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Oral history transcript, William R. Desobry, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and the senior advisor came with him to escort him around the States. So they replaced him with somebody else, so I lost that job. So I went down to IV Corps later on. G: Were you given any special training, any special briefing for this new assignment? D
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was a man who had been, I believe, editor of the Daily Oklahoman and perhaps at one time the San Antonio Light, and had 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, Ava Johnson Cox, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that Uncle Sam worked with and worked hard. We were quite young, and we didn't have a daily newspaper. The San Antonio Express came out weekly, or semi-weekly is what it was called, and of course our mail service wasn't the best in the world, so we didn't
Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : It did? 0: Yes . It. would come over a town, and a lot of people would come out to see it . And it really was very effective . But Coke Stevenson was just like the Coca-Cola . state-known product . Everybody knew who he was . News had built up his
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 3 (III), 11/8/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • humor. I recall the day Lester Maddox was inaugurated governor here in Georgia, he called me at home in Atlanta and said, "I was just calling to congratulate you on your new governor. I've been looking at the TV. I was surprised"--or something like
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 4 (IV), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the amount of money we could get. This is no news to me. We've been fighting this battle for a long, long time, and the people that have been fighting it and the people that are managing the program, and I think doing it well, are discredited in a significant
  • of surplus commodities to Third World countries; the Rural Development Service; daily Department of Agriculture staff meetings led by Freeman; legislation Freeman proposed; food stamp programs in relation to direct distribution; Freeman's efforts to keep JFK
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • four feet? G: Did you read the coverage it was getting in the New York Times? A: I read a fair amount of it; I didn't read it all. G: What did you think of the way the major papers covered the trial? A: It improved with age, and I think it's
Oral history transcript, Carl T. Curtis, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that particular day, but I do recognize this statement here, "LBJ postponed the vote for two hours while they got some Democrats to the floor. II That was a daily practice. G: Really? C: He got the votes there and they voted, and he being the leader, we
Oral history transcript, John W. Gardner, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of acquaintances begin there and professional relationships begin there, but there was a very strong identification of education with the Johnson Administration as a result of that conference. it M: ~ Everybody felt that the dawn of a new day in education. Do
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 2 (II), 2/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • time and all of a sudden to start bombing Hanoi at the same time you're on a peace offensive just doesn't make any sense." At any rate we had almost daily meetings. Each day I pressed for the opportunity to sit down and talk to the Hanoi Ambassador
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the traffic that was made available from all the embassies. The cable traffic you showed me, for example, part of the daily fare would be a stack of it. Some of what you showed me was SI, was back LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 15 (XV), 6/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The workers in that industry are paid almost entirely on an hourly or a daily basis, because they don't work every day. This is one of the reasons, by the way, that the wage rates in the building trades industry are so terribly high. They look terribly high
Oral history transcript, Robinson Risner, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • people are going to get hurt or killed. G: Did you have an opinion on the way that Hanoi was apparently able to convince some Americans that we were, in fact, bombing the civilians? Harrison Salisbury, I think, of the New York Times, was perhaps the best
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 46 (XLVI), 5/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • beating up on people who were raising their prices. And the President was sensitive to that, and that may have been what ultimately led him to conclude that at least we should make some attempt to deal with this, with the situation in New Jersey
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 2 (II), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to create new institutes of health, what I used to call them, and I think others have taken it up now, the disease of the month club. You know, "Mothers March for . . ." and all that sort of thing. 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with the 1941 campaign was four or five days after the election and when the Texas Election Bureau made another late return. F: It looked as if he had won, didn't it? K: It looked that way long enough that, as I remember, the Dallas [Morning] News
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and press assistant to then-Representative Jacob K. Javits from what was then the Twenty-first Congressional District of New York, which is the upper west side of Manhattan ranging at that time from West 114th Street north to the end of the island
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ARTHUR KRIM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Krim's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Krim, let me just begin by asking you to sketch the origin of your friendship with President Johnson. Do you recall the first time you
  • Meeting Vice President LBJ; Ed Weisl; birthday event for President Kennedy in 1962; occasions where Krim saw LBJ before he became President; Krim’s work producing films for President Kennedy and LBJ; New York fundraising for LBJ; history
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XVII -- 3 got to know Don Cook from New York, who became special counsel of one of those subcommittees. Absenteeism involved his hours and his brain and his passion, but some of his thoughts were
  • in the 10th District in 1943; Mrs. Johnson's teeth; portraits and photos hung in the new KTBC office.
