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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, 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 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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

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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, William Lewis and Margaret Chase Smith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1975, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

been~ast in each area that he could have been defeated. F: Of course now New Hampshire just has reemphasized it. S: Yes, I should say so. People don't realize how one vote makes the difference, and I think that Lyndon Johnson's election [in 1948

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, 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, 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, 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, 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