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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was J. Edgar Hoover and Bobby must have authorized it. It was harmful. I believe it probably was the [Drew] Pearson columns. We were persuaded this was planted and most unfairly presented to harm to Bobby. G: Did you see Hoover behind it or Johnson
Oral history transcript, Emanuel Celler, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • it approached from the Truman and Johnson side of the railroad tracks because I think there's more sincerity in it. He wasn't austere and parsimonious like Coolidge or anything like that. He wasn't stiff and a bit pecksniffian like Hoover. Of course
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Tom Kelly Lem Johns 25-27 Recommends changes in the authority structure of the Secret Service 25-27 Mr. Hoover 27,28,29 Personal meetings with the President 29,30 Civil Works Program 30,36 Secretary Reser 31 Standby problems 32 Under
  • games and the Mayor of Selma; J. Edgar Hoover and the Yarmouth Castle case; Secret Service-FBI merger issue; anecdote of LBJ's political acumen; Jim Wright an issue of constitutionality; dealing with civil disturbances; the M-16 rifle investigation
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • called Nick Katzenbach; I called J. Edgar Hoover--two of them, Katzenbach and Hoover, because I had had indication from Moyers that it would be a good idea to get in touch with them and get their advice. I assumed from the way he put it that he'd
Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : By misuse, sir, specifically, do you mean by previous Secretaries? H: Oh, I mean that nobody had taken the department seriously, almost since Hoover's time, certainly during the Roosevelt time. B: When Hoover was Secretary of Commerce, or when he
Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the matter of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. As is now beginning to appear in the newspapers, presumably there were wiretaps or other kind of surveillance on Dr. King during this whole period. R: I think
Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ? That good turned to that bad requires no real explanation, do you think? W: The Hoover situation was an absolute parallel. Hoover had the best press of any president up to his time. M: Right, right. W: And he left with the worst press a president ever
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • last month of the Hoover Administration, as part of the staff of an administrative agency called the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, which was set up on a bipartisan basis mainly to keep the banks from collapsing with the help of government loans
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • -Round column was conceived. Mr. Hoover, who was then President, sent word to the Monitor that I was personna non grata around the White House. Of course, nowadays that would be occasion for a raise--during Mr. Johnsonls time. book. The Monitor asked
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 4 (IV), 1/28/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • relationship with King, I think Johnson believed to a certain degree some of the things that J. Edgar Hoover was sending over about King. I think to a certain degree Johnson believed that King was hypocritical in that he was preaching all the things on religion
Oral history transcript, Courtney A. Evans, interview 1 (I), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • question that future scholars are going to note and would probably wonder at the omission. During Robert Kennedy's tenure as Attorney General, there was a rather well publicized dispute between him and J. Edgar Hoover over electronics surveillance. E
Oral history transcript, Tommie W. Glick and Sarah Taylor, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • they lived in their house on -oh, the brick house where Aunt Effie lived with them. What street was that on? T: Oh, right across from J. Edgar Hoover. G: Well, it was their home in Washington for the longest period of time when he was senator. It had
Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it in the Secret Service. another organization would be expensive. To be assigned to We know that Mr. Hoover has told the Warren Commission and the Dillon Committee, which was to analyze the recommendations of the Warren Committee, that there was nothing wrong
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • was a front-·leading candidate. M: Did this affec this decis ion in any way? Well, his polls, you ·know ,.wentdowUyerY sharply from the end of '66·until Mayor June of '67, as a result of a series of events, I think. The Hoover controversy was not very
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • in the vision of the Congress . . . . . actually some of it even started b~~k in the Hoover administration, as you remember . . . . . but certainly the impetus that President Roosevelt gave these prograws really got them off the ground and provided actu al
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the project for the National Park Service. He did a great job" too. We scheduled the dedication of the garden for a fall day in 1964; however, two days before the event, former President Hoover died. For this reason, Mrs. Johnson concluded it would
Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • dared to have killed them. B: Sometime just shortly after that, apparently President Johnson sort of built a fire under J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI. J. Edgar Hoover came to Mississippi and talked to Governor 17 LBJ Presidential Library http
  • of 1964; Voting Rights Act of 1965; work on minimum wage; the Neshoba County deaths; Council of Federated Organizations movement; FBI opens new office in Mississippi; RFK, Hoover and LBJ told FBI to get on the job in Mississippi; Freedom Democratic Party
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Dean -- I -- 8 Hoover Commission recommendations, instead of proceeding with a department, they decided, in effect, to convert Commerce
Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the "Chicken in Every Pot," "Two Automobiles in the Garage." An that baloney was sho\'/ing up so fast on Hoover that it was pitiful. Yet a lot of people believed it and listened to it. Now I enjoyed my relationship with Johnson. I helped him in every way
Oral history transcript, Edward P. Cliff, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Louise Hermey Stanford, interview 1 (I), 9/6/1989, by Sybil Jackson (Item)
Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • are we picking all our Presidential candidates nowadays from the Senate? do that until--well, up through Franklin Roosevelt. Coolidge, Wilson and the other Roosevelt, Taft. We didn't use to Roosevelt, Hoover, They all came out of either governorships
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Hoover testified before the Commission on Disorders to the effect that to date--at that time--we had no such evidence, and I think it's safe to say we still have no such evidence. I think you need to distinguish between conspiracies to foment disorders
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a vague memory in the back of my mind that somebody, and it must have been Harry Truman, was really having a tough time with it at a certain point. That's the only thing I really remember about that. G: Well, I guess Hoover was the only other living
Oral history transcript, Gould Lincoln, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • have-- Taft, Wilson, Hoover, Coolidge-- L: Well, Woodrow Wilson, as I said in this piece, he was the first man who really had a press conference as of today. P: In other words, a press conference in calling the people in-- the news media in? L
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Levinson -- I -- 7 You recall that the Department of Transportation was seriously proposed back in the thirties and received added impetus through the Hoover Commission and by President Eisenhower. It wasn't until 1965 that, many years
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , it was completely unworkable . poor compromise . Like so many compromises, it was a That office was set up in 1950 as a result of, I guess the key item was the task force report to the Hoover Commission on transportation, which as I recall, I'm not sure about
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Biographical information; House Banking and Currency Commission; Sam Rayburn; Inter-American Bank; International Development Association; Hoover Commission; campaigns for Congress; Kennedy appointment to the Treasury; Chairman of the FDIC; May 1965
"LBJ as I Knew Him," by Mildred Stegall (Item)
  • scheduled to see the President if he did not know them personally and those that were invited to functions of the White House. The last category was handled over the telephone with Deke DeLoach, Mr. [J. Edgar] Hoover's assistant. It was not unusual for us
Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • even a whimper about my political life at that time. It's the height of McCarthyism. And I had been pretty outspoken, you know. I hated the House Un-American Activities Committee. I hated McCarthyism. I hated J. Edgar Hoover, who was just an anathema
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • or he drinks too much or something like that. It's true, but good taste says, "Keep it." F: Right. N: For 1imited eyes for a whi le at least. letters with J. Edgar Hoover. but some may be signficant. Or it may be an exchange of Some of them
Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jerre Williams, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of this the old Hoover Commission? W: No. It \'/as these temporary conferences. The Hoover Commission is more on government reorganization than it is on procedures. that I would S2! So that these were independent of that. F: Yes. W: The second one
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the details, although I had a great, long, thick file on it and I sent it out. I think it's out at the Hoover Institution. And I can't remember too much of--he lived a long time down in Mexico. I don't know that he's actually dead now. I think he must be but I
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 4 (IV), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 3 (III), 1/17/89, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the details, although I had a great, long, thick file on it and I sent it out. I think it's out at the Hoover Institution. And I can't remember too much of--he lived a long time down in Mexico. I don't know that he's actually dead now. I think he must be but I