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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, Herman Von Holt, interview 1 (I), 3/9/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • annexed by either Russia or Great Britain or France which we--I'm told this all--which a great many of the people were fearful of you see. So we were very glad and maybe my feelings were colored. I imagine they were, but my parents were delighted. Having
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • annexed by either Russia or Great Britain or France which we--I'm told this all--which a great many of the people were fearful of you see. So we were very glad and maybe my feelings were colored. I imagine they were, but my parents were delighted. Having
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 3 (III), 3/11/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • annexed by either Russia or Great Britain or France which we--I'm told this all--which a great many of the people were fearful of you see. So we were very glad and maybe my feelings were colored. I imagine they were, but my parents were delighted. Having
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • annexed by either Russia or Great Britain or France which we--I'm told this all--which a great many of the people were fearful of you see. So we were very glad and maybe my feelings were colored. I imagine they were, but my parents were delighted. Having
Oral history transcript, W. Stanley Kruger, interview S-I, 8/13/1968 (Item)
  • of discu ssion with le ro-a .J l I this, with ~gree to m e th get to couns el partic ularly g !1 ).0 ~ for assist ance under Title IV . it IIl1 i. for ra ce, color , r2l i g i on o :c nation al orip).n re- le some probl ·2m s r es ulting from
Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1975, by Elspeth D. Rostow (Item)
  • complex economic and financial problems today, particularly the part of the world that I am closely associated with, the one hundred developing nations. The result is that I haven't had the time, I haven't had the resources, and I don't have the memory
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1979, by David Culbert (Item)
  • the National Guard and do the things that make the people realize that we are in a war and then get it over with. not ever go in is what you always hear now. Either get it over with or Well, at the time it appeared we could handle the commitment without
Oral history transcript, Inez Hughes, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • just yesterday about how he is now president of the--what do they call it?--the National Trial Lawyers Association. G: One other person I just remembered that was associated with the Johnsons who's from Marshall, too, is Bill Moyers. H: Oh, yes. G
Oral history transcript (conversation), Lyndon B. Johnson and Ted Sorensen, interview S-VIII, 6/3/1963 (Item)
  • here without I talking tour constitutional rights. We're all Americans. We got a Golden Rule, 'Do onto others as you would have them men i;1to batt·1e [ order the ;;;;,n 'l'lithout regard to color. The_y c__~ 0 :n'y our tlcrJ ·into fo:d1oles
  • 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, 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
  • , E.S. "Pat" Kelly, Max Mallick, Reagan Nesbitt, Justin Blakeney, Raymond Hicks, Henry Moore, J. Paul Secrest, J. Edwin Smith, Will Henry Burt, Hubbard Neely, Bert Horne, Gus Barr, Buster Brown, C.B. McNeil, Roy Swift; people from Wilson County
Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview S-I, 7/18/1968, by John Singerhoff (Item)
  • " the sparning of :· 1· Fede7al fU..'1dS in any schaoi district or in p~ogram that practiced of aey ~! . . discrL..~nation, one of the first confrontations you~ad in cutting . \ . I off school funds, or suspending pay-went of Federal dollars
Oral history transcript, NYA Interview, group interview 1 (I), 1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • and '.with the State Highway Commission to lay the foundation for the basic sort of work projects that \'le set up for these young peopl e. B: That's how we got those highway parKs started, you know. FR: That's right. Texas has always led the nation in highway
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Oral history transcript, Livingston Biddle, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1989, by Louann Temple (Item)
  • the bill as it was that it might not get passed at all. B: Yes. This is only my own recollection but I think that Senator Javits in particular was interested in a couple of people for the national council and may have--I don't want to be on record
  • 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, J. Graham Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1968, by Monna Clark (Item)
