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Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , was [a] fairly new aircraft in our wing there at SAM [Special Air Mission]. They came out in 1961, late 1960 and 1961. And Cross had flown Johnson several times and Cross married a local Austin girl. In conversations, the Vice President at that time learned
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 2 (II), 2/28/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there, because I'm not sure my recollection is very good, but at any rate, she had lost six pounds and she was pleased with her progress. G: Did he adapt to this new diet reluctantly? V: I don't really recall. I remember Mrs. Johnson saying he was a man who
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 6 (VI), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that they started looking for a new home. And he was living at Wardman Park, is that right? V: Yes. It was called something else by then, I forget now what it was—Sheraton? I can't remember. But yes, I do recall they lived there awhile. G: Why did they move from
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Chicago, you had some of them. Of course you did, because you had Frankie Randolph as the new national committeewoman. Who was the committeeman? G: It was Byron Skelton, wasn't it? W: Was it Skelton? I thought it was. Johnson could always get along
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 3 (III), 1/17/89, 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, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , everybody'd get involved in the sense that he'd call around and he'd say, "Who do you think ought to be on the Supreme Court? Who do you think ought to be the new secretary of commerce?" M: Call around to his staff, you mean? C: My feeling was that you
Oral history transcript, William R. Desobry, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and the senior advisor came with him to escort him around the States. So they replaced him with somebody else, so I lost that job. So I went down to IV Corps later on. G: Were you given any special training, any special briefing for this new assignment? D
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 4 (IV), 3/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't remember the doves. G: How about George Ball? J: Yes, I hadn't thought of him. George Ball was pretty dovish. George Ball could have been influential, but he's so stilted and so New England-ish that he just didn't get his points across. He
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Sandy" Keith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 5 (V), 7/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the first one I encountered was New Zealand. couldn't believe thac all of that was necessary. Thev jusc 3ut thev didn't realize that when the Ame-::-ican President travels, he travels with dozens and dozens of press. The British might have three or four
Oral history transcript, Joseph Palmer II, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and means of being responsive to the challenge of development in Africa, and to have a good hard look at our aid programs, see whether they were responsive, to what extent they were responsive, and in what ways they could be improved--new approaches tried
Oral history transcript, Fred Korth, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • thought it would be a fine thing for me So then I called Gilpatric about noon, I suppose it was, and told him I'd take it. M: They were announced simultaneously, as I recall. were carried at the s~~e The news stories ti~e. K: They were. H
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 21 something has been approved that someone omits or overlooks to report to a new President. In the case of the NSA business, Mr. Johnson was forewarned that this was corning over
Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and LBJ and some of the New Dealers were supporting Roosevelt. forces? Do you recall that issue, the stop-Roosevelt LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org L: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • chiefs, because he didn't want the ones hanging on who had been sort of corrupt under the French and so forth. But the net result was that he put in a lot of new people that didn't know what the hell they were doing. They were out of touch. And he cut
Oral history transcript, Ella SoRelle Porter and Mike Porter, interview 1 (I), 11/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • have a top on ; t-G: A large touring car. P: --and the wind was just olawing. I remember at that time that we all had tne feeling that you wore a flat if you went anywhere, and I had on a new pink felt--wnat time of year waul d this have been? G
Oral history transcript, Clement J. Zablocki, interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • there was some split. Or at least those who were supporting Johnson had first preferences. In New York this was quite evident; in California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania. And I wonder if the his- torians will not sometime give due attention
Oral history transcript, L. Wade Lathram, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Lathram -- I -- 8 hell out of Saigon port, build their own new port further up the Saigon river. Which eventually was done, by the way, at great cost, but they built a beautiful port to do the job
  • the new name Civil Operations Revolutionary Development Support; the ability of the military to work well with civilian province chiefs; the Hamlet Evaluation System and its reliability; the lack of appropriate weapons and training for the Regional Forces
Oral history transcript, Thomas D. (Tom) Mills, interview 1 (I), 8/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that was not working that he wanted to work, and they'd had a big diesel engine on it, and he took a mechanic down and had that repaired, and all the pipe in the well had to be pulled and a new pump put in the well, and [inaudible] say we helped with that. He took down
