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Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , but there was a senator running from New York State at the time, who, by the way, was defeated, who was supposedly getting all kinds of rumors that there were offensive weapons going into Cuba from refugees supposedly coming out of Cuba. The whole thing was we were unable
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was to have a conference and call the party together when there was an issue on which they could, without any question, get together. There was one meeting, for instance, in which one of the issues was the contested election of Senator [Dennis] Chavez of New
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • friendship continued. I felt I knew Luci and Lynda and their problems and had many visits with them. I spent much time with Mrs. Johnson and the entire personal staff, meeting new people, including Ashton Gonella, and continuing with the friendship with Bess
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • precious glass. She was a great companion, and I was so glad for every one of those trips she made. And we went to New York--well, I can't say that I know much about that. I do know that I took her to a play or concert. Another interesting thing I
Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , made a lot of new friends, and he soon became the Democratic Chairman. So during this period he was the Democratic Chairman. You remember the one before him--what was his name, he was a theater man up in Pennsylvania, I played poker with him. Mr. Frank
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the staff. I never shall forget the neutrality session. Even though I lived at the Dodge and worked at what was then called the New House Office Building--I believe it's now the Longworth Building--and I walked right by that Capitol twice a day at least, we
Oral history transcript, Kenneth E. BeLieu, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • room, and a call came from New York from Eileen Galloway. She said, "Senator Johnson was talking on the plane about a staff director for the Space Committee, and I brought your name up and his eyes lit up and he said, 'That's it!'" I said, "Well, I'm up
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, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/8/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Kennedy seemed determined that there would be a big show about the thing. Therefore, he ordered troops from all over the United States, not all over the United States, but from New Jersey and from Kentucky and out of of fort Polk and places of that type
Oral history transcript, Georgia Cammack Edgeworth, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the southwest corner of the square, and they did not build the new courthouse until 1916. I believe it was about September 1916 they moved into the new courthouse. G: I wonder if LBJ's father, Sam Ealy Johnson, had anything to do with the moving
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, Estelle Harbin, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh So I went down there and went to work and Mr. Driscoll died in late spring 1930. The Crash had come, but it didn't affect us; it affected New York more than us. We were just bewildered with Mr. Driscoll
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, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • would get out and walk up and down the street for two hours, see everybody he could see, and tell them to be there at 11 o'clock to meet the new congressman. sometimes they wouldn't. Sometimes they would have pretty good turnouts; The real problem
Oral history transcript, Samuel V. Merrick, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were? M: Yes. I think there were seventeen cities or something like that. I can remember Chicago. New Haven worked fine because the Mayor of New Haven-G: Richard Lee, I think, wasn't it? M: Richard Lee and the people that subsequently got
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, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Murphey -- I -~ 13 that he thought Lyndon was an opportunist, that Lyndon was a New Dealer, whom Mr. Stevenson utterly
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • became under secretary of agriculture in the new Kennedy Administration. M: That's right. B: How did you get that job? Did Mr. Freeman pick you or Mr. Kennedy? M: Mr. Freeman approved me, I guess. Well, if I may go back, before the election
Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in Vietnam I was in thorough accord with, this new addition I was not. the reasons for that. And I'll tell you It stemmed back to a conviction which I had reinforced often with other people and particularly with President Diem, that American combat forces
Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • I had linked up and was able to physically do that, although it was pretty--we had some problems, because Imbert, as soon as he was declared the new government, took his troops and swept the northern part of Santo Domingo, which was also some
Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for president and he was the nominee, so that made it the news, but even still it was ~ bill. But Kennedy didn't have anything to do with advancing it, Johnson did, and Johnson was very helpful in that. G: Another thing that you did, you forced a roll call
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1980 INTERVIEWEE: ADAM YARMOLINSKY INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: I think we were just at the point of going into the question of Robert Kennedy's view of whether a new agency was needed
Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • wasn't an organizational matter, it was a matter of policy. When it came up then in the fall of 1965, when they were reviewing this task force and what was the new legislative program going to be, I think by then I sort of decided, "Well, the only way
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, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • large town. His car was there. We started searching for him and found him. He was passed out in a ditch, not partly, dirty and mud allover him and so on. I didn't know what to think about him. Dorothy was also rather new; she'd only been working
Oral history transcript, Murrey Marder, interview 1 (I), 5/25/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • it was a typographical error in the Washington Post, which happens. So I went to look at the New York Times text and it also said fifteen hundred. Well, the chances of having the same typographical error in both papers were improbable. And then I checked the transcript
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with him.The President was pretty sore and I believe thought that Bill would end up in the Bobby Kennedy camp. Indeed I think Bill has been in several camps in New York--all over the lot--which is probably what any highly intelligent, famous, and ambitious
Oral history transcript, Daniel Boone Porter, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • level right on down to the troop level. I felt that we, in most cases, had very good support from our Vietnamese counterparts, although that wasn't necessarily always too obvious to the news people nor to visitors who came there, because the Vietnamese
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it. I think he preferred having Slick [Wilton "Jerry"] Persons in there because he knew how to deal with Slick. Sherman Adams was a little bit more difficult to deal with in some respects. You know, Sherman kind of had the New England conscience
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • know. I was·at the Harvard Business School, teaching at that time. But I remember coming down once, at the request of the Senator, to take a look again at a new draft of the Conciliation Service legislation for possible use in 1 59. It didn't get
Oral history transcript, George Silver, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1991, by Molly Malone Chesney (Item)
  • inaugurated where every cabinet office is going to put up a certain amount of money and some new policy directive in order for Mississippi to become a model state of what could be done. I guess you must have that somewhere. C: Well, we have done a series
Oral history transcript, Albert W. Brisbin, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had a favorite project or type of project? B: It's so hard to separate that sixteen or eighteen months that he was with NYA there while I was from the rest of it . very strong on our public relations activities : He really was getting the new
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of fact . F: By the time we get down to the end of the year--December of '63--Kennedy has been assassinated, and you have a new ball game in the sense that Johnson is President . And Unruh is on record as having backed you for the Vice Presidential
Oral history transcript, Philip N. Brownstein, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was going to do and what I wanted to do, and I told him that I hoped to study law . And he asked me where I was going to go to school, and I explained my problem to him . He said, "Well, they're hiring people in Washington now in many of these New Deal
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • publications, I did become fascinated with this issue: how close can these two so different countries be? They have the same ideology and then, as you recall, the political belief was very firmly held that there was a new bloc, a new axis, that was tightly
Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEl~EE: DONALD C. COOK INTERVIEVJER: THOMAS PLACE: Mr. Cook's Office, 2 Broadway, New York. H. BAKER Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, if "Ie may begin at the beginning, I know that you first went to work for tk. Johnson in 1943. Did you have any acquain
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • I think Kennedy trusted him to go and wanted him to test the waters and bring back a recommendation on what this new administration should be doing out there . I think the President trusted Johnson's political judg- ments and his ability to judge
Oral history transcript, William B. Dale, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Drawing Rights and other major issues related to the reform of the International Nonetary System. It now has its successor, or continuation, in what's called the "Volcker Group." M: This is the new man who holds Deming's position. D: That's right. M
Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in feeding the people and the WPA and the NYA and all of that New Deal of Roosevelt's. P: How did Mr. Maverick feel about Mr. Roosevelt? B: He was a very strong supporter of his. P: And when the Supreme Court packing issue came up at a later date, what
Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Tribune , went down to see his new home and said they had a bar in his home approxi­ mately twenty feet long or so . He called Jenk Jones, in my � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library