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Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 6 (VI), 8/18/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Washington Post fellow that used to write about the President all the time, the one who wrote The Professional? F: Bartlett? Kilpatrick? L: No. He wrote the book--Bill White; William White, not Teddy White. F: Yes, William White. L: But William White
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ambassadorial post to the current administration, whereas Taylor, a military man-- M: Had come out of the Democratic administration. I mean, he rose to his pinnacle of power in the United States under Jack Kennedy. G: Yes. Was there a difference
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that that was the case. His instinct as a politician told him that he was being undercut, and that there was a very strong feeling in the New York Times and some parts of the Washington Post that was determined to bring about his downfall. B: May I ask you one more
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . We had kind of an interesting little division compound which was made by the advisors just before me. There were little houses in a rather nice little area right outside the division command post. They were, you know, houses about the size
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 13 (XIII), 9/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • election results and O'Brien's difficulty accepting Humphrey's loss; election night in Minneapolis; fading optimism election night and the experience of losing versus winning an election; O'Brien's post-election plans; how Humphrey took defeat
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 27 (XXVII), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was on the executive committee, as I recall it. And Bob said that if I would take the chairmanship, he would take the treasurer's post which was certainly not a pleasant prospect [for him] and he would commit to me to break his butt, so to speak, to raise money to keep
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , so when they ousted him, he just moved out to a little community way out in my county, Davis Howard county, and started another little community called Sparenberg, and he just named it. And later got a post office for it. (Laughter) 27 LBJ
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Roman Pucinski, interview 1 (I), 12/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • who were contented to follow the system and make their gains within the framework of the system; open up the federal government, for instance, the Post Office, all these things, you know. I've always wondered what would have happened to our country had
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Williams started because he became interested in a letter that he got from somebody saying that there was an awful lot of fraud and chicanery in some post office or--I forget what it was. He personally went up and investigated it and found out
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was any different at the end than he was in the first place~ different than Johnson's. His whole style of leadership was quite I think Mansfield looked upon the leader­ ship as somewhat of a moral post. In his mind, the leader was some­ body
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XIX -- 6 to them. I've never fully understood why Norman Dietel was so faithful to him. Norman had the Fredericksburg Radio-Post, which was one of the two weeklies
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cline -- II -- 13 we would set up a post to which DOI people were assigned, but in practice in an overseas station if this guy didn't get up to his elbows
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • warnings about the troops coming down. And it was a very tortured ex post facto rationalization and apparently was drafted by Bill Bundy, who was attempting to pick up the pieces, not having been at LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, William B. Dale, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Dale -- I -- 28 but it was during this year '65-'66. of it was in the Washington Post. The only coverage that I know Anyway what he said off the cuff was that he found it just impossible to understand why
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to develop programs. Now they had not a black commissioner; they had not a black in all of their supergrades--GS 18s, 17s, 16s. And this was the agency in charge. So if I were sitting in the Post Office, for an example, and somebody came to me, and I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • never quite sure exactly what Abell was, but Pearson got hirn a job in the Post Office department. (General). First, he planted him as an assistant to the Postmaster Then when Lyndon became President, one of the first things he did, wit1lUnra matter
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • small post. made it easier, but I'm In a way, you might think that inclined to think that maybe it made it a little more difficult, and there were morale problems there. P: You are indicating though that they didn't come from the relationship from
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and the wherefores of Texas politics, I believe the only paper that Marshall had was, what, Houston? The Houston Post I believe was a ScripPs-Howard paper at this time. But Houston was politically very, very significant so Johnson, whether he liked it or not, had
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • practically most of the posts over at the courthouse. P: And ultimately in '34 Richard Kleberg, your candidate, was the first to win in a national contest? B: Let's see. It was not '34; he won in '32. In '34 they had redistricted the Congressional
Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Ed Hughes . So I went on the floor with I stayed at the Beverly Wilshire and the Senator stayed at a downtown hotel . We'd see each other each day and keep posted . In fact, [we] ate lunch together and things like this . F: Was your hotel a sort
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : All right . G: You say you went to work on Monday morning after that . B: On the Monday morning after the Sunday [meeting] . He called me to meet him at the Old Post Office Cafe in San Marcos, six o'clock, Sunday morning . I walked in and saw
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Stewart Udall -- Interview I -- 8 were offered a Cabinet post? U: Well, you see the 1960 campaign I was running for Congress. I was not involved in the national campaign. I was not an adviser of Kennedy's
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Congress for three or four years. The question really was: Was the Administration going to get aggressively behind it and push it? It was obvious to me that we had made a great mistake in the post-War years in not vigorously moving to expand the national
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Valenti -- I -- 30 F: I'm thinking of, if he wants to put a program through or he wanted to name somebody to a post and he was opposed in this, did he look on this as a sort of personal
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and LBJ over a Llano bank; LBJ's smoking habit; attending the 1965 presidential inauguration; Winters' White House phone; LBJ's post-presidential relationship with the Secret Service; LBJ boating; LBJ as a horseman; roadwork in the 1920s; Sam Ealy Johnson
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 2 (II), 2/25/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 3 (III), 3/3/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh M. Winters -- III -- 2 W: One of the issues is, you see, her husband had held that post, and then A. W. ran against her. She was in the office at the time. G: Yes. How old a woman was she at that time? W: I don't remember. Tom Martin's
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 9 (IX), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wozencraft -- IX -- 2 relations, post office, treasury, money and matters of clearly federal concerns such as those. In fact, President Madison vetoed a bill
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Ralph Dungan, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • themselves, but not many would stand up and oppose hi m. The Republi cans would always have somebody posted, by agreemen t, t o as k a tormen t ing or neg at ive question . By and large , though, Mr. Johnson could spot the question the moment it was asked
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Stanley L. Greigg, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Josh H. Groce, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 6 (VI), 10/31/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • from the guard post to tell you they were there. I was distressed because I knew Kennedy didn't like Johnson; I knew Johnson didn't like Kennedy. I didn't like Kennedy, which was unimportant, but I didn't, and I wasn't sure how to handle it, whether
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 14 (XIV), 7/19/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 15 (XV), 8/30/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 12 (XII), 8/19/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)