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Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

19, 1985 INTERVIEWEE : WILLIAM J . CROCKETT INTERVIEWER : Michael PLACE : Mr . Crockett's residence, Los Altos, California L. Gillette Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Okay, let's start with the trip to Senegal . Was that the first one that you went

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: ~- IV -- 2 I wasn't present to hear it, and all I would have heard would have been how many times--hearsay I don't know--but I know Lynda, and I knew that she could say harsh things. But at any rate, that apparently was the background of the early

Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, almost all my life, went to school there and became a lawyer and started practicing law in Junction about 1935. Coke Stevenson was in the legislature at that time, had a law office in Junction, and encouraged me to study law. university. I didn't get

Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

have broken the federal governmertt's bank in no time at all. Among other things he asked ~s for advice on who the Commissioner of Education should be, and we all agreed \vith enthusiasm on Commissioner James Alle'l of New York, who \Vas the state man

Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

as important as the one I gave, it's worth reading, but it's not quite as important as the one I gave to the Conference of Mayors at their Chicago Convention in July of 1968. I had said lo~s of these things before in scattered ways but here I tried to pull

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

[for Senator Johnson]? M: What year would this be? G: This was 1953 also. [Shivers] attended a Texas congressional delega- tion luncheon and spoke heartily in favor of Senator Johnson at the time he was considering running against Senator Johnson. M

Oral history transcript, Antonio J. Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of the time and paid a lot of attention to his business. T: Yes, he was a very busy man. My father traveled a little. He had very few interests or hobbies outside the little world--and all our worlds were little in those days I guess, thanks to bad roads
; visiting the Ranch at the same time as Mexican President Adolfo Lopez-Mateos; trip to Oaxaca to pick up Senator Douglas; returning part of El Paso to Mexico and related events; experiences with Mexican officials at social events; Mrs. Johnson’s success

Oral history transcript, Ralph Dungan, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Subjc c t(s) covered time on tape - 9 .Johnson never could rccogn i.zc that he was no longer the Senator from Texas but the Vici? President of the U. 11 The Kennedy family and staff was treated very syr:ipathet by Johnsun 12 . Transition; Kenney

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

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 1 (I), 1/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, as you said, you became an assistant to the Solicitor General in the Justice Department. P: The first time I met Mr. Johnson is partially a further answer to your question. After I came into the Department of Justice, President Kennedy had a tradition

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

reception or something-A: There are a whole lot more ideas generated than you can possibly use. The President and Mrs. Johnson, as I'm sure you've heard hundreds of times when you're doing these interviews--the President moved into that house and repeatedly

Oral history transcript, Eugene Williams and Helen Williams, interview 1 (I), 10/27/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and that we would apply. So we did. After two weeks' trial, we got the job. Johnson later, who was a very tall, kind of heavy face, which n~an and had a strong to have been his character for the rest of the time seen~ed that we knew hi'm. Wernet

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

at the time. Following high school I went to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and finished with my degree, an A.B., in 1934. Mc: Tough time to finish. M: Yes, that was right in the middle of the Depression. Shortly after graduation I went

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

over and was interviewed. Airlines, and she came onboard. She had been working at American And she left me at the time of the Humphrey campaign because one of the reasons why she came to work here was hoping to work on the President's campaign. So

Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

-time job, and supposedly was given a half-day Ivork. So during that summer I went to school from eight to twelve, reported to ,mrk immediately thereafter, and asually left about twelve or one that night. I found out most of my part-time jobs

Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

, which at that time was recently established on the initiative of Governor Earl Warren. Then I became, as a young faculty member, under some very special circumstances, the first chancellor of the Berkeley campus in its history. K: Was that because

Oral history transcript, Willard J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

is in his office in Washington, D.C. at the Coast Guard headquarters. The date is December 10, 1968; the time is ten-thirty. My name is David McComb. First of all, Admiral Smith, I'd like to know where you were born and when. S: I was born in Michigan

Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Because my wife and I were relatively young--I was thirty-eight at the time--and we had come from John Kennedy Massachusetts, we received a lot of press coverage. country in We were doing unusual things in the conservative State of Ohio. When

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

-- Interview I, Tape 1 -- 3 At any rate we made the connection and I went down and was interviewed. About the same time the word went from Senator Johnson through Dean Page Keeton, the University of Texas Law School, that he was looking for someone and two

