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Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

States, Southwest Region. Mr. Woodward has had long associa tions with Mr. Johnson, and we'd like to let Mr. Woodward right now tell us what some of those associations were. W: How did they start? Paul, it got underway one day by my walking

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 5 (V), 11/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

recall. And there was legislation passed, gun control legislation, which was not all we wanted but it was the first breakthrough in national gun control legislation. I think he was at that point particularly bitter at the National Rifle Association

Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

as VP; Barefoot Sanders; Ramsey Clark; Mitchell liaison on White House staff; selecting African Americans for governmental positions; Samuel Jackson; LBJ as a victim of a kind of newspaper conspiracy; LBJ’s views of demonstrations; Floyd McKissick gate

Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Springs where he came from to run for the governorship. That was the beginning. I. went to Albany with them, and then came to Washington. F: Did you have any association at all with President Johnson's brief wartime experience? T: Do you have any

Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with the ministers. I think there were roughly five hundred ministers who were going to be in attendance. Originally the idea was that Kennedy would meet in a closed TV studio with selected representatives of the association, some three or four perhaps; however

Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

and lasted through November and I was identified in the leadership of it all the way in. When Johnson was nominated, or agreed to accept rather, the vice presidency in Los Angeles, there was a good deal of discontent in the newspaper here about it, which

Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

nomination . Was this sort of a real peace gesture on his part, or was this newspaper talk? B: I have no recollection of his offering to support me for Vice President, I was always rather hopeful secretly that the President would select me as his Vice

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: Yes. This was a rather astonishing crisis in a number of ways. For one thing it was a crisis for some days before it ever got in the newspapers. We were frantically disturbed in the State Department some days before this ever got in the press. I

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

surprised about that, and he couldn't believe it. Everybody--if you go back and look in the newspapers of this time, everyone was waiting for the appointment because we were getting close. I then told him that the Attorney General had advised the President

Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. I don't associate it with the Presidency or the Senate or the Majority Leadership. It is a personal characteristic. It was his dominant personal characteristic as I see it. G: Can you recall him applying this Johnson treatment in persuasion? J

Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a general anti-national party votes? B: That's correct . Some people even today, if you associate with President Johnson or those other liberals, you're stamped . F: Florida in a sense has a schizoid political personality, doesn't it? That is, it's

Oral history transcript, Dr. Arthur Harris, interview S-I, 7/10/1968, by Jan Sofokidis (Item)

of the office; as distinguis hed from the top, Commissio ner Kep~le and his I'. p •i I! associate - ~o rnm issioner~, for example? 'I I• 1 ~· , i: !! DR. HARRIS: ;i -_!_.' - r ..... ·'_i Ii VOICE: Ii ii DR. HARRIS: 11 1
1962-1963 was Associate Commission in Bureau of Education Assistance Programs (BEEP); three divisions: 1. State and local elementary and secondary 2. Higher education 3. Manpower training; abrupt increase in staff in 1964 required new emphasis

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

what That caused a furor. When that went out, they would call up John Smith of the San Angelo paper: "Why in the hell weren't you there? What really happened? He accused the biggest newspaper in Texas of lying and deceitfulness. What else did he

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: SAM HOUSTON JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: The Alamo Hotel, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 2 J: "Years later, when I was on Johnson's staff, Sam Houston felt only irritation when the Majority Leader was hailed in newspapers

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 12 (XII), 4/25/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

could have done, but Busch was not the type to go around seeking favors. G: Was the friendship a factor in his association with Symington at all, do you recall? J: I don't think it had anything to do--there was no connection. He was a friend

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 4 (IV), 8/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

President couldn't have gotten his program over. We passed bills in the House of Representatives not by newspaper support and not by a lot of fanfare on the floor. We pass bills by calling Jim Brown and saying, "Jim, I've got to talk to you about this bill

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

hard to find. F: But he didn't invent that either. He's been accused, in the eastern press at least, of chewing out newspaper men. K: He was usually a pretty good I can't recall. Did you ever see any evidence of it re re in Austin? As I say, he
First association with LBJ; 1948 election; Star-Telegram’s campaign support; Preston Smith; Byron Utecht; George Parr; covering 1952 and 1956 Texas state conventions; LBJ’s response to an article by Kinch; Frankie Randolph; Mrs. Bentsen; Byron

Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

violation of law. B: That was precisely the issue Ln the case of Dr. Spock and his associates, was it not? A determination of the line between speech and conduct? V: That's right. A line between protected speech and conduct. B: Where

Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

we're doing, of course, is just trying to fill in pieces here and there in the affair. We have your book on Alaska and its coming to statehood, and so I thought we'd just emphasize your association with Johnson in this. When did you first meet him? G

Oral history transcript, Ben W. Heineman, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with a plan, I don't think very much would have happened that anybody would have wanted to be associated with. On the other hand, we did have work sessions. up. They had ample opportunity to pass advisory resolutions. advisory resolutions. F: We did break

Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with at that Convention. I made many friends over the country, and I have been pleased with what happened there at that convention. F: Let's talk about your own career for a moment. In 1963, you were heralded by the newspapers and by general sentiment as the person

Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, I was a candidate for judicial office, having already submitted all of my papers and having filled out the American Bar Association questionnaire. M: For a judicial-- R: For a judicial post, and I was being considered for a judicial post

Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

judge--testified that he had conducted the election and so forth, and that at the time he began reading newspaper reports that there was something funny about the election. poll and tally lists. So he went to see Tom Donald and borrowed his He took

Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. forgotten a coupl e of others that were therec I have I think Arthur Schl es inger \'Ias in there and a coupl e of others. B: It was generally assumed at the time in the newspapers that you '.'Jere there as kind of a representative of the New South. S

Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

1952, I talked to Senator Johnson about the possibilities of establishing federal assistance for the construction of public broadcasting stations, stations that would be associated with colleges and universities, established by local community groups

Oral history transcript, John L. Monahan, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

been. The leadership decided to hold it off a week or ten days, when members weren't under such tremendous pressure from the newspapers and from the letters from their own constituents. B: Back when John Kennedy was president was there any sort

Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 2 (II), 4/17/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of Greenville, then a newspaper publisher and now the current assistant secretary of state for public affairs. Another was Owen Cooper of Yazoo City who was then the president of the Mississippi Chemical Company, and president of the Mississippi Chamber

Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that came in the kitchen way to see the President. He didn't have to go through the other formalities. Apparently Roosevelt thought an awful lot of Lyndon, and Lyndon thought a lot of him. G: But in going back through some of the old newspaper public

Oral history transcript, Mamie Allison, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1986, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

we get off the subject of politics, do you remember his going to Austin at some point on behalf of the Houston Teachers Association to lobby the Texas legislature to put a cigarette tax on to help raise teacher's salaries? Do you remember

Oral history transcript, William F. Billings, interview 1 (I), 5/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

have an opportunity to sit down with you and understand why you felt the way you do about certain things, well, I might get a completely different idea than I would from reading something in the newspapers about what you'd done or what you thought, you

Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 2 (II), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

would be to Congress, that they had the right to hear it first. Well, that got me off on the wrong foot with Drew Pearson. He never forgave me. It was something that was a great hardship for me because there were many newspapers throughout the country

Oral history transcript, Roy Wilkins, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the New York state delegation--who voted for him in Los Angeles on the first ballot. I remember giving a newspaper an interview at the time which said that we shouldn't discount the effectiveness of Lyndon Johnson on the ticket because he brought enormous

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 20 (XX), 1/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and say, "It's Lockheed or X." He said, "We have decided to give this to Lockheed and I want you to know it," because he knew what would happen if the President first heard about it in the newspapers. Now at that point there's no way if it's really

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

broadcasting on a global basis. Marks recommends that he be chairman of the group. Classic Johnson to send it around to some other people, sent it to [Douglass] Cater because Cater was in the newspaper business and was a good friend of Leonard Marks and because

Oral history transcript, Annette Ludeman, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ludeman -- i -- 6 L: · I have really never heard ofanybody locally. It's mainly the people that I suppose I have heard talk, pr the teachers that were associated with him and like the students. He took a real active interest

Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? G: Well, both. H: The basic idea of a new community agency not associated with existing poverty-related programs was to provide a new, broader, more comprehensive, less program-bound perspective of the poverty problem. I think that objective

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 5 (V), 3/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? J: Oh, he'd kid Mrs. Johnson about all these beautification programs and the type of people she was associating with to get the programs under way. G: Give me an example. J: I wish I could. Well, let me see if I can recollect the way he'd do
wanting Mrs. Johnson to model herself after Eleanor Roosevelt; LBJ's office schedule; night reading; LBJ's morning bedroom routine, including contacting people, reading newspapers, and seeing a doctor; LBJ's evening routine after leaving the Oval Office

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

between the Baker-LBJ relationship contribute the credibility gap? D: Yes. There's no question that the association with Bobby Baker was a serious blow to the presidency of Lyndon Johnson. G: Really? And that was very early on. D: Yes. That was very

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