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Oral history transcript, Carl Hayden, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was that? H: At Tempe. It's now the Arizona State University. Went to Stanford University after I graduated there and was there for three years. F: Were you there when Herbert Hoover was there? H: No. Herbert Hoover was there when the University first
  • Project Bill; Bureau of the Budget; J. Edgar Hoover; LBJ-Eisenhower relationship; 1956 campaign; VP nomination; Ernest McFarland; cloture rule; Federal Highway Department; Indian affairs; Goldwater family; Hayden's father
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 1 (I), 9/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with the problem of pouring more and more capital into their basic operations with less and less time to sell the product. Herbert Swope invented the op-ed-page, so-called. Thereupon The op-ed [opinion- editorial] simply took great writers, newspaper writers
Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • mentioning various commissions reminds me of a couple of incidents that occurred when I was on the Hoover Commission. I knew President Ken- nedy's father very well in connection with that, and you may remember that his brother, Bobby, the one
  • the Nuremberg trial; Storey’s work on the Atlantic-Pacific Interoceanic Canal Route; Storey’s work on a President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice; his acquaintance with the Kennedys and Herbert Hoover.
Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: HERBERT JENKINS INTERVIE~JER: T'.. HARRI. BAKER . Chief Jenkins• office, Police Headquarters, . Atlanta, Georgia .PLACE: Tape 1 of 1 B: · This is tfte interview with Herf>ert Jenkins, chief of police of Atlanta
  • See all online interviews with Herbert Jenkins
  • .; Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee ; J. Edgar Hoover; LBJ’s visit to Atlanta during presidency; Atlanta riots, 1966-1967; National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, final report of the Commission and LBJ’s response; Martin Luther King’s
  • Jenkins, Herbert
  • Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker
  • Herbert Jenkins
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to a white tie dinner in honor of Herbert Hoover. It surprises to me remember some of the things that we did. I think that was about the time that we got over a feeling that we had said bad things about Hoover and actually began to feel somewhat sorry
  • Social events of the 1950s; Senator Theodore Francis Green; Sam Rayburn; Senator Walter George; Herbert Hoover; Lady Bird Johnson's miscarriages in 1954; the political situation in Vietnam in 1954; the Texas governor's race between Allan Shivers
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --that ought to be a topic too. Ultimately I found, I don't know who found it for me, an article in the thirties in which [Herbert] Hoover or [Franklin] Roosevelt proposed it. It may have been Hoover. I mean it was really quite extraordinary because we were
Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the original Un-American hearings. We know where she is. is her name. She's married. She lives in Brooklyn. So-and-so J. Edgar Hoover is sending men all over the country to investigate, because the President gave him that order. He knows this, LBJ
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . This is one of the agencies where cutting was easiest. G: He also--the corrmittee in the Senate as a whole, I guess, cut the FBI appropriation for the first time. R: J. Edgar Hoover agreed to it. He ca 11 ed J. Edgar and got­ - G: Oh? R: Yes. G: Let
  • LBJ and Senate activities, 1957; Middle East problems; disarmament issue; open curtain proposal; USIA; J. Edgar Hoover; 1957 Civil Rights Bill; Little Rock crisis; Senators Walter George and Richard Russell; Sputnik; space hearings; Johnson
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that, and then when at home, they moved him home, we gave him--I guess the first week in August, I don't know, something like that, that's when I called J. Edgar Hoover who lived across the street and all of his neighbors there to meet the ambulance when they brought
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 4 (IV), 10/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • percent, forty percent of the total acreage in national park system would have been done under his Administration, as well as about forty new areas, you see. And I pointed out, because Herbert Hoover, a one-term President, had in the last days put in Death
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • shortages of food and fuel. I think it was President Truman who sent former President [Herbert] Hoover over there to study the situation and recommend what the United States ought to do. Years later, visiting the Truman Library, taken through by President
  • at KTBC; attending the State of the Union Message; 1947 legislative issues; Aunt Effie's estate; President Truman sending Herbert Hoover to Europe to study food and fuel shortages; Mrs. Johnson's pregnancy; the backyard and garden at the 30th Place house
Oral history transcript, William J. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • it may be downright impertinent or perhaps sacrilegious. Does it really make a difference to your operation who is president? You have been there since Herbert Hoover was president. H: Well, I hardly know how to answer that. I am not sure that I know
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with the 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 10 Mr. Hoover simply didn't strike
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of someone that the Democratic Administration should not build. Other representation on the commission was very strong good leadership from Congress, Chief of Police--one of the most enlightened one in the country--Herbert Jenkins from Atlanta. Nearly all
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and Lyndon and Wright Patman and the Speaker spoke on that at least once that spring.. In fact, they were kind of a triumvirate in the Texas delegation, and a very close-knit organization it was in those days. President Hoover's commission on government
  • ; the relationship between LBJ and Richard Russell; Robert Taft; tidelands controversy; Felix Longoria's burial; a letter from Herbert Hoover to Harry Truman regarding Hoover's public service; buying souvenir pieces of the White House during its renovation; Paul
Oral history transcript, Beryl A. (Mrs. Lloyd) Bentsen, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • e r Sam Rayburn; and sometimes S t e w a r t Symington would be there and sometimes Herbert Hoover, but there would generally be no more than six or eight of us. Kerr was there quite often. Bob I don't know why we wound up over there so regularly
