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Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : There was quite a gap in time between these two things. The MLF was pretty well forgotten by the time the Nonproliferation Treaty came along. M: Mc: But they did associate it with perhaps some Vietnam difficulties. I don't think anybody in Germany
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • he slept. There's too much history associated with that period, even though in retrospect it seems like maybe it was a year, or a year and two summers, it could easily have been just two or three months periods. G: What did his father do while his
  • Biographical information; Association with LBJ; Blanco County; Johnson family; college life
Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to 1969. Mr. McGiffert, I'd like to begin the interview with briefly recounting your background and your various government positions. You were a lawyer associated with a Washington, D.C. firm for the period from 1953 to 1960 and [you were] also
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 20 (XX), 4/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a long-time association with Bobby. I had now several years of association with Johnson. Johnson trusted me and supported my efforts with the Congress. How do you account for going into November talking or starting to nit-pick a white paper which
Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • surgery a couple of times. They did save his life. He had a long recuperation period. We visited him at the hospital. I did myself to see how he was getting along. Colonel Be, the commandant, visited him, and his very close associate, in fact, relative
Oral history transcript, Howard Bertsch, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Yes, nonprofit associations are qualified to get rural rental housing loans from us . For a while it was limited to senior citizen housing, pretty largely in that category ; yet the whole field of decent housing for rural communities has been sadly
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , l987 INTERVIEWEE: FRANK STANTON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Dr. Stanton's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Dr. Stanton, let's begin by asking you to recount your earliest association with the Johnson family and, if you
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , Justice Black is not a chief justice; he's one of the associate justices. It's just as fascinating. I've been rather interested in the recent controversy on Justice [Abe] Fortas' appointment. So few people have realized that an associate justice has
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • !.> and who was my very c1oses t associate-­ I had not known him before I went to the White House, but we had come to be very congenial and friendly during the time I was there, so being with him accentuated it. This was really a traumatic experience
  • to the UN relating to Texas; story of Mrs. Hays being robbed; handling church-state relations for LBJ; selected associate director of the Community Relations Service; Governor Faubus; regrets the Southern Manifesto; Faubus helps unseat Hays in the election
Oral history transcript, Jacob Javits, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : And there I assume that you had considerable association with Lyndon Johnson. J: Immediate and considerable. G: Would you characterize your initial impression of him at that point? J: I have called him, before he came to the vice presidency
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 3 (III), 7/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that are interested in civil rights. That's not limited to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or the Urban League who are identified essentially with the color, but from organizations like the League of Women Voters, as an example. They've
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 2 (II), 7/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • rinky-dink contractors out there; we're talking about very big companies, okay? And there was a great fear that these big companies were getting off the hook, so to speak, by their association with the so-called Plans for Progress program. G
Oral history transcript, Herbert N. Blackman, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • [Walter S.] DeLany, called the Economic Defense Advisory Cormnittee. There wa~ This was an attempt to coordinate the effort. to answer your earlier question, almost continual congressional criticism of the operation from those associated with Senator
Oral history transcript, A. Scheffer Lang, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was the first major attempt to define what might be called the urban problem? L: Now, you're talking about the 1960 task force? M: 1964. L: I was not associated with that effort in any way, and I'm not too clear LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Raymond H. Lapin, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 21, 1968 To identify this tape, I should say that this is an interview with Raymond H. Lapin, President of Federal National Mortgage Association-affectionately known as "Fanny May." The date is November 21, 1968
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 5 (V), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • things, including the NYA advisory board. I suspect that Wirtz helped set this up. He was the unofficial adviser before he was ever named to the advisory board. G: Do you recall anything of their association during the NYA years, any parttculars
Oral history transcript, Michael E. DeBakey, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and from many organizations, like the Heart Association and the American Medical Association and the College of Cardiology, and so on. Once we had all the facts that we could collect, well, then we sifted these, analyzed and reviewed them, and drew
  • ; associated with LBJ both in Congress and when VP about health projects; LBJ's sense of humanitarianism; early Medicare conflicts; LBJ's success in Medicare Bill passage; assigned chairman of the Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston
Oral history transcript, H.M. Greene, interview 1 (I), 1/21/1965, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • , he and I associated together very closely. C: Did he live with you for a while? G: No, he had lived with Dr. Evans. In those days he had -- Dr. Evans is President of the college -- and he had a room, an apartment, or whatever you call it, over
Oral history transcript, George Hartzog, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/20/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • St. Louis were also directors of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Association, which was a cooperating association on that project. That's how I got to meet them. F: And then you rejoined the Park Service? H: In '63 as the Associate
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • at this for a year. R: Well, we'll try to do it as objectively as we can. M: Right. You're about my 110th interview. Let's get your identification on here, sir. You're Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., an attorney in Washington, D.C., and you've been associated
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was organ- izing a campus club, Young Democrats, and asked if I wouldn't be interested. Somehow or other he had gotten my name through Texas Press, Intercollegiate Press Association. But we did organize the first young Democratic club in Denton, County
Oral history transcript, John P. (Gen.) McConnell, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . Johnson at that pOint? McC: Oh, he was a great host. went all over the Ranch. dozen more times. He was very keen. We went out and Since then, I've been over it half a It improves all the time. able association during that time. We had a very enjoy
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 8 (VIII), 4/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of his thinking on a lot of questions that never materialized. Some of them did; some of them didn't. But that's the source of information which basically, if I have anything to contribute, comes more or less from that close personal association
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 15 (XV), 6/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • happened in 1959 will not be comprehensible. The Republicans associated the whole thing with Walter Reuther. He was the black beast as far as the thinking of the House and Senate Labor Committees went in 1947-48. When they passed the closed shop
Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • different occasions. Every year in June the Hereford Association puts on a field day where all of the ranchers visit each other's ranch and look at their cattle and look at their 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, George Silver, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1991, by Molly Malone Chesney (Item)
  • --in conjunction with the doctors organization, the black physicians organization, the National Medical Association-develop a variety of projects, one of which might be a group practice center and another of which we hoped might be a nursing home project. We had
Oral history transcript, Robert Bennett, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • is a small Indian community near Green Bay, Wisconsin. My association with Indian affairs goes back to the time I was a student in a government boarding school at Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, from which I graduated in 1931 . F: As a personal note
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • conscious that it ever had any effect on me in relation to President Johnson. I'm perfectly aware on the other hand that my close association with him enabled me to write truthfully a great many things I couldn't have written otherwise. M: Mr. White, do
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 3 (III), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -H-A-R-L-S, Charls Walker. Boy, he's got a fascinating fund of stories. Most of the time I was in the Treasury, Charlie was head of the American Bankers Association. He was their chief lobbyist. I mean he ran the association. G: Did you have any
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 29 (XXIX), 5/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Vietnam. And that explanation did not satisfy Ackley. In any case, Ackley issued a statement. We really should try and get the AP [Associated Press] and UPI [United Press International] wires on all this because it's the only way you can follow all those
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 7 (VII), 1/18/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Why was Wild there? J: Well, he had gone back to the first campaign and his name would have been associated with Mr. Johnson as a campaign manager and as chair­ man. He was actually sort of ineffective, but . . . . G: Was there a problem
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cronin -- IV -- 12 changed now. I think the ABA [American Bar Association] does a lot of ranking and rating now that's a little different from the way it used to be. But we had some at the time with a judgeship bill
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 6 (VI), 3/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The NEA, National Education Association, as I remember at the time was very heavy on this side of it. They saw a potential problem in letting this go beyond the public schools. So that this historically was always a question, always a problem. And one
Oral history transcript, Jay Cutler, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1990 by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Association. I happened to be passing by and I think they--I don't remember what the book was; I guess it was a set of standards for mental retardation facilities they were developing. We just took them up, took them up to lege [legislative] counsel and set
Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • , l985 INTERVIEWEE: WILLIAM D. CAREY INTERVIEWER: Janet Kerr-Tener PLACE: Mr. Carey's office, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 K: I wanted to start by asking you just to tell a little bit
Oral history transcript, Tommie W. Glick and Sarah Taylor, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . She's extremely All of these things are already well I think she'd do a good job or be a great help to anybody she was associated with or cared about. I think this is the sort of person she is. Mc: Do you think that it's made any difference in your
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • publicity because it had drawn the support and attention of Dr. Martin Luther King and his associate, Dr. [Ralph] Abernathy. It had ceased to be strictly a labor dispute, but emerged as a matter of the dignity of minority people in Memphis. i~volved
Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • association with LBJ at all on the building of the I was in the soap business. Big Inch pipeline and his role in that? S: No. That was also built about the time I was in the army. G: Did he play a role in that, do you know? Do you have any secondary
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • that time who ,jere associated in that venture. BP: Can you tell us some of those people? Well, John Co~ally, of course, our governor was one of -, the~; Ambassa~or Ed Clark, Congressman Jake Pickle, Bill Deason, one of our fine commissioners
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Franklin Roosevelt? P: I don't remember what all we have gone into in the past, but of course Lyndon's association with Roosevelt was very close over a number of years and was the most important factor, I suppose, both in his election and in his
  • LBJ’s association with President Roosevelt; LBJ as a New Dealer compared to Maury Maverick as a populist; LBJ turning to Sam Rayburn for advice and support; LBJ urging Poage to run against O’Daniel for a Senate seat; the 1948 election; Poage’s