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Oral history transcript, A. Ross Eckler, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the way of technological advance and new applications and so forth are very great. So we are able to hold a lot of our people. We have a great many people who carne here for the 1940 census and are the backbone of a lot of the planning for the 1970
  • First association with LBJ; Hobart Taylor, Jr.; 1965 Civil Rights Act; Richard Scammon; Andrew Brimmer; promotion of civil servants into appointed posts; referrals; special surveys; Congressional intervention; right of privacy issue; mailout
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the convention, and then I made my interests known--a visit with Speaker Rayburn and other people. I'm not sure I visited with Mr. Johnson--I may have. I remember seeing him at my uncle's, Bob Clark, house one afternoon, one 2 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • actually spend time with agriculture programs, they are tremendously complex . And it is difficult to ex­ plain to newspaper people about them. After all, once upon a time we were an agriculture nation . We're not any more, and newspaper people just don't
  • Crusade; Larry O'Brien; Clement J. Zablocki; 3/31 announcement; Citizens for Humphrey; Humphrey's campaign; Kennedy people's rivalry and friction after assassination; Bill Moyers; LBJ's knowledge of the Department of Agriculture; Department
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 34 (XXXIV), 2/23/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • condition for a year or two and would continue on for several more years, the longest and the worst I've ever witnessed. [It was] so dry at the Ranch there were cracks in the ground that were practically as wide as your finger, and you hear some people talk
Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 1953 to early 1964 was pretty much standard. I was running the bank. volved in the banking activities that are normal. I became in- I became involved in Robert Morris Associates and in the NABAC, which was then the National Association of Bank
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 10/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was the people that he went to school with at San Marcos, the people that he worked with in the National Youth Administration, and a goodly sprinkling of his father's friends, and his inheritance from working in the Fourteenth District. G: How much do you think
  • friendships with businessmen, politicians, journalists, and other powerful people; varied support for LBJ throughout the 10th Congressional District; Albert Sidney Burleson; ethnic groups represented in the 10th District; LBJ's typical campaign schedule; Lady
Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , on a personal basis, and they ought to be grateful to us . F: It was a kind of charity in a way . B: Yes, and that of course is not what it should be . We told the American people that the world would like us better, which it won't . Nations, like people
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the space program. I think that it's fair to say also that he was interested in the military space programs. It wasn't just the manned program, although of course with half of NASA's work going into this area and with the national prestige association
Oral history transcript, Edgar Cahn and Jean Camper Cahn, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , amongst other things, to begin putting together a review of all federal programs that impacted on juvenile delinquency and to do some of the speech writing that was involved for different persons associated with the program. The Ford Foundation was very
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 3 (III), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- III -- 2 G: Would the representatives vary, or was it generally the same people every day? B: Both, and by that I mean the people would be absent and sometimes there would be somebody taking their place temporarily, or Sarge would bring in new
  • Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association); Mississippi food situation; inter-agency departmental board; regional discrimination; cabinet officers; OEO programs and policies
Oral history transcript, William M. Blackburn, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 21, 1969 INTERVIEWEE : WILLIAM M . BLACKBURN INTERVIEWER DAVID McCOMB PLACE : His offices in the Republic National Bank Building in Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 M: First of all, I'd like to know something about your background : where were you
  • White House operations; advance trips; working for Marvin Watson and President Johnson; congressional liaison
Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • I have been associated in other ventures, came to my office and said they wanted me to manage Lyndon Johnson's campaign for Congress. My first comment was, "Who the hell is Lyndon Johnson?" They later brought him by my office and I thought--having
  • “Who the hell is Lyndon Johnson?” Martin Harris; Ray Lee; basic strategy for LBJ; Lady Bird; headquarters in Capital National Bank Building; LBJ meeting with FDR; Maury Maverick; LBJ’s illness; Ben Crider; hillbilly; election night; radio station
Oral history transcript, John W. Black, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . And really sort of as a subsidiary question, some of the people from the travel industry who had been anxious to have a national tourist office established quite apart from balance of payments reasons for some time and had not been successful
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Lehan, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : There was no problem. No. I just went right through, with no questions being raised, really. I think the only comment, the only anecdote I can throw in here is Science magazine sent a young lady out to interview me--this is the American Association for the Advancement
Oral history transcript, Georgia Cammack Edgeworth, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . So Lyndon laughed after he was an older man and told that he went to this Disciple meeting, and of course they preached and scared the people with hell and damnation, so he joined the church. I think there were about twenty-six of us baptized
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • what should I ask this fellow for?" He was trying very hard to help. G: You mentioned Israel. Were there any special problems associated with getting Israel to contribute something to the effort? F: Yes, with every country there was a special
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of a staff. If he really were going to seek the nomination, I think the people that he would have counseled with the most would have been people like Speaker Rayburn and John Connally, friends and associates, colleagues, but not really staff members. F
Oral history transcript, Felipe Herrera, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to the color of the shirt of confidence in Latin America. Many times, you know, military governments in Latin America, for the U. S. is very difficult not to deal with them. M: That's intervention just as surely as if we sent troops--only different people
Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • thing on his own. Of course, they would pick out the size or the color if there was a question. But he \lIas very generous in that respect, always coming up with some sort of a little surprise for people to try and make them feel comfortable. He
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • worked for McNamara during that last year or so I was in the Pentagon we did not give advance notice. In fact among the rare disagreements I had with Larry O'Brien and his people was not notifying them in advance. McNamara wouldn't even give O'Brien
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • people on weekends out to his place. I think it was his idea to get an organ so they might play some music out there, a piano. And his wife, Ann, instead bought an old organ; she picked it up somewhere there in the Berryville area, and she brought
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Nixon's aspirations at that B : time, and how much help, if any, you received from the national party . Nixon, of course, flatly denied that he had any Presidential ambitions-that he intended to spend four years in Sacramento . But I hammered away from
Oral history transcript, Samuel V. Merrick, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for people who might have had convictions on what the War on Poverty would have been, it would have probably been me that had more association with the pieces. And I'll tell you why. Because one of the key [programs], the Community Action Program, which
Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • but of many of the people and in a service secretary's position, one has to do one's best to try to marry the people and the systems into a program which is aimed at producing military capability in support of national policy . I think that Air Force people
Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in these towns before he got there? B: I wish I for him . could remember the names of the people that were doing advance I don't know whether [Horace] Busby was doing advance work for him or not . because they Probably not . But he had good advance work
  • with LBJ; San Antonio leaders; advance work; oil support; Lady Bird Johnson; LBJ and Coke Stevenson; the Taft-Hartley issue; LBJ's treatment of staff; women in campaign; spending nights at Dillman Street at time of the election; impressions of frenzied
Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • very special ties with Great Britain. It's a great mistake when people think that must be so, this one or other. If we had a British-Australian association, I would be a vigorous member of it, as I'm the vice president of the American-Australian
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 6 (VI), 5/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of people, here in Washington and in Texas--observed him with interest, at least my impression was, as he dealt with this issue. Everybody seemed to understand what he was trying to do, that he was trying to advance himself as a national political figure
Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • resulted in a single consensus reestimate after some negotiation . things develop informally . These People recognize that they don't report to their superiors if they're a half-billion dollars off in estimating gross national product . They find some
Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 2 (II), 11/25/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • with a small group of inside people--people that he had been associated with for some period of time largely, and people who were of his particular bent, very imaginative, very humorous, very light and gay. I didn't fit into that particular category, so
Oral history transcript, Frank G. Wisner, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to resist the communist problem that they faced, he had an almost mystical sense of how the war effort could be advanced, how pacification could be advanced. He surrounded himself with a small team of bright, rather original people, and he moved out
Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • at KTBC as an announcer. B: And after being hired as an announcer, Mr. Pryor went on to be program director and master of ceremonies of, I should say, national fame. You ha ve done shows all ove r the count ry since that time, have you not? P: Yes
Oral history transcript, Robert Q. Marston, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh MARSTON -- I -- 3 of William &Mary. In 1966 I came to the National Institutes as associate director of NIH and as director
  • Biographical and professional information; appointment as Associate Director of National Institute of Health and director of Division of Regional Medical Programs; problems of regional medical cooperation; 1967 decision to move Regional Medical
Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • budget, which I have published for many years, which the National Planning Association has published for many years, which some other organizations have published--that is an example of what should be in the economic report as the integral starting point
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • talked too much and demanded too much and was never satisfied and was a lot of fun, all the things that we kind of associate with Jewish people. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, A. Scheffer Lang, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • explicitly on railway operations, I continued my professional involvement and professional associations with people in the highway business and the transportation planning business and the transportation systems analyses business. So I was fairly well known
  • Biographical information; Robert C. Wood; HUD development; formation of DOT; urban mass transit; transportation safety; National Transportation Safety Board; role in relationship to railroads; threatened national railroad strike; poor communication
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 49 (XLIX), 7/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . . . so we'd use any lever. And the federal guarantees, the Ginnie Mae [Government National Mortgage Association], Fannie Mae [Federal National Mortgage Association]; we used anything we had. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • by telephone after your election. Do you recall that? P: Yes. G: Either you called him or he called you. P: Yes, and then Johnson advanced something that was not true, but I think people thought it was so cute that they ran it in the papers. I LBJ
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was pictured as a nigger lover, which was fatal in those days . We had no trouble with him, but Mr . Johnson did make a campaign just as he always did, went out and talked to the people . G: Did Buck Taylor have some backing that you know of? B: Well
Oral history transcript, Raymond H. Lapin, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 21, 1968 To identify this tape, I should say that this is an interview with Raymond H. Lapin, President of Federal National Mortgage Association-affectionately known as "Fanny May." The date is November 21, 1968
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the engineers in the nation. I have as a part of another story that I frequently tell--I for many years carried in my wallet a clipping out of the Wall Street Journal which reminisced, I will say, about the difficulty of decision of people entering