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Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 3 (III), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • around the country to New York, Chicago, the West Coast, everywhere, to explain this. of this had been done. rea lly mean it, II All Then to suddenly say, "Oh, sorry, we don't or to say very frankly even worse, liThe Pres i dent has countennanded
Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 3 (III), 4/16/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • actually tried out new methods of bringing poor people into the operation of programs that we accomplished our most interesting work, and probably caused the biggest stir. There was a pattern to some of these;, there was a design. We weren't haphazard
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Truman Democrat and I am an Orval Faubus Democrat." F: And never the twain shall meet! H: That experience~ of course, is beside the point, except that it brings us together in this matter of geography. F: I think New York City is beginning to get
Oral history transcript, James H. Tate, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • National Municipal Association, which is now the National League of Cities. We had with us Mayor Daley of Chicago, Mayor Dilworth of Philadelphia, and Bob Wagner of New York was the mayor of New York at that time, to call on the then Democratic leader
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 61 (LXI), 1/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there any trades that you recall? C: No. It was just pure heat. I'm sure I talked to the [New York] Times editorial people, the [Washington] Post. It was a full-court press. G: Patriotism and-- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . Walker chose to edit the transcript of his oral history interview extensively, and he sent a new typed copy of the edited transcript to the Library when he returned his signed legal agreement covering the interview. The archives staff chose to make
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to the Texans to get free of the domination of New York and Chicago finance made them the prime movers in the legislation to regulate the investment houses, the stock exchanges, and the utility holding companies in the reform to which I was assigned by Roosevelt
Oral history transcript, Gould Lincoln, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • issues. To the amazement of myself and I guess a good many others, he got through this Congress a new Civil Rights dealing with housing. Bill Nobody expected him to get it through, and he has gotten through an anticrime measure which nobody expected
  • with the Kennedys; press relations; criticism of LBJ; news media contributed to LBJ’s loss of popularity; previous Presidents’ handling of the press; Supreme Court Packing Bill; JFK’s formal format; impact of television on politics, campaigning and government
Oral history transcript, Edgar Cahn and Jean Camper Cahn, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that subsequently took place between the Ford Foundation, Mayor [Richard] Lee's administration in New Haven, and the federal government. [Those negotiations] led ultimately to the designation of New Haven as an appropriate site for both Ford and the federal
Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the real estate business, managing apartment houses in syndication in New York City. I had gotten into interpreting quite accidentally, at first for the Carnegie Foundation; subsequently the Young Women's Christian Association, the national board
Oral history transcript, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that I became aware of it in my career at HEW. I was an academi c ian. I was teaching at the University of Southern California and, really, aside from a general ized liberal interest in the programs of the New Deal and the New Frontier, I had
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 4 (IV), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ) INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER December 19, 1968 B: The tape may have been running out toward that last part there. You were saying that you advised the President not to go to Chicago for the convention. G: That's right. B: Was he considering going? G
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 49 (XLIX), 7/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • force that Andrews [Air Force Base] had. G: The JetStars? C: The JetStars. And saying that he wanted the cabinet officers using the King Air for short flights instead of wasting all the money it cost to fly a JetStar. So if they had to fly to New York
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: NEWTON mNOW INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Minow's office, Chicago, Illinois Tape 1 of 1 F: Nr. f~inow, just to set the stage, let's identify you briefly--how you came to work into this world of national politics? M
Oral history transcript, Ben Crider, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • I took the job over, it was like I said--! was broke, worse tban broke. Didn't have any clothes, and when we got to San Antonio, Lyndon took me over to Frank Brothers and bought me the best suit of clothes I guess I ever owned in my life and a new
  • leadership; snipe hunt story; deer hunting; LBJ's job on country roads; Crider's part in the 1956 Democratic convention in Chicago
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • element that was present there that wasn't known yet was the decision also in North Vietnam to introduce into the guerilla cadres in the South a new family of weapons, the AK-47 family. and Czech weapons of a very high sophistication. probably in April
  • Foreign Relations Committee; 1966 Vietnam trip; Tonkin Gulf Incident; schools of thought regarding LBJ; succeeding JFK; dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs; investigation of chain store situation; Chicago convention
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 5 (V), 5/3/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson, but she's from Chicago. My God, we have taken our best room; we've put in all new wallpaper, all new drapes, a new mattress, new everything, but Mrs. Johnson from Chicago is in there. Why didn't you tell me? give you as nice a room for Mrs
Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of service to the public because you are going to have delays on the ground, for example, in Los Angeles or Chicago, because the airports in New York are saturated and can't handle the number of airplanes. So what you are going to get, and is happening now
Oral history transcript, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a Texan? H: I was born in San Antonio, and I grew up here in Austin. lJhen my family moved here, I was just a little fellow, about seven or eight years old. F: When did you join the Dallas News? H: 1916, on the old Dallas Journal, which
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , "Let's form a committee and let's talk about it and let's have our grandchildren decide." F: By the time you got to New York in '43, had you begun that white flight to the suburbs? W: I didn't go to New York, I went to Chicago in '43. As a matter
  • to LBJ Ranch regarding housing message; his impact on LBJ’s thinking; reason for resignation; prejudice; feeling that the new administration will attempt to make administrative reform
