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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • surprised about that, and he couldn't believe it. Everybody--if you go back and look in the newspapers of this time, everyone was waiting for the appointment because we were getting close. I then told him that the Attorney General had advised the President
Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I don't associate it with the Presidency or the Senate or the Majority Leadership. It is a personal characteristic. It was his dominant personal characteristic as I see it. G: Can you recall him applying this Johnson treatment in persuasion? J
Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a general anti-national party votes? B: That's correct . Some people even today, if you associate with President Johnson or those other liberals, you're stamped . F: Florida in a sense has a schizoid political personality, doesn't it? That is, it's
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • what That caused a furor. When that went out, they would call up John Smith of the San Angelo paper: "Why in the hell weren't you there? What really happened? He accused the biggest newspaper in Texas of lying and deceitfulness. What else did he
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: SAM HOUSTON JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: The Alamo Hotel, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 2 J: "Years later, when I was on Johnson's staff, Sam Houston felt only irritation when the Majority Leader was hailed in newspapers
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 12 (XII), 4/25/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • could have done, but Busch was not the type to go around seeking favors. G: Was the friendship a factor in his association with Symington at all, do you recall? J: I don't think it had anything to do--there was no connection. He was a friend
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 4 (IV), 8/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • President couldn't have gotten his program over. We passed bills in the House of Representatives not by newspaper support and not by a lot of fanfare on the floor. We pass bills by calling Jim Brown and saying, "Jim, I've got to talk to you about this bill
Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • hard to find. F: But he didn't invent that either. He's been accused, in the eastern press at least, of chewing out newspaper men. K: He was usually a pretty good I can't recall. Did you ever see any evidence of it re re in Austin? As I say, he
  • First association with LBJ; 1948 election; Star-Telegram’s campaign support; Preston Smith; Byron Utecht; George Parr; covering 1952 and 1956 Texas state conventions; LBJ’s response to an article by Kinch; Frankie Randolph; Mrs. Bentsen; Byron
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • violation of law. B: That was precisely the issue Ln the case of Dr. Spock and his associates, was it not? A determination of the line between speech and conduct? V: That's right. A line between protected speech and conduct. B: Where
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • we're doing, of course, is just trying to fill in pieces here and there in the affair. We have your book on Alaska and its coming to statehood, and so I thought we'd just emphasize your association with Johnson in this. When did you first meet him? G
Oral history transcript, Ben W. Heineman, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with a plan, I don't think very much would have happened that anybody would have wanted to be associated with. On the other hand, we did have work sessions. up. They had ample opportunity to pass advisory resolutions. advisory resolutions. F: We did break
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with at that Convention. I made many friends over the country, and I have been pleased with what happened there at that convention. F: Let's talk about your own career for a moment. In 1963, you were heralded by the newspapers and by general sentiment as the person
Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , I was a candidate for judicial office, having already submitted all of my papers and having filled out the American Bar Association questionnaire. M: For a judicial-- R: For a judicial post, and I was being considered for a judicial post
Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • judge--testified that he had conducted the election and so forth, and that at the time he began reading newspaper reports that there was something funny about the election. poll and tally lists. So he went to see Tom Donald and borrowed his He took
Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . forgotten a coupl e of others that were therec I have I think Arthur Schl es inger \'Ias in there and a coupl e of others. B: It was generally assumed at the time in the newspapers that you '.'Jere there as kind of a representative of the New South. S
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 1952, I talked to Senator Johnson about the possibilities of establishing federal assistance for the construction of public broadcasting stations, stations that would be associated with colleges and universities, established by local community groups
Oral history transcript, John L. Monahan, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • been. The leadership decided to hold it off a week or ten days, when members weren't under such tremendous pressure from the newspapers and from the letters from their own constituents. B: Back when John Kennedy was president was there any sort
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 2 (II), 4/17/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of Greenville, then a newspaper publisher and now the current assistant secretary of state for public affairs. Another was Owen Cooper of Yazoo City who was then the president of the Mississippi Chemical Company, and president of the Mississippi Chamber
Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that came in the kitchen way to see the President. He didn't have to go through the other formalities. Apparently Roosevelt thought an awful lot of Lyndon, and Lyndon thought a lot of him. G: But in going back through some of the old newspaper public
Oral history transcript, Mamie Allison, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1986, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • we get off the subject of politics, do you remember his going to Austin at some point on behalf of the Houston Teachers Association to lobby the Texas legislature to put a cigarette tax on to help raise teacher's salaries? Do you remember
