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Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the street from Edgar Hoover, or almost across the street. So we went over there quite often, and they came around to our place some. Then when I moved, about '45, late '45, I moved down to 2101 Connecticut, I would 11 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 2 (II), 7/9/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was that he had that goddamned sewer J. Edgar Hoover flowing across his desk all through those five years. Like many extremely skillful politicians, he had a weakness for under-the-rug information. [German Chancellor Konrad] Adenauer was another great

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins and Alice Hopkins, interview 4 (IV), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 3 (III), 4/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

this idea of program budget come from? Did you bring this with you? F: Well, no, the whole concept of program budgeting goes back many years. the Hoover Commission started it back in the late '40s. agencies picked it up. Actually A number of the federal

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Estelle Harbin, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in there and sat on the steps. Mr. Hoover was the president; Mr. Garner was the speaker of the House, and there were some descendants there of George and Mary Washington. This was the twenty-second of February, honoring Washington's birthday. We just sat

Oral history transcript, George Hartzog, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/20/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

themselves. I forget how many transi- tions in administrations he has seen, but it dated back several administrations. F: He goes back at least to Hoover. S: I believe that's correct. F: About '28 or '29. S: He said, "This is the way we can do

Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

expensive as hell. for each of us. God knows what they cost Bird, but he had one He was a gadgeteer; he just loved gadgets. Like the windows that he had Hoover put in the White House so that he could lie in his bed and push a button and the windows would

Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://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 Whiteside W: 24 I No, but at the time it was depression time and Hoover's era

Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Antonio Carrillo-Flores, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

position we were in on the Faubus-Kennedy thing. As a Texan, with Johnny Lyle pushing him- F: Who's Johnny Lyle? C: Johnny Lyle was the congressman from Corpus Christi, and he's a nice guy. But somewhere back in the desperate talking of the Hoover

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Omar Burleson, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and getting ready for this very formal dinner and they had made the arrest . Mr . J . Edgar Hoover called the President ; they had a talk ; the President then called Governor Sanders of Georgia and reported to him. called Senator Russell . He also

Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

started with Wilson, maybe started with Roosevelt, or with Hoover, we won't try to pin that down. But I'd be very interested in your idea of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

suppose this is subjective rather than factual--that J. Edgar Hoover did poison the well there? A: Yes, absolutely, there's no question about it. And it was sinful that he did. F: On purpose? A: I don't know. For whatever reason, he

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

state in America As long as Senator McCarren was alive, and he controlled J. Edgar Hoover, they didn't have any problem. But once McCarren died, they had a big problem about trying to close down their biggest industry, which was tourism

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with each other, backbiting and so forth, and he went down chronologically from Wilson to Coolidge to Harding to Hoover to Roosevelt to Truman; I don't guess Truman had a vice president, but he had problems with Henry Wallace in the cabinet, whom he finally

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

along ever since Hoover or somebody set it up--or divided it 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

Oral history transcript, Roger Blough, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of Lyndon Johnson is that, of all Presidents that I've known since Hoover, he understood the business problems better than anyone of the other Presidents. And I'm including President Roosevelt, President Truman, President Eisenhower, and President Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

force report was a thoughtful way; they just said there ought to be a department of transportation. The Hoover Commission had recommended it. Eisenhower in one message recommended it, as I recall. I then had a meeting with Charlie Schultze, and Secretary

Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

must have been doing a lot of thinking about the situation because he said, "You know, I feel very sorry for President Hoover when I think that he, as President, had to face these tides of government and the pressures of history when he just couldn't do

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

porcelain from previous administrations in the 1890s. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt did a fair amount. The second Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was extremely active in this regard. The Coolidges went so far as to form a committee, which the Hoovers also used. It kind

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Ardis C. Hopper, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

he'd say just about what he was thinking. On reflection he could have, because--let's see, this was in the twenties, that was during Hoover's administration, and before that Harding I guess. Things were pretty conservative around. G: Did LBJ talk much

Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, I give you pernlission to fill his nanle in. And I called up the FBI and got hold of J. Edgar Hoover, I think it was, or the man next to him. So I talked them out of protection. Of course, they told nle they had to protect me under the law. Well, I