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Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • they paid for it on the basis of it being delivered on the docks. MU: About that same time Mr. Johnson had his first real strike crisis. this didn't involve one of your unions. I think It was the railroad strike in 1964. Did you get involved with him
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was going up so high, and we also, it was the time when we moved to stop the Pentagon from buying large eggs and tell them to buy medium-sized eggs to bring down the price of eggs. It was somewhere in there or early the next year that we hunted for things
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 3 (III), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • I'm saying is that there is no indication of that at the present time. There's no indication even that the Soviet Union intends to try and take over any country in the Middle East. I don't think there is any risk that they would try and occupy
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that was part of the State of the Union Message was what the television programming was that night. By this time we would look at the television programming to see what the three networks had to do and how angry they'd get about having their programs interrupted
Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • at that time to really match us as they do today, he was putting in these MRBMs and IRBMs because in effect they were like buying Model Ts instead of Mercedes Benz, which is what the ICBMs would be back in the Soviet Union. And they got caught off base and he
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: D. B. HARDEMAN INTERVIEWER: T. H. Baker PLACE: Mr. Hardeman's residence, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 B: Last time we were talking about Mr. Rayburn in Congress. During those years there, after you got with Mr. Rayburn from the late
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tape II 2 (Nov. 13, 1968, Nov. 14, 1968) A: I felt this was one of those times when it did make a difference who was the American chief representative in this mission--in this case, Sofia. That, quite possible, if I had been
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 6 (VI), 9/16/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and didn't equivocate. VI -­ 11 It caused him some very harsh, strong enemies. G: Who, for example? J: Well, at that particular point in time nearly every labor union in the state of Texas. Now I think they came back, because they never had a chance
Oral history transcript, Nelson M. Bortz, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of points and proposals which they feel are required to update and strengthen the regulations. This we will send out and sit down and discuss with the union-interested groups and the management-interested groups, and we may do this two times, make two rounds
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 4 (IV), 3/8/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • a problem with the Soviet Union. There isn't going to be any settlement of the German problem to which the Soviets don't agree. I talked with [Andrei A.] Gromyko many times about the German problem, and tried to show him what vast changes in the situation
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • index : Page or estimated time on tape Subiect(s) covered 1 Biographical 2,3 Organized labor's view of Senator Johnson 4,5 Trying to put across a new labor view in Texas 6 Communication Workers of America 7 Local union 8 Union
  • Biographical information; organized labor's view of Senator Johnson; initiatiing new labor view in Texas; CWA; local union; union at the nation level; 1968 Chicago telephon strike before convention; 1960 campaign/convention; LBJ's effectiveness
Oral history transcript, Thomas J. Dunlap, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • : Is that a fact? TD: I don't know how he found out that I had been elected, and the western Union office in San Marcos was already closed. A couple of us had to go out to the railroad switchyard; the only place we could get a wire at that time; it was sometime
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: This was your first State of the Union Message that you worked on. C: Yes. The basic questions
Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 1 (I), 6/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that so many business leaders from all industries were willing to lend their names to the membership of that committee, even in public advertisements, as well as donating the one thousand-dollar maximum amount that could at that time be contributed legally
Oral history transcript, Thomas Royals, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • people. M: Have you generally had the cooperation of the labor unions? R: This time this cooperation has been tremendous. Many of the people that turned out to be buddies had done little or nothing in union activities over the years. The presidents
  • Biographical information; Manpower Development and Traveling Act; Office of Manpower Automation and Training; Community Action agencies; business in ghetto areas; Social Security Office; Chamber of Commerce; employment programs; NAB; labor union
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 40 (XL), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • start to look at these papers, and now I look--you look at these papers, for sure going up there in 1966 with a State of the Union Message that I can tell you, I remember that night, [it] just blew their minds. A dozen or so brand-new programs. Nobody
