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Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 5 (V), 5/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of But they created The mayors were always complaining about them because they didn't have control over them. Originally all Community Action grants went directly to community groups, and the local political types didn't like that at all. Over time, because

Oral history transcript, Sam Fore, Oliver Bruck, Dan Quill, & William S. White, group interview 2 (II), 1/20/1965, by Douglass Cater (Item)

and it has gone right on up to now. He would have been in his early twenties. F: I think so, I think that is correct. Of course, we had occasion to be associated with him many times while he was a Congressman’s secretary. Along about --when
Group interview with Texas newspapermen and long-time political supporters of LBJ

Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the afternoon. The date is March 4, and the time My name is David McComb. P: The year is 1969. M: Yes, you might add that, 1969--somebody may wish to know that 50 years from now. First of all, I'd like to know something about your background, where were

Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

and restrictions, however he wishes to make it; and that we will type a transcript, send it to him to edit, and at the same time, give him a legal form with which he can express his restrictions as he sees fit. The tape, t h e transcript, the legal release form

Oral history transcript, Edward Clark, interview S-I, 12/15/1986, by Robert Dallek (Item)

[Brown] as a friend and saw him, talked to him from time to time was [when] he was here with a job as [state director of the] National Youth Administration, just a little bureaucratic job, nothing. It was just one of those programs that they had going. He
Bird Johnson's family and her business skills; events leading up to John F. Kennedy's assassination; LBJ's opinion of his time as vice president; Tommy Corcoran; Charles Marsh; Alice Glass; Clark's work as ambassador to Australia and American executive

Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Proxmire -- I -- 3 some time. He's a fine, brilliant man, and he was very helpful. I just--I should be able to remember. I

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the deep depreSSion days), and I had only had that position a short time; about a post office. I I was satisfied and didn't know anything told him that, but he said I'd make a good one and insisted that I accept it, which I did. ?: Have you been

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was [Robert] McNamara's lawyer for those hearings. You may recall that as we saw the major issue in the hearings, the issue was whether or not the civilian leadership in the Pentagon and President Kennedy, at that time, had the right, in effect, to censor

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-I, 3/30/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)

spending, beginning in the 1940s was of course an excellent plan. And indeed, small wonder that Texas had more air bases than any other state in the Union in the 1950s. He was brilliant at doing that kind of thing. But now I come to the vice-presidency
it; presidential decision-making; the Oliver Stone JFK movie and how young people believe such conspiracy theories; Robert McNamara and Dallek's and Bundy's reaction to Deborah Shapley's book Promise and Power: The Life and Times of Robert McNamara; LBJ's

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

regarding Vietnam. You had a handful of members who were registering concern. That number grew as time went on, and it became particularly a problem when you had staunch supporters of the President's Vietnam policy expressing concern. So you have

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and Senator Johnson, and the popularity of the highway program on both sides, I think we got some Republican votes like George Aiken and Leverett Saltonstall, people like that who voted contrary to the wishes of the administration. G: At the time these votes

Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: professionally, politically, and certainly personally. B: In the times you've been associated with government, generally, have you found Mr. Johnson to be knowledgeable on agricultural affairs? M: Yes, he is. B: Even down into the technicalities? M: Yes

Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh advisor to many of us and was well versed in the history of China at that time. [He] predicted pretty accurately what was about to happen
relations in South Africa; meeting LBJ for the first time; Sam Rayburn; Democratic National Conventions of 1956, 1960, and 1964; political social gatherings; visits to the Ranch; working with Mrs. Kennedy on the Fine Arts Committee; White House furnishings

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the President came as a congressman, and sometime subsequently, we met; I don't know when. M: There's a whole scale of subjective values that people have who've known another person over a long period of time. You're in a parti- cularly good position to make

Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: IRVING L. GOLDBERG INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Judge Goldberg's office, Federal Courthouse, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 MG: Judge, President Johnson I guess had already been overseas--he went in 1942--by the time you went

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (Tape 4) June 2, 1969 M: You had gotten last time to the summer of 1966 with the decision to bomb the Haiphone POL, which came at the end of various efforts at peacemaking . The one question that occurred to me just as we

Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1989 INTERVIEWEE: JOHN HENRY FAULK INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Faulk’s residence, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 F: I was thinking the first time he [Lyndon Johnson] came over my horizon was in 1938. He had just assumed

Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

all the time: he kept his options open. Even on some of the things that other people may look at as relatively insignificant, he still kept his options open and the decisions were his. You know, for a reporter or writer where he used to go out--and I

