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Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was exercising a good deal of influence. B: That's right. Exactly. No, that's news to me. I had not known that. G: One question relates to your speechmaking function, and you evidently did travel around the country a good deal. To what extent were

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

had an opportunity to ride with him up to Hyannis Port. So I got on the plane. He had a man from Georgetown and he had [Allen] Duckworth from the Dallas [Morning] News. Most of the agencies preferred to have their people at the various points to make
in Vietnam; the 1968 convention in Chicago.

Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and such was the fervor that the New York Sun ran a note, "Positively tomorrow at three o'clock Theodore will walk on the waters." It was something of that tre- mendous populist movement. As we thought of it at the time, President Theodore Roosevelt, whom the President
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, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. From 1936 through 1963 you were associated with the Chattanooga Times as a reporter, then Washington correspondent, and finally editor of the News Focus service. This last period was from 1958 to 1963. In 1963 you became a columnist for the Chicago

Oral history transcript, Robert A. Levine, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

. Levine, I'd like to begin by providing a little biographical background information that I have. Then if you feel there are any gaps, please feel free to fill in. Originally you're from Brooklyn, New York, as I understand it. You attended the Brooklyn

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

on the Council of Economic Advisers, put together the new JOBS program and the National Alliance of Businessmen. While the ideas for it had come out of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 31 (XXXI), 12/10/1987, 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 3, Side 1 O: Watergate has been part of our discussions throughout this oral history. At this point, it might be helpful

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 1 (I), 1/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

[Department of Justice]. Let me outline here just very briefly your background, subject to additions and corrections. You were born in Chicago in 1928, bachelor's degree from Dartmouth, naval service in the early fifties, in 1956 a law degree from Yale

Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of the New York Times and you have the State Department papers as well as the presidential public papers, you will find it replete with references to that. TG: Were you aware at the time that you took the appointment that the decisions to escalate had

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 9 (IX), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, and the role of the cities became considerably different. Today we have, for instance, in the New York metropolitan area, as the most clear-cut example, situations where New York and Connecticut and New Jersey simply cannot act independently of each other
of Businessmen (NAB) and compensation of its members; how OLC helped NAB and a housing commission avoid a conflict-of-interest pay problem; subsidizing new businesses in low-income areas or offering tax incentives to business owners to involve the poor

Oral history transcript, Father Wunibald W. Schneider, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

. He had a brother living in the United States, I think it was in Chicago somewhere. He wrote to his brother, and his brother was a priest, and he advised his brother back in Ireland to tell me I should write to Chicago to Bishop O'Brien, who would

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

politically, such as you have in Illinois and Chicago? B: Yes, that's roughly true. That's about the way it works in Indiana as it does in the other states that you mentioned. I was running, as I say, however, only from the county that embraced

Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

happened to come to Washington. I'd been associated with a nonprofit manage- ment consulting firm in Chicago for about a year and planned to go back. In the meantime, "the head of the company became assistant director of the Budget Bureau, which

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, Chicago. My personal experience vis-à-vis Resurrection City was probably gathered mostly out of the August 1963 march-(Interruption) --when [Martin Luther] King made that speech about, "I have a dream." Resurrection City was handled largely through

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

with Mr . Alan Boyd, former Secretary of the Department of Transportation . I am in his new offices at the Illinois Central The date is May 15, 1969 . Railroad in Chicago, Illinois, and my name is David McComb . There's one question I might throw

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

' meeting in Chicago. He checked the time element [?]. The Secret Service wasn't prepared; the press hadn't been informed, and he didn't know he was going to do it till just that morning. So LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely (Item)

, telling political stories. So then the next morning--we were assigned different bedrooms or cabins--after breakfast he said, "Well, let's all go in the new office." It wasn't completed then; it was just being built. So we sat on the saw-horses and piles

Oral history transcript, James M. Quigley, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

for politics. My father was always active in politics; he had been active as a Republican for the best part of his lifetime. But in the New Deal days, in the thirties, he became a Democrat. And as I thought my way through the process, I think I recognized
1958 election to Congress; JFK's role in Quigley's 1960 congressional election defeat; how JFK's Catholicism was viewed by Pennsylvania voters; the new House Committee on Science and Astronautics and why Quigley was interested in it; Quigley's opinion

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE E. LEVINSON INTERVIEWER: Paige E. Mulhollan PLACE: Mr. Levinson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: I think most of the things about the staff we talked about on the first tape, but one thing we didn't mention was whether

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 4 (IV), 1/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Gordon [?], Ralph McGill, Maurice Templesman, and Governor Robert Meyner of New Jersey--former Governor Robert Meyner of New Jersey. He also puts on ex officio the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, the Secretary
of Congress and the executive branch in developing new legislation; Congress' ability to draft legislation; statutory commission funding; Wozencraft's involvement on the tripartite Commission on Political Activity of Government Personnel; the Commission's

