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Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the capital for civil rights legislation, generally under the leadership of Clarence Mitchell, who is the Washington representative of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Of course they had their direct contacts, so it wasn't
Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • surplus of beef in this country, with drastic price breaks, was simultaneously associated with rising prices and short supply in Europe. So that he, on a matter of about thirty-six hours notice, required us to get a half-dozen major people from the meat
Oral history transcript, Chris Dixie, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and people of that kind. G: D: Did the CIO play a role? It played a role, but it wasn't a very popular associate to have around in those times. G: It seems to me that there was in that group a component of traditional liberals like J. R. Parten, Byron
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
  • How Pachios got involved with Peace Corps; JFK’s assassination; LBJ comparing himself to JFK; Eric Goldman; Pachios’ work as an advance man in the 1964 Presidential campaign; Maine governor John Reed; Eugene Pulliam; campaign stops in California
Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Nations and the people you were dealing with? Do they notice this much about U.S. domestic affairs? Did it make it easier for you to work? H: I think two of the most significant contributions that President Johnson made were in the field of civil
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • data you have and the coloration of events is so impressive that you know what is happening, beyond just having the evidence in your hand. You go back to Washington and, God, the paper mill's still turning on, and people are still fighting over
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and Reserve Affairs? F: That's hard to do briefly. The Assistant Secretary at this desk has the function of worrying about the standards for entrance into the Armed Forces, how we procure the people to meet those standards, and then how we treat them
  • Biographical information; duties in Manpower & Reserve Affairs; civil works program; overcrowding at Arlington National Cemetery; McNamara; Project 100,000; Adam Yarmolinsky; Steve Ailes; Senator Richard Russell; Mr. Vinson; Operation Transition
Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . There was a good deal of interchange because they had groups--private groups with all the civil rights people in the government that met privately over a six-month's period. We were not ever in very close liaison--let me put it this way--with the White House
  • 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, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . the Is there anything you'd like to add to this? N: Do you have the American Bar Association? G: The American Bar Association. N: I think this is enough of those. I'm on the board of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company and the First National Bank
Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , which certainly transformed the economic, and cultural, and social life of a nation as occupation needs shifted from the unskilled to the skilled. And of course people continued to move from the rural areas into the urban areas. So that we were faced
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • a fellow was subject to an injunction, he really thought before he did anything because that judge could commit him for contempt. And this was something that people didn't want to have happen to them so they followed the law. The Restaurant Association
  • Biographical information; Hobart Taylor, Sr. and LBJ; civil rights cases in Michigan; NAACP; Export-Import Bank; Cliff Carter; early association with LBJ in 1960; 1960 and 1964 campaigns; JFK; Plans for PROGRESS; Jerry Holleman; RFK and LBJ
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
  • thing for your people, especially with what they give you to operate here, and whether or not you're wasting any of your government's funds. However, to get back to my association with the President. As our lives became more and more intertwined, as he
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • on the part of some of my associates as to whether or not this was a good idea, and what sort of a return we would get, we put this out as a contest to the ninety-odd thousand people through � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • 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, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to national security information. IB) Closed by statute or by the agency which originated the document. (C) Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in the donor's deed of gift. NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION NA FORM 1429 (6-85) LBJ
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • we're doing, of course, is just trying to fill in pieces here and there in the affair. We have your book on Alaska and its coming to statehood, and so I thought we'd just emphasize your association with Johnson in this. When did you first meet him? G
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • talking to his command. He's talking to the South Vietnamese people. He's talking to Hanoi, to Communist nations, to Allies, to neutrals. Finally, he's talking to the U.S. There are conflicting interests, certainly, and what is appropriate for one audience
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , aild would you tell how you would rate him? F: He was a fairly effective member dealing with those subjects in which he specialized, particularly matters of national defense. He was a very close associate of the chairman of the committee, Nr. Vinson
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , got there a little ahead of the presidential p~ane, as did Vice President Johnson. So we saw Kennedy and Jackie get off of Air Force One; Johnson and Connally and, I guess, Yarborough were there in line--the people who greeted them as they LBJ
  • had to LBJ; 1964 campaign; LBJ’s inability to announce travel plans in advance; LBJ choosing a running mate; LBJ lying to the press; comparison of LBJ’s press secretaries; the Walter Jenkins incident; off-the-record interviews; naming Nicholas
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to get the votes, they also would tell him. There was no double talk. There was no rather crude partisan politics between the three men. I think I could also say in the associations that I had both with the Speaker and Mr. Johnson it was exactly
Oral history transcript, Rutherford M. Poats, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • will sound very simple, but people thirty or forty years from now might not consider then quite as simple as they now are. Don't let them limit you. If you want to ramble around and talk about something else, by all means do so. You were with United Press
