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- a clear impression of Senator Johnson as a man at that time. r think of him in reference to my association with him, which was again not extensive, both as vice president and president. Lyndon Johnson, in those days, was clearly a man who knew exactly
- around me. He just I believe he really did like me. That was the last time I ever saw him. I got a wonderful letter from Lady Bird afterwards, mentioning some of our associations together and especially how much Lyndon thought of me. G: Do you
- very unusual. The social health legislation--Pell had been a leader in the fight against venereal disease and the American Social Health Association is the private sector group that was pressing this on a national basis, the programs to alleviate
- : Did you have any association with Lyndon Johnson prior to the time you came to the United States Senate? B: No. M: None at all? R: None. M: When you got here, he was Vice President for that first full year that you were in the Senate. Was he
- . He felt that the goals of the revolution were being sacrificed and would be lost unless he intervened and threw the rascals out, which he proceeded to do--the rascals meaning many of the senior Communist leaders who had been his associates throughout
- [For interviews 1a and 1b] Biographical information; first association with LBJ; foreign policy problems of the 1960s; investigation of the Bay of Pigs; military representative to President; contacts with LBJ; role of Joint Chiefs; relationship
- ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 24 if you want to call it that, of CIA support of National Students Association and some publications. I presume this goes back to the period in which you were
- ; CIA role exaggerated by press; National Students Association; Watts and racial problems; Kerner Report; CIA relationship with other organizations in Vietnam; raw information provided for by the CIA
- to go to work. And I saw him, of course, a few days later in company with my friend and attorney, Claude C. Wild, Sr. F: Was Claude with Humble Oil then? P: No, Claude Wild was then director of the Independent Petroleum Association of Texas, of which
- there, which was a one school building. All eleven grades were in the same building, and in each room there was two classes, at least two classes, because there wasn't but about five or six classrooms for the whole eleven grades. So your association was always
- , and to describe what was going on. tremendous surge of legislation. There was, of course, a It was the summer of the Social Security Act, summer of the Wagner Act, and a whole variety of activity. So for the next six or seven years, I was associated
Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- to Aubrey Williams . B: I was teaching school in Denver and was president of the Denver Class room Teachers Association and chairman of the convention committee for the big NEA that met there in July of 1935 . While I was working on this committee work
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
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- if she's not qualified he'd put her on the court, even if the ABA [American Bar Association] wouldn't qualify her. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
- had a kind of--I sensed that he had a different relationship, this was the one thing that intrigued me about him. He was a close friend of Dick Russell's; a close associate of Walter George, who was a powerful senator from Georgia; he was on good
- remember whether it was during my relatively brief time with Public Works or whether it was during my tenure as Under Secretary of the Interior, but in one of those capacities I did have an association with the LCRA. J: To get me straight, you followed
- a bit of work in this area and I do a lot of other work, but I-- F: You haven't confined yourself to that? H: No, I do not limit my activities to transportation. F: Did you have any association with Mr. Johnson beyond an occasional social gathering
- in work of ICC; JFK assassination; President of National Trade Association for Inter-City Motor Bus Industry; return to government service in DOT; maritime industry; Urban Mass Transit; formation of DOT; Alan Boyd; party for Luci and Pat; LBJ established
- Johnson as a teacher? Do you have any impressions of him? K: Definitely. He was just as dynamic then as he is now. can see from his debate success. I mean, as you Whatever he was associated with, or attached to, why, he went at with the same gusto
- : Well, he was a very wonderful and dear man. I think, possibly, that it was because of that association that President Truman heard of me. I was called from the Navy Department one day by his secretary. He merely walked out in the Rose Garden with me
- process; railroad strike in Florida, 1964; unemployment; Reynolds’ wife, Helen; 1965 New York City transit strike; National Association of Broadcast Employees and Army Signal Corps technicians dispute; problems with the building trade unions.