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to be something between a young man and eventually a White House special assistant. Where are you from? C: Brooklyn, New York. Born and brought up in Brooklyn. Then to Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts, where I graduated in 1952, then to Harvard Law

Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

well where the Texas Democratic Party, as represented by the Executive Committee, where we stood. Now when we went to Chicago as the delegates were strong conservative, as everybody called us Shivercrats. We were not out in front or outspoken or did we
Adlai Stevenson in 1952; Rayburn's misunderstanding that Shivers' attendance at the Chicago convention was a commitment to support any Democratic candidate; LBJ choosing Sandlin to speak for him in Travis County rather than Mayor Tom Miller or Emma Long

Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

President Roosevelt's New"--what did he call it? G: New Deal. S: "New Deal ,",ould never have become effective." Jimmy Roosevelt spoke up and said, "I want to back up what Senator Sparkman has said. Without the support of the southern so-called

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. When he becomes vice president he's no longer part of the legislative branch, in spite of presiding over the Senate. He has no right to speak on the floor; he is looked upon as an outsider really by the members of the legislative branch. for a new

Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in the South didn't have the financial base in the early days to support it. So I got Reverend Kilgore involved, who was up at the Friendship Baptist Church in New York; Gardiner Taylor in Brooklyn; and others, so that this thing had some financial base

Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on that convention? 0: My most clear recollections involve the vice presidential race . trary to what had happened in 1952 when a few people, Mr. Con Rayburn and several of the leaders, Jake Arvey I think of Chicago and Carmine DeSapio, as I recall, of New York

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to look. A: Well, it was during a Democratic convention in Chicago. M: 1956. A: 1956. I suppose Johnson had recovered by then from his heart attack--had just recovered. When was it that he really began making his name as a leader in the Senate? I

Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to Congress on April 10, 1937, through the elimination of ten opponents . His campaign was based on strong support for President Roosevelt's New Deal program . iii : Did you work i n that campaign? B: Yes,sir, in a general way . the Of course he

Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in his room there. We talked about the senatorial campaign of 1941 and his experiences which he had just undergone attached to MacArthur's command in Gaudalcanal and New Guinea. I believe they were still on Guadalcanal at that time, or at least New Guinea

Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1980 INTERVIEWEE: ADAM YARMOLINSKY INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: I think we were just at the point of going into the question of Robert Kennedy's view of whether a new agency was needed

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the hunt, as it started to get dark, we went into A.W.'s house and sat around there for some time and watched the evening news on television. The President discussed at great length with A.W. and Jack Valenti and myself, Mrs. Moursund--I don't think anybody
Braestrup’s work as a journalist in Southeast Asia for the New York Times; New York Times coverage of Vietnam compared to Time magazine; how journalists covered Vietnam and the danger involved; how Braestrup became Washington Post Bureau Chief; Joe

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 6 (VI), 8/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

like maybe they t"ere just a half-mile or a mile aHay. I said, They said, '~'lell, ''Yes, I see those hills." they're just saturated ,"ith the enemy. They're just si tting there ,-latching uS right now." That wasn't really happy news, I thought
; purchasing art when visiting other countries; LBJ bringing an ambassador’s servant from El Salvador to the Ranch; 1968 Chicago convention and LBJ’s (lack of) involvement; supporting Humphrey in 1968 election (LBJ, Connally and Yarborough); charges

Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

, in its ever-loving wisdom, had eliminated the appropriation for the domestic division of D.W.I. because they were angry because of a field survey, \~ich was that the representatives were interposing themselves between news sources and the government

Oral history transcript, Leonard M. Elstad, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

brought a group of little handi- capped children down from New York City on a drive for funds so that he could start a school for these handicapped children. He would take them into the wealthy parts of the city, and he'd put on a little dance

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 2 (II), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to his office. In the course of the conver- sation he informed me that the new administration was going to enlarge the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

little they were paid. But you were given freedom to go into town and take part i.n things. So, I was such an enthusiastic New Dealer and such an admirer of Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

their friendship or their loyalties. Johnson and Clinton Anderson of New Mexico and Kerr and [Richard] Russell of Georgia really ran the Senate on the Democratic side along with the late Styles Bridges, [Everett] Dirksen and some of them on the Republican side. G

Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, but it was, I suppose, the manner of delivery. F: I know when Alf Landon used to get up, you must remember the newsreels, when Landon ran against Roosevelt. D: I took an avid interest in that. I followed. I was only eleven or twelve, but I had two very new

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a liking to Johnson as a young Congressman and wanted to make sure that he got broader acquaintanceship with people throughout the country, and he asked Hopkins to put him in touch with someone in New York who could introduce him around, and Hopkins picked
and 1964 campaigns; New Yorkers’ feelings about LBJ; Jack English; RFK’s Senatorial campaign in New York; effect of William Miller on Republican ticket; duties as Lands and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department; proposals for Indian problems

Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that in about one minute. Because Adlai had already called him before by the time this hit the--I got clippings from Chicago. I had friends in Chicago that I was in the navy with, some in New York City, and around, and I got clippings out of all those papers

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