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 1 (I), 9/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and subsequently became chief of the Economic Bureau for President Truman. F: We've interviewed Mr. Keyserling, incidentally. C: At that time I worked at tha [New York] Daily News during one summer only, and there met Lowell Limpus. This resulted in a lifetime
Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to. Tnese are voluntary associations. We want the members to take an active democratic role in th~peration of the unions. And yet in a time of inflationary pressures, people trying to leap-frog wage settlements one after another, it has made it darned
  • price policy; union democracy; stockpiling; Direct Investment Program; balance of payments; transition; cabinet committee work on post-planning for economic consequences of the end of Vietnam War
Oral history transcript, Pat Adelman, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • years decided I would go over into the law school with the prospects of becoming a lawyer or using it as a help in my business career, which I had anticipated at the time. I entered Baylor in 1924 [and was there in] 1925, 1926, 1927. It so happened
  • out of debt; getting people to listen to KTBC; what it was like to work for the Johnsons; attempted unionization of KTBC; Adelman's career following his work at KTBC; Adelman's contact with the Johnsons after leaving KTBC; Adelman's view of A Texas
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 3 (III), 12/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • thereof. Both Korea and the South Vietnamese episode became highly unpopular during their course. I'm not sure that the Korean war wasn't even more unpopular than the Vietnamese war at the time; many people have forgotten that since. Obviously no one would
  • capabilities vs. conventional forces in relation to the Soviet Union's spending and capabilities; the Navy and the development of the F-111-B; difficulty designing equipment that is useful for more than one branch of the U.S. military; operational losses
Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 3 (III), 1/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • at all times, being able to tell the U.S. president just when a missile is launched from, say, China or the Soviet Union, just which silo it came from, what its probable payload is, what its destination will be, about what time it will arrive and probably
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • /loh/oh 3 W: I'd say a couple of reasons. for about eighteen years. First of all, I practiced law in Washington I think I probably would have taken on a government assignment prior to that time if it hadn't been for the vast wasteland
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 24 (XXIV), 2/6/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the thought hits everybody, "My God! This is the United States!", and they want to find out what the United States is like. Most of these people I had been dealing with for many years. I noticed, for instance, that Stu Alsop's on here a couple of times. Stu
Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 1 (I), 1/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • is January 18; the time is 9:50 in the morning; and I am interviewing him in his office at the Health, Education, and Welfare Building in Washington, D.C. My name is David McComb. First of all, Dr. Lee, I'd like to know something about your background
Oral history transcript, Stanley Marcus, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • period when we were enlarging the store. So I came into the store in Sept- ember 1926 and have been associated with the store all during that time. r became president of Neiman-Marcus in 1950, a position which I still hold. F: Where and under what
  • Simpson; weddings of Lynda and Luci; International Ladies Garment Union; fashion taste of Lady Bird and Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy; the Committee for the Acquisition of American Art for the White House; White House social functions; privilege of serving
Oral history transcript, Ben H. Powell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . Scholar~ It He was elected from a district in Houston where the labor unions and liberal elements elected him time after time. They now have Bob Eckhardt. M: Again, this is a question that is sensitive, and it's the kind of question that comes up
  • Wirtz as LBJ’s primary mentor; LBJ’s relationship to Herman Brown and Alvin Wirtz; LBJ’s political style of compromise and how he exercised influence; unions; Brown and Root’s campaign contributions; Lady Bird’s ability to accommodate LBJ’s schedule
Oral history transcript, A. Scheffer Lang, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • directly to me by the Under Secretary to work through. M: Did you have any contact with railroad companies, or railroad unions at this time during the formation? L: Very little. I wasn't involved in any of the discussions with interested people
  • between railroad and Executive branch of federal government; Transportation policy; obsolescence of some railroad passenger service; overcapacity; railroad unions; feather-bedding; nationalization of railroad industry
