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Oral history transcript, Elaine Fischesser and Ellen Taylor Cooper, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1967, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • s vi si tin g me , I wa e sh en wh e, se u Yo di d in Al ab am a. a li tt le bi t. to o you~g. th e da tin g. Sh e wa s how ma ny ye ar s ol de r? MR. CATER: Yo u we re I ye ar s di ffe re nc e. So ve -fi ty en Tw R: SE ES MRS. FIS CH em be r be r
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ,,"'ith Hr. Truman on this at all, to try to get him to--? VI: No. F: What about W: Well, we had a general conversation with him, but I don't think Pauley had He was the only serious contender to Kennedy. E~~in Pauley as the California leader
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on to really carry influence. S: Oh yes, yes. Of course, when he became president he was in a different role vis-à-vis the Congress. But it became very clear that his experiencein the Congress played a major part in his whole approach to the job of being
Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the executive and congressmen and senators vis-à-vis projects of importance to their home district or their state. Now when you were wooing him you could help him on these things, but nobody ever sat down at a table and bargained directly. M: Totaled up
Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you could see the beginning of what has now become a much larger movement. I was trying to think if there was any particular experience vis-a-vis the Vice President during those years. I don't believe so. He did not take an active a role, but I kept
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Guinea. So I think for reasons of our standing in the world, not only vis-a-vis the communists, but vis-a-vis the newly-independent countries of Africa and Asia, I think it is in our interests to let the people decide. Also, 'I think if we give them
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 5 (V), 3/14/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cronin -- V -- 4 C: Again, you would go more to the legal in the arguments against the legislation. I think in response to whether or not the clergy vis-a-vis Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 6 (VI), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 6 (VI), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton
Oral history transcript, Leo Gehrig, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you're familiar with that term, but now a hospital gets paid for a service based on a statistical average stay of a patient for a particular complaint, with a little adjustment vis-à-vis complications and so on. So now they're not looking at how much did
Oral history transcript, Keith Waller, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 1964. Do you think the Australian relationship vis-à-vis the United States is growing closer? Are we drifting apart? Are we getting to be irritants to each other? What developments do you see in this? W: I think it's grown very much closer than
Oral history transcript, John A. Hannah, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • indicated that he didn't want this kind of authority. If he had it he didn't plan to use it. The New York Times wrote a very critical editorial, surprised that six intelligent men would make this unwise suggestion, etc. But this became Title VI
  • Biographical information; Civil Rights Commission; contact with LBJ while in Senate; Title VI of 1964 Civil Rights law; Equal Employment Opportunity Program; Lady Bird.
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • by the polls, personally and vis-a-vis the President, was going steadily down through the first four or five months of 1967. And that may have had something to do with it too; that he began to feel that as right as his position might be, it was increasingly
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . I saw Vice President Johnson on several occasions while he was serving in that capacity. And I had some concern that perhaps Kennedy wasn't treating him fairly. I discussed that subject with Vi ce Pres i dent Johnson and I was assured on every
Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh BRZEZINSKI -­ I -­ 3 realities of Soviet affairs vis-à-vis the United States or Soviet activities? B: Well, what I found most striking about Mr . Johnson was that while he was really not terribly well versed in Soviet
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 3 (III), 7/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the President, Wirtz, Connor, Morse, Collins, a fellow named Bill Simkin, who was the Federal Mediation [and Conciliation Service] chairman--and you might make a note, at some point ask me about Simkin, not in this connection, but just vis-à-vis his relationship
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . There was some concern vis-à-vis the stockpile but, by and large, the industry was an oligopoly and they were acting like an oligopoly. We then talked about price control legislation. We also talked about the fact that one of the reasons McNamara was so deeply
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : No. But there was a governor, I believe, wasn't it Governor Moore of North Carolina? F: Yes. VI"I: She [the Governor's wife] was 0,1 the train wi th us, but he di dn' t come. and we realized that maybe he didn't want to. But that night we got to Raleigh--the President
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • '., __ n tavn, anu the PreSident, liking Governor Rockefeller, wanted him to b=, and h2.'.'c dinner with him. '\vi th C(~:::~ Roc~efeller. GO\' dinner. and out, and thir.'" ~2 ~3S He had lw.d the conversntion The Governor said he'd be delighted
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of hours. These are women with a variety of technical expertise and training that talked to him, and cri ti ci zed him, and exchanged vi ews wi th him, and moved him, 1 think, a great deal in just a host of areas. Well, he sat with them for a couple
Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to your regional offices to enforce integration guidelines? T: No, we have noboay representing the Title VI compliance section of the Civil Rights Act in the regions until just recently, about the last year. After the heat was placed on school districts
Oral history transcript, Robert Q. Marston, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , the Hill-Burton planning activities and various other programs;which has continued to be a problem for those running the program. G: You mentioned there was subsequent reorganization that Bffected this program. 'VI: Could you elaborate on that a little
Oral history transcript, Wayne Aspinall, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • deal of in some parts of the South. F: Coming out on Air Force One, did he sort of pick your brains on Colorado, on whom he would be seeing and what he ought to [do] ? A: Not especially. to vi sit. He already had that information. He was anxious
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 5 (V), 8/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it. Is there anything else vis a vis KVET in the campaign that you recall? J: I don't remember that. It seems to me like Hollers or somebody, I'm not sure, tried to charge that Mr. Johnson was trying to control all the radio in Austin. I guess that's one
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 1 (I), 9/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and I happened to be the fellow moving into that area vis-a-vis 2 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
Oral history transcript, Phillip S. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • President Kennedy did that also to some degree; how much I don't know. In the Johnson Administration there was never a guy in quite the same position, vis-a-vis the President, as Sorensen was to Kennedy in that administration. M: As close to the President
Oral history transcript, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • various angles. policy and Treasury policy? E: Oh, very definitely, I think. Vis-à-vis, right now we don't happen to have a one bank holding company; but those who have one bank holding companies have been caught right in the middle of this thing
Oral history transcript, Donald Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • as such are going to long survive in Taiwan or go back to the mainland. I very much do agree with MacArthur's analysis about the fortress of Taiwan in terms of China and its workability. now vis-à-vis Okinawa. We are saying it But all you've got to do is look
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 3 (III), 4/16/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • to have control of a vast range of social services, there was potential there. process itself had potential. The election These people who were being brought into the fold in this manner would be the same people who would be more aware of the issues vis
Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the White House--from the President? H: I don't always know where things begin. the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The policy began in Title VI of The efforts made to enforce it were made by men in HEW and in Justice, and they were backed up by the White
Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 2 (II), 11/25/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • constituency, the poor, to oppose the war in Vietnam. H: Well of course this has been a very serious problem in the civil rights area and in the poverty area. There has been a great deal of confusion and conflict about the role of such groups vis-à-vis
Oral history transcript, Otis Arnold Singletary, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ? I'm thinking about Kilmer vis-a-vis Gary. S: It helped. The appearance of the place, there's no question, had something to do with it, although I can think of some very beautiful conservation centers where things didn't go too well. It's hard
Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on Germany. M: That might be a good place to ask about the difference in access. Did your position as ambassador vis-a-vis the President change with the administrations? Did you have greater or less access to Mr. Johnson than you had had to President
Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • effort against North Vi etnam, I suppose we have to say that something short of what he did do would have been more effective. But I feel that South Vietnam would have been lost to the Free World if he had done any less than he did. I don't think
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and for that reason practically the entire legal professional in Austin was for Avery, because they were opposed to the Supreme Court packing. Had that come up at that time? VI~: Yes. W: They were opposed to that bitterly. G: The story has been told that LBJ
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ? C: That's right. B: Had you not served prior to this on the McCone [John A. McCone, former head of CIA] Commission investiga the Hatts riots? C: Yes. B: I know Mr. Clark also made a trip out to Watts after the riots. become associated \vi th
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : Do you have any insights into the problems of land reform vis-a-vis Viet Nam, for example? B: Well, I'll answer that question by a for instance, rather than going into the philosophy of it. In South Korea there were a group of grape producers near
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , which never took place, I would think that Barry Goldwater would have taken positions vis-à-vis the war that would have driven President Johnson into taking positions that would have been in the direction of shortening the war, rather than prolonging
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 8 (VIII), 9/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that that would happen, in part because the aluminum industry had made a wage settlement that was substantially above the guidelines, 4 per cent or more. Secondly, there was great concern about how much spine the administration would have, vis-à-vis labor; part
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • then we said we'll federalize the guard, and we were worried. We also learned in Mississippi that however inadequate the guard training was vis-à-vis riot control at that time, the guard was loyal; the guard did follow orders. We had been worried about