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Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh - 2 B: That's going to come up later in the interview when we get into the area of personnel. Have you had in your career at any time any strictly political activity? R: No, I haven't. My wife, as an active Democrat

Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that. G: Let me ask you about Ted Berry. H: Yes. G: Why do you think he was selected to head Community Action? H: Oh, I think Ted had great credentials. He was black, he had been a national officer of the NAACP, been on the national committee, knew

Oral history transcript, Tommie W. Glick and Sarah Taylor, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

it would have meant an entirely different thing to you." Mc: Have you or your husband had any political connections with the Johnsons such as helping the campaign or consulting as an adviser on any committees or anything like that? G: No. Me: It's been

Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

presented that to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, which approved the idea, reported it out, and our bill passed the Senate, but it got blocked in the House. And I remember Senator [George] Aiken--I had renamed those counties for various presidents

Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/loh/oh Lee -- II -- 8 L: Well, there you get into a question of the ,advisory committee. It's quite possible that the staff of the NYA would come in with some number of projects on a skeleton basis. The advisory committee could give a judgment--yes
National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Biographical information; NYA; publicity; personnel; visits from national office; Mrs. Roosevelt; project procedures; 1937 Congressional campaign.

Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, really. The American public and the press doesn't, I don't think. So therefore the public should learn much about it, what a war of national liberation is all about. That's a technique that the Soviets developed a long time ago. They've perfected

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

was not there, but the Cabinet Committee on Balance of Payments was; and I brought copies of this with me--I think Joe Califano presided over the meeting. was on this. And I told Joe in advance what my thinking So he said, "Bring the papers along." memo from Smith. And I had

Oral history transcript, Betty Furness Midgley, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

and at the end of his campaign, and everyone in his office thought it was tremendously effective and might have been really quite influential in his winning the election. So in '64 I contacted the Democratic National Committee and said, "I've got this trick I

Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to, but that may have been something in Washington. R: It might have been WPA wanting him to, or Washington. I never heard that rumor though. G: Now, he had an advisory committee. R: Yes. G: An advisory board. R: I knew Mr. [Alvin] Wirtz for several
National Youth Administration (U.S.)

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

as we would like to have it. Would you describe that as fully as you can? WH: That time I recall in detail because I was running for Democratic nomination for a place in the Texas Senate. It was the 19th Senatorial District, composed of six counties
National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Met LBJ as a student at a political meeting in Blanco, TX; Hopkins campaigned for Democratic party nomination to the Senate from 19th District, TX; Sam Johnson as a friend and supporter; Alvin Wirtz; Richard Kleberg's election to Congress, 1931; LBJ

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was then at the [Democratic] National Committee. The two of us worked, always, very closely together. greater than mine, and through him we made others. His contacts were But there was an attempt to encourage the thought of creating new ideas for developing contact

Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in views among the staff? C: Well, I guess it's a matter of the degree to which the commission would push its views in the national debate on the issues. Of course, the biggest issue as we came on was just how much we could do to assist in the enactment

Oral history transcript, Roswell L. Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in 1961? RG: Only that at a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the National Security Council the President announced that I was selected for that assignment. I assume that it was his own decision after recommendations from [Robert] McNamara and perhaps Mac

Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Magnuson, who was then ranking member on the Commerce Committee. That's roughly where it began and how it developed. G: During those early years, did he seem knowledgeable about the radio business? 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
'Easterners'; Stuart Symington; 1960 Democratic convention.

Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Schwartz, who now is at the National Security Council, came to work as Ed Sherman's junior. Lou was a foreign service officer, so he was con- versant with the international side of the foreign service group. Then you had Terry Scanlon doing the advisory

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

like that. I used to listen to him on the radio. At one time we had three Democrats from Wichita Falls, he being one of them, running for governor. And then after he won in the general election-his Republican opponent, Orville Bullington, was from

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Hampshire primary a little bit, I don't think he ever did anything affirmative to get in thereo I think that Johnson over-reacted by ordering Bobby to fire a fellow called Paul Corbin from the Democratic National Committee. Paul Corbin, C-O-R-B-I-N, had

Oral history transcript, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

at [the] State [Department]? RG: At the time that I was a student at the National War College, General Burchinal, Dave [David] Burchinal, who was at that time the deputy chief of staff for plans, programs, and operations of the air force, picked me to go
in Vietnam; intelligence input to the Policy Planning Council; the response of intelligence analysts when their advice was not used; Dean Rusk’s relationship with Robert McNamara; joining Rostow on the National Security Council staff in 1966; Ginsburgh’s work

Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

it. At that same time~ Fulbright and his committee got to me and wanted me to come down and talk to them. I was. a little reluctant to do it, but then decided that it was probably sort of the kind of thing you have to do in the national interest. talk to him

Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for the 1964 campaign. And so Wilson had offered six people full-time jobs at the Democratic National Committee as full-time advance men. That was the first time, really, that there had been full-time advance men; in the past it had been a part-time deal
Vietnam soldiers; handling crowds and the press during trips to the Philippines, Korea and Mexico; preparing for the 1966 State of the Union Address; Edmund Muskie; May Craig; landing Air Force One at National Airport; LBJ’s view of war/leaders; Pachios

