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Oral history transcript, Kenneth E. BeLieu, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • room, and a call came from New York from Eileen Galloway. She said, "Senator Johnson was talking on the plane about a staff director for the Space Committee, and I brought your name up and his eyes lit up and he said, 'That's it!'" I said, "Well, I'm up
Oral history transcript, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/8/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Kennedy seemed determined that there would be a big show about the thing. Therefore, he ordered troops from all over the United States, not all over the United States, but from New Jersey and from Kentucky and out of of fort Polk and places of that type
Oral history transcript, Georgia Cammack Edgeworth, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the southwest corner of the square, and they did not build the new courthouse until 1916. I believe it was about September 1916 they moved into the new courthouse. G: I wonder if LBJ's father, Sam Ealy Johnson, had anything to do with the moving
Oral history transcript, Estelle Harbin, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh So I went down there and went to work and Mr. Driscoll died in late spring 1930. The Crash had come, but it didn't affect us; it affected New York more than us. We were just bewildered with Mr. Driscoll
Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • would get out and walk up and down the street for two hours, see everybody he could see, and tell them to be there at 11 o'clock to meet the new congressman. sometimes they wouldn't. Sometimes they would have pretty good turnouts; The real problem
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Murphey -- I -~ 13 that he thought Lyndon was an opportunist, that Lyndon was a New Dealer, whom Mr. Stevenson utterly
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • became under secretary of agriculture in the new Kennedy Administration. M: That's right. B: How did you get that job? Did Mr. Freeman pick you or Mr. Kennedy? M: Mr. Freeman approved me, I guess. Well, if I may go back, before the election
Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in Vietnam I was in thorough accord with, this new addition I was not. the reasons for that. And I'll tell you It stemmed back to a conviction which I had reinforced often with other people and particularly with President Diem, that American combat forces
Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • I had linked up and was able to physically do that, although it was pretty--we had some problems, because Imbert, as soon as he was declared the new government, took his troops and swept the northern part of Santo Domingo, which was also some
Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • wasn't an organizational matter, it was a matter of policy. When it came up then in the fall of 1965, when they were reviewing this task force and what was the new legislative program going to be, I think by then I sort of decided, "Well, the only way
Oral history transcript, Murrey Marder, interview 1 (I), 5/25/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • it was a typographical error in the Washington Post, which happens. So I went to look at the New York Times text and it also said fifteen hundred. Well, the chances of having the same typographical error in both papers were improbable. And then I checked the transcript
Oral history transcript, Daniel Boone Porter, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • level right on down to the troop level. I felt that we, in most cases, had very good support from our Vietnamese counterparts, although that wasn't necessarily always too obvious to the news people nor to visitors who came there, because the Vietnamese
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it. I think he preferred having Slick [Wilton "Jerry"] Persons in there because he knew how to deal with Slick. Sherman Adams was a little bit more difficult to deal with in some respects. You know, Sherman kind of had the New England conscience
Oral history transcript, George Silver, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1991, by Molly Malone Chesney (Item)
  • inaugurated where every cabinet office is going to put up a certain amount of money and some new policy directive in order for Mississippi to become a model state of what could be done. I guess you must have that somewhere. C: Well, we have done a series
Oral history transcript, Albert W. Brisbin, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had a favorite project or type of project? B: It's so hard to separate that sixteen or eighteen months that he was with NYA there while I was from the rest of it . very strong on our public relations activities : He really was getting the new
Oral history transcript, Philip N. Brownstein, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was going to do and what I wanted to do, and I told him that I hoped to study law . And he asked me where I was going to go to school, and I explained my problem to him . He said, "Well, they're hiring people in Washington now in many of these New Deal
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • publications, I did become fascinated with this issue: how close can these two so different countries be? They have the same ideology and then, as you recall, the political belief was very firmly held that there was a new bloc, a new axis, that was tightly
Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEl~EE: DONALD C. COOK INTERVIEVJER: THOMAS PLACE: Mr. Cook's Office, 2 Broadway, New York. H. BAKER Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, if "Ie may begin at the beginning, I know that you first went to work for tk. Johnson in 1943. Did you have any acquain
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • I think Kennedy trusted him to go and wanted him to test the waters and bring back a recommendation on what this new administration should be doing out there . I think the President trusted Johnson's political judg- ments and his ability to judge
