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Oral history transcript, Lewis W. Walt, interview 1 (I), 1/24/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to associate with President Johnson on a more-or-less personal basis? W: I had occasion to see him and talk to him once in Vietnam when he carne to Cam Ranh Bay. I talked to him for a few minutes. Then midway in my tour--I think it was February '66--1
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • worthy of note that my boy was endorsed by the District of Columbia Bar Association. And I say he was, in my book, eminently qualified. He'd gone to St. Albans here in Washington, he'd gone to Williams College in Massachusetts, graduated, went
Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to be changed in their thinking, you know. I: You introduced in one of your earlier characterizatons of Mr. Johnson his distrust of people with the intellectual community and those in the East associated with Harvard and so on. all these people? Can you
Oral history transcript, Clyde O. Martz, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • background in the natural resources and property area and the need for someone with that background for this particular position than it did from any particular association in politics prior to the time of the appointment. B: That was my next question
Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] Biographical information; first association with LBJ; first impressions of LBJ; appointment to FAA; Senators Hartke, Long, Magnuson and Monroney; flight service plan and service stations; medical department of the FAA
Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • by the President's attitude. Mu: So even those that might have been conservative otherwise turned out under his influence to be maybe more sympathetic than it had appeared? :(,1e: Yes. I would say that personally this association lasted right from the minute he
Oral history transcript, Claiborne Pell, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • very startling. I don't think I've ever given a business associate much more than a necktie or received much more than a necktie. But this is the difference, because in the South- west I gather they paint with a broader brush, do things in a broader
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • correct. M: Before we go into your association with Lyndon Johnson, 1 would like to ask if you have participated in any other oral history project? W: I participated in an oral history project that was conducted after the assassination of President
Oral history transcript, Robert M. White, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 large department as closely associated with it, which provided general scientific and technical support and services to a broad spectrum of society. were prominent. And among those dealing with the environment And so
Oral history transcript, Harry Nachlin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for the campaign trip; the logistics and staff work involved in the helicopter-based campaign; costs associated with using the helicopter; public reaction to LBJ's speeches and the helicopter; LBJ shaking hands; typical flight times and experiences for pilot, Jim
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 24 (XXIV), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the President directly. It would be Hubert's role. Hubert was concerned that there was, at least as he perceived it, an atmosphere that was not totally what he'd like to have. G: Was there a feeling in the Humphrey campaign that too close an association
Oral history transcript, A. Phillip Randolph, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . The appointment of the Honorable Thurgood Marshall as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, was epoch making; and his placing Dr. Robert C. Weaver in the Cabinet; and his appointment of one young Negro economist, Brimmer, to the Federal Reserve Board
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • contracts . M: Was it during this time that you met Alvin Wirtz of Austin? B: We'd met him, I think, before that time--in late '20's . M: Was he a business associate or what was his relationship? B: No, he was a lawyer from Seguin, and, I think
Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , and it was a very major effort. Those who had been associated with the Hells Canyon fight, both pro and con, were there on the floor when the speech was gi yen. Many, i ncl uding Wayne r,10rse of Oregon who had been a chief sponsor of the bill, were very
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ; Laurance Rockefeller; Hubert Humphrey; consultant to American Conservation Association; Nixon administration proposed changes in the Council; Udall-LBJ relationship; transition; Hickel's influence with Laurance Rockefeller regarding Citizen
Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • occasion very soon after that to see Wilson alone once or twice, through the accident that I was at that time the president of the Association of American Correspondents in London. We were about to have our annual dinner, and I had to_go to Downing
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Biographical information; House Banking and Currency Commission; Sam Rayburn; Inter-American Bank; International Development Association; Hoover Commission; campaigns for Congress; Kennedy appointment to the Treasury; Chairman of the FDIC; May 1965
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • ilk;} :at to cs3s I ~~ iose I :L:247t=1 . ~,c ii~?ilt''.i: ; You c?-4n'1 wa to c allc" ;e with -aim, cad yotz ? r 1-low hid ii corfs.e to he associated witii him in the NYA Project? I had been in South America a few years and after returning I
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . And of course as you remember on that fateful day in Dallas, Yarborough didn't even want to be associated with Johnson. But they tried to achieve a rapprochement after Lyndon became President, and it was of course due to Lyndon's intervention that Ralph didn't
