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Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Lucas had a tough race because Dirksen had tremendous popular support, newspaper support, and Illinois was a state that could go either way, but Senator Myers' defeat was a big shock. Senator [Richard] Russell at this particular time had more votes
Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • as a legal secretary, and she was on the law review. G: I think that's accurate. I suspect that the time I finished high school had more to do with my going into teaching than anything else, because it was the acceptable, the respectable thing for a woman
Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Foundation and asked me to chair a panel to review a proposal by the City of Los Angeles for a super computer information system. Now, Dick, whom I had not seen since 1961, reappeared as a PCJD [?] consultant assigned to work on the development
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 7 (VII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the bill. If he receives it at a time when the ten days, which does not include Sundays, expire before Congress has adjourned, then a failure to sign constitutes approval of the bill. If the Congress has adjourned sine die, or for any period more than three
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . He gave it to the TV Guide people, and they gave it back to him after they'd used it, and then he gave it to--gosh, 1 think to the Los Angeles Times. I don't know, the latter is a guess. And again, in let's say September 1968--1 don't know what
Oral history transcript, Antonio Carrillo-Flores, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Congress changes it, and I hope it won't change it, that problem does not exist. F: In February of 1964 when President Johnson was still fairly new as president, he and President López Mateos met in los Angeles. CF: That is correct. F. Did you help set
Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Philadelphia, Los Angeles You do have to be political at least to the extent of spreading it around and the real question is is there a cut-\-~ff place? t{e followed the policy, ,'7ith the help of the Advisory Committ:ee on the Arts--you need these outside
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • had no problem. An interesting sidelight is that a few years back, just after I stopped really consulting--I had retired already--a woman from a Los Angeles law firm called me. They were doing pro bono work for a sectarian institution which
Oral history transcript, William R. Desobry, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • they had National Police advisors. They had some damned good ones. I met some of them, Americans, people that had been chiefs of police in such cities as Los Angeles and so on, and retired and came over and worked on them. They were damned good men; called
Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , not the Business and Professional Womenls-P: I know. Well ~ I did not go to the convention in San Francisco. No, Los Angeles. I was very, very interested. The Kentuckians were LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • believe, were on there. She was from the Dallas Times-Herald. Who else? And the rest were mostly newspapermen from weeklies. Just a free trip. G: I see. Does that mean they couldn't go because of space or time requirements? R: Oh, they couldn't go
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh March 18, 1969 Me Let me identify the tape first. Jr. This is an interview with Mr. John W. Macy, He is the former head of the Civil Service Commission. March 18, 1969. The date is The time is 11:15 in the morning
  • Biographical information; 1940-1943 experiences in the Civilian Personnel Division of the War Dept. as a civilian and a junior officer; demobilization in 1946; work as Director of Personnel and Organization at Los Alamos, changing it from a military
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 4 (IV), 2/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at that time. Of course, Vice President Johnson met with the leader, whose last name was Leopold Sedar, who was, as I recall it, a poet before he became a politician. But it was to participate in the celebration of the birth of that country. Vice President
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 4 (IV), 3/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • station, and he just delayed and delayed and delayed because of his perception that entry into this business at that time--and this is at a much later date than when we went into KTBC--was still fraught with so much peril that he would move his tower
Oral history transcript, Cecille Harrison Marshall, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there. Bird had been to Battle Creek with her aunt at some time and had learned to eat the proper things. I never did, not at that time. I would always eat things like angel food cake and whipped cream and that sort of thing, but Bird dutifully ate what
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • -- 3 At any rate, I was in the Texas circle at the time of the election of Roosevelt in 1936. And having stayed on for purposes of the minimum wage bill alone, as I had intended, I soon found myself additionally caught up unwillingly in the so-called
Oral history transcript, Fred Schmidt, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . If you want me to enlarge on that, why. G: Trace the history of your involvement. S: Well, I graduated from The University of Texas in 1939; then I took a year of graduate work. At that time, of course, the war clouds were building, and I think most
Oral history transcript, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that service and met President Johnson at that time. Of course we had many mutual friends, men who knew him well and who knew me well. I had opportunities to know him, so to speak, indirectly. But my friendship for him goes back a good many years
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 13 (XIII), 7/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • where the Republicans would be embarrassed to vote the other way, he'd take advantage of it. Any time where he was on the side of the angels, he'd take advantage of it. G: Another setback for the administration was May 8, the defeat of the proposed
Oral history transcript, Elaine Fischesser and Ellen Taylor Cooper, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1967, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • are the same; is that right? MRS. FISCHESSE R: Yes. MR. CATER: I think the family tree is pretty clear here , so I won't even waste any time on that. But I would like to just ask you some informal questions about when you first met Mrs. Johnson·, where
Oral history transcript, George G. (Admiral) Burkley, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • concerned with the White House was in about 1956, at which time I was requested by Admiral Hogan, Surgeon General of the Navy, to accompany President Eisenhower on any trips to Camp David, or to Gettysburg when Camp David might be involved in his trip
