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Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 2 (II), 2/18/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Let 1 s talk a bit about what you did with Johnso::l i::!.1964.. You seem to have gotten very heavy on civil rights matters, particularly. I recall that later in that spring you \·1ere made a:t associate special counsel, and then you were Johnson 1

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

, the really important people in town must have been absent or something, because I was asked to go and greet him. And this was a benefit for the Washington Heart Association fund drive, in which I was associated. In fact, I was vice chairman of the premiere

Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Connally -- II -- 2 C: No, I really think, so far as I know, it partially developed out of Johnson's friendship with Charlie Marsh. It doesn't predate my time and association, but I was never in on it particularly. Charlie Marsh, as I

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was to illustrate the fact that Mr. Weisl, who is Johnson's long-time friend in New York and his lawyer, became his committeman in New York City. Yet he had met few members of the press. Mike O'Neill knew the President very well; if I gave the impresston otherwise
President LBJ’s relations with the press and Louchheim’s efforts to improve such relations; Louchheims work in State Dept.’s Community Advisory Service 1964-1966; encouraging foreign service employees to go on domestic talk circuits; foreign talk

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that it could be promoted. I must say, in those days Lyndon had good press relations. He worked at good press relations. He had many friends in the press: Charlie Green, Buck Hood, Lorraine Barnes, Gordon Fulcher in Austin. He and the Mayor, Tom Miller, would

Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

been the president of the Georgia Bar Association, and Mr. Troutman had actually made it possible for me to go to the University of Chicago Law 6 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was the right way to go, which caused a real rift between the President and Humphrey in the end. G: Let me ask you to elaborate on that. Humphrey was quoted, of course, as--well, not only his public statements but even what appeared to be leaks to the press

Oral history transcript, Lewis W. Walt, interview 1 (I), 1/24/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to associate with President Johnson on a more-or-less personal basis? W: I had occasion to see him and talk to him once in Vietnam when he carne to Cam Ranh Bay. I talked to him for a few minutes. Then midway in my tour--I think it was February '66--1

Oral history transcript, Edith H. Parker, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in and said, "I am going to oppose the President for the first time," or something like that. He said, "I'm going to give you a press release before I can change my mind that says I am going to oppose the Supreme Court-packing bill." He said, "Then I'm
Biographical information; early association with LBJ; the Dodge Hotel; the Capitol and Capitol staffs; summer of 1935 in Austin; LBJ’s plans to run for Congress; LBJ and other staff members; the Little Congress; Bob Jackson and Arthur Perry

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

correct. M: Before we go into your association with Lyndon Johnson, 1 would like to ask if you have participated in any other oral history project? W: I participated in an oral history project that was conducted after the assassination of President

Oral history transcript, Robert M. White, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. Were there any unusual circumstances connected with your own appointment? W: No. M: No business about keeping it from the press, this type of thing? W: No. M: Did he give you any special instructions at that time as to what he expected ESSA
; hiring; coordination of ESSA with private research; international characteristics; activities of ESSA; LBJ's interest in weather function of ESSA; environment the most pressing problem in the future

Oral history transcript, R. Conrad Cooper, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to confer with them any more than we were with our executive associates. We were the representatives, not the principals. Well, we were talking. I don't want to spend a lot of time on things that don't run directly to the inquiry. President. They run

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

in the American press as cruel. And in terms of--and we were using tear gas to put down demonstrations which the Communists were inspiring in South Vietnam. The point that Moyers made in the meeting I notice, you know, let's talk about the throat slitting

Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

statement before the Associated Press April 20, 1964, and as I say read into the record in Geneva on April 21 of 1964. At the same time with an offer to negotiate a treaty on this basis if we wanted. This was fissionable material production reductions

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, Narch 30, the Presice.nt ?r::::ss conference out on the la,vn in the Rose; Carden. I ve:ry '.;1211 because I \"ont to my daughter's school and fIe" a kit e with her that morning, and he had called my office, apparently just t, ~)2 at th. press co

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 5 (V), 8/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, of course I heard the rumors, read about them. some that got in the press. weighed it. There were But I never thought that he seriously I may be wrong, but I never saw any indication that he really wanted to go into state politics. G: Did you ever hear

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 30 (XXX), 3/22/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it. Lyndon dedicated a new building in Austin, the Texas Medical Association, and reminded them that he was on the board of Scott & White [Hospital], and also said, as he said many times, that he was against socialized medicine. This was in 1952, and the FEPC

Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

. I don't know that he did much writing in that period. G: To what kind of groups did he speak? K: Luncheon clubs, chambers of commerce, state press association. I recall one talk that he made in San Antonio to the San Antonio Rotary Club. I said

Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and doing all the work you have to do to carry through difficult legislation of the type that all this was. M: After he became Vice President, as someone that he knew fairly well from associations before that time, did you continue any particular

Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

don't think it was a controlling one. His obstacle, political obstacle in becoming President, that he was a conservative and had a conservative voting record, largely conservative leadership record--largely--and then they always associated him

