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Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • they were really thinking of him as a new day in Texas politics. I was so much convinced about what they had in mind that some time after he became the Minority Leader I asked Senator Stuart Symington if he would arrange a meeting for me. Senator Symington
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1985 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: Yesterday we were talking about President Kennedy and the southern members of Congress. Let me ask you
Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 2 (II), 3/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • find ready response in the White House, or was there a major division there? R: No. It was a process which was agonized from beginning to end. Each new target list--the whole program was called Rolling Thunder. The military would come forward with X
Oral history transcript, Father Wunibald W. Schneider, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Joske's, yes. There was a pastor there [who] was very kind to me, and I got accustomed to everything. I was there for three months, and then I was changed to New Braunfels to another church. San Antonio St. Joseph's used to be a German parish, that's why I
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • a little I believe it was three more meetings that you had with Mr. Johnson. A: Yes, I would like to. Last fall, I believe it was--must have been maybe fairly early in November--I had come to the conclusion that I really could not afford to stay in New
Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • starting their new programs, getting more up-to-date plants, particularly right around here because this is an old city and some of these plants were old- -a number of them had closed down. M: Incidentally, beautiful job. ject, B: this is my first
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 5 (V), 9/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: MARY MARGARET VALENTI INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mrs. Valenti's residence, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: There was a New York Times story at the time he was in Mexico that he had received ten thousand
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 20 (XX), 1/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in California, I got desperate calls. He wanted to announce some new weapons systems of one kind of another and we announced the over-the-horizon radar and one other weapon systems from the steps of the Capitol in Sacramento as I recall. Pat Brown and I got
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . We were not just finishing the New Deal agenda; we were coming in with a whole lot of new ideas, new roles for government. And that was the first couple of years. The last year or so we really were involved in the management of programs and it's
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of what new things you're going to do. It's obviously more difficult to shut off something that's already going than it is to start something new, and you have a good argument for keeping what you have going rather than transferring grant money somewhere
Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Adolph Berle in New York--whom I knew not intimately, but in a casual way--saying that the President-elect had asked him to form a task force on policy toward Latin America. They wanted an economist and they thought I would be the best person. I tried
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • DATE: January 9-10, 1982 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas Tape 1 of 2 J: The winter and spring of 1950 began a new thing in my life and that is carpooling. Lynda, at six
Oral history transcript, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in New York City. I also have honorary degrees, one from my own alma mater, Doctor of Divinity, and one from Midwestern University in Wichita Falls, Texas, an L.L.D. My pastorates have been rather long for our denomination, and most of them--all of them
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , of course. A: Liz was during the campaign but, you see, Liz was going back to work with Les in the Carpenter News Bureau. She went back there before she joined the Vice President's staff the second time around. So really it was just me. Before that Grace
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . There is a Texas Society still operating. K: They had monthly dances at the Mayflower. Somehow or other we would manage to rent a tux and go to those things. And of course there were a lot of things to see around W'ashington for people like us that were new
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • President Kennedy LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] did, very candidly, was to get it a new euphonious name. Alliance for Progress. More on LBJ Library
Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: HARRISON SALISBURY INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MUu-iOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Salisbury's office, New York Times, NeVI York City Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by simply identifying you, sir. You're Harrison Salis- bury, and you've been with the New York Times
  • Working for the New York Times; Salisbury’s trip to the Far East in 1966; getting permission to go to Hanoi; a possible connection between Salisbury’s visit to Hanoi and the Marigold negotiations; trying to convince the Vietnamese
Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Smith -- I -- 10 a French-American investment firm called Lazard Freres, Lazard They're in New York even now. Brothers. the objective of dividing
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , those Then there were various conferences. I can't put my finger on a single one, but I'm sure that there must have been Some conferences when he was called down from New York and I was present in the conference. M: After Mr. Johnson became first
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the Operations Coordinating Board of the National Security Council, which was a new board. The purpose of it was to try to coordinate overseas opera- tions of the federal government. B: Were you formally disassociated from the Bureau of the Budget in those
Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was sent down there the deal and it was just a possibility at that point, of three or four ministers in a closed TV studio. evolved down there, and of This was an entirely new format as it course~ they weren't on the scene and I was. Woodrow Seals
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • into a world of communication, rather new, and quite strange to me, I a must ask you, Paul, to provide and a reasonable modicum of lot of caref~l guidance to·me deletion from the finished proauct -- lest this become a ,biographical sketch of a lniversity