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • place that he didn't go to. He was also campaigning for Stuart Symington at this same time, wasn't he? In Missouri? J: Yes. He went up to Missouri and made a couple of speeches for Stu and stayed with Tony Buford. G: Well, let me ask you, do you feel
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a program; you've got to know where you're going. And the point here was to determine--now that we'd gotten a man into space--the point was to have some fixed point around which we would develop programs. Now, that was about the time when there was some
Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the house where Mr. Taylor later moved, and that's the house in which Lady Bird was born. At the time that we first met Miss Minnie, as we called her--her name was Minnie Lee Pattillo, and all their friends and my mother called her Minnie and I called her
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 7 (VII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • these things you just enumerated--minimum wage and the whole nine yards--these really didn't come up in that period of time. So while I don't remember--which is the honest answer to the question you've asked--I doubt that it would have made a whole lot
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason and Jeanne Deason, interview 6 (VI), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • purposes, and that's what you remember about the first time you met Mrs. Johnson, anything that either of you might recall. You met her at I guess a decade apart for the first time. WD: I'll let Jeanne go first on that. G: Would you, Mrs. Deason, go
Oral history transcript, Jessie (Mrs.) Hatcher, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • , I'm the youngest, of the tribe of nine. I: Nine children? H: Nine children, only one living at this time. I: How come you're living up here in San Saba, while the rest of the family is down around Johnson City? LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Robert F. McMahon and Mark T. Muller, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , which would be two days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, eastern time. G: You are-- Mc: So evidently somebody in Washington knew this attack was coming. Pearl Harbor was not an accidental fluke that no one in Washington knew about. It was even
Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in Cleveland against the navy Blue Angels. We were in Mustangs and the Angels were in their Corsairs. It was quite a thrill for me to be flying over Lake Erie and knowing that Mary Margaret's family was down there watching and my family was down there watching
  • Crisis and timing of the U.S. removal of Jupiter’s from Turkey; Flynn's transfer to Vietnam in July 1967; shot down over Hanoi on 36th mission; interrogation and torture after capture; injuries; survival trailing the events of capture; prisoner isolation
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1981 INTERVIEWEE : DON OBERDORFER INTERVIEWER : Ted Gittinger PLACE : Mr . Oberdorfer's residence, Washington, D .C . Tape 1 of 1 G: Can we begin by getting you to give us background 0: as a journalist before the time of your Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 2 (II), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh -2- The one time I had met him, I think, before he became President was when he was getting an honorary degree at Tufts--!'ve forgotten when this was, maybe the spring of '63 or somewhere in there, and he made a speech which
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and invited her for dinner to our house. And at the same time invited a man who is now dead named Aaron Schaffer, who was head of the French Department, or maybe the Romance Language Department, at the University of Texas. He and his wife Dorothy were
Oral history transcript, Payne Rountree, interview 1 (I), undated, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • wanted to go to California, look around, work. G: Mr. Summy said that there were hard times in Johnson City then and he went out there to make some money. Had you been working in Johnson City then? About how old were you then? R: Well, let’s see, what
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 3 (III), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Then he cooled off. And Wayne Morse who was chairman of the subcommittee at the same time was a small "d" democrat and everybody has to have their say and we should go through the processes and all that. I clearly believe that. I found that to be true
Oral history transcript, Owen Donley, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • by the name of Karl E. Mundt. He lost that election; it was a close election. He lost by about fifteen thousand votes. The incoming president, Kennedy made--he was a congressman at that time and was defeated for the Senate. President Kennedy made him
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • November. If 1949 was a period that for us, and in retrospect it seems to me for the country, was a sort of happy time, in 1950, particularly as the year wore on, there were rising clouds and frustration. The war was continuing in Korea and getting more
Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and the Pennsylvania Commission. 0: Pennsylvania Avenue Council . F: Let's talk a little bit about the formation of that . 0: I didn't have any connection with any presidential candidates or anybody aspiring to same . The first time that we really heard about
  • historic sites; Willard Hotel; J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI Building; Lady Bird’s time and attention; Federal Highway Commission; National Plaza; Owings close to the Nixon Administration; Nixon’s interest in the National Plaza; LBJ Library; Skidmore-Owings
Oral history transcript, Donald F. Hornig, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , Kistiakowsky and I got into a jeep about an hour later and drove up to Los Alamos. We were both so sleepy and tired that we drove off the road a halfdozen times. I quite literally don't remember anything about that trip except every now and again being afraid
  • Biographical information; set up lab in Woods Hole then Los Alamos, 1944; Oppenheimer in charge; first test a surprising shockwave; believed bomb would end war and save American lives; Fulbright Grant and Guggenheim grant to Oxford, 1954
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • at all last time. As a way of beginning, I suppose, can you describe what in your opinion was the nature of the commitment that the United States had in regard to Vietnam at the time Mr. Johnson became president? B: Well, the President took over
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • COOPER INTERVIEHER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN DATE: July 17, 1969 PLACE: Mr. Cooper's office in Arlington, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 M: We had reached, chronologically, last time right to the brink of 'Marigold,but there are a couple of things I wanted