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Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

could have more and more practice, and gets the editor of a local paper to contribute money--and this in the midst of a national depression--that in itself would defeat such a project unless it were conceived of and executed by Lyndon Johnson. So I put

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

is on the President's mind that day or that week, as to \vhether to take it for the President. If there is doubt in his mind as to whether or not to go directly to the President, and if for example this happens to be a week of a grave national security crisis

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

basis in 1954. M: How did you know Arthur Burns? P: Through professional contact. My thesis was published as a paper in one of the volumes that the National Bureau had published four or five years earlier. I had met him at meetings and so
Biographical information; Arthur Burns; Committee for Economic Development; Herbert Stein; Howard Myers; Ted Yntema; Walter Heller; Brookings Institute; relationship with LBJ; termination of consultantship; development of new economic theory; Paul

Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, and had a great interest of the problems of national security . Consequently, it's not surprising that a number of them should have come to Washington in positions of one kind or another . Of course, after the first one arrives he kind of invites

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to his wife, so it was a combination of patronage and nepotism, I guess. But I came back as Chief Counsel to the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress that Senator Monroney chaired and was there for two years until our bill passed the Senate
; LBJ’s efforts to get bills through Congress; Secretary Freeman and Secretary Udall resented staff arrangement; Udall’s proposal to use Antiquities Act to acquire land for national monuments; Secret Service protection legislation for Presidential

Oral history transcript, Willard J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

: Is that possible? Well, traditionally and for as long as I have been in the Coast Guard and I guess for almost all of its history the Coast Guard has become a part of the Navy in times of national emergency or when the President directs it. But the nature of our
; maintaining aids to navigation system; license all Merchant Marines Personnel; four programs of marine safety area; private recreational craft; Maritime Administration; investigating accidents; National Transportation Safety Board; LBJ’s personal interest

Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, brings into the gross national product. That is no measure to me of the importance of air transportation, because if we have a significant deterioration in the effectiveness of the system, the impact on the GNP [Gross National Product] will be far

Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for what he had done for the nation and for him, et cetera, over there . Did the President ever talk to you about the possibility of dropping Vice President Johnson? 0: No, never . wouldn't it? Sometimes that would be in the papers or something, I don't

Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was twenty-nine years of age. I have often thought. that as today in a federal agency it is essential to have a woman executive and a black executive, so in the National Youth Administration, it was essential to have a young executive. symbol of youth. I
National Youth Administration (U.S.)

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

not an Arkansan on that sort of thing, he's a national politician on that? A: He's a national politician. He brings along a lot of unsophisticated elements in his approach to these problems. But he's pretty savvy and obviously works very hard, and knows
Contact with LBJ; assassination; tax issues; Wilbur Mills; comparing JFK and LBJ; CEA; War on Poverty; committee on Economic Impact of Defense and Disarmament; procedures; agriculture issues; 1964 campaign; Walter Heller; Wright Patman; LBJ's

Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on the staff and I had worked with him a year or two before on the consumer message; Lampman was in on that. Lampman, of course, had the reputation of doing the poverty studies in the late fifties for the Senate committee. Or was it a joint committee? LBJ

Oral history transcript, Will R. Rogers, interview 1 (I), 10/9/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

fry. It ~JaS the whole entire Tenth Congressional District; it wasn't Bastrop at all; it was the whole entire district for Lyndon Johnson. hav2 the fishfry in And so we organized and decided to Bast~op. They made me chairman of the committee

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 39 (XXXIX), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: In any case, this was all in preparation for a meeting with the bipartisan [congressional] leadership and the heads of these committees. I'm not sure it was bipartisan. Let me just look here. Yes, it was. Johnson was also concerned that, I think, Congress

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

that add a card to use in this area? A: Well, you see, Congress is the one that has a great deal of power so far as trade is concerned. The Bulgarians were especially anxious to get the most-favored nation status which they were constantly wanting

Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Presidential message that included in it, among other things, the suggestion that a non-proliferation treaty be worked toward. I think this was in the 1964 Presidential message. F: I have it here. It's a message from President Johnson to the eighteen-nation
1964 Presidential message to 18 nation Disarmament Commission; Pastore resolution; William Foster; MFL; Walt Rostow; Aleksei A. Roshchin; George Bunn; Sam DePalma; Tsoraphin; Ambassador Swidbert Schnippenkoetter; Ambassador Knappstein; Mr. Gromyko

Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

a committee which was actually called the Trueheart LBJ Presidential 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

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--and Symington--Symington was on the CIA committee in the Senate, and I think Cooper was too. They were getting all kind of briefings about what was going on in Vietnam, and they would come back and tell me, and they said, "My God, this thing is a thousand times

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in connection with the Preparedness Subcommittee of which he was chairman. I testified before him on many occasions. I got to know him in that sense of the word, which was not particulary intimately, but I did see enough of his work in the field of national

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

can't exactly remember when, Herbert and his brother, Charles Henderson. I believe they go back to NYA [National Youth Administration] days. He had talent and artistry. He had everything except just ordinary stability. I mean, sometimes he went off
problems of the South; Clark Foreman; a new congressman's wife's duty to call on the wives of her husband's delegation, committee chair, cabinet and Court members; visiting Joseph Edward Davies at Tregaron; LBJ helping Jewish people from Germany in the late

Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 2 (II), 11/25/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

administered by this agency. G: So Mr. Goodell is not really an enemy at all. He would therefore find himself in opposition to the members of his own party and on that committee. H: Yes. G: Do you have any knowledge at all of the Shriver-Adam Clayton

Oral history transcript, Joe Robertson, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Stabilization Conservation Service. The farmer committees system--came out of the triple A. I'll tell you another person I'd put on that list--the history of the whole thing with a lot of papers--was Wayne Rasmusen. Now have you met that man? G: Yes. We have

Oral history transcript, Abe Fortas, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Fortas -- 20 I know that, going back to the Truman era, that you had been a member of the Committee for National Health, working towards some kind of a national medical program which, of course, culminated during the Johnson

Oral history transcript, Logan Wilson, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

, such as the Fund for the Republic, agencies of the Ford Foundation, Carnegie Foundation, various national education boards, and author of several books. W: That's all correct. M: Now I'd like to get into this section about your relationship with kYndon Johnson

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 3 (III), 8/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, 1985 INTERVIEWEE: WILLIAM J. JORDEN INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Ambassador Jorden's residence, McLean, Virginia Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: McGeorge Bundy was on the original public affairs committee that was dealing with Vietnam, I think
McGeorge Bundy and the public affairs committee; Bill Moyers; press coverage of Vietnam; Dan Duc Khoi; Bui Diem; improving methods for transmitting news; American journalists from other countries; Morley Safer and Mike Wallace; Vietnam Psychological

Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 2 (II), 12/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Weber -- II -- 4 people in the House Office Building on that day. We got very quickly, because of Mr. Johnson being a member of a Naval Affairs Committee, the true story and extent of our
; Colonel Sam Anderson; author Robert Caro's writings about LBJ; Sam Rayburn's campaign to call congressmen who were serving in the military back to Congress; LBJ's schedule after returning from war and his work on the House Naval Affairs Committee; Weber's

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the Kennedy-Johnson years to conduct an intelligent debate about fiscal policy from a national standpoint. I mean, there \A!as a lot of educational work done and less of a tendency to consider a deficit, per se, bad. [There was] more seemed to me

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 34 (XXXIV), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Ginsburg and Dick Neustadt thought that the Wirtz and Reynolds--and the guy that was the head of the National Mediation Board, a guy named Howard Gamser--none of three of those individuals liked the guideposts and wanted to get rid of them, and they both

Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

everybody at the national level their jobs that was of any LBJ Presidential 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

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the National Youth Administration in LBJ Presidential 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 Johnson

Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 1 (I), April 1963, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

the Congressman’s attention to? K: Oh, yes, there were a number of them, especially in agriculture. In those days, Mr. Kleberg was on the House Agricultural Committee, headed by Marvin Jones. G: How about veterans legislation? K: That’s one of the bills that I
National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Meeting with LBJ as a debate coach in Houston; working for LBJ on Congressman Kleberg's staff; LBJ's influence on Kleberg; National Youth Administration; first campaign for Congress; contacts with FDR; LBJ's campaign techniques

Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 2 (II), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, that Johnson and other like you didn't goad the South [soJ that they pushed a little ahead of the rest of the nation in some ways, so that the remainder of the nation is playing catch-up. K: I suspect you may be right, and when you get into the situation

Oral history transcript, Jesse Curry, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

; they gave us a free hand. Now I've ~nstructed in numerous police schools throughout the nation. I \vas also chairman of the planninCl committee for the Law Enforcement Institute of the Southwest legal Foundation,which is conducted at SMU, and I've taught

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

President was involved during that period. R: Well, in the first place, he was kept fully informed about everything that was happening in Viet Nam.He attended the National Security Council meetings and Cabinet meetings, and he had a State Department

Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 2 (II), 5/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the reserves, when I say reserves I'm including the National Guard, I'm talking about reserves with a small "r," tend to attract in many areas a lot of college boys who go in as enlisted men and end up with their eyes open, doing jobs such as driving a truck

Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 5 (V), 10/30/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

remember any of these mishaps that were reported? They had trouble with the fountain, apparently. (Interruption) (Apparently a question about the JFK assassination was asked at this point, off tape.) H: I recall my taxi coming from National Airport

Oral history transcript, Joseph Palmer II, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to try to make them more effective. M: Some of the critics of Hr. Johnson's foreign policy at the time you were appointed said that your appointment was a victory over those more active advocates of African nationalism. Do you think that was a fair

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

called them, who was one of the workers that kind of spoke for them, kind of a committee spokesman, a group spokesman . This girl, Preble Tadlock, I remember was such a person . When we found out Mrs . Roosevelt was coming down there, we wanted her
National Youth Administration (U.S.)
National Youth Administration

Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

activities, I was the chairman of the committee that selected the Thayer Award recipient each year at West Point. And in that year I was chairman--I had been chairman the previous year, too--we selected General MacArthur as the recipient. On this trip I

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 45 (XLV), 5/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. And [Warren] Magnuson wanted to go with the bill and the transportation committee in the House--I guess it was [Chet] Holifield, I think--wanted to go with the bill. Bugas and Markley came in to see me with testimony that totally opposed the bill. And I said

Oral history transcript, Louise Hermey Stanford, interview 1 (I), 9/6/1989, by Sybil Jackson (Item)

a little bit about your background in civil rights, particularly how you became involved with SNCC [Student National (formerly Nonviolent) Coordinating Committee]. S: I was a college student at Drew University in New Jersey and was in the class of 1964
; the joining of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to form the Council of Federated

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