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Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ? W: Oh, yes, he'll talk you out of your eyeteeth on that first tee. I think this was the first game we'd played, out at the Army and Navy [Country Club]. I don't know who was in town, I think it was Felix McKnight of the Dallas News, and maybe
Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • owed to Hennan Welker would cease to exist when Herman Welker left the Senate. So it was .a whole new situation, a whole new ball game, one might say. Because it was between two men, Herman Welker and Wayne Morse; one of them had befriended me
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and listen to it for two hours, and I don't know what the hell the issues are ; paying attention ; And I've been You can't sell me anything that way, and what I learn, I've got to learn from you ." So they really went to work and they brought some new
Oral history transcript, Charles Fitz Baird, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • a very short but very pleasant trip to Newport News while Hrs. Baird launched a submarine on a specific kind of occasion. Fact finding because __lhenever in my capacity I go anYHhere for whatever purpose, I learn a goo'd deal by talking to the LBJ
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 2 (II), 9/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • off last time with Johnson coming into the White House and those early days, I don't suppose it made any great difference in your life in the Senate except that you did have a new President. And things were a bit torn up at that time. T: Well, when I
Oral history transcript, Roy Elson, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Arizona, and went through the public schools out there, though I was born in Pennsylvania originally, the last of nine. [We] moved out to Arizona because of my mother's health; she had tuberculosis. In those days you either went west to Arizona or New
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ]--but who ever raised the price on New Year's Eve that year sent the President through the overhead, ruined my weekend. G: Is that right? C: Well, he was at the Ranch. We'll get to that. He was at the Ranch; he read it on the ticker and we went to war
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 33 (XXXIII), 6/13/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Justice] got very badly reviewed in the [New York] Times. Have you looked at it? G: (indicates no) C: [I was] surprised. Maybe someone will send me a copy of that book. G: Okay. Was there a key guy in Fortas' office that would be helpful? A clerk
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 3/8/1969, by Jack Valenti and Robert L. Hardesty (Item)
  • of the hanJ dutie• that were beiJls pre•eed down upon u• who were around the new Pre•ident. JOHNSON: What we wanted to do for the country i• what we did. It wa• that lim.ple. I r-lly wanted LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 4 (IV), 8/25/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it was an anti - Kefa uver as much as he just t hought 1 Kefauver was too much middle-ground , midd le-part of t he country, and he r eall y t hought that Jack Ke nnedy had more possibiliti es, that he wa s youn g and a new fac e . Therefore he just pushed him
Oral history transcript, Abe Fortas, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ? F: I was in Washington. J: How'd you get the news? F: Just as a member of the public. I forget precisely. J: You were likely at lunch. I think half the nation was. Did now-President Johnson get in touch with you very soon after that, as you
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with the White House, you r;iean? F: This was discussion with the White House--this was a discussion with President Kennedy. We had a discussion about it first in New York from early in December of 1960. And it was considered for quite some time. On the one
Oral history transcript, Solis Horwitz, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • for a year and was here every Friday. But full-time I'm very new, beginning around the middle of April. M: When did your first contact with Mr. Johnson take place, back when you worked for the Senate Armed Services Committee in the late 1940s? H
Oral history transcript, Michael E. DeBakey, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • separated itself from the University, and therefore from its Baptist affiliation, and became an independent corporation and [got] a new Board of Trustees. M: That's right. Well, now, working here in Houston with all of your multi-faceted medical duties
  • Biographical information; time in New Orleans at Tulane University; studying in Europe; member of the Department of Surgery at Tulane; military service in 1942-1944 with the Surgeon General; post-war medical research program with the Veterans
Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the country. And then on the closing day of the campaign, on Monday night before the election on Tuesday, he asked me to join him and two of his sisters in New Hampshire and Massachusetts for his closing speech in which we were glad to take part. And then I
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 5 (V), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 24617781] G: I know that FDR did that. R: I don't either. G: Was FDR criticized for that move? R: A little bit by the New Dealers. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh I'm not sure it was tied to-- No, I
Oral history transcript, Oscar M. Laurel, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Fathers in New Orleans. '40-'41. And I attended one year, that was I came back during the summer of '41 and decided to volunteer in the Air Force in September of 1941. This was a time when the war clouds were gathering and boiling all LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for him. So we worked together in the fall of 1966. That was a very useful period for me because it gave me an opportunity in a more relaxed atmosphere than you have here in Washington to get acquainted with my new boss. We talked about a number
  • Biographical information; Senator Richard Russell; LBJ’s decreased popularity and its sources; civil rights; LBJ’s relationship with Russell; activating battleship New Jersey; Russell’s criticism of LBJ’s Administration; editorial cartoon; growth
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the news He was very friendly and very fine. Then I shanlt forget he told me to go over and have a press conference, which just terrified me. am I going to say?1I I thought, "What in the world Frankly it was at that press conference that I began to get
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • out and seeing what was actually happening in the countryside. And my report recommended a very radical overhaul of AID, with the creation of a new rural affairs division, but at the level of assistant to the director so that it took its authority
Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • friend of the President or are the rules too well set out? Q: Oh, no, nothing at all except the satisfaction of knowing a great guy. I've never asked, not ·when he was a Congressman or a Senator, him to do anything for this office. and want a new desk
Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . There would be no reason for that . Clearly, I didn't work in New York . Clearly, I didn't work in the South, because in those days the southerners considered me even more of a traitor than they do today, a traitor to my class or my race--I'm not clear
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 3 (III), 3/9/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • general commitment to Viet Nam at that point? V: It centered primarily around the bombing program in North Viet Nam; and secondarily on the question of how important it was to press for a political solution through new initiatives. M: Did the extent
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh ...... PICKLE -- III -- 2 stalled for an hour or two while we scrambled around to get new typewrite rs and chairs. That was the kind of attitude that was . preva 1ent. But it did go on to the courts. Whatever they say about Mr
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to this day. It continued in These are largely cosmetic changes, and OCB was abolished. I was unhappy over the fact that here I not only had won my spurs with the New Frontier, hut that I was clearly not only known to, but favorably regarded by President
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • Presidential Library http://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 Johnson -- XLII -- 11 new thing, a carpet, a sofa
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was older by a good bit than I was. But the Governor--we met in 1946 and he talked to me a lot about the Rainey campaign, and I was very flattered. So in 1947 I was at that point working at the State Capitol in the International News Service Bureau
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the infiltration thing. And I have no doubt that in the subsequent programs a new phase will pop up, or in his book a new phase will pop up. He spins off of this central core of the guerrilla strength and whether these odds and sods, as the British would call
Oral history transcript, John Michael Dunn, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • magnificent it would be to have new and strong leaders and that sort of business. tion about that. There was a group of cheerleaders, there's no quesThese weren't people who were simply contacts with another political faction; they were advocates
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, 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, 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, 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, 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, James W. Smith, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • expressed in that meeting was whether or not the people of Texas any longer had any confidence in the New Deal politicians and the people that had inherited the Roosevelt tradition in Texas. I remem- ber telling Byron in a speech to his first meeting
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, 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