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Oral history transcript, William H. Darden, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or how much money to devote to it, but I think as far as the Senate Armed Services Committee was concerned, it was predominantly in favor of developing new manned bombers. G: It always seems to have been a question of the air force lobbying against

Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

any overtures toward you before this? E: I can't remember. Billy Lee was working for Ronnie Dugger on the Texas Observer, which was a very new, young little paper. Billy Lee was making such a small amount of money--he was doing really good work

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to the annual race track event that Jim Auchinshcloss used to give in New Jersey, took a bus trip from the train over. Mr. Rayburn said, "I want to sit with you on the bus trip. I want you to help get this thing through when it comes back from the Senate. It's

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a commission on silver and put Wright Patman and a bunch of the congressional people on that thing to help us make the transition from the silver coins into the new clad coins. I'll never forget the day I had to take that coin over to show it to Lyndon Johnson

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Jorden -- II -- 3 interviewing people, looking at documents, trying to find out as a reporter what the hell was going on here. G: Did you use the same techniques that you would have if you had been researching a story for the New York Times or--? J

Oral history transcript, Joseph D. Keenan, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh KEENAN -- I -- 8 ~1: How soon after Kennedy' s assassination did you meet with the new President Johnson? K: Almost immediately

Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

them, I'll take you out there and show you that there aren't"--well, anyway, he was livid with me. But Halberstam picked all this up and sat down there and made notes and then he wrote an article for the New York Times about-G: Did that have any

Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: There again that was a close vote. T: A very close vote. against it. I spoke for it. [Clinton] Anderson of New Mexico led the fight And Lyndon helped to defeat it. G: Do you know how that defeat came? Who the crucial senators were? T: No, I don't

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

interest for the community, to find out what went wrong. Then that was the period when there was some violence in Clinton, Tennessee, and some in New Orleans. I visited those cities. any political connotations at all. It did not have In those days

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

realized that he was being surrounded by men who shared the grief of the family. Then, much to our surprise, as we were getting ready to leave for Steve Smith to return to New York, he asked if it would be possible to go by the area where the President--we

Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and expenditures were made throughout New Mexico during his tenure on that particular committee. I think it's similar to Senator Kerr's capabilities within the committees which he headed up, wherein they established dams and lakes throughout Oklahoma

Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to what in some ways seem like quaint days, in 1964--sometimes we forget how far we've come and how fast--James Farmer announced when he started a new integration drive that Chapel Hill would be his first target, and that's while you were still Governor

Oral history transcript, Otis Arnold Singletary, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

by these youngsters in the way of improving and expanding park and recreational facilities in this country, clearing out new trails, and all this kind of stuff. And indeed there was, and is today, a very real need for more of that. At the same time

Oral history transcript, G. Preston Smith and Ellen Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Here's your picture in the College Star. S: I wrote articles of an editorial character and put them in the Star. I didn't go out and get news; I wasn't a newshound, don't you see? G: Yes. Now, in 1928 there was a drive to improve Evans Field. S: Yes

Oral history transcript, Otto Lindig, interview 1 (I), 3/1965, by Jessie Hunter (Item)

of the beauty spots of the county. About Lyndon Baines Johnson--on August 27, 1908, a proud g~andfather mounted his seat to carry his news to the neighbors that day a grandson was born to him. The grandfather, Samuel Ealy Johnson, Sr. predicted

Oral history transcript, Ernest W. McFarland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

slowed down because the New Nexico people wouldn't sell them the gas. They had to have a firm contract with the Federal Pm.;rer Commission. So anyway we had this bill up. Lyndon and I being on the Commerce Committee, the Interstate and Foreign

Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

was the assistant administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for management development. At our home in Arlington, Virginia, we had just finished remodeling our kitchen. McKee was sitting in our new breakfast nook. Mrs. At her right hand

Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, although his early record in the Congress would indicate that as a young congressman he was quite liberal and supported all of President Roosevelt's programs, all the New Deal legislation. But by the time he came back to the Senate, I would say that he

Oral history transcript, Nell Colgin Miller, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to go to Mexico and use my Spanish; [I've] forgotten it now. But we'd work in the journalism school together, B Hall, and I worked for the Austin American and also for the [Waco] News-Tribune later. I wrote a weekly column for the--"University Life

Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, "But I have promised my boss' wife some for a dinner party for tomorrow night. did. II And they said, "Well, we'll do the best we can." Well, they Bes s got her venison for her dinner party. But I left in the taxi a brand new evening dress that I had

