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Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 3 (III), 5/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • accredited President Kennedy with. And I think that that's true. I think if one looks back, Bobby's whole carpet bagging to New York kind of issue was an interesting ploy. G: Do you think he realized that the wound was mortal at the time at the White House
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] Tower as the new senator from Texas? R: Just swore him in. G: Yes. R: There were no-- G: He didn't comment on it later that day, nothing significant about Tower being--? R: No. Positively not. I think he just [says], "Here he is," so he swears
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be visible in the staff positions, the appointive positions, and reflected in the kind of humor that they use on both. sides. The President has his people, and of course Humphrey had his little set of people, and Bob had his, inherited and some new ones. I
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 25 (XXV), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . When he ultimately decided to make Nick attorney general--and somewhere I noticed, I've seen the Daily Diary when he had him up to Camp David to give him the last blood test--the question of who was going to be the deputy came up. I never talked to Nick
Oral history transcript, Andrew J. Goodpaster, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • hy adminiscracion spokesmen at each critical stage of this development. f: Without getting i nto personalities, and relying to a certain extent on the news •tories, have you perceived a cha nge in t he people who came from Congress to participate
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • period. I was privileged to go with Mr. and Mrs. Johnson on the plane when we went directly from here to the convention and arrived. The Texas delegation had been delegated to a dreadful hotel called the New Clark. Governor [John] Burns
Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • A't/a rd; you kno\o'J, it was goi ng to be an every year type of thing. suit out of it. I don't think it was, but I got a new I don't know but what that suit made him do it, but I doubt it because he was always very interested in publicity. G: Why
Oral history transcript, Horace D. Godfrey, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to getting legislation passed. and ~t Cotton Here we had had a feed-grain, program for some years, from '61 in the case of feed-grains, and from '64 in the case of wheat, and these were working satisfactorily. We needed a new cotton program, and a wool
Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was for Homer's benefit that he was giving me this going over because I had done what LBJ really wanted done. G: Oh, really. How did you find that out? H: Well, I got a couple of new shirts. He never would say he was sorry, but that's when you would get
Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • about that. M: I think that President Johnson--Senator Johnson--finally succumbed to the arguments and persuasion of my good friend Clint Anderson of New Mexico, and it was a personal vendetta with him. I think this was a shabby day in the Senate
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • a big impression on you anyway. V: That's right. M: How close was your contact as Assistant Special Counsel during the course of the hearings? Was it fairly extensive--daily, or every other day, or just very briefly--? V: No, I probably saw him
Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Settlement Commission and rewrite all the job descriptions. It was through Mr. Macy that I obtained some very fine new personnel. M: So he was probably the one who kept your name in the top of the pile as far as prospective talent for the various jobs
Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1984 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES M. ROWE INTERVIEWER: Ted Gitt i nger PLACE: Mr. Rowe's residence, Ingleside, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Rowe, would you begin by giving us a little background? When did you become involved in covering the news in Duval
  • Background of covering news in South Texas including Duval and Jim Wells Counties; impressions of Duval County and George Parr; vote controversy in the 1948 election; leaders in the South Texas counties; investigation by the Coke Stevenson people
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of January of the year after one's election. I was a candidate in 1934 in the new district, the Nineteenth District, that cut Marvin Jones' district about half in two. I ran along with--there were nine of us--no incumbent [who] ran for the position and I
  • How he met LBJ in 1935; LBJ’s ambitions and absorption with politics; LBJ as a new Congressman and loss of the Appropriations Committee appointment to Albert Thomas; Sam Rayburn and the Board of Education; rural electrification; Civil Rights Act
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • with them or work with them very much? B: They had their own office downtown in a building that was then called the Esso Building, which is now gone. They had, probably, daily conferences. They came in for advice and materiaL After all, the source
Oral history transcript, Rodney Borum, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • as manager of a conference at Crotonville, New York, dealing with a foreign policy problem of the U .S . This is something that Secretaries Fowler and Connor attended, G .E . hosted, and the Atlantic Council sponsored . The conference was on trade
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 3 (III), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • by the fact that he was new and by the fact that he is extraordinarily good at getting along with people. And he has been able to reach accommodations on certain issues that were of major importance to the more powerful members of the Armed Services
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 6 (VI), 4/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • way or another to make it. So Janice, a kid that age, she wanted to go, and we didn't have time to say no. She went along and we just had to drive much faster than I like to drive. But it was a new Mercury and no problems, sailed right on. G
Oral history transcript, Norbert A. Schlei, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Yarmolinsky, and Yarmolinsky on almost a daily basis. As far as mY work was concerned he was the principal client; I was the lawyer and he was the client. G: Let's take some of these components and maybe you can elaborate on how the particular section
