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Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • for Congress, and he was elected. So I began to see him then on the floor of the House and had a chance to appraise in a small way, what he was doing. I can't say that at that time we were very intimate. There were reasons for that, You see, in the New Deal
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was being moved routinely, and Johnson was not resisting. The State Department then selected, to be his successor and to do sort of a new job as foreign affairs aide with some substantive overtones-selected Eugene McAuliffe. Gene was somewhat senior to me
  • news to LBJ; Carl Rowan and event scheduling on trips; LBJ’s moodiness; LBJ’s sensitivity about his health; LBJ buying art; LBJ’s dietary requirements; LBJ ability to speak to foreign leaders and crowds.
Oral history transcript, Donnelly Bolton, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , we never moved out of Camp Shelby, Mississippi. G: You were going to be in the invasion force, should there be one? D: Yes, one of the new outfits. Then, luckily enough, I came out of the war a captain, which was a little bit lower than I had
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 6 (VI), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was there and he was sitting with Allen Duckworth, back in the crowd. You know about Duckworth. G: Political writer for the [Dallas] Morning News. B: Yes. Big, big influence for a period in Texas. It partly was just Duckworth's presence. He walked into a room
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 4 (IV), 4/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to force a confrontation over not applying for a permit; selecting the name "Resurrection City" and why the original name, "City of Hope," was not used; negotiating the terms of the permit and a bond; Solidarity Day June 19, 1968; a demonstration by New
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • suppose, with the New Deal . Z: Oh, yes . G: Could you sense an admiration f'or President Roosevelt on his part Yes, yes . . then? Z: Yes . Yes, yes . Z: Yes, there wasn't any question about that . G: Can you recall anything in particular
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about Well , Sam, I don't need you anymore because we just elected a new congressman and we're going to hire his campaign manager." ers. He didn't know Lyndon and I were broth- And the girl friend I was with started dying laughing. Then he said
Oral history transcript, Claud Kellam, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • about the same salary, I guess, but he had a number of children)as I recall. G: I ~ay be wrong. Was he the sort of man who would have thought that the New Deal was good? K: Greene? I \'JOuld say so, yes. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 3 (III), 7/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (TAPE iP5) July 31, 1969 This is a continued session with Mr. Henry Fowler, former Secretary of the Treasury. The interview is in his office in Goodman Sachs and Com- pany in New York City, 55 Broad Street. The date
Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • great peeves of all peeves; everything was just haywire that afternoon, as you can well imagine it was. The Johnsons had a new Chrysler--an~vay, some new car that I was driving, and I always drove those new cars like I was handling glass an~Nay
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Sr., interview 1 (I), 1/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the legislature of Texas, owned my people in slavery time. I understand that he came from Attica, New York into Texas be- fore the Civil War. able to say. Where my people came from I don't know, I'm not But I do know that my grandfather Mr. Shoemaker
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 3 (III), 9/14/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Parallel in 1968. T: Well, I never felt in that period the bombing was doing any real good although it was better than no bombing at all. It was never really effective until the Nixon Administration, when our air force had their new bombs and much
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 6 (VI), 8/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • like maybe they t"ere just a half-mile or a mile aHay. I said, They said, '~'lell, ''Yes, I see those hills." they're just saturated ,"ith the enemy. They're just si tting there ,-latching uS right now." That wasn't really happy news, I thought
Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 1 (I), 7/3/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • do recall very vividly that he was a reporter for the Washington Daily News, the ScrippsHoward paper in Washington, at the time the billboard bonus law of 1958 was enacted and at the time it was amended in 1959. The Department of Commerce kept
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 4 (IV), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ? G: No. The reason for a series was because you were getting changes in conditions; and as you had external changes, your argument either became stronger or weaker. And so this was just a sort of way of updating the memo to meet whatever new
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • I was out on the campus on what's known as the "Rock Squad," in other words, I was helping to dig, or excavate, for a new cafeteria, so I didn't get too close to some of his duties, in that respect. PB: You were there on a baseball scholarship
Oral history transcript, Payne Rountree, interview 1 (I), undated, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • to El Paso and then what other places do you remember? R: Up through New Mexico, Deming, I believe it was. And then on out through Arizona. We crossed the Guadalupe River at Blythe. G: That’s the Guadalupe River? R: Yes. They ferried us across
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 6 (VI), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Committee. G: Do you think Johnson grasped the significance of the space program early on? R: I don't know whether he grasped it, but he knew it was a new vehicle and he wanted to grab it. G: Did he see it as a vehicle for political advantage? R: I
