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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, 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, 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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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 34 (XXXIV), 2/23/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about little bitty new quails falling into those cracks. Lyndon was introducing, along with other senators, a request for emergency aid to the cattlemen. [Dwight] Eisenhower had already declared the area a drought disaster area. G: LBJ worked
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 2 (II), 3-21-84//19, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [Estes] Kefauver visited New York State recently, not a single member of the Democratic hierarchy showed up to greet him, including Averell Harriman. An aide to Kefauver said that Harriman wants the Democrats licked so he can jeer, 'See what happens when
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • did want me to arrive as soon as Lodge left, which was quite unusual for a new ambassador to arrive the day his predecessor left. Lodge left in the morning and I arrived in the afternoon. Usually there's a gap of some weeks or even months
Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and going, and I got a message then telling me to proceed immediately to Vietnam. In the end of the thing, they put "God bless you" on it. I said, "Geez, They knew. that's bad news, whatever it is." G: Who sent the cable, do you remember? L: I don't
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that I did in Of course, it does develop problems, but I've yet to find any govern- ment that doesn't present problems. M: The problems are just different is all. There was some thought apparently when this new D.C. government was set up
  • ; initiative for ordinances or legislation in D.C. government; Cloud 9 concept; new D.C. government; urban problems; D.C.'s preparation for marches; April riots after MLK assassination; Brookings study; prevention of riots; gun legislation; Resurrection City
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it the New Clark--the only thing new about it was the door. Anyway, we were standing out on the sidewalk in front of this hotel with our wives--neither of us had the tickets to get our wives into the gallery--discussing it; LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : Durbrow, yes. L: Yes. G: Did you know about that? L: Well, yes, we had a fair amount of that kind of difficulty. something new. Here was Here was something new, ambassadors having as a part of their activities a military organization and so forth
Oral history transcript, Eugene McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and maybe not in the news. high at that time, 1952. Because Joe was riding pretty LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Here I was the new one from the outside, but I knew my state, I think. G: What was he like, Bobby Baker? P: Oh, a very sharp guy, very, very sharp guy. he was tough to work with. was very headstrong. I liked him. You know He was a great deal like
Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Pike I -~ 7 up in New York City you are probably going to be a somewhat different kind of a person than if you
Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 2 (II), 7/25/1985, by Charles B. MacDonald (Item)
  • and the terrain, and Palmer was new to the scene. As an example, one of ffly more successful tactical moves was when I foresaw that the -:!nemy would try to take over the two northernmos t prov inces. As I saw thdt coming, we began on a priority basis to build
Oral history transcript, Will Wilson, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and if Kennedy won and he had turned it down, he wasn't in any position to work-F: To work with the new President. W: --with the new President. F: Then he would be spurned. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 8 (VIII), 4/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Department of Interior. Stewart Udall was the secretary of the interior. They waited until the day before Johnson left office and announced--and I think I'm right in this--without ever checking with the President that the name of the new stadium would
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 6 (VI), 8/18/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1972 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE E. LEVINSON INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Mr. Levinson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 F: Tell us about the grand life on the presidential yacht, the Sequoia. L: Right. I was going to give you a summary
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the war for a year, and read the Dallas News, which was in those days a rather jingoistic newspaper, which announced with regularity that Texans were bombing Berlin and invading Italy and so on. Anyway, we came down here never supposing that the first
Oral history transcript, Lonnelle Aikman, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in a sort of formal way we all went out into the State Dining Room and then there were news people there and they circulated and they interviewed other members of presidential families. That's why this got such wide coverage. We got around a thousand
Oral history transcript, David S. Black, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • law with the law firm of Preston, Thorgrimson and Horwitz for about two and a half years at which time I was appointed an Assistant Attorney General with John J. O'Connell, who was the new Attorney � � � LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Earl Warren, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and Boggs on the Democratic side and Ford and Cooper on the other side--and John McCloy from New York and Allen Dulles would be willing to serve on that commission if I was to head it up. And he said, "I think this thing is of such great importance
