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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the postmaster in New York was named and we had a ceremony where I swore him in on the steps of the post office. There were thousands of people there. Bobby Kennedy as senator was there; it was a big ceremony. Of course, first of all, he was a new postmaster
under O'Brien; how the Post Office Department dealt with mail fraud and obscenity; a threat to O'Brien's safety in New Jersey; the role of postal inspectors; the 1966 Chicago mail crisis; discrimination in the Post Office Department; changes in mail
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 1 (I), 9/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the Governor that New York State needed modernization, and that he should call upon the professional best of the community for their concept of what was best for the state and to make it law. Governor Smith turned to Columbia University, and he employed its
Biographical information; involvement with Roosevelt's administration; newspapers' importance to the government; summary of politics in New York State when Roosevelt was governor; genesis of the New Deal; Harvard graduates in FDR's administration
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 37 (XXXVII), 11/14/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

opposed the Penn-Central merger. (Long pause) In 1964 it would appear that the President had a meeting--this would be July of 1964--with Saunders and [Alfred E.] Perlman who was the other major businessman involved in this. G: President of the New York
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and press assistant to then-Representative Jacob K. Javits from what was then the Twenty-first Congressional District of New York, which is the upper west side of Manhattan ranging at that time from West 114th Street north to the end of the island
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 16 (XVI), 11/21/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City G: I want to start with a few miscellaneous questions. First, do you have any insights as to why [John A.] Gronouski was made
for new employees; seasonal temporary post office jobs; the Post Office equal employment opportunity task force; Ronnie Lee and the White House Fellows Program; curb versus door mail delivery and new mail pickup ideas; the problem of developing new mail
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 2 (II), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

understanding was that she did. My recollection was that she did. G: And Senator Javits? M: Yes, definitely. Javits I can testify to. Of course in New York and so forth and so on he was readily available. He traveled in some of the same circles, some
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: ARTHUR KRIM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Krim's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Krim, let me just begin by asking you to sketch the origin of your friendship with President Johnson. Do you recall the first time you
Meeting Vice President LBJ; Ed Weisl; birthday event for President Kennedy in 1962; occasions where Krim saw LBJ before he became President; Krim’s work producing films for President Kennedy and LBJ; New York fundraising for LBJ; history
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

up in the beginning. We had enough bodies. We had five, I think, at the Post, and the New York Times had seven or eight. And even the U.S. Army people agree we gave that particular campaign extremely good coverage, even though the home office started
Braestrup’s work as a journalist in Southeast Asia for the New York Times; New York Times coverage of Vietnam compared to Time magazine; how journalists covered Vietnam and the danger involved; how Braestrup became Washington Post Bureau Chief; Joe
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 2 (II), 3/31/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in 1910 was four hundred. I introduced Senator Johnson during the campaign of 1960 in a speech in New York City, and be said the town had over six hundred people, he wanted to correct me. It may have been that the town gre\'l between 1910 and 1920
Circumstances of Redford’s arrival to Johnson City in 1912; Johnson City at that time; handling the mail; Redford’s mother as postmistress; working at the Post Office; people in Johnson City and their way of life; roads; building the highway
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 2 (II), 7/18/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

leaving the White House staff? W: Yes. G: Tell me about that. W: I remember that President Johnson was away. He went on some trip. G: He was in New York I think. W: Yes. And I wasn't with him. The headline was the next day in the Washington Post
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 46 (XLVI), 5/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, because New Jersey happened to be getting a lot of publicity because of the White House interest and because it was next to the New York Times which was covering it. But I noticed in these steno pads we had a problem in Wisconsin, and the issue came up
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 7 (VII), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: NASH CASTRO INTERVIEWER: Harry Middleton PLACE: Mr. Castro's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 M: We are going to talk about some of the things that have not found their way into the oral histories in the Johnson Library
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and Security Division for the Pentagon Corps, and I had had security responsibility initially for and for ports of embarcation on the East coast . In New York, we had the that could handle security for the Queen Mary , Queen Elizabeth and berths he hadn't
); LBJ's problems about pulling his dog's ears (resolved by Life membership in Vanderburgh County Humane Society); reminiscences of Postmasters General (Farley, Summerfield, Day, Gronouski, O'Brien, Watson, Donaldson); analysis of post office operations

