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Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • combination of charades and actions took place, whether it was food or whether it was watershed projects or whether it was. People working \lJith me worked up something called Opportunity Homesteads. This would have taken quite a feltl mill ions. I cantt
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --if I could see a final action in the department that might be a White House operation . I mean to be announced by the White House gives your department prestige, rather than the secretary announcing it . To have the president announcing it, that's
  • Democratic convention
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Commander Gingrich actually, that I just did not want to stay in Washington too long, and I thought I had been there long enough in spite of the fact that I'd spent about ten months in Algiers and North Africa. He tried to encourage me to go to South America
  • station KVET; Coke Stevenson; LBJ using a helicopter to campaign in 1948; monitoring the 1948 election returns; LBJ's kidney stones; Paul Porter; legal action surrounding the 1948 election and box 13 incident; the Democratic Executive Committee vote
Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • America and bomb the air fields in Cuba. And then Cubans would land over in Florida and say that they were Cuban Air Force people that had defected, and they had participated in the bombing and so forth. This got tied up and wasn't very well executed
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • it the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, not North Vietnam or South Vietnam. The fact that this is one country and you shove anybody in who's around. G: Another thing that puzzles me is the Tet attacks which, despite the disclaimers, were largely a surprise
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 4 (IV), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the fund-raising dinner in Washington. I can't recall, and your notes didn't help me on it, whether it was the [Democratic] National Committee or the congressional Democratic committee, but it was a fund raiser. Initially, of course, the President
  • ; Larry O’Brien; Krim resigning as Democratic National Committee finance chairman to be involved with the LBJ Presidential Library and School of Public Affairs; being asked to join LBJ’s cabinet and the United Nations; Arthur Goldberg; the LBJ Foundation
Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , at that time, for congressional liaison, was seconded over to the Democratic committee; I worked through filr. Birkhead. B: He was, technically, then I think, with Rural Americans for JohnsonHumphrey? t1: Yes. B: What were the circumstances of your being
Oral history transcript, William A. Knowlton, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • forth, I, William A. Knowlton, of Alexandria, Virginia, do hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title, and interest in the tape recording and transcript of the personal interview conducted with me on March 21
Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • judged you on your actions and your thoughts and your perspective, and apparently he thought that he could m.ake something out of me, and he took it upon himself to do it. G: Did he give you advice on what to do in your work up in Dallas? R
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Roth -- III -- 29 that has come has been people who were jealous of him rather than who were dissatisfied with his actions or what he did. G: To your knowledge, did he have pretty good relations with Congressman Kleberg
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was old even then. P: And who has just recently celebrated, I understand, his ninetyfourth birthday. F: Right. P: And he enjoined the Secretary of State of Texas from certifying any Democratic candidate on the senatorial ballot. Well, Alvin Wirtz
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with President Kennedy, to change that, that he was dedicated to it. I forget the name of the committee, but you would probably know it. G: It was the Equal Employment Opportunity Committee. K: Yes. Obviously his point of view was very pro-action to do away
  • of the President’s Club and its growth; LBJ offering Mrs. Krim Presidential appointments; Krim’s support of Robert Kennedy; fundraising nationwide for LBJ; entertainment celebrities attending political fundraisers; 1964 Democratic National Convention; Don Cook
Oral history transcript, Earl Warren, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and Boggs on the Democratic side and Ford and Cooper on the other side--and John McCloy from New York and Allen Dulles would be willing to serve on that commission if I was to head it up. And he said, "I think this thing is of such great importance
Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . ·He never hesitated, and he never looked back once tie deci.ded. · And, frankly, I know personally Ralph McGill probably had as much influence on Jl\Y thinking and Jl\Y action, other than my inmediate family and the Mayor, than any other person here
Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • repeatedly he made statements to the same effect. I would be called down to the Ranch to discuss it. And indeed, there were certain actions that proved it at the outset. For example, before I was appointed I was invited to Camp David that weekend. I hadn't
Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • possible to have adopted the course of action that you were recommending at that time. fair understanding of it? It was not already set. Is that a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a liberal, being a Democrat, being a . . . Was it anti-Semitic, or was it just a combination of everything? H: I think it could have been a combination of several things but there was one factor that was a motivating one that Harry Cain told me about
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 5 (V), 11/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Democratic Executive Committee. I don't know whether you're aware of this or not. L: No, I didn't know that. F: But he said he turned it down after being the--it was never actually offered, but he was the front runner. He said the condition of his law
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the administration, which he, Lodge, as a Republican appointed by a Democratic president, was about to serve loyally and well, and more gung ho than anyone else. It was that sort of reaction, I think. I know Paul Kattenburg personally and have high regard for his
