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Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that name? G: M-E-L-A-S-K-Y. Harris A. Melasky. He'll be mentioned later. I then came to Dallas and became house counselor for the Murray Company, which company was engaged in the manufacture of cotton gins and sold in all the cotton-producing states
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Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Dobie very well. come up to our offices. He had My father did his legal work. F: He came from down in here, didn't he? D: His mother lived here, and he'd come to see his mother. My father handled his legal work for his ranch in Live Oak County
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Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ''m sure I must have gotten to know Lyndon to some degree at that time.. That would probably be the first personal contact I could recall. F: Did you see much of him in the next few y e a r s , or do you have to go down into the mid-fifties before
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Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of State, offering me the appointment of Vice Counsel to Edinburgh, Scotland. I was in a dilemma, so I went to see my good friend, the president of the college, Dr. W. M. Jardine, and told him about my indecision, and he fired me. He said I could come
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Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • just to see them all gathered~ F: Just to do a little review and forecast? W: Eith~= t~at, or else pass out assignments. Beauti=i=a~ion Bill ~ere If, for example, the coming along and get almost everybody who was in7olved and t=:; to get them
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  • of politics in the CAB; the Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific cases; Watts riots and Joseph A. Califano Jr., Leroy Collins, Governor Brown, and Ramsey Clark; LBJ's skill at using events like Selma and Watts to achieve legislative goals; LBJ uses civil rights
Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't know whether that's We moved to Dallas and we stayed in Dallas--let's see, I'm not good with dates, so I have really no idea exactly. We stayed in Dallas, my family did, until my father retired-- I don't know just what year that was either
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Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to see what some of the real importance of this was, not only to the defense of the country, but also to the prestige of the country. At the same time, it was pretty clearlY a good political issue. He had met with Senators [Richard] Russell and [H
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  • Wilson, Glen Parten, Jr., 1922-2005
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Collier -- I -- 2 intense person with pent-up energies, as he was throughout his life. I can see him striding through those old halls at Sam Houston, towering over everyone else as the hall corridors were
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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in which Eisenhower was elected. Then along in about December was when it really began to jell. Lyndon himself hadn't decided at the time and hadn't taken any--he was there to see who was going to be the Democratic leader. He had urged [Richard] Russell
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Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Reedy -- XIII -- 6 for each one of those groups, and what that really means is that there's no need, that the Policy Committee doesn't have any function. See
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Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in their records and see who sat next to who when Teddy Roosevelt was president and what they ate. B: I was asking to give a clue to anyone using this. I would assume probably copies of those records for the Johnson period would be in the Johnson Library
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Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: G. MENNEN WILLIAMS INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Justice Williams' office in the Lafayette Building, Detroit, Michigan Tape 1 of 1 F: When di.d you first get acquainted with Lyndon Johnson? M: I got acquainted with him in the early
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Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the interview with establishing my background information on you and seeing if I have correct dates and places of what your career in Defense has been . You were nominated and confirmed as Secretary of the Air Force in August of 1965 . You first came
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Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the President to see the anguish on Featherston's face as well as mine. Shortly after that, he made the appointment. B: Incidentally, is this unusual, this spotting you at a social gathering and remembering your position and to discuss this kind of affair
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Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The only way that I see that we can do is let's let Mr. Taylor file a suit against the beneficiaries of this trust alleging that that trust was entered into as a result of a mutual mistake, that he realized all of the method of operation and how it all
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Mr. Califano’s office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: I suppose at the outset we may as well dispense with formalities and be first name on this. Tell us very briefly how you came
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Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to go back and see what's happening in the way of population growth to my home State. I came to Washington on my third tour of duty in 1961, as Assistant Superintendent of National Capital Parks. At that time we had a quite different organizational
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Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Washington in May of 1942 from Pennsylvania, \"here I had been state m,anager of International News Service. ing to get back to being a reporter, I managed ~~ant­ to get transferred out of the administrative and back into the reporting business
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Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • helicopter rides to four or five ranches. It involved seeing the Secret Service manage to get Broncos--Fords--into all of those ranches in time for us to take rides around the ranches. It involved his driving 2 LBJ Presidential Library http
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Oral history transcript, Homer E. Dean, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • land dispute, in Duval County, and he invited his brother Clarence, who was my best friend in law school, to come down and see a real live trial. So I think in our junior year, middle year in law school, we came down here and stayed a week and sweated
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  • Dean, Homer E., Jr., 1918-2008
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and it reacted the other way, and I told Char1 ie not to do it. II See, the way it-G: But he did it anyway? J: Well, yes, he thought he knew more than--he had a good case, you see. You know, a federal judge is named for life. Jr.] Rice was up in years. He
