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Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , but it was, I suppose, the manner of delivery. F: I know when Alf Landon used to get up, you must remember the newsreels, when Landon ran against Roosevelt. D: I took an avid interest in that. I followed. I was only eleven or twelve, but I had two very new
Folder, "I," Department of Housing and Urban Development 1965 Files, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 2 (Item)
  • ·1-1212 NOTICES Tenn., Dallas, El Paso, Pose of this application 1s to enable the Chattanooga, applicant to perform exactly the same Houston. Lubbock and San Antonio, Tex .. transportation between the same points and New Berlin, Wis., and returned
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Robert E. Jordan III Subject(s) covered 18,19 Events in Dallas 19,20,21 Warren Commission Report 21,22 Autopsy on Senator Kennedy 23,24 23,24 James Rowley Rufus Youngblood 24
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 7, October 1 - December 31, 1964 [3 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 2 [2 of 2] (Item)
  • a amall British contingent along with larger ones from Australia and New Zealand. Our own commitment would have gone up and there would be a better caae for aeldng the Bdtleh to Joln in. On the other hand, Tommy Tbompeon point• out that Uthe British Co
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the task force: Ben Heineman, president of the Northwestern Railroad, and Senator Ribicoff. Charlie Haar and I then took off (that was on a Saturday) and met Ribicoff on Sunday morning at the Carlton Hotel in New York and chatted with him. I phone
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • in the morning. Will you call Sherman Birdwell and tell him that I would like to talk with him?" I arranged to call Birdwell and arranged a meeting at one of the cafes in Austin, Texas. G: Do you remember what cafe that was and could you describe it for us
Oral history transcript, Homer E. Dean, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in Northeast Texas, thirty-six miles from Dallas, Texas, and went from there, when I graduated from high school, to Baylor University at Waco, then worked a year in Austin and then moved to Alice in 1941. G: And you took a law degree? D: Yes, I
Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of that year, my senior year in high school. That year Sam Houston High School had a new debate coach, a gentleman who'd come from some smaller town as I recall in Southwest Texas to be a teacher of 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
  • nomination; division among Harris County voters; the Harris County JFK-LBJ campaign headquarters' finances; the JFK inauguration; the Bruce Alger/Adolphus Hotel incident in Dallas; Crooker's work as a presidential elector; JFK's assassination; Crooker's
Oral history transcript, Peter Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: PETER HURD INTERVIEWER: ELIZABETH KADERLI PLACE: His studio at Sentinel Ranch, San Patricio, New Mexico Tape 1 of 1 K: I have come here to talk to Mr. Hurd about a painting he did of President Johnson which caused a good deal of interest
Folder, "Kentucky Trip – May 21, 1964 – Mrs. Johnson [Clippings]," White House Social Files, Liz Carpenter Subject Files, Box 5 (Item)
  • . SpeQ!al to The New York Tl01es . . . .. WASHINGTON,.May !2 - In for small businesses much of· ·America, there are ers. pockets of poverty in the midst The . Appalachia and farm­ program, of · plepty. ,~ Jiut in Appalachia, strictly ·a regional one
Folder, "Liaison - FBI - Miscellaneous Reports [Oct. - Dec. 1967]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 3 (Item)
  • SELECTEDRACIAL DEVELOPMENTS AND DISTURBANCES FIVE PERSONSARRESTED,NEWHAVEN, CONNECTICUT,IN PLOT TO BOMBPUBLIC BUILDINGS Since November, 1967, the New Haven, Connecticut, Police Department had under investigation a report that members of the Hill Parents
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 4, May 1-27, 1964 [2 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 1 (Item)
  • is the Chancellor's discussion of a reunUieatlon initiative, on pas• 3. . This is something he has· also raised ene>:gettcally with McGhee. His view ls that some new initiative on r .e unfftcation ls an ~xtremely political ies·ue .. for his government and he wants
Folder, "[September 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • prospect; the President reviewed bill by bill. IS said the prospect was not hopeless, was difficult, but that he felt the results would be good. }• Sevareid aske& if the President believed the new South Vietnam @OTern­ ment would seek peace. The President
Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the results. Do you remember? Q: Well, the Election Bureau in Dallas--I think they were getting what reports they could, but so many of the~ boxes in the country, you know, the judges take the boxes home with them and wait until Monday morning to deliver
Folder, "Hunt, H. L.," Name Files, WHCF, Box H-474 (Item)
  • it was a definite turn toward the right. of Dr. King and Senator be revived and continued. END Robert Kennedy. It has been It remains to are DALLAS MORNING NEWS May 10, 1968 • • l • ! •• I••, , Hwnphrey and AD~ To The Dallas Ntws: . Withoutthe aid
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 9 (IX), 7/14/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . And I went to work at the White House. (Interruption) R: Recently Nancy and Drew were on a trip to New York and New England, and then coming back they stopped in Washington and saw the sights there. Nancy told me that all of a sudden they passed
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was congressman. Well, I was there; I guess I was as close as anybody to Lyndon, because when he'd get off his helicopter flight I'd be at his apartment the next morning at seven o'clock, bringing him the paper, talking. So John and I would talk quite a bit--I
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: WARREN WOODWARD INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Woodward's offices at American Airlines, Dallas, Texas Tape l of l M: On the last tape, to pick up where you left off, you mentioned that Johnson had recovered from his kidney stones
Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 4, 1971 F: This is an interview with Arthur 1\1. Schlesinger, Jr. in his office in New York City on November 4, 1971. Frantz. The interviewer is Joe B. Arthur, I suppose the place to pick this up with you would
  • ; the effect of LBJ keeping some of JFK’s staff and the quality of the new members of LBJ’s staff; Eric Goldman; Schlesinger’s involvement with the Dominican Republic; LBJ campaigning for Robert Kennedy in the 1964 New York Senate race; White House Art Festival
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and then they changed that title . Incidentally that job paid a new sum of $1800 . F: Oh, you got a big raise . M: So I got a raise . here . That was during the time that Mr . Johnson was Lyndon was here and he and Lady Bird were the office forces around here
President's Daily Diary entry, 8/9/1964 (Item)
  • august 9, 1964 LBJ Ranch Awakened b y mf with news tha t Secy. "Ball wa s calling with an urgent message Under ,Secretary of. State... George. Ball..- .Washington,. D. .C.. George Reedv - Austin Secretary McNamara - Washington, D. C. Cong. Phil
Vice-President's Daily Diary entry, 10/24/1962 (Item)
  • a Arrive 274 E. O. B. Swearing in of William C. Doherty ; swearing in as Ambassador to Jamaica in Secretary of State Reception Room (seventh floor, New State) Depart Arrive P-38 with New York State Senator Watson - Rufe Youngblood Lunch in P-38 with Speaker
Memo, FBI to Mr. Johnson, 11/22/63 (Item)
  • and registered in Embassy, Moscow. 2. August 1963 - Arrested for breaking the peace in New Orleans apparently in connection with his distribution of "hands off Cuba" handbills. In interrogation following arrest admitted membership in New Orleans Connnittee
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 3 (III), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • is the beginning of Mr. Johnson's presidency. We had brought you over then to his offices following the news of the assassination. Did you take part at all in the reception of Mr. Johnson when he came in? Where did he go when he came in, did he get in any
Folder, "Celler, Emanuel (Cong) [2 of 2]," Name Files, WHCF, Box C-151 (Item)
  • · ~ ... ...:~~.,,,,!; "., x Ma.rob Zl, :l 966 ;::­ Honorable ..!£=.!m:!! · .~ - a~a~ue~.l~IMAolililWo-9 P:roepect Park We t Brooklyn, New York 1---------:­ We a~e deeply 1rieved to lea1'n of the lo•• of your dear wife thie morning ae4 Lady Btrcl and I want ·you
Oral history transcript, James W. Smith, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was put together in 1953 or early 1954 and I attended the first meeting of it. I believe it was in Dallas or Waco. could have been in Fort Worth. It At that time I was a staff repre- sentative of the United Steelworkers of America in the Houston
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • know whether they ever made their ways into the Library or not. G: That's a new one on me. Let's see if I can find some. Was that the last year you were there? J: Probably so, because actually I was only there two years. G: Any other activities