Oral history transcript, C.W. Price, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, the election judge took the returns down to the Alice News. G: And that was Luis Salas? P: Yes. He took them there, and I was standing at the desk when he gave the returns, if I'm not mistaken, at that time [to] a fellow named Cliff DuBois, who worked

Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

for our This was some few months after Mr. Johnson became President. Well then, what contact did you have with the new President Johnson? Did he enlist your help, for example, for a legislative program? P: Oh, really not. I had not more than a total

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in order to get them elected to begin with. W: No. We didn't have any following at all hardly to begin with. had to develop as we went along. We As we brought in new members cautiously we were developing friendsnips with girls that we thought would

Oral history transcript, Archer Parr, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1984, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

from hunting up in Chama, New Mexico one time, out at the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation. George and I were talking about the 1948 election. He said, "You know, a lot of people have said this, that and the other thing, but you know I have never

Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, the news traveled very fast and was shocking to 1 LBJ 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

Oral history transcript, George A. Smathers, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of New Mexico, was there. Johnson began to feel better with the ministrations of Lady Bird. We played dominoes for quite some time, which is a game he loved to play, an old Texas courthouse game. I didn't know how to play it very well and neither did

Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to Congress on April 10, 1937, through the elimination of ten opponents . His campaign was based on strong support for President Roosevelt's New Deal program . iii : Did you work i n that campaign? B: Yes,sir, in a general way . the Of course he

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Calvert, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

was a form of fraud and di shonesty. Thi s is I got involved up to my neck in convention politics. when Some of us active in the party circles got control of the September convention of 1944,rernoved those electors, and appointed new electors. In those

Oral history transcript, J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. always will. And I cherish his memory; Then Congressman Lyndon Johnson came into the office, and the Speaker asked him to sit down and he joined in the conversation. It was my concern, being a new member just starting out, should become embroiled

Oral history transcript, Charles Timmes, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

didn't understand when they were talking to us, they were under the influence of this Confucian policy, so they wouldn't tell us bad news, because this was bad for us. This was a very primary difficulty, not having the language, being subjected or being

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 6 (VI), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, but that they wouldn't get anything out of us that they'd like any better, and they'd better just go with State and with Navy. The reason we did this was because we wanted to keep our powder dry in the event of a new kind of question in a different context where we might

Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in his room there. We talked about the senatorial campaign of 1941 and his experiences which he had just undergone attached to MacArthur's command in Gaudalcanal and New Guinea. I believe they were still on Guadalcanal at that time, or at least New Guinea

Oral history transcript, Elaine Fischesser and Ellen Taylor Cooper, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1967, by Douglass Cater (Item)

, just beautiful volumes. Lady Bi.rd's brother has some of the books~ I have seen them in his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. So they are a family that liked books, and read them. MR. CATER: How long had her mother died at that point when she was five? ·-1

Oral history transcript, Ewing Hass, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. There was an existing canal bringing the river water over there, so it was not an entirely new project with them. So Kuchel was opposed to the Udall decision at that point that imposed it after all these years, and he did hold hearings on it. Incidentally, Warren

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

issue? G: The Social Security amendment. H: The disability amendment. That was in the mid-fifties. G: Right. H: Johnson, you have to keep in mind in order to understand him, was a protege of Franklin Roosevelt. He always considered himself a New

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 6 (VI), 9/16/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on New Year's. Do you recall that at all? J: Yes. And I certainly recall Aunt Effie. They were very close. Mrs. Johnson used to go down to see her and she was very close to Aunt Effie. Aunt Effie left her I guess some of the Alabama property. She

Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 2 (II), 12/6/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

else's mind, but I can just tell you that he was for the Strauss nomination originally. There were very few people opposed to the Strauss nomination. But there was one very strong opponent to that nomination, and that was Clint Anderson from New Mexico

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 7 (VII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, or Illinois anyway. I think there was something like that involved. But once we thought we had Dirksen. Once we found for sure that we didn't have Dirksen, then it was a whole new ball game, 11 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 8 (VIII), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to New York and back. And he asked me what I thought. I said, "If you're going back to Alabama and you're going to live there, you don't need this trip." He went, and I give him good for it, but I still think I told him right. But he ruled otherwise

Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of photos, talking about their completions of the Soviet world and so forth. It was something very new for me. But somehow--I don't understand even now--it was perhaps a matter of traditions in the family or something else, I don't know. But I opposed