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Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Norman M. Clapp, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . B: There was always a strain of that in the Progressive Party-- C: Once in a while you'd find some really dyed-in-the-wool and dedicated Progressives who'd say they thought McCarthy was a great fellow because he was just like old Bob Lafollette
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that there could be a little thing like that, so you wouldn't be surprised if you hear it." Well, that was the wrong thing to say, because he was so hopeful that they would fire a hundred and forty thousand rounds at Quemoy in his honor, and of course they didn't
Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • House staff, and with Bob Kennedy. The March on Washington civil rights thing came on the scene very quickly after I left the government, and I became deeply involved in that. represented ~Ja Her I Reuther on the committee, both in New York
Oral history transcript, Toinette Bachelder, interview 1 (I), 2/11/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and on Sunday and holidays it fell a good deal to my lot to go in and work with the President. And at that time I was associated with--oh, we worked on speeches, every kind of matter that the President is concerned with, and with Judge Rosenman and Bob Sherwood
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • we were doing a lot of interesting things that I hope will be regarded well by history. But both Presidents seemed to have a great deal of confidence in me and therefore I had pretty much of a free hand. There was very little that was initiated
Oral history transcript, Earl Warren, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on the Pearl Harbor affair; Bob Jackson when he went to Nuremberg; and some earlier ones too. And practically all of us had expressed the belief that it was not wise for members of the Supreme Court to accept positions on presidential commissions. I had
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • these years in a fashion that was not necessarily political--that is, Democratic versus Republican-but to exercise a more liberal point of view in the Congress in the hopes that this would have its effect upon the Administration and not in small part also
  • ; veto power and overrides; creation of the National Advisory Council; Perrin’s duties as deputy director of OEO; Senator Morse; involvement of BOB funding; political red tape; GAO investigations; Nathan Report from Brookings and its effect on efforts
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • purposes; secondly, in trying to execute it intelligently; third, in having a considerable dedication to its purposes over and above the business of being a federal government administrator. G: As we go into the evolution of the program, I hope that you
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • porch." So he came out in the yard. Bob Taylor and I were standing there during the argument. We were always the kidding kind, and we joked with him a little bit and said, "Oh, you Japanese kid, get away from us. You're terrible." Of course, we had been
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . to know about things, and I hope to be seeing more of you o " I 1ike He asked me what kind of family I had and had I bought a house, recommended that I buy a house, said investment in real estate in Washington is a good investment. wish I had. I didn't
Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Bobby up pretty well. Bobby was "Ruthless Bob." He was the one person that I think Lyndon Johnson had a problem [with]. And I loved Lyndon Johnson. It's been my theory, and I think it's a good one, that Roosevelt had Harry "The Hop" Hopkins
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • a little bit in regards to details of what you hoped and what actually happened? l: Yes, but it had nothing to do with President Johnson. Do you want it anyway? M: Certainly, I think it would be important. Because, for one thing, in President
Oral history transcript, Betty Furness Midgley, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to somebody who was indeed conspicuous; because qualifed I wasn't, conspicuous I was. I think that what they hoped was that the image from television would carryover. In fact, Mr. Macy said something to that effect; I'm not just inventing
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • suddenly realized what LBJ's attitude toward him was when I shared an office with Kilduff. One day LBJ stood leaning--you looked up and there he was leaning up against the doorjamb. All he said to Kilduff [was], "Kilduff, I hope your mind isn't as cluttered
Oral history transcript, Emmett Shelton, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • have any idea how the Black Stars originated? S: Yes. In a way I do, because Bob Shelton was one of them, and A.D. Hildreth [?], and they might have organized the year that Jesse Kellam was there. Jesse was there in 1920, but he left in 1920
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the other candidates that year were really rather ridiculous. You certainly couldn't go to [Averell] Harriman. I don't think Bob Kerr had as many votes as he [LBJ] had, although Bob Kerr technically had Nebraska as well as Oklahoma. So what had
Oral history transcript, William M. Capron, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Report of the President which laid the groundwork for what came to be known as the War on Poverty. That work was begun in the spring of 1963 by Bob Lampman, who was and remains one of the distinguished experts in the field of income distribution. 1 LBJ
