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Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 3 (III), 7/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , but we did change the one thing that could block legislation and had been blocking legislation since the New Deal days. M: Was this seen at that time as sort of a preparatory move to take on some of this legislation 3 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Willy Brandt, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of building up our new forces. Then one of these days a wonderful thing was arranged at Fredericksburg. As I said, it was Lyndon Johnson who had arranged it at, I think, the Hotel Nimitz? F: Right. B: In Fredericksburg? F: Right. B: Yes. So
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • surprise he opened up the initial interview with a suggestion that the Mine Workers International Union and he needed a new general counsel, and would I consider it? It was a long far cry from anything, that I'd ever anticipated up to that time. F: You
Oral history transcript, Henriette Wyeth Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: HENRIETTE WYETH HURD INTERVIEWER: ELIZABETH KADERLI PLACE: Sentinel Ranch, San Patricio, New Mexico Tape 1 of 1 K: I am at Sentinel Ranch with Mrs. Hurd, who is gOing to tell me some more about the incident itself as she was with Hr. Hurd
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 2 (II), 3/31/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in 1910 was four hundred. I introduced Senator Johnson during the campaign of 1960 in a speech in New York City, and be said the town had over six hundred people, he wanted to correct me. It may have been that the town gre\'l between 1910 and 1920
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 3 (III), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it, and I said, yes, I could. F: Later on he indicated he wanted me to go see the Pope. How far in advance of New Year's, roughly, did he first call you? How far ahead? R: Listen, I flew to Italy on Thanksgiving Day. F: And this was a little before
Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Johnson greeted me at the door. You can imagine how pleased she must have been to have an intruder come in at that time. gracious. But she couldn't have been more And I remember she called me "Mr. Secretary." Well, I was a brand new Assistant
  • Contacts with LBJ; success of Eisenhower relationship with Congress in foreign policy; personal contact between Secretary Dulles and LBJ; AID bill; estimation of LBJ; formidable experience of talking to LBJ; Macomber never brought good news
Oral history transcript, Cameron McElroy and Lucille McElroy, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the summer to places, Alabama or Chicago or New York? M: No. I never di d know of her goi ng to them. to Alabama. But I knew of her goi ng I think she was originally from there. (Interruption) G: Now, Mr. McElroy, you were talking about the effect
Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to have a meal with him or to have a talk with him. F: You didn't know him particularly well though before he became President? M: No. F: Relate the circumstances surrounding your receipt of the news of the assassination of President Kennedy. Where
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 2 (II), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1979 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT L. PHINNEY INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Phinney's residence, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: That's really germane. P: They were brand new. You say initially when the NYA moved in-They had nothing to start
Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and Lyndon Johnson heard about it, was in town, and personally came over to welcome me in my new job. Secondly, we had several meetings very early, just the two of us, and then with others around his responsibilities heading the President's Commission. I
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE E. LEVINSON INTERVIEWER: Paige E. Mulhollan PLACE: Mr. Levinson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: The two legislative stories left are the Revenue Act of 1968 and the Truth in Packaging bill. Take your choice as to which one
Oral history transcript, Harris Melasky, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the war I went to work in New York City. 1 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
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 3 (III), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a conservative from Arizona, [Paul Jones] Fannin, to [Jacob] Javits of New York. It ran the gamut. The first paragraph of the "minority views" said we voted for this bill. The second section said this is a hell of a way to run a railroad, pushing through a bill
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 3 (III), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- III -- 2 G: Would the representatives vary, or was it generally the same people every day? B: Both, and by that I mean the people would be absent and sometimes there would be somebody taking their place temporarily, or Sarge would bring in new
Oral history transcript, Frank G. Wisner, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • commodities, new schoolrooms, dispensaries, the sorts of hard commodities that government delivers to improve the life of the people, and thereby generate some political support. That was the basic idea, and our role, while the budget was spent through
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 23 (XXIII), 3/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] McNamara for having no new weapons system--I told you the story about the Polaris [mentioned in Interview XX] and how we got the new name? [Bill] Moyers called me and said the President wanted to announce new weapons systems the next day. They were going
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 28 (XXVIII), 4/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . G: The New York Times piece by Bob Semple, why don't you give the background of that, because we never discussed that on tape. C: At some point in 1966, Semple, I think with prompting from Max Frankel, came to me and said, "We'd like to follow
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 51 (LI), 8/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • included is Senator [John] Sparkman's, who urged that the new guidelines, which were tougher in terms of desegregation, requiring that free-choice plans result in desegregation, be held up until after Tuesday, March 1, the primary filing date. The President