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • handle the news press, they would talk to the local politicians, but they actually ran the campaign . Completely innovative ; some- thing like that had never happened in American politics before . It worked tremendously . Well, we got to the convention
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 2 (II), 1/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in their official undertakings. B: Was it jus.t assumed by everyone at this stage that Sargent Shriver was going to be the head of the new office to be created by this bill? P: Sargent Shriver was a special assistant to the President in undertaking the War
  • Presidential Task Force on the War on Poverty; drafting War on Poverty bill; Shriver’s dual responsibilities; Community Action; Adam Yarmolinksy episode; problems of the new agency; Legal Service problems; return to the Justice Department
Oral history transcript, Marie Wilson, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • right. I'm from New York. the end of 1951. Wilson there. I left New York and went to Texas at I worked at Lackland Air Force Base and met Glen I married Glen Wilson in June of 1953. gets me to Austin. Okay, that I went to work for Max Brooks
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 5 (V), 11/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and Governor Connally did, and plenty of mayors did. The mayor of Oakland, California, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, the mayor of Syracuse--it wasn't political, you understand. They reacted--and not all of them reacted that way. And I want to give you one
Oral history transcript, Wayne Aspinall, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the northeastern part of the state, Larimer, Weld, Logan, Morgan, Sedgwick, and Phillips. F: You had to go out and develop a whole new constituency. A: I went from Julesburg, northeastern corner, down to Towaoc, the southwestern corner. F: That's bigger
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Committee with him were an absolutely outstanding group of senators. It was because of their prestige and their power and their impression with the news media that we were able to start a space. program. Jack Kennedy never did understand what space
  • acceptance of the vice-presidential nomination; whistle stop train trip through the South; Bart Lytton; helicopter incident in Rocky Bottom, South Carolina; New Orleans
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- IV -- 10 C: Normally it's a form with some blanks filled in, but for Resurrection City it was just written, and it was a-- F: Complete new document? C: --complete
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • appointed, of course, is the correct phrase--as public news officer for some military-related job. The legislative events of that spring and summer: price supports for farmers ground on and on. It's amazing to remember that one of our problems were those
  • visit to Washington, D.C. and Mrs. Johnson's trip with them to New York City; F Street Club; Joseph Davies' home, Tregaron; visits to Senator Harry Byrd's home; "Byrd houses" along the Appalachian Trail; socializing with the Texas delegation; Tony Buford
Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • school at the end of the Eisenhower Administration. As a means to an end I signed on with the Park Service to work I knew not where, but I was assigned to what was then called the Custis-Lee Mansion, Arlington House. As a native of western New York State
Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for installations in the new Defense structure. Floete went to the Hill to testify from time to time on Defense Property matters. I was a back-up, supporting witness. So when he later--about 1954, I believe, or 1955--went to GSA as administrator, the Public
Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and he came And Wolf did a very fine job basically in that field and other agricultural developments, helping with the rubber and new plants and that sort of thing. But there was no [disagreement there]. They fought over other things later, because he
Oral history transcript, Victor Ferrari, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in England. We were Our first leg was to Syracuse, New York, followed by stops at Goose Bay, Labrador, and then into Iceland. You notice how short those legs were. Because of our inexperience we were assigned very short legs. On our flight to Iceland
Oral history transcript, William S. White and June White, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would compete with the people, say, in Tom Connally's it. office, to release announcements of new projects first. W: Yes, he did. G: Can you elaborate on that? W: Well, he was almost the scourge of the Texas delegation about that matter of getting
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 10 (X), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with the creation of new laws. Too many people think that laws come only from Congress. It's true that statutes come only from Congress, and then with presidential signature, or at least approval. But there is a very substantial body of what can properly be called
  • assassination; the occasional need to make sure the president understands the situation about which he is making a decision; the president's authority in lawmaking; interagency action; the 1967 New Town in Town program at Fort Lincoln in Washington, D.C
Oral history transcript, William A. Knowlton, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , the new chief of staff, Harold K. Johnson, was appointed. Harold Johnson was a man I had not known before. He came up from the position of DESOPS, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, who is the army's strategic planner, and he came up with a burr under
  • of Vietnam; problems with civilians and military personnel working together, especially in terminology; Senator Edward Kennedy's visit to Knowlton's operations; Knowlton's work to secretly employ over 800 new White House staff members during LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the race to Lyndon Johnson, the Dallas Morning News. Then as the votes 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
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 4 (IV), 12/4/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3, Side 1 G: Let me start with one note that I have from last time that you were going to talk about
  • O'Brien's discussion with Joseph Kennedy about the New Frontier program; leadership in the House of Representatives before and after Sam Rayburn's death; the Trade Expansion Act of 1962; a private-sector public-relations operation led by Howard
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the hunt, as it started to get dark, we went into A.W.'s house and sat around there for some time and watched the evening news on television. The President discussed at great length with A.W. and Jack Valenti and myself, Mrs. Moursund--I don't think anybody
  • Braestrup’s work as a journalist in Southeast Asia for the New York Times; New York Times coverage of Vietnam compared to Time magazine; how journalists covered Vietnam and the danger involved; how Braestrup became Washington Post Bureau Chief; Joe