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Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 2 (II), 11/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the State Department, and some fellow with a name much like yours, who was sort of there as an administrative person. And they needed a military person, so I was going to be the military assistant. G: Was there any difficulty in keeping the lines

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

became his public affairs officer; handled the press for him individually and for the visiting dignitaries that came to the U.S. while he was ¢hief of protocol; did a lot of travel, both domestically and internationally, the international portion that I

Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

valuable support in materiel and advice, it won't be a viable victory." combat forces. He did not want American That was one reason. The other reason I think was because it was a thin cover. After all, as you know as a veteran of Vietnam

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 6 (VI), 8/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the Currency decides that two banks can merge and it has no impact on competition, and he permits them to merge~ the Depart- ment of Justice still historically has come in on many occasions to file suit say that that merger, even though approved by the ~nd

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 30 (XXX), 11/4/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was departing the following morning to tour the Black Hills and he would be out of touch for a few days. He planned to return for a scheduled vote in the Senate. Could we come to a conclusion on this and work it out? If we could, immediately upon his return he

Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, the State Department, and I So there and some other men from men really from all walks of life. There were some senators and governors and the various religious faiths, the American Legion, the head of the Jaycees, American Veterans etc. M: You might
LBJ's early interest in urban problems; the U-2 affair; LBJ and contact lenses; 1960 campaign and Democratic convention; LBJ-JFK transition; Pierre Salinger leaves the White House staff; JFK, LBJ, and support for big-city mayors; surtax issue

Oral history transcript, William S. White and June White, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

friends, in these agencies and departments. W: He did. He developed those quite early. I think he began to develop them about the time I met him, actually. G: Do you recall any people in particular that [he contacted]? W: No, not especially. I

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, the beginning of the roadside parks that now dot Texas--were sponsored by the Texas Highway Department . They'd furnish supervision, trucks, tools, and material, and the National Youth Administration would furnish the boys . They'd pick them up on the trucks

Oral history transcript, John Sherman Cooper, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cooper -- I -- 2 practically all of them were unionists. I had a great uncle, I recall, who was a confederate veteran, but chiefly all my family stood with the Union. And even when I

Oral history transcript, Walter Washington and Bennetta Washington, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in those years, Mrs. Washington? BW: Yes, I did. Our two daughters were at the same school, so we met in the mothers' club and we met with planning for school affairs at National Cathedral School, where Luci and my daughter Bennetta were classmates. B

Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

by the President and once by the Attorney General, and we've got to go through or we're going to lose faith with all these people who have put their necks 'way out to testify in Mississippi against the state of affairs in voting, police brutality

Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

convention which first named Stevenson that you had that problem of the FEPC [Fair Employment Practices Commission] plank and your compromise on that, that the Labor Department would act by persuasion instead of compulsion in developing the FEPC. Did you ever

Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

and, to my astonishment and rather real astonishment, called me late in January of '63 and wanted me to take the position. I was really in no personal position to do it. I had sold my company; I hadn't had any time to look after my personal affairs during

Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

think that Pappy O'Daniel was a saint. But during the early forties I was off collecting folklore for the Library of Congress and very much occupied with academic affairs. But I had become very interested in racism. I despised Hitler; absolutely despised

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a moment on one thing. Veteran newsmen have seen it all and presumably don't stampede easily. Was there a feeling among the White House press corps, widely expressed, that this may be the beginning of some sort of coup d'état or an attempted nationwide
Katzenbach as attorney general; presidents’ interaction with the State Department; May 1966 trip to Chicago; LBJ’s opinions of the U.S. role in Vietnam; LBJ’s assessment of his own staff; Tonkin Gulf resolution; Lindley Rule and press access to LBJ

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 2 (II), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, a reference in the Congressional Record to the fact that you had observed something in Chungking in October 1944. Did you go to China in 1944? J: Yes. Went down, flew over the "Hump," went into-- G: Tell me about that trip. J: Well, the Foreign Affairs

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and her brother. She wasn't acquainted with work enough, even the work of handling her own business affairs, which was handled entirely by Uncle Claud, and that was a great deprivation. One should be made to work, I think, or at least encouraged to work

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

~ Know- landis AA [administrative assistant] in those days was a fellow named Jim Gleason who later went on to be the first assistant administrator for legislative affairs at NASA. had to do something with him. County now. After Knowland got defeated

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Lyndon in his position on the [House] Naval Affairs [Committee], which by that time I think had become Armed Services, plus the labor supply and the water situation in Houston and Corpus made them very, very 7 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, which in turn became the Department of Urban Affairs, so that establishes my close connection with the Department of Urban Affairs. I didn't write the Social Security Act, but I worked for the Senator who sponsored it and had a great deal to do

