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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. [Miriam] Ferguson got in as governor, well, then the highway department--Daddy was superintendent of the highways up there in 1924, 1925. Then he was named inspector for the Railroad Commission. And I don't think when you've got five kids all graduating

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

with the State Department over the weekend and then went before Fulbright and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Monday. Then I left and came back to get my own affairs in shape. My schedule was to spend a month, at least, getting my own affairs

Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, he said, "Mr. Food for Peace, why don't you remind these people of the role that food can play in international affairs. This is not a matter of being soft on Communism or hard on Communism. It is a question of what is in our national interest

Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

]. If she's inviting somebody from the White House, she will invite me; if it's Justice Department officials, she would invite our people covering,legal affairs; she wouldn't invite me normally, although I was there for the Mitchell luncheon. done

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that the Democrats were a bunch of wild spenders and that here he was, a man that knew the military and there was plenty of waste there. President Eisenhower had recommended sort of massive reductions in the Defense Department expenditures. In addition

Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the Senate. it I can remember. There was no politics in In fact, the State Department, under Dean Acheson, and with the support of Averell Harriman, was much for maintaining" the status quo because it was a source of tremendous income to the failing
Senate years, including initial contact with LBJ; House Naval Affairs Committee; biographical information; Joseph McCarthy; tin smelter; agricultural issues; impressions of LBJ and his relationship with other Senatorial leaders

Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, for which he covered South American affairs. We were young and full of vim and vigor and we carried those jobs LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More

Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

--he was interested more in national affairs. P: Did this have to do with our entry into the beginning of World War II? B: No. P: This is too early. B: It had nothing to do with World War II. that time. You're right. We thought war was over

Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

many of the young men that I am hiring because of your having served as a field representative in the Texas Relief Commission." And then, too, he touched on the fact that I was reared in a department store and had experience in the running

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and no one's going to be able to swim in,” which is the typical Recreation Department provision. A full-scale pool is a two hundred to two hundred fifty thousand dollar item, and fifty thousand dollars is a lot of money but it doesn't buy a real pool. They said

Oral history transcript, William F. Jackson and Lucy Ginter Jackson, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

tomorrow." He said, "Oh, to get your family down and take care of your affairs." I said, "Certainly two weeks." He said, "Let's wait until we have an opportunity to see more about this. I'd like to have you meet some members of the staff." I believe

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, this was the 26th of December, if he knew that he was going to beat Kennedy's budget he was keeping it awfully close to his chest. B: Did he say anything that night about foreign affairs? A: Not a bit. The next day the State Department sent down an enormous jet

Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of the New York Times and you have the State Department papers as well as the presidential public papers, you will find it replete with references to that. TG: Were you aware at the time that you took the appointment that the decisions to escalate had

Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Kennan's memoirs and I certainly don't want to be immodest and put myself in his company, but in terms of the training that we received, in many respects it was better training than George Kennan and Charles Bohlen and the State Department specialists
working at the Pentagon under the Department of the Army; Hagerty’s work at the Office of Current Intelligence at CIA; the threat of nuclear war between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.; the Cuban missile crisis timeline; John McCone; effects of the Cuban missile

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason and Jeanne Deason, interview 6 (VI), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)

out of the Naval Personnel Department. WD: Burea u of Personnel. JD: And he was going to New York to be shipped overseas. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

I made a file search later on to see if there was anything in the files from the State Department or from Rusk that would indicate that the U Thant thing had been passed on. M: There is a mention in [David] Kraslow and [Stuart] Loory, The Secret

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and writing projects of a cultural nature and of a "What are the goals of this country vis-a-vis the land?" nature and I handled a number of fascinating projects within the department. But your interview is not about that. It's about the White House, and I'd

Oral history transcript, Earl Warren, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

some apprehension about constitutionality they can just go to the justice department with that. W: That’s right, that's right. I think that's the place to do it. I think in years gone by there have been some notable exceptions of that in the history

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

many economists agree with me on this; but I would do everything I could to reduce or even eliminate the independence of the Federal Reserve. F: Well now, you had four main groups. You had the Department of Treasury, you had the Bureau

Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

as possible to a combination of the three services. Do you still hold these views? F: Yes, but in a sense that is a sort of an administrative affair which I don't think gets into major policy. I was always in favor of a consolidation of the services

Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, too, but that was primarily But it was pretty clear by legislative mandate that no American could ship overseas without getting a license for every shipment, and having it approved by the government and the Department of Commerce
; African affairs; Rostow and Dean Rusk; reaction to LBJ joining JFK’s ticket; SJRes 12 Amendment; 3/31 announcement; comparison of LBJ to other Presidents; LBJ’s weaknesses; the press.

Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

, a part of the Secret Service. Narcotics is, or was at that time, a bureau of the It was one of the sister agencies of the Secret Treasury Department. Service--one of the Treasury law enforcement agencies. M: To clear up a public point in definition

Oral history transcript, James A. Shannon, interview 1 (I), 4/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

in Worcester in 1925 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, went to medical school, New York University, graduating there in 1929, had my hospital experience in Bellevue for two years and then joined the department of physiology [at New York] University in the summer
funding; Marion Folsom and Arthur Fleming as secretaries of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW); changes in NIH under Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy; HEW Secretaries Oveta Culp Hobby, Marion Folsom, Abraham Ribicoff, Anthony

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

was useful in the media. was someone from NBC. It We got the testimony from that individual from NBC that their most successful general public affairs show was the "Today " show. What I asked them, after they had talked about this certain kind
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, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, an old Moscow callow colleague [?J. I'd been up to Saigon on a long visit one time, so I knew the situation up there, the physical situation. Then I came back and I was briefed in the department and in the Pentagon and in the CIA and everything else

Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of private armies; they were the Cao Dais and the Hoa Haos and they were all fighting each other. Finally they had to put the regular army against them and disarm all these religious groups. It was sort of a mixed-up affair for a while. G: Now, General

Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

affair occurred. H: Yes, it did, and we didn't have much fallout. As a matter of fact I think we were in Puerto Rico at a time when the Dominican Republic was still a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

are made that can't be kept . Too frequently, the aid program has been in the hands of the country desks in the State Department, which have used it politically . Instead of striving for economic growth, the objective has been to quiet down this general

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a month before that--and I had to get my affairs in order with my station in Ohio. I got everything I could get on Khrushchev and started to read about his life, his politics, his biography and all the current affairs I could put together. You have

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Jenkins -- IV -- 15 J: No, he worked on that, too. The departments that he had some

Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

you recall some of the individuals who really came to be an aid to statehood? B: A fine gentleman, a congressman from Florida who was then in the House of Representatives, .was the chairman of the Interior Affairs. That was Senator Peterson, who

Oral history transcript, Eugene R. Black, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh MULHOLLAN Let's begin simply by identifying you, sir. You're Eugene R. Black, and as far as Mr . Johnson's Administration was concerned, you served as Special Consultant on Economic Affairs
as Special Consultant on Economic Affairs and his role in the "wise men" group; Involvement with SST and Nam Ngum Project (through U Thant and Narasimhan)

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

It's making policy just because it has the view this was a pretty crummy gotlda.mned·way to do it. So I went to the State department, the Assistant Secretary of State fo= Economic Affairs, then Tony Solomon, and said, got to be a better way to do

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 12 (XII), 4/25/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and certainly those of us in the office had worked with him on a day-to-day basis on any matter involving the State Department. Bryce Harlow had been a part of Congressman [Carl] Vinson's staff, and when he was chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee Mr

Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and then just go down there to talk. F: Well now, nominations had to clear through you- I E: Through the Judiciary Committee. F: Through the Judiciary Committee of which you are chairman, and you've I i got a Justice Department that sometimes

Oral history transcript, Lester D. Johnson, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

had known him for many, many years. His wife had worked for the President, I think almost since he first went into politics in Texas. And Mr. Nichols himself had been a lawyer for the Treasury Department a good many years; had at one time handled

Oral history transcript, John N. Luft, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the Department among the several agencies? L: Yes, among the agencies in the Department of Agriculture. But from the standpoint of Secretary and Undersecretary, our relations were the very best. B: We were given the authority to go ahead and do what we

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

have to close the job down . This was a rather unique dam to begin with. It was on the Colorado River, and the Reclamation Department was overseeing it yet they had no land in Texas . So there was a hiatus in the law, just whether they had a right

Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

executive sessions behind closed doors, it was really the captive of the President and the State Department. This, of course, was the device that had been used to reduce the committee over the years to comparative unimportance in the foreign policy

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

--that Mike Forrestal had had earlier; when he went over to the State Department I took over his responsibilities, adding Canada to them. M: You make it sound pretty structured. Is that the case--was that the case with Bundy? C: No. Well, looking back

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