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Oral history transcript, Dorothy V. Bush, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the very great Sam Rayburn . of all times . Mr . Rayburn was one of my very favorite people Actually I would say that one of the main reasons that I was asked originally to become the secretary of the Democratic National Committee is because of my
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • office, whi.ch has a limited number of people, did not have sufficient people to make all the advances. As a result, they picked up people in government and had assigned a detail to the White House to help them out. G: Was this your first experience
Oral history transcript, Jerry Voorhis, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • on one or two days' notice to make the speech for Clyde Ellis at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. M: So his interest in this particular project was deep. V: Was very, very deep. I might add, at that point, that the statement
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be manufactured by an advance man. You can bring out several thousands of people, you can get the school dismissed, etc., and these are ageless and wellused advance men tricks. But you cannot generate hundreds of thousands of friendly people, thronging every
Oral history transcript, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/8/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • who were there, one of them in law school. people who h~d But they were more or less crossed the color line, so to speak, and no one had paid any particular attention to them. Being the governor of the state means that you are representing
Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/12/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • nation. There is the question then as to whether or not that really is assured destruction. Is that sure to destroy the Soviet Union? A few million people in Russia would survive. But that's not the point. The point is whether or not it really would
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in it, and Cohen had it very much in hand. G: I didn't find that there was anything I coul d do about it. In your dealings with the President did you try to get him to go farther? L: No. On National Health Insurance in the beginning, I dealt with people
  • The genesis of the Heart, Cancer and Stroke Commission; Dr. Michael DeBakey; goals of funding national clinical research; influence of the American Medical Association and the National Institutes of Health; Dr. James Shannon; LBJ’s interest
Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 1 (I), 10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /loh/oh James Farmer -- Interview I -- 8 B: But people like yourself associated with-- F: I was not concerned with it because I felt it was something that could easily be controlled. B: And as it turned out you missed it. F: Yes, I was in jail
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and outlined a plan ~or I learned, on this advance, to of Health, Education, and Welfare, her consideration. t~~e a Polaroid camera along, and made pictures of people and schools and projects and other things she might wish to conside~ ~oing. After she
  • Natural resources and national parks
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 4 (IV), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • it all on color TV, subconsciously bugs a lot of people. And it might be an acceptable type of bugging if people were also willing to be rational about it and understand that you're not going to LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • time I met President Johnson was in the 1960 campaign. I was the advance man for President Kennedy's first trip into Texas, into Houston. At least I advanced the Houston stop, and the Houston stop took on some rather critical importance because
  • JFK’s 1960 meeting with the greater Houston Ministerial Alliance; LBJ’s 1966 13-state campign trip for congressional candidates and its cancellation; President LBJ’s 1966 rally in Wilminton, Delaware; techniques of advancing a motorcade and a rally
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. (Joe) Carter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • had to explain to a lot of people, including my wife. B: Including yourself, I would suppose. C: Including myself most of all. We had run into a situation out there where they had a new national committeeman who was a very capable man and a very
  • Biographical information; day of JFK's assassination; Jim Jones; Marvin Watson; 1968 campaign; Marty Hauan; Will Sparks; DNC; George Christian; Mike Monroney, Jr.; advance work and trips to Honolulu and Huntington, West Virginia; Whitney Shoemaker
Oral history transcript, Oscar M. Laurel, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • prejudice? L: I think they're helpful with regard to letting people know that regardless of their own individual prejudices that America is not about to stand for any distinction between nationality groups or colors or religions, or whatever it may
Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 3 (III), 4/16/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • already in place associations of poor people and bolster those. There were still others, and they ranged quite far and certainly caused us some of our more notable headaches. One in particular comes to mind because today, in the spring of 1969, three
Oral history transcript, Robert Bennett, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Opportunity. This is made up of six Cabinet people and the director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, plus six national Indian leaders . This council almost has Cabinet status ; and one of their main functions is to be a coordinating force of all
Oral history transcript, Patrick V. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • --the mayor and the deputy mayor and myself and some justice people. I went to a Pentagon meeting in the early hours of the morning where we discussed the situation and tentatively agreed that we should have the National Guard on the street by the following
  • Biographical information; Mayor of Washington, DC Council and DC police force; recruitment; conflicting jurisdictions; coordination with government departments; intelligence unit; MLK assassination; Poor People's March and Resurrection City; 1968
Oral history transcript, James H. Tate, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • National Municipal Association, which is now the National League of Cities. We had with us Mayor Daley of Chicago, Mayor Dilworth of Philadelphia, and Bob Wagner of New York was the mayor of New York at that time, to call on the then Democratic leader
  • Contact with LBJ; 1956 and 1960 Democratic Conventions; 1963 Philadelphia speech; Green funeral; 1963 meeting of American Municipal Association in Houston; city program; HHH; urban disorder; 3/31 announcement; 1968 campaign
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was very inept; I mean I was just a beginner as a stenographer. So I was pretty much on my own~ but I went through the regular political process that all young people do when they go to Washington. I went to the National Committee to get a letter
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
  • election as speaker; LBJ’s role as Texas director of the National Youth Administration; LBJ’s campaign for Congress after Buchanan’s death; funding for the campiagn; how LBJ met FDR; how LBJ’s departure affected the Texas NYA; LBJ at Keach’s wedding; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of drinks and were getting ready for the entree. As in the case of all staff people, you would notify the switchboard, at least, the Signal Corps switchboard, where you are, because you never know when it's going to happen, and in that way, they can find
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -dragging on the part of people who could have been more helpful. They were known to be close Lyndon Johnson associates. And Hubert Humphrey, with concern about his relationship with the President, would from time to time try to focus on it. Clearly over
