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Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

so well, a 1924 model new Ford, Model T, that did not have a battery ; we always cranked it . He wasn't privileged to campaign very much because my mother was ill and because he was making a crop, as well as teaching school . went with him, I'd say
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

newspaper guys who really understand the complexities of the Agriculture programs ; and the agriculture programs are complex, and sometimes difficult to understand . There are just a few of them, mainly ones like Bill Blair of the New York Times
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

deal. Of course, the FBI was here, and they We examined various items and questioned where certain things happened and all that sort of thing. I'll get to Warren now. He had a very brilliant lawyer from New York that he was fond of, and he made him
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of them--as the guest of Argentina and Brazil, we got off at one of those places down there. There was a New York Times article that they were quoting that it was rumored that I was to be selected as Secretary of Commerce. But that's all I knew, and I

Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

every accommodation that you could get at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. You could have a radio, you could have lights, you could have refrigeration, and you could have everything that they had in the Waldorf-Astoria with a good highway, a good
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and their house in New York and their place at Majorca,and they're looking forward to going back the next summer . Well, you can't run the government like that . You've got to come prepared to stay with it . F: They sort of like the trappings of office rather
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. One, it is unique in its visibility. With the possible exception of New York, there is no city as visible in the nation or the world as Washington, D.C. As the mayor says, whenever two bumpers hit, it's heard around the world in Washington, D.C
; initiative for ordinances or legislation in D.C. government; Cloud 9 concept; new D.C. government; urban problems; D.C.'s preparation for marches; April riots after MLK assassination; Brookings study; prevention of riots; gun legislation; Resurrection City
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Executive Committee. M: Yes. I was not there. was there. I was in New York, but my business associate Yes,- it ,vas very wild, I understand. B: Of course, Johnson was certified by one vote-- M: One vote. Charlie Gibson's vote from Amarillo, who
Biographical information; first meeting LBJ; LBJ’s liberal and New Deal identification; Gerald Mann; President’s court packing plan; 1948 bitter campaign; Taft-Hartley Law; Horace; Busby; Roy Wade; Walter Jenkins; John Connally; Sam Houston Johnson
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, he would wait until the last moment before he would personally authorize the wheat shipments . As a result, the Indians found it very hard to maintain a rationing estimate, because they couldn't know what to count on . The American Embassy in New
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

exactly vihat all the inner struggl es staff membfi' in the M: edj'llei~ fail~ly \.yC:I~e ff)l~ a years. You'r0 also perhaps in a position to answer a general question. In the sixties there was a great deal uf talk about the so-called new economics
Biographical information; the Eisenhower, JFK and LBJ Administrations and the Council of Economic Advisers; new economics; Troika; tax cut; contact with Congress on economic matters; Appalachia program; SST; Agriculture Department budget
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Roberts -- IV G: -~ 16 The ordination of I guess it was Archbishop [Terence] Cooke in New York. R: No. You know, if I saw a piece of paper or if I saw a picture or something of the kind, it might spark a thought, but no, I don't remember. G: May
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

goes on in the political life in the United States . And I unhesitatingly say the brand of politics being played in Texas, in all of my memory, is entirely different from that that's playing in Mississippi, in New York, in Pennsylvania, in Illinois
Biographical information; organized labor's view of Senator Johnson; initiatiing new labor view in Texas; CWA; local union; union at the nation level; 1968 Chicago telephon strike before convention; 1960 campaign/convention; LBJ's effectiveness
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

realized that he was being surrounded by men who shared the grief of the family. Then, much to our surprise, as we were getting ready to leave for Steve Smith to return to New York, he asked if it would be possible to go by the area where the President--we
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

members that would go around purposely . They were cashiers in a bank back home before they came here or they sold insurance, one . We had one from New York that was a cashier in a bank and he'd go by and make it his business to know everybody . Then we
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Relations Committee] which Humphrey chaired from about 1958, I believe, on until he left the Senate. So she was involved in foreign policy to that degree. handled that subcommittee. She She is now living in New York and keeps running for office up
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

saw Thornberry and Thomas, Brooks, I think Gonzalez, but I can't be sure. They were there and we were all talking in hushed tones. I still had not seen the new President, didn't know where he was. We were sitting there some time when suddenly he
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

came in as chairman and many new people came in to the National Committee . These were not people that were par ticularly well-known on the Hill . In the days of Mr . Truman, even at one time when you'd had one of the members of the Senate--[J . Howard
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, but that was a pro forma exercise in all likelihood. So, as long as Idris was in charge in a very conservative monarchial government in Libya, it was really a separate account. That has all changed, of course, since the ouster of Idris and the advent of this new
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

