Discover Our Collections


  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Tag > Digital item (remove)

1585 results

Oral history transcript, Javier Baz Manero, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and I got the news and went back to the plane and told him. We had all the 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
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • had the pleasure Lyndon Johnson and his entire NYA state staff in establishing this new organization, working out their procedures, their accounting system and the whole works. We became fast friends in a hurry, because of our close working
Oral history transcript, Ben H. Powell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Harold L. Ickes, Senator t~irtz offered Mary Rather the position of being his secretary and going to Washington as a new experience. And she obtained the approval of my father and John Rauhut to take· LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you. G: Where were you when you received news of Pearl Harbor, do you remember? R: My cousin Ben Powell was in the army reserve; he was a graduate of VMI [Virginia Military Institute]. He was living down here in Austin and practicing law
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and things of this nature. Do you recall anything about his work on the West Coast? R: Not much, because I was so new in the office for one thing. I had enough to learn about how to do his office work representing the Tenth District. His committee work, his
Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • protecting the hamlet, they treated the people well, had good relations with them, and that was the good news. The bad news was, though, that they said that security would be no problem if you didn't have these teams around, that by being there, the community
Oral history transcript, Eugene R. Black, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . This was a presidential committee, and it was headed by Mr. Perkins, the president of Cornell University, and we were supposed to advise the President from time to time on various aspects of foreign aid. M: This is a new committee? committee
Oral history transcript, Kathy Teague and Weeze Pollei Shumate, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • on the payroll. G: Just brand new then. I see. What had his background been? What was his professional experience? T: Whose? G: Mr. Teague's. T: He flew for Herman Heap here. G: Herman Heap? I see. T: And Continental Gas Pipeline in Houston, quite
  • (then) belonging to Emil Hartmann; the search for the plane; waiting for news of the wreck at the Teague home; events leading up to the plane's departure from Austin; Harold Teague's conversation with Homer Thornberry regarding the flight; the layout of the plane's
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was in in high school, and, of course, the Longhorn Band in those days traveled by train to most of the football games we attended, but a cross-country trip, spending a couple of nights on the train--that's what it took then--was something new. I 3 LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 2 (II), 8/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , at quite an early age, like eighteen--how old would I have been then? Ten. He was sick, and he got what was diagnosed as TB [tuberculosis]. They decided the best thing for him to do was to go to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and he liked that idea. He had been out
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ?" This went on for some time, and they finally told me that they'd had my orders changed and rewritten and that I was going to be in charge of a training group on Martha's Vineyard. They were opening a new training school at Martha's Vineyard, and they were
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • why he would say such a thing, that 1 hadn't said that he got kicked in the head by a horse, it was Clare Booth Luce. didn't call him crazy, it was Clare Booth Luce." part in that news release, you see. to approve it. I I had to put that I didn't
Oral history transcript, Horace E. Richards, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was in such a bind him- self--he was the new superintendent--he said, "Just go in there and take charge." Those kids were about to tear the building down. I went in there and stayed seven years. (Laughter) G: Was it common for jobs to get passed along like
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • time to all the Vietnamese, North and South. It is a sort of a combination of Christmas, New Year, and Easter. I've been told by Vietnamese or Southeast Asian experts that this period of family reunification or celebration hadn't been violated
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • In the first place, the Air Force people In the second place, the statistics will show you that you have a high rate of accidents in any new airplane in the early life, rather dreadfully high in any research and development airplane. If you compare
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, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 2 (II), 9/15/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and there were s orne northerners comfng down that Di em was putti ng in essentially as self-contained units of northerners into new villages· that they would start. Tiley were just dotted in with the mountain peopl e. out they were permanent settl ers where
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • kind of a guy have we got to work with here? They knew McChristian, they knew his good points and his bad points, but here's a new fellow. And I didn't know any of them. Joe and I would have very informal conferences. We lived together in a house
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, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • every accommodation that you could get at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. You could have a radio, you could have lights, you could have refrigeration, and you could have everything that they had in the Waldorf-Astoria with a good highway, a good
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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • any projects out of the air that we will saddle the next Administration with unfairly." Wilbur could smile and could smile and say "Yes, Hr. President," and go back to the Department and issue five more press releases on new projects-and I think
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, 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, 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, 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, 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