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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 31 (XXXI), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to build something called New Towns in Town here in Washington and this came late in the administration. 1968. Have you come across any of that? B: We came across it (inaudible). G: Yes. C: There's a book on that program I've got somewhere
Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the counties in my congressional district and doing a little work elsewhere to help him win the r~ay convention from former Governor Shivers, and to send to the 1956 convention in Chicago a delegation of Democrats who would not go simply for the purpose
  • and the Texas delegation; Wright supports LBJ for vice president; Wright's campaign for the Senate; President LBJ and the Texas delegation; LBJ and the Highway Beautification Bill; persuasion vs. pressure from the White House; LBJ as a reformer; LBJ and news
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 5 (V), 4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEW V DATE: April 7, 1983 INTERVIEWEE: ARTHUR KRIM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Krim's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 1 K: Now you can start with the tax thing or-- G: Let's do. Let me ask you about the effort to enact
Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOE MASHMAN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Bell Helicopter Company, Hurst, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Mr. Mashman, first of all, where are you from? M: I was born and raised in Chicago. 1916 is my birth date. I spent my first twenty
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or July or when, because I did return to Austin later on. At any rate, sometime during the summer I went to see our old friend Dr. Will Watt in Austin and got the big news that I was, at last, pregnant. It was big news because from 1934 to 1943--of course
  • , 1944; press support for LBJ; LBJ's work in the 1944 election; Mrs. Johnson's trip to New Hampshire to christen the U.S.S. Tench; family members hospitalized in the summer of 1944; the 1944 Democratic National Convention in Chicago; LBJ winning his
Oral history transcript, Louis Shanks, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1987, by Gina Gianzero (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Shanks -- I -- 2 borrowed seventy-five dollars to pay down on a brand new Ford, a six-hundred-ninetyfive-dollar Ford--that's
Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • going willy nilly. People in the South used to give black people one-way bus tickets to New York and Baltimore and St. Louis and Memphis and Chicago, just to get them out of the state. And that is not a way that develops a human resource very well. G
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 5 (V), 6/3/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , which would make quite a difference in a few years in terms of professionalization and science and technology and new standards in salaries for police and things like that. Important elements of our bill were gun control legislation, the right to privacy
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • days and then as a delegate to the national convention in Chicago, long with Alvin Wirtz, Roy Miller, Frank Scofield, and Bill St. John and any number of political--Bob Holliday from El Paso and others. F: You served in the Texas legislature for awhile
Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • for years. Between my sophomore year and my junior year in undergraduate college. my father moved to New Orleans to become professor of pediatrics at Louisiana State University's School of Medicine. So I went along with the family, finished my junior year
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • going to be run, and what types of things the money w a s going to be spent for. A typical example , as I recall, was the city of Chicago. The first grant, I think we had something like 1 0 to 15 million dollars or something like tha t, that we could
Oral history transcript, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • went to my first located pastorate in a college town, Chickasha, Oklahoma, and was there for nearly twelve years. In addition to my own academic work in our school, I did a good deal of summer work at Chicago University and Union Theological Seminary
Oral history transcript, Jack Howard, interview 1 (I), 10/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • uninterest- ing for me because it was a circulation war and there was no room for good heavy news. It had to be feature and light stuff, and I was interested in more serious implications. So I came to Washington in 1960, worked on the subcommittee, did
Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 2 (II), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • expert in that field. And that ultimately led to the passage of the Mental Retardation Act, which gave us roughly seven million dollars of new money to support--I think my recollection of the funds is correct--a variety of activities around the country
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • salaries and the House salaries. So this passed without much opposition. Remember, we kept it in trading position for a long time because I was insistent we were going to get nearly a billion dollars of new revenue out of the postal rate increase to pay
Oral history transcript, Harfield Weedin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • me one picture that's a typical Hollywood pose. I had it on my office when I had an office, and it was made like a Bruno of Chicago, which used to be the ultimate Hollywood pose, and he was standing with his wristwatch showing and his hand, complete
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : January 11, 1974 INTERVIEWEE : MRS . JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS INTERVIEWER : JOE B . FRANTZ PLACE : Her Manhattan apartment in New York City Tape 1 of 2 First part of tape missing (35 feet) F: Let's continue, then, our broken interview
Oral history transcript, Clinton P. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • not? A: Yes, he was. B: Did you immediately become acquainted with him? A: I had met him earlier than that. In 1935 I was National Youth Administrator for New Mexico and he for Texas, and we got acquainted at that time; so that I knew him already
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : The nickname "Chub" came to me at Groton School from the junior headmaster Jared Billings, who had given it to my father when he was at the school some twenty-five years earlier. On me it stuck because all the new boys thought that was my name, when he called
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • days. He had worked for the old New York World and the National Farmers Union. [He was] really an interesting guy and knew a tremendous amount about Congress and the way things were done, not the textbook kind of legislative process, but the way
Oral history transcript, Milton P. Semer, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , was the depressed areas bill. And when that became the principal vehicle, Sparkman formed a natural alliance with the late Paul Douglas, the Democratic senator from Illinois, whose political base was primarily in Chicago, but also he ran strongly down state
  • ; the problem of OEO potentially taking over issues for which other departments had been responsible; why a new agency was created for the War on Poverty; the accelerated public works program; criticism of Community Action Programs; opposition to public housing
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • II and-- B: Last throes of the New Deal. Can you recall freshman Congressman Lyndon Johnson about 1937? H: Well, yes, I was conscious of his being here. It was later before I got closely acquainted with him. B: About when would that have been
Oral history transcript, Stanley Marcus, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • for clothes to be sent to Mrs. Johnson to Washington. We arranged to meet, and we delegated one member of our New York office staff to work with Mrs. Johnson, to take clothes to her to the hotel. We brought up clothes from manufacturers--samples--many
  • ; 7th Avenue wholesalers; Dallas Morning News’ notorious advertisement; Bruce Alger; re-establishing Dallas as a good place to live and work; Bronze Abstract Wall commissioned by Dallas Public Library; problem with having an official designer; Adele
Oral history transcript, Sidney P. Marland, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to be. We early found that we had a new kind of relationship with children. The early measures on this, even after the first year or so, showed significant gains in the child's readiness for school. We didn't try to teach them to read at age three
Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was, believe it or not, by Alexander Jackson Downing . And Alexander Jackson Downing was a landscape architect who lived on the Hudson, up ; north of New York City . He was very young but very bright and he believed in the fundamental principle of the English
  • -and Merrill; Hirshborn Museum; Lady Bird’s intellectual curiosity; New Mexico Church of Los Trampos.
