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Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: DOUGLAS PIKE INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Pike's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Would you recount how you came to enter government service? P: I worked for the United Nations in Korea during the Korean War and then came
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  • Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger
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Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , in which Paul Douglas was up and some fellows in California were up and Lyndon had agreed to come out and campaign for them. They always said that when he got back and he found the tide running against him, he cancelled it because he was tired after his
Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ASHMORE -- I -- 20 Douglas, William Douglas, who is the chairman of our board, [and] raised the point. And he [Douglas] has always been a good personal friend of Lyndon's, way back to the early days. So he and I went
Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and, by their communications and constantly exhorting the other POWs to behave themselves, are responsible for our people coming home in good shape. You recall earlier we were talking about the caliber of our people. I had the occasion to be associated with one of our guys who
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it. The State Department was not so sure, and I don't think the Administration--they finally--. Late in 1960, you'll remember Secretary Anderson went to Germany and tried to get the dependents, get some of the troops home, or get the dependents home. time
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • became President. This was in December of 1963, soon after he had assumed office following the death of President Kennedy, tions, I believe, from I had been home for a few weeks on consulta- Sofia. I was anxious to see President Johnson LBJ
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • visited his home for breakfast one Sunday before the national convention. I'm sure that as Governor I had met with him on several occasions in connection with California problems. I have no distinct recollection of meeting him during the period I
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh L. Marks--II--9 else do iti Connally wasn't going to get involved in this kind of amateurish politicking. John threatened to go home. And then two or three days later, we got permission to put the sign up, so we were in business. Now
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think, six o'clock or so that I called my wife, started to explain that I'd probably be late or maybe not [home] at all, when she said, "Don't you remember? Amy is home." Amy was my daughter at Brandeis who had come to visit. I hadn't seen her that often
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 3 (III), 9/14/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of this weapon which had never been utilized, namely our air power. So I'm sure the President would have said he wasn't surprised to get this cable from me recommending retaliation for Bien Hoa. as you may recall~ elections at home. But that was about two
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that the woman's place is in the home and [that] this is sort of a masculine arena, A: I suppose in some countries that this would be true. In some parts of the world might be true, for instance, in Arab countries or Moslem countries. [It] might be true
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: MRS. E. L. (BOB) BARTLETT INTERVIEWER: DOROTHY PIERCE McSWEENY PLACE: Mrs. Bartlett's home, 2343 49th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: This is our second interview with Mrs. Bartlett. We had gotten just about up
Oral history transcript, Chris Dixie, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • between then and the 1956 convention. conservative line. I remember that Lyndon was continuing to vote a He was growing in the Senate, of course. There was a time when Helen Gahagan Douglas came through Houston and met with a group of us liberals
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and I said, "Now, will you give us a courtesy vote on the first vote from the Illinois delegation." of blew up the hope. And the answer was "no." And so this kind If we couldn't go in with the home state of the man who had been governor
Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • coming. I think they could We talked of it a lot before we ever left Congress, that this was on its way. I don't think people back home or delegates to the convention felt this, or they might have picked somebody else to be our standard bearer
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the ice for them, made them feel at home . F: Then, President Eisenhower named you the Ambassador to Ecuador, a year or so before he went out of office . LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 for uS a very tough psychological problem in political warfare here at home in the United States, with elections coming
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • there he went to war and served as a chaplain overseas and came home. r was the second child, the first, my sister, being born before the war. M: You got your college education at Harvard? P: Yes. r lived in Lawrence until r was 4, moved
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . economy was booming, and had for all these months, so essentially we were not weak at home; essentially the dollar was strong, but what was weak was the psychology of the dollar. And a lot of what we did was packaging, except for the 10-per cent surtax
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , [and] had her, and he and Mrs. Johnson arrange that wedding. story white house in Austin. that wedding. He said that Mrs. Johnson would handle the It was in the Johnson home, that old twoAnd they handled every arrangement for They got the preacher