Oral history transcript, J. Roy White, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , in the construction of the new dining room and kitchen facilities, the addition of 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
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Adams -- I -- 9 thirtieth of January 1968, I sort of went back to my hole with my captured documents and POW reports and continued working on Viet Cong and NVA strength and found, incidentally, that there was an enormous number of new units popping up
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 5 (V), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the institution would delegate some one· or more people on the faculty. At the University of Texas I remember it was Dean Moore, dean of student life, [who] supervised the program. And through the communi- cations, the Daily Texan and things like
Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • accurately predicted the coming results of the election. He was very pessimistic about Governor StevEmson and Senator lIIcF'arland's chances of election. I remember Hr. Symington suggesting - they were discussing who the new I'Iajority Leader should
Oral history transcript, Gerald N. McAllister, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • a new Episcopal mission there. I spent about four and one-half years in Corpus Christi and then at the invitation of the Bishop to begin yet another mission, I moved to Victoria. P: What year was that? M: It has been about ten years ago now, so
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • which were distributed around government might or might not show the distinction mentioned above. Further, communications to the President from me were always seen and signed by me personally.For example, I always saw and signed the daily report
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 2 (II), 7/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • VII, which created a new entity, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, with a different set of legal criteria and a somewhat different type of relationship to individual minority, potentially aggrieved citizens. They could file individual
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Eisenhower at Walter Reed [Hospital] a lot. B: And I went out to California a couple of times with him to visit. G: Did you? B: Yes. I don't have anything else to say. G: He went to New York on May 20 and spoke at the Arthritis Foundation. B: Yes
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • d be just for a very brief period and Tom would get him out. He owed Tom a law bill that you couldn't add up with an adding machine, so Tom, in lieu of cash, each time he needed a new case of Gordon gin, he'd ca 11 up the bootl egger and he waul d
Oral history transcript, Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Taos, New Mexico and then on to Santa Fe and visited her brother Tony, who lived in Santa Fe, he and his wife, Elizabeth Steele, formerly of Marshall, with whom I had been graduated from high school. very different from [St. Mary's]. L: She loved
Oral history transcript, John J. (Lt. Gen.) Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • subordinates in the agency that the coordination with the White House and the guidance from the White House to the Arms Control Agency was almost on a daily basis, you might say--particularly when items of arms control nature were coming to a head
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 4 (IV), 3/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there we shared, and we fought for audience in that overlap of our signals when they were operating before they went to the tall tower. They encroached on the mileage separation with their proposed new facility with the distance to the Weslaco station
Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of a Westinghouse bid on a nuclear desalting plant, more sympathetic treatment within the IMF, the IRB, and the New York banks. Then there were certain political items that the Egyptians were very interested in. One, they asked that we help mediate their diffi
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • officials were waiting any changes effected by the new administration? 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
Oral history transcript, Roland Bibolet, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was very bombastic, of the times with him ; he was running with and he was running against Truman . and he Eisenhower I think really what defeated McFarland was the absolute opposition Phoenix . soon of the two daily papers It was sort of a pre
Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • rule. ever had one in Wyoming. I don't believe we've I recall, particularly, as the roll call of states approached Wyoming, New Jersey, which had originally passed, came over and asked if we would defer to them when it came Wyoming's time to cast
Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 1-- 2 than a full-time job if you were out of the university. So I worked for the International News Service, which is now UPI, under a fellow named Vann Kennedy, whom a lot of people in the LBJ family know. He now lives in Corpus Christi where
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 3 (III), 6/21/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this for that period of time it's awfully hard to remember. As I said to you the other day, one of the greatest capacities of the human mind is the ability to forget. You have to learn how to erase so that you can add new things in; otherwise, the computer gets
Oral history transcript, Ebba Jansen and Alvin J. Jansen, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • into where there was a rain storm in the mountains. In Arizona they told us when we got into New Nexico the arroyos would have planks over it. But otherwise I'd drive the car and the other three girls would get down in the bottom of the gulley or the arroyo
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • into urging a quickie tax cut. But it was at that time, I think, that he indicated that he was going to propose tax legislation in the new session of Congress--and, of course, this was the new Congress--beginning in January 1963. There were intensive
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , pretty weather . about 75° , and the sun was out . 17 It was a good San Antonio day ; it was Cantinflas would get up and say, "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year," and he would sit down . But this wowed the crowd and they loved to see him