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Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . Taylor, I know you've had a very long and close association with the Johnson family, and I would like to just begin this interview with asking you: first, when did you come in contact >vith the Johnson family, and what were the circumstances
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . the National Association of Broadc3sters. I believe it was Ilm not clear in my mind about that-F: He amplified a little bit from the March 31 speech; he enlarged a little on what was said there. T: Correct. He decided that he would go out there. I think
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 3 (III), 11/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • element. Let me ask you to analyze their association. AG: I don't think their lack of congeniality, if you want to put it that way, had anything to do with their political philosophies. I think LBJ--I'm putting words maybe in somebody else's thoughts
Oral history transcript, Felipe Herrera, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it. M: Did you ever have occasion to know Mr. Johnson prior to the time you became associated with the bank in the 1950's? H: No. I met him physically, let's say, for the first time when he was already Vice President. M: Did he, as Vice President
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • say that he can identify himself with Jack Kennedy and with President Eisenhower and Mr. Truman and Mr. Roosevelt and he identifies with Andrew Jackson, but he cannot identify with Woodrow Wilson. He has tried but he has no feeling of association. He
Oral history transcript, Will R. Rogers, interview 1 (I), 10/9/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • collect. PB: I paid for every call that I ever put in. Looking back at your long association with Mr. Johnson, how \'lould you sum up the character of this man? I knm·; you think a great deal of him because he's been your friend over a grea t many
Oral history transcript, Gerard C. Smith, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • hardly wait to be sort of in on the kill, to have their names associated with this great disarmament breakthrough that to happen but didn't. t~y ~/as supposed only recollection of him was that he took one look at me and said to Hill, "Can
Oral history transcript, Richard E. Neustadt, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh You are Richard E. Neustadt, and you are currently director of the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard. N: I'm Associate Dean of the School and Director of the Institute
Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • twenty years of government service which began in 1948 after completing your law degree and an association with a New York City law firm. From 1948 to 1955 you were associated with the Economic Cooperation Administration, and your last position
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 2 (II), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on his association with LBJ that is of note? P: No, I really don It, except knowing that they were close friends. G: There was evidently a WPA coordinating board in Washington that would approve new projects. he was concerned. This slowed things down
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 4 (IV), 1/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • guidance, of a thousand and one different things. And he did institute a system of the five-year force level and financial plan and a number of management tools which enabled him and his associates to see where the major issues were and be able to intervene
Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would visit; they'd associate oftentimes long hours at meetings after the Senate had adjourned, and in talking matters over Lyndon would sell Everett that he ought to go along with him on one amendment or another or on one vote or another
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 3 (III), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • association and that sort of thing. It's kind of an inbreed society and besides Molly--she was a good soldier and she backed the administration. I really was not able--we were hunting desperately for another formula to counter the administration's formula
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , in addition to which, since a number of my assistants and I had been associated wi t h various of these agencies in one way or another in the past, we knew a fair amount about them. And some of the fellows had very strong feelings about the competence
Oral history transcript, H.S. Hank Brown, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was then president of what is the Texas Pipe Trades--that's the association of all the plumbers and pipe fitters which is my union . We talked about different aspects of making it possible for there to be a union shop in Texas as well as all the other so-called
Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Connor -- II -- 18 well as bases and so forth. All the acts that are associated with a large-scale war effort would have been up for debate
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 2 (II), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • can say is that I didn't welcome it, but having to go through it, I decided I was really going to do the best job I could. The best way I can demonstrate, I think, the quality of the association [with Celler] is that the Sunday before the vote
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 5 (V), 3/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . This would have been for the Fourth of July holiday, I think, and he addressed the Texas Bar Association in Fort Worth. Do you recall anything about that visit? W: No. I didn't go, I don't think. G: It was soon after that that they had Ayub Khan down
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • is in regard to style. Did this make it difficult for him to get the kind of people that his associates and his advisers often recommended? C: No. I think he got good people, on the whole. Once the cabinet officer were picked, if he were a good cabinet