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the House, maybe particularly from Texas. And then Lyndon, from his vantage point on the Naval Affairs Committee, had become quite close to, and quite admiring of, Secretary [James] Forrestal, and we would go out on the Sequoia with the Secretary and a small

Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

to Chicago in 1952 as one of the delegates to the Convention. But as I say, when he departed the Democratic ranks, then I departed his ranks. I didn't feel like the commander-in-chief should take the whole staff and run off with them in the middle

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

, to go down to the Social Security department to find out why their check was late, or to the Veterans' Administration. So the only way that you can be an effective legislator is that you have got to have a good staff, without any doubt. When you go

Oral history transcript, William A. Knowlton, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

assistant, got himself closely involved with Adam Yarmolinsky. And when Adam went up to ISA, International Security Affairs, Ray Peat went up with him; Alex Butterfield and I were left back with John Steadman. I used to say to John Steadman, "John

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Mr. Johnson take any retribution against the Moyers' associates? M: Oh, they all started--no, he appointed Hal Pacius to a good job in the Transportation Department and Hal, from time to time, came back to do advance work for the President

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for congressmen and senators; invitations to the LBJ Ranch; the process of evaluating appointment recommendations; how congressional liaison representatives were selected; relationship between congressional liaison representatives, their departments, and the White

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in that. Yes. What was your role in that? Johnson. I am very fond of Lady Bird In the first place, I think she is a person of great charm, and [she has] an exquisite sense of words and the best judgment about human affairs that I can think of. judge. She

Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in 1945 the acting Illiite House press secretary. D: That's right. F: Now then, as a veteran newspaper man and son of a newspaperman and a man in and out of Washington all your life, I'd be very interested in your commenting on press secretaries during

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

Greenebaumwith the Federal Home Loan Bank Board; this is Mr. Driver, the head of the Veterans' Administration; and that's me and Secretary Fowler; and this is Larry O'Brien. M: That's a nice picture. C: It really is. M: Okay. Now you are a fully

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

." But that's the way it was. He'd drift in and out. for a couple of hours or a couple of minutes. He might be out There was no way of predicting it. John Connally came up. Rayburn was supposed to make a speech out at the Veteran's Hospital on November 11

Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with General Curtis LeMay who made his home in Newport Beach, California. just to get started. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. with Mr. Johnson? General, Incidentally, I'm a World War II veteran so I have been following you for a long time. L: More

Oral history transcript, Roy Elson, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

called anyhow. But I just was exhausted. So when I went in to sign off on my [courses], one professor, who was head of the political science department out there, who's still alive, when I went in to get him to sign off on one of these graduate courses

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

that whenever he got too short, he would call up "The Chief," as he called Lyndon even in those days, and the Chief would get him a little money even though "The Chief" didn't have much. I was with the Department of Justice running its trial section

Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it was. But Johnson wrote those kinds pf letters to a lot of people. After he became a senator--well, even before, when he was in the House and went to the wars, he came back, and I think I was_the first newspapermen he saw. He had been at the Navy Department

Oral history transcript, Mildred Portner, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

campaign. I had a breadth of experience in the highway department, State Administrative Board, Michigan Securities Commission, and later in the secretary of state's office. In that period I became a good friend of Frank Fitzgerald, who later became

Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

affairs correspondent. Do I basically have the correct information? C: Yes, that's right. M: Have you ever participated in any similar oral history project? 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
on White House influence on news coverage, LBJ’s response to critical press coverage, preferential treatment to certain newsmen, LBJ’s decision on to run, 1968 convention, LBJ’s way of helping departing staff members, Vietnam, the effect of daily

Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-- 18 F: [He was] very pleased with it? S: Very pleased with it, yes, particularly because we didn't have any federal money. Anybody can do a job if you give them ten million dollars, but we never had any money, and we had to coordinate the Department

Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 2 (II), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a run down there for something, and I rode with them. F: And had never seen that building before? C: Never had seen that building. F: That was a fine state of affairs to be turned loose in. C: It's an unbelievable story. My memory's a little

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

details were requisite for him to callout the tha,c became a necess2.ry step, as it did. militar:;' area tvitil ,chich I ment of .Tus t~ familiar, but I 1,':'1S F: They morc the book' ::, \'laS not Depart- ::e

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

obviously came from the Soviet Troika, suggested by the Treasury Department, as I recall. So here was the Troi ka. It was these three agencies. You probabJy know the structure of it. In addition, it had three layers: staff layer; a council-member

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