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Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 2 (II), 6/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • quiet checking as to what the possible reception might be? A: Oh, sure, and it wasn't always good. This was really our first experience with pickets. But the train trips involved an unbelievable number of people. It started out with an advance trip
Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to be to be President of the United States. President of, then, 200-plus millions of people and all of the different ethnic, religious and nationality groups that represent the United States, all the conflicting power groups that are represented across our land
  • /refusal to change as times changed; LBJ’s change from a 'southern’ to a ‘western’ outlook; Russell as LBJ’s senate mentor; LBJ’s dominant personality and power of persuasion; Senator Robert Kerr; Jordan’s activities as advance man for LBJ in the 1960
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • was everything from finance chairman to seeing that the signs got nailed up and seeing that the helicopter that the Congressman campaigned in had the proper gasoline at the right places and sending out advance people all over the state to keep up with his
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • could put together. The indication that we were in real trouble was at the climax of the campaign, when McCarthy and Kennedy held closing rallies. We had considerable difficulty putting together fifteen hundred-two thousand people. McCarthy had
  • ; O'Brien's obligation to work for Humphrey's campaign through the end of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; Humphrey's role in getting O'Brien's work obligations postponed to 1969 and later cancelled; offers from Look and Life magazines to do
Oral history transcript, Frank Pace, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh PACE -- I -- 11 I gave him my clear appraisal of them. I'm sure he did this with a great many people. One of his tactics as president was to use associations
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • It must have been a great source of comfort to many people in the district there on much more important business than I was to find her there--her preseace there. paid for that job. As you know, she was never She later has told me that it taught her
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and people in various government departments in my capacity as president of the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association primarily. That was a non-paid job, it's just an elective like any other of these associations. LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 2 (II), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the government and that I should seek my career objectives in some other avenue. I consequently talked with a number of people outside of government about opportunities. While I was in the throes of such interviews, I was approached by the then-Budget Director
Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Crooker -- I -- 18 people . . . You see, at my own precinct convention we had Barry Goldwater's name advanced in a motion that our precinct should go on record as favoring Barry Goldwater for the Democratic
  • office; preparations for the 1960 state and national Democratic conventions; Crooker's work with Woodrow Seals; setting up the Kennedy-Johnson campaign headquarters in Houston and staffing it; Texans' response to LBJ accepting the vice presidential
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , and I used Danish more also because I was able to associate more freely with the Danish people. In Bulgaria this was not so easy. P: What was the effect of this adminstration's policy of building bridges in Bulgaria and Eastern Europe
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in my life. G: Can you give me an examplc of Johnson judging someone correctly early on in their relationship or being able to size people up very accurately? W: I think the people that have been associated with Johnson through the· years
  • Biographical information; initial association with LBJ; 1948 Senate campaign; Carl Estes; 1952 campaign and Texas Democrats; Texas delegation to Chicago Democratic National Convention, 1956; Lady Bird; racism and civil rights; Democratic State
Oral history transcript, Owen Donley, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • House as director of the Food for Peace program and that was really the start, I think, of his long-term interest in undernourished, hungry people although [it] was more on a global basis than it was on a national basis. G: His interest was on a global
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 31 (XXXI), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • people--teach them how to speak and make them functionally literate, I mean English, math. I more, I had a greater sense of us just being on the receiving end of trying to do things [that] would help the [poverty] program find obsolete bases that could
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh WOODWARD -- II -- 8 away, but who was founder of the Bell Helicopter Company. It was deemed to be feasible, and those were the beginnings. M: You still had to have advance people
  • joins Senate staff; involvement in later campaigns; LBJ and the 1960 nomination; period after the assassination; social contacts; appointment to and work on the National Advisory Commission on Selective Service
Oral history transcript, Dan H. Fenn, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/18/1972, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: DAN FENN INTERVIEWER: Paige Mulhollan PLACE: Cambridge, Massachusetts Tape 1 of 2 M: You are Dan Fenn, currently director of the Kennedy Library and lecturer at Harvard Business School. Your government association during the Johnson years
