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Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 6 (VI), 5/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to be in there, had that New Deal streak, didn't want to scare off Texas, didn't want to scare away the majority of Texans who were not big liberals, but wanted to kind of encourage people to move slightly toward the more progressive side, but without I suspect any
Oral history transcript, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City for a year. His thought was that when I finished that assignment that I would then stand a good chance to be accepted as a military member of the Policy Planning Council at the State Department. And that's
Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and then we would have in January of 1964 a new term. Since my name had been submitted but since I had not taken office, and since there had been no confirmation, the appointment lapsed. President Johnson resubmitted my name in early January, and it was after
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 10/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it loose and built a new one and established a new one around the turn of the century, I think, in Johnson City. Anyhow, a very old but still moldering feud. But Lyndon managed to get the votes from both communities because, as he laughingly and very
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • they'll suffer from a Republican victory." Another kind of a thorn in Lyndon's side, as I remember, was that he wasn't really simpatico with the new head of the Democratic National Committee. I believe it was Steve Mitchell. They were just on different
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 2 (II), 8/14/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • be the new government, and the name of Mr. Ngo Dinh Diem began to appear then. My relations with the Bao Dai group were--my personal relations, because I knew the Emperor before. My uncle was, of course, the emperor before, and he knew me well as a member
Oral history transcript, Charles Evers, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the country except New York and Michigan. F: Even the most rigid white politician has to pay some attention to that number of votes. 14 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
  • and Senator John Stennis; Evers as NAACP field director; work for education; housing; employment; Ramsey Clark; Lady Bird's Dixie tour; federal programs in Mississippi; friends Charles Percy of Illinois and Nelson Rockefeller of New York; SNCC; CORE; SCLC
Oral history transcript, Birch Bayh, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the in-house decisions although he was Vice President. M: As far as a new Senator coming in was concerned, he was not applying the famous "Johnson treatment" on a regular basis? B: I didn't get the famous Johnson treatment on a regular basis even when he
Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be advantageous for the Senate to have one man in it that felt so deeply about some things that he didn't change, didn't turn with every new gust of wind. For then if we had one point that stayed constant, we could determine how far everyone else had strayed
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • really better sitting in Washington and watching a television monitor, and contacting their sources here about what's really going on. But the mystique of the news profession is that you've got to be at the scene of the crime and so on, whether
  • Selection of the team to go to Paris to negotiate with North Vietnam; Averell Harriman; Cyrus Vance; Philip Habib; organizing the trip to Paris; failure to make serious progress in Paris; debates regarding “the shape of the table”; portraying news
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • World War II convinced me to join a new outfit called the Central Intelligence Group. F: This is a piece of friendly exchange, when were you in Harvard Business School? K: After I got out of Harvard College. [I] started in '42 and finished my degree
Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • or political congressional news reporting with Lyndon Johnson? G: Yes. Not very much contact. I covered the Preparedness Subcommittee hearings when the President was chairman of that committee, and when Cy Vance, as a matter of fact, came down from Ne't
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , a businessman in New York, myself, Bob Nathan-we were all for Humphrey 100%. practical. We were I guess more idealistic than It was unlikely that Humphrey could get it, but we thought he could get it and it was a fun thing to try and do. I was in fact
Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 who lived in New England--I'm not a New Englander by birth--but people with my more academic, intellectual heritage and so on, he didn't have easy
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Texas, in Belton, and lived there a good portion of my early life. I graduated from high school in the Depression years, when it was practically impossible to get any \vork. In 1933 I was offered a job as an employment service manager for a new U. S
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Truman Administration. At that time, I don't recall exactly the position that senator Johnson-F: I'll refresh you on that. November '48. He was a new Senator; he had been elected in Then, after '50 when Ernest McFarland was defeated, he was named
Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and the final denouement of the MLF? M: The meeting was in the summer, and the final killing of the MLF --actually, Of course they dragged it through the ANF thing for another year. But I think in November or so of '64, was the news leak you mentioned, so
Oral history transcript, June White, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • exchange . I'm sure that Lyndon Johnson must have been very exciting to Sam Rayburn . After all, he was younger, and he understood so instantly the legislative process, which was unusual for a new young man . G: Did it seem that Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • I dated. This was not the first Every time I meet somebody new in the Marine Corps they will come up and say, "Is that true? We heard that story." LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and it included a lot of his own senators now in this new class of men who were elected in 1958. So there were two tremendously interesting years, one with a majority of two in the Senate, and one with a much larger one. I see Horace Busby's reflection
