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Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that meeting was ceremonial more than anything else. The thing that was outstanding, the thing that stands out the largest in my mind is that the Fredericksburg newspapers had dispatched a case of fine Fredericksburg peaches for Jack, and I think that's

Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the churches were holding services the So they all took their sermon that day [from that They were like newspaper reporters, all these ministers, trying to beat the other minister to it, making the attack on him first. F: And they had to take it right off

Oral history transcript, Walter T. Kerwin, interview 1 (I), 9/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, and the next time I really got, shall we say, close to him, was when I went to Vietnam to be his chief of staff. G: I see. Well, there was quite a hiatus in your association. K: Yes, it was a long time between those times; although we had met each other, we

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

a newspaper at McKinney, Texas, became campaign manager for Governor [John] Ireland, secretary of state under Governor Ireland. Mother went to Baylor-Belton [Mary Hardin-Baylor College?], Baylor College, Texas University, you see. she was out of her class

Oral history transcript, Robert Vincent Roosa, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

enterprise, no reason not to. But I hadn't known any member of the Kennedy family. But put the other way around, I had known literally dozens of the young men who were also being drawn into the government at that time. I had by chance during the war been

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 2 (II), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

more to divide more equitably, because the creative, the big enterprises, the ones that raise the higher standards of living, they're the three or five per cent of the people, ten, fifteen at most. And when people talk to me about, "You've got to think

Oral history transcript, James Adler, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

started. And some private money which we were able to raise to get started in East Kentucky. G: Was that Ford Foundation money, or--? A: I can only remember two specific sources of resources. with Reynolds Metal. One I associate I had gone

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

Correspondents Association [Dinner], followed by the Alfalfa Dinner, I think probably usually in March. Then the Young Democrats--I wonder what they did even about the--there must have been some women members of Congress and Democrats in those days. But a great

Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 2 (II), 09/10/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)

of luck. See, various agencies, like the member from the Congress, the member from the Senate, the member from the Department of State, one from the Department of Defense and learned societies including the American Historical Association had picked

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

he was able to amass. I assume you have reference to that particular paper on this. He managed to leak it to various newspapers. There were various stories about the thing. He sought to make it into a scandal of somehow we were sitting on something

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

it was, but everybody was after the design of that dress. They all wanted to know what it was, and whoever found it out would have a great big scoop. The newspaper people were going into bridal houses under all kinds of guises, trying to get pictures or details about

Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of it. There's been a squib in the newspapers that his boo k is going to say that this was just cleared by underlings, which isn't the case. It was cleared by the President of the United States. M: Apparently he's supposed to have held this against Hilsman, too

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was younger and more energetic in those days. G: Now, in February of 1964 American Banker Association President William Kelly made a speech in New York deploring the lack of cooperation and the overlapping of the three federal agencies involved

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

should be pointed out. He felt pretty strongly about the control. G: Well, he must have gotten a lot of opposition to this from the Senate. B: Right to bear arms, part of the Constitution, National Rifle Association, sure. We were bombarded

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

the crepe as if it were something dirty, a disgrace. EG: Did the Klan in those days in Texas stand for what we generally associate with it? Anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic, anti-Negro~ and extreme nationaOl ism? ~lH: Yes, that is certainly true. And they did

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was a little older than I was, but we were in the same class. Then after John came Harold, who committed suicide after a few associations, he had busted up with A. W., who at that time, in the early days, he was just a little kid. Anyhow, I won't bring up

Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and seventies, that would become the focus of the newspaper story rather than the fact that 99 per cent of the people there were nonviolent. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 2 (II), 6/1/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

many and who diq it . G: . Can you recall any particularly distressing [incidents]? I don't have one in mind, I'm just-T: No. Of course, the press was full of it. If you had brought - the newspapers around here, I could perhaps remember

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

come from the advertising world. I was asked to address the American Advertising Association in Boston, and I asked the President if I could be off to make the speech. He said fine; he did not ask to look at my speech, I didn't show it to him

Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

serving in this position since 1961. Is that correct? "\1: Since July 1961. M: You were an appointee, then, of President Kennedy and served through the entire Johnson Administration. W: Yes. ~II: For many years you were associated IVi th various