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--I mean to the metropolitan area's--what's the name of the organization for administrators? Public administration group. And lo and behold, here was Bradley as chairman of the whole thing and it was maybe the third time they'd called on him

Oral history transcript, Robert Fleming, interview S-I, 11/8/1979, by David Culbert (Item)

conversa ti ons today, 11 and then he said, "You tho_ught it was time that you and he talked." He still didn't look up. to talk about. I know him. He said,-"! don't know what there is I like him. r trust him. I need him." I said, ''Mr. President

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

is required. F: \~e'll grant that you have the necessary social attributes and that you knew the l~ashington scene fairly well, by background, but at the same time your own professional background had not been in this direction. You had worked on much

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, Lawrence McQuade, interview 1 (I), 1/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with Mr. Johnson prior to the time you came over here, either in your capacity with the Defense Department or any other capacity? Mc: No. I'd never talked with him directly. I had seen him from a dis- tance and that's all. M: And you carne over here

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that, just at odd times? T: He'd do it usu;tlly late in the evening--at odd times, but usually late in the evening and there'd be a .s tack of maybe a hundred or pictures on !he so-called signing table behind his desk. "lere not Signed by anybody but Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh - 2 B: That's going to come up later in the interview when we get into the area of personnel. Have you had in your career at any time any strictly political activity? R: No, I haven't. My wife, as an active Democrat

Oral history transcript, Tom and Betty Weinheimer, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to this place in 1954 then? TW: Right. G: I see. And, of course, the Johnsons had just had their place for about two or three years then, I guess, at that time? 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 2 (II), 3/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

came aboard? s: Only the most general kind of instructions. At that time Henry Wilson had been in charge of the House side of Congressional relations for the President-well, he'd come in from the Kennedy days, he'd been there since '61

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 5 (V), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and looking around, Robert Weaver, I think, almost had a trauma over the length of time that Johnson took to name him as the head of HUD. Do you have any idea why Johnson took so long, other than the fact that he is sometimes slow and careful? W: I know

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the Job Corps, the director of Head Start. So at that time Bill Kelly would have been closing them up, and Bill Kelly was just terrifically good as a manager and thank God he was in charge. That's one reason why I don't remember the details. G: Did

Oral history transcript, William S. Gaud, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

since what date, G: About the first of July, I don't recall, 1966. but at any rate, sir? Maybe it was the first of August. the middle of 1966. M: And you had previously been with the Agency since what time? G: 1961. In 1961 I was appointed

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

used to ask me to tell him over and over, "How many husbands did you say she had?" And he knew darned well, because he had heard it several times. And, "How many children did you say she had?" G: Did she ever talk about your father's youth? J

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that as a preliminary. S: All right. F: How did you get involved in it, how was it broached to you, and what in effect were you supposed to do? S: At that time, I went up to Justice Department from Dallas the last of February 1965. So as you recall the Selma

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

-- 3 finally, at that time, the Bell-Dillon-Heller layer. This served both as a kind of factual agent to give the President something like a quarterly review--I don't know that we were quite that systematic but that was the objective--of the economic

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of Nixon's aspirations at that B : time, and how much help, if any, you received from the national party . Nixon, of course, flatly denied that he had any Presidential ambitions-that he intended to spend four years in Sacramento . But I hammered away from

Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, interview S-IX, 8/12/1969, by William J. Jorden (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 What was your involvement as a Senator in the SEATO Treaty deliberations? Did you have any opinion of SEATO at that time? Q. President: I was not present when the SEATO Treaty was voted upon. I was in Mayo Hospital

Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: DR. MELVILLE B. GROSVENOR INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: National Geographic Society offices, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 F: Mel, I suppose we may as well quit the formalities and be informal since live known you a long time through

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

knew to be Senator Johnson's tremendous skills as a negotiator, as a bargainer, as a manager or manipulator, if you will, in the Senate .a.t the time that he was mnjority leader. You will recall the desire of Estes Kefauver to be a member of the Senate

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in this manner. And I saw the effect that it had on him and on my mother. Not that they were overcome by it, but it was an experience somewhat I suppose like being a victim of a natural catastrophe, which left a very strong impression on me. At that time I

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Sr., interview 1 (I), 1/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the legislature of Texas, owned my people in slavery time. I understand that he came from Attica, New York into Texas be- fore the Civil War. able to say. Where my people came from I don't know, I'm not But I do know that my grandfather Mr. Shoemaker

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