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Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ALAN L. DEAN INTERVIEWER: David G. McComb PLACE: Mr. Dean's office, Department of Transportation, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: Now, last time we were talking about the task force under Mr. Zwick in which you worked to set up the initial
  • Fast passage of the bill; final version of the bill; role of the unions; problem of Maritime Administration; appointment of Alan Boyd; Dean's appointment; acquiring staff and office space; organization of DOT; field offices; White House role
Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • they paid for it on the basis of it being delivered on the docks. MU: About that same time Mr. Johnson had his first real strike crisis. this didn't involve one of your unions. I think It was the railroad strike in 1964. Did you get involved with him
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and I got it through the House. That was in 1934. Today there are 23,000 credit unions in the United States and 25,000,000 members with over $20,000,000,000 in assets. It has several times as many members as all the other financial institutions
  • in 1941; credit unions; Rayburn and LBJ’s strong Congressional leadership; Congressman Buchanan; Board of Education meeting; John Nance Garner; passage of the Veterans Bill; Robinson-Patman bill; Joint Economic Commission; REA projects; space program
Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Soviet Union being first to orbit a satellite. Then he told Lyndon Johnson that he thought I could help him with outer space hearings. Johnson at the time was chairman of the Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee. So then Lyndon Johnson called
Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: WILLIAM F. KNOW LAND INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Senator Knowland's office, Oakland Tribune Tower, Oakland, California Tape 1 of 2 F: Senator, to get this underway, let's talk briefly about your early career until the time you came
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: BARRY GOLDWATER INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Senator Goldwater's office in the old Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Senator, you came to the Senate the same time as Lyndon Johnson, in 1948. G: No, I-- F: You
  • Goldwater's senate experience with LBJ; lawyers in Congress; the Taft-Hartley Act and labor unions' influence on Congress; Joe McCarthy and censure; LBJ as Senate Majority Leader; LBJ not wanting to be vice president; LBJ's first heart attack; LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • off three times--bwice, they tried it the third time and we resisted, to have a hearing in Mississippi under that administration, despite the fact it was obviously the worst state in the Union and we'd had the most complaints from there and we'd taken
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a reception at the Carlton Hotel for Vice President and Mrs. Truman. F: At the Carlton here? s: Yes. During the reception someone, either Secretary Forrestal who was secretary of the Navy at that time, or Mrs. Forrestal, suggested that my wife and I come
Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • no experience in this area at that time. However, I did graduate in personnel management and later went to the advanced business school at Harvard as pertains to finance and political problems that come in the advanced management program. So I assume
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Truman Administration. At that time, I don't recall exactly the position that senator Johnson-F: I'll refresh you on that. November '48. He was a new Senator; he had been elected in Then, after '50 when Ernest McFarland was defeated, he was named
Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • when he came to the Senate or even prior to that time, if you knew him as a Congressman. H: Well, I first knew him in early 1947 when I organized the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, as its first chairman, and he was a member of that Committee from
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, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • popular maybe some of these other things would be carried along with it. B: Anyone working on this would have to read that. Actually space at the time was a comparatively minor part of that message, the second State of the Union message. W: Right. I
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the maximum extent. At that time, we were talking about three miles beyond their border for Tidelands. Now we're talking about two hundred miles, and it looks very much like this is what the world's going to come to, and the reason being that the Japanese
Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in 1961 . I assume he was acting on the advice of other people because he had never met me before . The first time I ever saw him was in his office in February of 1961 and on that occasion he asked me to take over the job as Director of Defense
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, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • did you first get aware of I guess about the same time I did. I became aware of him when he first began running .for Congress, but I didn't know him. F: Did you know him at all before you went to Washington? B: Yes, I did. I'd known him
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • at that time was in the Treasury Department. So he invited me to join the Budget Bureau LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --the following people: Governor Stevenson, l"Ir. Rayburn, Grace Tully, the driver, and myself. And we drove to the Ranch in Johnson City. F: What was Grace Tully's role in this? M: She was, at the time, I think, one of LBJ's secretaries. had, of course
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Nixon's aspirations at that B : time, and how much help, if any, you received from the national party . Nixon, of course, flatly denied that he had any Presidential ambitions-that he intended to spend four years in Sacramento . But I hammered away from
Oral history transcript, John J. (Lt. Gen.) Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • theater of World War II. After World War II, I also served in Korea as Division Artillery Commander in 1956-57 time frame. From then on--when I came back from Korea in '57--1 spent the next approximately ten years in intelligence as the Director