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Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , announced that he would be for the independent electors, but I noticed that people closest to him supported I I Lyndon Johnson for President. I'm saying his closest associates and employees in the Governor's office. i l •I 10 LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 2 (II), 6/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to be and not up to him and Mrs. Johnson. But I've only heard the President say nice things about George, and in my dealings with George I always found him to be a real gentleman and not in any way taking advantage of his association with Lynda, although I'm aware
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , workmanlike way, and he was pretty good. One of their better guys was Tony Murry, a black guy whom I really liked a lot, and I think Tony was probably the best of the associates on either side, in my view. He was very well-spoken, very reasonable and sane
Oral history transcript, Joseph Bruno, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the Washington, D.C. area. My family's from New England, and I spent a few of my early years up there, but for the most part I've lived in this area. I attended Georgetown University and Catholic University here in Washington, and I have been associated
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 3 (III), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The country was in a deep state of shock, and I remember his distrust of McGeorge Bundy, but yet his feeling that he had to have him. And I remember his absolute faith in Dean Rusk early in the game. G: Did this stem from his association with Secretary Rusk
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there and Lyndon got up and spoke about twenty minutes about Tom Connally was senator at that time and he spoke about two minutes, just to get his name associated in. Lyndon sent that stuff down, Barry writes the story, giving the facts, you know. Well
Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and doing all the work you have to do to carry through difficult legislation of the type that all this was. M: After he became Vice President, as someone that he knew fairly well from associations before that time, did you continue any particular
Oral history transcript, Dan H. Fenn, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/18/1972, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: DAN FENN INTERVIEWER: Paige Mulhollan PLACE: Cambridge, Massachusetts Tape 1 of 2 M: You are Dan Fenn, currently director of the Kennedy Library and lecturer at Harvard Business School. Your government association during the Johnson years
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . This invitation came from Mr. John Lord O'Brian, the General Counsel, who I had been associated with when he was Special Counsel for the Tennessee Valley Authority in it's constitutional litigation. Mr. O'Brian was, and still is, generally esteemed as one
Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • don't think it was a controlling one. His obstacle, political obstacle in becoming President, that he was a conservative and had a conservative voting record, largely conservative leadership record--largely--and then they always associated him
Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • before NAHRO, The National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials in Minneapolis, in I think late September or early October. Then there was really the farewell speech before the directors of Model Cities programs from around the country. Mc
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • and they were good friends of mine and also good friends of his. At that time the firm was composed of Ed Clark and Everett LooneYi they were the only members. And I had worked for them as their only associate for a period of time. But one afternoon I saw
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • interesting experience because, as I men- tioned in the earlier interview, one of Mr. Johnson's closest and long time associates was Irving Goldberg, who now serves as a judge on the Fifth Circuit. Mr. Goldberg agreed to become vice chairman of the Texas
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Antonio that spring, breakfast with the South Texas county men, meetings with the Fiesta group and with the Petroleum Landsmen, a meeting with the Texas Press Association at the Gunter Hotel. R: Some of those were just meetings because they happened
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 3 (III), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, William Narva, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: DR. WILLIAM NARVA INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Dr. Narva's residence, Sheraton Carlton Hotel, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with your first association with President Johnson. N: I arrived in the Washington
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : And Johnson, of course, had come to the House to work for Congressman [Richard] Kleberg. The fact that he would associate Bob Eckhardt, his political foe, or the foe of his friends in Texas and I guess probably his own foe, the friend of Frankie Randolph
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • on the part of some of my associates as to whether or not this was a good idea, and what sort of a return we would get, we put this out as a contest to the ninety-odd thousand people through � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Gordon Bunshaft, interview 1 (I), 6/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • guessed it either . M: The time's gone pretty fast, sometimes, they said . That's why I looked it up . Let's begin by identifying you, sir . You're Gordon Bunshaft, and you're an associate with an architectural firm in New York City . B: I'm
Oral history transcript, John M. Cabot, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . sador to Poland, where you were when he became President. c: That's correct. M: So you were originally appointed to that position by President Kennedy? C: That's right. M:I believe you mentioned a moment ago that your personal association
  • Biographical information; association with LBJ; John Gronouski; Poland foreign policy; policy of building bridges to the East; Battle Acts; most-favored nation treatment; Chinese Communists; Warsaw; Averell Harriman; Foreign Service officers
Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Then in 1960, early in the year, I got a call from him one day, and he said he was going to be some place in Ohio, nearby, Would 1 have was going to come into Pittsburgh and stay all night