Oral history transcript, William B. Dale, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Drawing Rights and other major issues related to the reform of the International Nonetary System. It now has its successor, or continuation, in what's called the "Volcker Group." M: This is the new man who holds Deming's position. D: That's right. M
Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in feeding the people and the WPA and the NYA and all of that New Deal of Roosevelt's. P: How did Mr. Maverick feel about Mr. Roosevelt? B: He was a very strong supporter of his. P: And when the Supreme Court packing issue came up at a later date, what
Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Tribune , went down to see his new home and said they had a bar in his home approxi­ mately twenty feet long or so . He called Jenk Jones, in my � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Boatner -- III -- 7 G: B: Did he listen in silence, or did he give his own commentaries on the news? He might have a pungent word or two to throw in if it was something that he
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that of course all Presidents in some sense or another seek to "manage the news." That is to say, they seek understandably to have it reflect as well as possible on them and on their designs. They also seek understandably to have it reflect well on purely
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 5 (V), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • following the cocktail party. It was at the first of these evening sessions that I attended that we made a motion to defer for a day or two the crucial vote on Article 50, an article which would have embodied the quite new and quite controversial doctrine
Oral history transcript, Douglass H. Hubbard, interview 1 (I), 6/4/69, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that people in a leisure situation don't like to be educated, so we found a new word. He have a list of taboo words such as 11lecture and "interpretation" activities 11 and 11tourist and things that we don't use, is one that we have sort of used to cover
  • birthplace; historian Jerry Rogers; the homey character of the Ranch and the hospitality of the Johnsons; anecdotes of LBJ guiding visitors about the Ranch and showing off the new State Park Visitor Center
Oral history transcript, Ralph Dungan, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ."'NDml RAINES ~ Jom;so~ More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh L[Bl{z\RY ORAL HISTORY COLLECTWN Narrator Ralph Anthony Dlmgan . . l'ririccton:> . New Biographical information: .Jersey__Q.~ State
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • down. "The Rotunda, he said, "is right past the tunnel, rightpa st the underpass. back of the Capitol you turn right." and tried to ff nd it, and I went 11 In I did go down New Jersey and ~trai - ght ahead and went and went. finally walked al
Oral history transcript, Owen Donley, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Donley -- I -- 10 Javits of New York, I think, was the ranking Republican member. I know that Senator Mondale
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 the available foreign exchange; credit; the nature of their program to get new
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 4 (IV), 6/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • u k ind of ran a ge ne r al accoun tin g o ffice on t hat, too , and then illed them? C: The White House transportati on o i fi ce prorated the costs o f a ll o f th i s and j us t b il le d the news age ncy o r the news paper o r t e n etwo rk. r
Oral history transcript, Val M. Keating, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Texas since about 1929 When I say a story in itself, it's because of a personal thing that it reminds me of. When I was given the position of director of social services of the Texas Relief Commission the new board did not care to have me
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it. (Laughter). And I said, "How does he get the support of the New Republic and H. R. Cullen 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, Allen J. Ellender, interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • a southerner for the presidency. Even with this new turn of his in the civil rights field the opposition could have always turned back on what he said in previous years, and, of course, that's what I concluded when he first announced, that he had little
Oral history transcript, Albert C. Harzke, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1979 INTERVIEWEE: ALBERT C. HARZKE INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Harzke's residence, New Dime Box, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's see, you indicated that you came to the sub-college and finished your high school there-- H: Right. G
Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the race because I just kept talking about it all the time and making fun of him. You know, the press had a tendency to let that statement die, but I tried--and two or three others in the House--to keep it alive and I think we succeeded in having a new go
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson's mind or in the President's mind related to the old New Deal era of beautifying with the NYA and the R: cee? Well, I hadn't thought of it that way, but I'm sure it must have been in the President's mind in the national program. something about
Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 15 of that. G: Others did. They would throw it in the news stories. Mr. Wild, as an experienced political manager, when you
Oral history transcript, Merrell Blackman, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • really never did understand what it was, There were a lot of them. Maybe thirty? It was supposed to be athletes who supported the athletic program and would help to get new athletes in to the school . G: I see . B: Yes, they could have
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Gibb Gilchrist, I believe, who was the state highway engineer at that time, and sold him on it . G: Lyndon sold him on it ; I sat there and listened . I gather that Gilchrist was the sort of guy that would naturally be resistant to a new proposal