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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 26 (XXVI), 4/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

wanted HUD to be the Department of Urban Affairs. We wanted it not just to be a FHA [Federal Housing Administration], financing, housing and mortgages and stuff like that. G: Was it a way to humanize HUD, to give it--? C: Yes, that was exactly

Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was at a two-day seminar in East Texas University with reference to Sam Rayburn. One of the people the're was the head of the history department LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 27 (XXVII), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Hubert a close friend and I looked forward to the continuity of our friendship. The next day Hubert Humphrey was to go through a tortuous day. He was to be on the inaugural platform, as departing as vice president of the United States, and sit through

Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

really. I think he was My recollection is it was the morning after his arrival, or in any case the morning he was to depart. Actually, the first time I discovered there was a problem I think might have been very late the night before the departure

Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

pressed that trip, whether it was his own aides that pressed it or whether it was-I don't think it was the State Department that pressed it . Maybe there's data someplace that shows how it got cranked up, but I don't think I'm aware . G: Did the fact

Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 2 (II), 5/2/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

convention in Miami, was a well- greased affair. fussed. No one They came up with beautiful language on how patriotic they were and that was it. On the other hand we fought it out. No one can argue that they didn I t have their time necessary to debate

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

became active in party affairs within the state, and at that time I lived in Daingerfield, Texas. P: In what capacity did you serve? W: I had no official capacity in 1951. I just worked within my precinct and within the four precincts of Morris County

Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

for Political Affairs; as Ambassador at Large; and, for the last year of the Johnson Administration, you were chief negotiator at the Paris peace talks concerning North Vietnam. H: That's right. M: When did your close acquaintance with Lyndon Johnson begin
Biographical information; Advisory Council to the National Committee; LBJ and foreign affairs; role in peace negotiations; Poland/Yugoslavia visit; India and Pakistan; Soviet Union prevented bombing halt in Vietnam; trip with HHH; Manila Conference

Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

': situation. When Instead of a Presid·2n':: v,;ith co:ifidence in his own judgments in the in'.ernational situation, you had a President who was relatively inexperienced. He was a man of great subtlety in his judgments and percep':ions 0£ domestic affairs
; LBJ and Dean Rusk; Hubert Humphrey and his role as Vice-President, compared to LBJ as Vice-President; LBJ as a bully; LBJ’s dependence on advisors in foreign affairs; Robert Kennedy’s reason for running against LBJ in 1968; the evolution of U.S

Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Johnson, I never knew him at all before that. I may have met him at a Washington affair with a thousand handshakes. Then when President Kennedy was assassinated, Senator Eastland at that time was head of the Judiciary Committee, and all of the appointments

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was in instant demand as a speaker for Republican affairs over the country, and so very early got to be a national politician really, and not just confined to state politics, and something of a national Republican figure--maybe not from the standpoint

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 19 (XIX), 1/27/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in when he was going to appoint an assistant secretary for cultural affairs in the State Department and having a folder and telling Fulbright he had this fantastic guy and laying out all of his credentials. Graduation from the greatest college and a Ph.D

Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

noticed some of this is back in the way it was. But just from a reporter's standpoint, if you've got a hell of a good source, say in the State Department, and this source in the State Department dries up because they said, "Look, you're just making

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

background is mixed. I am basically a professional in communications, who has worked in the media of neivspapers, television, government public information programs for the State Department in Germany where I was Mission Chief of the old United States

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

reception given by the President and Mrs. Roosevelt. They always invited all the members of Congress, the House and the Senate and their spouses, in one big evening affair. It began at nine o'clock. Women wore their very best long dresses and the men went

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

would arise that involved the Justice Department. I was used as a general utility man. It seems to me that I remember at one stage in those early months that either President Johnson said it himself or he may have quoted Mr. Sam Rayburn that "you should

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 2 (II), 9/13/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, in our country, who would view this as too much deference to the Jewish lobby in our country, or Zionism. I don't accept that view. In the number of years that I have dealt with this problem in the State Department I was struck with the fact

