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Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 9 (IX), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the riots in 1968, Governor [Richard J.] Hughes told me that the city itself was very close to bankruptcy; they simply did not have the money from their tax revenues to undertake the projects that the situation following the riots required. This becomes more
Folder, "Whistle Stop [6 of 6]," Liz Carpenter Subject Files, White House Social Files, Box 11 (Item)
  • •• But there is one essential diffe1·ence. In 1960 Jackie Kennedy was more often seen than heard. So too, was Mrs. Richard Nixon. This time· Lady Bird Johnson is going to be seen and he:Fd, break­ ing significantly with the tradition that the First Lady should just
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 84, June 2004," LBJ Library (Item)
  • .... We didn't really know where it was going, but as you'll see in this book. that suit was a very big part or what happened, and Richard Nixon real­ ized that, as we learn from the tapes. '·In the course of that suit. Wood­ ward and Bernstein, the two
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Folder, "COLEMAN, JAMES P. (GOV.) [1 OF 5]," White House Name Files, WHCF, Box C-320 (Item)
  • or Senators would let the Kennedy Boys know that J. P. Coleman rode the train with their brother Jack and toured the state with him for the "Democratic Party" when Dick Nixon was carrying the state, it might cause them to think. This was loyalty and Mro
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 84: June 26‑28, 1968 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 36 (Item)
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • sent me off to Doubleday and they thought it was a grand idea. I came down here to Washington and got to meet Dick [Richard] Scammon who was director of the Bureau [of the Census], 1961-1965 • At Doubleday's suggestion, it was just sort of a co
  • Biographical information; Wattenberg’s publishing and writing career; Richard M. Scammon; meeting Bill Moyers and LBJ; being hired as a speechwriter; speechwriting process in the LBJ administration; LBJ’s young staff; working on speeches with Moyers
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on up through the Eisenhower Administration. national estimates business. Estimates. F: I was one of the charter members of the We wrote the National Intelligence I wrote some of the first estimates on the Soviet threat. I might add we got Richard
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • departments, and I guess Mr. Nixon is also still working on that. Presumably his successor will still be working on getting the Department of Agriculture and Department of Interior into some kind of Department of Natural Resources and so forth. I wasn't
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with good grace just as Richard Nixon did in 1960 when he probably had some grounds to make a loud cry--I suspect that Nixon wouldn't be president today if he had made a fuss about the Kennedy election in 1960. Politically, you've got to learn to be a good
Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to take himself out, because I didn't think he could be nominated, and I was afraid if he was nominated, he might lose to Nixon, which, I think, would have been a personal disaster for Stevenson. As long as Stevenson didn't take himself out, I felt loyal
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • real affection for Johnson. Johnson and [Richard] Neuberger got along very well, too, which kind of surprised me. You could never be quite sure just who Johnson would get along with and who he wouldn't. For instance, he and Bill Fulbright got along
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • being authorized and then appropriated for. But my recollection is that because of Johnson's friendship with Senator [Richard L.] Neuberger from Oregon and Wayne Morse, while Neuberger and Morse disliked each other intensely, Johnson was friendly
Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • as a passenger; specific trips Thornhill flew for LBJ, including flights that involved dangerous situations; flying LBJ back to Texas after Richard Nixon's inauguration; reports of secret trips LBJ took to Mexico; LBJ inquiring about Thornhill's career plans
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 85: June 29‑30, 1968," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 37 (Item)
  • .: aome time about limiting of- \, The Paris peace talks have Nixon wlll be the next Amer-,;.~ fenaive and defensive weap,- changed this atmosphere in , lean President.. In the paat ,~ : ., • • ·on■. But why doe■ Gromyko a notable way. Between Com
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of garrulous fellow and Jack was sort of neat and tidy. (Laughter) Let's face it, we've seen more and more of it since the days of Kennedy and Johnson and the advent of television, going all the way back [to] the Nixon-Kennedy debates, and the realization
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 70: Apr. 1‑5, 1968 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 32 (Item)
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 96: Sept. 26‑30, 1968," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 40 (Item)
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 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
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 106: Nov. 15‑18, 1968 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 42 (Item)
