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Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

to the National Urban League in 1957 and 1959 . much as I have on your biographical B: information . That's about as If there's any thing you'd like to fill in, please feel free . Well, thanks very much . It is true I was born in Maysville, Kentucky

Oral history transcript, James A. Shannon, interview 1 (I), 4/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: JAMES A. SHANNON INTERVIEWER: STEPHEN GOODELL PLACE: Dr. Shannon's Office, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 2 G: This is an interview with Dr. James A. Shannon, presently the special adviser to the president
programs; the John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study; working with the Bureau of the Budget to obtain funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH); Surgeon General Leonard Scheele's assessment of NIH's work and agreement to increase

Oral history transcript, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Government. We do not exist on public funds. Our operation is financed by assessments against the national banks, so that no appropriations feature comes into the picture. So politics has largely been out of it. M: Now, you are appointed for a set term

Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

up a committee of public spirited people--I was then the Executive Director of the National Consumers League--to try to get them to lend their support to the passage of the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act. We were seeking to get that bill through
Comments by LBJ; LBJ’s concern for full utilization of human resources; FSEE; War on Poverty; YWCA; 1964 Civil Rights Act; comparison of non-white/white men earnings; women in household employment; National Commission on Household Employment

Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)

and stated that I had impressed the persons who were at the meeting, including the President, more than some of the persons who were familiar figures in the civil rights movement. Now, when you see that kind of an indication in a national column, you know
for Congress; visit to LBJ Ranch; accessibility of LBJ; Lady Bird; goals in Congress; contrasting the Texas Senate and U.S. Congress; Texas delegation; influence of grandfather; Texas Southern and Boston Universities; the Judicial Committee

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 5 (V), 9/9/1982-9/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of employees, naval people, who were working at the Navy Department. I think the same was true at the War Department. The Naval Affairs Committee got the idea that too many people were on duty in Washington at desk jobs instead of being at sea or in foreign
personnel; LBJ's relationship with Congressman Carl Vinson, the Naval Affairs Committee Chair; the Big Inch pipeline; how Lady Bird Johnson got the money to buy the KTBC radio station; Mrs. Johnson's Aunt Effie Pattillo; LBJ's early talk of buying a small

Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Johnson, I never knew him at all before that. I may have met him at a Washington affair with a thousand handshakes. Then when President Kennedy was assassinated, Senator Eastland at that time was head of the Judiciary Committee, and all of the appointments

Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was the agency's man in the National Training Center. So many of the cadre who worked for Major Le Xuyen Mai opposed this decision very strongly, because, as I told you, Le Xuyen Mai was in fact very popular and very competent. So they formed a struggle committee

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was the general counsel of the Commerce Department where this bill was being pigeonholed. In conversations with Califano and myself and with Pertschuk and with Cohen, we worked out a program for trying to get that bill through the Senate Commerce Committee

Oral history transcript, William S. Gaud, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 to go through what we call the Development Loan Committee. II m the chairman

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was the Democratic nominee for the vice presidency, along with a telephone lineman and myself in a helicopter for two people, whereby that we had to get out and go through the cockleburs to hitchhike a ride over to my classmate, who presently is the lieutenant

Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

known his family a long time, had not known Bill well at all. But when I enrolled at the University of Texas, Bill helped me get an NYA [National Youth Administration] job. I had also a job down at the State Capitol through the patronage of Senator

Oral history transcript, David L. Hackett, interview 1 (I), 4/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1980 INTERVIEWEE: DAVID L. HACKETT INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Hackett's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Hackett, let's start with your experience with the Juvenile Delinquency Committee. What insights did you gain
Insights gained from Hackett's work with the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime; giving grants to nineteen cities that wanted to develop a plan for addressing delinquency; pressure to speed up the planning process

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a separate committee because all of the white members would resign if the committee were integrated . national office finally went along with this . In Washington the Do you recall that issue? B: No . G: Do you remember Juanita Sadler coming to Texas
National Youth Administration (U.S.)
National Youth Administration