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 53 (LIII), 8/16/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was periodically covering the White House for the [New York] Times--obviously we gave him a backgrounder story the next day, saying that we were going to make a major push in this area. G: Had the [William Randolph] Hearst [Jr.] series already come out? C: Well
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 54 (LIV), 9/11/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of that sending out this memo which set tasks and dates for Boyd. (Interruption) You can see how weak the Commerce Department was thinking when you look at Boyd's memo of November 2, 1965, to establish the highway safety program. It's [saying], "Have a new
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 55 (LV), 9/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --on the first of March. And it's interesting, we had a--I guess it's worth spending just a minute. This was the best way to unfold a new program. It's not related just to highway safety, but the whole transportation program. The night before the message goes up
Oral history transcript, Oveta Culp Hobby, interview 1 (I), 7/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • government asked him to do. M: That's what the Governor told you? H: Yes. M: Yes, I remember seeing a picture in an old newspaper of you in uniform taking over your new job. So you then spent the war years in Washington. H: In Washington
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 12 (XII), 4/25/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to kind of stay in the middle and keep both sides together. G: Russell gave an interview I think to U.S. News and declined to say whether he would support the Democratic ticket or would refuse to head a 5 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 30 (XXX), 3/22/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Country in the spring. It'd been a long time since I'd been in the countryside repeatedly in February, April, May, June, and I saw it all unfold. And there's just nothing in the world as green, and as new, and as fresh, and as sure of the revival
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • for appointments, positions, being heard. And here he was, and he just drew a little circle around it and just worked away, beautiful work. I do want to talk about the new building at KTBC. Does that come along later? M: Yes it does. Here on the twenty-fourth
Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] 'http://www.lbjlibrary.org February 19, 1971 F: This is an interview with Senator James Eastland in his office in the New Senate Office Building in Washington, D. C. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz, and the date is February
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the editors of the conservative publications that were not sympathetic to Johnson anyway were not present at this thing--the Dallas [Morning] News was not there; maybe one editor was, but not the top people. They were dissatisfied by and large. They did
Oral history transcript, Lester D. Johnson, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 5 only at the present time--it's in effect at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York; at the San Antonio International Airport; and at Dulles Airport here
Oral history transcript, A. Ross Eckler, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . The news came while I was over there, and he was very happy and congratulated me on the fact that it had come through. B: Sir, you brought up an area that I think is of interest. If I may LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , then I got there about the tenth of December. I got there about two weeks after the assassination. G: Okay. F: When I got back to Saigon I obviously had a lot of catching up to do because I was out of touch, you might say, with the members of the new
Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to it and others contributed, of course, but he is entitled to a lot of credit. F: When you were holding those hearings, was there a great deal of controversy or were you mainly just trying to figure out--you're into something new here. S: That's right, a new
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • went to Florida, I was responsible for the state of Florida. I went to New York and saw people in New Jersey and was in Washington some. M: So I worked around all [inaudible]. That must have been difficult for you. As I recall, Johnson wanted
Oral history transcript, John Harllee, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , and then two years overseas in New Guinea, New Britain, and the Philippines. Then, during the Korean War I served at the front, so to speak, on a cruiser. Mc: And rose from the rank--what did you start out as? H: I rose from the rank of midshipman
Oral history transcript, Ben W. Heineman, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • should be given the chance as a new President to show what he could do. It was a highly personal pressure LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, John N. Luft, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to establish our rates, then of course when we go into new crops we have to write a new program. There's been a lot of progress made since the fall of 1938. when we talk about insurance, '39 was the first crop insured. insured in the fall of r38, because
Oral history transcript, Sidney P. Marland, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to be. We early found that we had a new kind of relationship with children. The early measures on this, even after the first year or so, showed significant gains in the child's readiness for school. We didn't try to teach them to read at age three
Oral history transcript, Ruby G. Martin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • need to to talk to Congressmen and their new school people that are coming up, at any time, at their convenience, in the Congressman's office, a hotel, wherever it was. We try to be accommodating. And I think in the last year of the Johnson
Oral history transcript, Florence Mahoney, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to school or universities or anything. You wouldn't remember it, but it's true. So I guess that's how I got interested in it. I was always interested in mental health and when I was in school they sent us one time to a big public hospital in New York
Oral history transcript, Thurgood Marshall, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • at the beckoning of one person. Secondly, it was a $4500 cut in salary. Third, the living expenses in Washington would be twice what I was paying in New York. So she said okay. We kept thinking about it, and the next day the phone rang. He was on the phone again. I