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Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: MARY LASKER (MRS. ALBERT D. LASKER) INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Lasker's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's talk about the genesis of that commission, Mrs. Lasker. You were saying that there was a reason
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it on the front page of New York Times and the Post the next morning. But not a line. But the interesting thing was that the wire services did summarize it and send it out. So that the small papers throughout the country got the news that Senator Ernest
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 Then, of course, when he got back to New York, he got back on a Sunday. Newsweek was in the habit then of promoting, on the Sunday news, its lead Monday story. I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. But the re was never any seri ous problem in commun ication on the Middle Eas t. And I could say tha t a good deal of the load was being .ca rrie d by A~bassador Goldberg in New York, where I spent a good deal of tim e with him, in tha t, what was being
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the world of Lyndon Johnson, because Johnson paid so much attention to him. Do you remember when the Pope came--? G: To New York? P: Ves, what year was that? G: Let's see. P: Some of the things that get triggered here--yes, it was the end of 1965, I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

crisis was of course involved in that era. T: I might say that my first involvement with President Kennedy was as a result of the Bay of Pigs. I was in private life in New York at the time and was called down two days after the Cuban Brigade

Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

thought were very newsworthy proj ects . One was the survey of the Niger River and others of similar importance. The next dav the New York Times gave us a part of a column on the twenty-eighth page. I said to a friend of mine: "You know, we don't want
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

? N: Well, you know, I had known him briefly in that Libyan experience and also I knew him when he was in New York. Because during his tenure as our head of the U.N. Mission there, I went up on various occasions to handle issues that came up
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to the Kennedy Administration to have any Admin~tration. contact with Mr. Johnson back in your news career or in private career? D: Only vaguely in my news career. However, in 1955 and 1956, I was on Capitol Hill associated with Senator Estes Kefauver

Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Richard Lee of New Haven and his then secretary, now the president of the New York State Urban Development Corporation--Ed Logue--made to me. Mc: How does he spell his name? T: L-O-G-U-E. I went to New Haven in August of 1955 to be Director
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it. One of my best paintings, which is now in the apartment in New York, the Fragonard called "Lady Reading a Letter," was in the hands of Göring, who wanted it more than anything in the world. He even made an offer through Seyss-Inquart, who
to the United States and involvement in the microfilm business; New York Governor Alfred Smith; a plane crashing into the Empire State Building; marrying Charles Engelhard; Engelhard’s political career; Engelhard’s involvement in the gold business; race
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that they had indirect control of where a missile could reach Washington or New York and not reach Moscow. So the situation was somewhat different. Furthermore, the bulk of opinion was that what we were witnessing in the build-up in the summer of 1962
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was another. M: Did any of them ever do it? N: No. The only successful effort came in connection with our Johnson book. It was rather widely syndicated in newspapers in installments. The [New York] World Journal Tribune, short-lived, was started in 1966
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

a couple of years and retired. In 1950 there was only one dissenting voice in the committee; while J. Hardin Peters on was still chairman, and that was a northern congressman, [Frederic] Coudert, C-O-U-D-E-R-T, of upper New York. LBJ Presidential
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

the "New York desk" of the Fed, where they do the open market operations, was lagging. The idea would be for the President to get Martin to instruct them to buy more longterm government securities and thus put more money into the 10ngterm money market
Troika; Quadriad; Council of Economic Advisers; administration differences; details of tax cut; trade-offs with Congress on budget cuts; Wilbur Mills; Harry Byrd; origin of tax cut; Samuelson Task Force; “new economics;” tax increases; Vietnam’s
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Here we were in Dallas and some reporters called New York, their home offices, to find out what they knew. I ran out into the parking lot and a cop was sitting there on a three-wheel motorcycle listening to all the traffic on the police radio. Maybe
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

yacht, which I guess is how New Englanders analyze character. anything. I didn't drive the boat into any rocks or But, more seriously, we talked about the mission and his plans, and I think it was largely just a question of being personally acceptable
before the coup; an offer to move Diem out of the country to safety; visiting the Presidential palace the day after the coup; flying with the Nhu children to Rome; JFK assassination; post-Diem conditions in Saigon; Georges Perruche; an explosion
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in journals . B: At that time, I was considered one of the candidates . I went back to New York--oh I think in November of 1959,--and did a very poor job . meeting in New York, they had all of the candidates . At that It was the meeting of the National
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

