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Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • around October of 1961, and I worked for Kenny O'Donnell in the White House. From there I went up to the Hill and was counsel for a Senate investigating committee that Stuart Symington was chairman of. This was an investigation of the strategic
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • both of us had been nominated by President Kennedy before the assassination and gone through and been submitted to the Senate from the relevant committee, and our appointments were actually confirmed by the Senate, these two appointments, at 1 :00
Oral history transcript, Donald A. Williams, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . The National Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts very frequently, in fact, almost always testifies before congressional committees on legislative or appropriation matters of interest or concern to them. Not only does the Soil Conservation
Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , possibly came through here one time, but not any real campaign. B: During the Kennedy years you became governor of Georgia, ran in 1962 and took office in 1963. Did you get any help from the national party in campaigning? S: None at all. You mean
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • area of interest was such that there was no reason for me to have any contact with then-Senator Johnson. I testi- fied before a subcommittee of the Senate Preparedness Investigating Committee on a couple of occasions on airlift, but that subcommittee
Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was in that office; Sam Beer had it from 1960 to 1962--on official ADA stationery wrote every delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1960 a little letter which suggested that Lyndon Johnson, not by name as I recall, was a racist. It was a little private
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 1 3 of the full committee . George and John Kluczynski, Bob Jones [Democrat] from Alabama, who
  • of the Department of Transportation; Urban Mass Transit; Maritime Administration; National Transportation Safety Board; appointment as Secretary and confirmation; reflections on LBJ; domestic legislative achievements; international relations; effects of Vietnam War
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • we were so democratic I traveled with my maid, who was Spanish and had at that point joined me. It took forty-one days to go from Portugal to Buenos Aires, because the British decided there were a lot of spies on the boat. They stopped us--I forget
  • relations in South Africa; meeting LBJ for the first time; Sam Rayburn; Democratic National Conventions of 1956, 1960, and 1964; political social gatherings; visits to the Ranch; working with Mrs. Kennedy on the Fine Arts Committee; White House furnishings
Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to get it through. I recall, we went in to see President Kennedy one day with a set of our unnegotiable demands on civil rights, things we thought absolutely had to be done; one of them had to do with integrating the National Guard, which doesn't seem
  • House Conference on Civil Rights; Cliff Alexander; National Science Foundation Board; Jim Webb's acceptance of Administrator of NASA; campus unrest; Vietnam; Perkins Commission; Walt Rostow's Policy Planning Commission; Wise Men; role as Vatican
Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on through, even until the Democratic convention when he was put on the ticket in the second spot in Los Angeles, because it was Rayburn's hand always that was moving the cards. S: What was Johnson himself like in those early days? You say you don't
Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , and I had an appointment with John Bailey, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Also these appoint- ments were to compensate for some bad staff work on the part of the White House. Giaimo and Bailey heard about my appointment on the radio
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • may be required to take the President to Los Angeles to speak at a Democratic fund-raising dinner, in which case we send a bill to the President. He sends it to the Democratic National Committee and they send us the check, which we in turn send
Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • fairly close associates of M r . Johnson, who was Minority Leader at the time. B: Do you remember him taking any role in that at all? No, he didn't. He was a straight Democrat. He wasn't on the Foreign Relations Committee. in it. He went right down
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • prob bi-partisan group, and I was appointed as an honest Democrat, which I was and am . M: How did they happen to select you for that, do you know? B: No, I don't really know . When I first started practicing law in Miami, I went into George
  • of the Department of Transportation; Urban Mass Transit; Maritime Administration; National Transportation Safety Board; appointment as Secretary and confirmation; reflections on LBJ; domestic legislative achievements; international relations; effects of Vietnam War
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Novak -- I --18 Texas, and Mr. Johnson came in with his two daughters. I was there, and they were just cold as hell to me and very nice to Geraldine. M: Still? N: Yes. I was the guest at the game of Bob Strauss, who is the Democratic National
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • campaign, particularly the convention in Los Never said a thing. Angeles? H: Oh yes, yes. F: Did you have any opinion about him about by then, either as a national news source or as a possible Presidential candidate? H: Yes, he was running seriously
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • signatures I took the whole list, photostats of it, in a wheelbarrow into the White House and presented them to [Dwight] Eisenhower, changed our name to Committee of a Million against admission of Communist China to the United Nations until she'll qualify
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • on the Council of Economic Advisers, put together the new JOBS program and the National Alliance of Businessmen. While the ideas for it had come out of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • they couldn't do much more than that. I pointed out that the Federal Republic of Germany might be excused for thinking that there were seventeen million Germans hostage in the German Democratic Republic, and nonetheless the West Germans sent us all kinds
