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Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Association of American Medical Colleges gave me its Abraham Fletcher Award, which is their highest award. And they cited the fact that I had authored and passed sixty major pieces of health legislation. B: Yes, sir. When I was doing this research on you
Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Cou..rL'1 R: 1 think [so], yes. G: Do you recall if he associated this issue with the Supreme Court's bottling up SOll.:; of that darn legislation, on building the Lower Colorado River-- R: 1 don't really recall what the issues were. personality
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • added to the act? S: The only thing I can think of, he probably did it in order to assuage some of the objections of the American Medical Association and some of the others who were always concerned about the Public Health Service or the Department
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • happened to come to Washington. I'd been associated with a nonprofit manage- ment consulting firm in Chicago for about a year and planned to go back. In the meantime, "the head of the company became assistant director of the Budget Bureau, which
Oral history transcript, Samuel V. Merrick, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1981 INTERVIEWEE: SAMUEL V. MERRICK INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Merrick's residence, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: Mr. Merrick, let's start out with your initial association with the task force. I don't know how you were drawn
Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • association of Vietnamese Buddhists was a new organization. There had never been any such hierarchy. Buddhist bonzes in the provinces were their own bosses. The They did their own funerals, their own marriages, weddings and so forth. I had numerous
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Baptist Association . Brooks Hays . He was president of the Southern Brooks Hays, a great storyteller . It was Brooks Hays that asked me that question . Mr . He was going to try Rayburn . I told him what the facts were . He was very close to So
Oral history transcript, Robert F. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . In every country there is an interest of the press association--that is, exchanging information . In every country the movie industry--the United States movie industry--is a very significant activity and influences the thinking of people a great deal
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Mr. Johnson take any retribution against the Moyers' associates? M: Oh, they all started--no, he appointed Hal Pacius to a good job in the Transportation Department and Hal, from time to time, came back to do advance work for the President
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 14 (XIV), 9/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • program that the White House lobbied hard for. Do you recall the issues on that one? O: As I recall, the ABA [American Bankers Association] lobbied hard against it, feeling that by this guarantee program you were going to limit the bankers. You were
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Easley was the Associated Press correspondent covering the House of Representatives for years and years. And he later worked for Bob Poage, but Tex Easley was a very prominent associate, AP writer. H: Okay, Bill and Judy Mickey, M-I-C-K-E-Y. Anything
Oral history transcript, Daniel Boone Porter, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and with the Vietnamese associates was so important that it was absolutely mandatory to try to make friends with those people and to gain their respect and to not do things that antagonized them nor caused them to be unwilling to cooperate with us. I have always felt
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • had just sort of forgotten about it. You know, it's rather unfortunate that in the popular mind Johnson is not really associated today with one of the most important things that he did, and that was the outer space thing. of forgot his role
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But in speeches, whew! He was reliable I'm pretty sure--! have the feeling that was the occasion when he went to [Tyler] when he made that horrible speech that gave us a few bad weeks. G: Now, in Houston he addressed the Mid-Continental Oil Association
Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to the Defense Department in April of 1961 serving until '65 as Director of Defense Research and Engineering . Prior to that,, you were associated with Lawrence Radiation Lab in California . Do I have the correct background information? B: That is quite
Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to. Tnese are voluntary associations. We want the members to take an active democratic role in th~peration of the unions. And yet in a time of inflationary pressures, people trying to leap-frog wage settlements one after another, it has made it darned
Oral history transcript, William M. Blackburn, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , to "send one of your bright, young associates" out to Washington for a couple of years to learn about the operations of the Executive Department and [gave him] just a kind of broad descrip­ tion of what my duties would be . As a result, in January of 1967
Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH SWIDLER INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Swidler's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Chairman Swidler, I wanted to begin by asking you to simply recall what you can of your knowledge of, and association
Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • thousand, and the President carried by over a million. F: The people never associated the two? W: Never identified. They were anti-Goldwater. There was just no way Goldwater could carry California. I was concerned--the "big lie" technique--if we kept
  • and 3/31/68 speech; socializing with Ben Barnes; Jack Valenti becoming head of the Motion Picture Association of America; Robert Redford and Paul Newman; LBJ’s driving.
