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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
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 2 (II), 7/9/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE BALL INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Ball's office in New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: I think maybe a good thing at the beginning would be to put on [tape] that I've read through your file of memoranda, and your caution
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Vasco Leitao da Cunha, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1973, by Dr. Richard Graham (Item)

-- I -- 7 G: I see. Did you meet him in Honolulu and then accompany him? L: I went to fetch him in Honolulu and accompanied him all through the rest of the journey. And then, from Washington, he went to New York; from New York, [he] came back
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

with Congress. So I got to know him fairly casually in those years. In 1955, when he had his heart attack, he was recuperating down on the ranch in Texas and a story appeared in the New York Times, written interestingly enough by William S. White, which said
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

for The Nation. SL: What other •••.• ? Oh, The Nation, The Reporter, lately demised, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, and in the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

? N: Well, you know, I had known him briefly in that Libyan experience and also I knew him when he was in New York. Because during his tenure as our head of the U.N. Mission there, I went up on various occasions to handle issues that came up
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Pollak -- IV -- 4 home rule, or did you just assume that that was impossible to begin with and start in on what became the new form of government? P: Yes. The home rule bill had been defeated in 1966. When I got to the White House, Horsky was at work
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

is executive vice president of the American Cancer Society in New York City. with me, and I decided to take the opportunity. They got in touch I presume another motivation at this time was the fact that I had decided to get married, and so I left with my
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 2 (II), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

friends who in one way or another want you . .;;. to be friendly too •. I would imagine that Mr. Autry was obtained primarily through the recommendation of a Mr. Ed Weisl in New York,· who represented in legal capacity the movie actors. to them, .YOU go
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to the Kennedy Administration to have any Admin~tration. contact with Mr. Johnson back in your news career or in private career? D: Only vaguely in my news career. However, in 1955 and 1956, I was on Capitol Hill associated with Senator Estes Kefauver

Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 2 (II), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

relationship with the press, which I think was useful. We did have some exceptions to the reporting, some of it was very good. The New York Times had some good reporters there. You see, most of these reporters didn't stay for the duration. Well, it was much
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

and it was quite successful . Railroads in those days ran a fantastically low price excursion to New York . round trip . I think it was $3 a He worked out a deal that the whole Little Congress could go up there and go to a night club and eat dinner something

Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

know him well . four Negro women and the man--what's trip and he went with us . went to New York one time on a sales G: James Davis? B: James . dices . prejuAs far as I know Johnson had no personal James Davis . white or black . Now, he swore
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William A. Knowlton, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Knowlton -- I -- 2 So, in 1964, I came into the office of the secretary general staff of the army heading the strategy and policy division, which was kind of a deep-think tank for the chief of staff. While I was in that post
of Vietnam; problems with civilians and military personnel working together, especially in terminology; Senator Edward Kennedy's visit to Knowlton's operations; Knowlton's work to secretly employ over 800 new White House staff members during LBJ's
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to Washington from your home state in Texas, and you worked with them until 1945. From 1945 to 1958 you were with the New York Times and rose to the position of chief congressional correspondent. In 1958 you left to become nationally syndicated. Your column
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Rather and I baby-sat with Lynda and Luci while the Johnsons went to New York. Luci had the mumps, and I caught the mumps. G: Did you do anything with the press at all? W: No. No. I didn't. They really laid me low. I don't recall the period being
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

be very quick to say, if they wanted to know a good reason that by the time the troops came down here--and at that time, people were coming here in busloads from New York, et cetera, going around .Congress--by the time they got through seeing the people
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 7 (VII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

it was 1964, in order to get more scientific exploration of the new hallucinogens, such as LSD. It also had a policing role, however, which in many respects was similar to what Bureau of Narcotics traditionally had performed in Treasury as to the narcotic
for the plan; the Office of Legal Counsel's role in approving the plan of reorganization and drafting the executive order; constitutional arguments for and against the Plan of Reorganization Act; the new joint organization director's pay grade; the Civil
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Richard Lee of New Haven and his then secretary, now the president of the New York State Urban Development Corporation--Ed Logue--made to me. Mc: How does he spell his name? T: L-O-G-U-E. I went to New Haven in August of 1955 to be Director
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Small -- I -- 11 voted with Victor [Vito] Marcantonio of New York, who was damn near a Communist, on 60 per cent of the votes
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

session about once every other week and I got to know him then. He called me one day in New York and suggested that I come down and talk to him. I did. F: It must be quite a wrench, in a way, for a young lawyer who's just getting set up
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

