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Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the air force, and in 1966 a temporary duty assignment came down--I was in New Mexico at the time--and it was for "a photographer in Washington," and that's all it said. assignment. I only had about three months to go. September of 1966. I got the I

Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Goldberg -- I -- 17 me copies of the briefs that were submitted to New Orleans and to New York. F

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

; and New Year's Eve, as I think I mentioned previously, I spent up here calling around to tell everybody that the President was going to announce the next day that they were going to work right away. But some people apparently had told the President

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: Congratulations on your new degree of infallibility. It is richly deserved." He was promoted into two stars for this job. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More

Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. The countdown would go during the week, and they had a Blacks United Against Discrimination [United Blacks Against Discrimination], U-BAD, U-B-A-D. And they would blow it with a big news conference on Friday afternoon, and you know who watches the six o'clock

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

if it were to feed itself.Lyndon Johnson assigned Secretary of Agriculture [Orville] Freeman the task of requiring India to take major new steps in the agricultural field as a condition for any substantial food assistance from the United States.Now, he

Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

there for you. C: It would have been superfluous for me to have said anything. F: Right. Well, when you came down to 1960, did you consider going to the convention at all, or di d,You decide just to 1et the new crop have it? C: I didn't consider it at all

Oral history transcript, James Adler, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

attitude about poverty, how it should be dealt with? A: Well, I guess the closest insight I had came about as a result of a series of articles written by a man named Homer Bigart in the New York Times. He wrote a series of articles about poverty

Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- 1-- 2 than a full-time job if you were out of the university. So I worked for the International News Service, which is now UPI, under a fellow named Vann Kennedy, whom a lot of people in the LBJ family know. He now lives in Corpus Christi where

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

. To introduce them to the whole bunch of people that they already knew but to sort of give a special stamp to saying this is a new marriage starting among two families that matter in this town, and we care about both of them. And that was also the year that we

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

got acquainted over that He also went out to get the support of some of the smaller newspapers. He didn't rely on the Dallas News, which he of course didn't have. But he wor ked hard on papers like [those] owned by Mr. Houston Ha.r te. papers

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 3 (III), 6/21/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

this for that period of time it's awfully hard to remember. As I said to you the other day, one of the greatest capacities of the human mind is the ability to forget. You have to learn how to erase so that you can add new things in; otherwise, the computer gets

Oral history transcript, Janet Wofford Ingram, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

fortunate things that happened to us, comparatively, during the war. And I remember Mrs. Johnson came down to San Antonio when the new federal building was built. It's not the new federal building now [in Austin?]. It's on Eighth Street, I believe. 2 LBJ

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 3 (III), 3/25/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with them very well and he was so low-key. George was just an old shoe, and he just went on and talked and didn't make speeches. Bill would make a speech any time he got a chance. George would just deliver the news and tell it. I thought George was a good

Oral history transcript, James E. Chudars, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? C: No. These were brand new. There was very little helicopter flying at that point. They had training classes, but there weren't any units. There were some R-4s that were sent out to China. They did some things, but they weren't too effective

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in New York City and Chicago are quite different than they are in Austin and Dallas. B: Is there any obvious animosity at the convention between the Johnson staff and the Kennedy staff? A: I'm sure that they had as many mean things to say about us

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 4 (IV), 8/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and to earn a living. There's nothing new in President Nixon's statement that he wants people to work. That's exactly what the poverty program was set up for--the Appalachia Program, the Ozarka, the regional programs, the manpower training and all the others

Oral history transcript, Joseph Bruno, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the Washington, D.C. area. My family's from New England, and I spent a few of my early years up there, but for the most part I've lived in this area. I attended Georgetown University and Catholic University here in Washington, and I have been associated

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Busby -- VII -- 6 resigned from the federal bench in New York to take it, as a matter of fact. And A. [Arthur] B. Culvahouse, who is the outgoing general counsel at the White

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

familiar with what was then a new field of the law. I think his practice and his influence and activities as a mem- ber of the senate put on the statute books a lot of the present Texas water and irrigation law of today. So 1 don't think there's be any

