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Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • instruments, and that therefore the sensible goal was to land a man on the moon, because in the course of doing that we would have to do a lot of research into the biological problems associated with outer space. Just the space instruments didn't raise those
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of a federal mediation or conciliation service, and I •• S: Not in '57. Well, now, wait a minute. You're right •. You're right. B: I've seen reference to the idea of developing ••• S: Had to be discarded, because it got associated with Mr. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the legislation and the law was passed and put on the boards is another period. I was not associated with the first one. I was associated with the second one. David Hackett had almost nothing to do with the Community Action Program. He was a part of the earlier
Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • think they have it, and when you find somebody who is highly competent, you like to be associated with them, to work with them, or to have them work for you. I think the work that the Senator did in connection with this committee undoubtedly must have
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with the White House and with Mr. Truman in the 1948 campaign. Ba: This is when you were associate director of public relations for the National Committee? Bi: That's correct. That was the title which basically hid the fact that there were a group of us
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- I -- 3 When Kennedy was nominated, I did some work, as I said, at the lowest level, just organizing and door-to-door campaigns and things in our neighborhood. F: Before we leave that, you were associated
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 5 (V), 3/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was strong. The report he got was that when President Kennedy was ki 11 ed i.t might have been done by those connected with, or associ ated with, or in sympathy with the far right movement. Some reporter gave him that ~ LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • statement before the Associated Press April 20, 1964, and as I say read into the record in Geneva on April 21 of 1964. At the same time with an offer to negotiate a treaty on this basis if we wanted. This was fissionable material production reductions
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • a fellow was subject to an injunction, he really thought before he did anything because that judge could commit him for contempt. And this was something that people didn't want to have happen to them so they followed the law. The Restaurant Association
  • Biographical information; Hobart Taylor, Sr. and LBJ; civil rights cases in Michigan; NAACP; Export-Import Bank; Cliff Carter; early association with LBJ in 1960; 1960 and 1964 campaigns; JFK; Plans for PROGRESS; Jerry Holleman; RFK and LBJ
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be the director there, and that's about it. F: Sarah Hughes and Carl Phinney were also associated with you? S: Yes, I was the director and they were the cochairmen. F: How did you divide your duties? S: I did the full time and I wasn't paid. I mean I made
  • Biographical information; First association with LBJ, 1965 state convention; 1960 pre-convention boom for LBJ for President; Bruce Alger race; Dallas County Chairman; JFK-LBJ trip to Dallas-Ft. Worth; religious issue; contributions; Dead man’s ad
Oral history transcript, Zephyr Wright, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the civil rights thing. I think I noticed it more during that time when Martin Luther King had that march on Washington. I didn't go, of course, because I think wOt'king for the Johnsons I didn't associate myself with any of these things that were going
Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations]; the next issue be with the medical association, AMA [American Medical Association]. It just depends on what the issue is." We have a tendency to label people conservative or liberals, southerners
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • School. To sum it up, I was somewhat surprised with his serious approach and that he had gone that far in his thought process, although, as I said, I recall associates of his visiting me in New York several months earlier proposing I resign and take over
Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the International Association _C?,f Chiefs of Pol ice, which put .me further out in the national scene, rather than :. the local scene. B: How effective w~s the Federal Community Relations Service which. was ·. established in these years? J: · Well, those
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • attorney, your own county judge, your own constables, school boards-F: He was a prisoner of the place, in a sense. .__ D: As much as he was di ctator and tyrant. F: Do you get the feeling from your long association with Texas He could be a tyrant
Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was: What happened between May and the middle of July, a series of things had begun happening in South Vietnam which caused a number of the so-called experts, principally the American newspaper community out there led byvarious correspondents whom you know
Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • had known Dean Rusk and worked once in an organization in which he had been associated. But basically I think it was Fulbright, McPherson, Macy. They then went to the President and my appointment went through. M: Once they decided to appoint you
