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Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • on the Council of Economic Advisers, put together the new JOBS program and the National Alliance of Businessmen. While the ideas for it had come out of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 10 (X), 10/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? J: Sid Richardson, if I'm not mistaken, flew over there while he was No. The oil man. still in Europe to get him to run as a Democrat, try to get him to be the Democratic candidate. G: Anything on that trip noteworthy between LBJ and Dwight
  • Reminiscences from 1950-1952; LBJ’s Texas trips; Eisenhower; the gas bill; Donald Cook; Korea; the Preparedness Committee; election as Democratic whip; the Douglas MacArthur firing; Jenkins’ campaign for Congress; death of Alvin Wirtz; acquiring
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • they couldn't do much more than that. I pointed out that the Federal Republic of Germany might be excused for thinking that there were seventeen million Germans hostage in the German Democratic Republic, and nonetheless the West Germans sent us all kinds
Oral history transcript, Ben H. Powell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a group of directors and an operating committee for the first time in his company and offered me the job as a vice president and director and member of "the operating committee, if I would come down here to Houston and work full-time. At that time, I
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . In the second primary, first of all, Congress. . . . You see, at the 1948 Democratic National Committee [Convention] Truman in his aggressive, feisty acceptance speech said that he was going to [be] tarring and feathering the Republican Congress
Oral history transcript, Thurgood Marshall, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • said that the NAACP people in Texas were favorably inclined toward Mr. Johnson in those days? M: Solidly. So was the national office. B: Did they have any real basis for this? M: Yes. Well, they knew him. The Negroes down there, they know each
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be President Johnson himself. I think that most campaigns are an amalgam of the leader's desires and the peculiarities of the situation. The Democratic National Committee played practically no role at all in the campaign. The way the campaign structure
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh DATE RESTRICTION 1130170 A 1/30178 A 8118170 A .. FILE LOCATION Robert W. Komer Oral History Interviews RESTRICTION COCES (AI Closed by Executive Order 12358'governing access to national security information. (B
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Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -eight depressed counties that comprise Appalachian Ohio. national newspaper and magazine publicity. As a result, we received -Time magazine ran a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Jenkins -- I -- 8 held a very high staff position on a national magazine which is now defunct. It wasn't the Literary Digest--Today was the name of it, Today magazine
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • project, which he'd secured for Austin, one of the first in the nation. Did we go over this before? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library
  • ; relationship between Sam Rayburn and LBJ; Maury Maverick; minimum wage; LBJ’s friendship with FDR; securing appropriations; airline franchise; Naval Affairs Committee; Erich Leinsdorf; Huey Long; Dick Kleberg; war in Europe; other Washington experiences.
Oral history transcript, Felipe Herrera, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • here on board. M: Right. H: Since the beginning, and he has been very important from And has been since the beginning? that point of view because he represented the U. S. in the committee that negotiated the charter of the bank. And he
Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a great number of times. Even before I was stationed in Washington while I was commander of SAC, I went in to appear before congressional committees many times. This is a practice that I understand has fallen by the wayside and I think this is bad
Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recall? B: I can't recall a specific comment, but I think that we were pointing toward studies in constitutional law, for example, and this was a matter that absorbed him . out . He knew the legislative process inside He knew all the committees
  • LBJ's 1934 Georgetown Law School days; Dodge Hotel; Little Congress; Huey Long's address at Little Congress; LBJ's belief in loyalty - party, national, personal; constituents in his early career in Kleberg's office; LBJ's idea of professional
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . You whip up sentiment; you play on hate; you wave the flag; unconditional surrender, nothing is too good for our boys, this whole business. And it was no problem at all in turning a nation on into an uncontrolled war. But it is difficult
Oral history transcript, Edward J. Brenner, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in Wisconsin, I think, an independent voter and a registered Republican, and in Louisiana I was a registered Democrat, and in New Jersey I was a registered Republican, and I was really pretty much middle-of-the-road, and, to a large extent, it depended upon how
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 26 (XXVI), 4/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • maintenance organizations and prepaid care in the sixties. You know at that point in time HMOs were regarded as socialists. They were the most aggressive proponents for a national health insurance. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • not only would remember those moments and he would remember Johnson at that time, but I think he saw him several times recently. Of course, he has worked with him in those last three months when he was at the United Nations, so I certainly would see him
  • ; Russ Wiggins; 1960/1964 Democratic convention; meeting of JFK and Graham regarding the VP nomination; Home Rule; LBJ’s attitude toward the press; beautification; press relations; civil rights; assessment of LBJ’s presidency.
Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • say not after the 1964 election. Because I was still useful, and I was called up there in January of 1964. Dick Maguire was treasurer of the national Democratic commit- tee, and he and Blundell were real close. I'd met Dick on that LBJ
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : Graduate of MIT, Harvard Law School; active duty with the Army from 1961-63, served as a staff director of the President's Committee on Equal Opportunity in the Armed Forces; Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia; Deputy General
  • Biographical information; prosecuting White House sit-in demonstrators; Frank Reeves; Howard Reed; Ralph Roberts, clerk of the House, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; David Dellinger and the March on the Pentagon; "Murphy" confidence
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in Texas incidentally--in 1956 I was editor of two trade magazines in Stanford, Connecticut dealing with the inland commercial marine industry--tugboats, barges. Then in 1959 or '60, I guess, I started with a friend of mine a national magazine called
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • look for that. G: Who did he favor for president? W: Well, he was a Democrat; he wouldn't be for [HooverJ. G: Was he for Roosevelt at this point? Was he enthusiastic about Roosevelt? W: I don't think he'd even met him or heard of him
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • like pages of the National .Geographic. F: I had never seen anything like it before. Was the Vice President accepted as someone who came on equal footing-­ someone who was patronizing? C: In other words, what was his reception? His reception
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • thing way back in 1969--the Forest Service, National Forests, are located in the most poverty-stricken areas of America, the people just out the far side of the Forest Service boundaries. Because a lot of that land came into the Forest Service because
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the way. On rather frequent occasions I'd carry these matters to the President, and on one occasion President Johnson even put out a national security order--I doubt if that has ever been done perhaps in the history of the country--in which I
  • [For interviews 1, 2, and 3] LBJ as a liberal-conservative; LBJ record up to 1960; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 and 1964 conventions and elections; Freeman’s personal interest in the Vice-Presidency; JFK problems in Minnesota; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Democratic National Committee. They would enjoy some relaxing moments on the ship. G: Was there a vacuum in Washington, a political vacuum, after Roosevelt's death? J: There was a queer sort of a sense, as I said, of everything having come to a halt
  • on the Naval Affairs Committee; LBJ's interest in defense and the military; constituents staying in the Johnsons' home in Washington, D.C.; Lynda Bird Johnson's first birthday; African-American employees; LBJ's career aspirations; Bill Deason's marriage; FDR's
Oral history transcript, Houston Harte, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • by the Central National Bank. The St. Angelus Hotel, which was a good hotel for those days, had a hundred and fifty rooms in a building seven stories high. the city. He painted a very good picture to me for the area and I had had several offers from other
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 19 (XIX), 1/27/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the opportunity to speak to him directly about the Pentagon budget. There was language in the National Security Act that indicated they had the right to go directly to the commander-in-chief and he always honored that. I'm not sure every president has. G
Oral history transcript, R. Conrad Cooper, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , chief labor negotiator for both your company and what they call the Group of Ten. C: Coordinating committee of the Steel companies. M: Right. Is that correct? Did you know Mr. Johnson at all before the time he became president? C: No. M: You
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 19, 1988 INTERVIEWEE: DAVID GINSBURG INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Ginsburg's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 MG: Mr. Ginsburg, let's start today with the formation of the Kerner Commission [National Advisory
Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , at that time, for congressional liaison, was seconded over to the Democratic committee; I worked through filr. Birkhead. B: He was, technically, then I think, with Rural Americans for JohnsonHumphrey? t1: Yes. B: What were the circumstances of your being
Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • I'd seen. I pretended I was just giving American opinion. That interview changed a very tiny element of history. Having returned to the United States earlier than I expected, I telephoned Henry Cabot Lodge, the American ambassador to the United Nations
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it . At that time there was another guy there [who] worked for Commerce . He had worked for a committee of which Mr . Johnson was head when he was senator . Thereafter when the press secretaries would get together, as we did from time to time, to see if we had
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
  • Democratic convention
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . In 1935, I was going to Texas to meet my in-laws, whom I had not met, and on our way we stopped in every capital city to see the WPA people and othe rs, transient people that I was working with. stopped in Austin. So we The National Youth Administration
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Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • campaign. Truman to the extent that he supported Truman in that He went out to Butte, Montana, and took a national broadcast for us on a national hookup and made a speech for President Truman. And he did that to everybody's surprise because he had been
  • measures under Eisenhower; relationship with LBJ; 1944 Democratic National Convention; Adlai Stevenson; Eisenhower; LBJ's leadership; McCarthy period; Johnson for President Committee, 1960; ethics; Johnson
Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the political pressure--not just of Senator Mansfield--but the entire Senate Democratic policy committees. I think he felt that he had to make this small gesture--because we took them back after Czechoslovakia, and they're still there. M: Right. A little
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • hit in the early '30's, late '20's, was that hard on the construction business? B: Yes, very severe on the construction business . M: How did you survive the depression then? B: Well, we had a good backer named R . M. Farar Union (?) National
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the issue of the Straits of Tiran should be faced. There were still several aspects under discussion: whether we convoyed a u.S. or ship of another nation through there, forced the blockade, convoyed an Israel ship. decided. Exactly how
  • Biographical information; contacts with Johnson; support of LBJ in 1960; Democratic Policy Commission; State Department informing Vice President's office; Potomac Marching Society; Kennedy Administration; working for Johnson; Advisory Committee
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • weeks before we found an apartment. M: How large was his staff in 1957? G: I guess ten, fifteen people. Of course, he was head of several commit- tees, so he had people on various committees. But the Senate staff was not too large--say ten people
  • Becoming personal secretary; LBJ’s personal interest in employees; Bobby Baker; characterizing Johnson family members; 1960 Democratic Convention; LBJ’s acceptance as VP; campaign; LBJ as VP; duties as Lady Bird’s secretary; traveling with Lady Bird