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Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 2 (II), 09/10/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Publications Commission, and others recommended me to be the new appointee. There were two presidential appointments out of eleven members on the National Historical Publications Commission. No reason why Holmes should have, because he and I weren't close
  • How Frantz joined the National Historical Publications Commission; LBJ’s practice of allowing other people to announce good news; Nixon administration’s trouble finding Frantz’s replacement; Marietta Brooks; assembling an advisory board for his
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Zorthian? Yes . it a little tough for him to do his job, doesn't it? Well, I had first known Alan Carter in New Delhi, seemed to be a pretty able guy . G: shall I say, That's another parallel, I think, India, too? He worked for Ken Galbraith
  • Cabot Lodge; the new regimes
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • with a journalist who was covering the State Department for the New York Daily News, named Mike O'Neill. He was also writing for Medical World News on one of the stories about health; he had a personal interest in the health field. I urged John Gardner to consider
Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and it was overwhelming. There is no doubt about it. We had the mightiest air force on the whole globe, and the result was that because we had this heavy advantage, we did not explore a number of new directions that other nations did explore. The Russians, for example
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh opponents in an election for president. F: Yes. H: But not in the daily routine--well, not routine
Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • at Harvard. Then I got caught up in the U. S. Army during World War II and had about four years of that, including a long siege of combat in Europe. When I came back from the army, I went to the Charlotte News as editor and stayed there about a year
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 15 (XV), 1/4/1980-1/5/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Mayo's for a checkup, and I went to New York on a city trip with Gene Boehringer Lasseter, and we did a lot of sight-seeing. She went to see a young man from East Texas who was destined to make quite a mark for himself in the world of music. He was Van
  • Closing up LBJ's Senate campaign headquarters after the 1941 loss; trip to New York City with Gene Boehringer Lasseter to see Van Cliburn; the political importance of postmasters; LBJ's involvement in the extension of Selective Service and the draft
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in educational television were all ready to call on the President to set up a task force to come up with a new initiative in this field. M: About what point in time is this? C: I cannot give you a precise date on that. I would suppose that was probably
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3, Side 1 G: Let's start with some of the legislative developments in 1967. The Republicans gained forty-seven House
  • and Senate leadership and problems with the whip system in the House; the increase in concern over the Vietnam War among congressmen; the work of John McCormack, Carl Albert, and Hale Boggs as house majority whips; O'Brien's conversation with Chicago Mayor
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • together. G: You mentioned, I think, something about Henderson going to New York? K: Well, Lyndon told me what Herb was capable of. I don't remember how long before that had happened, but Herb had got on a binge and held gone off to New York and held
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 3 (III), 4/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to an Urban Mass Transportation grant to the South Chicago Suburban Transit District, which in turn is buying commuter cars for the Illinois Central Railroad. new president, Alan S. Boyd. That railroad has a That grant was initially made by Paul Sitton when
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
Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh of his earlier experience with the New Deal--the early
Oral history transcript, Robert Bennett, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • either actual scholarship funds or in some cases trust funds to support a scholarship program for higher education. F: Has the introduction of new claims about reached its peak, or did you envisage a continuing group of claimants? B: The time
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , of course, if I'd been working, say, for the New York Times that might have been the case, or Washington Post . Some of my stories were Washington Post , which received Chicago Daily News service . greater, powerful carried, in cutdown form
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the future might be in the northern cities? M: Only the Southerners in Congress, but that was taken to be a self-serving on their part. When they would say the real problem is going to come in New York and so on, everybody would say, "Well, you're just
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • "Pappy" QJDaniel. F: Yes, 1941 . C: 1941? I was elected district attorney in 1939. I was elected district attorney the first year I came back here. I was a delegate to the »emocratic National Convention in Chicago in 19400 not recall
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 5, Side 1 G: Let me ask you first to review some of the episodes at the 1960 [Democratic National] Convention
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that there was such a thing. Sometimes those only filtered to the West Wing and never touched me. F: The reason I ask--you know, it was news anywhere, and people just kept bringing up disclosures, particularly some of those that were critical of the President and some
  • Wear Daily; Lady Bird’s friends in Washington; Senate was Lady Bird’s great love; LBJ ran the Presidency like a Majority Leader; Leslie Carpenter.
Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • this, as Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division? R: I was Chief Counsel, thoroughly enjoying my job and working at it diligently. When Louis Oberdorfer resigned from office, since these two jobs have a great deal of daily contact, I was quite interested
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1982 INTERVIEWEE: DAVID HALBERSTAM INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Halberstam's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 2 G: You said that you had a Lyndon Johnson story. H: Yes. I was, in 1960, working for the Nashville Tennessean
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • came down here, and I worked for the Dallas News as a kind of part-time employee in Austin and worked for United Press on the same basis. I graduated in 1935. United Press made me a correspondent. Then I went to Dallas News in 1942 and worked for them
  • News' lack of support for LBJ; Texas Democrats in the 1900s and late 1800s; the rise of Republicans in 1960; Governor Beauford Jester and his campaign against Homer Rainey; Jester overhauling the Texas prison system and state hospitals; the Texas
Oral history transcript, Tom and Betty Weinheimer, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • channel to the next, or network, watching, and I remember reading later that someone had written in the news media that he was "calling the shots," quote-end-quote, in Chicago. TW: No, on all the confrontation and riot stuff they had. BW: And I know
  • for the LBJ National Historic Park; LBJ as a neighbor; LBJ’s impulsiveness and joking nature; LBJ’s views on Vietnam; the Weinheimers being at the Ranch with LBJ during the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago; LBJ’s perfectionism; LBJ’s health after
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the power to grant routes and make rates for all domestic matters--a route between New York and Chicago is entirely within their power and their decision is final.Any time a route involves an international carrier or even a stopover abroad, as part
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . And from that I just slipped into the habit of writing him almost daily memoranda. G: Did he read them carefully? R: Oh yes. He had two rituals. And, Lord, they were set routines. He liked to have a stack of stuff to read alongside of his bed when
Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with him until that day tn Dallas. M: That was obviously the next question. How soon after the assassination did you see him? S: I remember. It was a very curious thing. Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News and I were standing in that parking
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • thing. They didn't want anything to do with it, so they always gave us the editorship of the Cactus. The con- test was the president of the student body and the editorship of the Daily Texan, and they won it every time. But that's just background. I
Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Keyes Beech's view of the war, I think in the early years at least, coincided with that of the Chicago Daily News. I think that was coincidental. So with that one possible exception--and I don't think that's a significant one--no, I don't think
Oral history transcript, Peter R. Rosenblatt, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • House, which was just after Labor Day in 1966, I had absolutely no background in Southeast Asia, in Asia, or any part of the Pacific. And I don't know if you want me to get into how I got there, but-- G: Certainly. R: I had come from New York
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . I went into the large conference roonoff the center hall and found Horace Busby working at the long table with a yellow legal pad, and I must say my heart sank. Though seeing Buz in on speeches at the literal last moment was nothing at all new
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was living in Japan, Dien and I began to hear and read about this place called and so I went down there for the Chicago Daily News what turned out to be the end of to the Viet Minh Dien Bien Phu fell Accords . it . and at the time of the Geneva
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEW VI DATE: February 11, 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 4, Side 1 G: [Let me ask you about some] issues in 1963. O: Yes. First of all, [I'll try
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it every summer when I visited my grandfather, but at least it wasn't the daily stuff of life in my own household. F: Yet close enough to get some understanding of a political environment. S: Right. And when he went in the government, he came to live
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to describe that President's Club dinner in New York at the Waldorf. J: Let me ask a question then. Were there two Waldorf dinners while I was there? G: There could easily have been. Could have had one each year. J: Yes. I don't think I went
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . [Oveta Culp] Hobby, I'm sure that Johnson would have been one of his strongest proponents. G: Politics makes strange bedfellows. There was an article by Elizabeth Donahue in The New Republic entitled "The Prosecution Rests," and the thrust
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to the President prior to an appointment on a daily appointment schedule. Then we had the responsibility for the administrative operations of the White House. In the early days of 1965, the White House West Wing was being completely renovated. GSA was in charge
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in Goliad, Texas, and I went to the University of Texas, B.A. degree in English in 1933; then two years of graduate work in history and government. Then I went to work as a newspaperman. I had been editor of the Daily Texan at the university and worked
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • but not a whole lot of outspokenness; whereas Ramsey and Dean Rusk were very steadfast, quiet, immobile to a certain extent, and got away with it. F: Did the President, in a sense, cool off on Clark Clifford as a result of the new postures? J: I think very
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 3 (III), 3/25/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and it just kind of worked right into the daily routine. I would say there was nothing tumultuous about it or nothing shocking about it. It just went on, and Johnson kidded everybody a lot about it. G: How so? How would he--? 1 LBJ Presidential Library