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 31 (XXXI), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that if you want to blow up the War on Poverty just have some corruption. HARYOU-ACT [Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited-Associated Community Teams] in Harlem became a big issue, and he really wanted us to aggressively move in. That concern eventually led us
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 33 (XXXIII), 6/13/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XXXIII -- 2 G: The Outdoor Advertisers Association? Phil Tocker and . . . C: Well, I don't remember the people anymore, but they were very effective. But he wanted that bill, and he wanted that for Lady Bird
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 51 (LI), 8/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • here for blacks and that they wanted to race through and get out there and that we were really in a race with that, with expectations, more than we were in a race with whether the NAACP [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 54 (LIV), 9/11/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the government moves in on them. Then the President starts to get into this with his message to the Trial Lawyers Association, "We must stop the slaughter on our highways." And the Trial Lawyers having this conference--God, I do remember that--the greatest
Oral history transcript, Henry M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But he sincerely supported the public power program of Roosevelt, of Truman. G:. You were on Armed Services with him and had an opportunity to see his association with Senator [Richard] Russell. What were they like together? Was Russell sort
Oral history transcript, Radcliffe Killam, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • some looking into it, too. Did you have any knowledge of any of those things? K: Well, no, I really didn't, though there was an ex-FBI man that was very closely associated with the investigation, and it was with he--whose name I don't remember-­ G
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • with colds at that time. He said, "Well, you know, we've developed a kind of shot that may help you." So I started taking what became the flu shots. We worked very closely with him and Dr. [L. R.] Thompson, who was his Associate Surgeon General. And we
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Beaty at Interior with [Stewart] Udall and an associate of his, Bob McConnell, [who] worked with Beaty. Ken Birkhead, similarly with Orville Freeman.I think that was essential, as these were positions in the department or agency that were high
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , with all of my Kennedy associations, I was adhering to a straight line, would continue to. Bobby and Teddy Kennedy would recognize that and understand that. They did. I never had a problem with them in that regard. They knew that I was not going to do
Oral history transcript, David L. Hackett, interview 1 (I), 4/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and HARYOU-ACT [Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited Associated Community Teams] in Harlem. The second part of it is what we learned in the Lower East Side experiment. The board was made up of people from Columbia and people from the city, plus residents
  • and start programs; what the Committee looked for in creating a new anti-delinquency program; Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited Associated Community Teams (HARYOU-ACT) programs; the Lower East Side experiment; increasing local involvement in planning
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Sandy" Keith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • opportunities there. So, eventually, believe it or not, I came back, and I was to clerk for one of the justices on the Minnesota supreme court when Harry Blackmun, now an associate justice of the [U.S.] Supreme Court, called me from the Mayo Clinic and said
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the Farmers Union, including the Grain Terminal Association; it also included now the NFO and the Grange and the Missouri Farmers Association. B: In that kind of thing in what amounts to a campaign for the referendum, do you feel that you can ethically use
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Disrupt so many people. B: Yes. G: Did you observe his association with the Kennedys during that occasion? B: Well, after the mass was all over, he went up to Mrs. Kennedy and chatted with her for a little while. Then he chatted with the other
Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • how and whether it can be done. But basically of course they do have constituencies that are represented by public spirited organizations; they have foreign policy association, United Nation associations. And then they have some that go further, like
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the American Medical Association. G: He was a believer in waiting until you had the votes, I guess. L: Yes, he was. G: Now, he went to a party at your house in February, 1964, the same day He believed in it, but he didn't have the votes. that he sent
  • The genesis of the Heart, Cancer and Stroke Commission; Dr. Michael DeBakey; goals of funding national clinical research; influence of the American Medical Association and the National Institutes of Health; Dr. James Shannon; LBJ’s interest
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , and the maritime side, that were against the department, but by and large most of the industry was either openly supportive--this including outfits like the Transportation Association of America--or they didn't oppose it. If they did oppose it, they usually did
Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • correct. P: And prior to that you were an associate and partner in a Washington, D.C., law firm. W: Yes. P: And since 1948. W: Yes, you do. P: Mr. Warnke, your predecessor in this office, Mr. John MacNaughton, also And I do have all correct
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • association in the Congress. We were never close and intimate. The Texans had their own fraternity which didn't require so much outside relationship, although I don't mean that they were isolationists or that they were exclusive. But still the Texans had