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Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • building he did that we looked at was the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs at Princeton. I also saw another building too. And while they're beautiful and elegant buildings--I don't know if you've ever seen the one at Princeton? F: Yes. H
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you list Richard Boone. Boone I'm sure worked on it. Hackett working on it. Richard Dave Hackett, I don't remember Dave Bill Capron probably worked on other things. Harold Horowitz worked as a lawyer and I don't remember what part he worked
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 17 (XVII), 12/17/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a neat package. G: Let me ask you to discuss your allies here in the Congress and your opponents. O: You'd have to start on the House side and say that Chairman Cooley was at least willing to work with us to get a reasonable bill out. Harold Cooley
  • Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee Harold Cooley; the creation of the Department of Transportation and pressure to keep the Maritime Administration separate; the 1966 minimum wage increase; the Demonstration Cities/Model Cities Program; parcel post
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the poverty-stricken people beginning then were central city blacks. He wasn't quite ready to take on civil rights head on like LBJ did later. He figured his mandate was too thin. Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt. a presidency just for civil rights. Then he
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the coalition for that year. I'm not saying that this is the way people think of it, because again, even very experienced politicians have been caught up in this myth, mostly perpetrated by Woodrow Wilson, that that's the purpose of the political platform
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • city, New York was Rome; everybody went up there for the But in any event, Premier Clemenceau had asked President Wil son how the United States government worked. extremely complicated affair." He sai d, II It I S an President Wilson said, liMy
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 3 (III), 3/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was made in that period. Then the matter came up again at the end of 1964 in the context of a visit from [Harold] Wilson. And he just wasn't ready to make it a bargaining issue with Wilson, which he would have had to make it to get the kind of progress
Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in charge to agree to stop in my hometown of Tarboro and pick me up there. I got on the train there and then we stopped in my congressional district in Rocky Mount. She spoke from the platform of the train there, and then we stopped in Wilson, also my
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Congresses had been selected by state legislatures, because the amendment hadn't been in effect before. This was probably a rather deceptive thing to Woodrow Wilson. There was a very remarkable Senate leader, I think one of the three greatest of all times
Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . They WOUldn't have liked me any better. that thing went. Udall did a good job as a secretary. That's the way And when you follow a man like Harold Ickes that had made the kind of reputation he had, he's pretty hard to follow [for] any man. And I didn't
  • Biographical information; Judge Ben B. Lindsey; Harold Ickes; Alvin Wirtz; FDR; LBJ techniques; Harry Truman; tidelands; civil rights; 1960 Democratic convention; Chapman's health; national lawyer's group for Johnson-Humphrey in 1964; conservation
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • attached here the agenda for that very meeting, and you'll notice in preparing ourselves for the meeting there's a reference to Wilson McCarthy, and he would be asked for a head count and trouble spots. Ken Birkhead would respond on the food stamp bill
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : A couple of weeks later Deputy Director Wilson also pulled out. part of a new team? M: Yes. F: Or just some dissatisfaction on his part? M: No, Wilson was a holdover, and Wilson felt that if he wasn't made Was this LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Marks, Leonard Harold, 1916-2006
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the candidate himself, Governor Stevenson, was over-confident? H: It was not so much over-confidence, I think--although he was confident. . It was more a personality trait. He just did not get excited. He was as unflappable as Harold Hacmillan, at least
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and I got a call from the President, he changed his mind, and is sending an airplane to pick me up to go on one of those aborted peace missions. I saw the Pope, General De Gaulle, Harold Wilson, and would have continued had we not had a death
Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Friday -- I -- 17 people working. T: Were most of these people from the Budget Bureau? F: Yes. Harold Howe became involved with it. He worked with us; we invited him, and he cautioned about costs. He, of all people, would start
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • giving a concert the night before down in South Carolina, and I'm giving a concert the next day in New York." I said, "Well, that's just great. You can stop by Washington in between times and sing for the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Harold Wilson