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

my father. Johnson got to know.him--used to come up frequently and stay at our house or our apartment in New York, and we involved ourselves in many ways throughout his career with helping him in his campaigns; helping him get newspaper support
of the Democratic Party; Young Citizens for LBJ in 1964; Birch Bayh; ran Associates Division of President’s Club; McSurley case; 5th Amendment; Bill Moyers; importance of Jack Valenti; reason Katzenbach moved to State; comparison of Katzenbach and Clark; Task Force

Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

an oral history with Cook? MG: Yes. I didn't do it, but it's been done. IG: Is it a good job? MG: Well, I think we need more on this particular period. You know, he had a long association with LBJ. IG: Well, you'll find him a very intelligent man

Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

association with the President, as of December 1, 1966 you resigned as chairman of the Board of Regents. Was this an anticipation of an appointment? H: Yes. I knew then that-- F: That something was coming. H: It was just a question of the timing

Oral history transcript, Leverett Saltonstall, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Biographical information; first association with LBJ in the Senate Armed Services Committee and Preparedness Sub-Committee; Kem Resolution; activities in the Senate; amendment to Kerr-Mills Bill; Saltonstall-Kennedy Act; Senator Hayden; Smithsonian

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

this? S: Amazingly, not much interest in Vietnam, Southeast Asia. We all read the newspapers and we got briefings periodically, intelligence briefings. But there wasn't a whole lot of interest in it. The curriculum of the War College was just

Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

on that. I've always understood that the Chiefs of Staff--certainly some of them-- and Secretary of State Dulles, recommended that we intervene at Dien Bien Phu. I remember quite well a newspaper man one time asked Secretary Dulles--. This was about

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to be associated with this historic movement. In the spring of 1967, President Johnson dedicated Victoria Courts as a pleasant home for senior citizens in San Antonio. I expressed a desire to honor the President by being present at the ceremony. I expressed

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 4 (IV), 7/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

for the right to strike. Now, during 1967 and 1968 some of the unions did remove from their constitutions a commitment not to strike, and there was some newspaper reporting of agitation for the right to strike. However, there has never been introduced

Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE P. MILLER INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: The Millers' 22~ 1974 home~ Washington~ D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: My association with Lyndon Johnson was a very pleasant one. F: You overlapped in Congress, didn't you? M: Overlapped

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 3 (III), 1/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Will Wilson, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: No. But the thing was swarming with newspaper people at the hotel, and there was a lot publicity about it. So then we came back, and I accepted the job of organizational chairman. I might say that when I first went out there to that meeting by the swimming pool

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

have got such a majority it really doesn't matter. But in those days, it was so close. It was so close. Do you have any Let's talk about LBJ's relations with other senators. recollections of his association with Walter George, for example, who

Oral history transcript, Burke Marshall, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: To Birmingham? M: To Birmingham. And I called for a lot of help from the Attorney General and from the White House. And particularly in terms of calling people, not just political people, but business people or any of the newspaper people, or anyone that could

Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

://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 Bolling -- I -- 5 M: Not the kind of personal leadership that he is associated

Oral history transcript, Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the Department of Medicine at Yale, I accepted an appointment as associate professor of medi cine at the Johnson Hopkins University School of Medicine . In 1957 I was made Professor of Medicine, and in 1958 I became Professor of Pathology and Director

Oral history transcript, Roland Bibolet, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on to the heights that he did, I know McFarland was extremely proud of the association, and when we went to Washington at the occasion of the Kennedy funeral, McFarland wanted very much to tell Lyndon personally � � LBJ Presidential Library http

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

it was, but they brought up the statement--I don't know whether it was a newspaper article or whether it was an individual-brought up the statement that Oswald on his way down to Mexico en route to Cuba stopped at this county where they had had so much trouble down

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

? C: Definitely. I think prestige is a factor. Now, if you talk to McNamara about it, the last time I talked to him about it, he's become increasingly concerned about the sort of psychological/environmental problem associated with what happens

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Hickerson with Associated Press called from Dallas and insisted on an inter view with Senator Johnson. We got the lights on, and I and Woody at different times tried to tell him we'd talk to him in the morning, but Clayton was feeling 11 no pain" about

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Plus newspape rme n. P: --and news p apermen~ t han anybody in Texas. as many as anybody, and maybe more . At that time I knew fully I had been to all kinds of conventions and through all sorts of election s, and I had made some dear friends

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