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • who associated so much with blacks, who were superstitious and who were full of stories about ghosts and "hants," [haunts] as they called them. And indeed the house we lived in had plenty of "hants." G: Oh, did it? J: According to local legend
Oral history transcript, Douglass H. Hubbard, interview 1 (I), 6/4/69, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • California and from there transferred National Park, where I was one of the park naturalists. became chief park naturalist, and I transferred to Hawaii Then I and after almost five years my family back to Yosemite National Park, where I was the associate
Oral history transcript, Stanley L. Greigg, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --(Laughter)--in the sense of financial assistance, but in the years that I've been associated in the Democratic Party, there's never been a great deal of money available to congressional candidates. They were exceptionally good, I think, in terms of trying
Oral history transcript, Josh H. Groce, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , were the liberal forces in San Antonio, such as Adrian Spears, at that time in 1946 associated with LBJ? JG: Yes. I'm sure they were. Yes. G: I know he later became close to Mr. Johnson. JG: Oh, yes. Yes. G: Now, how did you become involved
Oral history transcript, Manuel Cohen, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . For example, when Mr. [Robert] Haack became president of the New York Stock Exchange, I brought him in to introduce him. But I know that on occasion people associated with the Exchange would come to visit him just because they, one, liked to meet the president
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was directed to take charge of this whole problem of famine in India. B: I think i t was in 1966. Before that, sir, what was President Kennedy's reaction to the self­ help idea of being associated with the Food for Peace Program? F: It never surfaced
Oral history transcript, Stewart J.O. Alsop, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • for playing his cards very close indeed to his chest, but you'd get an idea of what was going on. Ideas would flow out of him like water out of a stream. M: That's the kind of easy camaraderie that's associated with the Kennedy years. Did Johnson lose
Oral history transcript, William G. Bowdler, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Frantz PLACE: Ambassador Bowdler's residence in San Salvador, El Salvador Tape 1 of 1 F: Mr. Ambassador, first of all, tell us a little bit about your background, where you're from, where you were educated, how you came to be associated
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 3 (III), 8/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • a number of radical students and students who were associated with either very left-wing or pacifist groups that were terribly active. I've often felt that a lot of them simply did not want to serve in the armed forces of the United States
Oral history transcript, Paul H. Douglas and Emily Taft Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Douglas--IO G: Well, an associate of his indicated
Oral history transcript, Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1967, by Mary Walton Livingston (Item)
  • fraternization. We used to have them out to dinner at our house wi th a number of younger people, you know. One of them was our neighbor, Tcm Elliot, who came down frcm »:I.ssachusetts, but I don't remember that he and ~on ever had any close association
Oral history transcript, Leo Gehrig, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LEO GEHRIG INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Dr. Gehrig's office, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Do you want to begin with a discussion of your association with the Peace Corps? LG: Yes. Being a career officer
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was in a Washington firm, Abe was a great friend of the President, so I had some feeling then of the association, although it was kind of secondary to me. It's from that law job that I was appointed executive director of his [Robert Kennedy] Committee on Juvenile
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • there was the MURA issue, the Midwestern University's Research Association, which was a proposal for a new and very expensive high energy accelerator to be built in Madison, Wisconsin, with federal funds as a consortium of about ten or a dozen midwestern universities
Oral history transcript, John A. Hannah, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Association. The grandfathers of all three of them had been officers in the Confederate Army, and they had a -M: That's a good, safe Southern background. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org H: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was an advertising executive--was for his entire career until he retired in 1951. He was associated primarily with Field and Stream magazine, so I have something of an outdoorsman background via the advertising route. had been a school teacher. My mother [I
Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was a Californian. F: Did this make any difference in your relationship with what became Vice President Johnson? Y: Perhaps, I don't know, because I didn't see that much of him. F: But you weren't really associated with him then in the campaign either pro
Oral history transcript, William A. Knowlton, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and a guy, a young lieutenant colonel named Rick Ansen who is now a major general and a young fellow named--major named Ray Ketchum who had been a cadet under me at West Point when I was associate professor and who now is a signal corps colonel. They had
Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the real estate business, managing apartment houses in syndication in New York City. I had gotten into interpreting quite accidentally, at first for the Carnegie Foundation; subsequently the Young Women's Christian Association, the national board
Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 2 (II), 5/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • was associated with in the Pentagon was quite an opportunity, particularly for somebody who's as young as myself. I was relatively younger than most of my contemporaries, and yet they were willing to put some confidence in me. In any event, I'm awfully happy