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Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

" as they call it at those magazines, doing every department where someone else were unavailable, sick or on vacation . BA : What was the name of the book? BE : Time and a Ticket , it was called . BA : You may be too modest to mention this, but are you
Biographical information; TIME & A TICKET; LBJ's remarks regarding Vietnam; LBJ's reading and general knowledge; speech writing and the staff; "cussers/doubters/nervous-nellies;" consumer interest information; speech schedule put out on Fridays

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

very vividly because it's so belied by what has happened, even in recent days of the birth of Lynda Bird's daughter. It amuses me that--the girls are big and I remember the time he told us, when Lynda was about five, how he took her to Neiman-Marcus
; problems with Interior Department; shift to Civil Division; Pure and Union Oil; critical of Ramsey Clark as Attorney General; LBJ’s difficulties with Establishment press; missile/satellite program investigation; LBJ’s neglect of functions as leader

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and Eleanor Roosevelt at the convention in an attempt to swing the convention with the enthusiasm of the moment. However, the efforts we had expended over that long period of time stood us in good stead because, again, there was no erosion. So when the actual
Virginia primary and what JFK learned from it; the JFK/Nixon debates; JFK's handling of the Bay of Pigs incident; O'Brien meeting with each cabinet member to review roles in the Kennedy Administration; JFK's and O'Brien's time spent learning their roles

Folder, "Diaries [Transcripts of Tapes 11-20]," Papers of U. Alexis Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

for the first time all the elements of the organization aremovingdownthe same road together. I think also the actionsthathave been taken by the United States during the past year have given new heart to the Vietnamese, in spite of theiViet Congsuccesses. Up

Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. M: Still 1963, right? R: The President invited me over to a meeting to discuss the outlines of his first State of the Union message. Somewhere I have some penciled notes of that meeting, but there must be better notes at that time. Walter
First impressions of LBJ; JFK and LBJ; JFK and the White House staff; LBJ as VP; LBJ on foreign aid; LBJ Berlin speech, 1961; LBJ on foreign policy pre-presidency; LBJ’s first State of the Union message; Vietnam; CIAP; Latin America; White House

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 16, 15 May 1979," LBJ Library (Item)

-2 a distinguished array f leaders from board room and bureaucracy, congressional committee, campus and union hall. (See box on page 2 for par ticipants.) The two-day conference was jointly sponsored by the Library, the LBJ School of Public Affairs

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 28, May 16-24, 1967 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 16 (Item)

interest in associating the White House with the signature of this agreement. In view of the fact that this ma.y be the first of a number of similar agreements to be signed. with other countries, and the current dem.ands on your time, I recommend

Folder, "NUCLEAR - Nuclear Proliferation, Cmte on (NSAM #320) [2 of 2]," Files of Charles E. Johnson, NSF, Box 37 (Item)

, significance and procedures to the Soviet or improving a nuclear there it is assumed that no paper, items to the Sino·-Soviet control inimical states particular Bloc. regarding This policy is one of Union,. Communist Chinat or other which would

President's Daily Diary entry, 10/31/1968 (Item)

WV WHITE HOUS E Dat DENT LYNDO N B . JOHNSO N e Oc Time Telephon 1 In Ou tL e fort Activit oL r say s th e Presiden t retire d 12:23a t Lt 4:41a t Chie 4:42a t Situatio 4: 54a f 5:00a _ y (includ e visite d by ) D 12:00midnight

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 3 (III), 12/11/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

agreement get that, that if we got it And that prior to that to be the most important point to the South Vietnamese. our election. circumstances time, that of comment on the timing at all, since right without a bit came to. on the advice

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 8 (VIII), 9/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- VIII -- 3 August 17. It was bigger than the steel union settlements in aluminum and in cans and it busted the 3.2 per cent wage-price guideline. At that point

Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

not discussed it because it was a matter of such vast importance and still is a matter that's of tremendous importance and is very much before the public and before the Congress at this time . That [matter] deals with the deregulation of natural gas

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

going to do, you're going to-- M: Be as expansive as you feel like being because the more you add, the better the interview is. So don't, when we've got plenty of tapes and, I think, plenty of time. So, okay, we begin with then on the third

Folder, "King, Martin Luther [1 of 2]," Aides Files of Mildred Stegall, Box 32 (Item)

States at the present time might prevent needless bloodshed in the future. SEGR:e:P GROUP1 Excluded from automatic downgrading and declassification DEC SIF!ED E.O. 129Jd, Sec. 3.6 NLJ O -..l3 B~ NARA,Date~! '-,--;DEC22 PM 5 33 MARTINLUTHERKING

Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 1, Nov. 1963 - Feb. 1964 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 1 (Item)

ARCHIVES PROCESSING NOTE You will fmd two versions of the document withdrawal sheets in this file. The original document withdrawal sheets were completed in the 1970s and early 1980s. Since that time, many of the documents have been declassified

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 101: Oct. 23‑28, 1968 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 41 (Item)

about -·--·--the·-PaTiHnegotiations and ·connnunications between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. • Tcherniakov, his DMC, knows half the story. No oni~rn the Embassy has th-e knowledge to speak with any authority 011 what is happening about Vietnam. When I

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that scmetime we'd come in the back way through the alley and use a freight elevator to get up in the offices because the bill collectors were waiting for us, particularly Western Union and the printers. time. They were there all the And here was Mr. Marsh

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 18, January 1 - 14, 1967 [1 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 12 [1 of 2] (Item)

that 1 am deeply concerned that this aid be forthcoming in sufficient and timely fashion. However, as I said in my recent State of the Union message, I am convinced that this problem is a responsibility of the international community, and will have

