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Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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- 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
- , and Lyndon Johnson heard about it, was in town, and personally came over to welcome me in my new job. Secondly, we had several meetings very early, just the two of us, and then with others around his responsibilities heading the President's Commission. I
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , 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
- went to Florida, I was responsible for the state of Florida. I went to New York and saw people in New Jersey and was in Washington some. M: So I worked around all [inaudible]. That must have been difficult for you. As I recall, Johnson wanted
- in the South didn't have the financial base in the early days to support it. So I got Reverend Kilgore involved, who was up at the Friendship Baptist Church in New York; Gardiner Taylor in Brooklyn; and others, so that this thing had some financial base
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
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- was then at the [Democratic] National Committee. The two of us worked, always, very closely together. greater than mine, and through him we made others. His contacts were But there was an attempt to encourage the thought of creating new ideas for developing contact
- 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
- 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
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- , they're the problems the same in Texas or New York, California or Connecticut, then eventually if the states and local subdivisions do not respond, then the federal government will respond. So in those areas I think the federal government should
- what I was getting to. VM: He ran in 1941 and was defeated. OM: That's right. F: You were still pretty new on the ground yourself. OM: Well, that was the year we moved to Washington, you see. No. I misunderstood the date. That's the one you
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
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- and then they changed that title . Incidentally that job paid a new sum of $1800 . F: Oh, you got a big raise . M: So I got a raise . here . That was during the time that Mr . Johnson was Lyndon was here and he and Lady Bird were the office forces around here
- a job that I thought would be constructive . Government Operations fitted that category . be done . It was available, it could They were putting some new members on it . The Republicans controlled the Congress, you understand, in January of '53
- these faucets on and off. But first of all, the extent to which you can do this is sharply limited. I ."ouldn I t want to pull a figure out of the air. But we've got now a new budget concept which is approaching 200 billion dollars. Only a very, very tiny
- . B: You were the latayer retained in the case . Schwille case that Yes, and worked with another lawyer by the name of James P . Donovan who is now deceased, who was a member of the Texas Bar and the New York Bar . LBJ Presidential Library http
- , 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
- /loh/oh 2 K: Because he was new and Douglas knew that I didn't know him and he thought perhaps, I imagine he thought, that I could be of use to Johnson in his career and that Johnson would eventually be a man of influence that I should know because
- the . F: No, I mean after the assassination and the coming of a new President . B: It was a smooth transition . State . . . Yes, we had the same Secretary of There was really little change in terms of operating procedures, and in terms of what we
- aging n ew s w as that Lyndon had flow n up, ju st a few h ours ago, to New Y ork for the in sta lla tio n of A rch b ish op T e r e n c e Cook, taking w ith h im , not on ly L u ci, c w h ich i s n a tu ra l, fo r h er strOng C a th o licism
- Lady Bird has photos taken with Mrs. Post & her staff; Lady Bird back to White House; newspaper stories; LBJ to Hawaii for Vietnam talks; LBJ, Luci & Lyn to New York for installation of Archbishop; upcoming Austrian dinner; upcoming Texas trip
- 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
Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton
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- door yelling that the President had been shot. So we all rushed into the kitchen of the ranch house and watched Walter Cronkite report the news on the television set in the kitchen, Secret Service men included. Some of them were back
- officials. Now, just to give you an illustration of what I'm talking about, at one point the U.S. Customs and Immigrations had constructed a new office building at the border--a new U.S. Customs and Immigrations building there-F: This is at the bridge? T
- because when he first ran for the House of Representatives in 1937, he had--it was a special election--he had corne out for the President's Court Packing Plan. That instantly and forever identified him as a New Dealer in the minds of many people in Texas
- 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
- was advancing a trip that very day, in fact, for then-Vice President Johnson to New York. I was in New York with Secret Service agents for the big B'nai B'rith meeting at Madison LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
- index : Page or estimated time on tape Subiect(s) covered 1 Biographical 2,3 Organized labor's view of Senator Johnson 4,5 Trying to put across a new labor view in Texas 6 Communication Workers of America 7 Local union 8 Union
- 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
- . by no means unique in that attitude . Oral history is really fairly new, and we are just sort of relying on the intelligence of the future scholars to be well aware that that kind of circumstance does develop . And indeed I think perhaps the purpose
- the Truman Administration. At that time, I don't recall exactly the position that senator Johnson-F: I'll refresh you on that. November '48. He was a new Senator; he had been elected in Then, after '50 when Ernest McFarland was defeated, he was named
- for the fa m ily . A fter th ey ca m e, M r s. S h riv er turned to m e and sa id , "I h ear O sw ald has b een k ille d ." That w as the f ir s t new s I had about O sw ald . We w e r e told by p ro to c o l o ffic ia ls that w e would rid e w ith M r s
- 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
- of the country. And then on the closing day of the campaign, on Monday night before the election on Tuesday, he asked me to join him and two of his sisters in New Hampshire and Massachusetts for his closing speech in which we were glad to take part. And then I
- had an opportunity to ride with him up to Hyannis Port. So I got on the plane. He had a man from Georgetown and he had [Allen] Duckworth from the Dallas [Morning] News. Most of the agencies preferred to have their people at the various points to make
- 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
- . 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
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- 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
- 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
- . forgotten a coupl e of others that were therec I have I think Arthur Schl es inger \'Ias in there and a coupl e of others. B: It was generally assumed at the time in the newspapers that you '.'Jere there as kind of a representative of the New South. S
- that I did in Of course, it does develop problems, but I've yet to find any govern- ment that doesn't present problems. M: The problems are just different is all. There was some thought apparently when this new D.C. government was set up
- ; 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
- believe Paul Ylvisaker was the principal spokesman for the state of New Jersey at which there were also representatives from the city of Newark, I continued to play a coordinating role for the goods and services that were made available by the federal
- 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
- New York
- LBJ & Lady Bird read newspapers; to St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City, for Robert Kennedy funeral; the Johnsons pay respects to the Kennedy family; lunch on plane back to Washington; Lady Bird reads newspapers and takes nap; mourners killed
- St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City
- interest for the community, to find out what went wrong. Then that was the period when there was some violence in Clinton, Tennessee, and some in New Orleans. I visited those cities. any political connotations at all. It did not have In those days