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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, John G. Tower, interview 3 (III), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

transcript for a period of time beyond the date of the opening of the Johnson Library, a new statement will be prepared (either by you or by us) deleting paragraph 2 and substituting the following, with one of the alternatives: add: It is the donor's wish

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, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

season matter? C: I think that made us want to deal with it and the fact that it really did hurt, if you will, thinking, writing America. It was a bigger thing to the readers of the New York Times and the newspapers than it was to the average guy

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Everett Dirksen rang Ambassador Patterson, now on the Federal Maritime Commission, taking a new assignment on Subversive Activities Control Board--members of this board require a Senate confirmation." (Long pause) This is now the meeting of August 8

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 60 (LX), 1/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

this. Yes, see, here's Staggers on the day after the President sends it up on May 5. Staggers reported in the [New York] Times of May 6, page 36. "Representative Staggers declined to give his views on the President's bill but said, yes, that he thought

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

While I was on the honeymoon in New Orleans--we'd planned to have two weeks--he called me again and said, it short? 11 I did cut it short. 11 ! need you badly, can't you cut So we concluded our honeymoon and headed for Washington. F: It wasn't

Oral history transcript, Ava Johnson Cox, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and economic and social orientation. But he had not through all those years communicated that to the liberals or to the people like me at all; that was a new awakening. B: Back in the 'SO's, the late 'SO's, you were close to Rubert Humphrey who was also

Oral history transcript, Eugene B. Germany, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and, of course, this would include Mr. Johnson-particularly him with a reputation as a New Deal liberal? G: They didn't take any serious position against Mr. Johnson because Mr. Johnson understood that the 27 1/2 per cent depletion allowable was given to the oil

Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

: It did? 0: Yes . It. would come over a town, and a lot of people would come out to see it . And it really was very effective . But Coke Stevenson was just like the Coca-Cola . state-known product . Everybody knew who he was . News had built up his

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, Warren G. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh WOODWARD - I - 13 the Harte-Hanks group there at the Abilene Reporter-News, and so forth. We got to Lubbock and I remember one of my first lessons in being sure to keep a lot of dimes ready for the phone, because I didn't have

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

President, and I said, "Mr. Vice President, I have some bad news. forecast. is. If The weather has just settled in on us. It was supposed to have been good all night, and here it you look out the window it's just awful." can see it. It wasn't What's

Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 3 (III), 11/8/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

humor. I recall the day Lester Maddox was inaugurated governor here in Georgia, he called me at home in Atlanta and said, "I was just calling to congratulate you on your new governor. I've been looking at the TV. I was surprised"--or something like

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 11 (XI), 4/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with a bayonet, I believe. There al so were a whole series of investigations of military indoctri nation centers and how their programs worked, what their facilities were like, and just the processing of these new recruits. They were Fort Jackson, South

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, Orville Freeman, interview 4 (IV), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the amount of money we could get. This is no news to me. We've been fighting this battle for a long, long time, and the people that have been fighting it and the people that are managing the program, and I think doing it well, are discredited in a significant

Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

four feet? G: Did you read the coverage it was getting in the New York Times? A: I read a fair amount of it; I didn't read it all. G: What did you think of the way the major papers covered the trial? A: It improved with age, and I think it's

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

Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

margin, though, wasn't it? CH: Very, very narrow margin. As a matter of fact, as I remember, the election was on a Saturday, and the Sunday Dallas News came out with big headlines that Lyndon Johnson had been elected to the Senate. That was before

Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that he did. G: Did you ever get to meet him or visit with him? L: I don't remember him. G: How about his mother? L: I I

Oral history transcript, Kittie Clyde Leonard, interview 1 (I), 7/27/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

, that were more advanced than ours, so we learned things from them. we thought. It was quite interesting if we could learn something that they were doing. back to something like that in education right now. And dctually we're going It isn't new

Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

proving that it would require more steel to reinforce a concrete pipeline than it would take to build an all steel pipeline. We had a very good MIT engineer, out of the organization of Standard Oil of New Jersey, who very effectively made that point

Oral history transcript, Clarence S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

know, and mixed it all up, and then the sheriff didn't show up. So they had to reallocate the resources again. I don't remember whether this was true or not for sure. It could have happened; Lyndon was somebody who was always trying to figure out a new

Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

cadre that I had been working with in the hamlet political attitudinal surveys. And they agreed. So I brought them up, put them on the agency's payroll, and they helped me write lesson plans for the instruction of the new RD cadre. Of course, we weren't

Oral history transcript, John M. Cabot, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the date of the opening of the Johnson Library, a new statement will be prepared (either by you or by us) deleting paragraph 2 and substituting the following, with one of the alternatives: It is the donor's wish to make the material donated to the United

Oral history transcript, R. Conrad Cooper, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

made his announcement and the grp.at steel strike, he said, as far as he was concerned, was history. Being of the bubbling-over kind of a person he was or is, he led us back through the Rose Garden with the whole gamut of newspaper photographers, news

Oral history transcript, Carl T. Curtis, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that I can recall was [Leverett] Saltonstall of Massachusetts, a very scholarly and distinguished and reserved New England gentleman. He made some changes in his family plans and came back and privately expressed his disgust at what had been done. G: I

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was in this position. I was an assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, but Kennedy had announced his intention to send my name forward as the new Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. He had not sent my name forward because it was agreed

Oral history transcript, Levette J. (Joe) Berry, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

home brew and you could get bootleg whiskey, but if you wanted it you had to go to New Braunfels to get it . G: Where the Germans were . B: Where the Germans were . whiskey was not bad . They made some very good home brew, and their I would hate