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Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Barker is alive? G: I doubt it . B: But we didn't see eye to eye, that's for sure . G: Did LBJ ever talk about his trip overseas? B: His trip overseas, you mean when--? G: He went to Australia and New Guinea . B: Yes . G: What did he say
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • came in as chairman and many new people came in to the National Committee . These were not people that were par­ ticularly well-known on the Hill . In the days of Mr . Truman, even at one time when you'd had one of the members of the Senate--[J . Howard
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Boatner -- III -- 7 G: B: Did he listen in silence, or did he give his own commentaries on the news? He might have a pungent word or two to throw in if it was something that he
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that of course all Presidents in some sense or another seek to "manage the news." That is to say, they seek understandably to have it reflect as well as possible on them and on their designs. They also seek understandably to have it reflect well on purely
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 5 (V), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • following the cocktail party. It was at the first of these evening sessions that I attended that we made a motion to defer for a day or two the crucial vote on Article 50, an article which would have embodied the quite new and quite controversial doctrine
Oral history transcript, Douglass H. Hubbard, interview 1 (I), 6/4/69, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that people in a leisure situation don't like to be educated, so we found a new word. He have a list of taboo words such as 11lecture and "interpretation" activities 11 and 11tourist and things that we don't use, is one that we have sort of used to cover
  • birthplace; historian Jerry Rogers; the homey character of the Ranch and the hospitality of the Johnsons; anecdotes of LBJ guiding visitors about the Ranch and showing off the new State Park Visitor Center
Oral history transcript, Ralph Dungan, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ."'NDml RAINES ~ Jom;so~ More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh L[Bl{z\RY ORAL HISTORY COLLECTWN Narrator Ralph Anthony Dlmgan . . l'ririccton:> . New Biographical information: .Jersey__Q.~ State
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • down. "The Rotunda, he said, "is right past the tunnel, rightpa st the underpass. back of the Capitol you turn right." and tried to ff nd it, and I went 11 In I did go down New Jersey and ~trai - ght ahead and went and went. finally walked al
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to describe that President's Club dinner in New York at the Waldorf. J: Let me ask a question then. Were there two Waldorf dinners while I was there? G: There could easily have been. Could have had one each year. J: Yes. I don't think I went
Oral history transcript, Ben Crider, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • I took the job over, it was like I said--! was broke, worse tban broke. Didn't have any clothes, and when we got to San Antonio, Lyndon took me over to Frank Brothers and bought me the best suit of clothes I guess I ever owned in my life and a new
Oral history transcript, Owen Donley, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Donley -- I -- 10 Javits of New York, I think, was the ranking Republican member. I know that Senator Mondale
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (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 the available foreign exchange; credit; the nature of their program to get new
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 4 (IV), 6/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • u k ind of ran a ge ne r al accoun tin g o ffice on t hat, too , and then illed them? C: The White House transportati on o i fi ce prorated the costs o f a ll o f th i s and j us t b il le d the news age ncy o r the news paper o r t e n etwo rk. r
Oral history transcript, Val M. Keating, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Texas since about 1929 When I say a story in itself, it's because of a personal thing that it reminds me of. When I was given the position of director of social services of the Texas Relief Commission the new board did not care to have me
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it. (Laughter). And I said, "How does he get the support of the New Republic and H. R. Cullen LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Allen J. Ellender, interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • a southerner for the presidency. Even with this new turn of his in the civil rights field the opposition could have always turned back on what he said in previous years, and, of course, that's what I concluded when he first announced, that he had little
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the Anzacs [Australian-New Zealand Army Corps]? F: Yes, the Australians and New Zealanders both had first-rate medical programs and did very good things, and of course they also had troops there. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be visible in the staff positions, the appointive positions, and reflected in the kind of humor that they use on both. sides. The President has his people, and of course Humphrey had his little set of people, and Bob had his, inherited and some new ones. I
Oral history transcript, Albert C. Harzke, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1979 INTERVIEWEE: ALBERT C. HARZKE INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Harzke's residence, New Dime Box, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's see, you indicated that you came to the sub-college and finished your high school there-- H: Right. G
Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the race because I just kept talking about it all the time and making fun of him. You know, the press had a tendency to let that statement die, but I tried--and two or three others in the House--to keep it alive and I think we succeeded in having a new go