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the military. Prime Minister [Harold] Wilson was about to arrive. I always remember that whole scene, because the limousine pulled up at the South Portico and they were trying to get me out and into the Mansion very, very quickly so that I wouldn't disrupt
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • working in that office for about thirty years. F: Among other things, Rene criticized the menu that was served Harold Wilson. C: Yes. F: Who decides on the menus? C: Bess and Mary Kaltman, the housekeeper, and Mrs. Johnson. F: Does the chef come
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 5 (V), 7/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • tried to prepare the press by getting as much material as we could on the visitor, because most of President Johnson's visitors were people not very well known in Washington. Only occasionally you got a Peron or a Harold Wilson. -:'. Particularly
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the appropriations, get approvals, things of that nature? J: Yes, I can1t remember. with PWA, WPA, Interior. There was a man named--he was always meeting I don't remember exactly what [Harold] Ickes had to do with it, but Ickes had something big to do
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • responsible for that than anybody else. it. Probably Hank [Henry Hall] Wilson worked with him on Maybe Lyndon Johnson asked Landrum, I don't know. I wasn't a party to it, so I don't know. G: Was Lister Hill asked to sponsor it in the Senate, do you know
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was overthrown and Harold Wilson, the Labor Government won the election. So here was sort of a climax within the campaign and I was with Palmer Hoyt in Denver, and the President of course had his lines out to everybody, his usual telephoning. Hoyt and I talked
Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • weekends there. F: What sort of state dinners? W: I don't remember who they were for anymore. F: Anything else? (Some new voices enter into conversation from this point on; Mrs. Edie Wasserman, Mrs. Lyndon Johnson) EW: One was the Harold Wilson? W
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, III, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in the Buddhist movement, Thich Tri Quang or any of those people? H: Yes. They were very articulate. Tri Quang was always a kind of mystic. Trying to talk to him was like going to a Harold Pinter play. I don't know if you remember when the Dallas Cowboys
Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • dealt frequently with the legislative liaison staff--Henry Hall Wilson, Larry O'Brien, etc. But it was mostly in the context of either what to propose in the way of legislation or how the legislative program itself was going, that I participated. I
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 28 (XXVIII), 9/24/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • he did over the next two years, which brought about Watergate. G: I want to ask you some of the details about your role in the 1970 election, but first, anything on [G. Harold] Carswell and [Clement] Haynesworth? Any role that you had in generating
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • thought, are U Thant and later on Harold Wilson. R: Well, it's true that he and U Thant were not soulmates, and that they had important differences.This was partly because President Johnson found U Thant to be unreliable. This always offended President
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that no southerner had since the Civil War, other than Wilson, who wasn't really from the South. He had been born in the South, but-­ F: Did Mr. Sam somewhat buttress that opinion? J: Yes, I think so. F: So that you were just geographically blocked. J: I
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • McCloy-- Again here's our chairman of the board, the Establishment-- McCloy was designated by President Kennedy as his adviser in Arms Control Disarmament matters before this agency was set up. M: This is the position that Harold Stassen had under
Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . charge. type. Larry [O'Brien] was in I was his deputy and sort of a deputy-administrative assistant We had Henry Wilson who worked the southern states [in the House]; while Mike Manatos handled the Senate, David Bunn handled the eastern states and Irv
Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on the plane the President's speech for San Francisco summarizing the Honolulu meeting. He tried me out at that time. He said, "Now, I've got to write to [Harold?] Wilson about this. You do a draft to Wilson." He was trying to see how I operated in the context
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • into those kinds of matters again and [was going to] devote myself to my profession until Harold Hughes came along, who was Governor of Iowa, and asked me if I would help direct his campaign for re-election in 1964. Governor Hughes is a magnificent man
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 4 (IV), 12/4/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that many of the bill's supporters were confident of its passage but that you were not, that you thought it was going to run into trouble. Apparently there was a problem with the tobacco area congressmen, [Harold] Cooley and others. Evidently there was some