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 40 (XL), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • start to look at these papers, and now I look--you look at these papers, for sure going up there in 1966 with a State of the Union Message that I can tell you, I remember that night, [it] just blew their minds. A dozen or so brand-new programs. Nobody
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 5 (V), 3/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the campaign I to1d you that I had been to Washi.ngton, that I was familiar with Washington, I knew where the offices were, and I knew who was in charge, and I had had some experienc e, and you wouldn't have to break in a new man; that I could go
Oral history transcript, Josh H. Groce, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or another. So my recollection was that they just said that he was so unpredictable that they didn't want him. G: Was part of it to get someone who was not sympathetic with the New Deal or Roosevelt for fear that they would naturally lean toward LBJ since
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 7 (VII), 1/18/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but Buzz was quite 1ate. They finally got a wire from him saying, 11 Snowbound. 11 The wire was sent from somewhere in Mississippi, where I don't think they'd had snow in a hundred years. G: (Laughter) Did Busby replace someone or was this a new position
  • Reminiscences of 1945 touching on the hiring of new staff, the Marshall Plan, 70-group air force; detailing LBJ’s decision to run for the Senate
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 12 (XII), 8/19/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to a movie, but sometimes I would go with women. There was a lot of intellectual fodder for us in those days. G: You mentioned reading books. Did you read many magazines in this period? J: There were weekly news magazines and sometimes to put myself
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 14 (XIV), 9/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XIV -- 9 conservative Jesse Jones and a young New Deal congressman on the other hand running for the Senate? J: No, I can't say that I do
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 3 (III), 12/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . In 1958 you had a big Democratic majority elected in the Senate. How did that change the politics within the Senate? C: In 1958 there would have been a tremendous influx--I remember 1958. There would have been a tremendous influx of new Democrats
Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . And, by then--of course, as soon as Kennedy was elected, I more or less became the liaison man between some contrite religious leaders and the new Catholic President of the United States! And I did assist in setting up some interviews for some leaders, some religious
Oral history transcript, Jay Cutler, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1990 by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cutler -- II -- 8 watching them happen. It's hard to believe--the little boy who grew up in Brooklyn, New York, who didn't know there were supposed to be such issues. G: Now the bill
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to be intuitive judgment. He didn't seem to arrive at his conclusions from data garnered from recent issues of the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times. But somehow he knew; he seemed to have read widely and picked up much by ear. And it was often fun being
Oral history transcript, Roger W. Jones, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • school at Montrose, junior high school at Sidney Lanier, senior high school at San Jacinto Senior High School in Houston. From there I went to the New Mexico Military Institute; I went there, I believe, in 1935. University of Texas. In 1938 I transferred
Oral history transcript, John T. Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • school at Montrose, junior high school at Sidney Lanier, senior high school at San Jacinto Senior High School in Houston. From there I went to the New Mexico Military Institute; I went there, I believe, in 1935. University of Texas. In 1938 I transferred
Oral history transcript, Mylton Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the next morning. Now, this is getting late stories done, to avoid boilerplate material going into the paper that would have no real interest; it was getting all the news done possible. Occasionally some of the other fellows, such as Wilton Woods, Horace
Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of them--I'm sure I told Mr. [F. Edward] Hébert, "Oh, your New Orleans boys, I know them. met quite a number of them." And that Paris reminded a lot of the boys of New Orleans; we often talked about that. gentlemen was Mr. Mike Bradley. real sweet, funny
Oral history transcript, Ed Gossett, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh GOSSETT -- I -- 8 sure, he was particularly interested in at that time. Being a new freshman member, I had to take what was available, and I
Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • been a camera- Who was your employer in 1966?" or whenever it was. you present in New York City or thereabouts? to see done by you?" "And were Is the film we're about This was a lot of the substance of the trial. It astounded me that I, who
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • sobered up from that FDR binge." L: (Laughter) That's the way he wrote to him. B: So apparently LBJ was perceived as much more conservative than he had been when he was a staunch New Dealer in the late 1930s and early 1940s. L: Yes, he had to do