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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, 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: The Oregon primary was hotly contested. [Eugene] McCarthy showed a better organization than he had shown
Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) loss to Eugene McCarthy in the Oregon primary; support for RFK going into the New York primary; concerns going into the California primary and memories of 1960 California problems with Edmund "Pat" Brown; the RFK/McCarthy

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 6 (VI), 4/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

job in the event it happens again. F: Now you said in this area. If it happens, say, in Seattle or San Antonio or Chicago, could you move just as efficiently? C: Well, we were particularly equipped through this new center to handle problems

Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

INTERVIEHER: David G. McComb DATE: M: April 21, 1969 This is an City. intervie~v ~'lith Mr. 'Francis Keppel in his office in New York The date is April 21, 1969, and my name is David McComb. Can you briefly give me a sketch of your background, how you

Oral history transcript, Roman Pucinski, interview 1 (I), 12/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of on a Saturday afternoon, who's a good friend of mine, Walter Krawiec, K-R-A-W-I-E-C, who was the editorial cartoonist for the Polish Daily News, but who is a very talented artist in his own right and did a lot of fine work. I called Walter and I said, "Walter
Pucinski's political career; Pucinski's relationship with Sam Rayburn; LBJ's support for Pucinski in a 1972 Senate race against Charles Percy; allegations of misconduct against Charles Robb in Vietnam; a trip to Chicago with Vice President Johnson

Oral history transcript, Harold Howe II, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

of a high school. I did some work at the University of Cincinnati during that time. M: You were teacher of history in 1940 to 1941 at Darrow School in New York. H: In New Lebanon, New York. M: And then shortly after that you must have gone
; Doug Cater; Califano; enforcement of Title VI of Civil Rights Act; first set of guidelines; trouble in Chicago with Mayor Daley; Keppel’s resignation; Dave Seeley; Pete Libassi; de facto segregation; racial isolation; teacher militancy; Education

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

newspapers, had their best on the beat: Murrey Marder, Chal [Chalmers] Roberts of the Washington Post; Ned [E. W.] Kenworthy, Bill Jorden, Max Frankel of the New York Times; Pete Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News; John Cauley of the Kansas City Star; Paul
choice and phrasing; the new mission for the marines in 1965; government's right to withhold information; the press' ability to get the information it seeks; how McCloskey obtained information; McCloskey's "thought, word and deed" message on 1967 war

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

newspapers, had their best on the beat: Murrey Marder, Chal [Chalmers] Roberts of the Washington Post; Ned [E. W.] Kenworthy, Bill Jorden, Max Frankel of the New York Times; Pete Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News; John Cauley of the Kansas City Star; Paul
McCloskey’s work in foreign service and as State Department spokesman; reporters; Vietnam; credibility gap; coordinating briefings with the White House and the Pentagon; new mission of the marines in 1965; withholding information from the press

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

for the Chicago Defender. I stayed here a few months and then in June of the same year, 1936, I went to Detroit to help establish and edit and publish the new newspaper called the Michigan Chronicle, which I still retain some proprietary interest in. From

Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, the Sheep Meadow, was in the bandstand, the platform from which the speeches were made, and I heard a reporter for a major New York paper, the New York Daily News, call in, and I may not have the figures exactly right, but I think I even have the figures

Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to my news bureau, I write a syndicated column which is syndicated nationally by Publishers Hall Syndicate, and that's owned by Marshall Field who owns the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Daily News. F: So that you have a national audience? C: Yes

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEW IX DATE: April 9, 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3, Side 1 G: Let me ask you to first talk generally about the campaign of 1964 and discuss
organizations found in Philadelphia under the leadership of Bill Green, Chicago under the leadership of Richard J. Daley, Minnesota under the leadership of the Democratic-Farm-Labor group, and in Albany, New York; O'Brien's concern about the two-party system

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3, Side 1 G: Some general items early in your tenure [as postmaster general]: first, one question regarding your
under O'Brien; how the Post Office Department dealt with mail fraud and obscenity; a threat to O'Brien's safety in New Jersey; the role of postal inspectors; the 1966 Chicago mail crisis; discrimination in the Post Office Department; changes in mail