Oral history transcript, William R. Desobry, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: Yes, in a way. Having served on the faculty of the Army War College for three years during that period, we watched the Vietnam War quite carefully. My last job on the faculty was chairman of the department of strategy, and also had the communist world
of its citizens; Nguyen Van Thieu and Nguyen Cao Ky's leadership; which areas were under Viet Cong control; pacification activities such as digging wells and setting up schools; State Department involvement in providing services to small Vietnamese towns

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the Congressman, when it wouldn't be for them to see a secretary whom they had never met. Lyndon knew a great network of people in the departments and simply having his name, and, in some cases, the fact that they were his friends, would get me in the door. G

Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

connection as Director of the Bureau of the Budget, did you handle the kind of affairs you were talking about? W: Yes, not often, because I was dealing primarily for the President with the Cabinet departments which then presented their own budgets

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that doesn't appear in the November-December papers of this particular group . briefly . at all . It had appeared, as my papers establish, in September But it really wasn't to the fore in the November-December period In fact, I think the Department

Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

on who was the most worthy in this field. I in general felt that when one had a secretary of a department that one had trust in, unless there were overriding reasons, you followed his advice ultimately even though you called attention, his attention

Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 2 (II), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

taught to be ashamed of. So many of the retarded were closeted within homes and families and no one knew about them. There was an attempt to provide public education and information to enlighten people that to be retarded was not a shameful affair

Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

different names; at that time I think it was called the 303 Committee, and they changed the number sometimes, but it was representatives of the secretary of defense, and the adviser to the president on national security affairs, and a member I think from

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

they got off the plane in Bonn. G: Was there a White House presence there at the Adenauer visit to the Ranch? Did anybody from the White House or cabinet come? R: No. We had some State Department people and that was all. G: Did you? R: It was a very

Oral history transcript, William B. Dale, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in the European department of the Fund on this matter. that. First of all, I should go back a little before LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library

Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the request by telephone. But And of course, bolstered it, came through with the telegraph request, too. And it was all done and I had no problems. As I say, thare were no blocks in the way any place. F: Did the Justice Department send someone out here

Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, Clark had been stationed with me up here in the attorney general's department and we were prosecuting people running hot oil, and we knew Carl Estes quite well. "~'Jhere And either I asked him or Clark asked him, do you get this information

Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to be a very happy affair, I think. I would deal with other people such as George Christian, for example, usually through Julian Scheer on a press matter. But Jim Jones was my principal direct contact with the President. B: What was your relationship to Mr

Oral history transcript, Carl D. Perkins and Donald Baker, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or something like that. We felt it would work, but there was discussion on it and that was the Labor Department's argument at the time, that they wanted to get away from the forest with a lot of it and get involved with things in the local community, like

Oral history transcript, Volkmar K. Wentzel, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the Chancellors bungalow in Bonn, my father-in-law was tather impatient to get alone with him to talk whatever affairs of state they wanted to talk about. But he always kept saying, '~o, now you all stay here." And he actually lengthened the whole session

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

told you about that before. G: He wanted him to write a speech on foreign policy. R: Foreign affairs. Walter, who was awfully sharp--Walter was quick--said, "My God, doesn't that man know what I do?" But I think that he had sort of a concept

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in need. If we knew how to crochet, we could crochet afghans, shawls. If we knitted, we could make socks for veterans, particularly in hospitals. G: What did you do especially on this? Did you have one-- J: I am an ignoramus in most of those fields, so

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and an American Legion rodeo. It's too late for the Mayfest in Brenham, but that was always big dealings. And a barbecue, which was likely to be stag, or a fish fry of Veterans of Foreign Wars. Another incident that sticks in my mind was at a little town called

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

expression about, "He ought to have the job; he's got eight children. He ought to get elected to that; he hasn't got but one leg." Meaning, of course, that he was a veteran and had fought in some war. It just wasn't regarded as one of the top professions

Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

--? My academic background is in business administration, but I've always had a great love affair with the out-of-doors, having been born and raised in Arizona. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

barnstorming for the United States Department of Agriculture -- across the nation for some years, meeting mature and deeply concerned groups of farmers. I had visited most of the states of the Union for these sessions. Otir farmers were suffering

Oral history transcript, Robert A. Levine, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

positions, as I have them recorded here, include research associate at Harvard Center for International Affairs from 1961 to '62. At that time I think you were on leave from RAND Corporation. You worked briefly as an economist for the Conference

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