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Folder, "January 12, 1965," President’s Appointment File [Diary Backup], Box 12 (Item)
  • , President, Reed Roller Bit Company, Houston, Texas Robert S. Stevenson, President, Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. , Milwaukee, Wisc. Hudson G. Stoddard, Associate, Earl Newsom & Co., New Yor, N. Y. Fla~ger F. Tannery, President, Frito-Lay, Inc., Dallas
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 62, 1 April 1996," LBJ Library (Item)
  • compiled by Dr. Hurst and his colleague, the late Dr. Jim Cain of the Mayo Clinic, also a long­ time friend of the Johnson family. The book, titled, LBJ: To Know Him Better, contains recollections of Johnson by some 40 persons who were associated with him
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 59 (LIX), 1/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • remember more about that. (Long pause) We then got some settlements, but again, the problem turned out to be the IAM [International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers], the electrical workers, the firemen and oilers, the sheet metal workers
Folder, "Demonstrations (August 1965 to December 1966) [2 of 2]," Aides Files of Mildred Stegall, Investigative Subject Files, Box 64b (Item)
  • Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Whitney M. Young of the National Urban League, Floyd McKissick of the Congress of Racial Equality, Stokely Carmichael of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and back and forth, along with other problems. But anyway, I think that President Johnson simply associated me with the Vietnam problem, and he also knew of my newspaper back ground, and they had to have a spokesman, and there wasn't anybody else he
Oral history transcript, Edith H. Parker, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Parker -- I -- 2 P: I had worked for the newspaper before I had worked for Senator Connally. G
  • Biographical information; early association with LBJ; the Dodge Hotel; the Capitol and Capitol staffs; summer of 1935 in Austin; LBJ’s plans to run for Congress; LBJ and other staff members; the Little Congress; Bob Jackson and Arthur Perry
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • found a great interest in public service. had that interest ever since I was a young man. I've My father, who ran a weekly newspaper in a small town near Fort Wayne, was interested LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • --it was Xavier's registration that I went to. Many of us were involved in the organization of National Students Association, which was in its time what the SDS is today, you know, radical type students groups in the nation. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the University of Texas in journalism. WPA offered me a job of handling public relations for the state of Texas for the agency at a salary of about double what my newspaper salary was. So I went, with some trepidation that I was leaving direct newspapering
Oral history transcript, Richard Spinn, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or twice for, you know, reunions, but that was about it. Because I got interested in my law class. We were a close-knit law class of sixty-five of us in 1934. We have had our annual get-together every year at the bar association. We have never missed a year
Folder, "Ex FG 618 Federal Executive Board," WHCF FG, Box 372 (Item)
  • organiza­ tions of Federal executives in other cities. These Associations are established and devoted to improving interagency and intergovernmental cooperation. Their level of achievement has risen during the past year, and I am optimistic
Oral history transcript, Harold J. Russell, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • a lot of wonderful changes. P: Since 1948 besides serving on this committee, you have served in the American Veterans' Association, on committees and as national commander. You were one of the founders of the World Veterans Federation, and LBJ
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ; present relationship with LBJ; interest and work with handicap people; summary of advances in field of the handicapped; role of advisory committee and its effectiveness; assistance from Senator
Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it to conference and see what we can do." from my Republican friends. I couldn't get the same cooperation And he did, and went to conference, and finally we got the amendment in the final bill. So my first contact, or association, with President Johnson
Oral history transcript, Ella SoRelle Porter and Mike Porter, interview 1 (I), 11/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • basketball player, too, you know, because he was so tall and thin. But I think really that Lyndon just-- I think. he was still growing physicall y. G: I noticed one of the earliest things he did on campus was to write editorials for the newspaper
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that's not recorded and has never been in the newspaper or anything else--is his feeling about anybody who works for him. doesn't believe in the caste system exactly. He If you work for him, you're LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . "Well," he said, "the surtax has now reached the point where he's not talking to me, and I think that's a good sign." It's that kind of a thing. M: Do you think he held it against you at any point that you were associated with the Kennedy aura
Oral history transcript, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were in HEW at the time and how you were drawn into the task force. H: Well, I was associate general counsel of HEW, working only in part on matters related to what eventually came about in the Economic Opportunity Act. Mankiewicz. I think I got
Oral history transcript, Lawrence Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • agency Is the chief goal to act as the businessman's arm in promoting the nation's foreign commerce? F: I believe there is a misunderstanding of the Department of Commerce, at least so far as this bureau is concerned. We are a free enterprise economy
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 3 (III), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about it because he wanted him to go back and put it in The Milwaukee Journal, which is one of the great newspapers, and certainly one of the two or three best in that part of the country. So he really gave him what was called the treatment. He was just
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1979, by David Culbert (Item)
  • associated with such things. He wanted his stamp ·on everything in the govern­ ment, virtually, and so when you take credit you are also going to receive some blame. I just thought he should have probably handled that better, but it was his nature. He