a 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 14 talk in New York a few days
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. There would be no reason for that . Clearly, I didn't work in New York . Clearly, I didn't work in the South, because in those days the southerners considered me even more of a traitor than they do today, a traitor to my class or my race--I'm not clear
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Goldberg -- I -- 17 me copies of the briefs that were submitted to New Orleans and to New York. F
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a group to Eddie Senz in New York and pay the bill for all of them to have make-up treatment, and learn how to do make-up. Of course he would remind them that he had spent this money, you know, and therefore to make your face up and look good. He
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

such that Now there may have been one or two dissenters, but I don't remember that they made it known. F: There was some talk of a floor fight by some of the people who opposed Senator Johnson. T: That's right. F: Did you do any ,york with other
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

background and how I got started in Texas politics, I was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and came to Texas during World War II. As a relatively young man and with very little interest in politics, I met my wife in Austin, Texas and went to law school
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

here that ,.,as at that time Powell, Rauhut, Maginnis, Reavlcy, and Lochridge. After having been in that law Eirm practicing law for some two-and-a-half years, when January 1963 carne around Governor Connally was looking for what he referred to as new
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a protracted period of tir_,;, but it seemed ltke a lengthy period of tin~e. I also recall that, at the time--i t seems to me that it w as prior to the response from Hanoi about the peace talks--and the Presidcnt got Cy Vance to come down from New York
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Telephone conversation # 11158, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT KINTNER, 12/20/1966, 7:57AM (Item)

"WASHINGTON"; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN; LBJ INTERRUPTS CONVERSATION TO LISTEN TO TV NEWS ABOUT POLITICS, POST OFFICE DELIVERIES; CONTINUES ON NEXT 2 RECORDINGS; PREVIOUSLY OPENED IN PART ON TAPE K66.01, PNO 7

Telephone conversation # 11160, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT KINTNER, 12/20/1966, 7:57AM (Item)

"WASHINGTON"; TV NEWS ABOUT VIETNAM, FEDERAL BUDGET AUDIBLE IN BACKGROUND AT TIMES; CONTINUES FROM 2 PREVIOUS RECORDINGS; PREVIOUSLY OPENED IN PART ON TAPE K66.01, PNO 9
RFK'S PRESS LEAKS ON LOOK MAGAZINE EXCERPTS OF WILLIAM MANCHESTER'S BOOK ON JFK ASSASSINATION; JACQUELINE KENNEDY'S LAWSUIT OVER BOOK; WASHINGTON POST STORY ABOUT WALT ROSTOW; LBJ EXTENDS HOLIDAY GREETINGS TO KINTNER AND HIS WIFE

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 2 (II), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

~ time had come to leave as well. It was at that particular point that the president of Wesleyan came to me and indicated that they were creating a new post and would I be interested. I canvassed the situation and concluded that this would in fact
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 H: Yes, the legislature adopted a new legislation code or a revision of the Texas election laws in 1951, I guess it was. And one of my duties as executive assistant attorney general was to handle
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

; served some in New Orleans; I served Some in the Atlantic and some in the Pacific. My last tour of duty was at Kwajalain in the Pacific; I was there when the Japanese surrender took place. And as quick as I could get passage, I carne back to America
for only VHF channel in Austin; JFK assassination; ICC Commissioner; change in LBJ after his heart attack; post-Presidential visit to Ranch; LBJ as a very sentimental man
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, then I got there about the tenth of December. I got there about two weeks after the assassination. G: Okay. F: When I got back to Saigon I obviously had a lot of catching up to do because I was out of touch, you might say, with the members of the new
Van Kim; Ton That Dinh; Mai Huu Xuan; David Nes and Mike Dunn; management of the American Embassy in Vietnam; Lodge leaving his post as Ambassador and his political involvement; Flott duties under Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson; Max Taylor; comparing
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. You didn't start out to be a career diplomat . I took the Foreign Service examinations in May of 1936, and I started my first post at Vancouver at the end of December of '36 . F: Did you have any background in Latin America, or did you just sort
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: Oh, yes, considering that I was new and green. I was the main political guy for Brown, so there was some value from their viewpoint. B: But it was pretty heady stuff. What was your impression then of Mr. Johnson's chance for the nomination? 0
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

out and seeing what was actually happening in the countryside. And my report recommended a very radical overhaul of AID, with the creation of a new rural affairs division, but at the level of assistant to the director so that it took its authority
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to have a meal with him or to have a talk with him. F: You didn't know him particularly well though before he became President? M: No. F: Relate the circumstances surrounding your receipt of the news of the assassination of President Kennedy. Where
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 1 (I), 1/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the new 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 Pollak -- I -- 2 Solicitor
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of the Operations Coordinating Board of the National Security Council, which was a new board. The purpose of it was to try to coordinate overseas opera- tions of the federal government. B: Were you formally disassociated from the Bureau of the Budget in those
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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