campaigning in the early primaries against Kennedy. And so I pretty much stayed out of that one. I went to the convention as a correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune and did some writing. I did have the distinction of being the first reporter to carry
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Settlement Commission and rewrite all the job descriptions. It was through Mr. Macy that I obtained some very fine new personnel. M: So he was probably the one who kept your name in the top of the pile as far as prospective talent for the various jobs
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to be made. T: Is this fairly accurate? Can you add some detail to that meeting? The story that appeared in the New York Times by Eileen Shanahan was not accurate. The facts were as follows: In October-November of 1966, I went to Puerto Rico
into the Department of Economic Affairs; Labor was 95% against the new Department; Labor-Management Advisory Committee studies merger and proposed that it not be done; personal contact with the President; White House staff; Cabinet meetings were basically
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

worked on for almost six or eight months leading up to the announcement and then later there was a magazine article on it in the New York Times and then later in my book, To Be Equal, which went into it more in detail. Mr. Johnson is mentioned in the book
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

not before Congress as a platform for the Democratic party in '56 and again in '60. Most of the time I was governor of New York--a considerable part of the time I was. Then afterwards I still remained as a member because we were very much concerned
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Graham -- I -- 19 I remember after Tet, about a few weeks after, not the New York Times, not the Washington Post, but the Stars and Stripes came out with an issue. I went
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. Is that correct? c: Well I was appointed in January of '68, and actually came into the office early in February of '68. M: You came here, I believe, from private business with Goldman-Sachs of New York? C: Yes, I had been an economist for Goldman-Sachs. M
price policy; union democracy; stockpiling; Direct Investment Program; balance of payments; transition; cabinet committee work on post-planning for economic consequences of the end of Vietnam War
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Theis -- I -- 2 was about to leave he put his arm around my shoulder--we scarcely knew each other--and he said, "Bill, I spent the weekend up in New York with Dick Berlin." Well, Dick Berlin at that time
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

remarked to me one day about how important it was not to repeat the mistake of the 1950's in the expansion into South Post. So we worked some and got some good architects in and landscape designers to help design the new areas and realized that if we took

Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

opportunities to learn sort of a post-graduate degree. In 1958 I came into government and was quite a-political. In 1961, when I became Assistant to the Commissioner, I became privy to many of the policy and political problems of the day. I wasn't

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that Ambassador /Henry Cabot/ Lodge took under those instructions--which was, in effect, to go to the military and say if you want to start something new, we won't be against you--those had the effect of setting in motion all the thinking and so on that in turn
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

: Is it possible? S: Yes. H: I think all things are possible and we got over the hurdle of non-contiguous island states with Hawaii. states with Hawaii. And also we got over the hurdle of multiracial In view of what we've done in New York in permitting
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, on November 28, 1928 . I was brought up most of my life in Passaic, New Jersey ; went to public schools there and met my wife there . Then I did my undergraduate and graduate work both at Columbia in New York City
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. start from the beginning. But let's The first major task we had was in late September when Goldberg came down to Washington from New York and said that U Thant had just come back from Moscow and was convinced that the Russians were ready to use
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

never really told him what I thought about it, which is very simple. The trouble with Johnson and Viet Nam was that he was too clever by half. He had 150,000 troops on the ground before the New York Times admitted we were in a major war, literally
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

American culture, so if you compare the twenty-year-olds in Chicago or New York or Memphis with the twenty-year-olds in the army, they are pretty much the same, you know, background and culture-wise. Now, it's true that if you take this guy and he migrates
Agent Orange; health requirements for returning to the U.S. from Vietnam; self-inflicted wounds; drug use among soldiers in Vietnam; post-traumatic stress disorder and related problems; the psychological development of people before they join
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the last years of his life was at breakfast in the Tudor Hotel in New York one morning. I was sitting in the dining room when Aubrey, staying at the same hotel, \'Jalked in and we had breakfast together. But I think this was even before he left
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

days. He had worked for the old New York World and the National Farmers Union. [He was] really an interesting guy and knew a tremendous amount about Congress and the way things were done, not the textbook kind of legislative process, but the way
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 13 would have to do something about briefing. It was decided that I would go up to New York on the plane that was to take him to the area; And I met Cy in New York at the airport; we set

Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 19 discussions around the world I've bailed out his reputation in the way that came almost as complete news
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

this at this time, because that's not the way they're going. A: When, the fall of 1965? F: You made a statement that got into the New York Times. A: That must be a holdover from a much earlier period. In 1964 and early 1965, many people were worrying about
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

the money you'll give us half of the amount that you will give to New York or Michigan or some other state." But I think the civil rights fight and the signing of the Civil Rights Bill contributed a lot to the passage of the 1965 education act. I remember
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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