  • 1960 Democratic National Convention; circumstances of working with JFK; duties; appointment and LBJ; impressions of Walter Jenkins; relations between JFK and LBJ's staffs; work with Tariff Commission during the LBJ Administration; LBJ's early
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 7 (VII), 2/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Johnson and his associates went through in the [1964 Democratic] National Convention reflected absolute paranoia on their part regarding Bobby Kennedy and people like me. And yet I'm on a day-to-day basis performing my functions with the President
  • ; the relationship between JFK and LBJ; LBJ's concern about RFK's role in the 1964 Democratic National Convention; O'Brien as a go-between in the LBJ/RFK relationship; LBJ's meeting with RFK to tell him that no member of the cabinet would be his vice presidential
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , while I was commissioner of the National Basketball Association, I had a request for an interview by a person who identified himself as a former reporter with the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. He was in the process of writing a book. His
  • ; O'Brien's legal fees for his civil suit; obstacles and delays in giving the remaining settlement money to the Democratic National Committee (DNC); how well the listening devices worked in O'Brien's office; listening devices on Spencer Oliver's phone; FBI
Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • wanted to? G: There was a guest list of distinguished people, but then it was made up of members of the National Geographic Society here in Washington who were invited to come if they subscribed, at no cost. write in and ask for tickets
  • Natural resources and national parks
  • Library; Alexander Graham Bell Association Medal for the Deaf; coronation of the King of Tonga; Redwoods National Park; Presidential Conference on Natural Beauty; biographical information
Oral history transcript, Harry Nachlin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in a half an hour or an hour by helicopter," and they tried to have an advance--someone went on in advance and tried to pick out the site that the helicopter could land in. Jim had briefed the people as to how much room he needed to get in and to get out, so
  • for the campaign trip; the logistics and staff work involved in the helicopter-based campaign; costs associated with using the helicopter; public reaction to LBJ's speeches and the helicopter; LBJ shaking hands; typical flight times and experiences for pilot, Jim
Oral history transcript, Donald A. Williams, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • an association which is a non-governmental unit to bring about improved program activities. There is also a national association of soil and water conservation districts, of which the over 3,000 soil and water conservation districts in the country are members
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • would have wanted to have been a good one. If Mrs. Johnson had gotten into automobile manufacturing, he would want it to be successful. He, Mr. Johnson, is a competitor at heart. He likes to be associated with enterprises and people who are successful
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 3 (III), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in this nation, in serving great numbers of people, 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, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • drawing exercises of private survey market research type people--how many people have you patterns, and so on. G: got~ how many are colored~ how many are white, age But other than that, no. I'm not quite sure how I should phrase this, but you did
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1984, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • advances. I want an advance against the atrophy of the eye as people get older, so they can't read, and there are other kinds of severe eye problems unsolved, but they've solved a lot of things. CL: When you were working during the Johnson Administration
  • Dr. Michael DeBakey; the Heart-Cancer-Stroke Committee; LBJ’s interest in helping people; Albert Lasker giving money to the University of Chicago; George Brown; the regional medical program; Senator Lister Hill; Dr. James Shannon and the NIH; LBJ
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 14 R: To begin with, he went in with a national rating of unprecedented proportion, I think, of popularity. It was 76 per cent or something. It was up as high as Eisenhower ever was. M: Support of the people then. R: And when he would recommend
  • ; General Douglas MacArthur; Harry Byrd; conservation; Civil Rights Acts; major changes in U.S. government in 35 years; accomplishments of the American people
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was after all a young senator, would have the kind of support that he actually developed. We divided the nation into six regions. I will try to recall for you some of the people who were involved. Krueger, who had the Northwest. South. Culp Cliff Carter
Oral history transcript, James A. Shannon, interview 1 (I), 4/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • was assembled. Then I was invited to become associate director of the National Institutes of Health--again, this would be the summer of 1952--my primary responsibility then being the development of the intramural research program, with specific reference
  • programs; the John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study; working with the Bureau of the Budget to obtain funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH); Surgeon General Leonard Scheele's assessment of NIH's work and agreement to increase
Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • level and enmesh villagers and people in rural areas in this struggle against the GVN. required was a counterorganizational effort. What was You had to counter the workers liberation association with the trade union; you had to counter the farmers
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on those people and the fact that he had done things to make them proud of themselves and to make them a cohesive nation. Whereas before they had been not only weak, but looked upon themselves as--well, they did not have national pride in that interim
  • to Washington, D.C.; Dorothy Jackson's marriage to Philip Nichols; anticipation of a world war; Charles Marsh telling the Johnsons about the dangers of Adolf Hitler; Welly Hopkins' work for United Mine Workers; the 1940 Democratic National Convention in Chicago
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , such as the WPA. An offshoot from the WPA was the NYA, the National Youth Administra­ tion . This was a program to help young people, boys and girls from 16 to 25, in part-time jobs, either in the school system that was administered by the school
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
  • Early family relationship between Birdwell and Johnson families; early organization of National Youth Administration Program in Texas; LBJ's first race for Congress (1937); early days in Washington as Secretary to Congressman Johnson; KVET and KTBC
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 2 (II), 5/2/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • more casualties and deaths than any other state in the nation. Hawaii had purchased more war bonds per capita than any other state in the nation. Hawaiian people had given more blood per capita than any other state in the nation. So on all
Oral history transcript, Edward P. Cliff, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . She was attending the joint convention of the National Council of State Garden Clubs in the American Forestry Association. This was one of the first trips, one of the first follow-throughs, after the White House Conference on Natural Beauty_ TOg
  • Meetings with LBJ; trips with Lady Bird; trip with Lynda Johnson; assessment of Lady Bird; Wilderness Act; pollution; recreation; East of the Mississippi; acreage use; Redwoods; Job Corps; wilderness areas; National Wild and Scenic Rivers Bill
Oral history transcript, Irwin Wolkstein, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Paul Reddig, he was among the people who went out on one of Wilbur Cohen's groups that went around the country. He was an advance man for Wilbur Cohen's political operation at one point. We were involved in everything--writing speeches and doing all
  • was eventually passed; a Part B provision to the Medicare bill; an earlier version of the bill that was supported by John Byrnes; American Medical Association's concerns about the proposed legislation; defining the guidelines for Medicare participation
Oral history transcript, Berl Bernhard, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the numbers of people who believed that they were an indispensable part of a conference designed to help resolve the civil rights dilemma in the country. As planning advanced, it became apparent that we weren't sure we had the right mix of people to attend
Oral history transcript, Sarah T. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was when he was Vice-President and the other was right after he was sworn in as President. That was when the United Nations' people were down there--you remember he had about 30 down there. I was there on that occasion. F: As a federal judge you couldn't
  • Biographical information; 1948 Senate campaign; 1960 campaign; federal judgeship appointment; VP nomination at the 1952 convention; swearing-in of LBJ; funeral of JFK; meetings with LBJ; appointment as member of U.S. National Commission of UNESCO
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • was in Austin, Texas. I had been given the distinguished service award by the Anti-Defamation League of Blnai Blrith. That was October 19, 1957, eleven years ago today. I was given this award for alleged leadership and achievement in the advancement
  • First meeting LBJ; the invocation at LBJ's inauguration; Chancellor Kiesinger of Germany; Hugo Black; Harry Jersig; the National Advisory Council for OEO; Sargent Shriver; Maury Maverick, Jr.; 1967 trip to South Vietnam to observe national elections
Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ceremonies of al/ sorts are handled by the Inaugural Committee as opposed to people here at the White House handling it. And since the ceremonies were to be held here, it then became the responsibility of the Entertainments Office to assist with the obtaining
Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • , and here was the President thinking that he was going to make a social revolution, and the two things just were not connected. I remember one of these people, I think it was Bernie Hillenbrand, who was the director of the National Association of County
  • Biographical information; how Carey came to work for the Bureau of the Budget; John Steelman; post-war work and staff of Bureau of the Budget; cooperation between government and universities in scientific research; National Science Foundation Act
Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • up a committee of public spirited people--I was then the Executive Director of the National Consumers League--to try to get them to lend their support to the passage of the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act. We were seeking to get that bill through
  • Comments by LBJ; LBJ’s concern for full utilization of human resources; FSEE; War on Poverty; YWCA; 1964 Civil Rights Act; comparison of non-white/white men earnings; women in household employment; National Commission on Household Employment
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : Personalities? G: Yes. M: Oh, I think just as in any political association of persons that you're going to find people who are engaged in it for their personal LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson