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Oral history transcript, Joseph Palmer II, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

INTERVIB~EE: Joseph Palmer INTERVIEWER: Paige f'lulhollan PU\CE ~Ir. Palmer's office, Department of State, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 I'l: Let's begin, Mr. Palmer, by just identifying you briefly. You are Assistant Secretary of State for African

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

impressions, and how ltJould you characterize Lyndon Johnson when you first met him? L: The first time that I really got to know him quite well was at this affair in Austin. Perhaps the impression he made on me would be clear if I say a few more words

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to move on them is quite another, even when you1ve got the President behind you on it. that was disappointing. And We made certain things that would be con- sidered important strides forward but-F: Are certain departments much more lily-white than
Biographical information; assassination; blacks in the State Department; civil rights progress; White House staff; LBJ and civil rights; administrative agencies; other duties; obstacles; White House Conference on Civil Rights; surveys

Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that he needed in a hurry, foreign affairs things. I was bitterly opposed to the multilateral nuclear force that a bunch of theologians at the State Department cooked up, which I n~edn't go into the details of. I thought it was inherently absolutely

Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

: No, I usually use a term, a conservative with a heart. While I've never had any money, I've always had to be very careful of my financial affairs, not ever having any money and being brought up rather conservatively because of that. But at the same

Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was the managing director. Suhse~uently I was general counsel to the U.S. Post Office Department. G: Why don't you give us a summary of your rise in government service as you think it might be relevant to the [record]. M: I went to work in the government

Oral history transcript, Boyd L. Rasmussen, Jerry O'Callaghan, and Irving Senzel, group interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, 1969 INTERVIEWEE: BOYD RASMUSSEN (with comments by Irving Senzel and Jerry O'Callaghan) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr~ Rasmussen's office, Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of Interior, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Mr
Interior Department; biographical information; Forest Service and Interior Department responsibilities; public lands; Bureau of Land Management; property disposal; departmental relationships; recreational areas; Civilian Conservation Centers

Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in the State Department didn't think so. But he did, he consolidated it, and then about a million people came south and no doubt from 1954 to 1958 he made extraordinary progress. The government was recognized and the thing was going pretty well, you know

Oral history transcript, Raul Castro, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

then, after that happened, I worked for the State Department in Mexico for a period of five years in the Consular Service. So that actually was my first fling with the Foreign Service. F: Where were you stationed? C: I was stationed at Agua Preita

Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

appreciated whatever that was. I don't know that it was spelled out. I'm not sure that our opening of that headquarters made quite that big a splash, but nobody stopped us. F: But this was voluntary on the Houston end. This was not a coordinated affair? C
firm's office in Washington, D.C.; Crooker's nomination, confirmation, and work as chairman of the CAB; the work of the CAB compared to that of the Federal Aviation Administration or Department of Transportation; Crooker's accomplishments while

Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

graduated in May 1932, but I kept in touch with the Chief and our ways were destined to cross again soon. The father of my high school sweetheart lived in Washington, D.C., and he brought his daughter there to go to college. This state of affairs

Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of prolonging the affair. I think that if once we were in it, to the extent that we ultimately became involved, if the President had invoked a very strict homefront support of the war effort that it would have brought the problem a 9 LBJ Presidential Library

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh in the Rice Hotel, which I told him that I would do. He wanted to discuss that night's dinner, as well as the Austin affair. I rode

Oral history transcript, Robert Vincent Roosa, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

as injected into domestic economic affairs, within the administration it had to be the Treasury. Although the nominal description of my position as under secretary for monetary affairs was really to handl e the Treasury's debt management, its relations
Biographical information; Federal Reserve Bank; new economics; Treasury Department; Organization for Economic Cooperation; Organization for European Cooperation and Development; working parties; Group of Ten; ring of swaps; London Gold Pool; Robert

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 28 (XXVIII), 3/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Things happened in regard to the Ranch. Have I told you that I took Jac Gubbels, who worked for the Highway Department, out there? A very artistic, imaginative, landscape man who did a lot to establish in the Highway Department the idea of propagating

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it is a public job and I cannot speak out and express my opinions, I'd just rather depart from the job." Then the names of a lot of Hollywood actors and authors and educators who had been listed by the FBI were introduced in this Judith Coplon trial
. in 1950; socializing in Washington, D.C.; club memberships; Senator Joseph McCarthy asserting that he had a list of Communists in the State Department; Rayburn's opinion of McCarthy; Stuart Long; Paul Bolton; dinner at the Bob Kerrs' house and his

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for a period of two years." F: It has been a long two years. H: Yes. And so I became special assistant to the Attorney General in the Department of Justice--the Attorney General at that time being Homer Cunnnings. F: Where had you become acquainted
Early personal history in Texas; Justice Department experience; Texas Legislature service; Mine Workers International Union background; LBJ and John L. Lewis; first contacts with LBJ; recollection of Sam Ealy Johnson; LBJ’s job with Kleburg and NYA

