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  • ed, "Widening Partici pati on in Prosperity. II There's a memorandum signed by Heller and Kermit LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • cars "7hich, of course, had r;:;ciios. Most of you came to work in White Did the President in tha.t period when you were somewhere between home and the White House utilize that service much, 0:: diG h Ii ;;ot in tC~lcli tend to Hilit until you
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Ii~TfTT!IE\'!LE : n:TElzl.'IHJER: Augus t F: LA;~r,.y JOE B, TErlI'LE More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • and having seen your resume, he has asked to talk with you. II I went to see Jack Connor and had never met him before, nor had I met Macy. But about forty-five minutes after I had walked in, I walked out, saying, "Mr. Secretary, the only thing I do know
  • hundred back, and if you'd sto 1en two hundred votes, gi ve them back. That's all I can suggest. II "Oh no," he said. Now this is where some of the frightening stuff comes in. "No," he said, "I wouldn't dare change that certificate that I sent." I asked
  • 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 DATE: June 2, 1969
  • Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell
  • I this out, and I worked pretty closely with Carl Perkins,and with Albert, with iI the Speaker; Phil Landrum was involved in it. I Mrs. Green was on the other side of the thing, so I couldn't do very much with her, although she's very key
  • Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 2 (II), 3/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh MILLER -- I -- 7 OM: I think I would call him a "hail fellow well met. He never forgot anybody. body. II
  • ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEW II DATE: July 29, 1969
  • Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
  • would be--you say after the war years--your first acquaintance with him would have been before the war years . B: Ba : B: Ba : Before the war years, yes . Before World War II, Yes, And the kind of activity you mention would have been, I assume
  • 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 INTERVIEWEE: NASH
  • Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
  • to the Pentagon and the Joint Chiefs, with whom I had many conversations. You remember I also sat as an ad hoc member of the National Security Council, and I served in World War II as an assistant to General [William] Donovan. I was sympathetic to them
  • price and the world price. B: May I ask here, sir, do I infer that the change of Administration because of President Kennedy's death really didn't make any difference in specific agricultural policy? ',.ii: 23 LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker
  • of your background. You are the son of former Governor Paul B. Johnson, Sr., also of Hattiesburg, and also governor of Mississippi. In 1940 you graduated from the University of MiSsissippi; [and you] served in the Marine Corps during World War II
  • was fairly clear-cut. J: Oh, it was very clear, very clear, yes. I wrote as a result of these two long visits and all the research that I did the State Department paper ca 11 ed "A Threat to the Peace, II whi ch was a report on develop- ments
  • that have blown up in the last two or three years," and he said, "In fact, these ginners down here just wait for us boys from the Hill Country to come down here and work in these jobs, operate these boilers. afraid to work i.n these gi'ns. II The people
  • ' Not really with my decision to do it, although certainly ,ยท,ithout his approval I know that I wouldn't have been permitted to come in. the way that that arose is this. Actually, During World War II when I was with the Army Air Corps in the Air Transport
  • and a White House transportation office manager, Jiggs Fauver, grabbed me and said, "We need a pool member; come wi th us. II I was filing stories to Washington and I told my office I had to hang up, and I'd talk to them later. car and we went to Love Field
  • the war and we're against it, why do they support it? During World War II, when I first went to prison as a war objector, if I had been five years LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
  • . Part of the trouble, of course, is that it's intended to do a variety of things, not all of which are consistent. The general genesis of military assistance was in the post-World War II period, where it was important to uS to restore the military
  • guess I did it much better then than I do now. I haven't been an announcer or air personality since I got out of Armed Forces Radio in World War II. think I'm that good. I had no desire to do it, because I don't If I thought I were that good, then I
  • was a temperamental Irishman. F: I've never talked to any McCarthy enemies who didn't like him personally. G: I think that's true. I knew Joe before he ever came to Washington. I knew him when he came out of World War II and he used to come out to Arizona
  • helped him to suggest--he might tell Carl Albert, "Carl, I think you'd better go get this thing going. II He was very intimately acquainted -F: What I was thinking of, in case something happened to him, you would have been in line to move up
  • World War II. I'd' been there actually a little less than a year when I was asked to head up this new board. The history of that was I had had a major part in setting up the arrangements under the National Security Council, under President Truman
  • gave me a quizical look as though saying to himself, II I s thi s man with me or against me?" Then he smil ed ina ki ndly fashi on. There were interesting talks at the dinner, including cordial remarks by Chancellor Kiesinger and I returned to my
  • about, the trip you are supposed--the thirteen states you are supposed--. II He said, "I don't know what you're talking about. That's the trouble with LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
  • around the door out there, but [there was] one I took down and now I think I had better put it back. II It was autographed, From Lyndon to Ma rsha 11 McNei 1, my fri end except where a story is concerned. II I thought that was about the finest
  • Ire my man II Six months later, Goldberg became a Supreme Court justice and Wirtz became the secretary of labor. I don't know whether they talked about this comnitment, but I think I had every expectation that Wirtz was proceeding in that same
  • Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
  • McGarr and said, "General, we won t be needing you I here, II which was rather abrupt. G: Do you have any insight as to what was behind that? N: Well, I'm sure the decision had been made that General McGarr would be transferred, but so far as I
  • more near to the problem, would establish standards, and it would be agreed upon that, "This is what we want. II Then you. would have to go on to the eyen more difficult problem of saying, II Well , now this standard applies to our city. How do we
  • will be everyone's Congressman, but I will not be your personal, private Congressman. you. II I will work with you, but I will not work for And apparently, it hit the public fancy. But I must say, Joe, that if it had not been for television, I wouldn't have been
  • industries been engaged in this sort of training? M: Oh, yes. You've had it all starting from the CCC days on through World War II when they had training courses for training some of the women workers that came into industry during World War II
  • with NASA they'd be releasing stuff to the other services. The only commentary I would add is this. One of the things that happened to us was the same thing that happened to the Germans in World War II. That is, they started out with such an overwhelming
  • Ed Welsh and the adoption of a plan to land a man on the moon; early competition between military branches and their fear of releasing secrets to NASA; how U.S. dominance in air power during World War II led other countries to advance technology
  • yourself a communications jeep or something. But I want to be sure that I can get through and you can get through in case there's any important intelligence for me. II So, by golly, he called me up at least four or five times in the very short period
  • Mercury under H. L. Menken. He really was the godfather of the book. Henry wanted some other things. He suggested, IIWhen you get all these things together, you talk to me, and weill get out a book. II I wrote some of the additional pieces he wanted