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEW IX DATE: April 9, 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3, Side 1 G: Let me ask you to first talk generally about the campaign of 1964 and discuss
organizations found in Philadelphia under the leadership of Bill Green, Chicago under the leadership of Richard J. Daley, Minnesota under the leadership of the Democratic-Farm-Labor group, and in Albany, New York; O'Brien's concern about the two-party system
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Mollie Parnis, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1983 INTERVIEWEE: MOLLIE PARNIS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Miss Parnis' office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 G: I want to begin by asking you to tell how you first met the Johnsons. P: Well, I first met Mrs. Johnson when she
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 2, 1968, in his office, New York City JBF: Mr. Farley, to begin, tell us something about your background, how you came to get into politics. F: Well, I was born and raised in a little community called Grassy Point

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a liking to Johnson as a young Congressman and wanted to make sure that he got broader acquaintanceship with people throughout the country, and he asked Hopkins to put him in touch with someone in New York who could introduce him around, and Hopkins picked
and 1964 campaigns; New Yorkers’ feelings about LBJ; Jack English; RFK’s Senatorial campaign in New York; effect of William Miller on Republican ticket; duties as Lands and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department; proposals for Indian problems
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

newspapers, had their best on the beat: Murrey Marder, Chal [Chalmers] Roberts of the Washington Post; Ned [E. W.] Kenworthy, Bill Jorden, Max Frankel of the New York Times; Pete Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News; John Cauley of the Kansas City Star; Paul
choice and phrasing; the new mission for the marines in 1965; government's right to withhold information; the press' ability to get the information it seeks; how McCloskey obtained information; McCloskey's "thought, word and deed" message on 1967 war
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

newspapers, had their best on the beat: Murrey Marder, Chal [Chalmers] Roberts of the Washington Post; Ned [E. W.] Kenworthy, Bill Jorden, Max Frankel of the New York Times; Pete Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News; John Cauley of the Kansas City Star; Paul
McCloskey’s work in foreign service and as State Department spokesman; reporters; Vietnam; credibility gap; coordinating briefings with the White House and the Pentagon; new mission of the marines in 1965; withholding information from the press
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 18 (XVIII), 12/18/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: [In 1966 you] had a reorganization plan that transferred the Community Relations Service from the Commerce
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Alfred Rosenthal, interview 1 (I), 10/29/2010, by Claudia Anderson (Item)

the arrival in New York was like cattle. It is true they had a sort of a board, and you had to report to it; you stood in line. And, of course, everything was done long before I ever arrived in New York. The consul in Trinidad, American consul in Trinidad
family home in Cologne, Germany; photography methods and a photograph of LBJ in Austin with the Jewish Brotherhood; the work of the Joint Distribution Committee and Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) in New York and Amsterdam; LBJ's involvement
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 14 (XIV), 9/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 O: [The Higher Education Act of 1965] considerably broadened the areas of the involvement. For the first time
in the postal service; job offers O'Brien received in 1965 and roles he held throughout his career; how O'Brien balanced doing both congressional relations and post office work; requests to O'Brien for patronage; the Post Office Department budget
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1977 NTERVIEWEE: ANNA ROSENBERG HOFFMAN INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Hoffman's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 H: I wasn't active on the passage of the Selective Service Act, but I heard a story about it that I later found
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: ARTHUR KRIM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Krim's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 G: Shall we start with that October weekend at the Ranch? K: Yes. I guess a day or two after the President returned to the Ranch following
Morrissey nomination; LBJ’s staff; 1965 bombing halt in Vietnam; intelligence gathering in Latin America by the CIA and FBI; New York politics; dinner for Princess Margaret, including a guest with a criminal record; a ride in August Busch’s plane; buying out
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 12 (XII), 7/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: Let's start with this. I was asking you about Katharine Graham and the D.C. home rule. O: Well, this of course
Efforts to enlist the help of Katharine Graham and the Washington Post staff to get support for D.C. home rule; LBJ's support for House Rules Committee reform that would help the liberal members of the House; the regional medical centers program
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to that point, and he took a picture of the two of us shaking hands. The next day it was on the front page of the New York Times; it was the entire front section of the New York Daily News, it was a picture that went around the world. When the editors
How Terry got a job at the Washington Post; shaking hands with Arkansas governor, Orval Faubus; early encounters with LBJ; Capitol Press Club; awarding LBJ for civil rights work; LBJ giving scholarship money to a black college student in 1963; job
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Walter Washington and Bennetta Washington, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