  • colleges in Marshall and deciding how to address the president of Wiley College; Mrs. Johnson's experiences as a student at St. Mary's Episcopal School for Girls in Dallas; Mrs. Johnson's appreciation of, and participation in, theater; friends made at St
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, 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 O: I should make a comment on another candidate for the presidency in the context of past discussions we've
  • support to Democratic Party unity; Jimmy Carter's role in the 1972 presidential election; Edmund Muskie's campaign leading up to the 1972 election and how it was affected by attacks in the Manchester [New Hampshire] Union Leader; John Lindsay's 1972
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • got acquainted over that He also went out to get the support of some of the smaller newspapers. He didn't rely on the Dallas News, which he of course didn't have. But he wor ked hard on papers like [those] owned by Mr. Houston Ha.r te. papers
Oral history transcript, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • those districts there are also subdistricts. For instance, in Texas, Dallas is the principal headquarters city, but we have offices in Houston and offices in Austin. M: This sounds like you follow the Federal Reserve system. c: Well, we did follow
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • first trip to Washington. I was a new member, I met all of the Texas members, of whom there were twenty-one, including myself, at the time. them, probably, on the opening day of the session. I met all of I'm sure I did. That included Mr. Rayburn
  • Center in San Antonio by JFK and subsequent trip to Dallas; LBJ’s "Great Society;" Vietnam demonstrations; Fisher’s opinions on LBJ’s effectiveness as President: ambitious and hardworking.
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • -sawmill-farming community west of Jacksonville, which was where I grew up . I attended the public schools there, and I also attended the public schools in New York and Massachusetts . M: Your family must have moved some then? B: No, I had a lot
Oral history transcript, NYA Interview, group interview 1 (I), 1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • ability~ and his political knOW-how. When he came into Austin~ Texas~ I was a student at the University of Texas, but there was considerable publicity about the fact that he was there and had taken on this new job. Every day there was another story
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • is flying in in the middle of the night and is unreachable. So the next morning there is a meeting with you and Wirtz and Larry Temple and the President in the Cabinet Room. And this would be mid- to late-October, before the election. C: Well, whenever
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • by a Republican committee, and I was appointed purely on professional grounds. They were looking for somebody that knew something about the problem. When we met with the kitchen cabinet people in evolving this idea of a new approach, we knew that the previous
Oral history transcript, John Wildenthal, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Austin; then stopped in Dallas or Fbrt Worth, picked up Walter [J~nkins]. The West plane was carrying an employee of his over to Johns Hopkins for medical attention and took the Senator's party on the way. G: Did you have any contact with Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be there in the morning." I was making a hundred and thirty-five a month, for nine months a year. to Austin and talked to Lyndon, went back and gave the I g.rove down s~hoo1 board a week's notice and went to work on December 15 for NYA. G: This was December, 1935
President's Daily Diary entry, 6/3/1966 (Item)
  • Fonville, State Rep, Williamton, Del. Hon. Thomas R Fortune, Brooklyn, NY Mrs. Willie Stevens Glanton, State Rep, Des Moines, Iowa Hon. Quentin Goodwin, Civil Service Commissioner, Chicago Atty. Curtis M. Graves, Houston, Tex W. T. Meade Grant, Jr. , New
Folder, "Roy Wilkins (NAACP)," Name Files, WHCF, Box W-312 (Item)
  • Aclva11eemea& of Colorecl People 20 ••t 40ta Street New Tork. New Tork ehw ~M)tJ. 147 • 1 JAM Honorable Lyndon President ot Waabingto ILIGINI GE JlOAD ,N. Y. '0 iHE WHllE HOUSt 'p- APft 1121AM '6~ -~~..,._R.f~~VEO EXECUTIVE PR f-J/N>- Dear Mr
Oral history transcript, Antonio J. Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the way from San Antonio to Dallas to St. Louis where it connected with New York and Washington and so on. These were holidays. We had a fine day together, we shot some quail. We had a few cups of cheer and everyone was feeling fine and sentimental