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Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of a school where we had the group assembled. It took a little arguing with the police department to let him get in there, but finally we convinced them it was all right. It worked out in good shape. F: Where did he speak mostly when he would land
Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • had little to do with foreign developments such as the SDR. Z: That's right. By and large the Treasury and the Council of Economic Advisers and the White House assistant, either Francis Bator or later Ed Fried, who came from the State Department
  • over PPBS; J. Edgar Hoover; LBJ evaluated in some detail; the Labor Department reorganization infuriates LBJ; LBJ characterized as to temper, language, schedule, intelligence, energy, vigor; Califano, McPherson, Levinson, Cater evaluated; the RMN
Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , Chairman Macy and his secretary. tic desk officer, we called him. We had a domes- The domestic desk officer was the man who handled all the domestic agencies, so all the departments which dealt with domestic affairs were his responsibility including all
  • ; problems in accepting appointments; the Robert Weaver appointment; problem of women appointees; leaking appointments; loans of personnel from departments from the White House; impressions of LBJ as an executive; the Great Society
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 3 (III), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was congressional affairs and it meant spending a lot of time with the Congress. I had to go up and see people who said, "Well, this is just a defeated congressman. Why do we want to talk to him?" So I had to live that down for a while, but after that it became very
  • Congressional relations with the Department of the Treasury during the Kennedy administration; Charls Walker; Barr's duties under the Department of the Treasury; Larry O'Brien; conflict between the Department of the Treasury and other departments
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recently--Johnson was a defeated candidate. Everything was wrong. This was typical all across the country with the congressmen in the House who had played a large part of World War II affairs or in the New Deal. You know, Johnson always said that the two
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and the ambassador in the public affairs field will be the director of USIS, naming me by name. overall authority had been given. First time that kind of Now that later went through some slight changes, but that combined authority for the press media relations
Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , Ambassador to OAS, Washington, D.C. INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz November 22, 1968, Department of State F: This is an interview with Mr. Sol Linowitz, Ambassador from the United States Organization of American States in his office in Waskington, D. C
Oral history transcript, Mary Michelson Fish Johnson Haselton, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1977 INTERVIEWEE: MARY FISH HASELTON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mary Fish Haselton's office, Department of State, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: Let's start out, Ms. Haselton, with your background. You say you're from Kansas? H
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this was my birthday and they had an affair and I--my part--I sounded off and congratulated them for what they'd done on Taiwan, taken this island, there's a little island. The State Department had no belief [inaudible] could be done. Chiang Kai-shek couldn't
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 3 (III), 1/17/89, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this was my birthday and they had an affair and I--my part--I sounded off and congratulated them for what they'd done on Taiwan, taken this island, there's a little island. The State Department had no belief [inaudible] could be done. Chiang Kai-shek couldn't
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • into the organization on leave of absence from the State Department of Education. I was at that time serving as deputy state superintendent of public instruction. The President secured from Dr. Woods, who was state superintendent, my leave of absence for thirty days
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • into that a little bit if you want to. While I was in Washington serving in the General Counsel's office, then-Congressman Johnson asked me if I would like to serve on a staff of a subcommittee investigating certain affairs of the navy [Special Investigating
  • Biographical information; met LBJ in 1930s through Texas attorneys Harris Melasky and Martin Winfrey; 1943 subcommittee on naval affairs; 1948 Senate race and subsequent lawsuit; advice to LBJ regarding running for Senate Minority leader in 1952
Oral history transcript, Abe Fortas, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to Washington. Sturges was working in the Department of Agriculture. I worked with him then, and Henry Wallace, who was Secretary of Agriculture, got an extension of my leave from Yale. From then until January-February of 1938 I would teach at Yale part
Oral history transcript, Robert B. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Stevenson that year, didn't they? A: I don't recall . M: By the early T Mr . Johnson was attaining some prominence in the Senate and was minority leader by early 1953 . You were occupying various successive high positions in the Defense Department
Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • understand. I told Kennedy that I couldn't leave the broadcasting job that soon. He said that he didn't have in mind me stopping there, but he didn't know what that might lead toward in the State Department or in other fields. LBJ Presidential Library
  • report on civil rights; 1960 campaign; opposition to JFK-LBJ ticket in Florida; NAB; KTBC; Community Relations Service; Department of Commerce; Calvin Kytle; transfer of the Community Relations Service to Justice; campaign for Senate; retirement
Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • with them as the Director for Congressional Relations. From 1955 to 1960 you were with the CIA. In January 1961, Mr. McNamara appointed you Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs. From '62 to '65, you were nominated and served
Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to the time he became President. H: Well, President Johnson, I first remember him, as a junior member of the old Naval Affairs Committee of what at that time Uncle Carl Vinson was the chai rman. M: This was when he was in the House? H: Oh, yes. Mr
