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Oral history transcript, John Ben Shepperd, interview 1 (I), 12/30/1968, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • be later on in 1969. I have, and this has been made available to the press, affidavits from all three members of the commission that no person was ever pressured to give money to this fund; and that no money had been given by anybody who did business
Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • friend of Mr. Fred Basham and they were both good friends of Mr. Johnson, and they wanted to introduce me to Mr. Johnson. Mostly the associations I had with him in those days, in the NYA days, were just friendship and all of us were interested
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 3 (III), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • like this not adding anything, not letting amendments be included. Then the third part of the report said here are the things that we got into it through report language. I am hard pressed to recall all of the things that were in there. However, one
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , there was another aspect of it, too. One of the things that has never been sufficiently explored is the fact that after World War II it became unfashionable to be an isolationist. Nobody wanted to be an isolationist because the isolationists were associated
Oral history transcript, Emanuel Celler, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • during those activities? C: No, I did not. B: Was the adding of Mr. Johnson to the ticket acceptable among the political groups you were associated with--the liberal groups in New York? C: Yes, it was. B: There were some liberals
Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the legislative efforts. I suppose there would be concern that in any hearings I might press forward with my own view that these proposals were quite inadequate and that we still needed an immediate income tax increase; corporate and personal. (Interruption) C
Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • way and down the fire stairs in order to avoid the press, not to have them know that there was any kind of dickering going on, and walking into Jim's room and finding Earl Mazo of the Herald Tribune sitting there. He was the first one I ran into. He
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 51 (LI), 8/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were encountering and the support we were losing on the Hill across the board as we pressed hard for school desegregation and civil rights generally. In the Civil Rights Act, there was a provision which said that desegregation meant assignment without
Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • had known Dean Rusk and worked once in an organization in which he had been associated. But basically I think it was Fulbright, McPherson, Macy. They then went to the President and my appointment went through. M: Once they decided to appoint you
Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 2 (II), 4/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • assuming that job ten or eleven months hence . I guess I was particularly amused and impressed that he said, "Look, this may leak into the press . I recognize that . it doesn't, but that's really up to Gardner in part . I hope If he felt that he
Oral history transcript, Andrew J. Goodpaster, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • mlght just mention in passing one little area, a very sharp dlvcrBCnce associated with an individual, a very able man who became the Chief of the U.S. Information Agency, Arthur Larson, Larson had done some work in political philosophy
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • decision which intrigued the President. G: I have a note that he took the press on a four-and-a-half [hour] tour of his various ranches during that trip. Were you along, do you recall? O: No, I wasn't. G: You seem to have maintained a policy
Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • u p such as the e VFW- A m e r i c a Legion c o n v e n t i o n , American M e d i c a l Association convention, the l a r g e g r o u p s that would gi.ve t h e c a n d i d a t e s g r e a t e x p o s u r e . Yet at the s a m e time, t h e r e w e r
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • trip to Texas. Did we mention this last time at all? M: Yes, we did. F: Yes. I think I felt then that the press coverage was so extensive of the trip that there was no particular need to rehearse where we went or what we did. If I'm repeating, we
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • following my graduation; joined the law firm of Brody, Charlton, Parker, and Roberts, as an associate at the salary of $200 a month, but I got a rapid raise to $275 a month by Christmas. I stayed with that law firm first as an asso- ciate, later
Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • with the press and so on connected with the introduction of all this equipment, which came in, I recall, on board these converted aircraft carriers which would anchor at the foot of Tu Do Street and unload these things. We were stopped from confirming
Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Neel -- II -- 13 N: Yes, and I tried to come up with the proper press release, and he would have none of it, because he said, "It's not true. I was playing tennis." I said
Oral history transcript, John W. Gardner, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ." "Well," I said, "I've got a memo yellowing in the files and I'll send it down to you," so I sent him the memo and with astonishing speed Lyndon Johnson just took hold of it. Apparently both he and Lady Bird read the memo and just pressed the buttons
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -in-law. R: I know. I always associate the name with a would-be senator from West Virginia that got into a very tricky seating fight when I was covering for the United Press. Consequently the name Clarence Martin does not stick in my mind as being
Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • an associate in the firm in which my father was one of the senior partners in the summer of 1937. Except for two interruptions, which I'll mention briefly, I've been an associate and later a partner in that firm continuously since 1937. I was away from the firm
