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Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . G: How did they get the application through? J: Royls application got hung up because they passed a regulation at the FCC, because of the need of strategic materials, that no one would be permitted to build a new radio station using strategic
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 1 (I), April 1963, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • but I don’t remember any particular slogan that we had on it. I think it just had “Lyndon Johnson for Congress” and that sort of thing. G: Was there any particular theme? K: Of course he was extremely interested and in favor of the New Deal. G: Did
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • believer in air power, solid. In those days, before the nuclear submarines, air power was by far the important weapon. He and The missile picture was just beginning to develop. r, for example, were very strong for the B-70, the new bomber proposed
Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • you very much." G: Oh, my. H: So he went back and reported. I guess that was in December or it was in late fall, and on New Year's Eve, I got a call. He said, "Be prepared to go to Washington on the day after New Years." I said, "For what?" He
Oral history transcript, Will R. Rogers, interview 1 (I), 10/9/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • was ....• going to put in ..... had to. build a ·schoolhouse. You see, at that time, the school was under the supervision of the City, and the schoolhouse was about to fall down and we had to build a new schoolhouse. And then's when I think the first real
  • campaign style; New Deal System; summary
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Shoumatoff, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1973 I NTERVI EloJEE: MADAME ELIZABETH SHOUMATOFF INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Her home on Long Island, Locust Valley, New York Tape 1 of 1 F: Suppose you tell me at the beginning how you got to be a president's portrait painter. S: You
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • a syndicated colwmi.st. r thought I would just .begin by introducing you and then at the end of that, you can add whatever you'd like to it. You were born in 1924 in New York City. In 1947 you received a B.A. I from U.C.L.A. and in 1948 received a Master
Oral history transcript, Emma Guffy Miller, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • on as the leader in the Senate. You know how close that was? Javits? We were in the gallery. The New York candidate--was it Javits was outside the gallery behind LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Richard E. Neustadt, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , that the President knew what he was doing. Since the critical discussion would be with the new British government, and our government had 10 get itself in order on this issue after the election, I went down for about six weeks starting in the middle of October
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , they couldn't let NYA pay for somebody doing some job, then if the school had been paying for him, pay the one the school had been paying for off. It was to create new jobs. That's the big LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, H.S. Hank Brown, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • been defeated and this new man [Paul] Kilday certainly did not meet with our feeling even though I found out later that the then-president of the AF of L had supported and wrote every union member a letter asking for Maury Maverick's defeat because he
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • County. F: Reached all the way down there . B: After Mr . Lyndon Johnson had been secretary for about four years, Or all the way up here . this was the beginning of the Roosevelt Administration, and they established many of the New Deal programs
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 3 (III), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and perhaps that quality may have been exaggerated to some extent. Maybe it was in comparison to her husband [that she was considered cultured]. G: Okay. Now before we turned on the tape we had talked about the trip to New York and going to the make-up
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 2 (II), 12/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • seeing something on page ten of the New York Times that morning--nothing on the front page--so that I was really quite surprised to hear from Nick that the situation was as serious as it appeared to be. As we talked further he indicated to me
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 11 (XI), 2/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on the program. We scored a touchdown on this particular program on the last day of the Johnson Administration, by getting an executive order issued, which did create the commission, but which left the appointment of its members to the new president, so
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a memory of our good friend Helen Gahagan Douglas getting tarred with that brush, most undeservedly. She was a spirited fighter for all the New Deal legislation and the things that later made up Lyndon's Great Society legislation. But she was a patriotic
  • of the country's rubber plants; a trip to New York City with LBJ's relatives; Warren Woodward and Horace Busby joining LBJ's staff; Soviet control of the occupation zone in Germany; LBJ's first television appearance and why he was a less effective speaker
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 39 (XXXIX), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ) David Ginsburg. I must have gone--actually I went to Spring Lake, New Jersey, to see my parents, or my children, that Saturday, and David Ginsburg sent the statement down to the President for Ackley to issue. The President okayed that. We issued
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that affected just the wives, just me, but it's interesting to recall. I met Mrs. Clark Foreman on one of my formal calls. It was the custom of that day that a new congressman's wife called on all those who preceded her, all the members of her own delegation
  • problems of the South; Clark Foreman; a new congressman's wife's duty to call on the wives of her husband's delegation, committee chair, cabinet and Court members; visiting Joseph Edward Davies at Tregaron; LBJ helping Jewish people from Germany in the late
Oral history transcript, Olga Bredt Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • was a fairly conservative man, actually. B: On what particular issues--he was known as a New Dealer and as a-- G: Yes, he was. B: --Roosevelt man. On what issues do you think he was basically conservative? G: I do not know how--for instance