  • -term legislation and advance funding. The people have not called out loud enough, saying, "this must be." I anticipate that before long some action of this kind will be taken on a broader base than Title I. There are a lot of technical, and I guess some
  • The inability to evaluate the effect of changes in the education system; 1965-1968 education-related legislation; the need for the U.S. to put a high priority on necessary education; policy providing advance funding through the appropriation process
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview S-I, 8/1994, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • feel that in that building, and you certainly do through the people that were associated with him. But the fact that Harry was part of his 14 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996 (Item)
  • to tell people in cabinet meetings, national security meetings, everywhere else he'd just pop out with some strange comments sometimes. And once he said everybody in Johnson City was frightened of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
  • Difficulty in seeing LBJ's personality through his papers; LBJ's power in the Senate and ability to persuade people to support his ideas; LBJ's relationship with Senator Richard Russell; Russell's reluctance to serve on the Warren Commission; LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 8/19/1969, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • of Texas is ofbillionaires and people with dollar bills coming out of their ears. He wanted to raise one million dollars. I guess two or three times he talked to me about it and said we've got that four million-dollar debt to pay off. He resented Ted Dealey
Oral history transcript, Edward Clark, interview S-I, 12/15/1986, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • them everything in the world but the-D: You mean the way he treated his employees, the people who worked for him? C: Yes, and then other people that were less important. Little people he just--he was going for big fish. He treated Mr. Herman Brown
  • 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, interview S-IX, 8/12/1969, by William J. Jorden (Item)
  • , but when we had a fa.sci8tn advance and aggression, a. great many people started by corn­ promising and by trying to rneclhte the situation. And Chamberlin came back and thought he had obtained peace in our time, but it remained for Chuc-chill -- who had
Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview S-1 (I), 3/26/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • or whatever he didn't do or we didn't do. . . . D: Some people make so much of this shift in that national security action memorandum. M: I just want to stress that that was what he inherited, and God knows [inaudible] after that, no question about that. D
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1, 8/14/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • were born. D: Well, I'd be glad to--what you want to talk about. I want to go back a little bit and tell you about other interviews I've had. I've been interviewed by Library people before you and Mike [Michael Gillette] came there, by Joe Frantz
  • 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, Nolan Estes, interview S-I, 7/23/1968, by Monna Clark (Item)
  • ::_>.; our narrative history l o.f the 0.f f ice of Edrcati on, we arc int erview1.n:; Dr. Nolan I . Estes, Associate Coi:i:iissioner .for Elementary anc.l Secondary I Education, who has been i,.;:ith the 0.ffice since _1965 when ! I \. I he joined
Oral history transcript, Robert Fleming, interview S-I, 11/8/1979, by David Culbert (Item)
  • was going to do something on television, we rotated the turns. It was called the pool and each network would take its turn at providing the manpower and the technical people. When we later persuaded LBJ to permit installation of video-taping equipment
Oral history transcript, Peter P. Muirhead, interview S-I, 7/23/1968, by Herman R. Allen (Item)
  • 6 OF HE/\LTI I, EDUCATIO N .-'\ND D E P AffLJU~T 1 ~'/ ELfo.'\f~G 2 3 4 5 Intcrvie "\·1 of 6 . MR . ... 7 ·~ R P. PF.TE .·. ·- .... .•..... -. .. ~ · -~-- · _. Associ ate Comm is sion-::r l s. U. 8 Of f ic~ - ~. 1UJ RHEA D } - 'f
Oral history transcript, Dr. Arthur Harris, interview S-I, 7/10/1968, by Jan Sofokidis (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] I '. I More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh .I VOICE: ( The staff that you had at thjs tim e , '"hat I typ e s of sp e cialities did they usually hav e ? These pro gram people
  • 1962-1963 was Associate Commission in Bureau of Education Assistance Programs (BEEP); three divisions: 1. State and local elementary and secondary 2. Higher education 3. Manpower training; abrupt increase in staff in 1964 required new emphasis
Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview S-I, 2/5/1985, by Elizabeth Carpenter (Item)
