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Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 3 (III), 12/2/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : No, I stayed on in Chicago for two or three days and then was relieved by Associate Deputy Attorney General John McDonough who had been there from the beginning, and I returned to the Department . B: Then the next one was in the summer of '68, in both
Oral history transcript, Clinton P. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : And then shortly after that, you were associated with Mr. Johnson in the development of the space program, with the Space Act passed after the Sputnik of '57? A: Well, that was, again, almost an accident. I had been appointed to the Joint Committee on Atomic
Oral history transcript, Eugene R. Black, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . his relations with you? Fulbright, though, that didn't affect He didn't associate you with Fulbright? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org B: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 17 (XVII), 1/5/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the doctors. We drafted them. The President had the AMA [American Medical Association] in to get them to start a program to send doctors LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Ribicoff off. G: Was there a Kennedy versus Johnson element to those hearings because Robert Kennedy was very prominent and it seems that the witnesses associated with the Kennedys received a much lighter treatment than those who were not, or had not been
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • came in with this kind of a judgment. I should get this stuff out in the press. It's really indefatigable. I still do the same kinds of doodles. That must say something. (Laughter) This is the President, [commenting on] AP [Associated Press] 1962
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it. And he talked to the businessmen and said to them that the NAM [National Association of Manufacturers] and the Chamber [of Commerce] were not doing their work in holding in going after Congress for increasing spending by five billion dollars. He
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --they are covered by that now, but the standards are lower for trucks on braking and stuff like that than they are for automobiles. G: Were the Teamsters a factor in this at all? C: No. The American Trucking Association may have been. We really weren't focused
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 60 (LX), 1/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • President came back from some trip the next day, from somewhere. I don't know where he was. G: Do you think he felt that Humphrey was too associated with organized labor? C: No, I think he just wasn't going to put him in charge. And with cables--[we
Oral history transcript, Andrew J. Goodpaster, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • mlght just mention in passing one little area, a very sharp dlvcrBCnce associated with an individual, a very able man who became the Chief of the U.S. Information Agency, Arthur Larson, Larson had done some work in political philosophy
Oral history transcript, William M. Capron, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of approval because I was his man. So we worked together until after the assassination and after the election in 1964. After that was over--he had a family of ten, eleven children at that time--he had an opportunity to go with the National Association
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 5 (V), 8/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • - the i\ir.2.J.:ican Bar Association COlT!:'!,ittee- which checked on all pot2U:ial jucl,.,:ship nOwinees and made a recommendation of either not-my recollect.ion is they either made a recc!TI.inend.:.".tion of qualified, lvellqualified, exceptionally vell
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . That is, how you became associated with Lyndon Johnson in the first place. H: Yes. First of all, we might get Had you met him previously? I became associated with him in 1965, when I worked for him on a task force on the preservation of natural beauty
Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the Eisenhower Administration. Then I went back to Kansas State University as an associate professor in the fall of 1959. At that time I was partly politically motivated because I left the government principally to go back and get interested in the John F
Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • away. I started to work with the Retail Clerks' International Association and other organizations, too, and did some practice of law. The important thing about President Johnson--and I really was very impressed with him--was this. minimum wage bill. I
Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • affiliates conventions and also our National Association of Broadcasters. In the early fifties J. C., at o~e the Broadcast I first met Mrs. Johnson, through of our CBS affiliates meetings, and in about 1955 or 1956, t~usic, Incorporated
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 2 (II), 5/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that weekend that were of personal nature with me because of my partner Bob Benjamin. Bob was having a big conference at the White House in November, having sponsorship from the UNA [United Nations Association], and he wanted the President to be there. I forget
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • who dealt directly with the postal unions was Dick Murphy, a long-time friend and associate of mine. G: Let me ask you to talk at length about the postal unions, because this must have been a very significant aspect of the entire Post Office
Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • guidance and advice, she doubted seriously was up to doing the job. As you remember, it was quite a long time in 1960 before she really wholeheartedly accepted Mr. Kennedy. G: Did you have any association with LBJ while he was vice president that we ought