had a way of doing it that you had to learn to understand. S: When that discussion took place there in 1966, was there already for you a possibility of the New York housing job? W: In the housing field, I had had at that time a number of other
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 22 (XXII), 6/19/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 O: I tendered my resignation directly to the President, as I recounted, on April 10 and that would
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Tommie W. Glick and Sarah Taylor, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

, I married in New York. How did you get to New York? the war had a great deal to do \,/ith that. path and my husband's path crossed. That's how my During the war I was in the Red Cross, and he was a surgeon in the Army. Mc: Oh. And so you went
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Nay 13, 1969 F: This is an interview with Mr. Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., in his office in New York on Hay 13, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mr. Weisl, you're out of Illinois, right? W: Yes, sir. F: Tell us a little
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 6 (VI), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: NASH CASTRO INTERVIEWER: Harry Middleton PLACE: Mr. Castro's office, New York City, New York Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 M: We're going to talk now about the establishment of the Wildflower Center. Ted Gittinger on our staff prepared a chronology
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3, Side 1 O: The Oregon primary was hotly contested. [Eugene] McCarthy showed a better organization than he had shown
Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) loss to Eugene McCarthy in the Oregon primary; support for RFK going into the New York primary; concerns going into the California primary and memories of 1960 California problems with Edmund "Pat" Brown; the RFK/McCarthy
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 O: There was additional evidence concerning ITT that underscored the existing concern during the period when
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the real estate business, managing apartment houses in syndication in New York City. I had gotten into interpreting quite accidentally, at first for the Carnegie Foundation; subsequently the Young Women's Christian Association, the national board
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 5 C: No, I met him the day he arrived in Washington as a new -congressman. F: In your capacity as a-- C: As a correspondent for the Boston Post. I saw him the first day he came here after he was elected, and I saw a lot
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

times to Secretary Rusk, and to the President, about the possibility of appointing me to another post which--because actually to serve abroad is-you are in a much better financial situation than in New York. But actually I guess I should go back

Oral history transcript, Stanley Marcus, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for clothes to be sent to Mrs. Johnson to Washington. We arranged to meet, and we delegated one member of our New York office staff to work with Mrs. Johnson, to take clothes to her to the hotel. We brought up clothes from manufacturers--samples--many
; 7th Avenue wholesalers; Dallas Morning News’ notorious advertisement; Bruce Alger; re-establishing Dallas as a good place to live and work; Bronze Abstract Wall commissioned by Dallas Public Library; problem with having an official designer; Adele
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 32 (XXXII), 7/12/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

this stuff. In any case, picking the universities were, with some exceptions--I left the selection of the people we would see up to the people who would run the dinner. For example, we had Mac [McGeorge] Bundy do one in New York City. I'd have him, but tell
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 27 (XXVII), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

23, 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 O: On the evening prior to inauguration, my wife and I were visited by Hubert Humphrey and his wife
to McDonnell and Company with O'Brien; the state of McDonnell and Company when O'Brien came to work for them; selling seats on the New York and American Exchanges to make McDonnell and Company money; the McDonnell family's wealth and influence; a merger
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1987 INTERVIEWEE: FRANK STANTON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Dr. Stanton's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Moving to the next presidential election in 1964, was there any effort made to have a debate between President
the burning of a Vietnam village; television news coverage of Vietnam; Stanton's belief that the Vietnam war would have been shorter if there had been presidential debates in 1964; Walter Cronkite's effect on public opinion and LBJ's concern over Cronkite's
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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