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • when you enter a new administration, or did you think it was pretty much a continuation? M: No, I thought there would be a decided change. F: In what way? M: Well, I thought the two personalities were different. Their viewpoints were different
Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • " but I said, "I want to write news stories and features," and at first he wasn't going to consider it at all. I said, "I'd like to work through the summer for nothing if you'll just let me work here and learn it. I know this is what I want to do!" 5
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • look on this whole organization and authority as being in a dynamic state . You get reorganization plans and new authorities, you go ` along, and as the need is manifested, you are able to educate people to the importance of the changes
Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • into the suite . [He] walked directly to the television set, I think without greeting anyone, or certainly without any conversation, turned it on and focused on the set . It warmed up ; and then very briefly Senator Kennedy appeared, or a news commentator
Oral history transcript, Clifford P. Case, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • adoption of the House rules. Normally that's a routine matter but this time John Rankin had indicated that he was going to use that occasion to add, by a new rule, a special committee to investigate un-American activities, make it a permanent committee. I
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • so. He would look at those books and say, "There's not a damn thing in it. It's just a bunch of words. There's no new policy. reason for me to go. '1 There's nothing new. There's no new stateMent. There's no new So we tried to get the desk
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • friend instead of with their wife who doesn't know he ' s back in town yet. r never wi'll forget how shocked 01 d John was. Hhat did we learn in that year? One thing that I learned, that on the things that are completely new that an organization
Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that Kennedy left for Dallas? T: Yes. And my husband went with him. M: And you stayed here? T: I was here with some guests from New York and Washington. I told him that I would join him the next night in Austin. I was going up by private plane with some
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of civil service have been in that interregnum after the new administration had been voted in but before it had taken over. C: So, that's Wirtz. F: Now, have you got time to go into Simkin? C: Simkin ran what now? F: Federal Mediation Board. C: I
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • bring you the greetin gs of the Pres·; dent of the United States . He knows where I am. He knows I'm in the Securi ty Council in New York City. 11 But I don't know whether Mr. Johnson ever heard the story that I got the bigges t mileage out of, involving
Oral history transcript, R.J. (Bob) Long, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the door where he could get in, so he wouldn't have to touch the door. I don't know what his [trouble with Johnson was]. got in that. Of course, he Well, they were just anti-New Deal, first place, see. It wasn't Lyndon. Of course, it became personal
Oral history transcript, James A. Lovell, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . Paine. I think Dr. Paine was alrea dy there . M: That could very well be . L: I'm just tryin g to remember. M: That was late 1968? L: Yes, that was close to the new admi nistr ation . I'm not too sure. I'm not certa in on that. Because
Oral history transcript, Annette Ludeman, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • pretty much grown when they'd built the house, so it was just like a brand~new house; They could have bought tlie other halfofthe block and this house for $10,000. (Laughter) That was in 1922. G: Well, $10,000 was-­ L: My father didn't want the land
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Oral history transcript, Berl Bernhard, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't know--you see, I think he always perceived Moynihan as a Kennedy person, you see-- G: Did he tie him to Robert Kennedy? B: Yes; New York, Bob Kennedy, all that kind of stuff because--the President chewed my head out at another time when I
Oral history transcript, Alain C. Enthoven, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis. In 1965, upon your confirmation, the Defense Department established this new office of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis which you presently occupy. Is this background
Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • deal. Of course, the FBI was here, and they We examined various items and questioned where certain things happened and all that sort of thing. I'll get to Warren now. He had a very brilliant lawyer from New York that he was fond of, and he made him
Oral history transcript, O.B. Summy, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • is the next place on the route? S: The next from El Paso? We went up to Lordsburg, New Mexico. Went across over to Globe. G: Where’s Globe -- in New Mexico? S: Arizona. We crossed over the Hilo River and that was in Arizona. And it’s Sapira -that’s
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • did learn, indirectly, that our names had been mentioned earlier. That had totally escaped my mind when the call came from the President--I was in New York at this judges conference--that [Lloyd] Hand had left and would I take his place
Oral history transcript, Robert Taft, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was fairly new still, and as we're finding out, I think, in the Nixon Administration, the liaison between Congress and the White LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Carl Vinson, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1970, by Frank Deaver (Item)
  • a lieutenant Although he served for only five months, he was awarded the Silver Star Medal for distinguished service while serving in New Guinea. He left active duty only because President Roosevelt ordered all members of Congress serving in the Armed Forces