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Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
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- Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Geissinger -- I -- 26 [about] a place a block away. And as we were walking up toward the place, it had a red light outside of it. red light. I mean
- to do with the passage? S: Well, the election of that overwhelming majority in the House had a great deal to do with it, yes. M: Now, [Speaker John] McCormack, as I recall, blocked the final vote. S: He did, and in retrospect it was a very, very
- -- 15 House; it is very exposed. They don't block off the street when you get in the limousine; they hold people at bay while you climb down the stairs and into the limousine, so that they don't actually cross in front of you. They don't clear
- arrive at a community there and I would generally walk out in the middle of the street and several hundred people would gather around me and I would walk along the streets for many blocks, you know, and I could see that there were a number
- friends ,.,7ho hL·d played together, so when I·]e got up there we found that George and Joanne had just purchased a home in McLean, Virginia. ~fuen I\'e started looking for a house, \·le found one about half-a-block from them clOim the street
- dmm there, for eXiJ.'J':ple--George Christ-ior " indic ; ···"~d to you e::.rl ;. gr:.' - dOHn \Q just lived a block apart. the White House to help work on the ane! I had not been involved on helping llith the He and I, as I I knew :~1.ics ffi
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- the Thornberrys were very close friends of the Johnsons. apart. They lived about three blocks They lived on Davenport Street and President and Mrs. Johnson lived on 32nd Street in northwest Washington. Congressman and Mrs. Thornberry were very dear to me
- dinner or supper or sandwiches, and I know I didn't leave the room from the time we got there. I didn't go around the block. I would say, my guess would be twelve hours. We stayed there, Pretty intense. Everybody was there. F: Had it pretty well
- . And that offends my legal soul to the roots. But beyond that I've done nothing more than cry a little at night for the profession. B: Then this was the area that was more or less blocked out for you when you arrived? G: Because nobody else was doing
- and printed these tags "Love that Lyndon." made a serious effort. thing. B: And he Well, the Truman thing didn't amount to any- Stevenson had it blocked up. I was going to say, did the Truman announcement scare the Stevenson camp badly? H: Oh, yes, sure
- . Tuesday." It will be called up again before the committee next He said, "What? What's that got to do with the RFC?" said, "That's for you to answer. block knocked off. I I tried to answer it and got my You answer it!" (Laughter) He said
- to me, "Hey, something has happened here." Our station was only four blocks away. So with the thought in mind, you know, whatever has happened here, the best story in the world is not worth a damn unless you can get it out, my first move was to get
- that some people had: The ball game was over. I could count. if we can block Kennedy on the first ballot, then we can get them to pick a second choice. R: Kennedy had the votes well before the convention. people and he had them counted. He had damn good
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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- . And I was standing next to Johnson when [Sen. John G.] Tower confronted him and stood and blocked his way for fifteen or twenty minutes, you know, demanding--and the press just grinding away-F: Do you think Alger organized that? S: He was key
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 2 (II), 3/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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- on that. The President went up and down on this block grant approach that the Republicans had. I remember he called me one day and said, ''Well, what's wrong with their approach?" Well, my feeling at the time was that it was wasteful to funnel money through a state
- on. Then there are some that are done on a 25 per cent sample, and there are some that are done on even smaller samples than that. The desire, of course, is to get meaningful data at the small unit level, even down to the block if necessary, certainly the enumeration
- and wanted to enjoy those grandkids. That this was a fact. But I think an overriding factor was also his own conviction that his image, whatever that image was, had become a psychological block and the chances for a breakthrough for some kind of slowing
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
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- it, and as county attorney I can remember being called out to several polling places to settle problems that would come up. I don't know whether it happened at Precinct 13, which was the old Nayer School down off of South Cameron, about three or four blocks from
Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- because it could have beat him out there. If we had put a tax on them they would have said, "Well, here's our senior senator out there, been back there these many years, and can't block it." So there was a lot of ramification to it. That's when Kerr told
- in the White House, the sentence or paragraph slipped through, and in the next morning's press all hell broke loose. It is the word "policy" that is the stumbling block. Some writers are conscious of "policy" as they sit at their typewriters,. would
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 16 (XVI), 11/21/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
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- -- Interview XVI -- 14 O: It was the level of the effort they expended to block us. It was at a level of sleaziness that was despicable. G: Was it negative campaigning or was it--? O: From our position we were convinced it involved expenditures of monies
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
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- be some effort to block Wallace from participation, that he should be drummed out of the party officially. None of that occurred. Meanwhile, Wallace was showing considerable strength. Again, in my role, what could be done in the interest of harmony? Have
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
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Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois
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- there at one o'clock. And we went up on the Rice Roof, and as we were going over from the Post Building, which was downtown Houston then, over to the Rice, about four blocks--he told me that a man who owned the Queen Theatre and the Zoe in Houston and owned