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • by that it was something that could be put on the air. B: You broke the news to the President of Walter Jenkins' arrest, didn't you? R: I think I did, but I'm not altogether certain. 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Republican party as an isolationist party, because after all you had that whole New England group with men in it like Saltonstall and Warren Austin, George Aikin, who also agreed very strongly with the foreign policy that had developed over the years
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . He was pounding on the table and saying, "You men have got to realize that there is a new force sweeping this country." Whew! I could almost hear the knives being sharpened. He made one very bad mistake. This was in a closed hearing. I wasn't
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 7 (VII), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Clint Anderson of New Mexico. Do you have any kind of an account of what happened? G: Let's see. R: Well, it's irrelevant. That's easy enough to get. The important point was that while with those two amendments the important--all
Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with him when he was in the governor's office? He got in trouble over savings and loan in New Mexico. I can't think of his name to save my soul. Well I'll think about it in a minute. Well anyway, he was sitting out, and I said, "Do you want to have some fun
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to establish the policy of new senators getting one good · major co11111ittee assignment before passing out other assignments to the older senators. G: He himself moved from Conunerce to Finance. S: Again, that would have been to block, probably
Oral history transcript, Omar Burleson, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in perhaps the emphasis . But in the President's visits to Latin America, I think that he has taken some new approaches and those approaches have been largely an expansion on what the Kennedy program was . Nothing radically new, but with again a different
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 2 (II), 2/25/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • told him not to worry about it. We went down there and built that runway while he was still in the hospital. [Inaudible]. He was governor at the time. G: Where were you when you heard the news that LBJ was president? W: We were at home. G: You
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 3 (III), 3/3/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • here from 1947. It says here that Mrs. Johnson's Aunt Effie died on New Year's night of 1947 and she was very depressed about that. Do you recall anything of that? W: Well, that aunt raised Lady Bird from the time she was five or six years old. She
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 15 (XV), 8/30/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • could contribute more to the Judiciary Committee than Lehman could. Lehman was, with all due respect to New York, not 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was that was the opening of the door. But then we met [on] New Year's Eve in Birmingham, Alabama, at the old 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 5 (V), 3/14/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that are significant in how the new president handled the grief that came in the wake of Kennedy's assassination? C: I remember the assassination well, and the body lying in state in the rotunda. I think if I had to comment as you're asking here, the transition
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 6 (VI), 3/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of his heroes; education was one of his advocacies. I knew none of this. As the new kid on the block, I fixed up a statement. Without knowing it, I just happened to hit it pretty right. But I found not too long thereafter, and included in that statement
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that at all. I've heard it since he died, but if there was any such talk it certainly wasn't made in my presence. I don't know whether it was or not, I've never heard it except later. I heard that some people thought that there might be a new Vice Presidential
Oral history transcript, Paul H. Douglas and Emily Taft Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , was in sympathy with the South. They had gone early to California over the Overland and Santa Fe routes, and had left behind them I ittle enclaves of Democratic sentiment, pro-South, pro-slavery, and these continued in such states as New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada
Oral history transcript, Sim Gideon, interview 2 (II), 10/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • ; Texas Power & Light; transmission and distribution lines; cost of LCRA System; Pedernales Electric Cooperative; Bluebonnet Electric; pooling systems; Lake LBJ; Young "New Dealers"
Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and they were negotiating for new contracts. At least, I imagine that's it. I never went into the details of that because I wasn't called in on it, and consequently, l didnl·t become a, part of it. But we did have some word with reference to the fact
Oral history transcript, John McCully, interview 1 (I), 10/26/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • splurge of publicity on the release of an annual report on the activities and successes of the committee, increased percentage of employment of minorities in government, et cetera, the New York Times, Peter Braestrup, I think it was, who I saw
Oral history transcript, William McChesney Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the press down there. You'll see an account of this in the New York Times, on the front page actually. 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • working either. There was another problem--not a problem, but we had a handicap in the office; I guess it would be a problem. Slowly we lost to the military all of the young men that worked there, and we were constantly getting new employees
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 7 (VII), 9/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and the people were saying, "This is Lyndon Johnson's filling station," but it wasn't at all. (Laughter) Anything new that came up, it seemed like they would say belonged to him. So finally he had this big rally in Wooldridge Park. Do you know about this? G