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson's mind or in the President's mind related to the old New Deal era of beautifying with the NYA and the R: cee? Well, I hadn't thought of it that way, but I'm sure it must have been in the President's mind in the national program. something about
Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and tell them, IIAll rightll--and he did do James Henry on the TV station the same way-"if you run one ad with him, you'll never run another ad in the Longview News and Journal." unpopular. Just such stuff as that. He was very In fact, I was trying
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • element that was present there that wasn't known yet was the decision also in North Vietnam to introduce into the guerilla cadres in the South a new family of weapons, the AK-47 family. and Czech weapons of a very high sophistication. probably in April
Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 15 of that. G: Others did. They would throw it in the news stories. Mr. Wild, as an experienced political manager, when you
Oral history transcript, Merrell Blackman, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • really never did understand what it was, There were a lot of them. Maybe thirty? It was supposed to be athletes who supported the athletic program and would help to get new athletes in to the school . G: I see . B: Yes, they could have
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Gibb Gilchrist, I believe, who was the state highway engineer at that time, and sold him on it . G: Lyndon sold him on it ; I sat there and listened . I gather that Gilchrist was the sort of guy that would naturally be resistant to a new proposal
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 6 (VI), 5/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to be in there, had that New Deal streak, didn't want to scare off Texas, didn't want to scare away the majority of Texans who were not big liberals, but wanted to kind of encourage people to move slightly toward the more progressive side, but without I suspect any
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 3 (III), 12/11/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • record on that. we can make peace have at a previous get anybody It's on their to talk period-- assessment to get out of Viet did. back then very hard to do and a new administration we simply take any direct today six months, a ago? K
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 25 (XXV), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • bugged [Martin Luther] King extensively. G: You had mentioned before this senator from New Hampshire who LBJ managed to arrange a quid pro quo so that the Senator wouldn't have to testify on a milk subsidy. This guy would support him on--was it [Thomas
Oral history transcript, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City for a year. His thought was that when I finished that assignment that I would then stand a good chance to be accepted as a military member of the Policy Planning Council at the State Department. And that's
Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and then we would have in January of 1964 a new term. Since my name had been submitted but since I had not taken office, and since there had been no confirmation, the appointment lapsed. President Johnson resubmitted my name in early January, and it was after
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 10/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it loose and built a new one and established a new one around the turn of the century, I think, in Johnson City. Anyhow, a very old but still moldering feud. But Lyndon managed to get the votes from both communities because, as he laughingly and very
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • they'll suffer from a Republican victory." Another kind of a thorn in Lyndon's side, as I remember, was that he wasn't really simpatico with the new head of the Democratic National Committee. I believe it was Steve Mitchell. They were just on different
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • probably confided to reporters that he did this in 1965-1966, and told them this, thinking that that would be a wellreceived piece of news. Instead they turned it on him and kind of derided him for it. M: Another area that was some of your responsibility
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 2 (II), 8/14/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • be the new government, and the name of Mr. Ngo Dinh Diem began to appear then. My relations with the Bao Dai group were--my personal relations, because I knew the Emperor before. My uncle was, of course, the emperor before, and he knew me well as a member
Oral history transcript, Charles Evers, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the country except New York and Michigan. F: Even the most rigid white politician has to pay some attention to that number of votes. 14 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
  • and Senator John Stennis; Evers as NAACP field director; work for education; housing; employment; Ramsey Clark; Lady Bird's Dixie tour; federal programs in Mississippi; friends Charles Percy of Illinois and Nelson Rockefeller of New York; SNCC; CORE; SCLC
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • he is. A: When we were sitting in the office, aides kept bringing him, as they did from time to time, these clippings off of the news machine, and there was Joe Rauh making a speech or some comment about the failure of the President to enforce
Oral history transcript, Birch Bayh, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the in-house decisions although he was Vice President. M: As far as a new Senator coming in was concerned, he was not applying the famous "Johnson treatment" on a regular basis? B: I didn't get the famous Johnson treatment on a regular basis even when he
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 5 (V), 5/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • cities like Philadelphia and New York and Chicago. The first indication we had that they planned to hold a Solidarity Day exercise came from the press. Progressively, as we had visits with their leaders about matters relating to Resurrection City
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 Committee. And I'm on a new Subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee, the Preparedness Subcommittee, which