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , an old patrician, delightful character, so far removed from Lyndon geographically and socially and in so many ways, but always very fond of Lyndon. And [he was] seconded also by [Dennis] Chavez of New Mexico. The fact that Chavez was Latin American
Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 2 (II), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that money would be put. I was opposed to that. For one thing it would make these cases interminable. For another thing, what it did, in effect, was give us a new and very extensive jurisdiction. We had no licensing authority over either transmission lines
  • suggestion that Securities and Exchange Commission powers over the utilities be transferred to the FPC; LBJ's influence on Swidler's work; Swidler's talk to New England power companies and the resulting efforts to integrate and coordinate systems without
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 6 (VI), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: NASH CASTRO INTERVIEWER: Harry Middleton PLACE: Mr. Castro's office, New York City, New York Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 M: We're going to talk now about the establishment of the Wildflower Center. Ted Gittinger on our staff prepared a chronology
Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/12/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • missions better or offers new military missions of importance. 2 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, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: THOMAS CORCORAN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Corcoran's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Let's talk about the New Hampshire primary in 1968 and what happened to the President there. C: There was a primary
Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that year for the San Antonio Light as a cub sports writer and each summer thereafter for three years, coming home from school for the summer months, and then went to work full-time for them about 1930-31. I left the sports arena and went into general news
Oral history transcript, Mollie Parnis, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1983 INTERVIEWEE: MOLLIE PARNIS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Miss Parnis' office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 G: I want to begin by asking you to tell how you first met the Johnsons. P: Well, I first met Mrs. Johnson when she
Oral history transcript, Najeeb E. Halaby, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: NAJEEB HALABY INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Halaby's offices, Pan Am Building, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: This is an interview with Mr. Najeeb--to his friends known as Jeeb-Halaby. First of all, I'd like to know something about your
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Democratic Party dinner in New York. He came right from the airport to the dinner and delivered a rather flowery tribute to the President. That sort of stilled things for a while. But it wouldn't stay down, and I think the President r s response
Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 3 (III), 1/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • force version of the aircraft, both here in the U.S. and overseas, though in my opinion these have not been abnormal incidents, but typical of the kind of difficulties one has with the deployment of a new aircraft. In the case of the navy, however
Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • during the first five years of the Kennedy-Johnson Administration when the rate of economic growth was twice as high as in the previous years. And we began to get the new and recent price inflation when the economy got into trouble again. There has
  • interest rates; Rexford Tug-well; Keyserling’s influence on the New Deal; lasting effects of New Deal reforms; military spending and the economy; Vietnam war; planning public spending; jobs and on-the-job training; evaluation of LBJ’s domestic policies; how
Oral history transcript, Alfred Rosenthal, interview 1 (I), 10/29/2010, by Claudia Anderson (Item)
  • the arrival in New York was like cattle. It is true they had a sort of a board, and you had to report to it; you stood in line. And, of course, everything was done long before I ever arrived in New York. The consul in Trinidad, American consul in Trinidad
  • family home in Cologne, Germany; photography methods and a photograph of LBJ in Austin with the Jewish Brotherhood; the work of the Joint Distribution Committee and Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) in New York and Amsterdam; LBJ's involvement
Oral history transcript, James W. Gulick, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • going to be in the future. 1 believe--\vhen the Department of Transportation was created, was it not part of the administration put the Maritime Administration in that new department? pol~cy to LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org G
  • capabilities; nuclear power; safety regulations; cargo preference legislation; new maritime program; transportation revolution; relationship between government and maritime industry.
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • your own Department? U: Well, with my Department, and you know my Department is not one of the big major Departments in terms of its programs and responsibilities like HEW has been the entire 1960's. We were initiating a lot of new programs. I think
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of Congress, we were trying to develop some new legislation that we might put through after the election of '58 that would improve the situation for producers of various farm commodities. And Mr. James G. Patton, president of National Farmers Union, and I
Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1977 NTERVIEWEE: ANNA ROSENBERG HOFFMAN INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Hoffman's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 H: I wasn't active on the passage of the Selective Service Act, but I heard a story about it that I later found
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Adlai Stevenson fan in both of his campaigns. Looking onto the 1960 election, of course, I felt this was a great opportunity for the party. As late as early 1958 I think I was still a Stevenson man. In fact I wrote an article for the New Republic which I
Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1974 I NTERV I HJEE: NELSON ROCKEFELLER INTERVI E~IER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Oa 11 as, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: This is an interview with former Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York in the Sheraton Dallas Hotel in Dallas, Texas, on February
Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 2 (II), 7/18/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : No. I think it was in the Rose Garden. I think it was, but that's vague in my mind. Where is--yes, 6/19. It says "fundraiser," but I didn't go to the fundraiser with him. I stayed at the hotel. G: How about going to New York to open the World's Fair
Oral history transcript, Tommie W. Glick and Sarah Taylor, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , I married in New York. How did you get to New York? the war had a great deal to do \,/ith that. path and my husband's path crossed. That's how my During the war I was in the Red Cross, and he was a surgeon in the Army. Mc: Oh. And so you went
Oral history transcript, Willard J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • given the commencement address and it was a very special occasion. The President had an opportunity to get off what I felt was a delightful quip that was reported in the New York Times the next day. In congratulating the class he told them he hoped
  • Biographical information; LBJ’s June 1964 Coast Guard Academy commencement address; DOT formation and transfer of Coast Guard to DOT; position of the Coast Guard; PPBS; obtaining new equipment; control of ice-breaking operation; Arctic exploration