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with either UP [United Press] or AP [Associated Press], [saying] that what I wanted to see [was] if we couldn't arrange a debate with the vice presidential candidates. And my recollection is it was around eight o'clock in the evening that Senator Johnson
Oral history transcript, Richard G. Stilwell, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD G. STILWELL INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. G: I notice in General [William] Westmoreland's memoirs [A Soldier Reports] he refers to you as "a close associate in many previous assignments before he
Oral history transcript, Anita P. Winters, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . G: A lot of people associate LBJ with Kittie Clyde Ross, or Kittie Clyde Leonard, now. Were they more or less sweethearts at one time? 9 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • Biographical information; Winters' childhood association with LBJ and his siblings; LBJ playing baseball; LBJ's parents; the Johnson family car; dances and fights between young men; LBJ's personality as a young man; LBJ breaking his leg; LBJ's
"LBJ as I Knew Him," by Mildred Stegall (Item)
  • Stegall Lyndon Johnson was one of the greatest men I have ever known and my life was greatly enriched by my association with him. I just wish the whole world could have known the Lyndon Johnson that I knew. LBJ and I went back a long way. In fact, had he
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The ICC was regulating railroads, too. The truckers, while I think of it, I see here we met with the airline presidents. We met with the trucking; the trucking association was on January fifth. I sent the President a memo. "[Inaudible] were in to see me
Oral history transcript, Ewing Hass, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: EWING HASS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Holiday Inn, Sacramento, California G: Let's start with your first association with Lyndon Johnson. Do you recall the first time that you met him or saw him in action? H: The first
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 4 (IV), 2/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the staff and everybody. So I recall Congressman Rooney saying how marvelous it had been to be on the trip and he wished his mother could know that he had been associated with Vice President Johnson. I think that he was pretty well convinced that what he had
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 3 (III), 9/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson had been close friends and associates. They had both served on the Armed Services Committee together, and while on opposite sides of the table, Mr. Johnson worked very closely with both Senator Saltonstall, who was the Republican leader
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 28 (XXVIII), 3/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Georgetown, San Marcos, and an address in Houston to the Independent Petroleum Association. And then a big important thing, the JeffersonJackson Day Dinner in Oklahoma City for Senator [Robert] Kerr and Senator [Mike] Monroney. But he did not get away from
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 7 (VII), 4/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • process where they'd commit twenty thousand, fifty thousand more troops, get in, take care of it, and get out? D: I don't know. I don't know the answer to that question. (Interruption) D: My most vivid recollection of Mr. McNamara and his association
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • many political organizations, many secret organizations. One of them, of course, was the Viet Minh, the Communist Party, under the guise of the larger associations of Vietnamese patriotic organizations. We knew by then that the Communists were
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • close association with him, certainly in foreign matters--I've observed that. I'm sure that you've been down there on many occasions when things were pretty critical and had some pretty critical conversations with him on foreign matters. I wonder
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 3 (III), 7/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the House. And there was some opposition to it from the teaching profession. I never did feel that the President had the NEA as strong as he should have, being the friend of education that he was. The National Education Association--they're a pretty bland
Oral history transcript, Berl Bernhard, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /loh/oh Bernhard--I--6 invitees with, say, Marvin Watson. He thought the Conference was politically dangerous. He couldn't understand what the President was doing associating with all these "wild people" (as he called them once), who had been proposed
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 4 (IV), 4/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • will erect it." He showed up here in my office in short order, and I took him and his associates across the way. They loaded the snow fence and took it to Resurrection City. I took 17 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • must say with the wisdom of hindsight--I may be a little parochial on it--that the Middle East trip was quite successful. It was beginning of my association with Lyndon Johnson. F: That's what I wanted to ask. He was dissatisfied with his staff help
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 3 (III), 7/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • times. He's being a part of some of the most signifi- cant and moving events of his generation. a lot of very fine people. the most significant one. Secondly, he's Third, he's associating with Now clearly the first of those is by all odds I think
Oral history transcript, Leo Gehrig, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't have any recall of any actions that he took. G: One other thing on the compliance. The National Medical Association in 1966 was critical of Robert Nash in terms of enforcing compliance. Let me ask you to evaluate that criticism. LG: I don't
Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • when I have been at a senator's side, I have been with him only in other circumstances maybe four or five times-all of them associated with Appalachia. he's a man of great earthiness. offended me as being crude. There isn't any question He's never
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ while working for Senator Patrick McNamara; impressions of LBJ; LBJ’s techniques for garnering votes; “Johnson Treatment;” LBJ’s relationship with Eisenhower; total liberal; LBJ lacked tremendous