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
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Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a great number of times. Even before I was stationed in Washington while I was commander of SAC, I went in to appear before congressional committees many times. This is a practice that I understand has fallen by the wayside and I think this is bad
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . You whip up sentiment; you play on hate; you wave the flag; unconditional surrender, nothing is too good for our boys, this whole business. And it was no problem at all in turning a nation on into an uncontrolled war. But it is difficult
Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , at that time, for congressional liaison, was seconded over to the Democratic committee; I worked through filr. Birkhead. B: He was, technically, then I think, with Rural Americans for JohnsonHumphrey? t1: Yes. B: What were the circumstances of your being
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . In 1935, I was going to Texas to meet my in-laws, whom I had not met, and on our way we stopped in every capital city to see the WPA people and othe rs, transient people that I was working with. stopped in Austin. So we The National Youth Administration
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the political pressure--not just of Senator Mansfield--but the entire Senate Democratic policy committees. I think he felt that he had to make this small gesture--because we took them back after Czechoslovakia, and they're still there. M: Right. A little
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the issue of the Straits of Tiran should be faced. There were still several aspects under discussion: whether we convoyed a u.S. or ship of another nation through there, forced the blockade, convoyed an Israel ship. decided. Exactly how
  • Biographical information; contacts with Johnson; support of LBJ in 1960; Democratic Policy Commission; State Department informing Vice President's office; Potomac Marching Society; Kennedy Administration; working for Johnson; Advisory Committee
Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh - 2 B: That's going to come up later in the interview when we get into the area of personnel. Have you had in your career at any time any strictly political activity? R: No, I haven't. My wife, as an active Democrat
Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , really. The American public and the press doesn't, I don't think. So therefore the public should learn much about it, what a war of national liberation is all about. That's a technique that the Soviets developed a long time ago. They've perfected
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was not there, but the Cabinet Committee on Balance of Payments was; and I brought copies of this with me--I think Joe Califano presided over the meeting. was on this. And I told Joe in advance what my thinking So he said, "Bring the papers along." memo from Smith. And I had
Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in views among the staff? C: Well, I guess it's a matter of the degree to which the commission would push its views in the national debate on the issues. Of course, the biggest issue as we came on was just how much we could do to assist in the enactment
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Hampshire primary a little bit, I don't think he ever did anything affirmative to get in thereo I think that Johnson over-reacted by ordering Bobby to fire a fellow called Paul Corbin from the Democratic National Committee. Paul Corbin, C-O-R-B-I-N, had
Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it. At that same time~ Fulbright and his committee got to me and wanted me to come down and talk to them. I was. a little reluctant to do it, but then decided that it was probably sort of the kind of thing you have to do in the national interest. talk to him
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for the 1964 campaign. And so Wilson had offered six people full-time jobs at the Democratic National Committee as full-time advance men. That was the first time, really, that there had been full-time advance men; in the past it had been a part-time deal
  • Vietnam soldiers; handling crowds and the press during trips to the Philippines, Korea and Mexico; preparing for the 1966 State of the Union Address; Edmund Muskie; May Craig; landing Air Force One at National Airport; LBJ’s view of war/leaders; Pachios
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • relationship with the poverty program. I guess it must have been 1965--well, maybe by then it was 1966, I was then the assistant director of I think [it was] called the [Office of] National Councils and Organizations. But Shriver would use me generally
Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in that fight. They were our unions. I testified before a Senate committee in which this thing was being handled. I was deep in the middle of that with President Johnson, too. MU: That's the first time that he used this technique of calling some
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • USIS cultural/ informational job and an advisory and psychological operations job. There was a so-called coordinating committee. That coordinating com- mittee, when it decided issues, which wasn't too often, did it by vote, and it wasn't even a vote
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the schedule is set up and they have said, "Yes, I will go there," then nobody but the candidate can really blame. But if he got angry or didn't like where we were, well, then he blamed it on the advance men or the national committee for scheduling him
Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with Lyndon Johnson prior to 1960, in the fifties. T: Prior to 1960, no. M: What was your earliest acquaintance or contact with him? T: That's hard to recall. I saw him [when] I was at the Democratic convention in both 1956 and 1960. One milled around
Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of a committee to prepare a list of possible targets in case the decision to bomb the North became necessary." Now that to me was overwhelming, you see. M: Was this pressure from the military to go ahead and make this contingency plan that resulted in that? H
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • --and that too had been kicking around . We'd done our withdrawal language, but not with the six months, in the Communique Committee, and we had done a communique, and we'd done a form of declaration, but we We'd done a long-form declaration . hadn't done