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Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of running for political office when I was in high school, and so one step led to another and it turned out that I did manage to win a couple of offices. A great many other people, especially when I was in college, had ambitions. lone time thought
  • Biographical information; 1960 campaign; 1960 Democratic National Convention; Luther Hodges; North Carolina politics; VP nomination; environmental health center; Henry Hall Wilson; smoking
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 5 (V), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was to be. And it came out later, after Dallas. Some of those resentments on the part of some of the Kennedy people toward Johnson probably didn't exist, or if they did, were kept close to the vest. My close associates, some of whom resented Johnson after Dallas, were
  • ; JFK's leadership through the crisis; keeping Pierre Salinger and JFK informed about legislative matters; press relations under JFK; Peter Lisagor; contact with John Bailey and the Democratic National Committee; Mike Mansfield's leadership style as senate
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that coverage by a group of younger reporters, good journalists, but young mavericks, rebels, young Turks, whatever label you want to put on them. David Halberstam of the New York Times, Malcolm Browne of the Associated Press, Neil Sheehan of UPI, Nick Turner
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with companies--potential advertisers. F: He was seeking national advertisers? W: Both local and national. Most national advertisers have local interests in the Texas area. F: And so he was hoping to work through the horne office to induce local people
Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Service regulations and other problems that were confronting people who had bachelor's degrees, the American Bar Association several years ago suggested that law schools should give doctoral degrees. So now I am a Doctor of Jurisprudence. LBJ
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • weeks in advance. Bill laid on the substance of who he was to see and what they were going to talk about with the embassy and with the prime ministry, head of state. Le~nard Marks would lay out with the information people for the publicity side
  • humor; camel driver's visit to U.S. and LBJ ranch; travel with LBJ as President; LBJ's selection of presidential gifts; graciousness of LBJ and Lady Bird; ambassadors' visits with LBJ; state dinners; LBJ's concern for people needing help; foreign policy
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on those occasions would indicate that they each regarded the other as a very close and good friend. B: In those days when you were on the. Truman White House staff there were associated with the White House a number of people who later became associated
Oral history transcript, Herbert N. Blackman, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • /oh 24 staff people in the association agreed to and as soon as they said anything approaching "yes," I ran to the other group and said I think we have something. And we did, because that developed three or four months later into the kind
  • investigation of export control; American business attitude toward open trade with Communist bloc; labor union's view; McClelland Commission; Herbert Blackmon; Sam Anderson; Sinclair Weeks; National Security Council; White House Council on Foreign Economic
Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , as a la\'Iyer. So I sometimes found myself slightly in the middle, but never with any consequential disagreements, but thoroughly enjoying the association because they were both fascinating people to be around. G: Did Harry Drought have any say-so
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
  • Biographical information; contact with LBJ; NRA; LBJ as state director; National Youth Administration; Harry Drought; John Nance Garner; NYA-WPA relationship; roadside parks; 1948 helicopter campaign; LBJ as a Congressman; competition between
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 23 (XXIII), 8/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and most of the Korean War was fought with people who had fought World War II, which is kind of a form of double jeopardy. If you take a look at it you'll find that most of the troops were National Guard troops that were hauled in, reserve units--most
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that these efforts came piecemeal--housing and then renewal, then community facilities loans and advance planning--and they came bootlegged under the title of another national purpose. You either had to save a money market as in the establishment of "Fanny May
Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , in making the initial appointments. He appointed public power people to the job. They were more interested in advancing the cause of public ownership than in exercising their authority for regulation. Leland Olds, who was an early chairman of the Federal
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • overtone. Some of King's friends and associates, Harry Wachtel(?) of New York and others were people who had been active in various organizations that were still on the Attorney General's list and that sort of thing. So it had that patina of concern
Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -on NYA experience, he had announced a project in advance and had gotten the press there; it was maybe a roadside park project or something. All the media people showed up, but the youths didn't show up so the project fizzled out, at least on the first
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
  • Biographical information; NYA; publicity; personnel; visits from national office; Mrs. Roosevelt; project procedures; 1937 Congressional campaign.
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Democratic Party down there, that was itself threatened by the very liberal people but had to be regarded as essentially moderate-conservative. Yet he had to protect that base while being the national Democratic leader. [It was the] same problem he had
Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • think so because the way that I see it these children making their debuts have to just go so hard during the Christmas holidays, and people who'd like to entertain can't get all the parties in. M: Well, you grew up then in Galveston? MT: Yes. M
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • associated with the New Yorker since, what, 1944 or thereabouts? R: That's right. ~1: And you are well-known as an author of numerous contemporary hi stor;cal type \;JOrks, Senator Joe McCarthy and The Genera 1 and the Presi dent, a fairly well-known list
Oral history transcript, Boyd L. Rasmussen, Jerry O'Callaghan, and Irving Senzel, group interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • for the Forest Service in charge of the northern region where we managed the National Forests for multiple uses--grazing, recreation, forest protection, insect and disease control, and cooperative programs with states, the management of the Forest Service
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • say that he can identify himself with Jack Kennedy and with President Eisenhower and Mr. Truman and Mr. Roosevelt and he identifies with Andrew Jackson, but he cannot identify with Woodrow Wilson. He has tried but he has no feeling of association. He
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in those days. But people There was a feeling that Eastern Europe would have been entirely free is we hadn't signed the Yalta agreements. Eisenhower had to go along with it because otherwise he would have split the Republican Party irrevocably, and he
Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • I arrived in Ohio, I discovered that Ohio State University was banning speakers from their campus, people with communist or socialist backgrounds or very liberal points of view. Early on in my administration I publicly stated that our campus
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • this sort of problem? I realize this gets into the knotty question of a national police force. V: Yes, it sure does, because, as you know, in the federal establishment you don't have what you'd really view as police; people whose duty
Oral history transcript, George Silver, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1991, by Molly Malone Chesney (Item)
  • --in conjunction with the doctors organization, the black physicians organization, the National Medical Association-develop a variety of projects, one of which might be a group practice center and another of which we hoped might be a nursing home project. We had
Oral history transcript, Myer Feldman, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: MYER FELDMAN INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Feldman's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Feldman, let's start with your association with that select committee. How did you get involved with it? F: I was working
Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 1 (I), 6/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . As a result of which, as I've indicated before, we formed the National Independent Committee for Johnson and Humphrey because of the feeling of many of us that he should be elected president rather than Barry Goldwater. It was surprising to many people
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • a two-year appointment to the Atomic Energy Commission from 1952 to 1954. From 1954 to 1960 you were in private law practice in Washington, D.C., and associated with several companies working in the atomic energy field. Also, you co-authored a book
Oral history transcript, Julius Richmond, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • their interest and then what happened was that we had to undergo kind of a role reversal, that is people like me did, who are accustomed to going through grant review processes for the National Institutes of Health, or whatever, where your whole objective
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it. On the outline that I sent you in advance, we covered, as I took it, the first two points. That would leave us to the number one foreign policy subject for today, I suppose, which would be the whole matter of Vietnam involvement, which we almost didn't mention
Oral history transcript, Peter Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • the portrait in the White House. The President was away at the time, and it was unfinished so I didn't want hinl to see it anyway, nor Mrs. Johnson either. But he had arranged to have it shown to some of the people on the White House Historical Association
Oral history transcript, Betty Furness Midgley, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • this. But the suburban housewife was used to the image of me standing beside a well-stocked refrigerator, and I think they thought that at least the image would be that I was involved with consuming, if not consumer problems, that people associated me in a kitchen
Oral history transcript, Philip N. Brownstein, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • into line early were the mutual savings bank's association . They were very helpful . Association of Home Builders got into line . Loan League was helpful . Then the National U .S . Savings and The Mortgage Bankers Association, I guess, had
Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Right. N: It was a joy to work with people like Dorothy Territo and Juanita, who cared so much about this job. I could come and go to Washington as I saw fit and did most of my work in the Executive Office Building, and [also] trips to the National
  • on donations; 1969 tax law; physical move of material to Austin; typical appraisal workday; comparison of working conditions on LBJ and Nixon papers; controversial Nixon deed of gift; President Eisenhower memorandum; personal association with LBJ; Pentagon
Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • columnist, as a national reporter. I remember when you wrote out that first book on the Washington Merry-Go-Round. P: I wouldn't call myself established. I was just beginning with the New Deal, I had started a column with Robert S. Allen in December, 1932
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • television, and so you didn't deliberately, like today's advance men do, book a small room so you can get an overflow. But the people were coming on different, they were purposeful. Money was coming in much better. Now the net of what I'm saying is that while
Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on in transportation. So these people were not unknown to me, nor were the kind of issues and problems of working with them. Dryden I had known for a long time, and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. I visited the Langley Field first about 1933, going
Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and you died here," that's about what we had. We had that kind of a country, four separate parts. And Johnson did believe that once you became a nation of people who fashioned themselves really together with a common purpose, much like [Jimmy] Carter's
  • presidential nominee in 1968; how to organize a major fund-raising event; efforts to get LBJ to support Humphrey in 1968; the 1968 Democratic National Convention and the Minnesota delegation; 1968 Democratic rally for Humphrey at the Astrodome; problems fund
Oral history transcript, Ross D. Davis, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that sprang out of the Korean war emergency. So I came down as a very junior lawyer into an agency, which technically was part of the Department of Commerce called the National Production Authority. Korean war. I was the WPB of the I planned to be down
Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was a very friendly man, a very down-to-earth man, a man who attracted poeple and knew how to deal with people. >. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
  • Bar Association; LBJ’s sense of propriety in discussing legal/political matters with Thornberry; education for the deaf; being nominated to the Supreme Court; LBJ not running for re-election; LBJ’s retirement.
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . From 1936 through 1963 you were associated with the Chattanooga Times as a reporter, then Washington correspondent, and finally editor of the News Focus service. This last period was from 1958 to 1963. In 1963 you became a columnist for the Chicago
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • said in June, too, that he was getting threatening and insulting phone calls, apparently on the race issue. Did he ever say anything to you about that? W: No, but he done every thing he could for the colored people all the way through. He always did
  • swimming pool; the 1956 split between LBJ and Allan Shivers; LBJ's 1956 relationship with organized labor; the 1956 Democratic National Convention; LBJ's and Winters' opinion of JFK in 1956; Ben Jack Cage and Winters' dealings with the Cage Brothers