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Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

you. I told them I was going to be at Old Gun Factory Navy r·1ess for Thanksgiving Dinner. So 10 and behold, I get this call. and said, liThe White House is on the phone." A waiter came running Well, of course, this was big news in those days

Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

. But by 1935, response in the welfare area, as evidenced by the Social Security Act of 1935 and the Housing Act and other acts about 1937, indicated that this new response of government to needs was much broader than what we would refer to as a relation

Oral history transcript, Edith H. Parker, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Lyndon had somewhat come in on the coattails of the New Deal, and the President had had their pictures taken with his arm around Lyndon when the next campaign was taken. He had done every sort of thing that he could, and he never forgave Senator

Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 2 (II), 4/17/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that organization of a new state-wide Head start program was a viable possibility. to Cooper. with me. He picked up the phone and gave me entree Cooper called Winter and a couple of other people to meet I made it clear to all that this was not an official OEO
Child Development Group of Mississippi; Phillips’ trip to Mississippi; new Mississippi Head Start program; Mississippi Action for Progress; Bernard Boutin and Bertrand Harding; OEO lobbying.

Oral history transcript, Joseph H. (Joe) Carter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

started reading my columns and news stories in the paper in Oklahoma, which is his home state. We became friends and a dialogue developed. expressed an interest. I I told him that I wanted to work for the President if I could, do anything

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Kefauver, who was a senator from Tennessee, had entered into the New Hampshire primary and had defeated Truman, who was then the sitting president, most people--I'm talking about most politicians--were of the opinion that Truman liked being president

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of payments problem. This was something brand new to the United States, we'd never really ever encountered it. And we finally ran up against the place, and began to realize that as a nation we were spending more internationally than we were earning

Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of that-B: Let me ask you, who's the author of record of that? H. A guy name.d Bruce Lee, who was a correspondent for News"eek at the time. Follo\dng that I split up ,.,rith my partner--"we didn't really LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 11 (XI), 7/24/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEW XI DATE: July 24, 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 4, Side 1 G: Okay, why don't we begin 1965? You talked briefly last time about the impact
demonstrations like the one in Selma on the Voting Rights Act; LBJ's support for voting rights; the negative effect of American media coverage on public perception of U.S. involvement in Vietnam; O'Brien's concerns over television news presentation of events

Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of the communists and their call for revolution. He wanted to revolutionize Vietnamese society, which he considered as a corrupt inheritance from the French. He wanted to establish an authentic Vietnamese ideological base for a new society and the rejection

Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the service and started as a news correspondent here at the National Press Building. That was June 12, 1944. F: That was right at D-Day in Normandy, wasn't it? M: That's right, that's right. She was nine days old when I started working here in the Press

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 3 (III), 1/2/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

sophisticated and complicated a weapon as the M-16 rifle.We only had one producer of that rifle. They were producing only something like--I don't know--thirty thousand a month or something--this is a figure that can be checked. It was not until 1967-68 that new

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

extent of the CCCs. Second, it was reminiscent of the Roosevelt era. Third, it was structured, and fourth, it was what I would call relatively easy to understand. It wasn't as if it were some new kind of a billiard ball, do you know what I mean? It fitted
fully funded; Shriver trying to get Mrs. Johnson to sponsor Head Start as a new innovative program; the differences between Civilian Conservation Corps participants and Job Corps students; the urgent need for education as well as sociological

Oral history transcript, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

banks overseas about fourteen billion dollars. Now, I think that's more money on deposit overseas than all of the states except seven--obviously New York, California, New Jersey, I can't remember all seven--but that is LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, David L. Hackett, interview 1 (I), 4/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as opposed to failure? H: Well, there are two parts. I think one was what type of programs they came up with [such as] Mobilization for Youth, which had been going on in New York City on the Lower East Side of New York. Columbia University School of Social
and start programs; what the Committee looked for in creating a new anti-delinquency program; Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited Associated Community Teams (HARYOU-ACT) programs; the Lower East Side experiment; increasing local involvement in planning

Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of renewal through supporting services to help the families, individuals and businesses located in or displaced by projects. In New Haven, Mayor Dick Lee and renewal chief Ed Logue had brought in Mike Sviridoff to start an effort of this kind under the Ford

Oral history transcript, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that I became aware of it in my career at HEW. I was an academi c ian. I was teaching at the University of Southern California and, really, aside from a general ized liberal interest in the programs of the New Deal and the New Frontier, I had

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

; served some in New Orleans; I served Some in the Atlantic and some in the Pacific. My last tour of duty was at Kwajalain in the Pacific; I was there when the Japanese surrender took place. And as quick as I could get passage, I carne back to America

Oral history transcript, Carl Hayden, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

any reasons--to particularly have any talks about it. He was for it and so was 1. You see when President Kennedy died and the Vice-President became President. I was President Pro-Tern of the Senate until there was a new election. I went down

Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: ROGER HILSMAN INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Hilsman's office at Columbia University, New York Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by identifying you, sir. your last official You're Roger Hilsman, and position with the government

Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh APRIL 23, 1969 To start your recollections--let's get it on here at the beginning. You are Chalmers Roberts and your current title is chief of the national news bureau of the Washington Post, is that correct

Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was, believe it or not, by Alexander Jackson Downing . And Alexander Jackson Downing was a landscape architect who lived on the Hudson, up ; north of New York City . He was very young but very bright and he believed in the fundamental principle of the English
-and Merrill; Hirshborn Museum; Lady Bird’s intellectual curiosity; New Mexico Church of Los Trampos.

Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

House staff, and with Bob Kennedy. The March on Washington civil rights thing came on the scene very quickly after I left the government, and I became deeply involved in that. represented ~Ja Her I Reuther on the committee, both in New York

Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 6 (VI), 10/31/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, 1995 INTERVIEWEE: J. WILLIS HURST INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: LBJ Library, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: You want to start with-- H: New Orleans. G: --with New Orleans. All right, sir, go ahead. He called you there on--I

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)

part of the White House rolls. I'll tell one story in relation to coming here. I had done some work in the campaign of 1964 as an advance man first for President Johnson in New York City in June of 1964, which was the first time I had done any advance

Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Carey -- II -- 3 instead, wholly new merchandise, intellectual merchandise, with almost no surrounding analysis [or] data. It was very, very raw stuff because of the nature of the brainstorming that was going

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

for gotten precisely when I b egan briefing, but I believe it was in August. B: What exactly is a briefi ng officer, briefing whom on what? C: The press office has two briefings a day for reporters--two news conferences a day--at eleven and four, at which

Oral history transcript, Leo Gehrig, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Gehrig -- II -- 4 G: So you were the bearer of news--? LG: We were the bearers of the bad news. like it. I would say I never saw anything Obviously both

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

crisis was of course involved in that era. T: I might say that my first involvement with President Kennedy was as a result of the Bay of Pigs. I was in private life in New York at the time and was called down two days after the Cuban Brigade

Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to see was ~don B. Johnson. I think he was senator at that time. F: He was elected to the Senate in 1948. H: I think he'd just been elected senator. But even as a new senator he still had unusual influence in the Senate. As I slW, he

Oral history transcript, William Dayton Maclay, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

conversation indicated that perhaps it would be best if you would outline for us the circumstances of the creation of this agency, which I understand is a relatively new development. You were telling me before the tape was on about the creation of the general

Oral history transcript, Thomas H. Kuchel, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

had that kind of support in debates and in moving things through the calendar. I know I've skipped over the Bob Taft period of majority leader and I really don't remember too much about that. I was brand new; I was really overwhelmed with the place

Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

12, 1971 INTERVIEWEE : ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI INTERVIEWER : PAIGE MULHOLLAN PLACE : Dr . Brzezinski's office at Columbia University, New York Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's just identify you for the beginning here on the tape . . B: Right . M: You're

Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

I was back as the general counsel to [W.] Averell Harriman in the Commerce Department, who had then succeeded Henry Wallace. They had made sort of a reasonably clean sweep of the top echelon of the Commerce Department, and I was one of Harriman's new

Oral history transcript, William M. Capron, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

distribution. There were some other events that I recall, not in necessarily exact chronological order. There was a very important magazine article in the New Yorker--I'm blanking on the name. Do you know the piece I mean, that. G: Yes. Let's see, who wrote
involvement in CAPs of Walter Heller, Kermit Gordon, Dave Hackett, Dick Boone, Paul Ylvisaker and Mitchell Sviridoff; a December 1963 cabinet meeting regarding CAPs; the argument over whether to develop a new agency for CAPs; Capron's 1963 view of how a new

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

it and trace it? M: I think the New York Times' version, which appeared a few days after Newsweek was published, is a better version, at least so far as I know. I saw Charles Roberts on the Friday before this piece was published for lunch. He had completed

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or July or when, because I did return to Austin later on. At any rate, sometime during the summer I went to see our old friend Dr. Will Watt in Austin and got the big news that I was, at last, pregnant. It was big news because from 1934 to 1943--of course
the war in 1942-1943; James Forrestal as secretary of the navy; the 1944 division among Texas Democrats; women in Texas politics in the 1940s; a woman's "I remember Johnny" speech about LBJ helping her find her son; receiving the news of D-Day, June 6

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 3 (III), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

there. That's the first time that I had met him. I liked him very much. And then I replaced him; he had been gone a couple of months before I got there. I saw him in New York; we had dinner with him in New York before. Bill Benton gave me his apartment in New

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- I -- 3 about, were there at a small family dinner. I was very taken by the whole thing. I went back to Washington [New York?], and then he called me a week later, and I came back down. He said that they had done a background investigation on me
from diplomacy in current politics; the riots in Washington, D.C., following the assassination of Martin Luther King; LBJ's confusion over the riots, their purpose and leadership; being in New York City for the ordination of Cardinal Terence Cooke

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 3 (III), 3/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. Mulhollan PLACE: Mr. Bundy's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: This time the subjects I want to talk about--and for your time benefit I hope we can wind it up--are Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East, particularly. Suppose we begin with Latin

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