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Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • will reflect back on these observations and determine if there were any aspects of your early involvement here in Chicago and New York that influenced the formulation of the program. S: I can give you one, right now, example: the Job Corps
  • The origin of Shriver’s interest in poverty-related issues; Shriver’s involvement with trade unionism, the St. Vincent de Paul Society and the board of education in Chicago; Shriver’s work in the 1940s with Eunice Kennedy on the Continuing Committee
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : It came about because the former un-dersecretary was named by Presiqent Johnson to be ambassador to New Zealand. F: That was who? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and Chicago Belt Railroad threatened to halt Democratic National Convention.
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 2 (II), 6/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the convention when he challenged Eisenhower's defense spending and all the rest and they had the so-called accommodation in New York just prior to the Chicago convention. G: Were you there at that meeting? F: No. The only one that went with him was his
Oral history transcript, Ben W. Heineman, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh April 16, 1970 F: I'll make a brief introduction here. Heineman in his office in Chicago. This is an interview with Mr. Ben The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mr. Heineman, first of all, tell us a little bit about how you
  • Illinois Central strike; National Independent Committee for Johnson-Humphrey; organizational task force for HUD; Robert Weaver; White House Civil Rights Conference; “Summit Conference” in Chicago; Cabinet posts offered; Demonstration Cities
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 2, 1968, in his office, New York City JBF: Mr. Farley, to begin, tell us something about your background, how you came to get into politics. F: Well, I was born and raised in a little community called Grassy Point
Oral history transcript, Jerry Voorhis, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: H. JERRY VOORHIS INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Voorhis's office, Monadnock Building, Chicago, Illinois. Tape 1 of 1. M: First of all, I'll identify the tape. This is an interview with Mr. Jerry Voorhis. That is correct? V: M: Mr. Voorhis
Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . It was a very exciting, very--and it was only in Syracuse, New York and Chicago and Mississippi and a few places like that where the cutting edge of the conflict was. G: There were a lot of examples, I gather, where it would be used as a political football
Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of urban type problems, even if the urban type problems seemed suburban or semirural. Because I think increasingly this country is beginning to recognize that the problems of Chicago and New York are not going to be solved in Chicago and New York alone
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 24 (XXIV), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: Okay, one more question about Chicago. Did you make an effort there to have [Eugene] McCarthy support
Oral history transcript, Dorothy V. Bush, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with anything . Ba : Anything new, I guess . Bu : Yes, that is correct . But I think we must go along with it . know how to bring this back up . with in Chicago . such confusion . I don't Some of the problems that we were faced But you know, we had
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of friendly senators: one in New York, the one in Massachusetts that you mentioned, one in Gaylord Nelson's state of Wisconsin, and 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • couldn't do that in Chicago. I was going to help him on that when we got back to New York the next morning. Then when I got up the next morning, Sam Rayburn had already had his talk with Lyndon and it was set the other way, and that was that. So, yes
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • president of the Board of Education in Chicago for five years. In that job I saw literally thousands of young men and women in the central city areas of Chicago standing around on the street corners with nothing to do. We expanded the vocational school
  • Shriver's opinion that Job Corps would yield results quickly; how Shriver's work for the Chicago Board of Education guided his work in Job Corps; the idea of putting the Job Corps under the Department of Defense; LBJ's support for Shriver's desire
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 5 (V), 11/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to him, I think, namely William Dawson from Chicago, but Dawson was an insider-type of politician, very effective internally and very effective in Chicago. But he was not a public figure in any sense the way Adam Clayton Powell was. Adam Clayton Powell
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • cent of the problem really is concentrated in the greater New York area (I include northern New Jersey in that), and in Chicago. There are six different organizations operating in those two places, five of them in the greater New York area. Then you
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 2 (II), 5/2/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to this day look upon Lyndon Johnson as a great liberal leader, not a great Southern leader. I believe that I indicated in my first interview it would have been extremely easy for a man from New England or from the North to support Hawaiian statehood. advocacy
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] Biographical information; first meeting LBJ and Sam Rayburn at the 1956 Democratic convention in Chicago; made an honorary Texan; LBJ and statehood for Hawaii; LBJ and the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the recent Chicago affair of this summer. There's such a startling difference between the handling of the march on the Pentagon and the activities in Chicago this last summer. What makes the difference in that kind of case? V: Well, I suppose it's your
  • Urban disorders; Pentagon demonstration; floating federal force; Detroit riots; Control Center-Communication Centers; riots in Chicago; Baltimore riot; Ten Blocks from the White House; Daniel Walker Report: “Rights in Conflict;” Bobby Baker’s case
Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 2 (II), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Chicago in regard to civil rights matters, and it could be interpreted that the President--although I never interpreted it that way--that the President was weakening with regard to civil rights. I do not think he was. I would like to make it perfectly
Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1974 INTERVIEWEE: RALPH G. NEWMAN INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz Place: Reception Room, Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Chicago, Illinois Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 F: How did you ever get in contact with the Johnsons in the first place? N: My first word
Oral history transcript, Ruby G. Martin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • need to to talk to Congressmen and their new school people that are coming up, at any time, at their convenience, in the Congressman's office, a hotel, wherever it was. We try to be accommodating. And I think in the last year of the Johnson
  • of the Civil Rights Bill; regulations; Southern Congressmen; influence of Congressmen; busing controversy; problem of selective enforcement; court decisions; Chicago case; Whitten rider; school desegregation; resignation; John Gardner; Wilbur Cohen
Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Action is its flexibility. That is, it could be something different in New York, it would certainly be something different in Chicago where Dick Daley was in charge, and it would certainly be something different in Saginaw. And that was the point
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ultimately lower the cost of construction with this new kind of steel. Then, we, this is the first of January. Let me just go back to the thirty-first [of December 1965] because when I look at the Presidential Diary. G: Let's see. C: I've got it right here
Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Johnson happened to be in Austin at that time and was gracious enough to come down to the meeting. So I've known Mrs. Johnson through the broadcasting field, and [I met] the President, as I recall, at a meeting in New York. senato~ He was then U.S
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • earlier because it was Chicago, Washington, Los Angeles, and New York. G: Did Vice President Nixon take any measures to correct the problems that he'd had in the first debate, either with appearance or clothes or anything of that nature? Makeup? S: I
  • the burning of a Vietnam village; television news coverage of Vietnam; Stanton's belief that the Vietnam war would have been shorter if there had been presidential debates in 1964; Walter Cronkite's effect on public opinion and LBJ's concern over Cronkite's
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , New York, and Los Angeles, as well as Chicago, that night. 8 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
  • Working with Vice President Hubert Humphrey to develop his campaign platform before the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago; working on a Vietnam speech for Humphrey to give in Chicago; LBJ and Humphrey's views on Vietnam; consulting
Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • starting their new programs, getting more up-to-date plants, particularly right around here because this is an old city and some of these plants were old- -a number of them had closed down. M: Incidentally, beautiful job. ject, B: this is my first
Oral history transcript, Thomas Royals, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • working in the ghettos together in five cities--New York, Chicago, San Antonio, Los Angeles, and Boston. We tried this test program in going out and working with industry, talking to them and saying, '~e're going to help you and assist you more than
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • U.S. Attorney. Through his recommendation I was After that I was recommended for reappointment in the Republican administration by the judges of the United States District Court in Chicago. F: What prompted your move to New York? W: I was asked
Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I arranged meetings with a number of big city mayors [including, among others, Dick Daly in Chicago, John Collins in Boston, Dick Lee in New Haven, Jerry Cavanagh in Detroit, and the mayor of Pittsburgh] offering to approve CRP financing
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 1 (I), 9/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and subsequently became chief of the Economic Bureau for President Truman. F: We've interviewed Mr. Keyserling, incidentally. C: At that time I worked at tha [New York] Daily News during one summer only, and there met Lowell Limpus. This resulted in a lifetime
  • Biographical information; involvement with Roosevelt's administration; newspapers' importance to the government; summary of politics in New York State when Roosevelt was governor; genesis of the New Deal; Harvard graduates in FDR's administration
Oral history transcript, Raymond H. Lapin, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , and the time is 3:35 in the afternoon. We are in his office in the new Housing and Urban Development Building in Washington, D.C. Mr. Lapin, can you tell me something about your background, where you were born, when? L: I'm from California, and I was born
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and the Kennedy supporters, with which I agreed fully; that was the smart thing to do. Third, as time went on, it was very obvious that some of them weren't ever going to be digested into the new Administration. They couldn't get over it. There was Kenneth 9
Oral history transcript, Nelson M. Bortz, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • with that effort which really was very good in the sense that it was not a confining sort of job, but it permitted contacts with key people in a number of the New Deal agencies to get material to write a story explaining the Rural Electrification Program
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XI -- 6 J: Oh, I know he did! He just opened his eyes to--well he just--not opened his eyes; he turned his eyes in the direction of the outside world. Of course, I do remember a lovely spring trip into New
  • to Washington, D.C.; Dorothy Jackson's marriage to Philip Nichols; anticipation of a world war; Charles Marsh telling the Johnsons about the dangers of Adolf Hitler; Welly Hopkins' work for United Mine Workers; the 1940 Democratic National Convention in Chicago
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to be pretty sure that he was pretty much hands off. Of course, Senator Kennedy was ki 11 ed pretty early. B: You went to the Chicago convention. Were you there as Mr. Johnson's representative? M: No, I was there with his knowledge, but not as his
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 5 (V), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was primarily on bird life and in the last few months the focus has been on what effect this has on man himself. In this way it's sort of indicative of the whole sweep of the conservation movement and the fact that it's taken on new dimensions in the last few
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 2 (II), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: FRANK STANTON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Dr. Stanton's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: You visited the President after his heart attack in 1955. S: Oh, yes. G: Can you describe your visit
  • Paley; Stanton’s role as LBJ’s tie to the television industry; the 3/31/68 speech; leaving Washington DC with LBJ the morning of 4/1/68 to go to Chicago; the decision to keep the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago and not move it to Miami; press
Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , "There are three places that I will not go, so don't even schedule me ." I said, "What's that? " He said, "New York, Chicago, and California ." I said, "Well, you east mentioned the three largest states . " He said, "Yes, but i'm not going in there and have
  • Biographical information; John Connally; 1941 Senate race; war years; 1960 presidential campaign; advancing; campaign trips; New York City; convention; Nixon; Texas politics; Alvin Wirtz; Johnson personality; Mrs. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 20 (XX), 4/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 O: We have a white paper dated late September, which was a detailed presentation of a campaign in the form of a campaign manual
  • -finding and support for LBJ in his travel throughout the country; growing concern among Democratic leaders about Vietnam; presidential campaign work and organization prior to 1968; problems in the New Hampshire and Massachusetts primaries; lack of support
Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • nomination 15,16,17 Mr. Johnson's speech at the Chicago meeting 18 Discussions with the Senator about running for the Presidency 19-20 Campaign contributions 20 Houston speech was the turning point in the campaign 21 Tidelands controversy LBJ