Oral history transcript, Toinette Bachelder, interview 1 (I), 2/11/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • associated with FDR to these various affairs, which I thought was a very kind and very generous thing for him to do. And I guess that is about the extent of our contacts. He was most generous to me when I retired. The day that I did actually retire he
Oral history transcript, Val M. Keating, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , which in Texas was administered by the Texas Relief Commission, was being tapered out. It later, as you know, became the State Depart- ment of Public Welfare, and WPA was the job I was to go to full time, but for approximately six months I held both
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Johnson, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in attendance because they stayed home so much, and they visited. There was no requirement that they stay in school all the time. We had a good music department started by the young teacher from San Antonio who was quite talent_ed with the piano and voice
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 3 (III), 3/25/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Jacobsen -- ΙΙΙ -- 14 Abe Fortas. One of the things that I did was handle Johnson's personal affairs. You know, a president doesn't have time to worry about a will and the things that all
Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was up to the Defense Department to finalize which bases were considered to be the least productive or 'least costly to operate, one or the other. If it was the least costly to operate, they would try to maintain that base. G: He seems to have done
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 3 (III), 7/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , that on both sides of the aisle, you had a very substantial element who still believed that the states must be predominant, that you mustn't intrude too deeply into their affairs. F: In fact, it's been my observation that the charge that the South
Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and they kept doing it in a way that always had ties to it, and they really had control of things. French relationship with them. But there was a difference in the There was a colonial office in Paris and there was a foreign affairs, state department-type
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, Jack Hood Vaughn, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • House. And I was told that I should come back immediately to meet with Mr. Mann who was the assistant secretary of state for Latin American affairs, and with Dean Rusk and Mr. Ball and others. So I came back and came in directly to the White House
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , or the lobbyists will come in and say they're worried about this, that, and the other thing with such-and-such an agency or a department. And the way you handle that is you tell them that the decisions aren't made here; that the agency or department has its
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't think it came from the department; I think it came from us on the committee. I don't remember just how, but I know that we had the three proposals. First of all, we had the Kerr-Mills thing in effect and had to replace that with Medicaid, and--I
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • the South Carolina delegation to go jump in the lake on the Yarmolinsky affair. G: I'm not sure whether the rules of evidence are to be strictly followed in a tape such as this--that is, if you don't have any specific or personal part of the incident
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 3 (III), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Senate said but also as confirmed by the executive department, by the administration through letters from the assistant secretary and so forth and so on. G: Why do you think HEW did not go on and implement the provision for treating the handicapped
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, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and there wasn't one that would say, "No, here, this." organized. But Johnson knew. It wasn't, I felt, as He had everybody, he had twenty-three people but each one knew exactly in whose department what was. F: For instance, in that last night in Austin, you
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 30 (XXX), 3/22/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . GILLETTE PLACE: The LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tape 1 of 1 J: Out of all the trips to Texas that spring came the return of an old romance, my love affair with the Hill
Oral history transcript, Otis Arnold Singletary, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there, I was around him some at social affairs of one kind or another, followed his political career with some interest, and had been something of a supporter of his, as you know. F: Did you ever have any offer prior to the Job Corps offer to go
"LBJ as I Knew Him," by Mildred Stegall (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Stegall -- 5 Glynn and Arthur Perry handled Veterans Affairs and Walter and I did anything and everything the Senator wanted done. Walter took
Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . in the early days these people were scattered through the departments. G: Johnson maintained very close and friendly relationships with a whole mass Qf people who he was available to, who he called on and asked for thtngs_and saw them socially. He saw us
Oral history transcript, R.J. (Bob) Long, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : We had to go to San Antonio to see it. F: That was an all day and night affair, wasn't it? L: Yes, and I don't know, I guess sometime later the next spring--! don't know when it was--she met Lyndon. And boy,_Lyndon, like· everything else, he
Oral history transcript, Sarah T. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the restaurants at night, but largely it was a matter of investigating cases involving women and children for the police department and cases that came to the woman's bureau particularly. F: You were just a slip of a girl yourself, weren't you? H: Well, now I
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 2 (II), 6/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • positive he was, yes. She wouldn't take on anything like that without not only his consent, but his enthusiastic approval. B: She later on also got actively involved in anti-poverty affairs. I recall visits to some of the anti-poverty centers and so
Oral history transcript, Thurgood Marshall, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Defense Fund and the NAACP to end their directorate connection--to split almost entirely? M: The United States Treasury Department, specifically the Internal Revenue Service--they decided that they were going to take away the exemption of the Legal