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Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 1 (I), 6/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that some of us made to the President toward the end of the year, particularly Chairman William McChesney Martin [Jr.] and myself; [we] were joined by Chairman [Gardner] Ackley as to the need for keeping a balanced budget, particularly coming clean
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Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • see I've thought about it a lot and I had to face it when I was president of the board of education in Chicago. I mentioned that occasionally, here twice already because a lot of people don't even know that I was president of the board of education
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  • Office of Inspection; Shriver’s desire to be made aware of any problems that occur within his organizations; Shriver wanting to see many more participants in the Job Corps; the importance of moving Job Corps students from their homes to Job Corps centers
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • bureaucrat \ve were going to see. So Bill knocked, and we went into the President's bedroom. He was there in his blue pajamas--preparing to take his nap--with Henry Ford, Jr., who had just had lunch with them, and they were just saying goodbye and talking
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  • Biographical information; Wattenberg’s publishing and writing career; Richard M. Scammon; meeting Bill Moyers and LBJ; being hired as a speechwriter; speechwriting process in the LBJ administration; LBJ’s young staff; working on speeches with Moyers
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • late. II II He sai d, I said, IIWell, how about Monday morning? I could drive in on Sunday and see you the first thing Monday morning. Of course, even though I had a job it was always flattering in those days to have anybody talking about offering
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  • Little, Charles Pemberton, Jr., 1911-1992
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a tough secretary of defense, and he got battered over the head quite a lot. I remember my relief every now and then when I would pick up a newspaper and see an angry headline using the word "Johnson," and then I would find out it wasn't Lyndon Johnson
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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or did they stay in Austin? J: No, not a bit. See, at that time Luci was one year old and Lynda was four, and they were safely at home. Let's see, I think by that time Patsy White was the nurse, a pleasant, plump, sweet young black woman. Zephyr
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Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • friendship to Lyndon, and Lyndon was then running for the vice presidency. When he came through in 1960 I got on the plane--let's see, it was an old Electra--and we were campaigning all over the South. At a certain point late in the evening, he said
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Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : Was that the way it turned out? P: That was the way it turned out. That was a disappointment to me. I remember when I was called over to see the President and he asked me to take the job, there'sa couple of anterooms outside the Oval Office. I was waiting
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  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the Peace Corps. I was writing some speeches for him on the Peace Corps and doing some traveling with him. I did go to see the Vice President and asked if he could help me get a deferral from active duty, at least until I finished my graduate studies
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Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the assassination of President Kennedy November, 1963. While I always most friendly to him, I really didn't see President Johnson from the time of s campaign for re-election in 1964 until about February, 1968, when named my son, John, Jr., to membership
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 53 (LIII), 8/16/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1989 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR., with comment by Marcel Bryar INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: Some time in either late 1965, probably early 1966, when we were
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Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 2 (II), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • "Chicago incident" on withholding funds, I thought you might be interested in seeing a copy of the enclosed letter to the Johnson Library. ~ aTrs. Carter Burden Ro!>crt L. Carter ~~Irs. A!1~honY' r"rrii. Raymond Z. Yahs. Jr. ._. !'.frs. John B. Q3kes J
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Oral history transcript, Lloyd Bentsen, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • not see the candidates until the night John Kennedy came to Houston. Unfortunately I was scheduled out of the state at a board meeting of a company and could not be there for it and had to receive word [of it]. I remember President Johnson called my home
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  • Oral history transcript, Lloyd Bentsen, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Lloyd Bentsen, Jr.
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 3 (III), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES H. ROWE, JR. INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Rowe's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch for December 15, 1966, has an article on page 28A by Richard Dudman, which throws some
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  • Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 3 (III), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
  • James H. Rowe, Jr.
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1982 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES H. ROWE, JR. INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Rowe's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Now, from the memos, at least, your work on the 1968 campaign began in 1967. R: I think so. Yes. G: You were
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  • Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
  • James H. Rowe, Jr.
Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: HODDING CAR TER, JR. INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
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  • Carter, Hodding, Jr.
  • Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker
  • Hodding Carter, Jr.
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 61 (LXI), 1/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1990 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR., with comments by Marcel Bryar INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: As we came out of the Congress, we had the Senate bill which
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Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 President Kennedy answered, "I just do not think this is the time; I do not see anything in this coming session of Congress." It, needless to say, was an occasion of disappointment to Mr. Wilkins
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Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1977 INTERVIEWEE: LUTHER E. JONES, JR. INTERVln~ER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Corpus Christi, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: One thing that you didn't mention in that earlier tape that I'm going to ask you to recall is the first time that you met Lyndon
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  • Jones, Luther Edward, Jr., 1914-1999
  • Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Luther E. Jones, Jr.