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

[Alvin] Wirtz, of course, was probably the man whom President Johnson had the most confidence in of all of his associates throughout all of his political career. G: Was Wirtz knowledgeable in this field of broadcasting? T: No, no, not at all. Nor did

Oral history transcript, Ronald Goldfarb, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

associated with the War on Poverty. I understand that you are originally from New York or New Jersey. Do you want to explain how you got involved in the administration? RG: Yes. I was working in the Department of Justice during the Kennedy
Circumstances of becoming associated with the War on Poverty Task Force; early organization; duties; need for coordination of the program; decision-making; naming VISTA program; pressure from departments; LBJ’s interest; philosophies on dealing

Oral history transcript, Houston Harte, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

. years. I promised to let The three months dragged on for about ten When Jackson went to work for the Associated Press in Washing- ton, I asked him if he wouldn't like to come to Corpus Christi. said he would. He He is now the editor of the Corpus

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

interesting experience because, as I men- tioned in the earlier interview, one of Mr. Johnson's closest and long time associates was Irving Goldberg, who now serves as a judge on the Fifth Circuit. Mr. Goldberg agreed to become vice chairman of the Texas

Oral history transcript, Stanley Marcus, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

period when we were enlarging the store. So I came into the store in Sept- ember 1926 and have been associated with the store all during that time. r became president of Neiman-Marcus in 1950, a position which I still hold. F: Where and under what

Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

by a group from the T Association, the Harris-Blair's or from the athletic side, versus the--I don't know, the other side I guess. They were pretty heavy into the paying jobs that were available around the college. The A and 0 group started just

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to be repeating myself on some of these things but editing will take care of it ultimately, I hope. But where was the starting point, what was the concept? First of all, and I think every president-elect and his associates go through this process and take it very

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

on the part of some of my associates as to whether or not this was a good idea, and what sort of a return we would get, we put this out as a contest to the ninety-odd thousand people through � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Gordon Bunshaft, interview 1 (I), 6/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

guessed it either . M: The time's gone pretty fast, sometimes, they said . That's why I looked it up . Let's begin by identifying you, sir . You're Gordon Bunshaft, and you're an associate with an architectural firm in New York City . B: I'm

Oral history transcript, John M. Cabot, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. sador to Poland, where you were when he became President. c: That's correct. M: So you were originally appointed to that position by President Kennedy? C: That's right. M:I believe you mentioned a moment ago that your personal association
Biographical information; association with LBJ; John Gronouski; Poland foreign policy; policy of building bridges to the East; Battle Acts; most-favored nation treatment; Chinese Communists; Warsaw; Averell Harriman; Foreign Service officers

Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it, which was something, you see, because he was called the Isaiah, and our saint was against him. So then started the usual game. The American Bar Association and the Liberty League, as might be expected, took positions against us. To get some kind

Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of 1958 that he went to see Lyndon Johnson to talk to him about it. iss~e He asked him ir-he would a press statement, saying that he had talked with Bob about statehood ~ and woul d he make any statement at all that \'/asn' t contrary. He didn't need

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with Mrs . Johnson and my wife and the President reached the point where he was detailing how he studied at night, he was associating himself with those people at West, finding a common point of interest . He detailed how at night after they had dinner why

Oral history transcript, Louise Hermey Stanford, interview 1 (I), 9/6/1989, by Sybil Jackson (Item)

as far as we knew, but the summer project was an organization called COFO, Council of Federated Organizations, which was made up of SNCC, NAACP [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People], Congress of Racial Equality [CORE] and, I think
; the joining of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to form the Council of Federated

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

., Indep., D.-Ore.], a highly combative group of Democrats. And they were really superb at it.They could go on for forty-five minutes and give the press several columns of stories. And it made for good reading and a lot of fun. But when it came down

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the question of when we would resume arms aid to the Paks was a quite live orie, wi th the Pentagon--as I recall--and to an extent State pressing for some resumption and the Paks screaming for it because they had lost an incredible amount of resources

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, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

wonderful friend, business friend. I know he ran interference for me several times, and I didn't know it then, but, afterwards, I knew he did. B: And this was the Houston Press? S: Houston Post. B: Okay. S: And the Press was there, too, but the Press
marriage; Scott's work for the Houston Press; Scott's affiliation with Clark Gable; covering the 1928 Democratic Convention and attempting to interview FDR there; Scott's interview with Will Durant; meeting LBJ for the first time; LBJ's relationship

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

isn't [inaudible]. All this stuff about I know the man. Now, he was a politician and shrewd, but he did not have to tell the press and the world what he intended to do and have his enemies destroy it before he got started. So a lot of the members

Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and a doctor that was diagnosing their ills sort of nunc pro tunc as we say in the law, now for then. Oh, the Houston Press ran a hell of a story on it. one young doctor in a bunch of trouble. It got But we issued a statement that these people had been

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