President's Daily Diary entry, 5/19/1967 (Item)
  • , Fla. sponsor of Copley, Knight and Scripps Howard fx • fc — * — Op Amigo ^—" . ; ~" Secy McNamara joined (The President had asked that he come in/ newspapers and and meet Mr. Frei. ) headquartered in Miami. The program designed t o bringy young Latin
President's Daily Diary entry, 10/23/1966 (Item)
  • get some apapers from his room, but then said dress since luggage had not arrived with robe. Mary S to President's room where he gave her some newspApers to keep, talked about the day, and complained about the way the State Dept. Was handling
Oral history transcript, John Ben Shepperd, interview 1 (I), 12/30/1968, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • title--was under some discussion as to how the monies had been acquired for the purchase of this property. Those of us who read the newspapers--this was what we saw, the difficulties that were involved; and then we read that you were appointed to--well
Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at a lot of the newspaper columnists' analysis of how I'm Lyndon Johnson's protege, not that I consider that not complimentary because I really do. I'm a great admirer of President Johnson's, but President Johnson did not really know me until after he got
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 73, October 2000," LBJ Library (Item)
  • the President while writing the report for a presi­ dential commission. Prior to that he had worked as a reporter for the Associated Pr ss. as news editor of Archirecrural Fortun magazine, and as a freelance writ r. A native of Kansas Middleton grad­ uated
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • The American Trucking Association took the lead in sponsoring legislation to correct that. And the allegation that it was throwing to the railroads, I don't quite understand. If the newspaper article to which you refer and which I don't recall ever having
Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • anxious to do anything he wanted. Of course I've always felt that, and I think subsequent events again have proved right, the newspapers did this to him. You know, Nixon has been in now while we're talking nearly two months. According to the press he
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • politicians. There are very few politicians that believe that newspaper stories are written just because they happen. Usually I think most politicians believe that newspaper stories are inspired by somebody. If you didn't inspire it yourself then your opponent
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would you like to work for Congressman Lyndon Johnson?" I had heard of Congressman Johnson, had never met him. Of course, he was all over the Austin newspapers in those days; he had excellent contacts with the newspapers here. So I said, "Well, yes, I
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 82, October 2003," LBJ Library (Item)
  • in print. Now Caro is at work on the final volume of his LBJ biography. The author began his remarks with praise for LBJ Library archivists Clau­ dia Anderson and Linda Seelke, who have helped with his research over the long years. As a young newspaper
Oral history transcript, Homer E. Dean, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • this trial over in the Duval County Courthouse. While we were here we met the Lloyds, because Frank was associated with Ed Lloyd and Frank Lloyd in the trial of this case. And due to Frank's connections, the Lloyds were looking for a younger lawyer to come
Folder, "King, Martin Luther (1968) (Deceased)," Aides Files of Mildred Stegall, Box 32 (Item)
  • in Washington, D. C. The FBI reports that King has been surrounded by associates who have or have had Communist affiliations and that h1s conduct and statements have been influenced by these individuals. King was initially active in the civil rights area
Folder, "II," Department of Housing and Urban Development 1965 Files, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 2 (Item)
  • .._. sectors of_our society and _with the invaluable 1 ..'..·&f:--theUnited Nations Association . .-; . Thus it·pleases .of that and me that committee. 1 cooper~tion waa an Urban Development Committee . a fellow Texan is one or·the cha1r:::en
Folder, "Administrative History of the Department of State, Vol. I, Chapter 4, Sec. A thru D," State Dept. Administrative History Box 2 (Item)
  • , we are prone to associate religious confron­ tations with conflict. Arab-Israeli enmities represent con­ flict between Muslim and Jew; Greek-Turkish rivalry has been colored by memories of earlier Christian-Muslim tensions; and the modern history
President's Daily Diary entry, 9/6/1967 (Item)
  • Newspaper Association Date 6 The Whit e Hous e Da Septembe r 196 7 y Wednesda y Expendie Code Activity (includ e visite d by ) lur Eugene Patterso n o f Atlanta, Ga . , edito r o f th e Atlant a Constitutio n ' Dr. Edwar d L . R . Elson , pasto r o f
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 2 (II), 3/31/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of three days to get there. It was a rather isolated community. The weekly newspaper--I believe H was then called the RecordCourier--was enblazoned on the front page across the top with some words 1 ike this, "Most Progressive County in the State wlthout
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • consisted of getting people who shared our views to contribute some money for a series of newspaper ads. B: In the California area? P: In the Santa Barbara area. B: Then you didn't actually meet Mr. Johnson until your appointment was being considered
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 10 (X), 5/13/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • program that was very much less than what Kennedy had introduced and than the traditional Social Security-Medicare program. That is a politics that I was not privy to. I was aware that it was going on; there were a lot of newspaper stories, but I
Oral history transcript, Jesse Curry, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the Southern Police Academy. I've been active in the IACP for several years, not qui te so acti ve now as I was \l/hen I was chi ef, but I am still a member.' I'm also active in the Texas Police Association and the Texas Police Chiefs Association, which
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 18, 15 December 1979," LBJ Library (Item)
  • had a long association with the University of Michigan, where he currently is Prof or of Education and Public Welfare Admini­ stration. From 1969 to 1978 he was Dean of the Michigan School of Education. During his career as teacher, admini­ strator