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  • hound--you would hear his voice reverberating for blocks and blocks away. And until 5 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
  • Union. That was supposed to please them. They must have laughed and said, "Those idiots in America." It's what saved the Communists. That's another whole story. They said they'd get out in six months but they didn't. They stayed there and blocked until
  • . And on that corner was the old Burleson home. F: Yes. L: And back of that was old man Stark s home, who used to manage the 1 Driskill. They re all gone. 1 now. You see, the whole block's cleared off But he had his headquarters, and I'd go by there once
  • , 6, 7 blocks and the courthouse is just a little off-center. As we came down to the then Kemp Hotel which is on the corner of 8th and Scott, we passed in front of the courthouse, and Price Daniel was speaking to a crowd on behalf of Eisenhower
  • : His dealt with religion, is that right? J: Oh, that wasn't \.\!hat I meant though. He was very conservative, he would take off his coat and roll up his sleeves. three blocks [away]. You could hear him You'd take a microphone and put it way over
  • , "but it's not the same city now that the war is on." How did your life change? J: I rode the bus more than I ever had, and rode it rather a lot. [I'd] walk or perhaps drive my car just two and a half blocks up from our dear home on Thirtieth Place
  • or any need for them. But you just simply knew it was private and wouldn't go in. A road wound through a rather sylvan wood, must have occupied several blocks, and then a big, nice, comfortable house that was the Peruvian Embassy. I remember they had
  • Thornberry, and little Lera Thomas. I forget what year the Thornberrys, with Lyndon's great nudging, bought that old house down on--I think it was Devonshire Place. Anyhow, it was within three or four blocks of us. Perhaps that comes later, anyhow, Lyndon
  • stumbling block that we had was the Navy. The Army was willing to enter into a type of unification. They were willing to have the Air Force separated from the Army. They weren't anxious for it but they felt a better organization could be achieved
  • that we ought to get-- M: Most historians think that that block in the Communists' tactics in the '40's was what killed the American Communist party. F: It was. I think it was. And I felt that this would do the same for the civil rights movement
  • . If Mary Jones down the block had the same thing in four different colors, that really wasn't a concern. But her evening dresses, she really wanted to be one-of-a-kind. She didn't feel like that in the beginning, but one night when she was planning to wear
  • remained very good. I always had the feeling that I could say anything to the President. M: He didn't block you out because he knew you were going to be unsympathetic? B: No. Let me say if I had found myself excluded from meetings as the Vice Pres ident
  • to them the reaction in the United States had they blocked the Paris agreements, the talks in Paris, or a meeting in Paris. We wouldn't be 13 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • have to make around Washington to-­ C: It went on for two months. She blocked out time to do it right. at sunrise to Mount Vernon because the sun's better then. She went even The cameramen all fell in love with her because she was the first person
  • in getting the program going, and try to iron out differences that might block it. Therefore, on a program like this, we did do a great deal to make sure the program kept up and realized its potential. Other programs that did not present quite as many inter
  • south a couple of blocks in some building, whatever it was, and just had our offices. G: By then were you working during the daytime on this, or were these still evening--? H: I guess I must have been, yes. I hadn't thought of that. I guess
  • president. impasse, an absolute block, in any communication. And again an So I just abandoned him and walked off and talked to some of the ladies present on this small yachting party, mostly Texans. I had no LBJ Presidential Library http
  • : Are there any major stumbling blocks or hindrances in recriuting of this nature such as wage scale, or salary scale? I: There was. Now the wage situation in my judgment is no longer a serious factor in the government service except at the very top levels
  • , seven, eight years old--out the latch-key kids. on the street with tags around their necks reading: "I'm Susie Jones; if you see me more than so many blocks from home, tell me how to get home." This was shocking. And we found that only two per cent
  • have much, much more. If those few hundred trees gave so much joy, why not spread it around! Then Kenwood, the suburb of Washington, is so marvelous. It's about forty square blocks all planted in Yoshino cherries. So Mrs. Johnson did a very good
  • a losing battle to block this; therefore, they ought to come on in and help write the bill, you see. This is what really forced them to do it, because they never did really accept it. M: Did you play any role in the passage of the Medicare Bill? D
  • guide was run through the other departments, not for a sign-off type of clearance where I could have been blocked by anybody's disagreement with the location of a commna, but for comment and recommendation. We tried to go back and forth and explain
  • . Johnson and thei r Secret Servi ce detail. private si ght-seei ng. We followed Mr. and Mrs. They \'/anted to do some Vie follO\'Jed them at a respectful di stance and parked a half block behind them when they got out to look at something. But we wanted
  • of that sort, no. think maybe that we had by recommendations written to the White House and to our members of the Congress about block grants and resolutions from the governors' conferences. But I don't believe that I ever talked with him directly about any
  • so impede and block the conduit as to prevent the flow of men and materials to the battlefield? proven to be "no." make it more costly. You cannot. And I say the answer to that has been You can make it more difficult. You can But you can't
  • or the Ugly Duckling, not the Greasy Spoon davin a half a block, the Ugly Duckling. down to the office. And Lyndon went, because he came I think before he was in Congress, he also went down, because Maury used to and Malcolm Bardwell went, as his executive
  • has got us blocked at every corner. They've got so many people working around here and they know so much that's going on, we've got a hard, hard row to hoe. It looks to me like we don't have much of a show." Shortly thereafter, that same day, Jake
  • at them. M: You weren't blocked from the proper channels? R: No. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org M: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • program, and then he had been killed, and that there was some blocking of this program at the time of his death, but that Lyndon Johnson took over and moved this program through in 1964 and '65. R: Does this make sense to you? As I've previously