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in the team. J: Well, I was on the National Security Council at the time, as you know, on the staff in charge of Far East affairs, so I had been working on Vietnam for quite a few years, [for] three steadily and before that for a couple of years, in and out
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • - national Affairs at Princeton on the expropriation of American property in Cuba in 1959. After the election and the inaugural in 1961, Bill and Sarge were very helpful getting me interviews with certain people I needed in the State Department for my
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that because we had some colored troops at Camp Swift, and Bastrop was not used to colored soldiers and we were all on edge about that, being fearful the rapist might be black. Frankly, I was quite relieved when I found out he was a white soldier out of my
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with having been a participant in the war itself, or having bombed the Arab countries, killed their people and been a factor in their defeat certainly did not increase the affection that the American public had for Nasser and his regime, and I think added very
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , with every change in the investment tax credit there are many people for whom really hundreds of millions of dollars ride on the question of whether an investment decision was or was not made in advance of (or after) a particular date. The room
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • up of people who knew what they were doing and knew how to work with each other . And that was just a black cloud hanging over everything in the latter months of 1964 . I guess we sent some of the most strongly worded telegrams--"Tell them to get
Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and the National Security Council staff shared some of the more pessimistic estimates that we had as distinct from some of the more optimistic views that were expressed by people like General [Victor] Krulak. M: Was one of the first objects of business
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 2 (II), 6/1/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Saigon. There was just one mass of temporary camps, and I could see the kinds of people and get some idea of what the future problem would be in absorbing vast numbers of refugees. G: So there was a tremendous refugee problem, obviously. T
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • by Kermit Gordon? S: Kermit Gordon, that's right. Now there are a lot of different people involved in this story, and they all felt different parts of the elephant. I found from talking to people that it is very difficult to piece the story together
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in it, and Cohen had it very much in hand. G: I didn't find that there was anything I coul d do about it. In your dealings with the President did you try to get him to go farther? L: No. On National Health Insurance in the beginning, I dealt with people
  • The genesis of the Heart, Cancer and Stroke Commission; Dr. Michael DeBakey; goals of funding national clinical research; influence of the American Medical Association and the National Institutes of Health; Dr. James Shannon; LBJ’s interest
Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • time I met President Johnson was in the 1960 campaign. I was the advance man for President Kennedy's first trip into Texas, into Houston. At least I advanced the Houston stop, and the Houston stop took on some rather critical importance because
  • JFK’s 1960 meeting with the greater Houston Ministerial Alliance; LBJ’s 1966 13-state campign trip for congressional candidates and its cancellation; President LBJ’s 1966 rally in Wilminton, Delaware; techniques of advancing a motorcade and a rally
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • on there for these seventy-five people. We operate that way here. The President for his own purposes very seldom tells people in advance when he's going any place. Of course, because of certain staff functions there are, you might say, rumors. So you sort of stay
Oral history transcript, Frank Pace, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh PACE -- I -- 11 I gave him my clear appraisal of them. I'm sure he did this with a great many people. One of his tactics as president was to use associations
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and people in various government departments in my capacity as president of the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association primarily. That was a non-paid job, it's just an elective like any other of these associations. LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , and I used Danish more also because I was able to associate more freely with the Danish people. In Bulgaria this was not so easy. P: What was the effect of this adminstration's policy of building bridges in Bulgaria and Eastern Europe
Oral history transcript, Donald A. Williams, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • an association which is a non-governmental unit to bring about improved program activities. There is also a national association of soil and water conservation districts, of which the over 3,000 soil and water conservation districts in the country are members
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • drawing exercises of private survey market research type people--how many people have you patterns, and so on. G: got~ how many are colored~ how many are white, age But other than that, no. I'm not quite sure how I should phrase this, but you did
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 14 R: To begin with, he went in with a national rating of unprecedented proportion, I think, of popularity. It was 76 per cent or something. It was up as high as Eisenhower ever was. M: Support of the people then. R: And when he would recommend
  • ; General Douglas MacArthur; Harry Byrd; conservation; Civil Rights Acts; major changes in U.S. government in 35 years; accomplishments of the American people
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was after all a young senator, would have the kind of support that he actually developed. We divided the nation into six regions. I will try to recall for you some of the people who were involved. Krueger, who had the Northwest. South. Culp Cliff Carter
Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • level and enmesh villagers and people in rural areas in this struggle against the GVN. required was a counterorganizational effort. What was You had to counter the workers liberation association with the trade union; you had to counter the farmers