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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • machines just go roaring across this rich, beautiful earth. And gosh, I wish I could come back and see it in planting time, and harvest time. And this is quite a phenomenon. And then, in October, especially, we would find ourselves in New England, and we'd
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 3 (III), 7/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the Northeast. F: I can remember, parenthetically, living in New England in the late forties in which one thing that struck me, coming from the Southwest, was the fact that nobody ever discussed the problem of rain or water except as it was a nuisance, and now
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 43 (XLIII), 3/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , then they picked me up in New Jersey and we came down. We worked all day Saturday with Ackley on the speech. Okay? G: And my notes indicate that LBJ returned from West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Anything significant about that? C: No. And then we met with him
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • what Lyndon had done for the Naval Air Training Base in Corpus Christi. About that time it looked like a couple new ordnance depots were going to move to Houston. In fact, other states were being tapped, somewhat, for things that were moving to Texas
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , but it was, I suppose, the manner of delivery. F: I know when Alf Landon used to get up, you must remember the newsreels, when Landon ran against Roosevelt. D: I took an avid interest in that. I followed. I was only eleven or twelve, but I had two very new
Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , in the Far Eastern Bureau? T: No. Certainly not, once I moved in with Hilsman in early summer of 1963; the Buddhist crisis with Diem had just taken place in May, as I recall. j~: Yes. T: We were moving to a new and difficult relationship in which we were
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • saw Thornberry and Thomas, Brooks, I think Gonzalez, but I can't be sure. They were there and we were all talking in hushed tones. I still had not seen the new President, didn't know where he was. We were sitting there some time when suddenly he
Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • forth. I think that was a good learning point for the girls there in the Texas office. G: You indicated earlier that you had met Mrs. Johnson before you met LBJ. H: Yes. She gave a luncheon for the new girl s on the staff. She always made us feel
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , that may have gone up from 5,000 people at the time of the census to 50,000 people five years later, if they can get a capitation arrangement on rebate of money from the state with a new figure, of course they want to take it. I think it's fair to say
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : The nickname "Chub" came to me at Groton School from the junior headmaster Jared Billings, who had given it to my father when he was at the school some twenty-five years earlier. On me it stuck because all the new boys thought that was my name, when he called
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . From 1936 through 1963 you were associated with the Chattanooga Times as a reporter, then Washington correspondent, and finally editor of the News Focus service. This last period was from 1958 to 1963. In 1963 you became a columnist for the Chicago
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • so well, a 1924 model new Ford, Model T, that did not have a battery ; we always cranked it . He wasn't privileged to campaign very much because my mother was ill and because he was making a crop, as well as teaching school . went with him, I'd say
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 2 (II), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: FRANK STANTON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Dr. Stanton's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: You visited the President after his heart attack in 1955. S: Oh, yes. G: Can you describe your visit
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • days. He had worked for the old New York World and the National Farmers Union. [He was] really an interesting guy and knew a tremendous amount about Congress and the way things were done, not the textbook kind of legislative process, but the way
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . H: That's right. But Johnson never was a captive of the southern bloc. He was trying to be a captain of them, rather than a captive. You see, being a Roosevelt New Dealer and being a protege of Sam Rayburn, he obviously couldn't be a real
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or influenced Ralph Flanders in filing the resolution. If anybody on our side of the aisle had filed it, I guess it would have not been successful. But Ralph Flanders, from that granite territory in the New England states, when he filed it, had a good many early
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 2 (II), 7/9/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE BALL INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Ball's office in New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: I think maybe a good thing at the beginning would be to put on [tape] that I've read through your file of memoranda, and your caution
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: MARY LASKER (MRS. ALBERT D. LASKER) INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Lasker's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's talk about the genesis of that commission, Mrs. Lasker. You were saying that there was a reason
Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Ribicoff and I sat through both meetings. The first mee ting was held with Northern leaders, and I think in that group were Soapy Williams, Dave Lawrence, Carmine DiSapio, Dick Daley, Pat Brmm, possibly Mike Pendergast from New York, myself, Ribicoff, John
Oral history transcript, Floyd E. Dominy, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in connection with the Korean war; the President did announce that there would be no new (public works) project starts, and so the Eisenhower Administration was severely criticized for "no new starts." And I recall that the Kennedy Administration