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that--and those agreements, with the exception of criminal penalties, which we lost in the Senate Commerce Committee, is the bill that passed both houses of Congress. It's the kind of thing-(Interruption) And after that meeting I went over the agreements we'd

Oral history transcript, Robert Q. Marston, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

INTERVIEL~EE : DR. ROBERT QUARLES INTERVIEWER: f.1ARSTOi~ STEPHEN GOODELL PLACE: His office, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, r~aryland Tape 1 of 1 G: This is an interview with Dr. Robert Q. Marston, presently the director of the National
Biographical and professional information; appointment as Associate Director of National Institute of Health and director of Division of Regional Medical Programs; problems of regional medical cooperation; 1967 decision to move Regional Medical

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 2 (II), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that the word "nation" could not mean two different things in the same sentence. B: By legislative history, do you mean the record of the debates and the committee hearings? W: Yes. B: An attempt to elucidate exactly how the word was used in formation
and agencies; resolving conflict between government departments and agencies; Congressman Paul Findley's amendment to Public Law 480 regarding US aid to nations that had provided aid to North Vietnam; OLC's work to help the attorney general and the White House

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 12 (XII), 8/19/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Roosevelt was talking about--I don't remember exactly, but probably it was lend-lease. At any rate, he was nibbling at the edges of help to Britain. We were not scared as a nation and we were not sold on it. He was trying to take us as far as we would go, I
to be on the Appropriations Committee; the many visitors and long hours of work LBJ enjoyed; socializing in Washington, D.C., at the 75th Club, the Congressional Club, theater and parties; Lady Bird Johnson's movie camera; Lady Bird Johnson's walk through the slums

Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 3 (III), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in the afternoon. We're in your offices. It is around quarter- I'd like to ask you about your views regarding our national security and international security affairs relating to the Nonproliferation Treaty. W: Well, obviously, the Nonproliferation Treaty

Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the Senator's subcommittee of the House Naval Affairs Committee, I was in the public utilities division of the Securities and Exchange Commission. prior to that know the President. I did not However, I was known to a suc- cession of chairmen of the commission
Biographical information; naval affairs subcommittee; Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve; shipyards; trip to Europe, 1945; Carl Vinson; committee work; reports

Oral history transcript, Rodney Borum, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to have to be done there to help us implement some of the work we have in mind . We did establish a national marketing advisory committee for the department in June of 1966 . And the purpose of this committee was to further some of these objectives

Oral history transcript, W. Sterling Cole, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, armament t h a t was s c a t t e r e d around in v a r i o u s s p o t s in t h e w o r ld , what to do with i t . Chairman [ C a r l ] Vinson was ve ry a b l e , e x t r e m e l y a b l e ; he was t h e boss o f t h e Naval A f f a i r s Committee and we
May 1945 Special Committee to study naval properties in the British Isles; Europe and North Africa; meeting with Eisenhower at "Little Red Schoolhouse;" Marshall Plan; North Africa; Munich; Dachau and Berchesgaden; relationship with LBJ

Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

? H: There are two. There's the National Advisory Councilor committee, and there's the Economic Opportunity Council. The National Advisory Council are external people that meet and go over OEO programs and presumably advise the President
House; OEO support for a job creation program; National Advisory Council; Economic Opportunity Council; attendance at cabinet meeting; relationship between OEO and White House; Kerner Commission Report; war on poverty conservative in outlook; personal

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Committee, who dominated the committee I think in a way that Senator Long, his successor, has never dominated the committee. He was implacably opposed to the tax cut in 1963 in the budgetary and general economic environment then prevailing. When Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Lehan, interview 2 (II), 1/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

that the old NACA [National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics] activities, which were federally-sponsored research, and the military activities, along with many other things, have led to our leadership in the aviation area; and it is an important leadership
Communication issues between scientists, engineers, politicians, and social activists; Lehan's role as liaison between the scientific and political communities; citizens' advisory committee on transportation quality; dual mode transportation systems

Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

, not necessarily to help him but to listen to the arguments before the committees. One of his greatest delights was to hear the debate in the house and the senate over legislative programs. PB: This boarding house, or rooming house where you stayed, can you tell

Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, but in March of 1964 signed an executive order which finally gave teeth to what the Kennedys had started with the legislation in 1961, namely a permanent group, a permanent White House Committee. The office of the curator really never existed except
impressions of Eartha Kitt; Mrs. Johnson and porcelain Dorothy Doughty birds given to her as gifts; automobile privileges; Mrs. Kennedy taking a presidential desk; establishment of the Committee for the Preservation of the White House and Office of the White

Oral history transcript, Robert M. Ball, interview 1 (I), 11/5/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Biographical information; beginning years of the Social Security Administration; Democratic and Republican approaches to the program; social security and the cost of living; amendments through the years; 1956 disability amendment and the opposition

Oral history transcript, John J. (Lt. Gen.) Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of Foreign Intelligence in the Department of the Army in the Pentagon, from about 1957 to about 1961. Then I was transferred to the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland, where I was the Director of Production from 1961 to 1965; and then back

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 53 (LIII), 8/16/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

leadership, collecting statistics, issuing executive orders, revamping all the advisory committees. I have [also included] a large vehicle inspection programs, upgrade the quality of driver education, develop modern police and traffic control techniques, have

Oral history transcript, Courtney A. Evans, interview 1 (I), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

such as the National Association of Governors. I didn't know Mr. Johnson personally or well, however. B: Another area that really is somewhat touchy because it's largely personal and subjective, there was some indication that, after Mr. Johnson became President

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the task force that wrote the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Act and steered it through the Congress. It was a busy year. M: To say the 1east. 0: I was then asked to go with both the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
contributions to establishment of DOT; task force headed by Zwick; Dean's role in organization of DOT; National Transportation Safety Board; power of DOT

Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 the National Heart Institute, I decided to stay in the Public Health Service and moved then to Bethesda to become part of the Grants Branch
Biographical information; Bane Committee membership; Health Professions Act; AMA limits number of doctors; Surgeon General’s Report on Nursing; Health Professionals Education Assistance Act; NDEA; passing legislation; Krebiozin; Medicare hearings

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

got here. C: Okay, Joe. The route wasn't very circuitous. I should say that I am a native of Arizona. First of all, I teamed up with the National Park Service in 1939 at Grand Canyon National Park and, except for four years I spent flying
Natural resources and national parks
Biographical information; National Park Service

Oral history transcript, Donald F. Hornig, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the Milwaukee Public Schools through junior high school and part way through high school. Then I received a scholarship to Milwaukee Country Day School, where I did my last two years of study. I subsequently received a national scholarship to Harvard and took my
; to Princeton, 1957; became chairman of department, 1958; 1959 appointed by President Eisenhower to Science Advisory Committee; 1960 on JFK’s task force for a space policy; met LBJ in 1961; served under three presidents: Eisenhower, JFK and LBJ

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 3 (III), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

no question about that. I noticed that in your [outline]. That Rules [Committee] fight was the first one where he decided he was going to take them on. He [Kennedy] did take on Judge [Howard] Smith and he got Rayburn sort of behind him. Rayburn gave him a hand

Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to be the deputy mayor. I want a city manager for that job." Horace Busby then called Pat Healy of the National League of Cities, John Guenther, U.S. Conference of Mayors; Mark Keane, the executive director of the International City Managers Association; and Mr

Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

assistance in Ethiopia is basically the payment of rental for an intelligence installation. Latin America is basically not directed toward an American security interest in the sense of our fearing that the security of these nations is endangered by external
Military Assistance Program; American foreign policy; Vietnam; national security; disarmament; ABM; defense policies

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 54 (LIV), 9/11/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

.] was chairman, I guess, of the President's Committee on Traffic Safety, and the Hearst papers had made a big issue of traffic safety over the years. G: Did it favor a more voluntary approach? C: Well, they favored a more voluntary approach, but nobody had

Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to catch him was somewhere around five-thirty or six o'clock at night. That was about the time they would break from the floor, and he would come back to his office to go through his constituent problems and/or other committee problems. Being the Senate

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