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Oral history transcript, Anthony Buford, interview 1 (I), 6/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Buford's residence, Buford Farms, Caledonia, Missouri Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Let's start with the circumstances of your meeting Lyndon Johnson for the first time. Do you recall how you became acquainted with him? B: Yes. Do you

Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

A tlantic and the North A tlantic, and it was between that time of the Air Transport Command and the Naval Air Transport Service that I was transferred. I stopped in to see my predecessor, Mr. A. B. Tol/ey who was the third person to serve since 7881

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, and wondered if I might be interested in coming to Washington. I d~d not know, :~at I told him at the time t hat I didn't really think so. B: Thi s is whil e-; -: ·· -,;e r e on Gov ernor Conna lly 's staff? C: That's right. I was then working

Oral history transcript, Robert Taft, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

or appreciation of any relationship that your father may have had with Lyndon Johnson. T: No. My timing is such that I was never in Washington with my father, really. I graduated from college in '39, which is the year that he came to Congress, was married

Oral history transcript, Allen J. Ellender, interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, that's right, and both were consulted as I understand very much by the President, particularly the Speaker. B: Then, sir, when Mr. Johnson entered the Senate in 1948, of course you had been there for some time by that time, did he immediately begin

Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES S. MURPHY INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. Murphy's office in Washington, D.C., Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, last time you were talking about briefing former President Truman on the behalf of President Johnson, and after the tape

Oral history transcript, William J. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of a civil service examination. At that time, the Bureau of Naturalization and the Department of Labor had an employee on detail at the White House. That young man left and the bureau was asked to supply a replacement and I happened to be it. I came over

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

at that particular time. However, I was born in Eagle Pass, Texas on the second of February, 1912. Ny father was an agent for Wells Fargo at that time and we moved around quite a bit. We moved from Eagle Pass to Taylor, from Taylor to Henderson over in East

Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the report had been presented to Kennedy before he went to Dallas. There is, like, a month's time lag, or something like that. After Mr. Johnson became President, Esther Peterson was designated special assistant to the President for Consumer Affairs. I began

Oral history transcript, Janet Wofford Ingram, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

for the National Youth Administration? W: Yes, where he was. Then when the Johnsons moved on to Washington about the same time, and my sister had grad--they had graduated, yes. That timing is right, and she had gotten a job teaching school in Eagle Pass, so I

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 1 (I), 9/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cronin -- I -- 2 eye because of my activities and activeness on the campus. And in so catching Foots' eye then came the time I was graduating and--it happened to coincide. Foots was looking for somebody to send to Washington. I agreed

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on in as much detail as you can. Let me ask you first generally about foreign policy during the [Dwight D.] Eisenhower years and how bipartisan it was. The Democrats controlled Congress through much of that time and the Republicans--many of them--had a more

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Morris -- I -- 2 Actually I had really not enough time to get my feet on the ground while I was in I Corps as the J-2 adviser there. I did find an ARVN intelligence officer by the name of Thiep, who was later transferred to their JGS, and ended up

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 7 (VII), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the plan, but more the timing. C: It seemed to me that it had more to do with the timing, although there were facets of the plan which were not agreeable to the President. But apparently Wirtz, in some manner, had given a type of commitment. I think, as I

Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 24, 1969 F: Let me make a brief introductory statement. This is an interview with Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, long-time Prime Minister of Australia, in the Sheraton-Crest Inn in Austin, Texas, on November 25, 1969

Oral history transcript, James A. Lovell, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

in Wisconsin, which I now claim as my home since I went through most of my educational period [there] including two years at the University of Wisconsin. Upon that time, which I was in an aviation program, I left Wisconsin to go into the Navy under a Naval

Oral history transcript, Carl D. Perkins and Donald Baker, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

an adult basic education bill, because I'd say a lot of our people at that time, if they didn't have a fifth grade education we called them functionally illiterate. to the Rules Committee and it would die. bills that I introduced. I'd get that bill over

Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Lyndon Johnson was considered very conservative in Texas at that time, and part of liking him was in seeing him move more left. Probably we were working for him because he was trying to balance out his politics so he could be president, even at that time

Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at Wukasch's. We ate there most of the time. It was very handy to the campus, and the food was delicious and very reasonable. Their pies were especially delicious. We got to know and like Isabelle Wukasch there, I think. G: And you mentioned that you

Oral history transcript, Archer Parr, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1984, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

mother, Marie Parr, and I was a product of that marriage. He worked for Ford Motor Company and they moved to Mexico City where I was born. We stayed there for a short period of time and then we moved to Monterrey, Mexico. Subsequent to that period of time
for a dam near Corpus Christi and repercussions of the selection; LBJ's advice that George Parr seek the aid of Abe Fortas; George Parr's suicide; inaccurate stories related to George Parr; how Parr spent his time in 1984.

