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Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 1 (I), 1/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • with Dr. Howard Rusk at New York University as a fellow in physical medicine and rehabilitation. Then two years and a little bit more at the Mayo Foundation as a fellow in medicine, and returned then to New York University as an assistant professor
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of that meeting? Z: Some of it. I don't remember whether I've given you this before or not, but if not, it dealt with the press in Vietnam and the coverage we were getting. Leonard was there as director of USIA, John was there as the new director
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • for the reason that while the people from Roosevelt's home country of New York and New England who were in some sense identified with the financial community were not willing to back him in the great LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: BARRY ZORTH IAN INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Zorthian's office in the Time-Life Building, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by identifying you. You're Barry Zorthian, and your main official position during the Johnson
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • room at the State Capitol in Austin. I was a second-man in a two-man bureau there for the International News Service, which is today the I in UPI, and had started the job the previous year in 1947, at the beginning of the year as a matter of fact
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 2 (II), 5/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ARTHUR KRIM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Krim's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2 G: Mr. Krim, let's start with that weekend of August 6, [1965], the first time I believe that you went to Camp David. K: Yes. My wife and I
Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • what he was going to do . He said, "Well, I've got two offers : one to go into the Attorney General's office under the new Attorney General, Gerald Mann, and the other to go to work for the congressman from the Austin district, Lyndon Johnson . " I
  • Biographical information; John Connally; 1941 Senate race; war years; 1960 presidential campaign; advancing; campaign trips; New York City; convention; Nixon; Texas politics; Alvin Wirtz; Johnson personality; Mrs. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • into how you got started as a protagonist for better health. G: Well, very simply, I started out to go into the academic field. I went to New York University, undergraduate and graduate, and studied under Henry Steele Commager. The Depression came along
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 2 (II), 6/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and his discussion with you as he was leaving the presidency. Do you want to recount what you can of that conversation? F: I may have mentioned when we talked before, that the day after the [Richard] Nixon election in 1968, when we were in New York
Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the fact that you represent a New Orleans district in the city in which District Attorney Garrison has been creating a good deal of furor about the assassination and the Warren Commission report created any awkwardness for you? Bo: No, because all of us
  • interest in passage of legislation; RFK; 1964-1965 legislative success; Congressional briefings on Vietnam; compromise on seating of the Mississippi delegation; LBJ’s political speech in New Orleans; inactivity of the DNC; media image of LBJ; assessment
Oral history transcript, Volkmar K. Wentzel, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • interesting man I've met since the Pope." He was visibly impressed and apparently he had gotten a new slant on the situation in Europe or at least in that part of the world. F: Was he a publisher in Helsinki? W: In Helsinki. He was an old man then, and I
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • an event would make news and therefore try to let me announce it in a way that was orderly. Example: Luci had studied to be a Catholic. There kept being rumors about it, but we stalled questions. Actually though, on the day Luci was going over
  • Luci and Lynda; Luci’s wedding; trips to Marshall to be with her father; Lady Bird’s encouragement for Lynda to leave U.T.; Warrie Lyn Smith; categories of news; commercialization of the White House; Luci’s job with optometrist; Lynda’s motive
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1983 INTERVIEWEE: ARTHUR KRIM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Krim's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: Mr. Krim, let's today discuss that period after the 1968 election but before the Nixon inauguration. K: All right
  • LBJ’s frustration at the end of his presidency, especially regarding the Soviet Union and Vietnam; LBJ’s attempt to meet with Nixon and Soviets; Urban League dinner in New York; LBJ’s concern over press coverage of anti-war, anti-LBJ picketing; sale
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Research Institute of America, again, one of these news services for big business executives like the Kiplinger Washington Letter. Toward the end of World War II, I went out to the Far East as a war correspondent for Reuters, the British news agency, and I
Oral history transcript, Edgar Cahn and Jean Camper Cahn, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that subsequently took place between the Ford Foundation, Mayor [Richard] Lee's administration in New Haven, and the federal government. [Those negotiations] led ultimately to the designation of New Haven as an appropriate site for both Ford and the federal
Oral history transcript, Antonio J. Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • J. TAYLOR INTERVIEWER: DAVID IvlcCOHB DATE: November 23, 1969 PLACE: ~lr. Taylor's office in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Tape 1 of 1 N: Let me identify the tape first of all. Anthony J. Taylor. This is an interview with lvlr. I think you
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , in Waco, up in his suite. He had some of the regulars, some of the top state political reporters in his suite, talking to them, stroking them. Felix McKnight was there, from the Dallas News. I'm not sure that Allen [Duckworth] wasn't there, too, but I
Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in geriatrics, would call in new freshmen congressmen and tell them some of the realities of life and say, lIyou have to be here at least six years, then they know who you are." And there's LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • graduated from college, and my first job in the real world was the office of Vice President Johnson, then located in the new Senate office building [the Dirksen Senate Office Building]. As far as my tasks go, just out of college I didn't have a great deal
Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that the President was going to give him the ambassadorship to Chile and that the President intended to make John Macy the new personnel man in the White House. Ralph asked John Macy to provide him with the names of seven, eight, or ten people whom he would pick
Oral history transcript, William J. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . With the death of President Kennedy, there was an under- standing that President Kennedy's files would be kept at the White House for a while, so they would be available to the new administration. On instructions from Mro Bundy, as I recall, we made arrange
Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: DAVID DUBINSKY INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Dubinsky's office, 201 West 52nd Street, New York City Tape 1 of 1 (Interview begins abruptly.) M: . . . Roosevelt. D: Hoover--Republicans too. M: Oh, Republicans too, yes! D
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • School in New Haven, Connecticut, from 1929 through 1932, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws Degree; returning on a so-called Sterling Fellowship for a year of graduate work in law which led to a doctorate degree, Doctor of Juridical Science
Oral history transcript, Warren Magnuson, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the New Orleans, a cruiser, which I was going to go to anyway to take active duty, and Lyndon to report to CINCPAC command. So when we got out to Pearl Harbor here was Nimitz, who was CINCPAC. Because the New Orleans got hit he finally let me go aboard
Oral history transcript, A. Phillip Randolph, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER Mr. Randolph's office, 217 West 125 Street, New York, October 29, 1968 B: This is the interview with A. Philip Randolph, International President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Do you recall when you first met Mr
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • what Johnson's personal position was, but the position of KTBC's news department was I'm afraid a little biased in favor of Rainey, not the political campaign, but all the other stuff leading up to the political campaign . Were there any particular
Oral history transcript, Howard Bertsch, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was in my home town, served on the staff at the state college there for a couple of years, then in 1934, when the New Deal's programs came along and the professional staffing for them was, let us say, in short supply, I went to work as field officer
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , l987 INTERVIEWEE: FRANK STANTON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Dr. Stanton's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Dr. Stanton, let's begin by asking you to recount your earliest association with the Johnson family and, if you
Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . Walker chose to edit the transcript of his oral history interview extensively, and he sent a new typed copy of the edited transcript to the Library when he returned his signed legal agreement covering the interview. The archives staff chose to make
Oral history transcript, Cecille Harrison Marshall, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there, and I guess I ·drove hers almost as much as she .did. G: Is that right? M: Yes. And I met some of my good friends through her such as Emily, Emily Crow, and there was Gene Lassete r. G: She had a relative ly new car that was hers? M
  • Rooming with Lady Bird at the University of Texas in 1932; a Thanksgiving in Karnack; graduation trip to New York and Washington, D.C.; meeting LBJ; LBJ-Lady Bird wedding; Aunt Effie; a visit to the White House; Lady Bird evaluated
Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • with International Petroleum in the legal department and was there until late, I guess, in 1922 when the Continental Mexican Petroleum Company was sold by General Petroleum of California to Standard of New York, and they operated as New England Fuel Oil
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But at the beginning Johnson thought that he would take as many newspapermen with him as he possibly could, and actually it turned out that there were not very many that could go along. As I recall, Allen Duckworth from the Dallas News [and] Maggie [Margaret] Mayer, I
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE SID DAVIS INTERVIEWER Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Davis office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 S: Election day was the third. Well, I believe we were in New Orleans on the weekend before election day in 1964, and the President
  • LBJ's visit to New Orleans with Louisiana Governor John McKeithen; LBJ's relationships with Mexicans; White House press conferences and how they changed in the television era; LBJ's use of television; LBJ's response to civil rights-related violence
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
Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . expected, so that cleared me. They knew over here that I was Then I had to go around the other way. F: It seemed kind of strange, I guess, having to identify your way in. T: Yes, but I'm glad they do it, because there are so many new policemen
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the witnesses were forced to espouse the Administration's position when they really didn't want to. F: To move ahead, you were quite active in New York politics, most particularly in city politics in New York, in the early 1960 ' s. Did Mr. Johnson as either
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Harold J. Russell, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . Mr. Macy has done an amazing job in changing, easing whenever possible, or even writing new regulations which were instrumental in bringing many, many handicapped people into federal service. He has done an outstanding job. Mr. Driver
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XIX -- 3 R: Not really. He came back with a new story and a phrase that he always used in a speech, about this woman who had "a baby in her back, a baby in her belly, and three on the floor," and she wanted the same things
  • The Johnsons' residence as vice president, The Elms; Konrad Adenauer’s visit to the LBJ Ranch; LBJ's relationship with Texans of German descent; the Bay of Pigs invasion; LBJ's trip around the world in 1961, including stops at New York City
Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 2 (II), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -3- Since I've left the government, I've been spending some time here in New York on same state matters, specifically looking at the data on the racial problems in the schools in the city of New York and the other big cities
Oral history transcript, Sarah (Mrs. T. J. .) Taylor, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • is nothing new with her? T: Oh, no, no. She just loved it. And Caddo, if you've ever been there, ever seen it, was perfectly beautiful and still is. Of course, she was born practically on the shores of it, you see, there at Karnack. M: Did you ever