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Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

seem to want the trip made itself, think it was necessary? Y: As I understood it, the trip was really pretty much against his wishes. I don't think he really wanted Kennedy to come to Texas at that time. F: It was part of a package to Texas
back to Washington D.C.; LBJ’s first night as President; the combined LBJ/JFK staff; Ted Sorenson; LBJ’s State of the Union address and concern over the budget; Senator Harry Byrd; getting the budget under $100 billion; task forces; Negro voting rights

Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

where he subjected this concept to some scrutiny down there. L: No, I don't. G: Right. L: Yes. Do you recall Heller--? Was this after he became president? Well, there was this time period between November 26 and the State of the Union Message
of draftees from disadvantaged backgrounds; income maintenance programs; campaign program proposal; January 1964 economic report on U.S. poverty; Sargent Shriver; community action; employment and poverty; labor union viewpoint; budget problems; Defense

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

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh KEENAN -- I -- 2 a messenger boy, worked in a ladies' hat shop, and worked in a millinery dyeing room. Then I had my first chance, through my uncle, to enroll as an apprentice in the Electrical Workers Union, Chicago Local

Oral history transcript, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

election for the first time in history. by about 97 or 98,000 votes. Goldwater carried the state Georgia was the last state in the Union to vote for a Republican candidate for president; prior to that time it never had. No amount of activity on anyone's

Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

, for one year and transferred to TCU for a year and, of course, no degrees either place. I entered the business world just before the stock -market crash of 1929, a very inappropriate time to start something, but [it was] a very educational experience

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on portions of the State of the Union or a crime talk from time to time. And, remember, it was during that period he created his Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice~ with Nayor Lindsay coming in, Kingman Brewster, Whitney

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

picture at this time? V: Not to the degree that he later became involved. He was involved in the financial part of it, but I would say that it was later on that Arthur took a role with President Johnson that really superseded everyone else

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

very vividly because it's so belied by what has happened, even in recent days of the birth of Lynda Bird's daughter. It amuses me that--the girls are big and I remember the time he told us, when Lynda was about five, how he took her to Neiman-Marcus
; problems with Interior Department; shift to Civil Division; Pure and Union Oil; critical of Ramsey Clark as Attorney General; LBJ’s difficulties with Establishment press; missile/satellite program investigation; LBJ’s neglect of functions as leader

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

known then-Senator Johnson, he called upon me from time to time to advise him with respect to matters, frequently dealing with civil rights, which was not a particular expertise of mine except that I had worked on the restrictive covenant case which had
; LBJ as President; Vietnam War; LBJ and credibility; Nixon Administration; civil rights leaders and the Vietnam War; LBJ and education; various Presidents’ support of civil rights; LBJ’s early position on civil rights; LBJ’s 1965 State of the Union

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

such impact. I recall that he had some input into some problem--whether it was an oil problem or a steel price problem, I'm not sure; but I was not personally involved, and I was not aware of his involvement in other economic problems up to that time. F

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

--the Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee--started because of the very panicky reaction throughout the country to the firing of the first Soviet space satellite, Sputnik I. At that time our space program was in its incipiency and it wasn't getting a great deal
; problems with Interior Department; shift to Civil Division; Pure and Union Oil; critical of Ramsey Clark as Attorney General; LBJ’s difficulties with Establishment press; missile/satellite program investigation; LBJ’s neglect of functions as leader

Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, 1970 INTERVIEWEE: HARRY ASHMORE INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Santa Barbara, California Tape 1 of 3 F: Mr. Ashmore, let's talk first chronologically. let's give a very brief resume of your life up to the time that you began to emerge

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. 1970 INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES ROBERTS INTERVIEt1ER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Roberts office, Washington. D. C. I Tape 1 of 3 F: Mr. Roberts, you were in Dallas at the time of the assassination, November. 1963. R: Ri ght. F: Did you have any

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in disagreement with the Kennedy Administration's sale of wheat to the Soviet Union. Did he ever talk about that? N: No. I don't [recall it]. G: HO\'J about on Vietnam at the time he was vice president? He went to Vietnam once. N: Yes, he did. the staff

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