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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 19 (XIX), 1/27/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be prepared with a whole host of new initiatives, controversial things that we wanted to get done that we could do only in the wake of a landslide. The kinds of things that we talked about were a major base closing program, get rid of excess bases; moving
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Sisco -- I -- 7 S: That's the warm-up period. And what happened was this-- this is new, this is not known, and theref ore, would be of intere st: Arthur Goldberg at that time felt very strong ly that the matter should
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Sometimes he would rehearse those kinds of things, and I got in on it, but not this kind. He considered those more extemporaneous types of talks. (Interruption) We were traveling from Stewart Air Force Base in New York over to Ellenville, New York
  • other countries; LBJ speaking Spanish; Glassboro, New Jersey, meeting with Kosygin; trip around the US to visit military troops; communication problems aboard the USS Enterprise; LBJ’s response to a Williamsburg, Virginia, minister’s anti-war statements.
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 2 (II), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • life into your new? C: I never did. My mother still at this moment has some things at home that she packed up from the sorority house that day. I guess the only thing that I did as far as going to check in at that life again was to take off one day
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • again. Even got mad at me for bring- I think that her boy [Phillip Bobbitt] wants to write her memoirs or something. G: Is that why you think she won't do it? J: She hasn't done anything yet. She's given out statements in New York, she's given
Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • officials. Now, just to give you an illustration of what I'm talking about, at one point the U.S. Customs and Immigrations had constructed a new office building at the border--a new U.S. Customs and Immigrations building there-F: This is at the bridge? T
Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ? L: I can't remember. I appeared there so many times, but I'm sure I probably did. F: But you have no clear cut memory of his presiding? L: No. F: As a committee chairman? When 1961 came along you had of course a new team in Washington. Now
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • because when he first ran for the House of Representatives in 1937, he had--it was a special election--he had corne out for the President's Court Packing Plan. That instantly and forever identified him as a New Dealer in the minds of many people in Texas
  • Biographical information; first meeting LBJ; LBJ’s liberal and New Deal identification; Gerald Mann; President’s court packing plan; 1948 bitter campaign; Taft-Hartley Law; Horace; Busby; Roy Wade; Walter Jenkins; John Connally; Sam Houston Johnson
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • an example of what I mean, on Medicaid. We were told by Bob [Meyers], the actuary, that the cost of Medicaid over Kerr-Mills in the first year would be $250 million, nationwide. It was $250 million in New York State alone. 4 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • not exactly news. But to find them turning on CIA at that point, at a point when CIA was probably one of their strongest advocates within the American government. . . .But they were using it because they were dealing with the American government
Oral history transcript, Harold Fleming, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1986, by Michael Gillette (Item)
  • then-new and unprecedented, for a civil rights leader, public opposition to the Vietnam conflict. He was invited, he really had to be, but he had no role in it; he was not invited to say anything. He was just there for the ceremonial part of it. G: Do you
Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that I was a senior. He was new and I was new. I got in his class. In other words, he hadn't been there the year previous to have a reputation. I think that is correct. G: How would you describe him as a debate teacher? J: Very enthusiastic, very
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 2 (II), 6/1/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : And helicopters. G: And helicopters. T: Well, I'd forgotten about the armored personnel carriers. And some armored personnel carriers, I think. In fact, I don't recall them. G: Well, I have seen in various reports--I'm not even sure where now-the new M-113
Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • battal ion; most local battalions have about three hundred and fifty people, so it's three hundred and fifty people," and so forth. But as they discovered new units, it suggested that the total number of Viet Cong was on the rise. Whereas when you
Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was advancing a trip that very day, in fact, for then-Vice President Johnson to New York. I was in New York with Secret Service agents for the big B'nai B'rith meeting at Madison LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Ford several times. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -2- As a matter of fact, I sat next to his wife at a Yale alumni law banquet in New Haven a few years ago. I was at that time vice president
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • recently, Mr. Johnson was present in St. Francis Xavier Parish in Stonewall for the dedication of a new rectory. I also said a few words on that occasion and defended the policy of the Administration in Vietnam. During the LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the press releases seem to have gotten out, and I know Bill Blair of the New York Times has the story." I said, "Stew, I'm sorry but the President still hasn't made a decision. You will have to ask them not to print it." He said he would. So then we had
Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of the Select Committee on Small Business. In 1967, when so many new Republicans were elected to LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Boyd L. Rasmussen, Jerry O'Callaghan, and Irving Senzel, group interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • transferability of skills from one area to the other, so that you didn't learn a new job in a sense when you came here. You just improved on what you already had. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on at the time. B: Where did the ideas come from or can you pin it down? W: The idea for legislation. B: No, the ideas in the bill. For example, one of the major things you set up was a brand new civilian agency taking over the old NACA. Was there LBJ