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • under James Eastland. S: Right. F: And I forget who you've got in the House, but undoubtedly-- S: Manny Geller from New York. F: You didn't have any problem as far as the committee in the-- S: In the House. F: What do you do to jack it out
Oral history transcript, Polk Shelton and Nell Shelton, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • just wasn't acquainted with After it was over, my wife and I and my daughter and mother decided we'd drive to New York to see the World's Fair and on the way up Judge Robinson had retired from the bench and was living in Washington. He was a good
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the Texas Election Bureau on Sunday morning declared Johnson the new United States senator from Texas. I think he was ahead by some five thousand some odd votes I believe. (Interruption) G: The 1941 [campaign]. S: Right. My job was to tabulate
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Singleton -- II -- 6 during the war. business. It was growing very rapidly and eagerly seeking new The Wood, Gresham part of the firm, McCorquodale
Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : That would have been some time, I imagine, in the late 1930's after you had moved to New York with American Air Lines. Did you have any close personal contact with him then, either social or political? S: I could not claim I've been an intimate, that would
Oral history transcript, Bart McDowell, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . were doing to him each day. He got what the press boys He'd get what they did yesterday every morning. And I guess it was about the time of this Rovaniemi incident and the New York Times man had made some reference to how this was not received well
Oral history transcript, Ralph Moreland, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . Well, he drove us three men around the Ranch and showed us the Ranch, which was most pleasant, a beautiful site. At one point there, he reacted to a question of Nash Phillips' as to how he thought the new Administration's economic policies were LBJ
Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • relations with the government, gave up my apartment and town house in New York City and brought everything back down to Washington. the University. Got down for Christmas, and in January I started back at And I felt so good but the last of January
Oral history transcript, James Cato Pattillo and Nettie Pattillo Woodyard, interview 1 (I), 6/27/1968, by A.K. Johnson (Item)
  • and get him, which. I did ..'" Footnote No.3 "Lady Rird' B, father, Tom Taylior" was; in, Idalmma, at: the time she was; born and when he got the news he said, 'Lady-bird, Lady-bir.d~ flyaway home, your house is; om fire and your children will Durn .. .l
Oral history transcript, Milton R. Young, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • talk to the President after that second trip? V: Yes, I did. of that time. I was there three times. You might want to look through some of my news releases I remember I dealt with the Vietnam War. meetings twice with President Johnson. I attended
Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to weld when they built these iron foot bridges. But I'd say he got a lot of people to work right quick. G: He seemed to identify, I suppose, with the New Deal. Z: Oh, yes. G: Could you sense an admiration for President Roosevelt on his part Yes
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Judd -- III -- 10 [inaudible]. What he said, "In October, 1977 [1917], we parted with the old world. We are moving toward a new world. A communist world. It's all there. We will never part. Never stray away from that path." Now after
Oral history transcript, George Pazianos, interview 1 (I), 8/30/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think of specific pieces of legislation, but a lot of the concepts were not brand new. They weren't fresh off the tree or anything like that. They had been around for some time. I think that the administration felt that it had the clout; it had
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 27 (XXVII), 12/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . And the differences are rather extreme. We had a new maritime commissioner, the name was Johnson, Nicholas Johnson, I think--and he thought, and he was quite right, that this thing was getting silly, that the ship owners were not really negotiating in the hard
Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or fifteen of those people who came to me and said, "I wish I'd had the guts to do that." And I said, "Well, it doesn't take guts. By gosh, it just takes honesty. You did what you did to kick them out and to have a new start and then you want to leave them
Oral history transcript, W. Evans Buchanan, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • new housing laws . Look at You've � 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/show/loh/oh
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • fully meant. If it was implemented and carried forward administratively, you had a complete change in history in a major sector of our country. It was not just the South that was affected by this, this affected just as much the city of New York
Oral history transcript, John Sherman Cooper, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , I recall very well that Senator Johnson talked to him a great deal and became a great admirer of Senator Taft. came that Senator Taft had died. I'll never forget when the news The Senate was in session and someone was presiding and Senator Johnson
Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • had a combination of all three of the liberal, moderate, conservative. Now you can't keep all these people, but itls a new ball game in Texas. This is something that's hard for people to realize. Most of Lyndon Johnson's supporters are too old
Oral history transcript, Winston Taylor, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • sell their catches. He'd sell them fish [inaudible] New York [inaudible]-- G: He owned a lot of land, I gather. T: Yes. Each time he'd get a little bit ahead, he'd buy more land. G: Is that right? T: Yes. G: And what--how would he cultivate