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that commented on the national scene and that brought me to ~Iashington every now and then. F: What was that magazine? OM: Texas Heekly in Dallas, edited by Peter Molyneaux. I took two years' time out in 1935 and 1936 to head up the press publicityand
Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : You mean in terms of Kennedy? F: Yes, while Kennedy was still president. There was a lot of talk about it through the press. S: Oh, no. No, no. Johnson was very popular in Minnesota because Johnson was more of a farmer than was Kennedy. Kennedy
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the camel driver now--as the I was on that trip. word that got into the press back here, when he visited. Really sounded as if they'd come straight frorn the Koran or something. C: Well, I think that they no doubt were dressed up a bit, but I think he
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 3 (III), 7/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was the President's view. I later learned that my answer at that time caused considerable consternation in some quarters in the White House and in the State Department. M: That was my next question. That's about the time the press began its reporting which
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 2 (II), 5/2/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , "Tomorrow I'm presenting your name to the Arrangements Committee," or something like that, or the National Conunittee, "to have you serve as temporary chairman and keynoter. In other words, you're it. The press release will be made in Washington." "Fine
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Presidential years. K: Well, of course, some of that is tactics on Johnson's part. He was wise enough and clever enough to know, once he became President, that the more he could associate Eisenhower in his own actions, the better likelihood there would
  • Democratic Convention; JFK-LBJ rivalry; LBJ’s acceptance of the VP nomination; LBJ’s irritation over his Alfalfa Club Dinner speech and camel driver story; cross off; LBJ’s personal reaction to the JFK assassination; LBJ and the press; RFK; LBJ’s judgment
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the 1960s, when he was st ill a senator? W: No, sir, I had no personal association with him other than in 1956 I was delegate to the Democratic National Convention and was the platform representative from Alabama, and I got on the elevator at, I believe
Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Yarborough and Connally? HM: No. This had nothing to do with it. Goldwater had captured the fancy of the national press and from 1960 until the fall of '63 he got a very favorable national press. They would label him an unreconstructed rebel
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • what they called the bull pen which was the big large room in the basement of the Biltmore Hotel where all the politics took effect, and every day at noon the press had arranged for press conferences. So everybody else had spoken and so I got out
Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (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 Bolling -- I -- 5 M: Not the kind of personal leadership that he is associated
Oral history transcript, Earl Warren, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Yes he had. He had discovered me because I had attended a governors' conference once at Salt Lake [City], Utah, and the press was having a conference for a few governors. And they called me first one morning and asked me if I would submit
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of freshman Congressman Johnson in those days? C: Oh, yes. I did, but not to be associated with him on anything other than just meeting and speaking. After all, I was still a secretary and he was a very busy co'ngressman. F: Did the secretaries pay any
  • First meeting with LBJ in Washington, 1935 at Little Congress; closely associated in Democratic convention in 1952 and after; Mississippi vote for LBJ and presidential nomination in 1956; Kennedy-Kefauver race at 1956 convention; Adlai Stevenson
Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • disappointment of the Kennedy White House group, who largely blamed the National Education Association for spraying the town with telegrams objecting to the bill on the grounds of church and state. M: Was this the true reason for the failure of the bill? K: I
Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of themselves." That was such an utterly absurd comment coming from a governor of a great state that I immediately arose from my seat and told the attorney and the others who were there--the attorney was not Jimmy Allred, it was the attorney of this association
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of that, and he said--actually he wasn't there but he had one of his assistants read his speech for hinr-"I am now in a position from certain statements I have made on national TV and to the press of looking as if I may lead the state into a secession again. All
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • had just sort of forgotten about it. You know, it's rather unfortunate that in the popular mind Johnson is not really associated today with one of the most important things that he did, and that was the outer space thing. of forgot his role
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in emphasis. to the press real quick. But nevertheless, I got that out Oh, Lord, when it finished, within a couple of days Charlie discovered that he had to sell all that stock at a loss. You know, when you force sale like that, it was always rather tough
Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to the Defense Department in April of 1961 serving until '65 as Director of Defense Research and Engineering . Prior to that,, you were associated with Lawrence Radiation Lab in California . Do I have the correct background information? B: That is quite
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • remember at a dinner with Harry McPherson, who was another old friend of his and of ours . And I used to see him at larger parties every now and then, but it was not an extensive association . But I think it's fair to say that he regarded me
Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to be closely related to the White House, can you get your story told when you have disagreement like this? C: I did it on a couple of occasions when I was making speeches or holding press conferences. I think one of the things that I've been most grateful