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Luther King's death and problems encountered 1 Shocked at the potential for simultaneous multiple disorders 3,18 Secretary Reser 5,6,7,8 Democratic Convention in Chicago LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • ; comparison of police and military units in controlling civil disturbances; the Chicago riots of 1968; police relations with the black community; The D.C. riots following the MLK assassination; reluctance to use federal troops; difficulties in planning the use
Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • misjudge the rest of the country. in l~ashington They misjudge their prominence for prominence in Cleveland or Columbus. Then they find out that they're not knmm in Cleveland or Columbus or Kalamazoo or Lansing or Chicago. 'I B: Kennedy was shrewd
  • /31 announcement; draft movement for Edward Kennedy; Chicago convention; LBJ
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , but of course there were many, many new members coming in all the time in a body as large as the House that Johnson could have only the most casual acquaintance with if he knew them at all. But he had a lot of loyal friends from all over the country
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of enforcement, personnel, money, in your department? C: Well, those are very central. We've never secured enough personnel and money to enforce earlier laws on the books, or even a fraction of enough. To put a massive new law on would have been very difficult
Oral history transcript, Edith H. Parker, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • so that it will be easier for you to read over. background. Let's start with your You're not a native Texan. P: Right. G: Do you want to tell where you were born? P: Shawnee, Oklahoma. G: I believe you indicated that you lived in Chicago. P
Oral history transcript, Beryl A. (Mrs. Lloyd) Bentsen, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of Colorado. But winding up as a mid-year student, unfortunately I never went back for that last four-anda-half months. M: Then what did you do when you left college? B: After leaving college, I went to New York and lived up there for about two years
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • losing the initiative in space to the Soviets. On September 16th, he went over to the White House to discuss with the President how best to handle the problem of continuity at NASA after the election and a new administration had taken over
  • Act; transition to the new administration; Bob Seamans.
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • president, available time had elapsed. G: What about the New York haggling, the New York delegations; did you make any effort there to--? O: This convention, incidentally, turned out to be far less rancorous than Chicago. We had wondered about what might
  • Committee's recommendation to allocate California delegates entirely on the basis of popular vote; Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's offer to split the Illinois delegation; parliamentary decision-making regarding what constituted a majority of delegates
Oral history transcript, Henry Hall Wilson, interview 1 (I), 4/11/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh April 11, 1973 F: This is an interview with ~lr. Henry Hall Wilson in his office in the Chicago Board of Trade Building in Chicago on April 11, 1973. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Let's start this out just by asking
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, Christopher Weeks, interview 2 (II), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Corps volunteers in and see whether they can help do something." That kind of concept doesn't have any relevance to Harlem, New York where you obviously have an awful lot of people around there, there's no shortage of people, there's no shortage
Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • with International Petroleum in the legal department and was there until late, I guess, in 1922 when the Continental Mexican Petroleum Company was sold by General Petroleum of California to Standard of New York, and they operated as New England Fuel Oil
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: MARY LASKER (Mrs. Albert D. Lasker) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mrs. Lasker's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 1 F: Mrs. Lasker, let's start by talking a little bit about how you first became interested in health
Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • troops to Chicago during the Democratic convention. The issue was, "Do we or don't we send them?" The decision was to send them. They were, of course, never used. Then shortly before January 20, the President had a lunch for all the under secretaries
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 4 (IV), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1982 INTERVIEWEE: ARTHUR KRIM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Krim's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: You were saying that you met with the President a good deal during the period from April through June, [1968], I believe. K
  • ; negotiations with Israel over Phanton jets; Russian relations; rioting and the aftermath of Martin Luther King’s assassination; the possibility of a presidential draft; Chicago Mayor Richard Daley; neutrality among LBJ’s staff members; Humphrey’s campaign
Oral history transcript, David L. Hackett, interview 1 (I), 4/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as opposed to failure? H: Well, there are two parts. I think one was what type of programs they came up with [such as] Mobilization for Youth, which had been going on in New York City on the Lower East Side of New York. Columbia University School of Social
  • and start programs; what the Committee looked for in creating a new anti-delinquency program; Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited Associated Community Teams (HARYOU-ACT) programs; the Lower East Side experiment; increasing local involvement in planning
Oral history transcript, Roger Stevens, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • thinking of course necessarily of New York, but in opera in San Francisco, it would vary from place to place, Chicago, that you're more likely to get it out at the University of Minnesota or in New Orleans or on university campus·es and so on. S: I don't
Oral history transcript, Lester Maddox, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that, you still had no response from the President or the White House staff? M: No, sir. [I] never received any response whatsoever. It was somewhat disturbing, knowing that every time you looked at the television and you read news reports about what
Oral history transcript, A. Phillip Randolph, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER Mr. Randolph's office, 217 West 125 Street, New York, October 29, 1968 B: This is the interview with A. Philip Randolph, International President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Do you recall when you first met Mr
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • part of the White House rolls. I'll tell one story in relation to coming here. I had done some work in the campaign of 1964 as an advance man first for President Johnson in New York City in June of 1964, which was the first time I had done any advance
  • LBJ’s decision not to run for re-election in 1968; Martin Luther King’s death and LBJ’s view of King; LBJ on civil rights; open housing bill; trip to Chicago 4/1/68; the idea of moving the Democratic National Convention from Chicago; Chicago’s Mayor