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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 45 (XLV), 5/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to ration credit, and that the stock market is declining because of tight money and the possibility of new taxes. And Martin and [Frederick] Deming--Deming was the undersecretary of the treasury for monetary affairs then--said that we needed a slowdown LBJ
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , but that was a pro forma exercise in all likelihood. So, as long as Idris was in charge in a very conservative monarchial government in Libya, it was really a separate account. That has all changed, of course, since the ouster of Idris and the advent of this new
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • fields, the concept of working with news men who really are--there's only one way to put it--they're the best in the business. They're far a nd away above the average newspaperman, including myself a s a reporter. F: By and large they are, by nature
Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and said that Califano was developing a new legislative package in education for the next session of Congress. That was in the summer of '65, and would I write up the international education part? So I became a government consultant officially and worked
Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • twenty years of government service which began in 1948 after completing your law degree and an association with a New York City law firm. From 1948 to 1955 you were associated with the Economic Cooperation Administration, and your last position
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at that meeting got up to make their responses, who all they had been able to enlist and to give their testimonials. The big news that happened while we were at Mayo's was about the helicopter. A bunch of Lyndon's friends, I would say led by Carl Phinney
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the Office of Management and Budget, not to the Executive Office Building, but to the Executive Office Building number two, the new one which had just been built, which was just a block away, and then spend the rest of the day there. At the end of the day, I
  • sources of information, such as the Office of Economic Opportunity and Tom Bradley; visiting Newark, New Jersey, to talk to citizens about rioting; John Lindsay's involvement with the Commission; the chain of command within the Commission; late night/early
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Mulhollan PLACE: Mr. Bundy's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by way of identification. You are McGeorge Bundy, currently president of the Ford Foundation. Your government service, insofar as President Johnson's administration
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of me to come in. I said, "Can I think about it?" And he said, "Of course, just let me know by tomorrow," which I did. M: And then you were appointed? D: I was nominated. I guess the news that I was to be appointed came just after Christmas; I've
Oral history transcript, Thomas J. Dunlap, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • high and that he will be considered one of the great presidents. Beyond question, I think that will be the fact, and that all of the new ground his administration has plowed--it has caused disturbance, it has caused controversy. But anything that's
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . various places. Just met them--met him, rather, at Of course, they didn't campaign together. They didn't go too many places together, but sometimes our paths would cross at airports. M: Were you in New York when they had that meeting
Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , the most talented people that they had to help set that up were my battalion people out there on temporary duty working for then-Brigadier General McChristian, who had been assigned out there to be [William] Westmoreland's new intelligence chief. During
Oral history transcript, Leverett Saltonstall, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 procurement of new capital costs, as I recall it, after several years now, was somewhere around sixteen
Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . I was of the opinion that he was a very effective leader in Congress ; that he was substantially more liberal than at least the average Minnesotan thinks a Southern leader is ; that he was a supporter of the New Deal and so on . I had enough
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 10 (X), 6/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • around the country. I remember sitting with Tony in New York exchanging ideas by way of spots. If you remember, we were pretty hard-hitting, to the extent that they are still talking about the little girl with the daisy. You know, that is cited
Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Is that correct? c: Well I was appointed in January of '68, and actually came into the office early in February of '68. M: You came here, I believe, from private business with Goldman-Sachs of New York? C: Yes, I had been an economist for Goldman-Sachs. M
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with whatever U. N. facilities, translators and so forth, which could be made available. And that, as I understand it, is the essence of what U Thant told Stevenson. Stevenson apparently did not write any of this down, and subsequently when I went up to New
Oral history transcript, Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at Grady Memorial Hospital which is one of Emory University's teaching hospitals . In 1952, having completed my post-graduate training, I accepted an appointment as assistant professor of medicine at Yale University in New Haven. After two years
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the . F: No, I mean after the assassination and the coming of a new President . B: It was a smooth transition . State . . . Yes, we had the same Secretary of There was really little change in terms of operating procedures, and in terms of what we
Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • are getting pretty far from Johnson on this thing. M: Hell, no, I'll get back to it here. here. I'm not trying to preempt your material I was driving toward this--the growth of this sort of new agency in national security affairs, advisory staff