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 18 (XVIII), 12/18/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the time Dirksen had notified Mansfield he was going to oppose it. According to Mike, Dirksen had on at least two occasions assured Katzenbach and Mike that he would support it and Mansfield felt that ended the effort. So this was a shocker, and then Mike
to schedule round-the-clock sessions on the vote to repeal Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act; efforts to control handshake-type photos of congressmen with LBJ, especially before election time; balancing postmaster general and congressional tasks by working

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

. My Then I was admitted to Rice--Institute at that time--the next year, and then I went four years to Rice; and then I was interested in medical technology, and so I worked in the Hermann Hospital laboratory four years. Then I worked for some

Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that goes back a third of a century, both in the House and the Senate and then during his Vice Presidency and Presidency, and I thought we would approach issues in this, and take them sort of one at a time and bring them through. It seems to me a good issue

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 3 (III), 11/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? AG: Yes. A lot of times we would go by her house and sit and have coffee and talk with her. them. They had a happy relationship between the two of She was his, quote, "Mama," and he respected her. He liked to tell people about her ability, her

Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

with the Johnson family continued during those years. B: Yes. My personal relationship continued throughout the time he was president. I felt not only that I served as his physician, especially in any matter related remotely to his heart, but that our

Oral history transcript, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/8/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

any signs in those days of ambition for higher office in Mr. Johnson? J: Yes. You could see that all the time. He was making statements that were beneficial to him politically constantly. 6: In those days, say as late as the 1950s, it was just, I

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 3 (III), 12/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in July of 1953, so I really hadn't been around a whole long time at that particular point in time. But the natural gas bill was one that we received an awful lot of correspondence on, but one that I really wasn't involved in. G: This was the point

Oral history transcript, Chris Dixie, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

about the state in the Johnson City Windmill bragging about his vote for the TaftHartley Act, and criticizing Coke Stevenson for accepting organized labor's endorsement. That would be the AFL endorsement at that time, the state AFL endorsement meeting

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

's, I would like to make touchstones of your various services and assignments during that period. This is more for my benefit and to be sure that I have the times correct on them. Staff in 1959. You retired as Chief of This is, of course, under

Oral history transcript, Florence Mahoney, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to school or universities or anything. You wouldn't remember it, but it's true. So I guess that's how I got interested in it. I was always interested in mental health and when I was in school they sent us one time to a big public hospital in New York

Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

] from the time Mr. Johnson took office until the summer of 1966. B: Until the end of September of 1966. M: Then you came back as ambassador to the United Nations for a very short period. B: A period of four months beginning--I thought

Oral history transcript, Abram V. Goodman, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1996, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, they failed. After he became senator I visited him several times in Washington. My last visit must have been 1941. I went up to his office and his clerk said to me, "He's not available today, but next time you come to Washington, let us know, and I'll arrange

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

Corps in Vietnam, is that correct? W: No. I went out to command in I Corps in May of 1965. M: And then carne back in a little over two years-- W: I carne back in June of '67. M: Did you ever have the opportunity during any of that time

Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 2 (II), 3/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. It became more and more evident that fall that the South Vietnamese were not capable with the level of support that we had there to hold their own. And then of course at the very end of '64 after our elections and right about the time of the turn of the year

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

experience, I did decide it was dreadful that a party like the Democratic party should be without funds. So I had served four years as treasurer of Marian County. I had assisted the state party and some gubernatorial campaigns and when it came time to look

Oral history transcript, Beryl A. (Mrs. Lloyd) Bentsen, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

in 1943 in Columbus, Nississippi. M: And your husband was in politics at the time? B: No, not at the time. He was going through flight training. He had been an intelligence officer in Brazil and then he came back to the States and went through

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

as a group and we made decisions as a delegation. So, while I did specialize in these questions of colonial issues, African issues, and trusteeship, nevertheless, I was involved in the other issues, particularly at the time of the Middle East crisis

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 President Kennedy answered, "I just do not think this is the time; I do not see anything in this coming session of Congress." It, needless to say, was an occasion of disappointment to Mr. Wilkins

Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to be governor. S: Well, I got into politics a long time before 1968. F: Yes, sir. S: My first venture into politics was in 1932, when I felt not an obligation, but felt that I wanted to help the Democratic candidate for governor at the time who was Henry

Oral history transcript, Ben H. Powell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

father was a lawyer and he was one time district judge in East Texas, in Walker County and the adjoining counties. He was appointed to the Commission of Appeals by Governor Hobby in 1919. He served on this branch of the Supreme Court of Texas until

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