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 2 (II), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Williams, the girl from Hillsboro who married Bob Novak; Colonel Jackson; and his secretary Lynn Machado. F: Now, who's Colo nel Jackson? C: Bill Jackson. He was an army aide who was very anxious to do a good job. [Whispers] He didn't always succeed. F
Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the centerpiece from which this was set up, this committee on urban lands. G: Now, who else was on the task force? K: You mean the committee? G: Yes. K: Bob Weaver and [Robert] McNamara and I, we were the three. operated that way for about a year. That We
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 4 (IV), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • happened in that hectic couple of days, including the Vietnamese statement and including the visit with Bobby Kennedy. We talked about that, because he said he was going to take the position with Bob that he had mentioned to me the night of March 31
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • no anti-MacArthur sentiment in the country worth noticing. Only one man in the entire Senate had enough intestinal fortitude to get up and make speeches in the Senate attacking Mact\rthur. That v;as Bob Kerr. tility in the gallery. Boy, you could just
Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ; Ray Roberts, who currently is a Congressman, from McKinney and Roland Boyd handled the 4th Congressional District. Of course, this was Mr. Sam Rayburn's district. General Carl Phinney and Bob Clark-- is now deceased, an attorney in Dallas--handled
Oral history transcript, Donnelly Bolton, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • can't help what you say. hour. So we waited These people After an Then Brother Cook gave a talk [?]. Then Pat Dougherty, who she was with, said, "Sam , I hope that you'll forgive her, the way she's acting. I couldn't do anything with her. Finally
Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of people come to be? Was it just interested parties, or was there somebody who would choose and pick people to come to this? S: I was not involved in that. No one from our department participated. We knew about its existence, that's all. Bob Lampman
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , from the BOB and the White House and OEO working together, from the White House alone, or where? P: Normally they start here in OEO. We have developed a general pattern LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • Power of state Economic Opportunity director of governors; veto power and overrides; creation of the National Advisory Council; Perrin’s duties as deputy director of OEO; Senator Morse; involvement of BOB funding; political red tape; GAO
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 4 (IV), 8/25/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , Earl Cocke from Georgia, Judge Bob Hall of Dallas, John Singleton of Houston. But our group over at the New Clark tried to put as much muscle as we could into our organizatio n. We had a very interesting and fun time, but we also had a good
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 5 (V), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • committee. He made that determination, and as a result, when he died--and I had no idea at the time he was going to the hospital that he was as seriously ill as it turned out that he was. Whether Bob Taft knew it at the time or not I just don't quite
Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Forrestal -- I -- 22 who were not outsiders. that sort of fellow. Even Jimmy Thompson came over, I guess, as Bob Komer
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there was nothing there for me to do. The boss said, "I can send you to Panama, and you can catch up with them or better still, why don't you stay here and start a nucleus of a new outfit which we hope to have here, because we have this big lab." to stay. So I
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on as a handicap to the ticket? M: Not at all. He was a tremendous asset in our part of the world and -------- frankly in the face of that Our despair, or our confidence that he would not run reflected a despair on our part, not a point of hope-Oh
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • through the motions hoping he would say "no", that doesn't ring true to me. I think that despite the disagreement and the rancor which had been caused by that debate, that he recognized where he was weak, and he recognized that this would help pull
Oral history transcript, Edgar Cahn and Jean Camper Cahn, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • and the time you ended. J: I don't know, but I sure hope so. There was a difference in my confidence and in my 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ? There was wild confusion on the I heard two of the shots. bus~ as there was every place else. I was sitting next to Bob Pierpoint of CBS. F: It came in clearly over the noise of the crowd? R: Well, not so clearly. point. There was not a lot of crowd noise
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • in connection with the bill passage. Let me preface all this by saying that throughout the course of the legislation there were a good many conferences with task force staff. I had a meeting, for instance, with Yarmolinsky and others in Bob Perrin's office
Oral history transcript, John E. Stavast, interview 1 (I), 3/12/84, by Ted Gittinger (Item)