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Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • it up. I think also this was around Thanksgiving time, which gave it some special relevance in the press. Another category of letters for release would be the Vietnam mail. Some of these cases actually came to our attention through the news media. I
Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • election to Congress in 1937 in that special election, what was the significance of Texas to your father and to the New Deal at the time, politically? R: Well, of course, it was a very important state to have good contacts and good people with whom he
Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and here by the Federal Reserve ; the Treasury, of course ; Federal Reserve, by Al Hayes of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Mr . Combs handled the foreign exchange transactions for it . they met in Basel and other places in Europe . And It seemed
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Relations Committee] which Humphrey chaired from about 1958, I believe, on until he left the Senate. So she was involved in foreign policy to that degree. handled that subcommittee. She She is now living in New York and keeps running for office up
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the New Deal liberals. What was the significance of that? That was part of it, and part of it I think was a 10 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL
Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Mary Michelson Fish Johnson Haselton, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • else. G: What was his mood at that point? H: He was rather melancholy. We did our best. We'd try to keep his spirits up. Sam would come in every evening and talk to him about an hour after he came back from the office and give him all the news about
Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it. As I said, the country was divided by region and somebody was responsible for everybody in the East--New England, the eastern states, Middle West, up to Chicago. Illinois. Then I guess Irv Sprague took the western states from Missouri on, and all
Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Flynn -- I -- 2 force; the exodus of enlisted guys had finished; new guys were coming in, and we were starting to sort out other missions, useful missions. And then about the next event
Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , It was a navel thing in those days. Helicopters were quite new in 1948, and nobody had ever done that before. My own idea of it was that it was a stunt, but I don't know what anybody else thought about it, what Coke thought about it. G: You don't know
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 8 (VIII), 9/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • weeklies except the Austin paper. And Camp Swift is still there in some capacity. G: Can you recall any other times when you gave him important news like that? R: I don't know. That was just one of the very first times when I had started working for him
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about LBJ and the press during this He seems to have been more sensitive to what he regarded as negative news stories than he had been before. R: Was this the case? To him a negative news story was one which did not begin "Sincere, positive
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Reversing it slightly, but when you were secretary of the interior and he was a relatively new senator, did you all have much opportunity for a professional relationship at that time? c: Yes, we did because the Department of Interior is a conglomerate
Oral history transcript, Walter T. Kerwin, interview 1 (I), 9/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • forth. And it finally was resolved after a while. G: Okay. Let's talk a little bit about Tet; that always strikes chords. What was your personal vantage point to observe the kickoff of that and the ensuing days? K: That was New Year's, Tet. I can
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 5 (V), 3/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of his humor. He kidded Mrs. Johnson a good bit about a lot of the things she did, about what she wore although she dressed just beautifully. She had that lady up in New York that. . . . G: Mollie Parnis? J: Mollie Parnis. She designed things for her
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and which he held, as Hubert knew, adamantly. You didn't get the feeling that he was willing to rethink or negotiate. In negotiations of this sort one generally tries to find a new way to say something close to the disputed language that brings the parties
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Mulhollan PLACE: Mr. Bundy's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: I'm sure you have no reason to recall exactly what we covered in the last tape. B: None. You'll have to stop me. Just put your hand up if I've said it before. M: I'll do
Oral history transcript, John E. Horne, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : Rather than waiting until it was through. H: Rather than waiting and being encouraged and prodded, as I felt sure I would be, to resign under the incoming administration. Moreover, I had no desire to be associated with the new administration. M
Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • appeared in the Pentagon Papers that have been in the New York Times. (Laughter) So they pretty much outlined what we wanted to get from the Canadians: a willingness to have their representative on the ICC discuss with Hanoi and the officials in Hanoi
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to see--I don't know where he picked it up--that there were some new engineering concepts on the way, directional broadcasting; maybe it was already up, I don't know how old a thing it was. Of course, I was not on the team at that time, so I don't know
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Spot was a good spot into which to introduce new people into the Department of Defense. His concept of the General Counsel's office was as a sort of a utility infielder; that you could utilize somebody who had been legally trained in a variety of sort
Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • he started out. R: Oh no, no, nobody had ever heard of him. No. Here's a man whose county had only been attached to the district for two years. He was a New Dealer in the time when that wasn't necessarily popular. I don't know whether you have
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . ments approved, that sort of thing? R: No. I don't think so. Most of the trouble I found at that time was selling the public on what we were trying to do. It was new. They couldn't believe, you know, that you could do anything like that, or LBJ
Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • She had two older brothers, and one of them was living close by--Tom, Tommy, Thomas Jefferson Taylor, Jr.-the other one, Tony, was in New Mexico at the time. coin a phrase, the apple of his eye. But Bird was, to I remember his--do you want to ask
Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Germany have a national nuclear weapon. But I believe also the Navy was rather interested in the MLF because it would involve an expansion of the Navy and would provide a new type of naval nuclear weapons system in addition to the Polaris, because
Oral history transcript, J.C. Looney, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • into effect, of course, but they're going to divulge a new project, as I understand it within the next [year]. F: Is there still some pressure along this line? L: Yes, sir, there's a lot of pressure. of pressure for it. Of course, there's a lot
Oral history transcript, John P. (Gen.) McConnell, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that there was some time ago an article in I believe it was the New York Times which indicated that he asked for a lot more troops than he was given. He had plans as to how he would use those troops, in the event they were made available to him, but he said he
Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Thomas C. Mann, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Well, the map that we started working with showed the river--I think it was an aerial photograph as it then was, and the boundary as it then was--with Cordova and the Chamizal tract; and superimposed on that were possible new boundary lines which gave
Oral history transcript, Sidney "Sub" Pyland, interview 1 (I), 9/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Kercheville. As a matter of fact, since I've been here I delivered a new Cadillac to them over at the Cadillac house. That was a 1938 [?] model, delivered it to him right there next door to him. I drove in that night, and the next morning I went over when he
  • president; how A&O became the White Stars; why Pyland was never the captain of the football team; how new members were brought into the White Stars; making signs to support the football team; how Pyland met LBJ; LBJ's interest in sports; LBJ dating
Oral history transcript, Sam Fore, Oliver Bruck, Dan Quill, & William S. White, group interview 2 (II), 1/20/1965, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • remember it now. Q: We had a few spot announcements with Lyndon planned ahead on the radio. The Governor was listening and we couldn't convince him that that wasn't live news. I said, “No, Governor, that's paid for.” He said, “No, I believe that’s him.” I
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • President, had asked to run for the Senate. Burnett Maybank was in many, many ways ideologically similar to Lyndon Johnson. He was basically a New Deal Democrat and a man of the people. He was a Charlestonian, and he had great difficulty speaking
Oral history transcript, Edgar L. Ball, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , national figure, that we had that had stayed and really tried to help in 1952, and we considered him a loyalist. He had been a New Deal supporter, speaker of the House, had done a great many things. G: Now I guess we should go on to 1956. shaped up
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there was some connection between him and Governor Allred, because Allred ran on New Deal philosophy . Lyndon, having been � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • News said that LBJ and organized labor had made their peace and that organized labor was now going to support him. I wondered if you had any insights on that. W: No. I don't remember. G: What did organized labor in Texas feel about Shivers? W: I
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, III, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a Texan, I should add, in case that's necessary. [Laughter] But that far away, we were very much interested in the new mayor of Minneapolis, and, of course, it made him a national figure when he went to the Senate. Then you, of course, being young, moved
Oral history transcript, Emmett Shelton, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Shelton was going to kill them. -~ I -~ 8 So then he gave a news release and said that he was going down to the Ku Klux hall and find out who else belonged to it besides those he knew, on a Thursday night. nights off
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • knowledge and this can be fed to him under cover story of some sort, although it may be shallow. He knows he must respect this confidence, but it will at least cause him to start looking in a new direction and reorienting his thinking as to how he shall
Oral history transcript, John Holton, interview 1 (I), 6/19/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and a supporter of Roosevelt, interested in people. New Deal legislation that was going through and all that sort of thing, I suppose. But I don't see how in the name of God they could be opposed to him as far as their own industry is concerned, because he did
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the LendLease hearings with Elizabeth Rowe, and we listened to [James Bryant] Conant, the president of Harvard and to the bouncy little mayor of New York, [Fiorello] La Guardia. I remember [Wendell] Willkie passed me in the hall, one of the most vital, vivid men