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Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • named Mrs. Sarah Montgomery, who was black, a minority socially in that black neighborhood. Somehow she wanted her civic association president to sit up on the platform and to speak. I'd said no, because if he spoke everyone would have to speak. So she'd
Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that are not available in the public newspapers. for example. G: The Budget Bureau was charged with the task of sifting through a lot of different proposals for a war on poverty from various agencies LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 'I ain't going. He ain't going to tell us a damn thing that ain't been in the newspapers.'" command. "No, Mr. Speaker, you've got to go. You've got to go," so forth. This is a presidential "I've arranged for General Curtis LeMay to send his plane
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • First duties and associates in Vietnam; III ARVN Corps; the problem of counterintelligence duty in Hawaii; early buildup of the Vietnam War; background of the war; the Oriental soldier; return to Vietnam in 1967; briefing preparation for McNamara
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • associations with Governor Price Daniel and with President Johnson. In the spring of 1965 you joined the White House staff as Special Counsel to the President and served in that position until the spring of 1967. Could we begin by your telling me a little
  • Biographical information; working for Price Daniel; Jacobsen’s personal political philosophy; 1940’s and 1950’s political climate in Texas; LBJ’s reputation as a congressman; LBJ’s early advisers and associates; law suit involving the 1948 election
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of their association, did Ralph Yarborough and the senior senator tend to get along fairly well? You've got a natural maverick in Ralph. J: I think they always got along together on the personal basis. Their personalities were such that they were never close
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 3 (III), 2/27/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , ._ c This was part ly t rue . on . ~ 10u1d ff ice wa s just telling the I f a nyboav ::. n :ne 2-::-css l)ff · c e Knew s oon fin d :L :S wav i n t o the newspap rs. .\nd it ' s the o nly criticis m t:ha t I r al l _1 have oi Ri l l' s oper a t
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • election first when he read about it in the Army Newspaper. 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
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /oh 2 T: I graduated in January of '59 from law school and went to Washington in June of '59; served up there for just the one year, which is the tenure of the clerkship; returned to Austin in July of '60; and became an associate with a law firm
Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • - But he also said, "I'd rather have one line in Time magazine or in the New York Times than I would in all the other newspapers i~n the country. II He was fascinated with the national character of Time magazine. If you go back in that time
Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was at Rice Institute as the Rice reporter for the Houston Post . So he knew I had some talent in reporting, and I was given that position . So I traveled then with Lyndon Johnson throughout the state, with the retinue of newspaper people who were
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 2 (II), 11/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that Gene Pulliam stood for. Pulliam was one of the most conservative newspaper publishers that ever lived, and why he became so enamored of Lyndon Johnson, I will never know. I don't know of anything in particular that Johnson did for him. But somehow he
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Spivak on press and Orville Freeman on issues; Al Barkan, labor; Bill Connell, a close associate of Humphrey; Fritz Mondale, extremely active; Terry Sanford, the head of the citizens committee; Geri Joseph, the woman's division. The make-up of that policy
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . G: Really? O: No. I was with him, and I remember being in the elevator with him and going to the hall. You could always depend upon Kennedy to acquit himself well. I saw so many occasions over those fourteen years of association that I certainly
  • ; opposition to JFK from LBJ supporters and vice versa; LBJ's loyalty to JFK and their professional relationship; 1960 election results, especially in Illinois; JFK's speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association addressing his Catholicism; the West
Oral history transcript, Alain C. Enthoven, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • offices; and this is Dorothy Pierce. Dr. Enthoven, you were nominated and confirmed for your present position in July 1965, but you've had association with Defense-related work since becoming a staff member of the Rand Corporation in 1956. Corporation you
Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . But tremendously combat-experienced people, and they were all the aviation-pioneer kind of guys. Well, for a young guy to be associated with them was an incredible experience, and I was a superb pilot; a superb stick-and-rudder guy. They were the superb air
Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that even though they opposed, they had already known so many things, more or less by courtesy, that they didn't have quite the sting to attack. And I think that President Johnson was always-- of course he had quite a lot of association with Uncle Carl
Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 2 (II), 11/9/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Palmer -- II -- 13 I'm off the track there. pacification. Later, people associated Abe's job with You could argue that pacification also
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh O'Brien -- Interview XIX -- 6 O: Yes. Bob Hardesty was on my staff at the Post Office Department, and he had a close association
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , patriotic, compassionate Lyndon Baines Johnson moved today to bring peace and good will to the earth. newspaper story. 11 That was his idea of a I doubt whether he was any more sensitive. I think what was happening is that he was getting more continuing
Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and prudent fellow. But we just didn't have many radicals. G: Do you recall the substance of any other calls from Shriver regarding White House complaints? H: Chicago was the main thing, and the newspapers. I don't recall the individual things
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 4 (IV), 8/25/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it, but rumors were so fast that you couldn't even keep up with them. In order to keep spirits alive and going, I picked up an afternoon paper that had come out the afternoon before-­ it was one of a half dozen newspapers floati-ng around in Los Angeles
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • It was an era of intense ethnic dis­ They associated ethnic discrimination with the WASPs, whom again they associated with England. What Big Bill was really doing was cocking a snook at all the people who were looking down their nose at the Jews, the dagos
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and '67 crisis-- F: These were not newspaper bugaboos, then? K: Not at all. The Turks were getting on the ships. intelligence as to what they were doing. didn't need any intelligence. We had good As a matter of fact, we They told us they were
Oral history transcript, John E. Stavast, interview 1 (I), 3/12/84, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • education was at Cameron College at Lawton, Oklahoma. I didn't get a bachelor's degree; I got an associate in science, which was eighty-three hours, in preparation for what was to have been a career in radio as a radio announcer or performer. Actually I
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the city then maybe wasn't more than thirty thousand--that could be checked on--it wasn't a large city. Sun, I remember. The newspaper \'IaS the San Bernardino And it's in the citrus area, a very nice town. Of course 1 ike all the towns around Los
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was Campaigning at the New Mexico state convention were Senator [ClintoQ P.] Anderson, myself, Jack Kennedy, and Rayburn. I was there for Dad and I gave lighthearted talk which the newspapers liked quite a lot because we were obviouslY'ndt in contention. LBJ
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • up going, and he got very, very good coverage on it on televj~lon B: Did you write that speech? W: Yes. Where were we? Yes, and the newspapers. you really are very much in business for yourself; but there is rivalry also. I think
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, William Lewis and Margaret Chase Smith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1975, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • did. L: That's a bad chapter in the relationship; I think that probably was I ran for President that year, you know. Did he ever talk to you about that? the worst. Senator Smith received the Minuteman Award from the Reserve Officers' Association
Oral history transcript, Mildred Portner, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Library and the School of Public Affairs and because of his close association with Frank Erwin, who was chairman of the board [of regents] at Texas then. So he really became a Texas University fan and very proud of the University. G: There's some
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • newspapers at the time--which they did constantly; they read Newsweek, Time, they read everything--would say "You know, I think we did it." And when LBJ's speech came on the thirty-first of March 1968 I bet there were people up in the cabinet room wreathed
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and that he had a letter of introduction from the Boston bar association to the president of the Saigon bar assocation. And I was thinking to myself, "Jesus Christ! This is going to be very, very interesting." But he was going to be their lawyer; he
Oral history transcript, Henry Bellmon, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bellmon -- I -- 8 that we were getting from the newspapers anyway . very well give us classified information . He couldn't And yet having been to the briefings