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Oral history transcript, Ross D. Davis, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, James Davis, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Brooks But a lot of time it would be people that everybody wouldn't know. It would be just friends that would come in and go hunting with him, and sometimes it would be some of his staff that he would take hunting. G: Now let me ask you this. 0

Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

--is it Brooke Hospital? hospital. Anyway, the hospital in San Antonio which is an Army They had the only machine that could possibly save that child. Well, I couldn't get hold of Clark so I made the arrangements for the child to be cared for and the child

Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

never have lived under Johnson's leadership. He wouldn't stand for any downtown group stepping into the United States Senate and taking away the prerogatives of committee work, which is being done today by the Brookings Institute, as one unit; the Peace

Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

guideposts discussion, but later on Kermit Gordon and I, interrogated by Joe Pechman, did that at Brookings, and that became available for the Kennedy Library. On that earlier tape--we have the transcripts--but I understand of the LBJ Presidential Library

Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

, they were able to pretty well snow under Shivers in the 1956 Convention, and, of course, then they fell apart. PB: At the Convention itself! SL: At the Convention itself! And it became a real donny- brook, but at that time there was reestablished

Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

covering the Stevenson campaign, I believe Weldon. Brooks, but I think more likely it was Weldon. Maybe Raymond LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More

Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 2 (II), 1/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

now at Brookings, was one of them--a group of men who came together and had what I would call germinal ideas and fed them in. Out of those ideas came these various proposals. the Department of Justice attended meetings of that nature. Schlei of I

Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to EDA and related to some other things. So that was the first and only time I met Schultze, in the fall of 1964. I finally decided to turn it down. left to go to Brookings. Time went on then, and Schultze Then Kermit Gordon left, and Schultze came

Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to replace Bator, and he's up at Brookings now, handled these, and we didn't get into it. M: Would this include also balance of payments? Z: Balance of payments we got involved in to the extent that there were LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas D. (Tom) Mills, interview 1 (I), 8/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of the dietitians from either the Bethesda Naval Hospital when he was president or, after he was out, Brookes [Army Hospital] or wherever we'd--you know, sometimes Dr. [James] Cain or sometimes Dr. [Willis] Hurst would tell him what type of food that they thought he

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 2 (II), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

this same old bunch, Marietta Brooks and Julia Bryson down running the .office; we had Charlie Herring, later our state· ·senator, and Don Thomas, he1ping on this helicopter; Sam Plyler and Dorothy Plyler, Willie Day Taylor, Mack DeGeurin were all involved

Oral history transcript, Harold H. Saunders, interview 1 (I), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Garthoff, who is now over at the Brookings Institution, but who had a State Department arms control career in between. Howard Stoertz was also in the Office of National Estimates at the time. G: Does the name J. J. Hagerty ring any bells? An army

Oral history transcript, Roger Blough, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

always have a cabinet officer or two, for example, Doug Dillon or Henry Fowler, or maybe both of them . He also had the economic advisers . What's the name of the fellow who's now the head of Brookings--Gordon? F: Kermit Gordon . B: Kermit Gordon

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 3 (III), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the authority to lift it. Eisenhower said he wanted it lifted, and finally Rayburn sent me around to talk to a few people. I talked to Brookings and all these other guys, and I came back and I said, "You know, it doesn't make any sense. After all, we've got

Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

; veto power and overrides; creation of the National Advisory Council; Perrin’s duties as deputy director of OEO; Senator Morse; involvement of BOB funding; political red tape; GAO investigations; Nathan Report from Brookings and its effect on efforts

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 5 (V), 3/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Albert Thomas, Congressman Henry Gonzalez, Congressman Jack Brooks and myself. There were only one or two others in the entire South, and that was, I believe, Claude Pepper from Florida, and Charles Weltner of Georgia. And one other man from Tennessee

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

career. He's an expert on bureaucracy and upper managerial bureaucracy, written some books on it. I think Brookings published one of them. Corson was the deputy to Aubrey Williams. But anyhow, Jack He told me this story which I didn't write down

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

kind of an appreciation dinner for old Jack Brooks, Congressman Brooks, and from Beaumont we were to go to the Lockheed LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. There were some congressmen who didn't see eye to eye with Stewart Udall, who was a former congressman, and for those that were in the Texas delegation, like Jack Brooks, who was a � � � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Ava Johnson Cox, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the brook in a pasture. All we had to do was open the gate and let her through. And he milked the cow night and morning, or two of them--it's a wonder to how they came in with their calves-lots of times they'd have two cows to milk. But, anyway, we took

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the money just was being reactionary. This was the first warning flag that optimistic little me had seen. Because members of our committee, of course, were very generous, and led by Laurance Rockefeller and Brooke Astor particularly generous for the ghetto

Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Johnson had control of. Actually, the convention ended up in a real donny- brook, with Johnson being booed, Mr. Rayburn losing a lot of face and not really losing friends, but a lot of friends being terribly disappointed in him because he could have

Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of floating around. Jim Sundquist from Brookings was there and playing an important role I gather, and he expressed some appreciation for this sort of effort to avoid flamboyant statements that sounded good but which weren't necessarily in all aspects

Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that there ought to be a study of the offices overseas. study. functio~ of cultural affairs The Brookings Institution was asked to perform this The State Department and I think the White House under the Kennedy Administration w"ere very interested

Oral history transcript, Leo Gehrig, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

of that period of time, slightly under two years, at Ft. Sam Houston--Brooke General Hopsital in San Antonio, Texas. I left the Army about December 1947, and went to Minneapolis where I worked for the Veterans Administration for six months, and then I returned

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 2 (II), 3/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

about that." the sense that he brooked no opposition. Not that, But not the "yes" man business in There might have been exceptions that; I would have to say I don't remember. to And of course the Vietnam policy had been decided before I was ever

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

of the Johnsons and other members of the Texas delegation . There were several there that I'd served in the legislature with, like Jim Wright and Jack Brooks . .So while I kept a great social contact with these people, because they'd been my friends before

Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. And Congressman [William] McCulloch of Ohio and Ed Brooke, senator from Massachusetts, were the Republican members. But I suppose Herb Jenkins, the police chief of Atlanta, was a Democrat because he worked for Ivan Allen down there. no idea how Roy Wilkins

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Ford and André Meyer and the [Charles] Engelhards and Larry Rockefeller, Brooke Astor, Mary Lasker, the John Loebs, my wife and myself. Between us we worked up a guest list for the dinner of a cross section of New York: business, labor, political

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for Washington and in 1963 came back here to see what was going on and ran into Kermit Gordon, who was then director of the Bureau of the Budget, and Elmer Staats, who was then deputy director. Respectively, Kermit Gordon is now president of Brookings and Elmer

Oral history transcript, James M. Quigley, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

-- 11 A couple of days later, I stepped on the elevator and Jack Brooks, a congressman from Texas, was on it. Jack and I had served on the committee, but we really hadn't gotten to know each other that well. And he looked at me, and he said, "Jim, what