  • Biographical information; Nelson Rockefeller; "no new start" policy under Eisenhower; 91st Congress authorized the most reclamation; Reclamation Fund; Newland
Oral history transcript, Lawrence Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • provision for continuity. M: Is it weaker because of the varying attitudes of the individuals who hold the job, or because simply as new men, they--? F: Well, as new men it takes a while for them to appreciate the problems. The export expansion program
Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a committee. He was a little reluctant about it, but finally they set up the two committees. But to get started with right away, [there was] this sense of urgency in the Congress which was really Lyndon Johnson spearheading leadership in this new venture
Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • successful in the affairs of Washington and were successful in our district. Judge Mansfield was very old, and his friends appreciated the fact that I had not attempted to be elected in the new district. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • concurred very quickly I went back to Goodwin and Goodwin redrafted the Eleanor Roosevelt speech. He and I talked at that time about a new rostrum for this Great Society. Peering through presidential speech appointments, we fastened on the University
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • --was there as president of the National Governors' Conference, and Governor [Richard] Hughes of New LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , they're the problems the same in Texas or New York, California or Connecticut, then eventually if the states and local subdivisions do not respond, then the federal government will respond. So in those areas I think the federal government should
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • For example, we found great disparity in the cost of the same operation in one shipyard as against another. Same operation. Something new in the field of radar would come along, and you'd put it on all of the ships of a certain kind. In some, the man
Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh 9 office at Newsweek in New York, and Mrs. Johnson called up and suggested that I come and have a cozy evening, more or less alone, with them. F: This was while they were still living in the house? G: [It was] before they moved
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • . S: Jim left and went to Georgetown [UniversityJ as their Comptroller or finance officer, and then he went to the State University of New York as chancellor. Anyhow, I am sure he was there and we resolved some of the issues. Then in January right
Oral history transcript, Whitney Shoemaker, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • with newspapers himself a few years prior thereto. Then he left Washington, went to New York, and in a while came back at his brother's and the President behest to take over the Presidential Message Operation. In a short time he asked if I would be interested
Oral history transcript, Robert Q. Marston, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • and then became dean of the new school of medicine in Jackson, fVJississippi, in 1961. During the time I was there I continued to have contact with NIH and was chairman of the postdoctoral fellowship review conmi ttee over a peri od of some years then. Duri ng
Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • special personal relationship with him at that time? Mundt: Yes, we served on committees together. At different times. We served on the Building Commission, for example. It built this new Senate Office Building in which we're transcribing
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to Washington, as was customary with new Congressmen, he had to take what was available in the way of office space. Congressman Albert Thomas had Come from Houston the same time I did. We had offices on the fourth floor of the old building about as far from
Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for the Texas Power & Light Company as a salesman. University. In 1927 and 1928 I went to New York They laughed at me for going to that little old school LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, John Wildenthal, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the New York Times, the Congressional Record, and the Washington Post every day. II G: Did he do that? W: I think he fairly well did, or had them read for him. at the Dodge so that we could be available. closed day or night. He had Ed and me He
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 2 (II), 2/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , I was the advance man in Rome when LBJ, on that round-theworld trip, went to the funeral, as I recall it, in Australia of the prime minister who was drowned, and decided to come by Rome. Then, preceding that, when the Pope came to New York, I did
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Well, the Regents' action in July of 1967 was to thank and discharge the committee. Now the question was to create a new committee to do whatever else was necessary. (Interruption) At the July meeting, the Regents accepted the report and accepted
  • The creation of a new committee related to the LBJ School of Public Affairs; how the committee members were appointed; the committee duties of administration, budgeting, architectural planning and searching for a dean; Norman Hackerman; considering
Oral history transcript, Burke Marshall, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the freedom rides? M: Yes. We went to Congress with the budget--I can't remember what, but in the normal course of things it would have been in February before the House; John Rooney's [D-New 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to be because the development of today is, or will be, the weapons system of five to ten years from now . The Air Force, I think, is particularly dependent upon the state of technology and the development of new weapons systems � � LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1981 INTERVIEWEE: DONALD C. COOl( INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Cook's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2 By terms of the legal agreement, pages 1 through 10 will not be available during the lifetime of Robert McNamara. LBJ