  • Jordan, Texas state senator from 1966-1972, congresswoman from Houston from 1972-1978. In Congress she made a national impact with her incisive questioning during the Watergate hearings. She came home to Texas to Austin, the University of Texas, in 1979
  • Biographical information; how the U.S. government can help people despite its budgetary constraints; politics interfering with Congress doing what is best for the people; why Jordan left Congress and her future interest in politics; Jordan's career
Oral history transcript, Cynthia Wilson, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • of the future of the environmental movement and really being receptive to it, in a way. Bringing them in from outdoors and inviting all those people to the White House conference and subsequently to other events, as other legislation was passed--national parks
Oral history transcript, Billy Graham, interview 1 (I), 10/12/1983, by Monroe Billington (Item)
  • in the morning. He would get out of bed and get on his knees, while I prayed. I never had very many people do that. B: That's not the sort of thing he was doing for the television cameras or for the radio announcers. G: This was entirely private. And he liked
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-II, 11/10/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • , and what they added up to. B: Sure. D: Why don't we begin with the Dominican Republic? B: Okay. Where do you want to begin with the Dominican Republic? D: Why was Johnson so inclined to push this invasion, as people described it, and why--I 1 LBJ
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-I, 3/30/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh McGeorge Bundy -- Dallek Special Interview I -- 7 the tape. He had thought me useful, and he had not thought of me as one of the people in the White House who was trying to fence him out. For instance-D: When he was vice president. B
  • it; presidential decision-making; the Oliver Stone JFK movie and how young people believe such conspiracy theories; Robert McNamara and Dallek's and Bundy's reaction to Deborah Shapley's book Promise and Power: The Life and Times of Robert McNamara; LBJ's
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
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview S-I, 6/30/1988, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • , reduced to writing a great many things that probably I should have. I have, also, as a matter of practice, not duplicated any government files or papers. A great many people in government service, you know, as navy secretary, they'd duplicate damn near
Oral history transcript, John Wesley Jones, interview S-I, 6/8/1974, by Richard D. McKinzie (Item)
  • as the liberation of Italy took ( place? A lot of people began to race behind . . allied lines as the troops moved forward, ·arid it became a diplomatic as well as a ~ilitary problem. JONES: There was an · agency called UNRRA [United_ Nations Relief
Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin and Harold Howe II, interview S-II, undated (Item)
  • Federal ends. ! I \r9r Uncle Sam In3.kes it possible for a lot more people in the United States to · :get a higher education, because that 1 s a significant national objective. An~ we back a variety of specialties because they ar~ needed either by thE1
Oral history transcript, Walter Mylecraine, interview S-I, 7/12/1968, by Jan Sofokidis (Item)
  • l We donft move people about on tha t accoun t, which We \Vere 6 we very much l,.tse d to do in the Voice und in USIA. 7 used in the USIA to a wide ~prea d field of operat ion -­ 8 9 around the vorld I I~ey might be 10 I1 third 11 I
Oral history transcript, Ralph Flynt, interview S-I, 7/23/1968, by Jan Sofokidis (Item)
  • ~gricul tural workers·, !\! I f, I .
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview S-I, 6/12/1973, by Robert Hawkinson (Item)
  • him, as we would ask a profes sor or college preside nt in each locale , to draw togeth er a group of peop1e. Our intent was to get, quote, "the br.i ghtest people they could find," and it didn't matter whether they were social scient ists or physka l
Oral history transcript, Josefa Baines Saunders, interview 1 (I), 12/28/1964, by Juanita Roberts (Item)
  • . Saunders: Mrs . Roberts: Mrs . Saunders: Uh huh. Did it have a cushion in it? I'm sure it did. Mrs . Roberts: Almost all people did. Mrs. Saunders: Mrs . Roberts: Yes . Routinely. Mrs. Saunders: I think you always have them, a cushion in that type chair
Oral history transcript, Harry Schreiber, 1964, interview 1 (I) (Item)
  • , the radio operator, and the two gunners. We all went back and sat on a little cracker box in the back. bring the tail down for a short field landing. people were sitting in the radio compartment. This would All the re st of the The pilot, Frank Kurtz, sat