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of his close associates. To begin with, he had an all-consuming commitment to his job as President. He had become President through the great tragedy of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and it was as though he felt that since he had not been
Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of my associates on that board and said, "He's not going to run for reelection." Because he told us then about how tough it was for him to bid goodbye to the troops going to Vietnam. He'd just been out on that West Coast trip, and he'd been aboard
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • immediately began to show an interest in student politics, was elected president of the student association or whatever they call it, the student body . the president . He worked on the college paper . He worked for President Evans at that time
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • associated with that program. P: Does one of these stand out in your mind? F: Yes. It must have been in the spring of '67. The President the preceding fall had ordered a halt to new construction projects, not only in the Army's civil works program
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the Senate with Mike Mansfield, Russell was not a key factor. I mean the contact with Russell directly in all of the promotion of our program was limited. G: Was the Vice President used for his long associations with some of these southern committee
  • legislation; JFK's personal interest in Medicare; the American Medical Association's lobbying effort against Medicare; the Kerr-Mills Act of 1960; a Madison Square Garden event to pressure Congress to support Medicare; Orville Freeman's assistance
Oral history transcript, Victor Jaeggli, interview 1 (I), 9/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Is there anything else on your association with NYA or Lyndon Johnson that we've left out? Any other anecdotes or stories? J: As I recall, when Lyndon was first elected to Congress, Sherman Birdwell was his first secretary. You've talked to Sherman, haven't you
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 2 (II), 8/14/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • -known journalists later on: Neil Sheehan from the New York Times, who was by then chief of the Associated Press in Saigon, and many of the very famous journalists who became well-known after the coup of Mr. Diem, [David] Halberstam, and so forth. G: D
Oral history transcript, Roswell L. Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • on the twentieth. But the rest of the time it was just a courtesy visit with reminiscences and so forth about our past association. TG: LeMay had been sort of a contentious member of the Joint Chiefs, had he not? RG: Yes, he was a very single-minded man
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • been the president of the Georgia Bar Association, and Mr. Troutman had actually made it possible for me to go to the University of Chicago Law 6 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • as you had anticipated in '60? Bo: No, because Kennedy handled it so well.When he went to Houston, Texas, to talk to the ministerial association, and in a lot of his other campaign talks, I thought he in many ways turned it to his advantage. B: You
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press
Oral history transcript, Ebba Jansen and Alvin J. Jansen, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • a bell, II El bey. II P: It could be from his initials, LBJ. J: Yes, LBJ. There's an LB. But I associated with Elbey, E-L-B-E-Y or E-L-B-Y, and whether we called him that or not, I don't remember. P: It could have been just their using initials
Oral history transcript, Lester D. Johnson, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • mainly on the exemption? J: Yes, exactly. Of course, the agencies, such as the Association of Travel Agents and the airlines and transportation companies generally weren't too happy with the idea because they felt, and probably to some degree
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1984, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • , in Washington? ML: He works for me in Washington. CL: That's wonderful. That has been a long association, back to 1949 I guess or somewhere around there. ML: Oh, yes. Yes, 1949, that's right. You're fantastic to know so much. CL: Well, I've been
Oral history transcript, W. True Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . Through my friends in Philips and former associates, for example, I learned of the run on the Italian lire in 1963, even before governments were talking about thiS, because in business you have to smell these things or have a feeling for inventory control
Oral history transcript, A. Ross Eckler, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • First association with LBJ; Hobart Taylor, Jr.; 1965 Civil Rights Act; Richard Scammon; Andrew Brimmer; promotion of civil servants into appointed posts; referrals; special surveys; Congressional intervention; right of privacy issue; mailout
Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the departmental reception was dispensed with as the government grew. P: Can you tell me what your duties were at the CIA? F: Yes. Well, naturally, you would associate the work here with the graphic arts. And it would be, of course, of a classified nature
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • started talking about these nominations who I would suggest to him, ,.hat my recomnendation would be for an appointee to Chief Justice; or if he decided to nominate Justice Fortas as an Associate Justice. I called my friend Charlie Wright, professor here
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Biographical information; association with Everett Looney; LBJ as a Congressman; relationship with LBJ; 1948 Senate race; investigation of voting irregularities in Alice, TX; collecting affidavits from Mexican-Americans to challenge voting
Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 2 (II), 3/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • participated, and in many cases the difference was insignificant. There were ultimately good programs and bad programs in both categories. I wonder if we're not talking here about some of the demonstration programs that often are associated with Community