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

or whatever--negotiations; from the Federal Reserve Board it was either [William McChesney] Bill Martin or Dewey Dane; and two or three other people--Ed Fried, myself, and Fred [Frederick L.] Deming [Under Secretary of Treasury for Monetary Affairs] and Winn

Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

as a junior partner, and finally as a senior partner in charge of their trial work from 1952 until I left on June 1, 1965, thirteen years. While I was doing all of that, practicing my profession, I had also been quite active in public affairs matters, both

Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was then attached to the office of the Under Secretary, Mr. Forrestal, who was under secretary under Frank Knox. I was in the Navy Department proper until the early part of 1944 and wanted to leave the Navy Department. I told Captain Gingrich, who was then just

Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

jobs in the foreign policy community during the Kennedy-Johnson years. You were first special assistant to the president in the Kennedy period; then you moved to the State Department as special assistant to the assistant secretary for Far Eastern

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1b (I), 2/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

there was anything which I would call undue civilian interference in the conduct of the military affairs. But the bombing of North Vietnam was a different thing. It was moderately risky because we didn't know at the outset just how the Communist world would respond

Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

by a physician who sees him daily. Then the other feature, which later turned out to be extremely important, was staying in my current role as head of a department of medicine at a respected medical school. By retaining my relationship with my colleagues

Oral history transcript, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

leaders in prayer. Now when the President is here, I will add a sentence or two in the prayer to remember him personally. I will call attention to his being in the service. I never change a sermon. Occasionally, because I am interested in our world affairs

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 3 (III), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Battle -- III -- 2 My involvement with Abe Fortas was largely through cultural affairs. I guess I'd known him before. I was very fond of Abe

Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

and clean working conditions for labor, adequate aid to and care for veterans . He opposes the federal lecting production tax on our natural government controlling and colresources ." I mentioned to this group that that was about what I said and wrote

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

has to do it by Executive Order. He has been extremely leery of any connection with it whatever, and to my knowledge has never done a thing for it. B: Has he been more positive about it than that? Has he indicated to the Interior Department
; Panamanian crisis; confirmation hearings; McClellan; Rooney; Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

cabinet officer; and some of this concern was demonstrated by things he did--by his Canada speech and other things that he did. But he felt very deeply about domestic problems and about the importance of the Defense Department in using its money and its

Oral history transcript, Oscar M. Laurel, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

, create an agency--an interagency--for Mexican-American Affairs because I think it is proof of his interest, of not just saying, "Give everyone an equal chance," but matching whatever he says with deeds and carrying it out. And I'm not talking about

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

. At the time when I came back to the department with Ambassador [David] Bruce from Paris and he took over the job as under secretary of state and I became his assistant in that position, Luke Battle was one of the several staff assistants to the Secretary, who

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Hobby, who had come from Houston, in the Eisenhower Administration. She was going to be appointed--gee, I can't remember. It wasn't yet HEW [Department of Health, Education, and Welfare]. G: No, I think it was the [Federal Security Administration]. J

Oral history transcript, John L. Monahan, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in an office that is as public as the office of Mr. McCormack as speaker of the House--or I would imagine as any speaker of the House. in the crisis department sometimes. It's like being in the I handle all the people and his appointments, his legislative

Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the responsibility of carrying it through, yes. r.,,: And you worked with the White House staff on thi s, or \'that? P: Well, ,yes, I worked with the White House staff, with primarily the people in the Department of Agriculture, but to whatever degree I needed

Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

out hoping to be a diplomat. I wanted to have some part in foreign affairs because I felt this was terribly important. But I didn't have any money in those days and, also, career diplomats had to have money. So I got into newspaper business abroad

Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

was assistant district attorney of Dallas County and going to law school part-time contemporaneously with my service as assistant district attorney of Dallas County in the civil department. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 2 (II), 7/20/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

--is that the Community Relations Division of the Justice Department now? I think that's what that's called. M: That's the one that would be the natural-- F: Yes. That was the agency which was represented on the spot at the time and was serving as an intermediary
LBJ asking for a moratorium on demonstrations; John Lewis and Farmer against moratorium; antagonism toward Farmer; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Selma March; Community Relations Division of Justice Department; CORE’s resolution regarding

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and the banks regulated by the FDIC, and he was very successful in doing it. G: You were saying that the Justice Department was especially distressed with some of these policies. B: His merger policy, Bob Kennedy nearly went through the roof, and he

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

For a number of reasons, after a couple of years I left that newspaper situation. I stayed in middle Georgia for a brief period of time and then accepted a job with Southern Natural Gas Company in their public affairs department and worked with Southern

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, would be to discuss the several topics which we were principally talking about or acting on during that period. The first would be with reference to foreign affairs. The President during this period was full of frustrations. He hadn't been able to move

Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh that time we had nuclear weaponry; the other side didn't. In domestic affairs Mr. Eisenhower's greatest civil
leaders of free world after WWII; Little Rock and civil rights; Ike against forced bussing; states rights; Senator Joseph McCarthy; Ike and LBJ had heart attacks in 1955; Dulles and foreign affairs; 1956 Hungarian uprising; Israel and Suez Crisis; Sputnik

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