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : I would feel that most of the views I hold would be like those held by many in the Democratic Party. It's a little bit hard to answer that now in that there are so many views expressed by so many people in so many parties, so I'm a little reluctant
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and Company. I t was sad, and it meant more of a burden .was placed on Louis Ma r t i n . I worked a great de9.1 with the vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee mYself, and a couple of others, to play basically IItalent agency," which we had
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • completely sympathetic with you in the situation? B: Yes. G: Dillon had evidently proposed some formula for giving ten days' advance notice to the other concerns, the FDIC and the Fed before taking any of these actions. Was that in fact part
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh approach struck me as being a very They called for conformity, and I suppose I'm not a con- The only brass collar I'll wear will be a Democratic Party brass collar, because that's the least
Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • own defenses as that we've issued a warning against action 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
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Luther King's death and problems encountered 1 Shocked at the potential for simultaneous multiple disorders 3,18 Secretary Reser 5,6,7,8 Democratic Convention in Chicago LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • Biographical information; prosecuting White House sit-in demonstrators; Frank Reeves; Howard Reed; Ralph Roberts, clerk of the House, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; David Dellinger and the March on the Pentagon; "Murphy" confidence
Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • -- II -- 28 economists agreed--that tax cuts and tax increases should be used for stabilization purposes: try to fight inflation. tax cuts in recession~ tax increases to That's the basic theoretical analysis ·and research relating past tax actions
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of this, but let Joe go without his having to suffer." I'll let you judge on the facts the significance of this type of action, which I don't think was the first or last of its kind. The result was the President did get a lot of criticism; the travel tax never
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 1965. He made the comment, "I've just been with one of the greatest Democratic presidents since Roosevelt died. Old Harry Truman, I visited with him at the Muehlebach. He's one of the greatest, and he's doing great." [He'd] just tell the people, he said
Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ? And then you assess your audience as Are they ticket-holders? Are they Did they have previous knowledge that he was going to attend the function? Quite often, on impromptu actions by the President, the problem is somewhat less than you might envision
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , I guess this belongs over in the President's file, rather than my files." Of course, I wasn't suppose to see it--that it had been to all these guys. action. So that was my first It's very hard for me because by that time I was conduct- ing a lot
Oral history transcript, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , as I recall, for East Asia then, or Far East, whichever it was. And I was on the action planning group level; I was chairman of that group. It had people from the State Department and from the CIA involved. One of the consultants to the group turned out
  • with LBJ’s actions regarding Vietnam; Robert McNamara leaving LBJ’s cabinet; distinguishing between the National Security Council and National Security Council staff; the chairman of the JCS’s staff and their duties vs. the director of the Joint Staff
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • or something because I thought he had gone to London before this. At any rate, judging from what's in the file, including a chronology, this was not my action so I can't add anything to it. M: That's a good enough reason not to go into too much detail. Does
Oral history transcript, George McArthur, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , was the control of the aircraft, and of course Ky had a lot of aircraft. M: That's right. G: And someone has pointed out, or tried to make a case, that the CIA was turning its back, in the early days, because a lot of Air America and CAT [Civil Air
  • among the Vietnamese; Air America, Civil Air Transport (CAT), and the CIA's involvement in transporting drugs and drug trade; the number of Viet Cong casualties in the Tet Offensive; McArthur's experience in Vietnam following Tet; press briefings from
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that it was a very unuise decision--one that I didn't think should be made. I \Vas concel'ned abou t '·iho could be, and Hould be the Pres iden t beginning in January '69. I thir,k one of my first thought;: '\vas that there was no Democrat that '-las capable
Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 2 (II), 9/15/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • against other people and so forth. II I said, "It's going to be very disruptive. parties in the government now. They have political I'd just as soon go ahead and act to let them grow naturally in real democratic fashion. to this kind of thing. II So
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 2 (II), 5/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think it was, Harvard Business or something like that [Advertising Federation of America]. K: And that it was the wrong thing to say in that atmosphere. Vicky McCammon said nothing, but she was there. But this was only the beginning of what came out
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that the action was in the basement. I got down to the basement, how I got down I'll never know. I was stopped about eighteen times, but finally managed to get into the Parkland Hospital basement where I saw-F: You didn't have much identification beyond just
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Research Institute of America, again, one of these news services for big business executives like the Kiplinger Washington Letter. Toward the end of World War II, I went out to the Far East as a war correspondent for Reuters, the British news agency, and I