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Oral history transcript, Cynthia Wilson, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • by the committee but his impact showed up more in Mrs. Johnson's involvement in issues around the country, national park issues like the Grand Canyon and some of these other issues that were very much of interest to Udall as secretary of interior. My impression
  • Wilson's work with the First Lady's Committee for a More Beautiful Capital; difficulties keeping committee projects on track; Mary Lasker; Laurance Rockefeller; Stewart Udall; the White House Conference on Natural Beauty; highway beautification
Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview S-I, 2/5/1985, by Elizabeth Carpenter (Item)
  • . But there are things which are done by government which only government can do. As Democrats, we have trusted government to do those things which by law and by the Constitution only it can do. And those things certainly are in the area of national defense and personal
  • ; the Equal Rights Amendment; the issue of abortion; checks and balances and separation of powers; the role of government as defined by Democrats and Republicans; the role of humanity in weapons-building; Jordan's beliefs regarding the afterlife.
Oral history transcript, Livingston Biddle, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1989, by Louann Temple (Item)
  • effort pro bono publico," and then one day when I showed him how the arts had grown in Rhode Island in ten years, and how all these organizations were forming because there had been an encouragement from the national level and from the state level also
  • LBJ's interest in arts legislation in 1964; Biddle meeting with Abe Fortas regarding proposed arts legislation; Claiborne Pell; proposing legislation that later started the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities
Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1975, by Elspeth D. Rostow (Item)
  • to deal fully with it. So, as a result, I was, for all these reasons, frequently in conflict with my committees. But I didn't consider that a failure. To the extent that the committees were not representative of the national interest and were pursuing
  • and congressional military committees relations with Defense. Role of Presidential Tuesday lunches; domestic policy.
Oral history transcript, Edward Clark, interview S-I, 12/15/1986, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • [Brown] as a friend and saw him, talked to him from time to time was [when] he was here with a job as [state director of the] National Youth Administration, just a little bureaucratic job, nothing. It was just one of those programs that they had going. He
  • and people in the oil industry; LBJ's campaigns against Hardy Hollers and Buck Taylor; the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947; how LBJ was offered a position on the House Naval Affairs Committee; attending the funeral for LBJ's father, Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr.; Billie Sol
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 8/19/1969, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • to Washington. The next thing, I heard Connally was in town at the Mayflower. It was about October 15 or November l. And he had had a meeting with the President. In 1968 they said I had let the Democratic Committee down. They said that because I wouldn't shake
Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996 (Item)
  • skills of knitting together, mobilizing, organizing, winding your way through a complex set of human and political interactions that he had mastered." "He knew what was happening in most of the committees everyday. He knew what progress was being
Oral history transcript (conversation), Lyndon B. Johnson and Ted Sorensen, interview S-VIII, 6/3/1963 (Item)
  • rights and, see, have a bunch of Dernccrats speaking cons ntly in the Senate and some in the House, leaving the Democratic Party with an image of anti-NE-1gro. Now, I don't think that necessarily needs to be. \'/e I think that g•)t to do our home
  • LBJ’s views of Vietnam while he was Senate leader through his presidency; the views of various senators about bombing; comparison of financial and physical support from the U.S. and the United Nations; Bobby Kennedy’s desire to see Rusk removed
Oral history transcript, John Wesley Jones, interview S-I, 6/8/1974, by Richard D. McKinzie (Item)
  • into the concert of European nations as a constructive and helpful . and democratic force. But I should also say, going back and thinking about those years> ·that " we were more forgiving, more forthcoming, and more positive in our efforts to help the Italians
Oral history transcript, NYA Interview, group interview 1 (I), 1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • care to organize the Democratic National Committee, that he doesn't care to exert a,direct influence on it, and so on. My own impression of this is as follows. rest of you agree. I wonder if the As I have known the President, he has never had much
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview S-I, 6/30/1988, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • and Shivers on the other for control of the Texas Delegation to the National Democratic Party Convention which, of course, at which you gave that keynote address putting Johnson's name in nomination. Was there anything-and why Elliott Roosevelt? C: In D: 1955
  • Connally did not ever keep a diary or maintain a large quantity of unnecessary papers; going to work for LBJ in 1939; a typical work day; Victor "Cap" Harding; distributing money through an ad hoc Congressional Campaign Committee; joining LBJ’s 1941
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, interview S-IX, 8/12/1969, by William J. Jorden (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-II, 11/10/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • wanted to do about Vietnam, it might well have saved his presidency and saved the country an enormous amount of grief. B: You've got a deeper faith in the good results of a rational, nationally-conducted democratic policy than I'm going to sign onto
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1, 8/14/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • be there Monday morning and I'll tell you the whole story." So I met him there Monday morning and he had been appointed state director of the National Youth Administration and was coming to Austin to set up and wanted me to work for him which I did and worked
  • in the National Youth Administration (NYA); Deason's marriage and move back to Texas; Deason's career in radio; an average day in Deason's childhood; the rural Baptist churches Deason attended as a child; other religious groups in the area around Stockdale during
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1b (I), 4/29/1986, by Walter Richter (Item)
  • them to give me my two weeks vacation and came to Austin and met him and he told me that he had just been appointed state director of the National Youth Administration and wanted me to help him get started. He had to get some people together
Oral history transcript, Wayne O. Reed, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1968, by Broudy (Item)
  • with this task force, 11 : i l. i serving as a link not only to the Office but als9 to the committees of i.i . I associations education national various the to and Congress . . :I I know something about all this because Mr. : Keppel's house and q mine
Oral history transcript, Cynthia Wilson, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • , except--it's interesting when I look back on it in that time, and that was the summer of 1964, there was a lot of activity on the national scene, of course, on the civil rights front. It was very clear to me, as a Yankee, that many of the people
  • ; how Wilson began to work on beautification-related correspondence; members of Mrs. Johnson’s beautification committee; Nash Castro.
Oral history transcript, J. Graham Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1968, by Monna Clark (Item)
  • thatis named a National assessmen t or a National sampling. In my State, for example, when we talked about statewide t esting, we had the same attitudes opposing statewide testing. Presently we have the oppositio n of chief State school officers to any
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview S-I, 8/1994, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • there, there was a lot [of] antagonism, and enmity towards Johnson from the faculty at UT. Harry's big job, and he did it extremely well, was to make friends with the faculty and get them involved at the Library, and they went on committees. They're a little too academic
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 1 (I), 3/9/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • of the Security National Bank and a director of the Los Angeles--I mean, Southern California Edison Company and Union Oil Company of California. He was quite a prominent guy and he taught me a lot of things. One of the things that was most interesting and I've
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • of the Security National Bank and a director of the Los Angeles--I mean, Southern California Edison Company and Union Oil Company of California. He was quite a prominent guy and he taught me a lot of things. One of the things that was most interesting and I've
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 3 (III), 3/11/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • of the Security National Bank and a director of the Los Angeles--I mean, Southern California Edison Company and Union Oil Company of California. He was quite a prominent guy and he taught me a lot of things. One of the things that was most interesting and I've
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • of the Security National Bank and a director of the Los Angeles--I mean, Southern California Edison Company and Union Oil Company of California. He was quite a prominent guy and he taught me a lot of things. One of the things that was most interesting and I've
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview S-I, 6/12/1973, by Robert Hawkinson (Item)
  • had the impression that while many of the task forces were quite important in terms of policy-generating suggestions, that the committees, formal · advisory committees made up of professionals in the vartous areas, adjuncts to the Office of Education
Oral history transcript, Ralph Flynt, interview S-I, 7/23/1968, by Jan Sofokidis (Item)
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