- of the work that we had carried on, over the next five years or so. I was at the University of Ninnesota in the department of microbiology and immunology, was associate professor of medicine at the r4edical College of Virginia, and then assistant dean
- Biographical and professional information; appointment as Associate Director of National Institute of Health and director of Division of Regional Medical Programs; problems of regional medical cooperation; 1967 decision to move Regional Medical
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 7 (VII), 2/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
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- have discussed, who had very negative views of Lyndon Johnson. And they probably, in some instances, had those views before the assassination, but didn't have a handle to articulate them to their friends and associates or press. I think what clearly
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
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- -dragging on the part of people who could have been more helpful. They were known to be close Lyndon Johnson associates. And Hubert Humphrey, with concern about his relationship with the President, would from time to time try to focus on it. Clearly over
- INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE SANDLIN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Sandlin's office, Austin, Texas Tape 1of1, Side 1 G: --by sketching briefly your background, Mr. Sandlin, and explain how you became associated with Governor Allan Shivers. S
- How Sandlin became associated with Governor Allan Shivers; the Texas State Democratic Executive Committee; the 1952 State Democratic Convention; Sandlin's work as secretary and chairman of the Texas Democratic Executive Committee; Governor Shivers
Oral history transcript, Philip N. Brownstein, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by David G. McComb
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- into line early were the mutual savings bank's association . They were very helpful . Association of Home Builders got into line . Loan League was helpful . Then the National U .S . Savings and The Mortgage Bankers Association, I guess, had
- , and also won some prizes there in oratory and in debating, and then on to law school . I graduated from law school in 1931, at that time winning a corporation law prize which was offered by the bar association of the state of Ohio . You mentioned
- to the Cage family that I have been associated with all my life, still associated with. Ben Jack was a promoter, and he tried to promote everybody, including his uncle, to everybody else. He finally ended up down in Brazil. I'm sure you've heard all that stuff
- . So he began having continuing associations with Johnson, discussions about problem.s relating to that. But at the sam.e tim.e that that went on between them., I had a continuing relationship with him. [Johnson] on m.atters relating to the NY A. NYA
- ; Medicare; Helen Taussig; Advisory Council on Public Welfare Task Force on Income Maintenance (Heineman Commission); Advisory Commission on Status of Women; Esther Peterson; LBJ fixed associations between Wicky/Cohen/Social Security; Medicare; Mrs. Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 13 (XIII), 7/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
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- ] Jenkins - XIII - 8 (Interruption) J: He [Robert Kennedy] just didn't have any association with LBJ during that period. Matter of fact, I hesitate to say this, because it's critical. but he was generally considered to be sort of one of McCarthy's
- frauds, and employment of people with questionable backgrounds, militants who became associated with the program in one way or the other, and that association developed adverse commentary--editorial commentary in large part about the program; waste, sort
- people. Perhaps it would be of interest to relate how I did become involved in this. As we have discussed in the two earlier interviews, I had had association with Lyndon Johnson during the Vice Presidential days and a rather early association
- . At that time I had known there was a young man on the Hill named Lyndon Johnson, who was the secretary for a congressman named [Richard] Kleberg and who had been head of the administrative assistants association in the House. I had known through other
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
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- became Johnson's associate special counsel, what did this do to your duties? A: There were a few other duties added, I think, as is true of most of the people on his personal staff. They didn't have just one niche. I also had the responsibility
- Bobby Kennedy getting cut over the eye with the scope on the rifle. Do you remember that incident? W: No, I don't. I don't remember that. I'm sure it happened, but I don't remember it. G: Were you associated with Alvin Wirtz during the construction
- ; Sam Houston and Josefa Johnson; LBJ paying off his father's debts; Winters' contact with LBJ at the time of the JFK assassination; the Association of General Contractors' pressure on LBJ to sign highway legislation; LBJ's involvement in roadside park
- Gittinger INTERVIEWEE: FERD KAUFMAN (with Ida Kaufman) DATE: November 6, 1997 PLACE: Mr. Kaufman's residence, Richardson, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: How long had you been working for AP? K: I went to work for the Associated Press in--gosh, I think
- with Joe Califano about the risks of an airline strike. I had followed the press reports simply because it was clear that Roy Siemiller, who headed the International Association of Machinists, IAM, was totally against the guidelines. He was trying to break
- -wage control in the airlines; the need for increased revenues without tax increases; Wilbur Mills' perceived opposition to taxation; International Association of Machinists (IAM) president Roy Siemiller's efforts to break the 3.2 per cent wage-price
- that. There is a list there. We started calling it the Lady Bird Association, Inc. at the time. On my own I developed the list of potential board members, drawing on friends and associates of the beautification program in Washington. Many of the people on the list came
- and people of that kind. G: D: Did the CIO play a role? It played a role, but it wasn't a very popular associate to have around in those times. G: It seems to me that there was in that group a component of traditional liberals like J. R. Parten, Byron
- three years on the University of Texas debating team. I served in all branches of student government. Assembly. I was a member of the Student I was chairman of the Men's Honor Council. My last year I was president of the Student Association. Most
- went in and talked for a couple of hours and enjoyed it very, very much. I had to laugh. About six weeks later I was in Chicago attending a National Furniture Association of Retailers convention, and we were at the Conrad Hilton Hotel. And a fellow said
Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- , but very briefly and sporadically only, so that the contact was not,in any way of any significance really . M: You were associated on several occasions when the Teach-In movement began, after Mr . Johnson was President, and generally listed
- to the American 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/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 Conservation Association
- ; Laurance Rockefeller; Hubert Humphrey; consultant to American Conservation Association; Nixon administration proposed changes in the Council; Udall-LBJ relationship; transition; Hickel's influence with Laurance Rockefeller regarding Citizen
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 1 (I), 9/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
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- that election, the people out ringing the doorbells, knocking on doors throughout the state were the medical auxiliary people, the Women's Auxiliary of the AMA [American Medical Association], that sort of thing. This was because Senator Hill had been for some
- and financial influence; the American Medical Association's (AMA) opposition to health care legislation that Hill supported; Robert Taft's involvement in the Hill-Burton Act; Hill's relationship with other senators and with LBJ in the 1950s; LBJ's performance
- INTERVIEWEE: MYER FELDMAN INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Feldman's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Feldman, let's start with your association with that select committee. How did you get involved with it? F: I was working