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Oral history transcript, Raul Castro, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the Democratic National Convention when President Johnson and President Kennedy, at that time, were in the midst of having selection made F: This was 1960, you mean. C: 1960. I remember giving a speech at this local park in Tucson and President Johnson, who

Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in that fight. They were our unions. I testified before a Senate committee in which this thing was being handled. I was deep in the middle of that with President Johnson, too. MU: That's the first time that he used this technique of calling some

Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the Capitol when he was Minority and Majority Leader. It was a more important office really when he was Minority Leader, because nobody else had an office in the Capitol. none of the Democrats. They all came up there when they wanted a little snort
for minorities; LBJ’s relationship with Senators and committee staff members; Johnson Treatment; great raconteur.

Oral history transcript, Mary Michelson Fish Johnson Haselton, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

which time I had worked for the state NYA [National Youth Administration] program, both in high school as an after-school project in the library and then as assistant to the secretary of the state administrator. [This was] after I had made a movie
; the 1956 and 1960 Democratic National Conventions; Haselton's work on LBJ's speech accepting the nomination as vice presidential candidate; LBJ's public speaking skills; how the U.S. Senate was born out of compromise; LBJ's ability to compromise and his

Oral history transcript, Emmett Shelton, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

democratic down there, the whole student body was democratic, and actually the fact that you belonged to the Black Stars didn't have a thing to do with your social attitude. In classes and everything else I think it was more or less organized on a basis

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

beautification committee had done in 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] 9

Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: DR. MELVILLE B. GROSVENOR INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: National Geographic Society offices, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 F: Mel, I suppose we may as well quit the formalities and be informal since live known you a long time through
Natural resources and national parks
Library; Alexander Graham Bell Association Medal for the Deaf; coronation of the King of Tonga; Redwoods National Park; Presidential Conference on Natural Beauty; biographical information

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XIX -- 11 known Truman when he was chairman of the Truman Committee before World War II. Well, Johnson just sort of gave him a generalized

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

at the National Geographic, Mrs. Patterson, who had something to do with a foundation that had trailers. We got the loan of these trailers, and this was a great boon, because the young people that came home with four and five kids couldn't afford to go

Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in it. 14: In the 1960 convention the Democratic Party of Nichigan had committed itself to two goals. First of all, we had a candidate, John Kennedy, whom we'd settled on after I decided that I was not going to be a favorite son candidate. form. Our
Meeting LBJ in 1936; the 1960 Democratic convention in Los Angeles; the role of the Michigan delegation in shaping the platform; LBJ's record on civil rights an impediment to nomination; Leonard Woodcock; LBJ as a candidate in Michigan; appointment

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

USIS cultural/ informational job and an advisory and psychological operations job. There was a so-called coordinating committee. That coordinating com- mittee, when it decided issues, which wasn't too often, did it by vote, and it wasn't even a vote

Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, I guess you 8ight call it the White House liaison with this organization. well and worked closely with him. I kneH t·;arvin l"Jatson very Of course, Marvin, at that time, was at the Democratic National Committee. F: Yes. S: Cliff Carter went

Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

wing of the Democratic Party. It's an interview worth tracking back because Arthur Schlesinger came back from Washington, where he had been invited to call on Senator Johnson, and gave a description of that interview at dinner--there must have been

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. Develop them," and what have you. "I'll have a State of the Union [Message], and if there's a Democratic administration after me, we'll be that far ahead." So we went forward and some of the elements of programs involved reorganizations, of which

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 8 (VIII), 9/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: No, I didn't. I had had very good training from [Robert] McNamara in connection with the supersonic transport in which we had cabinet members on that committee and in which he dealt very toughly with them. And I felt that I was doing what the President

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the schedule is set up and they have said, "Yes, I will go there," then nobody but the candidate can really blame. But if he got angry or didn't like where we were, well, then he blamed it on the advance men or the national committee for scheduling him

Oral history transcript, Philip N. Brownstein, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

available in the particular area then the distances are somewhat reduced . really happened rather casually . It My father was rather active politically in Indiana--Democratically--when in that little rural area there were very few Democrats as a matter

Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with Lyndon Johnson prior to 1960, in the fifties. T: Prior to 1960, no. M: What was your earliest acquaintance or contact with him? T: That's hard to recall. I saw him [when] I was at the Democratic convention in both 1956 and 1960. One milled around

Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of a committee to prepare a list of possible targets in case the decision to bomb the North became necessary." Now that to me was overwhelming, you see. M: Was this pressure from the military to go ahead and make this contingency plan that resulted in that? H

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there was no job description for it. Of course, I couldn't vote, nor could I serve on the committees, but a congressman's office is largely a service organization. He deals with his three hundred thousand or so constituents and tries to lead them by the hand
. Cecil Evans; Allred's Senate loss to W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel; time spent relaxing at the National Youth Administration building on Buchanan Dam; LBJ's fried egg breakfast being interrupted by telephone calls; the Johnsons' house at 4921 Thirtieth Place

Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. P: Mrs. Taylor, during his vice presidency--well, let me back this up--in 1960 during the campaign did you work in that campaign? T: I was with the Democratic Policy Committee then, of which he ,vas chairman. And of course I was with the girls

Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

had gotten involved in the poverty question in doing a paper for Senator Paul Douglas' Joint Economic Committee of the Congress on the question of low income population in the United States. It was a kind of response to John Kenneth Galbraith's book

Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

recollections of that. W: Oh, my gosh, I sat in that committee room. I covered the Fort Worth convention. to leave. Well, I just was scared I wasn't secure enough as a reporter, or comfortable enough with the situation, to allow myself to leave the room
1946 campaign; 1948 Senate campaign and the Fort Worth Democratic Convention; LBJ's relationship with Sam Rayburn; social gatherings at the Johnsons' Washington home; LBJ and the press; 1954 Senate campaign

Oral history transcript, Ross D. Davis, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that sprang out of the Korean war emergency. So I came down as a very junior lawyer into an agency, which technically was part of the Department of Commerce called the National Production Authority. Korean war. I was the WPB of the I planned to be down

Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

was the nature of the political connection? Can you recall over so long a time? C: I can't recall. It undoubtedly had something to do with the Democratic Party, and favorably so. B: What was there about Mr. Johnson that impressed you then? C: He was a man

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 8 (VIII), 9/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of Education. We didn't talk about that. R: You didn't record what I said then? The Board of Education was just a room that was maybe like a committee room but wasn't used by a committee. It was a good-sized rectangular room, I think. After you were here

Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

President Kennedy felt that it was necessary for him to to~k care of that. overrule the Democrats in the s~,nate on this count. Also he was unwill ing to confide his legislative program to the Vice President, which quite right. Johnson \.vould never
Meeting LBJ; the relationship between LBJ and JFK; the 1960 campaign; LBJ’s role as Vice-President; LBJ’s Berlin trip in 1961; tension between LBJ and RFK; the Committee for Equal Employment Opportunities; why JFK went to Texas in November 1963

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on that considerably even after he became defense secretary, but yet you would hear or read these things in the national magazines and the New York Times, how "Clark Clifford is trying to lead a dovish position, a change in policy on the war." The public print just

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

--and that too had been kicking around . We'd done our withdrawal language, but not with the six months, in the Communique Committee, and we had done a communique, and we'd done a form of declaration, but we We'd done a long-form declaration . hadn't done

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

given for Speaker Sam Rayburn, whose birthday was about January the sixth. The most important one was always Scooter Miller's and Dale's, which usually took place at the Women's Democratic Club. However, we began having one for the children

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- XXVII -- 2 we were faced with was liberals and liberal editorial writers saying, "Not enough," the Congress saying, "Too much, 2.3 billion is too much," and the southern Democrats also saying, "We're not going to give another tool to desegregate

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh I I 13 a fourth one. There ~-las a felloH Hho Y,Tas then the Treasurer of the Democratic National Com:nittee

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 24 (XXIV), 2/6/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

would always come to me if there were any issues involving national defense or foreign policy because of the hearings that Johnson had held into the space age and also the hearings that Johnson had held early in his senatorial career when he had

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 5 (V), 8/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-qualifi8d--,Jhich categories, or unqualified. Ra~sey ~-Jere the three favorable suggested that, in his judgment, the ADA Committee \-lould probably not give a qualified recormncndation to this man because of this speech. The President told Ramsey

Oral history transcript, Lester R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Department's budget . B: That is correct . Our funding comes through the Foreign Affairs committee, through the A .I .D . budget rather than the Agricultural Appropriations Committee . THB : Does your agency have its own permanent men overseas? I know A .I
; work with military; obstacle to rapid development of agriculture in underdeveloped nations; caliber of people he worked with in foreign countries; training program; encouragement of American investment in factories producing agricultural equipment

Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

in November 1964, and they were still in the planning and development stage. So there really weren't any programs that had loomed large in the public consciousness. I had been appointed about a year before to be the industry coordinator for the National

Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: And you deal with them as well as with the National Security advisory people? R: That's right. You see, I'm chairman of a task force on telecommunica- tions policy, which has involved me a great deal with Cater and De Vier Pierson. LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that he was elected by a very narrow margin. And Johnson was a product of the Senate and of the belief that the Senate Armed Services Committee and the armed services together were a hell of a powerful group. He had seen a lot of people charge up against

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 5 (V), 11/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Democratic Executive Committee. I don't know whether you're aware of this or not. L: No, I didn't know that. F: But he said he turned it down after being the--it was never actually offered, but he was the front runner. He said the condition of his law

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in the team. J: Well, I was on the National Security Council at the time, as you know, on the staff in charge of Far East affairs, so I had been working on Vietnam for quite a few years, [for] three steadily and before that for a couple of years, in and out

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