  • ; the Humphreys thanking the O'Briens for their service; LBJ's and JFK's negligence in party leadership; O'Brien's missed opportunities to connect the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and White House more closely; the historical relationship between
Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • --it was Xavier's registration that I went to. Many of us were involved in the organization of National Students Association, which was in its time what the SDS is today, you know, radical type students groups in the nation. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Blunde11- -7 and other people on the Senator's staff. I went on down to the National Committee, and the atmosphere was very cold
  • Biographical information; John Connally; 1941 Senate race; war years; 1960 presidential campaign; advancing; campaign trips; New York City; convention; Nixon; Texas politics; Alvin Wirtz; Johnson personality; Mrs. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • say, for the White House Historical Association also donated $10,000 toward the project. The cost wasn't very much above that, maybe another three or four thousand dollars at most, and this we paid for out of our National Park Service appropriated
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 22 (XXII), 6/19/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • invitation to attend a thank you reception. What we conceived was if we could get these people in groups, fairly good-sized groups, prior to the effort, thank them in advance, it brought us face to face with them. It tested whether or not they were truly
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • on there for these seventy-five people. We operate that way here. The President for his own purposes very seldom tells people in advance when he's going any place. Of course, because of certain staff functions there are, you might say, rumors. So you sort of stay
Oral history transcript, Howard Bertsch, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • people who are having trouble collecting money and whose opponents have lot of money . This was amazing me, so I called Aiken and said, "What's this?" He said, "Oh, I'm fine in the general election but it's in the primary . I've got a young man running
Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 3 (III), 1/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • Clifford's national and industrial security forum talk some months back. In particular, for example, there is the research and development on advanced housing. Here, because the Department of Defense builds thousands of homes for service people each year
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • with me as I finish out my role as secretary in helping me to reorganize the work of the Department. But as a Southerner too, and as a man who came up in the newspaper field, he brought me into association with a great many other kinds of people, some from
Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • see the teachers' association people and--I was trying to learn and listen and to convince them that we didn't have horns and a tail. You know, we were going to be helpful. You almost get the feeling sometime that Washington overpowers and they forget
  • Founding of the Pell Grant system; memories of days at Chapel Hill and university presidency; White House Fellows Program; relationship with White House while he was still an outsider; segregation in higher education and government’s role; National
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 4 (IV), 2/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you were asked to go along on the trip. H: Well, as you know, when a vice president or a president travels, they often take with them a number of people. Staff people may go, maybe several, four or five. You may need advance people who have helped
Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • into the state and helped our people advance. F: There wasn't any suspicion whatsoever that this might cause you trouble? $: On anyone's part. I can say that we thought that he was strictly going for the benefit of the Senator's campaign. As to the manner
  • Biographical information; what his jobs were for LBJ; how the staff decided which invitations LBJ would accept; Senator Dodd; advance work; Bobby Baker; working with the Kennedy staff; the JFK assassination and Sinclair’s work in the following days
Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the two or three best decisions I ever made in my life. From my point of view, I was able to see government in operation in a way that very few people have seen it: to be associated with a man who was going from whip--I didn't even know what a whip
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 2 (II), 3-21-84//19, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Also it was a result of Lyndon being successful, because Bob never perceived himself as being successful, and he was jealous of people like John Connally and Lyndon and Jake Pickle because they were all kind of contemporaries. G: Well, you were hired
Oral history transcript, Margaret (Mrs. Jack) Carter, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the liberal journals of opinion. So I discovered the Nation and the New Republic in college and began to be interested in seeing the country come out of the Depression, so that the opportunities of many people were enlarged. (Interruption) M: Now, you were
  • Background in politics and participating in the New Deal; Democratic party state machinery in Texas; 1956 Democrat Party convention; role of Texas Democrats in national conventions and elections
Oral history transcript, Mylton Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . That was the first time that had ever happened. G: Were the same people who were in the T Association in the Black Stars? K: A lot of them. Mostly. G: The T Association was sort of an honorary group for athletes, is that right? K: It was a letterman's
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , the organizational people, that gave them something with which to work, that gave them some cause to work, because one of their two national nominees had been attacked. So it sort of gave them stimulus. To those that may have been independent in their beliefs
Oral history transcript, Don Hummel, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • no concession opera- tions in Lassen Volcanic National Park at the time. And on one occasion while patroling the road in Lassen, I had given away quite a bit of gasoline that day to enable people to leave the park who had come up with insufficient fuel
  • Concession business; Assistant Secretary appointment; early proponent of HUD; Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations; minorities; HUD areas of responsibilities; Renewal Assistant Program; “Negro Removal;” establishment of national goals
Oral history transcript, Stanley Marcus, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • period when we were enlarging the store. So I came into the store in Sept- ember 1926 and have been associated with the store all during that time. r became president of Neiman-Marcus in 1950, a position which I still hold. F: Where and under what
Oral history transcript, Toinette Bachelder, interview 1 (I), 2/11/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and on Sunday and holidays it fell a good deal to my lot to go in and work with the President. And at that time I was associated with--oh, we worked on speeches, every kind of matter that the President is concerned with, and with Judge Rosenman and Bob Sherwood
Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was then the National Tuberculosis Association, [when] they went to President Kennedy and asked him if he would appoint a blue-ribbon group to study the cigarette smoking situation and report on it. They felt it was timely, that there was evidence in the medical
  • 1964 cigarette warning label legislation; Surgeon General’s Advisory Committee; publication of report; Office of Smoking and Health; National Interagency Council of Smoking and Health; publicity; tobacco industry opposition; AMA and Medicare; LBJ