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Oral history transcript, Leo Gehrig, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't have any recall of any actions that he took. G: One other thing on the compliance. The National Medical Association in 1966 was critical of Robert Nash in terms of enforcing compliance. Let me ask you to evaluate that criticism. LG: I don't
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXV -- 20 G: Tony Buford must have been a business associate with the station, or did they do business with him? J: Well, he was Gussie [August] Busch's right-hand man, his lawyer and the one who dealt with all his
Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But it got a certain amount of press, and it was part of the discussion at least that went on among reviewers and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
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, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , their presence on the floor of the House, the speeches that they make, the effectiveness of their speech, logical, sound, their contributions, their associations with their fellow colleagues, their personality. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Mills -- II -- 3 which was a pretty strong endorsement of it, I thought. I thought the time had come to pass it. I don't think we could have passed it in 1961. I told Kennedy that, and he agreed, I guess. He never did really press me about it. G: Did
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the last two years instead of just the last year. I made a decision, having graduated with a major in history and a minor in philosophy in June of 1933, to continue on for another year, because I didn't have anything pressing that I needed to go home and do
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in progress right now--and your membership in several medical associations. If they come up later, you can mention the specific ones. Is there anything that should be added to that outline, sir? H: I would think not. That covers it pretty well. B: All
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Birdwell, and Sugar Pickle, the lively, cute, funny wife of Jake Pickle. Eloise Thornberry, and Margaret Mayer from the newspaper world. When Lyndon came down, he began covering the state, speaking to his usual constituency, associations of postmasters
Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and I think that she felt that he was Father's boy and not particularly hers. G: Did she press him on social issues, do you recall, such as civil rights or things like that? R: No, I don't think she thought she had to press him. Because I think she
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Then later he had gone to Des t10ines and made a lot of money in contracting work. The war had come along and interfered with everybody's life pretty much, but he made a lot of money. He looked Lindsey's address up in the press where he sa\'1 an ad
Oral history transcript, Edward P. Cliff, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . She was attending the joint convention of the National Council of State Garden Clubs in the American Forestry Association. This was one of the first trips, one of the first follow-throughs, after the White House Conference on Natural Beauty_ TOg
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of these unani­ mous reports, with some very solid recommendations, [like] get a dollar's value for a dollar spent, and calling attention to our basic weakness in the military field . The national press and the world press paid attention to him because he
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, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Bethune thought of him was quite helpful to me. B: Was his reasoning that you quoted on not pressing for civil rights legislation convincing to you at that time? M: Well, no-- B: I ask because it sounds like something that you must have heard many
Oral history transcript, Henry Bellmon, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • generally asked by the press to react and generally were put in a position of either agreeing with the President's actions in Vietnam or not agreeing . And either position was difficult for them because I think both these men wanted to be good, loyal
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Shellow. MG: Was there a tendency on the Commission's part not to include in testimony hearings the more radical blacks, those associated with black power? DG: The first criticism of this came when the President announced the composition
  • of the black power movement from the Commission; why some cities, such as St. Louis, had no rioting; publishing the Commission's report commercially; finalizing the report and press coverage of its release; disbanding the Commission; comparing the problems
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . He called me two or three days later and gave me the list of songs that he was going to sing, and I took the list of songs down to Liz Carpenter and she typed up the press release. The next thing I heard was a call from Walt Rostow with sort of a hint
Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with no mention of this feature. But the press, of course, was very much interested in what we were doing. So it was decided that there should be some little statement communique put out. President Kennedy took Rusk, McNamara, Taylor, After the meeting, Bundy
Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Springs where he came from to run for the governorship. That was the beginning. I. went to Albany with them, and then came to Washington. F: Did you have any association at all with President Johnson's brief wartime experience? T: Do you have any
Oral history transcript, Eugene McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1980 INTERVIEWEE: EUGENE McCARTHY INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Senator McCarthy's residence, Washington, D. C. ~ape G: 1 of 1 Senator, let's start with your earliest association with Lyndon Johnson when you first came to Congress
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that you learned here? P: Yes. This is why the naivete of so many amateurs in the political battles really kind of shakes me, because unless you've really been part of that and had to raise money and had to get votes and had to press it precinct
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 3 (III), 1/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . But Katzenbach was being criticized for "selling out" on some things to Senator Dirksen. And the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights was pressing on Hart, Kennedy and Javits to go further than we in the Department of Justice thought we could go and needed
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • It spelled out what it was to do. But during the Eisenhower Administration it didn't do it. So in December 1960--1 believe it was December 20, 1960--a press conference was held down at Palm Beach by President-elect Kennedy, and Vice President-elect Johnson
Oral history transcript, Lester R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • residence in Rome away from the meetings and the press so that we could have detailed private discussions . Present at these sessions which were held, as I recall, every day for a week each morning from early morning to roughly mid-day were the Secretary
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , of course, as Press Secretary for President Johnson--inherited from the Kennedy Administration . B: Did you consult with President Johnson on this? I can't remember . You know, my candidate for the United States Senate then was Allan Cranston . F: Who
Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Because my wife and I were relatively young--I was thirty-eight at the time--and we had come from John Kennedy Massachusetts, we received a lot of press coverage. country in We were doing unusual things in the conservative State of Ohio. When
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • colleagues, both in the Senate and in the House, and I think this was very, very helpful to him politically. Talking about politics, you see the press is very critical of Governor Rockefeller right now, who's being considered to be the vice president. I have
Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh Hayes -- I -- 24 of organizations with some claim to represent the poor. By meeting with the objectors and pressing the mayors to negotiate with them, I undoubtedly gave the dissidents a legitimacy they hadn't had and, perhaps, didn't
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the Farmers Union, including the Grain Terminal Association; it also included now the NFO and the Grange and the Missouri Farmers Association. B: In that kind of thing in what amounts to a campaign for the referendum, do you feel that you can ethically use
Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • primarily rather than official. K: It was truly social. the years. So that our relationship really grew stronger over Of course, knew him reasonably well at the time he ran for vice president because of the necessary association that had
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the motor carrier and railroad safety functions, so we decided not to press hard at that time on the car service functions. M: In general, from your point of view, was the passage of this act quick enough to be impressive to you? 0: It was the fastest
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • correct. P: And prior to that you were an associate and partner in a Washington, D.C., law firm. W: Yes. P: And since 1948. W: Yes, you do. P: Mr. Warnke, your predecessor in this office, Mr. John MacNaughton, also And I do have all correct
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Roberts -- II -- 2 R: No~ I was a housewife. was one of his NYA boys~ I was married to Herbert Ray Roberts~ who and met him of course because of his and Ray's friendship and past association. F
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on those occasions would indicate that they each regarded the other as a very close and good friend. B: In those days when you were on the. Truman White House staff there were associated with the White House a number of people who later became associated
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Baptist Association . Brooks Hays . He was president of the Southern Brooks Hays, a great storyteller . It was Brooks Hays that asked me that question . Mr . He was going to try Rayburn . I told him what the facts were . He was very close to So
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Easley was the Associated Press correspondent covering the House of Representatives for years and years. And he later worked for Bob Poage, but Tex Easley was a very prominent associate, AP writer. H: Okay, Bill and Judy Mickey, M-I-C-K-E-Y. Anything