.C.; LBJ's decision to retire from politics; the slower pace of office work at the White House and LBJ's daily schedule; night reading
Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 2 (II), 11/9/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : They met in the Philippines at one point soon after this, didn't they? P: I don't know. G: I believe he mentions that he went out to the Philippines, and that's Does Westy cover that in his book? when he got the news from General Whee1er-P: That he
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 3 (III), 7/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • --or some of them might have. I did know, and it is entirely possible that the President knew, that there was some new thinking on the part of at least some of them. I knew that Dean Acheson and McGeorge Bundy were in the process of reevaluation; that Tet
Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • days of the New Deal. I went down to Washington in the fall of 1936, just at the time of the second election of President Roosevelt. when it was, but I did meet him. I don't recall exactly I think he was on some coal com- mission or something
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • have, and then I didn't see anything of the Johnsons for a long time thereafter, didn't meet him until much later. F: ~Jhen you were with the Raleigh News and Observer, did you ever get any feeling about how the Daniels felt about Johnson, or had he
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • departments would handle it, and whether there would be a new agency as opposed to having HEW--? B: Which period, is this pre-assassination or post-assassination? G: No, post-assassination. B: Post-assassination, the answer is yes to your question. G
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • background and how I got started in Texas politics, I was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and came to Texas during World War II. As a relatively young man and with very little interest in politics, I met my wife in Austin, Texas and went to law school
Oral history transcript, John E. Stavast, interview 1 (I), 3/12/84, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in the Daily Texan article, which has you being shot down sometime other than what it could have been. I think they said that you were in captivity starting sometime in 1966, which is clearly impossible. S: No, that's not correct. G: Okay, so you went
Oral history transcript, Sarah T. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • for the new Congress. He said then that he would be for me. F: Let's go back a moment. You had known Senator Yarborough for some time. H: Yes, I had known him ever since I was in the legislature. He was assistant attorney general under Allred when Allred
Oral history transcript, Dorothy Territo, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1983, by Claudia Anderson (Item)
  • in addition to many others was to provide, as requested, service to members of the Congress in the paperwork management area. This would involve new members in the House and Senate or older members whose systems were not adequate and they were breaking down
  • ; getting LBJ's staff to submit documents to the new filing system; promises made in an effort to obtain Senate Democratic Policy Committee files; Mrs. Rebekah Johnson and her desire for a family library and community center; planning where LBJ's papers
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the New Deal liberals. What was the significance of that? That was part of it, and part of it I think was a 10 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • friendship continued. I felt I knew Luci and Lynda and their problems and had many visits with them. I spent much time with Mrs. Johnson and the entire personal staff, meeting new people, including Ashton Gonella, and continuing with the friendship with Bess
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • for his particular needs and functions. I recall that I planned that we would have the new big bed arranged on the seventeenth floor and that at the right time, after several days, in order to allow his circulation to stabilize and his blood pressure
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 2 (II), 11/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , I was detailed on a part-time basis, still as special assistant, still working at J3, but I was also supposed to go out and spend some time with III Corps in planning this particular operation. I don't think it had any really significant and new
  • to improved the placement of new chiefs and staff; dealing with questions from the press; how Jack Cushman dealt with the press; Montague's role in planning the Hop Tac operation and why it was unsuccessful; General Westmoreland's request for an estimate
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and a desire to Instead of assist him, he commanded just the opposite. G: Well, Olds had evidently had a somewhat radical past in the thirties. J: That's right. G: And had written some stuff for I guess New Masses or the Daily Worker
Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Vei for an What were the contingency plans? There was an old Lang Vei camp that we'd been in before, and then they'd built a brand new one. The new one was completely underground; even the radio antennae we'd had spread underground
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 5 (V), 10/30/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and he'd sort of tip his orange juice to Sam Rayburn. And when there would come on TV a replay of what the news had about the assassination and Jack Kennedy's face would appear, then Johnson would grimace. He obviously thought an enormous amount of Jack
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the existence of, and I wonder if they're still on the map. This was all salted and sprinkled through with daily talks with his office in 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, Logan Wilson, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a dilemma for the press if they regard a lot of this as legitimate news and something that people are entitled to know. But I think future historians may look back on some of the activism and see that the activists have been stimulated by the television
Oral history transcript, Robert B. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE : ROBERT B . ANDERSON INTERVIEWER PAIGE E . MULHOLLAN PLACE : Mr . Anderson's office, One Rockefeller Plaza, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: You don't have any connection with Arkansas? A: No . I had connections only
Oral history transcript, Eugene C. Patterson, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ; Doctor of Laws, Tusculum College, 1965; Reporter Temple, Tex. Daily Telegram and Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, 1947-48; mgr. for S. C., United Press, 1948-49, night bur. mgr., N.Y.C., 1949-53; mgr. London bur., also chief corr. U.K., 1953-56; vp exec. editor
Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that. I had a good clientele. But this old boy came over here from Marshall and made a speech at the courthouse and he used as his text Carl Estes and the Longview Daily News, Daily Journal, whatever they want to call it. We spent at least ten dollars