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . M: Somebody picked up the information that you are associated with a firm called Peabody, Kaufman and Brewer. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were due to address the House of Delegates of the American Nedical Association in Dallas. tape) (Gap in But H. G. Dulaney, who runs the Rayburn Library, was going to drive us down, and Mr. Rayburn, for some reason, just couldn't get it together
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Reedy -- VI -- 4 was very much under control of the individual publishers who were using their newspapers for political purposes. And Johnson had been accustomed to a world in which a publisher was either for you or against you, and if he was for you
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Taylor; LBJ's view of minorities in the 1930s and 1940s and some of his unpopular actions; LBJ's association with African-American education leaders; Bill Deason and the Johnsons' first victory garden; guests and friends; the changing morale regarding
Oral history transcript, India Edwards, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it identifies you, whereas if it were Margaret or Katherine, or something, you might be more easily forgotten. E: I disliked it intensely when I was a child. But later when I was grown and went into the newspaper business and then into politics
Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES C. HAGERTY INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Dr. Frantz' office in Austin, Texas F: Mr. Hagerty, I think we might just start this off by asking whether you knew or had at any time in your newspaper career run into Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Long -- III -- 2 for a black newspaper and a leader
Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Neel -- II -- 14 N: No, he was out making the body count. That's what makes it so bad, because that is always associated with General Westmoreland. So here's a lieutenant colonel battalion commander out there counting, you know
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • not the one who funneled that money into Watergate, are you? (Laughter) C: No, I wasn't. whole campaign. (Laughter) We didn't have that much money in our That was more mor.ey than we had in our whole campaign. 'Really, there was a newspaper man, a radio
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • business, and now is back in the business of publishing newspapers. His contacts had been broader. 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, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of these .. newspapers so that placement of a story . . . Very often a white t . mostly white, sometimes black, reporter does a good, thorough job, and it doesn't either see the light of day or it is changed. I've heard stories out of the New York T.imes, and r don't
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of respect for the military, but he really came from that old-time school that wanted the civilian to be looking down the throats of [the military]. G: Anything on his association with David Lilienthal? Did he have much contact with Lilienthal during
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • McCormack' s office that he didn't realize that the people were being prbse-· cuted, although it had been a matter of conside rable publici ty in all of the newspap ers for some weeks, maybe even months at that time; and that he didn't want them prosecu ted
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • would see that type of thing in the newspaper, justly or unjustly, if the New York Times reporter would give laudatory comments to someone indicating that they disagreed with policy, that they were going along with it anyway, I think he really felt
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • following my graduation; joined the law firm of Brody, Charlton, Parker, and Roberts, as an associate at the salary of $200 a month, but I got a rapid raise to $275 a month by Christmas. I stayed with that law firm first as an asso- ciate, later
Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was involved with Kennedy's campaign, but that group were all close friends of mine. When the cabinet and the sub-cabinet were named, they were practically all people that I had had some previous association with. On about January 10, 1961, ten days before
Oral history transcript, William F. Jackson and Lucy Ginter Jackson, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • I think quite a bit on the trip, and Carroll as well, for the association with her. She proved to be far more friendly and on much more intimate terms with the Johnsons later, probably as a result of this first trip she had with them at that time
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • late in trying to get the nomination that year. F: Well, he did most emphatically. You see, one of those actively involved in Humphrey's campaign was Jim Rowe who had been a close Johnson associate all the years, and Johnson had told Rowe quite
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and then associate professor in economics. I came LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the around-the-world flight, and we sure put them to a good purpose. Afterwards, of course, there was absolute commotion, The West Wing began to fill very rapidly with staffers and friends and associates. phones never stopped ringing. The The press
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 28 (XXVIII), 9/24/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Very limited in the area of dismay, but there was some. I remember specifically Bill Connell, who was a long-time associate of Hubert Humphrey. Bill and Jim Rowe had rather adamantly opposed the Salt Lake City speech in 1968. Bill sent me a lengthy memo