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

don't need this force very often. You'd have a large static force that would--if this were its training, and if this were its mission--they'd really have nothing to do most of the time. B: Obviously, the Pentagon and Washington itself, as you said

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, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

have that background. B: I was working at McCall's magazine with Lynda Bird. She and I became good friends, and I came to Washington several times. I was in her wedding, and I got to know the family pretty well. One day her father called me

Oral history transcript, Floyd E. Dominy, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a political subject as between the Democratic and the Republican parites. I can't recall a time when either one of them had a plank to discredit reclamation or even to single it out that they were going to give it special attention because everybody takes

Oral history transcript, Norbert A. Schlei, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to be sent over there to work with Sargent Shriver and the other members of the task force at the time this proposal began to be put together. G: Who sent you over? Do you recall who approached you initially? S: What was the date? G: February, I think

Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: During the time out there, any disputes between the politicians as to what was going to happen in the campaign, I had the sole decision to make . In other words, [being] from outside of the state, I knew none of the politicians . I told them where

Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Building in Washington, D.C. The date is December 2, 1968, and the time is 1:30 p.m. First of all, Dr. Stewart, I'd like to know something about your background. S: Where were you born and when? I was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 19, 1921, grew

Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

/oh 3 B: Yes, sir. Did Lyndon Johnson give you any help as a, by then, an older hand? W: Lyndon was always helpful. Not only to me. third term, wouldn't it--my first term? pretty well in Congress by that time. he helped you anyway he could. Let

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Dick's father was living at the time that Dick Kleberg was elected to Congress. He was elected to fill an unexpired term in 1931 at the death of Harry M. Wurzbach, who happened to be a Republican, one of the few Republicans that Texas ever [elected

Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

for the first time in thirty-five years. M: I was going to say, your career as a government slave goes back for some time. And now you're out of it. G: Yes. M: But you did serve in that position for-- G: Two years, a little over M: Two years

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 4 (IV), 1/28/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Jones -- IV --2 G: Keeping the options open? J: Yes. It's sort of old-time politics; you always keep a door open that you can walk out of. G: What was Mrs. Johnson's view at the time, do

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

WHITE INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ February 18, 1971 Tape 1 of 1 F: This is a second interview with Mr. Lee C. White in his office in Washington, D.C. on February 18, 1971. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mr. 'White, last time we just got you

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

DATE: August 27, 1969 INTERVIEWEE: ELIZABETH CARPENTER INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mrs. Carpenter's home, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Liz, last time we just raised the subject of mistakes that might have been made, either wrong

Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 2 (II), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the legislation that went up? W: Well, there were a lot of different problems that were discussed during the task force, but because of the extremely limited time that was involved in putting together the program initially it was generally thought that a lot

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

piece of legislation passed under his-- C: I think he did in time, regard it, certainly. Yes, I agree with that. Also, what I'm looking at here is--we come back from the Voting Rights Act to a meeting on the drought in the Northeast, then to a meeting

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh December 19, 1968 B: This is a continuation of the interview with Mr. Goldstein of the White House staff. This, like all previous ones, is confidential until otherwise notified. Mr. Goldstein, you said last time that when

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- I -- 2 said that, why, they turned around to me and said, "ls it true? you know about it?" I said, "No, I didn't know about it. wouldn't be up here taking up your time or my time. Did If I did

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

settled," or whatever, what I considered to be an absurd amount of time. But if Mac said it, you did it. And [I] ended up movi ng d o ~ m to Washington, I remember quite well on July 11 since that happens to be Adele's and my anniver- sary. F

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Gillette PLACE: Kozy Korner Cafe, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 B: At the time of the first primary's results--I have no recollection at all of the number of votes cast in the first primary or the percentage distribution, except that Coke

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

on and so on. Z: Right. G: Khe Sanh was coming in for an awful lot of attention about this time, too, and there have been criticisms of that coverage. What was good or bad about the press coverage at Khe Sanh? Z: One, on the impact of Tet on public

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. 1970 INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES ROBERTS INTERVIEt1ER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Roberts office, Washington. D. C. I Tape 1 of 3 F: Mr. Roberts, you were in Dallas at the time of the assassination, November. 1963. R: Ri ght. F: Did you have any

Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Convention, because they were having a problem with the r'~ississippi Freedom Democratic Party and that the President's, President Johnson, major concern at the convention was to keep that from blowing the convention apart. At that time and until

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