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in to the Congressman from John Connally. And it was perfectly obvious that whatever disagreements there had been over the manner in which his health news was handled, it was gone by the board. I knew everything was back on the track. I think it is interesting
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- V -- 9 perhaps, or Birmingham? I don't remember which one, because from time to time she would find some new doctor or some new source of help. I think perhaps this may
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 57 (LVII), 12/12/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- LVII -- 3 majority. And with the new House, as Henry Wilson's memo of November 22 indicates, we were faced with a continued
Oral history transcript, Vasco Leitao da Cunha, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1973, by Dr. Richard Graham (Item)
  • -- I -- 7 G: I see. Did you meet him in Honolulu and then accompany him? L: I went to fetch him in Honolulu and accompanied him all through the rest of the journey. And then, from Washington, he went to New York; from New York, [he] came back
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 14 (XIV), 7/19/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and then he'd have another period of despondency. G: Did you do anything during these periods to cheer him up? J: I tried to, or we did. We tried to tell him everything that happened at the office, all the good news, all the wires and letters and so
Oral history transcript, Manuel Cohen, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . For example, when Mr. [Robert] Haack became president of the New York Stock Exchange, I brought him in to introduce him. But I know that on occasion people associated with the Exchange would come to visit him just because they, one, liked to meet the president
Oral history transcript, Reynaldo G. Garza, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , until we got two more judges. F: Now this put you in a new relationship with the now-Vice President Johnson, because you're not in a position where you can campaign anymore. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the administrative and programming problems, planning problems, that a new organization would obviously face--particularly one where these young people would not have had this kind of experience before. B: Did you have any kind of continuing contact with individuals
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Johnson, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of those things. You were supposed to be teaching some of the new methods of something else. He also had prayer and the pledge of allegiance. We did that every day. The children all went outside when they put up.the flag. Instead ofputting it up, the Texas
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 3 (III), 12/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • for. Subsequently in 1967 it became clear that the art had progressed to a point where you could design a new plane which could get for the navy what it wanted. By that time it was going to cost more, but that's what we're doing now--we're going down the route
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , yes. G: --which was first mentioned in the State of the Union [Message]. M: I was never opposed to it. What I wanted to do was to see if we couldn't balance the budget. I didn't want that additional money to be spent for new things, because he
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 18 (XVIII), 6/12/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , which had to have something by about three or four o'clock in the afternoon. So we developed a little technique. I, or anybody that I could get to do it, would figure out some sort of a news lead and write out about eight paragraphs, sometimes less than
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • as a change of policy . That we were doing what was necessary, that was the policy ; that this was just a couple of new things we were doing, but it wasn't a change of policy . effect, to mute the whole thing . him into that . He wanted, in I don't know
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 7 (VII), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • can remember seeing he signed his name in one of those— G: Okay, and then May [April?] 25 he went out to Kansas City to see Truman, and then on to New York to see “Advise and Consent.” V: I didn't see that though. It says here, I notice where
Oral history transcript, Anita P. Winters, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • at me all the time to be sure that [inaudible]. He fussed at all his friends, [inaudible] G: Do you recall when you learned he had had his fatal heart attack? How you got that news? MW: Television. W: Were we here? We were here at the house or were we
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 3 (III), 1/21/70, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in history. F: You would say then that he lived up to the question of continuity of the New Frontier ideals? K: I felt so, very strongly in the domestic programs--commitment to these areas which had been a subject of the campaign of 1960, had been
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was it? On the first of November, on Monday morning, the New York Times ran this story about LBJ is "sputtering mad," and he called me. Even at the time it was amusing; I had a hard time keeping a straight face. He was chewing my ass out, furious about this story. He
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and there's a recall of this, or that, or you get the notice in the mail from your auto dealer. In those days, those recalls were devastating. They were big; they were front-page news often. That was what we regarded as the real deterrent. We also had
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 4 (IV), 2/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of [John J.] Rooney, maybe from New York-- G: That's right. Brooklyn, I think. H: --was on the trip. Now, the reason President Johnson had asked him, at least as I 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Anthony Buford, interview 1 (I), 6/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Busch and August A. Busch, Jr., and I went to New York and took this contribution of ten thousand dollars, which was made up of the various members of the family. While we were in New York, of course we had an appointment, and we met Mr. Garner and Sam