Oral history transcript, William F. Billings, interview 1 (I), 5/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • have an opportunity to sit down with you and understand why you felt the way you do about certain things, well, I might get a completely different idea than I would from reading something in the newspapers about what you'd done or what you thought, you
Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 2 (II), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would be to Congress, that they had the right to hear it first. Well, that got me off on the wrong foot with Drew Pearson. He never forgave me. It was something that was a great hardship for me because there were many newspapers throughout the country
Oral history transcript, Roy Wilkins, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the New York state delegation--who voted for him in Los Angeles on the first ballot. I remember giving a newspaper an interview at the time which said that we shouldn't discount the effectiveness of Lyndon Johnson on the ticket because he brought enormous
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 20 (XX), 1/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and say, "It's Lockheed or X." He said, "We have decided to give this to Lockheed and I want you to know it," because he knew what would happen if the President first heard about it in the newspapers. Now at that point there's no way if it's really
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • broadcasting on a global basis. Marks recommends that he be chairman of the group. Classic Johnson to send it around to some other people, sent it to [Douglass] Cater because Cater was in the newspaper business and was a good friend of Leonard Marks and because
Oral history transcript, Annette Ludeman, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Ludeman -- i -- 6 L: · I have really never heard ofanybody locally. It's mainly the people that I suppose I have heard talk, pr the teachers that were associated with him and like the students. He took a real active interest
Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? G: Well, both. H: The basic idea of a new community agency not associated with existing poverty-related programs was to provide a new, broader, more comprehensive, less program-bound perspective of the poverty problem. I think that objective
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 5 (V), 3/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? J: Oh, he'd kid Mrs. Johnson about all these beautification programs and the type of people she was associating with to get the programs under way. G: Give me an example. J: I wish I could. Well, let me see if I can recollect the way he'd do
  • wanting Mrs. Johnson to model herself after Eleanor Roosevelt; LBJ's office schedule; night reading; LBJ's morning bedroom routine, including contacting people, reading newspapers, and seeing a doctor; LBJ's evening routine after leaving the Oval Office
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • between the Baker-LBJ relationship contribute the credibility gap? D: Yes. There's no question that the association with Bobby Baker was a serious blow to the presidency of Lyndon Johnson. G: Really? And that was very early on. D: Yes. That was very
Oral history transcript, Harold Fleming, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1986, by Michael Gillette (Item)
  • : Why was that? F: The whole black consciousness thing and the associated controversies and fiery rhetoric had begun. The President, whatever enthusiasm he had for this idea had greatly 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • as a professional association? A: It was a close personal friendship, yes, definitely on the basis of the men; I think less so with Mrs. Johnson and my mother. B: Did you see anything in those days of Mrs. Johnson and raising the children? What was it like
  • Early association of Johnson and Clement families; the Johnsons' wedding reception for Bess and Tyler Abell; Tyler Abell joins Johnson campaign; work at the DNC; joining Mrs. Johnson's staff; LBJ as Vice President; Mrs. Johnson as a wife and mother
Oral history transcript, Dwight A. Ink, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the West, newspapers, radio, TV, and what have you, you begin at that point to feel sort of swallowed up by the immensity of the Soviet Union, particularly in Siberia in the wintertime. We went to a power station and at lunch, there began the usual after
Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in Hanoi-had a respect of the Vietnamese. But the others. I visited them in the three Associated States over in Laos and Cambodia as well as Vietnam, and in every other command the Vietnamese were--or natives, the Laos, the Khmer, the Cambodians--were
Oral history transcript, Georgia Cammack Edgeworth, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --Jones, it seems to me like. G: It was a common name. But anyway he was killed. Was there much association between the blacks and the whites in those days in Johnson City? E: Very little. The blacks had a--we called it the Negro colony. don't do
Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of themselves." That was such an utterly absurd comment coming from a governor of a great state that I immediately arose from my seat and told the attorney and the others who were there--the attorney was not Jimmy Allred, it was the attorney of this association
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Roberts -- II -- 2 R: No~ I was a housewife. was one of his NYA boys~ I was married to Herbert Ray Roberts~ who and met him of course because of his and Ray's friendship and past association. F
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on those occasions would indicate that they each regarded the other as a very close and good friend. B: In those days when you were on the. Truman White House staff there were associated with the White House a number of people who later became associated
Oral history transcript, Thomas C. Mann, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Association? M: Correct. F: You've had a varied career, most of it of course oriented toward Central and South America, and have seen quite a number of changes in that period. To get personal for a moment, when did you first meet Mr. Johnson? Was it here
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there had been some discussion of that ticket. There may be a record of that, a memo of that luncheon. F: Did you ever have any association with old Joe Kennedy? K: No, I never knew him at all. F: Did you ever talk directly with Senator Kennedy about
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 7 (VII), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , that has just been written about in the newspapers since. In the waning days of the administration the Justice Department was about to bring a major proceeding against the automotive manufacturers for what they considered to be a monopolistic domination