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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, 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
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, 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, 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, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • days? J: Yes, we talked politics. F: This was when the New Deal is hot, and Jimmy Allred is-- J: Yes, and we had a lot of mutual friends. The next recollection I have was going down to my store which I had at the campus. was a campus shop
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, 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, 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, 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, Carl D. Perkins and Donald Baker, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • mistakes in several states, as I recall. Maybe some mistakes were made in New Jersey. [There were] a lot of complaints here and there throughout the country and from the city people [about] the administration. They were claim- ing that they were being
Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • statement and return it to the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. B. If you wish to restrict the use of your transcript for a period of time, a new statement will be prepared (either by you or by us) deleting paragraph 2 and substituting the following
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 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
Oral history transcript, Morris Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • there was something new coming up. The only thing I did was when Porter ran against him, I told Porter I would vote for him, and that was it. G: Did you have contact with Lyndon Johnson in subsequent years after that? R: Well, no particular contact. He was down
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Agreement pertai ni n9 to the Oral Hi story Intervi evlS of Nash Castro In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 21 of Title 44, United States Code, and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Nash Castro of Palisades, New York, do
Oral history transcript, Irwin Wolkstein, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in part the result of a payment in some circumstances in Blue Shield. It was just kind of if you paid a small amount and you allowed the physician to charge whatever he liked, you just added that to whatever he previously charged--new payments out
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview S-XIII, 1/23/1987, by Nancy Smith (Item)
  • that I didn't under­ stand before. Lots of interesting womendid it, diplomats' wives, Senators• wives, and you just found yourself with a coterie of compan­ ions and learning a new skill. None of it really took away the unease and the scariness
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . I started out, I guess you'd have to say, in something called the Chieu Hoi program, which had to do with getting defectors over on the government side. I did a study on that as my first move in this new role that I was playing, and then from
Oral history transcript, Guy S. Meloy III, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • parallel to the British regimental system of picking their new officers. M: Perhaps. 16 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 1 (I), 9/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to be doing it fast. Everybody was upset, of interest that is, including Mary Lasker. And she called, "How much do you need?" "I don't know, but give me twenty thousand to start with." She sent it down on the next plane. She had one of her people in New York
Oral history transcript, J. Waddy Bullion, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was always as a tax adviser or attorney to the Johnsons. M: Then when President Kennedy was killed here in Dallas, apparently the new President, Lyndon Johnson, contacted you immediately. Is that correct? B: He endeavored to. I was in Shreveport
Oral history transcript, Alfred T. "Boody" Johnson, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to get rebuttal on something. G: Now in the spring of 1928 LBJ was working with a group of students to improve Evans Field, to expand it and put a new fence around it. J: No, I don't know anything about that. G: I wonder how he got involved
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • effective campaigning was hitting a small town and going up one side of the street, into every building and office and store, then doubling back to the other side. G: Why is it that he won, Mr. Kellam? and he was campaigning New Deal
Oral history transcript, Dan H. Fenn, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/18/1972, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • STR, I think. F: Right. M: Yes. F: That's right. When he was deputy. technical side, And so we did a great deal of work for them on the ~nd were deeply involved in the whole effort to develop a new national dumping code and worked very
Oral history transcript, Llewellyn B. Griffith, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/15/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was glad to help him. A few days after he had been fixed up, so to speak, his son. Lyndon Johnson, came to see me and asked me to have a talk with him about this new agency that he was going to be the head of, the NYA. It seems that the NYA was in some
Oral history transcript, Jessie (Mrs.) Hatcher, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • there, why Tom brought him some new clothes and fixed him all up and put him in his office. Of course, Tom was doing a magnificent business with all those actresses staying right there in Hollywood. And so, there's where Lyndon said, that, well, I'll just
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that the right kind of gaso- line was in the town. This was all very new and the whole thing had to be improvised. And then, of course, we certainly didn't want Mr. Johnson to arrive at the destination in his helicopter without anyone being there. We had