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Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ~ or was it nationally based? Johnson~ I should say? L: David Lloyd was a director of the committee, and he had been an administrative assistant of President Truman's. You may remember him, I don't know. He was a highly intelligent person. He and I both felt
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? O: There were those in the Kennedy White House who had a tendency to discuss him in a rather demeaning manner. But when I say "they," there were a couple of them and no more than that. The [Kenneth] O'Donnell-[Pierre] Salinger-O'Brien-[David] Powers
  • , and political experience; how the JFK staff viewed LBJ; the 1963 civil rights bill; 1963 foreign aid bill; Dwight Eisenhower's and JFK's frustration with Otto Passman; 1963 test ban treaty; 1963 education bills; LBJ's view of vocational education; the naming
Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • school at the end of the Eisenhower Administration. As a means to an end I signed on with the Park Service to work I knew not where, but I was assigned to what was then called the Custis-Lee Mansion, Arlington House. As a native of western New York State
Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . charge. type. Larry [O'Brien] was in I was his deputy and sort of a deputy-administrative assistant We had Henry Wilson who worked the southern states [in the House]; while Mike Manatos handled the Senate, David Bunn handled the eastern states and Irv
  • Set-up of White House Congressional liaison office; handling of Congressional mail; comparison of Eisenhower, JFK and LBJ liaison offices; procedure; leadership agenda; guest lists; bill signings; meetings with agency liaisons; intervention of Larry
Oral history transcript, Roy Elson, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • everything. That's what made it really great to be with Carl Hayden. So that's how I came back with him, and it was right at the height of McCarthyism when I came back right from the University of Arizona. Of course, [Dwight] Eisenhower had been elected
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that there were certain historical necessities for the Democratic Party that required the passage of legislation. That is, this was Eisenhower's bill; it had passed the House; here it was in the Senate; no legislation had passed in eighty-five years. Secondly
  • with Eisenhower Administration; self analysis; leader of an opposition on the staff; censure resolution; HHH; Richard Russell; HR 3; LBJ’s relationship with Kerr and JFK; contempt for some Senators and close friends in the Senate; LBJ singled out protégés; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ADRIAN A. SPEARS INTERVIEWER: DAVID PLACE: Chambers of Chief Justice Spears, U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas, Federal Building, Room 383, San Antonio, Texas r~cCOMB Tape of 1 t4: First of all, let me ask you something
  • Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT C. WOOD INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. Mc COMB More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LOUIS MARTIN INTERVIEWER: David G. McComb PLACE: Mr. Martin's offices in Chicago, Illinois Tape 1 of 1 Mc: First of all I'd like to know something about your background--where you were born, when, where did you get your education? M: I
  • Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were standing around there watching. President Truman referred to it as a mood in the country, as a "wave of hysteria." I guess that was a good description. Meanwhile, David Lilienthal, whom we had known and knew later, and I must say I liked him, he
  • of Texas; LBJ's continued interest in his local Texas supporters as he became senator and took on national interests; civil rights and the desegregation of the military; Alger Hiss and his sister, Anna Hiss; David Lilienthal; South Texas federal judgeships
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • FE: CHARLES L. SCHULTZE INTERVIUJLR: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Or. Schultze's office in Brookings Institution, vJashington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 [,1: This is an interview with Dr. Charles L. Schultze who is a senior fellow at Brookings Institution
  • Biographical information; the Eisenhower, JFK and LBJ Administrations and the Council of Economic Advisers; new economics; Troika; tax cut; contact with Congress on economic matters; Appalachia program; SST; Agriculture Department budget
  • Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 9, 1969 INTERVIEWEE : SAM D . W . LOW INTERVIEWER : DAVID McCOMB PLACE : 2511 Inwood Drive, Houston, Texas Tape 1 of 2 M: Well, first of all, I'd like to know a little bit in your own words about your background . I know you have this paper
  • Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: DR. WILLIAM H. STEWART (Tape 4Fl) INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. McCOMB More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with in the final analysis, as we headed toward Los Angeles, were Catholic pros. David Lawrence was governor of Pennsylvania; Mike DiSalle was governor of Ohio; Dick Daley was the kingpin, of course, in Chicago and, therefore, Illinois. In each instance
Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Durbrow -- I -- 5 only maybe come into it later, I'll bring it up now, though. You probably have seen the Pentagon Papers or somewhere else or [David] Halberstam's book [The Best and the Brightest
  • office; Can Loa Party; David Halberstam; Mrs. Nhu; Diem and interpreters; reaction to the coup; reflections on Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was the demilitarization of the Sinai, which had been agreed to with Dag Hammarskjold. After all, the Israelis in 1956-57 pulled out at our insistence, General Eisenhower's, and part of the deal was what I told you, a letter that the peacekeeping force--which [David] Ben
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • #2) INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. McCOMB May 8, 1969 M: This is the second session with Mr. Douglass Cater. Once again I'm in his office at the Brookings Institution. The date is May 8, 1969, and my name is David McComb. Last time you mentioned that you had
  • Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . SAM FORE, JR. : INTERV IEidER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mrs. Fore's home in Floresville, Texas Tape 1 of 1 M: This is an interview with Mrs. Sam Fore, Jr. spells first name for him): Elma . . • E-L-M-A. (To Mrs. Fore, who I believe your given name
  • Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: Eugene M. Locke INTERVIEWER: David G. McComb DATE: May 16, 1969 M: This is an interview with Mr
  • Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Braestrup -- I -- 20 delivered communiques in Tokyo during the Korean War, and as Eisenhower's people issued communiques in World War II. So you had to have a communique, an official
  • issues regarding Vietnam; David Palmer’s Summons of the Trumpet; William Westmoreland’s and General Harold K. Johnson’s frustration over LBJ’s actions in Vietnam and lack of a coherent plan; other Presidents’ dealings with war; how LBJ failed in Vietnam.
Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 2 (II), 4/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 15, 1969 INTERVIEWEE : ARTHUR OKUN INTERVIENTER : DAVID G . McCOMB Tape 1 of 2 M: This is a second interview with Dr . Arthur M . Okun. his office in Brookings Institution . Once again I am in The date is April 15, 1969, and my name is David
  • Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 2 (II), 4/15/1969, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you ever read about--and the disappearance occurred concurrent with Johnson's accession to the presidency, which tells me that nobody did anything about it but that David Hackett and Eunice [Shriver] just--that wasn't Eunice's priority, and it just
Oral history transcript, Donald Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was in Germany, commercial work in the broadest sense had the highest priority. As long as we have had David Bruce in London, it has been pretty near the bottom. M: The President can influence it this way then? G: The President can influence it this way. I
  • Commerce; McClelllan; Chairman Rooney; personnel administration process; exchange of personnel between Foreign Service and Commerce; Ed Martin; Carter Burgess; George McGee; David Bruce; Joe Fowler; China; Secretary Rusk; MacArthur; Foreign Service Act
Oral history transcript, June White, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • thing--at our house when he was Majority Leader working very hard . Dean Acheson, who had been the previous Secretary of State--was not now Secretary of State--it must have been during the Eisenhower years--stood up and gave a toast
Oral history transcript, Richard G. Stilwell, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • then at the outset of the second Eisenhower administration, and experience up to that point had suggested that while in the overall we were making some real progress in the rebuilding process, that there were also structural, philosophical, fiscal problems
  • in Vietnam upon his arrival in 1963; weaknesses in the Hamlet Evaluation System and other status reports from Vietnam; Stilwell's impressions of press coverage of the Vietnam War and specifically that of David Halberstam; the U.S. government's failure
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 3 (III), 1/2/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • repeated the effort made by the Eisenhower Administration to bring about an exchange of newspapermen. We proposed the exchange of scientists, scholars, of professional men--doctors.We proposed the exchange of weather information.We proposed the exchange
Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • down in the course of it. He attempted to serve as an intermediary between the Eisenhower Administration and [Orval] Faubus. I suspect that he was in touch with Lyndon, a kind of a tactical matter during some of that time. F: I haven't interviewed
Oral history transcript, Roger Blough, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Lyndon Johnson is that, of all Presidents that I've known since Hoover, he understood the business problems better than anyone of the other Presidents. And I'm including President Roosevelt, President Truman, President Eisenhower, and President Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 15 (XV), 8/30/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the conference, the big four meeting in Geneva, for the purpose of really tying up the State Department and Eisenhower, and Mr. Johnson, instead of letting the Senate consider it, asked that it be referred to the Foreign Relations Corrmittee for study, which
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 43 (XLIII), 1/23/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • . That microphone is not going to pick me up, but it doesn't make any difference. We are right in the [Democratic National] Convention of 1960. Right at the point that Governor [David] Lawrence is going to nominate LBJ for the vice presidency. And in previous
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • is that I was scared to death that we weren't going to have a crowd. I had never done any advance work before. And David Dubinsky, who was then president of the union said, "Don't worry. Everything's going to be in good shape, you just leave it to me. How
  • Richard Daley; LBJ meeting with Eisenhower; Hubert Humphrey’s campaign; LBJ, Wilbur Mills and a surtax; Poor People's Campaign and consumer measures LBJ supported.
Oral history transcript, James H. Tate, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • when he was the Democratic leader of the Senate during the Eisenhower Administration. I was with a group of railroad executives and mayors headed by former Mayor [Anthony] Celebrezze of Cleveland. Mayor Celebrezze at that time was president of the old
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • efficient. For those machines, your communications were totally irrelevant. But by the time he became president, the machines were pretty well dead. [Richard J.] Daley was still alive; [David] Lawrence was still working, but the rest were pretty well gone
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bundy -- II -- 5 simply tell the generals what they ought to do, that for different reasons both General [Dwight] Eisenhower, because he had more stars than they did, and Mr. [Harry] Truman, because he just didn't give a damn
Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that in '56? H: I don't know. I never talked to him about that. But he might have felt that Dwight David Eisenhower being the great war hero that he was, that perhaps he'd be wise to wait a little bit. He may have thought that, I don't know. B
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • where he managed to secure a compromise. MW: Yes, the three-year extension. G: Allowing the President to raise tariffs. M\~: That's right, and Eisenhower was pretty much a free trader, so they were in agreement on this thing. It was just
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • over the lot on the appointment. I'm sure he talked to scores of people about who should be appointed. He talked to me about David Rockefeller, Laurance Rockefeller, Ben Heineman, I don't know, lots of others, even at that point in time I think Walter
Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: JERRY HOLLEt·1AN INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Holleman's office at 2909 Fredericksburg Road, San Antonio, Texas Tape 1 of 1 M: First of all, Mr. Holleman, lid like to know something about your background. Where you
  • Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: ALAN L. DEAN INTERVIEWER: David G. McComb PLACE: Mr. Dean's office, Department of Transportation, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: First of all, I would like to know something about your background. Where were you born and when
  • Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : August 3, 1971 INTERVIEWEE : FRA14K "POSH" OLTORF INTERVIEWER : DAVID G . McCOHB PLACE : f1r . Oltorf's home, Country Club Road, Marlin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 PYi : First off, I'd like to know something about your background. Where were you born
  • Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb