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Oral history transcript, C.E. "Curley" Doyle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • up to my house in Beaumont. We came back to Beaumont, and they stayed in Beaumont, and he came out to my house and we played poker, had a good time. That's all. G: Now, again, you were overseas, I think, in the latter part of World War II when he
  • Professor H. M. Greene; LBJ's early teaching career; Doyle's involvement with National Youth Administration under LBJ; LBJ's 1941 Armistice Day speech in Port Arthur, Texas; Doyle's visit with LBJ in Paris during World War II; LBJ's 1948 Senate campaign
Oral history transcript, Val M. Keating, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of it--and it is there, his handwriting--minimizing my effort, saying in effect, "This is harsher than it really should be. worked to death, and just do what you can. II He know you're He didn't tell them not to do it, but he took a little of the pressure [off] that r
Oral history transcript, Sim Gideon, interview 2 (II), 10/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Sim Gideon, interview 2 (II), 10/3/1968, by Paul Bolton
Oral history transcript, Roger Stevens, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with the then-Mrs. Kennedy, who was not quite the easiest person, you might say, to deal with, and had strong opinions of her own. He said "Well, he's been abusing me all the time and, if I reappoint him, they'll thi nk I'm afraid of him. II I said, "I don't
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEW II I DATE: March 21
Oral history transcript, Najeeb E. Halaby, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and Sherman Adams' and General Spaatz to whom he was chief of staff at the 8th Air Force in England during World War II. did the groundwork. Curtis really And then General Quesada, another air force general, came along and did the frontline work on the Hill
Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • nationalization took place? H: I think periodically the Foreign Relations Committee has exercised a role. It did following World War II; and as you say, that's one illustration, the so-called Hickenlooper Amendment, which said we shouldn't give American
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • President Johnson. go in and Mr. Wilkins said: So they "Mr. Vice President, we want to talk to you about civil rights legislation. II This was another one of many occasions where President Johnson's knowledge of government, his keen personal understanding
Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • did, in Moyers' office briefly before I left, yes. II He said, I want to kno\'1, can they pull it off? What ki nd of options are there in the democratic development in Vietnam?" effect. "And I want it frankly. or some such phrase. Words
Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • her morality but I obviously get indignant the same way. And to hear, for instance, that at the end of World War II the French government first promised Ho Chi Minh that they would stay out and allow the country to be free, and then they secretly
Oral history transcript, Javier Baz Manero, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : II Did you first see the President after his retirement at Acapulco, or was it in Texas? B: I never saw the President after his retirement in Acapulco, because r~r. Alemán took great care that practically nobody was near him or had something
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 3 (III), 5/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • once or more. About the first time held mentioned something about he was LBJ's first roommate, I said, II Well , Raymond, Barton Gill claims that honor in San Marcos." And Raymond said, "Well, no big deal. But I LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . G: Your language ability was not utilized in World War II? K: It was utilized. I was once asked to interpret French/ English between the island quartermaster on New Caledonia and the French governor, who was Admiral D'Argendieu [Admiral Thierry
  • How Krimer came to work for the State Department as an interpreter in 1963; biographical information; Krimer's World War II experience; Krimer's first work interpreting for LBJ; Krimer's early impression of LBJ; traveling to Germany to interpret
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Lehan, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. M: And you got a--? L: B.S. in Electrical Engineering. [I] got out during the war years, World War II; [I] got out in February 1944, which is--normally I would have gotten out in June 1944
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 2 (II), 5/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 2 (II), 5/12/1969, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Richard Spinn, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Spinn -- I -- 18 G: Do you think he foresaw the threat of war? Before World War II? I noticed he visited Brenham here several times before World War II, and I just wondered if he expressed
Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that there was an organization called the Capitol Press Club, which was established during the World War II years by black reporters basically working for the black press, because they had not been accepted for membership in the National Press Club. The Capitol Press Club still
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 8 (VIII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • this became a very crucial issue. In fact, the problem began in World War II and was significant from then on, because during World War II, these irregular carriers did a good bit of the large transporttype work of transporting personnel to various parts
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . We sold aluminum. We went to the steel people. He said we would not use the antitrust or tax laws against them but we would be aggressive in trying to get them to hold their prices and wages. And Fowler said that with Vietnam, unlike World War II
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 60 (LX), 1/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • these things that Morse would periodically say if we're really at war we ought to get with labor, get them to make an agreement, the way they did in World War II, to end these strikes. Then on the third, I guess, we met with Morse, Mansfield, [Nicholas