Oral history transcript, James W. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a young man who was going to stay with the law practice, or was the feeling around the firm that this was just a kind of transient position, until he moved on to something else? W: Well, I was so green and new that I probably really didn't know much
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 4 (IV), 3/8/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • be no new entity that had control of nuclear weapons. If the countries of Western Europe were to merge, if they were to create a unified Europe which had control of foreign and military policy, then that Europe would be nuclear by direct succession
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • dial. We were at his home a few times·•. And, as I said earlier, I think sometime in '63, his staff was, at his request, asked to put together some me~sures, . provisions to incorporate in a new civil . . rights bill. Because as I understand
Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . For example, in those days the Vice President was chairman of the Space Council, a new organization created by Congress. The congressmen who created it didn't fully understand the relationship between the Vice President and the President. The Space Council
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Howard] Edmondson of Oklahoma, who was soundly defeated by the [Robert] Kerr forces, and the Mayor of New Orleans, who was just--Mayor deLesseps Morrison's support really was religious. He was a French Catholic who liked John Kennedy. have any lines
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 2 (II), 2/18/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • started in the Johnson Administration, and you had agreed to remain as an assistant special counsel :for the new president. We've talked about the problems of getting a Kennedy staff reoriented into a Johnson staff and meshed with 2. Johnson staff
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 3 (III), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you put in new equipment. And the way they contrived it, it was new equipment in excess of the amount of depreciation that you were taking. So it was a very, very narrowly focused tax break. It was focused so narrowly that the average business guy
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • after 1960 South Vietnam might even be able to reduce its defense budget. But in 1964--and I'm referring again to the interview that you gave to the U. S. News and World Report-you said that when you left Vietnam in September of 1960
Oral history transcript, F. Edward Hebert, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • s t r i c t , New Orleans, Louisiana. Mr. Hebert, I would l i k e to summarize b r i e f l y your c a r e e r before we begin. I t ' s a very b r i ef summary. Orleans, Louisiana in t h a t c i t y . You o f course come from New and were educated
Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • years. he was thro.ugh the news· med ta and so forth, but Of course, I knew who r never had any persona 1 contact with him. B: Th.at would apply even to his acttvtties while he was vice president, . as chairman of the Equal .Opportun1ties
Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , in which we sometimes get a historical coincidence. time in both parties. It happened about the same First of all, when I came to the Senate in 1945, the elections of 1946 made quite a turnover in the Senate on the Republican side. We had a lot of new
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Bailey and John Cris':vell, and Valenti "las in on it. I forget \.;ho ~vas Everybody was trying to do-- running the New Hampshire campaign, but you know, it \,Tas highly disorganized. President, didn T t go The candidate, the potential candidate
  • LBJ and anti-war demonstrators; George W. Romney; New Hampshire campaign; getting ready for the 1968 election; writing for Hubert Humphrey; the Humphrey campaign and LBJ’s role in it; Moyers leaving the staff; becoming a full-fledged LBJ staff
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • an apPointee of President Truman's, I think he had been solicitor general, I'm not sure, and a man called Paul Ziffren, from California-M: Is that Z-- L: Z-I-F-F-R-E-N, who was then committeeman, or had become committeeman; and Camille Gravelle of New
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Escapee Program in Nuremberg in the early fifties. I also had considerable experience in advertising and public relations. In early 1960 I decided to leave that world of advertising and public relations and return to Columbia University in New York City
Oral history transcript, David E. Bell, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was but it had to do with an appropriation- -and V i c e President Johnson wanted to impress upon me as a new budget director the extraordinary importance, in his view, of being careful to inform and to work with and to be acquainted with the individual members
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of operation. There's nothing structured about it. The whole idea is to get from within government the ferment, the yeast, the new ideas that produce something with which the President can go to the Congress saying, "This is what I am going to do
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 Now, I didn't go to Australia and New Zealand, so I can't comment on those phases of the trip, but I do recall very vividly the Manila part of the trip and the President's performance
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was to have a conference and call the party together when there was an issue on which they could, without any question, get together. There was one meeting, for instance, in which one of the issues was the contested election of Senator [Dennis] Chavez of New
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • precious glass. She was a great companion, and I was so glad for every one of those trips she made. And we went to New York--well, I can't say that I know much about that. I do know that I took her to a play or concert. Another interesting thing I