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Oral history transcript, Elliot Richardson, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • badly wants to be President, and he may very well be President someday. F: II Johnson never exhibited any sort of real corn pone qualities in the Senate, did he? He hit people pretty well on their own level. R: He was crisp and in command. He had
Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • should receive II I talked to Walter about it and I said, "I'll undertake this if you want me to," and I did. F: You worked around the clock. S:· And I immediately became just swamped with correspondence, but we did try to get out-- F: You had
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of World War II, and I think it was most helpful. it was. It was a friendship visit, that's what And I believe that every member of Congress ought to be--. I have profited greatly from my travels. There was a time when I could say that I had visited
Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • wanted to know what kind of student you were in college and wanted to know whether you had any subversive tendencies and all of this sort of thing. aBout you. lies?" II He wanted to know what I knew IIWell ,II I said facetiously,lIdid you tell
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Affairs Committee. He was always looking out after things for the State of Texas, particularly the location of bases and the development of military structure of the country because World War II had broken out, and he was concerned with what the outcome
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ." G: I was about to ask-- P: And he said, Warfare]. II I'm (Laughter) Well , here's Paul Linebarger's book on it [Psychological Read it and then try to figure out how you might apply something to the Vietnamese situation." So I studied
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 3 (III), 1/30/1969, 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 INTERVI EW II I DATE: January 30
Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • to the ESEA 25 The White House exerted power on the Democratic members of Congress 27 "Cre di bi Ii ty gap" 28 White House briefing 29 The Great Society; Vietnam War, Tonkin Resolution 32 Quie interpretation of Johnson as President LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • there in the Pedernales, Mr. Johnson tells me, multiply so fast that by the time you authorize this land and get it built there will be four of them to a mile, the standard was. electricity was M: II or whatever So they went ahead and they okayed the project and bro
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in aeronautical engineering from the University of Texas, worked for Lockheed, [saw] World War II service in the navy, and in 1952 [received] a doctorate in psychology from the University of Texas. Then after a time at teaching and as a research psychologist
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Kong, the more mature, older, some of the World War II and Korean [War] vintage correspondents out of Hong Kong, Tokyo, Bangkok, points east and west who would come in periodically to cover. Even Time magazine's bureau chief at that time, a fellow
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • -American Affairs. Then during World War II I did a variety of jobs--the Board of Economic Warfare, the Foreign Economic Administration, the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey. In the State Department I had been director of the policy planning staff. P
Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 3 (III), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Long -- II I -- 2 Johnson had never personally expressed unhappiness about the matter, · but I had reason to suspect that he was unhappy about
Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bird -- I --3 B: Yes, I commissioned him. G: Did you? B: Yes. G: Do you recall the circumstances? B: Well, now let's see, we're talking about the beginning of World War II now. G: He got
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 37 (XXXVII), 11/14/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • pads here in this? [In] any case, promptly after the federal court rejected the railroad's bid, Stuart Saunders was back on the White House phones. The appeal to Justice [John Marshall II] Harlan to stay the order of the three-judge federal court Harlan
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 12 (XII), 8/19/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • insight here on LBJ's thinking? Do you think that he foresaw World War II, and if so, when? J: Well, he early became a strong defense man. I couldn't cite to you just when, but as I think I've probably mentioned to you, it was Charles Marsh who
  • II; attending a dinner honoring Sam Rayburn and his sister, Miss Lou; the State of the Union address in 1941; listening to Franklin Roosevelt's Fireside Chats; LBJ's exposure to culture and music by the Marshes; LBJ's desire
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