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Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • completed, and we will have sent it to all of the judges and all other interested parties for their comment . But we are seeking a year's extension . F: Governor, let's talk politics today . In your association with Mr . Johnson personally, when did you
Oral history transcript, Clinton P. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : And then shortly after that, you were associated with Mr. Johnson in the development of the space program, with the Space Act passed after the Sputnik of '57? A: Well, that was, again, almost an accident. I had been appointed to the Joint Committee on Atomic
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --they are covered by that now, but the standards are lower for trucks on braking and stuff like that than they are for automobiles. G: Were the Teamsters a factor in this at all? C: No. The American Trucking Association may have been. We really weren't focused
Oral history transcript, John Michael Dunn, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • at times and certainly demanding at times, but he gave me his full confidence and I tried to return that with full loyalty. G: How was Ambassador Lodge with the press? D: Good. He was excellent. He converted what was a very hostile press for Mr
  • Appointment of Lodge as ambassador; Lodge's policy; President Ngo Dinh Diem; Diem's Catholicism; William C. Truehart; Deim's family relationships; nature of Dunn's job; Lodge and the press; Earl Young and Long An story; General Harkins; embassy
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But he had not yet moved over to be press secretary, I don't believe, at that time. George Reedy was still there. Shortly after Bill Moyers moved to press secretary, George Reedy left and Marvin Watson then became my boss. This was the summer of 1965. G
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 2 (II), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Chiarodo -- II -- 28 know I've learned this from him; it's one of the things I took from our association. Don't complain about it, go
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 5 (V), 8/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • - the i\ir.2.J.:ican Bar Association COlT!:'!,ittee- which checked on all pot2U:ial jucl,.,:ship nOwinees and made a recommendation of either not-my recollect.ion is they either made a recc!TI.inend.:.".tion of qualified, lvellqualified, exceptionally vell
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • political science academies and associations, and you are a writer and a lecturer. If you would like to add anything to that, by all means please feel free. S: No, I think that just about covers it. G: I'd like to begin this interview if I can
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the advisory committee. It was certainly in the early days. G: Do you recall anything between the association, Lyndon Johnson and Alvin Wirtz, in this period that you observed? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • handling. You write a letter to an associate, or you may make a reference to someone which is not unkind but may be true, but you don't want it misinterpreted or to get out to the press. You could say so-and-so is a great guy, but he has this weakness
  • on donations; 1969 tax law; physical move of material to Austin; typical appraisal workday; comparison of working conditions on LBJ and Nixon papers; controversial Nixon deed of gift; President Eisenhower memorandum; personal association with LBJ; Pentagon
Oral history transcript, Roswell L. Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • group be sent out, he resisted that. And of course as late as September of 1963, either in a press conference or a speech, he made clear that the destiny of the South Vietnamese was in their hands and that the United States couldn't come in and determine
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • started talking about these nominations who I would suggest to him, ,.hat my recomnendation would be for an appointee to Chief Justice; or if he decided to nominate Justice Fortas as an Associate Justice. I called my friend Charlie Wright, professor here
Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • there. And during that time I was trying to minimize the bad effect on Japanese-American relations, and I did this primarily in terms of pleading with the Japanese press to give fair balance in their reporting. Because what they were doing covering South Vietnam
Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was pretty strongly entrenched in Jim Wells County. G: Who else do you think was implicated? Who else would have had to be involved? R: Well, in Mangen's story, the Associated Press man Mangen--I've forgotten his first name--he says others were
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, William F. McKee, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • understood his problem, I was appreciative of his problems and he knew that I supported him. I never once went over his head to the Congress or the press or to anybody in the administration with respect to decisions that he had made. P: Did the press ever
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] Biographical information; first association with LBJ; first impressions of LBJ; appointment to FAA; Senators Hartke, Long, Magnuson and Monroney; flight service plan and service stations; medical department of the FAA
Oral history transcript, Claiborne Pell, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • weeks after the assassination trying to press my policies with regard to Germany; specifically, recognition of the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 2 (II), 4/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and skinny, and we want real men." G: I noticed also from going through the newspapers that Miss [Mary] Brogdon was very active in supervising student activities and speaking to groups. W: Yes, she was. G: Do you recall anything of his association
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • would not run. Why I didn't set up one here, I don't know, but I had them set up a press conference for me in Dallas; I jumped on the plane to Dallas, got off the plane in Dallas and held a press conference and announced. That was in December, as I
Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . But when this unpleasantness began·happening after May 8, the press began to attack Diem. A great many·American officials began to think he was getting worse and worse. Some people~ including mYself, began to be worried lest he collapse, and then we
Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 2 (II), 11/9/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the South. The mission--Ambassador [Ellsworth] Bunker and [Sam] Berger and Westmoreland and [Creighton] Abrams and so on there got together and pressed [Nguyen Van] Thieu to get going now; here you've got an emergency situation, because you've got a lot more
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, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • house. So we moved into the Stonewall Motel. And we got the same rooms every trip. Who was it? UPI [United Press International], Ferd Kaufman was with UPI and he had two rooms because he had an awful lot of equipment and I'll never forget him, but he
  • trips; LBJ as passenger; flying under conditions that were not ideal; providing an adequate number of pilots for long trips; the logistics of transporting the president, staff, security personnel, and press in two planes on trips; Sam Houston Johnson
Oral history transcript, William R. Desobry, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • there fighting--and I would say that for the people that I knew, and I knew most of them. I'd either served with them at one time or another or been associated with them, and we met frequently. In fact, we met formally once a month up in Nha Trang. And I believe
  • ; updates on the Vietnamese leaders Desobry worked with; the 42nd and 44th Rangers' strengths; Desobry's relationship with the press; Ward Just's writing; events leading up to the Tet offensive; the loss of Viet Cong strength in the Delta; the effects
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • seeking to respond to the general desire for settlement as expressed in the convention. Friends in the hall and whole delegations with whom I had spoken during the course of the week had made clear that this was an urgent, pressing issue with them; we were
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and told him that the President had been shot --on the plane--and he said that they had just had word from one of the press services and what was the situation. I told him all I knew. He said they were going to come into Hickam Field and he would call me
Oral history transcript, Jack Howard, interview 1 (I), 10/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : That's correct. I basically was a newspaperman. I was labor reporter on the San Francisco Chronicle, and in the late fifties had been given an American Political Science Association congressional fellowship for a year in Washington. During that time I
Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • at the airport and arranged a press conference for hUn. That was my only contact with him. M: What did these big city northern mayors think about Johnson being the vice presidential candidate in 1960? C: I personally thought it was a very good choice, I
  • legislation; Senate vote on Medicare testifying on the hill; civil rights bill; duties as Secretary; expansion of Office of Aging; women in government; appointment by Secretary; birth control report; surgeon general's report on smoking; LBJ and the press
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on the part of the Ecuadorians in getting the change made? B: I don't know. I never did know because we had agreed to do it. The Ecuadorians were actually pressing me to get our agreement to do it. F: So I never did find out why it didn't happen
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of people. It's a conservative [organization] like the Americans for Democratic Action on the left. And the second way was in anti-communist seminars. Now, there was a little flurry and some news about that and some complaining in the press and arguing
Oral history transcript, Ralph Dungan, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • _directly -with Senator Johnson's Texas office. So that my associations w~ .,. President Johnson at tha t time were intermittent, let me put; it ,/ LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I took some of my consternations over to George Christian, who was the press secretary at the time, who was present at the ranch in Australia when Mr . Johnson was tendered the offer of the kangaroos . George said he had enough to worry about ; he
  • LBJ's tour in Australia; kangaroos for the ranch; LBJ's decision to retain Kennedy cabinet; press leaks; opinions of Stuart Udall; appointment to the Department of the Interior; Rebekah Johnson's relationship with LBJ; Boatner's father's death
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Beaty at Interior with [Stewart] Udall and an associate of his, Bob McConnell, [who] worked with Beaty. Ken Birkhead, similarly with Orville Freeman.I think that was essential, as these were positions in the department or agency that were high
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ." At the last minute, I decided to make the race, to the consternation of the press. elected. You see, I did not live in Tom Ford's district. Melvyn was at the time already overseas Burma, China Theatre of war. I was serving in the India, He heard of my
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a nice occasion it was, that kind of thing. G: You mentioned the picketing. Why was he so concerned about the picketing? Was it because of the press coverage of it or was it just a personal--? K: I don't want to overdo his concern because he
  • LBJ’s frustration at the end of his presidency, especially regarding the Soviet Union and Vietnam; LBJ’s attempt to meet with Nixon and Soviets; Urban League dinner in New York; LBJ’s concern over press coverage of anti-war, anti-LBJ picketing; sale
Oral history transcript, Guy S. Meloy III, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • did that entail exactly? M: Task Force was a headquarters composed of about, oh, forty people, most of them communicators in a regular staff with a commander, a deputy commander--the one, two, three, four kind of people, and their associated
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, Lawrence McQuade, interview 1 (I), 1/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • by the press because many of them are in the Georgetown set. In fact, my current wife is a member of the press and covered the White House for Life Magazine. She happens to be a good friend of the President's but that brings you into contact with a lot
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD H. NELSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE· PLACE: Mr. Nelson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with your association with the Peace Corps. How did you get involved with that? N: I had met Bill Moyers and Sarge
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to Vice President Nixon in the Senate to try to get his support for a line we were going to try to press with [John] Foster Dulles and President Eisenhower. Nixon said that this was the first time a serious question had been addressed to him in many years