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the nevIS claim at least, that Mr. Johnson was not very much at home among the New Frontiersmen of the Kennedy years, particularly socially. Do you think that has been exaggerated? B: Well, it depends on what you consider the New Frontiersmen. M: I
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Congressman George M. Rhodes of Reading, Pennsylvania, which is my home state. fourth term. He was a very able member who was then beginning his He was first elected to Congress in 1948, the Truman year. George was a former labor official, which fit in very
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Late thirties. M: Do you remember anything about when you first met him? What he was like, what he looked like, what he acted like? H: I first met him with Abe Fortas, Bill Douglas, Tommy the Cork, arid other friends of LBJls. He was a very
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , and Wilbur Cohen, a strong opponent of the plan. The whole Treasury department--Douglas Dillon and others--strongly opposed it. I don't know whether, if it had been handled differently, we might have been able to do a more persuasive job. I don't think
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of that . Don was the ringleader I guess I should say, personally all I did was to call a couple of aircraft companies . Lockheed, and I called Donald Douglas and I called Grumman I called I think, and LTV, and got their commitments to provide aircraft
Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . It's a kind of mystical communion of members of the party who need some basis for gearing themselves up to get to the business of going back home and persuading other people that a presidential election is worth getting excited about. I had planned
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , on January 19, 1929, which makes me in my forty-first year. I graduated magna cum laude from the University of Iowa in 1949. I went on to Yale Law School where I graduated in the upper third of my class in June of 1952. I went back home to Des Moines
Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. This left me with a great deal more freedom of action which is what I enjoyed about the job. I did a lot of sort of shaping things myself without too much con­ sultation back home on points where I thought I could safely do
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a young congressman, we'd meet in either his home or my home or Wirtz' home and talk about the topic of that particular day or week . Johnson would always say, "We've got a joint venture here that we don't ever want to be broken, because Wirtz is going
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on the basis of the discussions we had Saturday night. We would meet again later on Sunday, get the Embassy's chop, and polish it up on the way home. We planned to stop some place, I forget where, Alaska or Honolulu, for a day or two, fix up the report
Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in a place called Milledgeville, which is I guess best known for the fact that it is the home of--one of the reasons it's well known is it's the home of Carl Vinson. I think President Johnson, when he started out in the House of Representatives
Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 2 (II), 7/25/1985, by Charles B. MacDonald (Item)
  • his executive agent for pacification, Lodge approved but went home before it was implemented. Taylor set up the mission council but did not accept me as deputy for pacification. was finally done at Guam in March of 1967. zer; he was superb
Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • the war years. As you would expect for a woman, part of it was giving out recipes. I really am not a specialist in home ec!! But I also gave the news and we had live music. K: And that was during the war period? G: That was during the mid-forties
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh PARTEN -- 11-- 15 F: He really wasn't running against Jake Pickle. He was running against the President. P: That's right. "Bring Lyndon Home"--that was his platform. was all over the Vi etnam War. He had an admiration
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: MRS. E. L. (BOB) BARTLETT INTERVIEWER: DOROTHY PIERCE McSWEENY PLACE: Mrs. Bartlett's home at 2343 49th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: This interview is with Mrs. E. L. Bob Bartlett, wife of the late Senator Bob Bartlett
Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Mike Mansfield was there, Senator Douglas, Senator Smathers of Florida, as I recall, and a few other senators. the amendment would pass on the Senate floor. defeating it. I was adYised that There was no way of The only question was whether we wanted
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ~ .'.it of a speech and he i-lould try calling Harry, and Earry '\]Quld be on his i,Jay to work--,JOuld neither be at home nor at the office--and he ,.]ould say, Harry, and tell him A, B, C, D, E." "Larry, take this speech dOlm to I would relay those messages. I
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • one time at the time of the CypriotGreek argument. I got in there about seven o'clock at night, and he was just absolutely exhausted. All I should have said was, "Well, listen, I'm going home," or "You should go home and get a drink," or something
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • education was one of his greatest drives, anything to better your life. I remember extremely strongly one night when we were talking about poverty programs, and he said, "You know, it's awfully hard to argue with a man who has a sick baby at home." a speech
Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would be staying home to watch the subsequent meeting with the ministers on television. In order to make sure we had a good crowd we told everybody that they would be able to see this on a closed circuit. So we had Kennedy and Johnson at the Coliseum