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • surprise he opened up the initial interview with a suggestion that the Mine Workers International Union and he needed a new general counsel, and would I consider it? It was a long far cry from anything, that I'd ever anticipated up to that time. F: You
  • Early personal history in Texas; Justice Department experience; Texas Legislature service; Mine Workers International Union background; LBJ and John L. Lewis; first contacts with LBJ; recollection of Sam Ealy Johnson; LBJ’s job with Kleburg and NYA
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 60 (LX), 1/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the guidelines busted too badly. The guidelines had plenty of holes in them by this time. I think he was deeply involved. I think, just looking at his diaries and the best of my recollection, he was calling me all the time. And he knew this was a dicey problem
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • assignment that he had at that time? B: Mainly it was because he was Minority Leader and later Majority Leader. M: Right. This was in connection with various items of interest to the National Farmers Union, I assume. B: That is correct. M: Was he
  • Biographical information; contacts with LBJ; operation of the Agriculture Department; Southern Policy Commission; National Farmers Union; National Commission on Food and Fiber; Agriculture Act of 1964 (E.O. 11307); Outreach Program; Rural Community
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 30 (XXX), 11/4/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • arranged a joint session of their unions' top people. That was, incidentally, the first time there had been a formal joint session between the AFL-CIO and the UAW. I was invited to speak to the joint session. It was heartwarming. These fellows were
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 3 (III), 3/3/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • for some of the unions. I've been the same way all my life. They tried to unionize me too many times. G: Were they ever successful? W: No, never was. G: Never were. How did you avoid that? W: Well, the worst deal I ever got into I guess over
  • Stevenson's sheep so Stevenson would have time to debate LBJ; LBJ using helicopters in his 1948 Senate campaign; Homer Thornberry's 1948 campaign; Harry Truman campaigning in San Antonio in 1948; LBJ's and Winters' opinion of the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947
Oral history transcript, John McCully, interview 1 (I), 10/26/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McCully -- I -- 2 Jerry told him when labor was for Johnson, he [McCully] was for Johnson, which I say was not exactly true, because I was for Johnson at times when labor wasn't for him
Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • for some time trying to get into the radio field; in the meantime married a young lady whose family lived in the same community--actually she lived over in Hollis, Oklahoma--Inda Scott, I-N-O-A. By the way, we've been married thirty-one years now, have
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • become a highly unpopular subject with the American public. present Another one is that when you're dealing with foreign aid at the time~ you necessarily are dealing with the lesser developed countries; so that the normal supporters of foreign aid
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 5 (V), 12/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a War Department and a Navy Department. President Truman remarked one time that we could never go through another war with the archaic organization we had in the Second World War. Even though we finally won, it was despite the organization that we had
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • before, with all these journalistic heavyweights going around the country with the leader of the Soviet Union and covering the President of the United States at the same time. green to say the least, and I knew I was. I was It was fascinating
Oral history transcript, Murrey Marder, interview 1 (I), 5/25/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • perceived in Washington at that time. Some of us who followed the triangular relationship, U.S.-Soviet-Chinese, were much more sensitive and aware of it than most people in the government were. The American specialists on the Soviet Union were quite
  • countries; the role of the reporter in a war; the issue of infiltration; putting information together when no source knew or would tell the whole story; the role of the Soviet Union in the Vietnam War when Nikita Khrushchev was succeeded by Alexei Kosygin
Oral history transcript, Albert W. Brisbin, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- I -- 1 0 come out here and supervise these boys and help them develop some Well, the unions get a little bit uncertain about that . skills ." They were having a hell of a hard time, too, at that time . But it worked . G: How did it work? Did
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • Governor Shivers went to Illinois to see Governor Adlai Stevenson, who was the Democratic nominee, and asked him if he would be willing to support the Texas title of ownership--it was even--the matter was in Congress at the time. Stevenson said no, he
  • Party in Texas; land scandal during Shivers' time as governor; Bascom Giles; a federal farm storage scandal involving Billie Sol Estes and Ralph Yarborough's alleged involvement; Texas Commissioner of Agriculture J.E. McDonald; insurance scandals during