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 2 (II), 6/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • would just move into a town and stay for two or three weeks. B: Who were these women? A: One was Judith Moyers, Bill Moyers' wife. She ended up in New Orleans. I think that Lindy Boggs, Mrs. Hale Boggs--the congressman's wife from Louisiana--went
Oral history transcript, George D. Aiken, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • afternoon that the news came through. We were also asked to keep quiet about it, and that night the President released the news to the public. M: Do you recall that there was significant opposition or significant question to the case
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 3 (III), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • contacts with Bobby Baker were limited; remember, I was brand new. I was still in what I call that two-year trust period. And I remember a couple of dinners at The Elms during the vice presidency where Bobby and Dottie were present. I cannot remember any
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • ? It's my impression that the Black Stars had represented the athletic heroes and the more established people on the campus and that you were the new, young, upcoming group, is that correct? D: Yes, that's an accurate description. G: Then, too, what
Oral history transcript, Louise Casparis Edwards, interview 1 (I), 1/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a meeting of the townspeople and asked them which they'd rather have, the railroad or the highway through the town to boost the town, and they voted to have the highway. So he worked toward getting a highway through the town, and that was kind of a new
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1b (I), 2/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , represent a new development since last May. I personally think we made a mistake in showing overeagerness for LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , hardly--and it was the leading station here for most of those years. KVET came along probably in about 1947 or 1948 and it always commanded a good audience. At one time it had a news broadcast, Stuart Long, at ten o'clock at night that LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lewis W. Walt, interview 1 (I), 1/24/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • against us here in the United States. Unfortunately, many of our news media--some of them unwittingly, some of them to make headlines--have picked up this propaganda and promulgated it all over the country--all over the world! And people have believed
Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 2 (II), 11/25/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of the Senator from New York, but I think his problem was that he had been attacking this agency and when Mr. Shriver very properly in his administrative capacity started a counterattack, Mr. Goodell and Mr. Quie didn't like it. There was nothing illegal about
Oral history transcript, Henry Hirshberg, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to help him in the campaign? H: I agreed to help him in the campaign because I knew he was a pro-Roosevelt man, pro-New Deal man, and because I knew--at least I had heard--that he was defending as best he could Roosevelt's proposal to increase the size
Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • bought all of her clothes at Neiman-Marcus, which then was the store. And I'm sure her father would have let her have a new car, but she drove an old Buick. And she behaved as though she didn't have much money, but I knew she had plenty. Lyndon had
Oral history transcript, David E. Lilienthal, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and had come to be acquainted with the Prime Minister of that country--a Muslim--who was later assassinated along with a lot of other Nigerians. This Prime Minister came to New York and Washington on a good-will visit, as they say. Senator Johnson
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the New ~1exico senatorial election between Senator [Dennis] Chavez and [Patrick J.] Hurley? M: No, I don't. I know that of course Johnson would have been on Chavez ' side, not just for partisan reasons. G: What other reasons? M: Well, he liked
Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • door yelling that the President had been shot. So we all rushed into the kitchen of the ranch house and watched Walter Cronkite report the news on the television set in the kitchen, Secret Service men included. Some of them were back
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • anything about her in advance. Why did he leave Kleberg's office? Well, the New Deal was unfolding and he was up there, you know, associating with a lot of people, what is that G: Aubrey Williams? Williams-~? LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Joe Robertson, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • an interview with him. R: You've interviewed him. G: Yes. [Interruption] G: You were saying when Henry Wallace and New Deal agriculture people started the committee-- 6 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Mamie Allison, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1986, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • would sit around that great big old round table, and they would discuss all the national news, and my mother and father both were just avid news people. They listened to the news even if it was on the radio and Mother didn't like for anybody to come
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 5 (V), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to not make all the other appointments from the agency as though it was exactly the same thing simply with a new name. He wanted to make it different and as a consequence he brought in a number of people in the secretariat under Weaver. This made it awkward
Oral history transcript, Andrew Young, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . The Kennedy strategy in those days was to try to please everybody, so he would appoint a Thurgood Marshall in New York but also appoint a Cox in Mississippi. B: We might make it clear, that would be now Justice Marshall's appointment to the lower courts
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXXIII -- 5 April was a time of many meetings. The newspaper people always came for the ASNE [American Society of Newspaper Editors], to Washington, and then went on up to New
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 15 (XV), 12/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had lunch with Fowler on Friday. C: Yes, on that subject I'm sure and at whatever point we knew--they must have acted that morning--Fowler called the President to tell him. Now on the sixth, the New York Times story, I don't know whether [Bill