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Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • like to talk to you. Can you come up tomorrow?" I said, "John, live got a dedication of a new industry. II said, "I'm going to New York on Saturday. II could you stop off in Washington on Friday?" certainly. II And he said, lit-Jell, So I said
Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , trying to learn more about the activities, to utilize some of the work that I'd had at the university. At that time the conflict in Korea started. I had been 4-F all during Horld War II because of a problem of health in prior days. had had a long period
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Paris again until this trip, because I was with him all those years. G: And then right at the end of World War II, I guess, he went for the first time. R: That's what I think may have been the other time. But if so, this would have been his third
  • in support of Henry Gonzalez's campaign for House of Representatives in 1961; LBJ's rapport with the Mexican people; traveling around the U.S. with LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Styles Bridges; the China lobby and isolationists during World War II and later
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , humor . No humor . no Ernie Pyle . of the war- You know, you had no Bill Mauldin . There were a couple of old World War II who had been pretty well and tried to do in which there was no That was its chief characteristic except very black humor
Oral history transcript, Walter T. Kerwin, interview 1 (I), 9/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and became II Field Force commander in July of 1968. (Interruption) G: We were talking about challenging aspects of the job of being chief of staff, and I guess that was one of the big ones. K: Yes. Aside from that, the question of personalities
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • reconcile a war--how we could get a war into an economy that was running full blast. We didn't have that problem, you know, in World War II. World War II, we were lucky. The country was running at about 50 per cent of capacity, or 60 per cent. We had 25 per
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview S-I, 8/1994, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • of people whose lives had been touched in one way or another. "I can remember that he got me information when my son was lost in the Philippines during World War II," one letter would say. See, Johnson really started out as an errand boy for the Tenth
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (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 INTERV lEW I II DATE: June 9
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and intending to stay six months to a year but found one challenging assignment after another and completed that particular tour of service at the end of World War II in December, 1945. M: Is this when you were counsel for Tennessee Valley Authority? F: After
Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • then after World War II, as to whether that would be under the military or be a separate entity, and it was decided to make it a separate entity and that had worked well. more than just a military matter. And the space venture was thought to be Von Braun
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • for the FBI? S: Oh, I went in about the time of the beginning of World War II and stayed in till the end of the war. I returned to Dallas then to practice law. [vi: Did you join this firm that you're now in at that point? '. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ; Right. ~.]as appointed. They didn't think that somebody over sixty really ought to be appointed. So they put in a rule that ,,,hen something like this--I told you about the three categories, "Qualified," ''tie II-qualified," "excep- tionally
Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , by the way, administered a program of war claims, involving roughly 23,800 claims. We did that in a four-year period. M: This would be from World War II? R: These were World War II claims. The law was passed on October 22, 1962. LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 2 (II), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 2 (II), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Warren Magnuson, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • signed. to the point where all Nimitz had to do was sign them. II We got them So he looked up the day we went down there , and said, "Oh, you two are here again." He was pretty busy, you know. So he signed the papers assigning me to go out to meet
Oral history transcript, Harry Nachlin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this during World War II, or did he talk about--? N: No, I don't think so. Actually, World War II--the only helicopters that made it into World War II arrived almost at the end, and they arrived in the China-Burma-India LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Archer Parr, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1984, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , sir. Yes, sir. I was going to school at Texas A&M when he died, and came home for the funeral. Shortly after that I joined the Marine Corps. F: Where did you serve? P: In the South Pacific. F: This was in World War II? LBJ Presidential Library
  • Family background and biographical information; Parr's military service in WW II and Korea; Luis Salas' role in LBJ's 1948 U.S. Senate election; George Parr's contact with LBJ; George Parr's role in the 1948 U.S. Senate election; disagreement
Oral history transcript, Nelson M. Bortz, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , the Resettlement Program, and things of that sort. O f course, when World War II came along, there was the need to reduce the number of publications. This publication was not eliminated, as I recall, at that time, but it was reduced. Meanwhile, there were other
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • office . M: Wherever was convenient . Did you ever meet at your ranch? I believe you had one in Falfurrias, or somewhere near there? B : No that was years later . That was after World War II . This was all in the '30's and '40's . M: Would you
  • Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Baker -- IV -- 6 farmers were big employers of hired labor. I,Jhereas in the Depression years and Horl d Bar II years, where Department of Agriculture
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the paper that Ike didn't know what he really was, was he a Democrat or was he a Republican, because he had been taken out of the ranks of the army military as an obscure colonel and made into the most popular military leader of World War II by his mentor
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • ilk;} :at to cs3s I ~~ iose I :L:247t=1 . ~,c ii~?ilt''.i: ; You c?-4n'1 wa to c allc" ;e with -aim, cad yotz ? r 1-low hid ii corfs.e to he associated witii him in the NYA Project? I had been in South America a few years and after returning I
Oral history transcript (conversation), Lyndon B. Johnson and Ted Sorensen, interview S-VIII, 6/3/1963 (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh U3J A . ·i Ii k ~ pl2.ce.. dI T ;·-, :~; 1-_1 ·1 .J n 1 t h T hell with confronting those peopl2. may~e fatherly. But I think he He should stick to th~ moral issue and he sh,:;·-11 d do it without equ·i 11oc:a tfon
Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • start until I came back to active duty. I was recalled to active duty at the time of the Korean War in September of 1950. My entire previous experience was in World War II, close to four years, and I was an infantry platoon and company commander
Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • brought him into the loop. I participated, still as a guerrilla, in the drafting of the Economic Opportunity Act. Boone called one day to ask me to come over to a meeting at Justice where we spent the day working over the draft of Title II with a most
  • of OEO; Congressional issues that slowed the passage of Title II War on Poverty legislation, such as family planning and programs in rural areas
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • say the rate of entertaining in the White House seemed to go up much more rapidly than our population explosion. In looking back on the records, not just during the Johnson Administration, but since the end of World War II, I went over the figures
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEW II DATE: April 4, 1969 INTERVIEWEE: ELIZABETH CARPENTER INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mrs. Carpenter's home, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Liz, we'll dispense with formalities on last names. Did Mrs. Johnson
  • Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh AC ot-1/ June 28, 2005 Geraldine (Gerri) Whittington White House Secretary Interview I: June 5, 1990 Interview II: July 18, 1990 The Library is making these interviews available without a signed legal
Oral history transcript, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , there were doc- And all that business had ended up in Title II about having community action organizations. were direct recipients of grants. That was deliberate. I guess they It may have been a bad idea, but it was surely deliberate. G: What was your
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 2 (II), 5/2/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • attempt at statehood was made right after World War II, and that went on for nearly 13-14 years. We had, as far as we were concerned, demonstrated most ably to the nation our esonomic ability and independence, our political stability. But there were
  • Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 2 (II), 5/2/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker (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 INTERVIEWEE: MRS
  • Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on out there. Then I told him it was a group of neighbors that came out there to meet him, and he said, come?" II Well , Mr. J. Edgar Hoover is his neighbor. Did he I said, "No, he's out of town, but I just let one of his aides go upstairs
Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • tried not to show his disappointment. His friends had urged him to contest it, but he said, "No. the way the ba 11 rolls. There'll be another day. II That's And so he 1et it go at that. Well, we go now to the matter of his security. One day he
Oral history transcript, Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Lasseter -- I -- 11 because she alvfays had a car. But I said, "I just don't knov:. thi nk you're too young to marry, II or somethi ng 1 ike that. I I really di dn' t \\fant her to marry just then. G
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 5 (V), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for a little while, and I said, IYoung man, sit down. I For the next hour and half I gave him a lesson in water rights. advi se me after that. I never had any trouble with him trying to II G: (Laughter) That's a good story. 0: Yes, it is. G: Do you
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 2 (II), 1/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , to say something about the balance of payments problem. My understanding is that the balance of payments deficit--so-called deficit--has been with the United States almost since World War II, and that it is now recently, just this year, being brought
  • Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 2 (II), 1/17/1969, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • there were any "had to be's." However, it soon became apparent that there were several "ought to be IS. II And it was the work of the task force to take a look at, first, whom were we talking about. kinds of needs do they have?" "Who are the poor people
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with the President, because of the position he occupies. But she came back that afternoon, when she came in she was smil ing, and she said, "Well, you were right." about it." I said, II Well , tell me She said of course she sat up on the front row, and he paid
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • immediately assumed that somebody had duplicated the key. Now in the case of Vietnam, I've always had the feeling that we reasoned from the analogy of our experience in post-World War II Europe. We looked at Communist China as though it were Russia; we looked
  • Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (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 DATE: March 12, 1969
  • Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker