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Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

considered for any post in the civil rights field? You had the background through your parents. A: I did. I actually had been approached by Sarge Shriver and turned it down--the Peace Corps. But that certainly wasn't civil rights. 11m sure live had
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of view of getting the minority story told as well as important.power centers togo to minorities, I stressed the media a good deal--the New York Times, the New York Post--in those New York hearings, the various networks in both the New York hearings
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 5 (V), 3/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and the [Washington Post], and one other paper. But he always read the Times and the Post. G: The Baltimore Sun? J: Yes, the Baltimore Sun. It was around. There were several others around, but he wouldn't read them all the time. G: How about the [Washington
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

had gone to China in the early clipper ships and brought home Chinese export of lovely dishes of all sort and furniture and art objects. He had portraits on the wall of Greens from generation to generation to generation who had had important posts
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

actually we were in a much more sort of cozy family way in the Saturday Evening Post, too. I believe I remember I have some picture of him on the Capitol steps and two little girls dressed up in alike dresses--that was something one did in those days
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

presented by President Truman, but to no avail. He could not be persuaded. F: The Chief Justice didn't want to leave his post, I presume. 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

this Appropriations Committee post came up he wanted it and he wanted it badly, because he again recognized the power of being on that Appropriations Committee and handling that money. He knew what it could do in his district, and he knew what it could do among his
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

go to some form of post-secondary school; in this state, we're still 45 per cent, and that's not just a black problem. When we accepted that consent decree in the Title VI litigations, a hundred million dollars was granted these five historically
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

something for a parcel post sale?" "What's your favorite recipe for my recipe book?" "How do you raise your daughters?" That was always the hardest one. But we would stumble around and find a recipe and answer, whatever. I'd just type the letter, sign her
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

did that night was, I just had the girls who make telephone calls to issue invitations, which Emily Post will tell you you're not supposed to do from the White House but Emily Post doesn't know that we have to work with the possible; they called
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy? H: I was on North Capitol Street just at the main Post Office Building. F: What did you do--hear it by radio or word of mouth? H: Well, I stopped for a traffic signal and someone drove up to my side
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Dwight A. Ink, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

-thirds of them will either roll up their sleeves and correct themselves, or if they can't or don't want to, they begin looking for another post. Because very few people really want to stay on in a situation in which they are not doing their job
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 2 (II), 2/23/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Jacinto. [It'~where I said, There was a Jewish synagogue on the corner of You probably wouldn't remember that, would you? the post office is noW. So I called Jess and told him about this piece of property, that it was an excellent buy. "10th and San
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

be. And he said to me, IINow, Mary Lasker. you go and talk to Mrs. Roosevelt, and tell her that I'm thinking about this~ and also talk to Dolly Schiff, the publisher, and also editors of the "Post. They've got the idea that I'm anti-Negro and that I'm
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

. D: It was days before-- F: ~fuere this? did you set up your office; where was your listening post for all of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
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, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that Humphrey would be knocked out by double ca::ee.ts in Hisconsin and West Virginia; that Symington would be for a deadlock that wouldn't occur and would be left w2it~~~ at the post. E~t in connection with this Vice Presidency, if I was going to select
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

/show/loh/oh FISHER -- I -- 10 Mc: Did you have any occasion to sori of deal with Mr. Johnson or his staff in relation to what was happening back with your constituencies-post offices and things like that? F: On occasions I did. Usually my dealings
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

who felt that he was overstepping and overplaying his hand. Once again, Goodwin was exiled, this time to the Peace Corps, where he became a speech writer for Sargent Shriver. It was in this kind of obscure post which someone said is as far as you can
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

immediately assumed that somebody had duplicated the key. Now in the case of Vietnam, I've always had the feeling that we reasoned from the analogy of our experience in post-World War II Europe. We looked at Communist China as though it were Russia; we looked

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: You practiced in Chicago? W: Yes. I first became an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago and served there for four years, and then became a Special Assistant Attorney General to prosecute a large mail robbery case in which a post office
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 5 (V), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

thing I knew, Johnson was in the act saying, "You can't do this to Gene Cox. He's a fine man." So we started looking at the case and we held it for some time, and the FCC got annoyed about it, so they went over to the Washington Post. And I do remember
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Bird was taking journalism, she could be, you know, like what's her name with the Washington Post. And in that way Aunt Effie certainly was ahead of her time, I think. Her dream was not of Bird marrying and having a family. Bird to have a real career
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Whitney Shoemaker, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the convention to an end without a riot and a split in the party. So I guess that's how it happened. behind the door. I'm not sure what went on But anyhow, I think Rayburn engineered it. G: Did you know Phil Graham, the publisher of the Washington Post? M
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

then was--I'm not sure whether it was late 1963 or early 1964, but anyhow in that time span, post-Diem coup. G: Did you receive any special instructions in the wake of the [Charlie] Mohr departure? M: No, only that the problem with Charlie had existed
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

by_ evaluated this situation. I'd Senator Russell called me and said, "I've I need somebody to fill my press secretary's post right away, and the job is yours if you want it." I said, "Well, I definitely want it, but I think it would
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was Dean Acheson at that time. We had adjacent offices and of course we got to know each other both in a substantive way but also socially. G: What special briefing, if any, did you receive before you were posted to Cairo? N: I had quite a long gap
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

this--in order to get to MAAG, we had to go by this big Binh Xuyen post that's right in back of what was then MAAG headquarters, which was down in the middle of Cholon. Xuyen were, manning the ramparts there. Here all the Binh We went in and we started
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ella SoRelle Porter and Mike Porter, interview 1 (I), 11/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that lie took tn.at position as simply a messenger boy position and parlayed it into a reasonably influential post. P: Do you have any recollections of that? No, I don't, but that's perhaps the most logical explanation of it that I've heard. He
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John Wildenthal, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, of the three partners of Powell, Wirtz, and Rauhut. Senator Wirtz brought him back. Senator Wirtz, of course, had been under secretary of interior, or some sub-cabinet post, and instrumental in getting the [Lower] Colorado River Authority established
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Will Wilson, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

went in the Army. Army until after World l~ar I was in various posts in the II, and came home in December of '45. I went back in the Attorney General's Office for a brief spell when Grover Sellers was attorney general of Texas; then resigned to run
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, Corps of Engineers projects, reclamation projects, small watershed projects, post offices, were just big time consuming items. As I said earlier, congressmen were always on the phone concerned and worried about these. There was always a natural
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

from transfusions or from the use of contaminated needles, went up. I think there's just a normal corollary to the increased sticking of needles in arms. G: Right. What about this phenomenon that's called post-traumatic stress disorder? How do you
Agent Orange; health requirements for returning to the U.S. from Vietnam; self-inflicted wounds; drug use among soldiers in Vietnam; post-traumatic stress disorder and related problems; the psychological development of people before they join
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, L. Wade Lathram, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, rolls of barbed wire were all across the street, and there was a police post right across the street from me, and I negotiated that and negotiated out to the main highway, and started down the main highway, and all of a sudden my CB came up and Public
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Thomas D. (Tom) Mills, interview 1 (I), 8/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: Did you get to go out to those islands on that one? M: I was on that trip. Yes. G: What was he like on publicity during the post-presidency years? I've heard reports that he was rather shy about photographers and so on. M: He was. He didn't care
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 23 (XXIII), 8/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

1-A. I was at one post during World War II where we had four or five men who were actually cripples. It was incredible. Those men could just get around, and the army took them into the hospital, performed surgery on them, got them all fixed up
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Alfred Rosenthal, interview 1 (I), 10/29/2010, by Claudia Anderson (Item)

. And that I did not know while I was trying to get them into Trinidad. And I succeeded. And this is a story completely different than that. It's a remarkable story. Remarkable story. I go to the post office in Port of Spain, Trinidad. The lady, the cashier
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Harold H. Saunders, interview 1 (I), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Saunders -- I -- 20 East, and Walt brought from the Policy Planning Council [William] Howard Wriggins to be the senior person on that area. In the spring of 1967 Howard was preparing to leave and go back to his academic post
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

-establish the Democratic Policy .. Committee, which was the major staff available to the Democratic · · Leader. And as Democratic Leader, he held all of the leadership posts . that in the Republican Party are divided among four different
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Administration on this? B: No, I have no recollection of that . F: Did President Kennedy offer you a Cabinet post? B: No, he never did, F: There was some rumor on that, you know . B: Never even suggested it ; never offered me anything, as a matter
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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