was Lorraine, and Jim was the guy on the phone. But I went up there on some kind of business, I've forgotten what now, towards the end of the campaign, I think about a week before it was over, when Johnson and Kennedy were in New York together for that final
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Ribicoff and I sat through both meetings. The first mee ting was held with Northern leaders, and I think in that group were Soapy Williams, Dave Lawrence, Carmine DiSapio, Dick Daley, Pat Brmm, possibly Mike Pendergast from New York, myself, Ribicoff, John
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Whitney Shoemaker, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

with newspapers himself a few years prior thereto. Then he left Washington, went to New York, and in a while came back at his brother's and the President behest to take over the Presidential Message Operation. In a short time he asked if I would be interested

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

departments would handle it, and whether there would be a new agency as opposed to having HEW--? B: Which period, is this pre-assassination or post-assassination? G: No, post-assassination. B: Post-assassination, the answer is yes to your question. G
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

school at the end of the Eisenhower Administration. As a means to an end I signed on with the Park Service to work I knew not where, but I was assigned to what was then called the Custis-Lee Mansion, Arlington House. As a native of western New York State
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

, 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: [I'd like to] have you focus on that list of the congressional liaison people and assess the value of each
and Appalachia; LBJ as a supporter of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and his deep commitment to helping people; Sargent Shriver's early leadership in the War on Poverty; Phil Landrum as a leader in supporting War on Poverty legislation; the poverty bill's referral
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it. One of my best paintings, which is now in the apartment in New York, the Fragonard called "Lady Reading a Letter," was in the hands of Göring, who wanted it more than anything in the world. He even made an offer through Seyss-Inquart, who
to the United States and involvement in the microfilm business; New York Governor Alfred Smith; a plane crashing into the Empire State Building; marrying Charles Engelhard; Engelhard’s political career; Engelhard’s involvement in the gold business; race
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and President [Richard] Nixon during LBJ's retirement. F: Well, obviously this ignores the striking earlier history between the two going back to the Eisenhower years, but Johnson made it a point with the [1968] election barely over--we were in New York
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for Robert Kennedy. The next day in the New York Times there was a story which described how Johnson had directed all cabinet and sub-cabinet officers to withdraw from whatever they were doing in the Humphrey, Johnson, whatever other campaigns there were
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 2 (II), 12/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

seeing something on page ten of the New York Times that morning--nothing on the front page--so that I was really quite surprised to hear from Nick that the situation was as serious as it appeared to be. As we talked further he indicated to me
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that they had indirect control of where a missile could reach Washington or New York and not reach Moscow. So the situation was somewhat different. Furthermore, the bulk of opinion was that what we were witnessing in the build-up in the summer of 1962
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 2 (II), 2/4/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Patman -- I -- 11 in New York or Washington or some other place. just sitting around in the car. He got hold of his daughter [Luci] that had the little boy about four years old
1960 convention in Los Angeles; the Biltmore Hotel; decision to take the Vice-Presidential post with JFK; connection with Johnson family in Oglethorpe County, Georgia; Lady Bird Johnson’s grandfather as founder of Baylor University; the LBJ Library
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Baskin of the Dallas News and Vernon Louviere of the Houston Chronicle and--I can't think at the moment--oh, I guess Felton West of the Houston Post. We thought we'd get down there and get a lot of hot poop, you know. He'd talk to us all weekend, and we
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://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 26 from Washington, New York sources, wanting background information on Johnson
Skelton; LBJ’s acceptance of VP; covered VP while in Austin; move of press from Austin to San Antonio; Eastern press; post-Presidential press conference; John Connally’s dissatisfaction for some of LBJ’s policy; off the record meetings; Sam Kinch, Jr
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, I don't think there has been a case study approach, unless somebody within OEO has done it, of the kind of problem areas in Community Action. I think one of the earliest ones was the HarYou Act situation in New York, and particularly the Black Arts
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

into the public. Now he couldn't, in many instances, he couldn't commit himself even for a dinner in New York, but then when things subsided, particularly in various parts of the world, he could then go up to a dinner in New York, and with the aid of a jet, you
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to this country--"Don't just go to New York and Washington. Please come to Texas, to Iowa, to the blue grass country" of my state of Kentucky. "See something more of what makes up this country." You obviously can't do that in two days, but you can get more
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William S. White and June White, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: No, I never was with him on any Texas matter or affair, except in 1952 when I was with the New York Times. I was out on one of those ear-to-the- ground surveys, you know, what's gOing to happen in the election. Johnson was running or assisting
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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