Folder, "Flying Saucers [1952]," Papers of Drew Pearson, Farm Series, Box F 71 (Item)
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 114: Jan. 16‑20, 1969," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 44 (Item)
Folder, "The U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency During the Johnson Administration-Part 1," Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Administrative History (Item)
  • during the Johnson Administration; Clement E. Conger (ACDA Executive Secretary), Robert W. Lambert (Chairman of History Project), Adalyn Davis (Assistant to the Chairman), Richard Creecy, John R. Wilbraham, Paul J. Long, Robert E. Stein, Alexander T
Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Johnson? G: The ftrst time I met him was when he was vice president and he kindly came to the dedication of the Richard Byrd Memorial Statue out on the approach to Arlington. The National Geographic supported Byrd for many, many expeditions back
  • Contact with LBJ; dedication of Richard Byrd Memorial Statue; award for the Hubbard Medal; Senator Byrd's garden party; Jane N. Smith Medal; building dedication; White House Historical Association; presidents book; The Living White House; LBJ
Oral history transcript, William S. White and June White, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as [Richard] Kleberg's assistant at the time. W: They used to call it secretary, but, yes, it was the same thing. G: Do you recall the situation there in the office? W: Johnson was really in a real sense running the office. a very genial, nice man, but he
Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • organization, he was the biggest wheel I had ever heard about in barbering and he ought to be the national president. He bought it like it was a godsend to him. He loved it. It was for these Democrats, because Chicago was Democratic, [Richard] Daley
Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1948" (Item)
  • through the 9th.” 7/2 Friday. LBJ makes early morning radio talk from Lubbock and makes campaign stops in Crosbyton, Spur, Aspermont, Stamford and Abilene. Warren Woodward reports that at Aspermont, A.E. Richards, young editor of the local paper, “ran
Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Laitin -- III -- 15 Actually he had a very, very good relationship with the President. He had almost total access to everything, including the bedroom, that Nixon's photographer, Ollie Atkins, who died a few weeks ago, told me
  • Panmunjom; Dr. Richard Morstein’s plan to end the war in Vietnam; the large crowd that welcomed LBJ to Korea; Okamoto’s photography lab and pictures LBJ didn’t want publicized; firing/evaluating/hiring staff members.
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . C. in time for a vote; Bay of Pigs events and JFK accepting responsibility for failure there; JFK's trust in the CIA and military; education legislation; opposition from James Delaney to aid to education; Cardinal Richard Cushing's visit to the White
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 104: Nov. 5‑8, 1968 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 42 (Item)
  • find Tbleu beginning to think.that 'lohaaon and Humphrey will be replaced aad thea Nixon could change the U. S. position" ia October 17. Items focuaillg OD the U.S. election aad the possibility of resiatbag a bombing halt rua steadily from that time
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that the members, when you had people like Bob Kerr [D.-Okla.] and Richard Russell and Warren Magnuson [D.-Wash.] on the committee, while they were very close friends of Lyndon Johnson and his fellow whales in the Senate--part of the Establishment in the Senate
  • with Eisenhower Administration; self analysis; leader of an opposition on the staff; censure resolution; HHH; Richard Russell; HR 3; LBJ’s relationship with Kerr and JFK; contempt for some Senators and close friends in the Senate; LBJ singled out protégés; LBJ’s
Folder, "Ramparts - NSA - CIA, 2/67 - 9/67," Subject Files, NSF, Box 44 (Item)
  • interest, of public support. " Secretary of State Dean Rusk - Chairman Attorney General Ramsey Clark Budget Director Charles Schultze Senator Carl Hayden of Arizona Senator Richard B. Russell of Georgia Senator J. W. Fulbright of Arkansas · Senator Milton
Lady Bird Johnson's Daily Diary entry, 8/10/1968 (Item)
  • Sat, Aug 10 Dictated at the ranch August 2-17, 1968 1. 10:30a Secretary Rusk, Director Helms, Amb. "Vance arrived to front lawn w/ Pres 2. 12:00n Mr. Nixo n arrived 1:15p LUNCH - Mrs. J Nixon, Agnew 3. Rusk , Helms , Vanc e Nixon aides: Bob
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 113: Jan. 1‑15, 1969 [2 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 44 (Item)
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 12, July, 1965 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 4 (Item)
  • in plenty of time for a chaage) • but we did n.ot wish to criticbe him directly becauae the m.alD thrust of his article was fair and helpful. wa• 4 , . On Tuesday. July 6. I saw Richard Dudman .r the St. Louis Poat Dispatch and Max Frankel
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 52: Nov. 26‑30, 1967 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 26 (Item)
Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • wonder how many now they're going to name Lyndon or--well, with Richard, you can't tell. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)