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 5 (V), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • during your administration, was that it became urban oriented to some extent whereas before it had always been associated with the great outdoors and empty space. Did you feel some sort of a necessity or mandate or what, to get into--at least
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 12 (XII), 10/29/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I can sit here in a law firm and I can give--my partners are making more money than they ever dreamed they would make in their entire lives but they still want more. G: The NAACP [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 45 (XLV), 5/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • loans and, to try to get this done, and he approved doing that. We wanted Fannie Mae [Federal National Mortgage Association] to reduce the price at which it bought mortgages to slow down housing construction. And I think the point here to really
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and remained at Wesleyan as visiting professor and associate director for the Center for Advanced Studies at Wesleyan. It was there that I was in residence when I was invited to join the President in the spring of 1964. M: You worked for The Reporter beyond
Oral history transcript, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT N. GINSBURGH INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: General Ginsburgh's residence, Chevy Chase, Maryland Tape 1 of 2 G: General Ginsburgh, would you begin by telling us how you came to be associated with the Policy Planning Council
Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • low key, at least to start with. People were just speaking their minds. It was almost an academic sort of seminar. Indeed it was interesting how many people there were Ph.D.s or were backed up by a scholar who was associated with the work. ple
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . And then it goes on to prescribe corrective measures, but they don't really make much sense. before. They are what they'd been saying For example, instead of, "We're going to win the war in the shortest possible time," which were the buzz words associated
Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, John W. Gardner, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 very cordial and Mrs. Johnson was very cordial, and they clearly associated me very much with the program
Oral history transcript, Jack Hood Vaughn, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • no all these years we said yes and we built this beautiful bridge to replace the Thatcher ferry. And the fact that we didn't recognize why they wanted the bridge led us to name the bridge the Thatcher Ferry Bridge. Thatcher, his name, was associated
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it over the radio. G: You had not really become close to him? W: Oh, I did not know him then. G: I see. Well, descri be the process whereby you became closely associated with him. W: Mainly through Judge and Mrs. Homer Thornberry, because
  • Biographical information; Senator Wirtz; associations with the Johnsons; travels with LBJ; impressions of LBJ; 1960 campaign and convention; vice presidency; NATO trip; LBJ and art; LBJ’s humor; Adenauer visit to the Ranch; Pakistan camel driver
Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • forces. And that we make as a condition that we have associated with uS other industrial powers as allies. P: I'd like to continue with some questions on our preparedness level. Senator Stennis' Subcommittee on Preparedness has said that we
Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , police forces, and so we wanted to have a concept that people could understand, and different kinds of forces would be associated with different kind of functions. And search and destroy meant searching for and destroying main-force VC and later NVA units
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . That will be the definitive story of John Paul Vann. My own association with Vann occurred when he first came to Vietnam. I was in the MAAG [Military Assistance Advisory Group] situation in charge of organization and training, a part of the army section. And it took all
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were opposed to it, primarily, and we finally got some of them over to our point of view. And now, of course, they're living off of it. G: Let me ask you to describe the AMA's [American Medical Association] efforts to defeat the measure over the years
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • before he bought it was his father's sister and her husband, Clarence Martin. R: Clarence Martin, that's the name. I have a hard time remembering it for the simple reason that I always associate Clarence Martin-­ G: That was his father's brother
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • flew to Fort Worth with him to be with Amon Carter, and then he met with Sarah Hughes and spoke to the Texas Bar Association. This was right around the time of Sarah Hughes' nomination as a federal judge. R: Again, I mean this was just a routine
Oral history transcript, John Sherman Cooper, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • association with her on the space committee, which he had initiated, you know, after Sputnik went up, that he probably persuaded her, and she's pretty hard to persuade, to vote against Strauss. She's a very independent woman. Now whether that's true or not, I
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , then of the Federal Reserve System, and its chairman for so many years, and associated so much with economists, and had a very good economics staff, he 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • after the Johnson administration; stories that LBJ took things from Air Force One; Thornhill's and Cross' work and promotions after the Johnson administration; Thornhill's retirement; mementos of his association with LBJ.
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , for example, a legislative goal. The Selma march and the problems that were associated with that, for example, I think very clearly made it possible to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965. That may well prove to be one of the most significant pieces of civil