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , line 22 transcript Interview I, p. 40, lines 21-~ transcript More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh DATE RESTRICTION [same sanitization 5/9/00 NLJ 00-105] 1130170 A same sanitization 5/9/00 Interview II
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • out ",hen he told the President what he Has [;oing to do. I t must have been a very traumatic thing Larry, f,,·~ bec.-.use Larry car.:e out \,Lth tears in hie: eyes and told me when he left, he said: III believe that's one of the finest, Ii"3t
  • Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Oral history transcript, Helene Lindow Gordon, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh LINDOW -- I -- 11 and,iI just couldn't [believe it]. You know it was just another blow, after all that had happened. Anyway, I was with her a lot
Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Grosvenor -- I -- 5 Society. II Then he said, "You know, Senator, when I was a boy, my mother brought me up by putting the Bible in my right hand and the National
Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • me and sa i d, "VIe ~ 11 have a . nel'J president--" This is on the twenty-eighth of October, I think. He said, IIWe'll have a new president by Saturday. II G: Did you believe him? H: I sent the message back to Washington, and I said
Oral history transcript, Julius Richmond, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . This was about ten o'clock in the evening when the meeting broke up. Joe said, ~What to have a drink or something?" processing 1ine. II are you going to do now? You want I said, ~No, I'm going back to the He said, "The processing line? What do you mean
  • Biographical information; Head Start; developmental action; Sargent Shriver; grant application process; Syracuse project; parental involvement; Even Start program; Title II and Community Action Program; Child Development Group of Mississippi; Head
Oral history transcript, Robert Vincent Roosa, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , but to the point where we had a pretty clear sketch of what in my area of interest we wanted to try to do before inauguration day. ... ~ II. [This is] a contrast that I won't draw" any further, but this certainly has not been imitated in 1969. Did you or do
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • with separate -in turn would sre~ial be allocated and detf:Tmined by composed of the governors a.nd same t-ime as later Buc;gE:~t budgets for Appalachia, whose II COlll!111SsioliS fedsy-al d com:lriss-ion P.t the l~er:'esentative. 'm=:re set up
Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ; you've been Collector of Internal Revenue, and if a Democrat is elected, you might be in the position for appointment to ---elected as President in 1956--- you might be in the position to be appointed for another federal office. II And I said, "I should
Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it publ icly? N: Oh, sure, sure. time. II As a He said, "He's a very expensive man. Don't waste his I used to wonder why everybody at the White House would jump when I wanted anything. At the Ranch, in Texas, they'd jump, too. I'd say, "Gee, I'm
Oral history transcript, Zephyr Wright, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • stay there. G: How would this work? Would you go up to a hotel, and if they would say, "I' m sorry, whites only"--? W: Yes. One time I know we stopped at a place, and Mrs. Johnson asked them about a place to stay. for you. "No. II She sa; d, "t
  • balks at not having meat ration stamps in WW II; trying to keep LBJ on a diet; LBJ visibly ages in the White House; CTJ-LBJ relationship; LBJ at the symposium on civil rights at the LBJ Library
Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , enlist in the army, and their reward would be citizenship. Like we did to Yugoslav pilots and so on in World War II. So I said, "Yes, sir. How much time do I have?" Well, this was like Tuesday afternoon. I could be off a day, but it was like Tuesday
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • that it had on the economy, certainly in the United States. And that prevailed until after World War II, long after World War II, when the Middle Eastern countries started producing so much oil that Texas became relatively unimportant. It's still the most
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • finally came to be called I' Landscapes and Landmark s. II I had been searching my ·" mind for a name and came up with " Landscapes and H lstory-- as one suggestion; when Liz, one of the fastest thinkers on earth heard my suggestion, she said, "I've
Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . F: Was Henry Ford II useful at all in channeling things towards Detroit? Did he have any sort of a special clout at the White House that you could tell? C: He had a special clout, but he really didn't use it. He was sort of really
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh 12 problem. The situation evolved in a sort of an accidental way; the thing evolved rather than by any design on anybody's part. F: What work did you do here during World War II? W: First, during the defense period
Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and period of time, they were armed with the old carbines from World War II and the Korean War and some of them that I had had the old French weapons that they used. The Vietnamese army, I understand later when they got the M-16 rifles, they really had
Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • pol.ice protection .for..all of these Negro leaders? [Were there] .threats against their li'ves and so on? J: Not too much, because during those periods of time, there was a lot of anonymous telephone calls; there was a lot of note writing and II
Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in 1941, the year that I fin- ished my law school work. In August of 1942, on the day that I got word that I had passed the Virginia bar, I also passed my army physical exam. I was stationed in Baltimore during World War II, doing staff duty