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 37 (XXXVII), 11/14/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

opposed the Penn-Central merger. (Long pause) In 1964 it would appear that the President had a meeting--this would be July of 1964--with Saunders and [Alfred E.] Perlman who was the other major businessman involved in this. G: President of the New York

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. It was regarded more as a source of something that might precipitate violence which, in turn, would turn the clock back. G: Anything else on the signing of the Voting Rights Act? C: I don't have any real recollections of it. I guess I was still so new I

Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to that point, and he took a picture of the two of us shaking hands. The next day it was on the front page of the New York Times; it was the entire front section of the New York Daily News, it was a picture that went around the world. When the editors

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

into the retirement program . So, if you do it the way I provided for suggest, you will automatically get the new programs when 2 1/2 million federal employees, and you will not become a target each time improvements that you're bound to want come along ." Mr

Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

shall ever have. A few things become quickly apparent. This is a whole new ball game. If I am to continue on the debate team, my outside activities will be largely confined to after-school practice and visits to the city library in the search of arcane
risk examiner in San Antonio; joined Navy in Chicago; LBJ had him transferred to DC; subcommittee for investigation of Naval personnel; served on minesweeper and LEXINGTON; LBJ’s relationship with his staff; job with Federal Civil Defense Administration

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: I don't believe so. W: --went to Houston and made the tapes, and to Beaumont and to New York to meet with presidential nominee Kennedy and to appear on nationwide TV and then back to the Valley and on up to Corpus Christi and then into Austin

Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

obvious that Johnson had told him he wanted it approved. But Daley was an exception. Mayor Wagner in New York would sometimes talk to the President, but more often with Vice President Humphrey. Or Paul Screvane would talk to Humphrey. But only Chicago
; outreach to encourage grant submission; congressmen, such as Carl Perkins and Adam Clayton Powell, getting involved in grant applications; mayors' involvement in CAP; problems with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley; White House involvement in CAP

Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

INTERVIHJEES: GOVERNOR AND NRS. RICHARD HUGHES (Betty Hughes) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: The Hughes' home in Princeton, New Jersey Tape 1 of 2 F: First of all, Governor Hughes, tell us briefly where you came from, how you gradually moved up
Meeting LBJ in 1959; Governor of New Jersey, 1961; LBJ and Kosygin held a meeting at Glassboro State College; Kosygin’s daughter, Dr. Gvishiana, joined Lady Bird, Lynda and Mrs. Hughes for lunch at Island Beach; Ramsey Clark; candidates, 1966-1968

Oral history transcript, Lloyd N. Cutler, interview 1 (I), 4/12/1969, by William Helmer (Item)

that prefer strict gun control is relatively minor. I woul d suppose that the danger of 1eakage from the states west of the ~iississippi River into Chicago or New York or New Orleans is not very great. And on that same token I would suppose

Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Seminar. The date is February 24; the time is 4:15 in the afternoon; and my name is David McComb. First of all, Dr. Halperin, I'd like to know something about your background--where you were born and when? H: I was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois

Oral history transcript, India Edwards, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

expected to go and it wasn't until I was ready to make all my plans that my father said no. "You can't go to New York--a girl alone." F: It's a little bit bigger than Nashville. E: And that I could go to college some place near home. Chicago and got

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: ARTHUR KRIM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Krim's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 G: Shall we start with that October weekend at the Ranch? K: Yes. I guess a day or two after the President returned to the Ranch following
Morrissey nomination; LBJ’s staff; 1965 bombing halt in Vietnam; intelligence gathering in Latin America by the CIA and FBI; New York politics; dinner for Princess Margaret, including a guest with a criminal record; a ride in August Busch’s plane; buying out

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, 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: I wanted to ask you about President Johnson's role in the campaign. O: There was an uneasy situation
of nuclear arms; Abe Fortas' nomination as Supreme Court chief justice; the effect of George Wallace's candidacy on both Nixon and Humphrey; voting results in New Jersey and Illinois; the effect of polling and publicizing poll results; poll accuracy; Ohio

Oral history transcript, Joseph D. Keenan, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the city of Chicago November 5, 1896; on the near west side, a short distance from the Loop. My education was just a grammar school education and some courses at night school at Lewis Institute. M: You went to work at an early age? K: I went to work

Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

into how you got started as a protagonist for better health. G: Well, very simply, I started out to go into the academic field. I went to New York University, undergraduate and graduate, and studied under Henry Steele Commager. The Depression came along
Biographical information; how Gorman got into journalism; how Gorman got involved in writing about conditions in mental hospitals; the Oklahoma State Mental Hospital; Gorman's work at the Daily Oklahoman; newspaper publisher, E.K. Gaylord's

Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

made a. number of planning grants . Many communities were not prepared ; many, many communities did not have the sophistication or the resources that a city like New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, that could turn the wheels of their council of social

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

for the American-Statesman. I started as a capitol correspondent for the Galveston N~s, and then the Trans-Radio Press; that was a news service. Then I picked up another paper--this was [as] capitol correspondent, [the] Wichita Falls Post, which is no longer

Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

region? r~: By and large they were. However. there \'/ere individuals that I recall vaguely from out of state, one from Lawton, Oklahoma. I think he was run out of Oklahoma was the reason he wound up there. I had a roommate once from Chicago. I

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

accessible and other times when he was at work on some new strategy when he was not so accessible. Generally, when I saw him--and I never had to see him with any kind of daily urgency--I would submit a request through George Reedy or through Bill Moyers
for ESEA; Morse-Green rivalry; the Quie amendment; Congressman Fino objects to busing; reorganizing HEW; Keppel, Mayor Daley, and the Chicago quarrel with HEW; Henry Loomis and the Voice of America press conference; Wilbur Cohen evaluated; the heart-cancer

Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 3 (III), 2/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

from the New York Times index. G: Yes. It's an article by [John Warren] Finney of the New York Times and then another one, a column by [James] Reston. Albert Gore is the sinner, I think, but we'll get into that. But that I think I might say

Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: Oh, very frequently--in the news stories principally. I'd say he figured certainly weekly and sometimes almost daily in the news stories. M: Did Mr. Johnson cooperate, either with Mr. Jamison or yourself so that he did get that much publicity? T
Biographical information; Dockrey Murder case; Garner of Texas vs. Snell of New York; Miller’s appointment of LBJ; Edward Jamison; first impressions of LBJ; three famous Texas political figures; LBJ’s interest in military affairs; rating LBJ

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

and Lee School. I University and to Harvard Business I got s ornewhat disturbed about Mr. Roosevelt l s packing of the SupJ;lerne Court. ,\ After I left Harvard and went to work in New York just before the war, I was introduced to Wendell Wilkie
Biographical information; initial association with LBJ; 1948 Senate campaign; Carl Estes; 1952 campaign and Texas Democrats; Texas delegation to Chicago Democratic National Convention, 1956; Lady Bird; racism and civil rights; Democratic State

Oral history transcript, Pat Adelman, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

of managers would just try to do the executive duties. But I had to do that, too. M: You went out and talked to customers and sold time? A: Right. I had an entree and I made trips to New York and Chicago and St. Louis and sold time and programs to national

Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

? C: All right. I was born in 1910 in Chicago, Illinois. there, and through high school in Oak Park, Illinois. Went to public schools I went to Dartmouth College for two years and it was really there that I first became interested in forestry

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

like this. I had formed a friendship with him several years earlier when I was the editor of the Daily Texan, and at the end of my editorship he had called me down to KTBC and had offered me a job in the news room there. The year I was editor

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, 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 G: We finished last time with a discussion of the Salt Lake City speech which, I believe, was the end
of vice-presidential debates; Spiro Agnew's reputation; Wallace's support from organized labor; money to promote voter registration in New York; the campaign status in September 1968; campaign committee meetings; the recording and release of the Salt Lake

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was assigned to the Navy District Headquarters in New Orleans, and of course I accompanied him there. Then when he went to indoctrination school in Chicago, I went home to Port Arthur. Then in May, the first news stories about the Women's Army Corps

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 7 (VII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for the increased expenditures of the war. C: That wasn't popular. G: Tell me about that. C: Well, I remember that surcharge and as I remember it passed. G: Ultimately. It was 1968 before it passed. C: Right. That wasn't popular, because Vietnam daily

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