Oral history transcript, Ebba Jansen and Alvin J. Jansen, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

into where there was a rain storm in the mountains. In Arizona they told us when we got into New Nexico the arroyos would have planks over it. But otherwise I'd drive the car and the other three girls would get down in the bottom of the gulley or the arroyo

Oral history transcript, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

effective, I would have to evaluate my effectiveness as being in the Houston area. Oh, I'd work for him and beat the drum every time I'd go out, go to New York or anywhere else. But, as I say, I have a feeling that my effectiveness was a lot more so here

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

by the way, 'tvhich is another story I hadn't thought of that has some interest. But one of the vacancies that was open because of, I believe, retirement as opposed to the creation of a new position, was the United States Court of Appeals for the District

Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 2 (II), 3/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

excluded from the political processes in the South and elsewhere would nonetheless participate in the benefits of Community Action programs of the new legislation. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 3 (III), 4/16/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

actually tried out new methods of bringing poor people into the operation of programs that we accomplished our most interesting work, and probably caused the biggest stir. There was a pattern to some of these;, there was a design. We weren't haphazard

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

into urging a quickie tax cut. But it was at that time, I think, that he indicated that he was going to propose tax legislation in the new session of Congress--and, of course, this was the new Congress--beginning in January 1963. There were intensive

Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. forgotten a coupl e of others that were therec I have I think Arthur Schl es inger \'Ias in there and a coupl e of others. B: It was generally assumed at the time in the newspapers that you '.'Jere there as kind of a representative of the New South. S

Oral history transcript, Clyde O. Martz, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

-getting new men? M: Yes. B: How has that developed? M: We have recruited about twenty men in the last year--young men. types. One is young honor students out of school. Two We've set up a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

them and everybody was waiting. Then one of the news- papermen saw Colonel Stephens and said to him they wanted me around LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Harry Nachlin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

you, and it'd be too messy, so we'll give you a few minutes, and everybody go to the corner of So-and-So and So-and-So, or out to the high school, or whatever, and they'd circle, and everybody would dash for the new place, and then they’d land

Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 2 (II), 9/29/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, because it was a complicated program. You couldn't run it in that neat, orderly, compact way that administrators like to run old-line programs. This was a new, dynamic, everchanging kind of program that required shifting and hauling as you went forward

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 2 (II), 9/13/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

results as well as economic support. Then, with the addition of eighteen new members, bringing it to roughly eighty-two countries, in the sixties there was established an equilibrium in terms of voting power between the Soviet bloc and the United States

Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

back in the background. Is there any substance in that, or is that imagination? S: It's very difficult to analyze because with the tremendous amount of attention of the press to everything that everybody said, and the need to write a new story every

Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

thought that he could get Lyndon's assistance . G: But he didn't seem to want to do it . There was a regional state directors' conference in New Orleans . Did you go down for that? Yes . G: Can you recall that trip and seeing Lyndon Johnson there? B

Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

increased during the '60's. A new and junior Congressman is not very often called for consultaion to the White House, perhaps unfortunately. M: Did you feel that Mr. Johnson lost much of his party support with his cooperation with General Eisenhower

Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

never really told him what I thought about it, which is very simple. The trouble with Johnson and Viet Nam was that he was too clever by half. He had 150,000 troops on the ground before the New York Times admitted we were in a major war, literally

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, pretty weather . about 75° , and the sun was out . 17 It was a good San Antonio day ; it was Cantinflas would get up and say, "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year," and he would sit down . But this wowed the crowd and they loved to see him

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 8 (VIII), 9/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the President also--that was when we brought [Arthur] Goldberg in because Goldberg was up in New York and Goldberg had as a lawyer, if my recollection is correct, represented the steelworkers, which gave him terrific lines into the steelworkers before he became

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of poor people, and he talked about that a lot. G: He talked about expanding the Social Security system as a way to avoid a budgetary increase. Any recollections of other ways to fit these new programs into your existing budget? C: No, but eventually

Oral history transcript, Jacob Javits, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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