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, it happened that this was mainly Democratic lawyers, but that wasn't entirely true. There were Republican lawyers as well in favor of the President's re-election. B: Was that confined to any particular area or was that a nationwide committee? W: I don't

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of the detail work in that area was my responsibility. We had some political liaison work with the governors primarily, and the [Democratic] National Committee, and the state chairmen of the various states. That was out of Marvin's office. There again I handled

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of Washingtonians there: the Chief Justice; Fred Vinson, of course the Democratic leaders in Congress, several cabinet officers from Truman's cabinet. It was a showcase audience of a kind that it was quite unusual for a congressman to command that. In those days

Oral history transcript, Andrew Young, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Andrew Young -- Interview I -- 9 B: of Goldwaterism? Y: Yes. B: You used the phrase "Goldwaterism" I gather you mean the national white blacklash

Oral history transcript, Thomas C. Mann, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was working, as I remember, primarily in military and other fields at that time. F: So you wouldn't have had much- M: He wasn't on any of the committees in the Senate that I customarily appeared before during those years. I think the first serious private
: the Cuban missile crisis of 1962; service as under secretary of state for economic affairs; LBJ as a practitioner of foreign policy; the Peace Corps in Latin America; the CIA and the overthrow of Arbenz in Guatemala; the Bay of Pigs; Chile nationalizes

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

also had another political problem in Alaska in that proposed Rampart Dam on the upper Yukon. Was President Johnson sensitive on the political ramifications? I remember you lost your Democratic Congressman from there. I suppose this was part

Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 2 (II), 10/3/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

the oil people vote for him? Who voted Did businessmen support him? W: Generally speaking, the oil people didn't. close to the New Deal. They thought he was too Of course, that was a Democratic campaign. LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)

is not exclusive with me, that Lyndon Johnson was going to amount to something in the nation's history. M: You didn't know him then? F: No. And [I had decided] that I might as well start thinking about doing something with him and with his career. But I made
the National Parks Advisory Board; Stewart Udall; meeting Mrs. Johnson at the White House to discuss Big Bend National Park; traveling to Big Bend with Mrs. Johnson; the press at Big Bend; Judith Axler Turner; instituting a White House historical program

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, the problems of the world do change. NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] was coming into being, the long torturous steps of being proposed by [Harry] Truman and nations signing it, and then its having to go through both bodies. And foreign aid, both
of Texas; LBJ's continued interest in his local Texas supporters as he became senator and took on national interests; civil rights and the desegregation of the military; Alger Hiss and his sister, Anna Hiss; David Lilienthal; South Texas federal judgeships

Oral history transcript, Estelle Harbin, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. G: Were you able to see what Mr. Johnson's attitude toward the 1932 campaign was, and the Democratic National Convention and which candidates he favored? H: I wasn't up there then. G: I suppose you were back here then before he got word of FDR

Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

a radical like I was supposed to be, you know, very human. I shan't forget his basic 1958 speech. In fact I saved it, because I quoted and quoted and quoted from this, that this was in the tradition of the Democratic Party, and it helped a lot. I felt

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins and Alice Hopkins, interview 4 (IV), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on a biannual basis, because it was only state monies that made that college live and created it. When Dr. C. E. Evans was down there he \'Jas very active in support of his own causes. Vlhen I was in the senate on the appropriations committee he came up

Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of accidents. My previous governmental service after the war was not connected with Latin America. I spent the war on the staff of the War Production Board. Then for several months in 1946, 1 was on our delegation to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission

Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 2 (II), 1/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

English; they weren't Dutch, because there were rules against nationals of those countries holding gold. They ranged from French peasants to Canadians, to Swiss, to all sorts of people who sort of instinctively go into gold. Certain banks sold

Oral history transcript, John A. Hannah, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

counted because of race, religion, color or national origin. It was contentious back in 1958 as to what was the truth. Pretty early, after many months of argument among ourselves and prolonged sessions of continuous discussion in which we would begin

Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

really didn't have enough money in the budget to do the things that he thought were important. F: So he was very active as long as he was there, you know. Now, any congressional official who sits on a committee that oversees you is a person to think

Oral history transcript, William J. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

occasions, just as an example-- and this didn't occur in President Johnson's time, but I am sure if the same situation had occurred it would have resulted the same way-the matter of invitations to dinners by the [Democratic] National Committee

Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

relationship with the poverty program. I guess it must have been 1965--well, maybe by then it was 1966, I was then the assistant director of I think [it was] called the [Office of] National Councils and Organizations. But Shriver would use me generally

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. My close connection with John Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson led me to believe that while the presidency of the United States, when that mantle falls upon you, changes you from just an ordinary human being to somebody who looks at human and national
[For interview 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; social security; Eleanor Roosevelt; 1939 amendment to Social Security Act; Congressional committee and chairmen; unemployment insurance; disability benefits; Kennedy administration; Medicare; LBJ

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that came in on that landslide that passed legislation that will mean that this country will be a much better place to live as a result. The Democratic National Committee went into debt; a few oddballs were brought to Congress who shouldn't have been

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