Oral history transcript, Fred Schmidt, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the 1956 Democratic Convention in Chicago and our understanding was that we were to vote for him on the first ballot. But nothing beyond that. Then of course we felt, too, that Lyndon and Rayburn broke what we understood was an agreement between us. G: I
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and stay in the Waldorf­ Astoria Hotel in New York City"--how the Waldorf got into it I don't know! Well, he didn't think too much of it at the time, but later on after we returned to the United States we got an almost panicky cablegram from the American
Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the Navy in the Maritime Service, elected again to Congress in 1946 from one of the New Orleans districts where you have served since; in 1956 named Deputy Whip and in 1959 Whip of the Democratic party. And, as I say, that is a very brief summary of a long
  • interest in passage of legislation; RFK; 1964-1965 legislative success; Congressional briefings on Vietnam; compromise on seating of the Mississippi delegation; LBJ’s political speech in New Orleans; inactivity of the DNC; media image of LBJ; assessment
Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Visit a few minutes and go on. K: I remember one time right after he had had his kidney stone operation he came up there and spent about an hour looking around the place. F: Did the newsmen look on him as pretty good source of news, or is this just
Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to see was ~don B. Johnson. I think he was senator at that time. F: He was elected to the Senate in 1948. H: I think he'd just been elected senator. But even as a new senator he still had unusual influence in the Senate. As I slW, he
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 3 (III), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it, and I said, yes, I could. F: Later on he indicated he wanted me to go see the Pope. How far in advance of New Year's, roughly, did he first call you? How far ahead? R: Listen, I flew to Italy on Thanksgiving Day. F: And this was a little before
Oral history transcript, Cameron McElroy and Lucille McElroy, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the summer to places, Alabama or Chicago or New York? M: No. I never di d know of her goi ng to them. to Alabama. But I knew of her goi ng I think she was originally from there. (Interruption) G: Now, Mr. McElroy, you were talking about the effect
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 51 (LI), 8/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • included is Senator [John] Sparkman's, who urged that the new guidelines, which were tougher in terms of desegregation, requiring that free-choice plans result in desegregation, be held up until after Tuesday, March 1, the primary filing date. The President
Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • reporter many years ago. When I was in Swathmore, Pennsylvania, I worked for the Philadelphia papers part time, but I drifted into political reporting when I was here in Washington. F: By the time the New Deal came on, you were established as a syndicated
  • news; suppression of news; RFK never broke with McCarthy; characterization of McCarthy; LBJ as VP; LBJ’s effectiveness as an ambassador; JFK assassination; dinner with the Johnsons; press disenchantment with LBJ; press secretaries; RFK; oil interests
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and I finished law school in 1934 when the New Deal was really getting under way. I came to Washington to be law clerk to Mr. Justice Holmes and stayed with him until his death in I think March, 1935. I had hoped to go back west to practice law
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to the President. I was on a vacation on a fairly remote lake in New York State when one afternoon in July somehow the White House operators got through up there, and it was Joe Califano at the other end of the line asking me whether I would mind coming down
Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Marshall, and I even spent one summer in New Orleans with Mother's brother and uncle. I don't remember too much about Miss Minnie in there. I picked up again when Lady Bird was a little thing. When Miss Minnie died, I was in college. I came home, and I went
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • . They organized the metropolitan blacks, largely through the ministers in the black churches. In places like New York and Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and Chicago, and, by that time, see--during World War II a great many blacks moved from the South to the North
  • ; higher education for African Americans; Morehead's work for Southern Education Reporting Service and Southern School News; negative press coverage of the South; school integration and racial violence in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957; the legal
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • may exist for a whole different reason. There was an oversight committee established on the poverty program on which I served too, chaired by Morrie [Maurice] Leibman in Chicago. [It] had just a little bit of heft on it. While reading the Atlantic I
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • increased during the '60's. A new and junior Congressman is not very often called for consultaion to the White House, perhaps unfortunately. M: Did you feel that Mr. Johnson lost much of his party support with his cooperation with General Eisenhower