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- X -- 8 lawyer, to get him named federal district attorney. Well, Charlie would see me, show me a clipping where Jack Porter was conferring with [Herbert] Brownell about this federal job
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • but hadn't attended, you know. of any older organization. attend. That's typical There's a lot of members that don't He got them out, a lot of them, enough to be elected. G: What else did he talk about that day? W: Well, at that times Herbert Hoover
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • he had two appointments. His Republican appointment was Herbert Hoover and his Democratic appointment was me, and I was quite active on the commission because I wasn't practicing law. Towards the end of it I started to practice, and I think in 1948
Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Then at seven o'clock, Herbert Hoover, Jr., who was then Under Secretary of State, would come down, and I would have thrown away most of it, and then we'd go through it together. At 7:30 the Vice-President, Mr. Nixon-- the then-Vice President--Mr. Nixon would
  • Biographical information; assessment of LBJ in House and Senate; Geneva Summit Conference; Herbert Hoover, Jr.; Nixon; Senator Earle Clements; LBJ’s heart attack; LBJ’s support of Eisenhower’s policies; nomination of Lewis Strauss and Abe Fortas
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • attorney. So then Herbert Brownell decided that he would fire Charlie Herring. I called Charlie [inaudible] Jack Porter, who was the Republican national committeeman [inaudible] Lyndon's appointment and told Brownell that he had to name someone else
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to President Hoover's funeral. funeral, I'm sorry. No, it wasn't. It was Governor [Herbert] Lehman's But he visited Herbert Hoover, who was still alive LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • about the only one he can talk to, in that nature, and as far as I know, well maybe the only one that didn't quite do it that way was Roosevelt at first with Herbert Hoover. But before Mr. Roosevelt got out of his office he was talking to Mr. Hoover
Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to, but she went along, of course, and, by golly, he defeated Olson [by] 330,000 votes that year, and then, of course, he ran for the third time in 1952. But he came up here looked upon as a Herbert Hoover Republican. He had a man on his staff named [William T
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • case it marked my next involvement with Walker, because I got a call from Jack [Herbert J.] Miller, as I recall, who was then the assistant attorney general in charge of the Criminal Division, and someone whose name I don't recall who was one of Bobby
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of Texas cotton and calves and agricultural products in all the Republican administrations, winding up with poor old [Herbert] Hoover invoking the Depression, whose ghost was still--you 5 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 19 down there. He beat [inaudible] [Furnifold] Simmons in 1930. Simmons was president pro-tem of the Senate. He had been up here for thirty years, but in 1928 he joined Bishop Cannon of the Methodist Church and others in supporting Herbert Hoover
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • there, because he would always include you in the dinners that he had in his home and other things. I remember J. Edgar Hoover lived not too far away. And he would often come down to eat or maybe for a drink with the Congress- LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 5 (V), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was, it was open to old mining laws and could they stake out mining claims and take it away. Well, that started back in the 20's. President Herbert Hoover closed all the oil shale country to mining locations. I think this was a very provident step and the question
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Corporation. You take, for instance, I was on the floor of the House when Herbert Hoover sent up a message mimeographed, saying, "We must have a Reconstruction Finance Corporation for the banks, railroads, and insurance companies." LaGuardia of New York
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • truthful, he served up under Hoover, because Hoover was president in 1931 and 1932. So he saw the Bonus Marchers, you know. Of course Kleberg had always been a great friend of Garner's, because up until they redistricted, Kleberg County used
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • whether they're solvent. Not all of them are solvent. But they're keeping most of them in business, and that, incidentally, was said to have been Garner's idea, which he got from President [Herbert] Hoover. And they had to sell Roosevelt on this idea
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • that when Truman became president overnight, Mr. Meyer went quickly to suggest to him that the very first job he should consider was to feed Europe - his first job. He also suggested that President Truman invite President [Herbert] Hoover to come back
Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 Muscle Shoals plants and the Tennessee River. Silent Cal [Coolidge] vetoed one, and Herbert Hoover vetoed the other one. Franklin Roosevelt came in on March 4, 1933. At that time the President instead
Oral history transcript, Oscar M. Laurel, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Smith and Herbert Hoover, and as I recall now, it was in 1927. was only seven then. I But somehow it was important to us or maybe some of our people talked about it so much because we were always raised under the Catholic faith. And I would say
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Truman, Herbert Hoover, Eisenhower on this report, but it has gone the way of many presidential commission reports. F: Forecasting is fruitless, but do you have a feeling that this is, say, like Medicare, something that over a period of decades
Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , in a sense, incendiary on a national basis? P: Yes. F: That we were teetering a bit? P: Yes, J. Edgar Hoover, one of the first witnesses, said that they were unable to find any area of conspiracy in the civil disorders of Detroit and Newark
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Internal Security [Sub]committee. Here was a committee that [J. Edgar] Hoover used; when he couldn't get somebody investigated on his own, he would use that committee to investigate people. Olin Johnston was a member of that committee, Senator [Patrick
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 5 (V), 8/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • \.J e:-:cept, as you and I been there. waving, I Bill Hopkins has been the fellow who has kept the White House think he C2,lnC over under Hoover. F: Hf.: 's about as apo Ii ti l',-:1 as T: E:.:actly, lcJ"J' th-inE;s both know, th!:! people