Folder, "[Manuscript] Chapters 10, 12-16," Papers of William P. Bundy, Box 1 (Item)

, discussed, Vietr:.ar~ese US sense has the polit~cs has been Vietna..~ese bad course of cor:.cerning There right deat:~ policy t.11at "we we:1t once or to whol:.7 time brackish." were the in Vietnai.~ese of a South South broad long

Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

sketch your background, education? H: Ny home town All the time. "laS Mi nera 1 We 11 s. But when I got into NY A I had been in Lubbock, going to school at Texas Tech and had finished out there and was out looking for something to do right

Oral history transcript, Gould Lincoln, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

together? You gave me what I was looking for. I was trying to think at that time, did Lyndon Johnson already evidence the ambition and the drive and the motivation that has characterized his whole career, and you think he did? L: I think he has ever

Folder, "Communism and the Negro Movement – A Current Analysis," Aides Files of Mildred Stegall, Box 63a (Item)

, Levison told a CPUSA functionary that King was concerned about a "communist label" being "pinned on us" but that, at the same time, be wanted to do everything possible to evidence friendship toward the Soviet Union. Moreover, King has been described within

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

this, what are blacks going to say out here, what are black leaders going to do, will they see through it as transparent b.s.? I had that problem all the time. I had no other job, really, than making sure that the politics was right because we were

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 28 (XXVIII), 4/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. G: The New York Times piece by Bob Semple, why don't you give the background of that, because we never discussed that on tape. C: At some point in 1966, Semple, I think with prompting from Max Frankel, came to me and said, "We'd like to follow

Folder, "NSAM # 295: U.S. Policy Toward South Africa, 4/24/1964," National Security Action Memorandums, NSF, Box 4 (Item)

~ Ascension) by June 1966 without serious degradation to scheduled programs • .. (See details below in 'a ction on paragraph 4 of NSAM 295). Timing of !CJ Judgment on South West Africa The best current prediction is that the !CJ, now in sunnner recess

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

to call on him--it was one of the first times that I really got to know him--when he was recuperating from his heart attack down on the Ranch. A story had appeared in the New York Times that he was at work building a southern conservative coalition

Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at all before you came to Washington? E: I did not. Of course, I knew who Lyndon was. I had been working on the Dallas Times Herald when this vacancy occurred with the death of Congressman [James] Buchanan in Austin. I knew about Lyndon Johnson's

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 82, October 2003," LBJ Library (Item)

sails on.' Mrs. Johnson, Luci Baines Johnson, and long time LBJ staffer and family friend, Mildred Photo by Charles Bogel Stegall. 2 "As we celebrate the 95th birthday of Lyndon Baines John son. those of us who knew him can reminiscence about him

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Cyprus, 1/24/1968, Volume 4, Tab 62," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

of the large n umber of North Korean Migs available to attack them . General Wheeler sai d some p l anes were sent from Okinawa but that in order to reach Wonsan they needed to refuel on route. From the time that the commanders received the ship ' s call

Folder, "Passage and Signature," Transportation Department, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 3 (Item)

, modification, or denial of certifi cates or licenses. 8. Interstate Commerce Commission junctions relating to railroad safety laws, and hours of service of employees; motor carrier safety laws; transportation of explosives; and, standard time zones

Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. When her mother I was a judge at the time my first wife died. After· three or four years had gone by, I had the good fortune to meet a tall, articulate, ''litty, good-looking brunette with three little boys. She was a widow of air force Captain

Folder, "[July 1967 - May 1968 Meetings with Correspondents]," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

by the fact that so many of the people who are rioting aren't prepared for jobs. He said that they were unable to get jobs because they weren't permitted to join labor unions. The President said that there would be a deficit of between $25 and $30 billion

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

thought, "Well, that's cheap. She'd pay a hundred for it in America." So I just took it right there. And after I had paid him he looked at me and he said, "You've only been in our country a short time I can tell. You didn't handle this very well. You mind

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the communist power had been broken--and it was broken; after 1948 that was the end. Walter Reuther got the United Automobile Workers back. The AFL-CIO set up the IUE, the International Union of Electrical Workers, which over a long period of time finally

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 3 (III), 1/17/89, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

thought, "Well, that's cheap. She'd pay a hundred for it in America." So I just took it right there. And after I had paid him he looked at me and he said, "You've only been in our country a short time I can tell. You didn't handle this very well. You mind

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 12, September 1-14, 1966 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 10 (Item)

the Russians before taking it up with the Germans. Before making up your mind, you will wish to hear his argument in detail, as well as get the views of Rusk and McNamara. . The heart of the problem is timing. In terms of Alliance politics, it would be best

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

mentioned, at Defense. I don't recall General [Charles] Roderick's activities in detail, which should not be taken as meaning that he wasn't good; it's just a matter of recollection after a long period of time has elapsed. But it's interesting, as I go
efforts to stall the cotton-wheat bill; the relationships between different pieces of legislation and how to time legislative activity to the advantage of the administration; Carl Hayden and the Central Arizona Project tied to his vote on cloture

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, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Aimee Semple McPherson? C: Aimee Semple McPherson. She was carrying a program every Sunday night and I think one other time during the week, but anyway she had one, I know, on Sunday night. The minister either followed her or preceeded her

Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 2 (II), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

down there? S: Well, my recollection is that he went--didn't that [heart attack] occur at George Brown's place, where, in Alexandria or something? G: Yes, Middleburg, I think. S: He spent a lot of time telling me about the complications

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