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Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of the United Nations. The United Nations effort goes back to the time he was a mayor of Minneapolis in 1947 and 1948, and he was then involved with Mrs. [Eleanor] Roosevelt and other people who were very instrumental in establishing the active American
Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to then tell me. Lyndon Johnson was telling me the truth. me the truth. that. I've always felt he was telling I think he had a burning compassion for unfortunate people, irrespective of their color. thing about it. I think I think that he wanted to do
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • was still sufficiently junior upon the House Committee on Foreign Affairs that I was not often called to the White House for briefings upon any of those matters. My active participation and association with Mr. Johnson and the people in the White House
Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • too many people in the campaign that were willing to concede that we even had a chance. F: In something like that, there's not really any relationship between you and the national ticket, is there? C: Not directly, nOa F: You don't tag along
  • . Conference of Mayors; National League of Cities; July 1967 riots in Detroit; Kerner Commission Report
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • have today, bearing in mind this was back in the late twenties. But he was a great believer in government by the people and for the people. He was a great believer in constitutional government too and in people's participating. G: During this San
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
  • in 1935 before leaving to run for Congress; housing in Austin, TX; list of people who helped and advised on NYA and the Congressional campaign; trip to D.C. on FDR's train
Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 position was going to be on a number of issues. reasonably good. I'd say his image was Of course, there are always people who judge a man by virtue of his associations, and he had been associated
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ; LBJ-Sam Rayburn relationship; 1960 convention; LBJ’s acceptance of VP nomination; Lady Bird campaigning in North Carolina; civil rights legislation; religious issue; Senate luncheon; LBJ’s trips
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • engaged in what people believe was the first engagement against a regimental-size Viet Cong force, where three of the Viet Cong battalions actually came together in a coordinated way for a particular attack in the Delta. Well, I was fortunate in having
  • Development (RD) cadre program; Frank Scotton and John Stervaggio's roles in RD; the Ap Doi-Moi program; pacification efforts by the U.S. Marines; the hamlet evaluation system; the effect of the Tet offensive on pacification; advanced warning of the Tet
Oral history transcript, Horace D. Godfrey, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , in individual activity, you let your wishes be known to your neighbors, your associates, actually your supporters, because you do have people supporting you in a job like I have now. I had to have some political support in order for me to get this job. you let
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the cabinet members and the Congress and a couple of movie stars then they think that they've really had a good time. That was a problem that I had at the beginning with the National Committee people. They thought that we ought to have each dinner at least
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 19, 1988 INTERVIEWEE: DAVID GINSBURG INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Ginsburg's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 MG: Mr. Ginsburg, let's start today with the formation of the Kerner Commission [National Advisory
  • morning private meetings where LBJ would verbalize his thoughts on Vietnam and other topics; Tex Thornton's, Roy Wilkins', and other people's work on the Commission; partisanship within the Commission; criticism that the Commission did not publicize
Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • just about done with that, so let's work up to the Kleberg. J: I don't quite know how to put this, but in my own life I've done a lot of daydreaming, and I've been associated with people who've done (1 lot of daydreaming. I think
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
  • ; LBJ’s work in Welly Hopkins’ campaign; National Youth Administration; LBJ’s interest in race-related issues; the 1937 Congressional campaign; Claude Wild; LBJ’s inability to make a formal speech.
Oral history transcript, R. Conrad Cooper, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • agreement and therefore deferring the strike. We advanced that thought to the Secretaries and it was considered. There were conferences back and forth between the Secretaries and ourselves and the labor people and it finally evolved in the afternoon
Oral history transcript, David E. Lilienthal, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was administrator of the National Youth Administration in the State of Texas, some kind of services involved in that administration, and I was then in the TVA. And in this half-joking, half-serious way that made him such an interesting man, he recalled that he had
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 3 (III), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The people loved him. I keep remembering the enthusiasm now, the genuine enthusiasm that wasn't tromped up by advance men. I remember some hecklersCevery campaign has thatCand I remember a few antiwar type things, and I remember our way of dealing with them
Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • views to the attention of the President. As I mentioned last time, the great difficulty involved the people surrounding the President. If you have a filter between a special assistant, like Esther Peterson, and the President, I don't think that he
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • House which the President attended, where the matter was gone into a considerable amount of detail with him. He essentially approved the design. Then we also talked with the people in GSA--the library people--and got their thoughts. I believe
Oral history transcript, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were in HEW at the time and how you were drawn into the task force. H: Well, I was associate general counsel of HEW, working only in part on matters related to what eventually came about in the Economic Opportunity Act. Mankiewicz. I think I got
  • Circumstances involvement in War on Poverty; meetings; work on program; Adam Yarmolinsky; types of people on task force; Mike Harrington and Paul Jacobs; choice of clients for programs; different locations; working out the programs and the bill
Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was able to focus this feeling on the part of the people and build up stronger, to focus the disapproval and resentment. And I felt that General Mann was a beneficiary of that. But it wasn't long after Governor O'Daniel got in office that he himself fell
Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • probable and you check it with the President. You make sure it doesn't go out until his view has been established. M: The National Security advisory people over there in that sense see themselves as communicators rather than as policy makers! In other
  • Biographical information; contact with LBJ; liberal clique; Rule 22; LBJ’s knowledge of the world; opinion regarding John Leacacos: Fires in the In-Basket, 1968; operational differences between Bundy and Rostow; White House National Security
Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • together various things I learned at the Voice and the various things I've learned since—and conversations with Loomis and a lot of other people involved. Any national radio organization—the BBC, Radio Tokyo, Radio Moscow, the Voice of America—exists
  • Chancellor’s career history; getting to know LBJ. Mrs. Johnson’s effect on LBJ; European view of LBJ; Relationship of LBJ with the Kennedys. Chancellor’s appointment to the Voice of America and the following aspects of VOA: national radio
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • President was involved during that period. R: Well, in the first place, he was kept fully informed about everything that was happening in Viet Nam.He attended the National Security Council meetings and Cabinet meetings, and he had a State Department
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . In 1935, I was going to Texas to meet my in-laws, whom I had not met, and on our way we stopped in every capital city to see the WPA people and othe rs, transient people that I was working with. stopped in Austin. So we The National Youth Administration
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
  • ; Medicare; Helen Taussig; Advisory Council on Public Welfare Task Force on Income Maintenance (Heineman Commission); Advisory Commission on Status of Women; Esther Peterson; LBJ fixed associations between Wicky/Cohen/Social Security; Medicare; Mrs. Kennedy
Oral history transcript, J. Waddy Bullion, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • PLACE: Mr. Bullion's office, Republic National Bank Building, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 M: First of all, I'd like to know something about your background. Where were you born, when, and where did you get your education? B: I was born in Eden
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , served in World War II in submarines in the Pacific, in 1949 got a doctorate in Physical Metallurgy from Stanford, and from 1949 to 1968 worked for General Electric-the last five years as manager of their Tempo--GE's Center for Advanced Studies--in Santa
Oral history transcript, Gordon Bunshaft, interview 1 (I), 6/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . M: I hate to cut you off . That's about all I've seen him . You've seen a side of him, though, that a lot of people, even his closest business associates, [have not seen] . B: Well, he's been extremely kind to me . This was rather nice : One
Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • times earlier to join the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy and turned them down the first two times, saying that I was not an expert in radiation and besides, I was a reassurer of parents, not an alarmer. Homer Jack, the director
  • Campaigning for LBJ in 1964; serving on National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy; disagreement about Vietnam War; letters to LBJ about the war; RFK; HHH candidacy; White House Conference on International Cooperation; Spock trial; civil
Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 2 (II), 10/3/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was running for Governor and some people that I had been associating with in other things thought I had some organizing talents, and they called me and said they were in trouble, and I came down here to help them out. One thing led to another and lIve
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the seventies somewhere along there--but they included a lot of very conservative people, very conservative. G: Rayburn announced that he wouldn't serve as chairman of the Democratic [National] Convention. R: Yes. G: Do you recall why? R: I think
  • Composition of the Policy Committee; Rayburn’s decision not to serve as chairman of the Democratic National Convention; Paul Butler and his role; liberals and the Democratic National Committee; LBJ’s lack of commitment to his candidacy
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the first major things I ever worked on. Walker was accused of trying to influence politically the people in his command basically, as I recall, in two ways. One was through use of the Index of Americans for Constitutional Action and their voting records
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the population. That and the awful picture which you may remember of General Loan, the national police chief, executing a V.C. in the street. The terrible quality of the war in Viet Nam came home to people. It appeared that these guys didn't want to quit at all
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview S-XIII, 1/23/1987, by Nancy Smith (Item)
  • . Johnson-- 3 his daughters, the people he cared about. S: If he thought they had potential he wanted them to use it to the utmost. He didn't really help you in terms of saying, "Well, I'd like you to get involved in Head Start," or "I'd like you
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to the National Advisory Committee of the WPA. My work brought me to the attention of Aubrey Williams, Director of the National Youth Administration, and to many of the regional NYA people. work of the NYA. r kept closely in touch with the Many of those
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, Frank W. Lehan, interview 2 (II), 1/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Yes. M: --or those outside that community. Since you are in a part of the Department of Transportation, which is a highly scientific area, a technical area, you must have had some problems communicating with people even within the Department
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • and on, and for a number of magazines. I also have a kind of distinction from most newspaper people. I 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • made that first trip through space as first astronaut. of Broadcasters was meeting in And the National Association ~Jashington. could I please try to get [Shepard]. They called me and said Kennedy was going to come to LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • them all in my office. Are we doing copper at this time? Have you got the calendar? It's in my attaché case. You want to go get it. Ask Carol to take it out of my attaché case. We'll come back. On the first of January, after we met with the steel people
Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • by training and an educator/central banker al heart. I look the job at ABA in part because I was convinced the Association was not doing nearly enough to generate and support good national economic policy and research, particularly on monetary and other
  • Walker's first contact with LBJ; Walker keeping LBJ informed of the views of the American Bankers Association (ABA) members; Walker's banking and economics background and support for increased political power of the ABA; Walker's December 1963
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Did you ever consider a council-manager or any other variety of municipal government? P: We did consider those things. And I talked with people from the National League of Cities and the Council of Mayors, and we scratched around looking
  • AActivities as presidential adviser on National Capital Affairs; reorganization to commission and council system; selection of Walter Washington as mayor; council members; evaluation of White House staff operation; Pollak’s nomination of assistant
Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • - tures of him at that time, he was very slender. was characterized by enormous physical energy. And then as now he In fact, all the quali- ties that people associate with him as president were manifested at this early period. I mean, the human dynamo
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
  • Biographical information; how Jones met LBJ; LBJ getting Jones a job on the staff of Congressman Kleberg; LBJ as taskmaster; LBJ’s relationship with Kleberg; LBJ’s inability to relax; LBJ’s work as Texas director of the National Youth Administration