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Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be advantageous for the Senate to have one man in it that felt so deeply about some things that he didn't change, didn't turn with every new gust of wind. For then if we had one point that stayed constant, we could determine how far everyone else had strayed
Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • member, some- thing of a leader of the faculty in connection with that, out of which they nominated me to be their first chancellor. That led later to becoming president of the university during the period of its greatest expansion in new campuses, one
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • World War II convinced me to join a new outfit called the Central Intelligence Group. F: This is a piece of friendly exchange, when were you in Harvard Business School? K: After I got out of Harvard College. [I] started in '42 and finished my degree
Oral history transcript, Edward R. Fried, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • primarily in the economic area, such things as statements on the Kennedy Round after its conclusion, on the messages to Congress, on the special drawing rights legislation, on the amendments to the fund, the rather dramatic New Year's Day balance of payments
Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to Chicago and New York and the east wherever we had contacts with the Mexican-Americans. And of course I have a lot of close Negro friends and as soon as he became president, the Negroes--the blacks-also had accepted Johnson as a humanitarian and as a good
Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • or political congressional news reporting with Lyndon Johnson? G: Yes. Not very much contact. I covered the Preparedness Subcommittee hearings when the President was chairman of that committee, and when Cy Vance, as a matter of fact, came down from Ne't
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • II and-- B: Last throes of the New Deal. Can you recall freshman Congressman Lyndon Johnson about 1937? H: Well, yes, I was conscious of his being here. It was later before I got closely acquainted with him. B: About when would that have been
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , a businessman in New York, myself, Bob Nathan-we were all for Humphrey 100%. practical. We were I guess more idealistic than It was unlikely that Humphrey could get it, but we thought he could get it and it was a fun thing to try and do. I was in fact
Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Settlement Commission and rewrite all the job descriptions. It was through Mr. Macy that I obtained some very fine new personnel. M: So he was probably the one who kept your name in the top of the pile as far as prospective talent for the various jobs
Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 who lived in New England--I'm not a New Englander by birth--but people with my more academic, intellectual heritage and so on, he didn't have easy
Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1984 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES M. ROWE INTERVIEWER: Ted Gitt i nger PLACE: Mr. Rowe's residence, Ingleside, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Rowe, would you begin by giving us a little background? When did you become involved in covering the news in Duval
  • Background of covering news in South Texas including Duval and Jim Wells Counties; impressions of Duval County and George Parr; vote controversy in the 1948 election; leaders in the South Texas counties; investigation by the Coke Stevenson people
Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • not too much attention to that election. lid read the paper every morning but I wasn't just carried away with all the news about it. I read the paper every morning now. live always read the paper every morning, just to see what's going on in the world
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Texas, in Belton, and lived there a good portion of my early life. I graduated from high school in the Depression years, when it was practically impossible to get any \vork. In 1933 I was offered a job as an employment service manager for a new U. S
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of January of the year after one's election. I was a candidate in 1934 in the new district, the Nineteenth District, that cut Marvin Jones' district about half in two. I ran along with--there were nine of us--no incumbent [who] ran for the position and I
  • How he met LBJ in 1935; LBJ’s ambitions and absorption with politics; LBJ as a new Congressman and loss of the Appropriations Committee appointment to Albert Thomas; Sam Rayburn and the Board of Education; rural electrification; Civil Rights Act
Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to wait a little while. So we advised And finally, then, on December 15th, as I recalled the dates he did recognize the new government. What I'm trying to say is that the death of President Kennedy actually delayed recognition of the Dominican
Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and the final denouement of the MLF? M: The meeting was in the summer, and the final killing of the MLF --actually, Of course they dragged it through the ANF thing for another year. But I think in November or so of '64, was the news leak you mentioned, so
Oral history transcript, J. Roy White, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , in the construction of the new dining room and kitchen facilities, the addition of 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, June White, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • exchange . I'm sure that Lyndon Johnson must have been very exciting to Sam Rayburn . After all, he was younger, and he understood so instantly the legislative process, which was unusual for a new young man . G: Did it seem that Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to speak at Riverside also in 1928? W: No. G: Or Senator Wirtz coming to speak, Alvin Wirtz? W: No. G: Were you? W: I was at New York University. G: In the fall of 1928? W: Yes. G: Okay. I wasn't in school in 1928 down there. September
Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • forces commander, oh, engineer detachments and some psyops people, and medics. They were called Special Action Forces, and that's when counterinsurgency was brand new. We were all very naive. We did all the things that Americans know how to do, like build
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 2 (II), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there in the Indian Ocean, and then into India, and over through New Delhi into Burma, and there we had an air force base and flew over the Hump, nineteen, twenty thousand feet to get over the Himalayan mountains, and they're usually covered with clouds and we didn't
Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ." One was 24-inch, and I think the other was 12-inch, if I recall. Came from Texas up to New York. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library
Oral history transcript, Lewis Mayhew, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • /oh Mayhew -- I -- 12 expansionist times, and there were a lot of people moving into positions of leadership where those positions hadn't been available ten years before. K: Yes. So that a new wave or new generation coming into power? M: Yes. A new
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and it included a lot of his own senators now in this new class of men who were elected in 1958. So there were two tremendously interesting years, one with a majority of two in the Senate, and one with a much larger one. I see Horace Busby's reflection
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • when you enter a new administration, or did you think it was pretty much a continuation? M: No, I thought there would be a decided change. F: In what way? M: Well, I thought the two personalities were different. Their viewpoints were different
Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • " but I said, "I want to write news stories and features," and at first he wasn't going to consider it at all. I said, "I'd like to work through the summer for nothing if you'll just let me work here and learn it. I know this is what I want to do!" 5
Oral history transcript, Rodney Borum, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • as manager of a conference at Crotonville, New York, dealing with a foreign policy problem of the U .S . This is something that Secretaries Fowler and Connor attended, G .E . hosted, and the Atlantic Council sponsored . The conference was on trade
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • look on this whole organization and authority as being in a dynamic state . You get reorganization plans and new authorities, you go ` along, and as the need is manifested, you are able to educate people to the importance of the changes
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . 'that's what He wanted to do things for the betterment of mankind and we had that in common . reason I did like him, did like to be around him . because he always had new ideas . For that He was fine, He was a man full of ideas . A lot of them were
Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • into the suite . [He] walked directly to the television set, I think without greeting anyone, or certainly without any conversation, turned it on and focused on the set . It warmed up ; and then very briefly Senator Kennedy appeared, or a news commentator
Oral history transcript, Clifford P. Case, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • adoption of the House rules. Normally that's a routine matter but this time John Rankin had indicated that he was going to use that occasion to add, by a new rule, a special committee to investigate un-American activities, make it a permanent committee. I
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • so. He would look at those books and say, "There's not a damn thing in it. It's just a bunch of words. There's no new policy. reason for me to go. '1 There's nothing new. There's no new stateMent. There's no new So we tried to get the desk
Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and passionate than in fact we are. The White House correspondent for NBC or the New York Times or the AP is ~xp~cted to do as conscientious a job as he can of reporting the activities of the president and the administration. The fact that he may not have
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Adams -- I -- 9 thirtieth of January 1968, I sort of went back to my hole with my captured documents and POW reports and continued working on Viet Cong and NVA strength and found, incidentally, that there was an enormous number of new units popping up
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • friend instead of with their wife who doesn't know he ' s back in town yet. r never wi'll forget how shocked 01 d John was. Hhat did we learn in that year? One thing that I learned, that on the things that are completely new that an organization
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , to give the South a chance to live with the new decision of the Supreme Court, I think Senator Russell would have been drafted for the presidency and would have been president. But I think that was the biggest political blunder in my lifetime, because
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • prior to this? B: The man who was the chairman of the Interior Committee in the House was a man, Mr. O'Brien, from upper New York State, which you'd think would be opposing vote. But he was dedicated to the fact that Alaska LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that Kennedy left for Dallas? T: Yes. And my husband went with him. M: And you stayed here? T: I was here with some guests from New York and Washington. I told him that I would join him the next night in Austin. I was going up by private plane with some
Oral history transcript, Tom and Betty Weinheimer, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Weinheimer -- I -- 7 Tom and I had to drive his new Lincoln home, which was very nerve-wracking for us, being very unfamiliar with fancy automobiles. Of course, I'm talking when we were much
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 2 (II), 11/23/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • as that was concerned. He knew that I had had the confidence of civil rights groups and a good reputation with the bar, and I think he was just concerned about having to start all over again to some extent with a new Attorney General. M: Right in the middle