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Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of approval because I was his man. So we worked together until after the assassination and after the election in 1964. After that was over--he had a family of ten, eleven children at that time--he had an opportunity to go with the National Association

Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

1965 to the present, you have been associated as a senior staff member of the Brookings Institute on government studies. I should also add, for the record, that you, in 1960 and again in 1968, \-.Jere the secretary to the platform committee

Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

away. I started to work with the Retail Clerks' International Association and other organizations, too, and did some practice of law. The important thing about President Johnson--and I really was very impressed with him--was this. minimum wage bill. I

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

on in South Viet Nam. But it is not true--and Secretary McNamara testified to this--that these vessels of ours were there covering or, in a sense, associated with some South Vietnamese coastal operation. You see there had been a little guerilla war going along

Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and was a daughter of my oldest brother. She had married a University professor of engineering, and they went back over to Lebanon and were living over there at that time. F: Was this in Beirut? J: In Beirut, yes. So the Associated Press and UP came out

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

you have the idea you were W: Not at the time, I didn't give it much thought--in that area, an~~ay. F: How long did this association continue? W: It continued to the present time. F: So that any time he was in New York he was likely

Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 1 (I), 1/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the family physician of the Bells, and actually my dad had been involved in the recruitment of Dr. Baumgartner into her job, as had been several people with whom I was closely associated, particularly Dr. Howard Rusk. M: Did she know you then? L: She did

Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that second primary that I worked most energetically to get as much support as I could . Then Johnson won . until 1953 . I wasn't then closely associated with Johnson 1 sort of didn't like some of the ways in which he � � LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and the press and radio and television were all trying to get in. It was a most uncomfortable operation. In any event, at that time I passed the word as to what I've just recounted here. I think it was a practically universal reaction that we would fight

Oral history transcript, Marjorie Lawson, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

teach him. And so they met several times after that, and would call Belford for advice on issues, and then asked him to go to Boston with them to talk to the NAACP [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People] people up there. My husband

Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: No, he was in a uniform, but he just hadn't gone overseas. He was out on the West Coast B: Oh, well, that could well have been, but I don't know anything about it, though . G: Yes . Anything about his association with Dr . Barker? B: Well, I

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists, in New York City. It was called into existence in part because of the philosophic conceptions that were behind it, some of which came from Europe. It was like the Christian Democratic movement in Europe. There was a big

Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

shouldn't take the time, but I like to tell the story, so I will. When that meeting was over--it was not open to the press at that time--a reporter from the Washington Post who has since died, a marvelous reporter called--with an E, a woman reporter, I'll

Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in the press. My experience has been that after every war the underachievers come up with something related to the war, whether it's shell shock or whether it's gassed in World War II or whether it's battle fatigue in World War II or whether it's Agent Orange

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Hickerson with Associated Press called from Dallas and insisted on an inter view with Senator Johnson. We got the lights on, and I and Woody at different times tried to tell him we'd talk to him in the morning, but Clayton was feeling 11 no pain" about

Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

the public relations director of the Oregon Education Association. What got you interested in public education? G: I think a couple of things. teachers. One, my mother and father were both Then I think probably the most important thing was the social

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, then of the Federal Reserve System, and its chairman for so many years, and associated so much with economists, and had a very good economics staff, he 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. And the President did include me in his group of assistants who were getting the top salary and took occasion to say kind things about oe to the press whenever he was talking about the staff. So it worked out exactly as he said it would. F: Do international air

Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

with colds at that time. He said, "Well, you know, we've developed a kind of shot that may help you." So I started taking what became the flu shots. We worked very closely with him and Dr. [L. R.] Thompson, who was his Associate Surgeon General. And we

Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

it was a summer camp for children project that was begun and then there was some public outcry, at least in the press, and there was supposed to be a communist couple that ran the camp-- I've forgotten the exact details--but anyway the end result was that OEO cut

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

governor was invited to the inaugural, so far as I know, always. G: Was that your first association with him? J: That was the very first time I remember him in our life. He became one of the staunchest friends. So we went on up and we watched

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

a fellow was subject to an injunction, he really thought before he did anything because that judge could commit him for contempt. And this was something that people didn't want to have happen to them so they followed the law. The Restaurant Association
Biographical information; Hobart Taylor, Sr. and LBJ; civil rights cases in Michigan; NAACP; Export-Import Bank; Cliff Carter; early association with LBJ in 1960; 1960 and 1964 campaigns; JFK; Plans for PROGRESS; Jerry Holleman; RFK and LBJ

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

be the director there, and that's about it. F: Sarah Hughes and Carl Phinney were also associated with you? S: Yes, I was the director and they were the cochairmen. F: How did you divide your duties? S: I did the full time and I wasn't paid. I mean I made
Biographical information; First association with LBJ, 1965 state convention; 1960 pre-convention boom for LBJ for President; Bruce Alger race; Dallas County Chairman; JFK-LBJ trip to Dallas-Ft. Worth; religious issue; contributions; Dead man’s ad

Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

twenty years of government service which began in 1948 after completing your law degree and an association with a New York City law firm. From 1948 to 1955 you were associated with the Economic Cooperation Administration, and your last position

Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations]; the next issue be with the medical association, AMA [American Medical Association]. It just depends on what the issue is." We have a tendency to label people conservative or liberals, southerners

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

headquarters for Johnson people, wasn't it? J: That's right, where John Connally lived and where several people that had been associated with Mr. Johnson [lived], some of whom were still on the Hill and some of whom had gone to government agencies, young

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

have any support from any of them. Of course, the Independent Petroleum Association, I worked for them so I ought to know about them. I was assistant to the counsel with Independent Petroleum. G: Wasn't there sort of a competition between

Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of close associations with him when he was Speaker of the House ; and through that I was acquainted with Mr . Johnson, but not to the point that he would have recognized me in a crowd . � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

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

Eleanor Roosevelt than some of the other first ladies, like Mrs. Eisenhower and Mrs. Truman, who just kind [of] were in back. He always was pressing Mrs. Johnson to get into some thing that she would enjoy and take leadership in. Of course, she did select

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the press. You must remember a little piece of political background. There was a senator in Georgia at that time named Richard Russell. Richard Russell had been the foremost opponent of Jack Kennedy in the Senate, and in the lame duck period between being

Oral history transcript, Dwight A. Ink, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, the under secretary, had a keen interest in this, and a very strong personal interest. And he was pressing as hard as I was to get this machinery functioning. And he had good suggestions and ideas and outreach at the higher levels. That was helpful

Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in Hanoi-had a respect of the Vietnamese. But the others. I visited them in the three Associated States over in Laos and Cambodia as well as Vietnam, and in every other command the Vietnamese were--or natives, the Laos, the Khmer, the Cambodians--were

Oral history transcript, Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Lasseter -- I -- 4 G: In childhood. L: No. G: When did you begin to become closely associated with her? L: Well, I don't know
Biographical information; association with Lady Bird; life and activities in Austin in the 1930s; the University of Texas; the Johnson courtship and marriage

Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Service regulations and other problems that were confronting people who had bachelor's degrees, the American Bar Association several years ago suggested that law schools should give doctoral degrees. So now I am a Doctor of Jurisprudence. LBJ

Oral history transcript, Robert F. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. In every country there is an interest of the press association--that is, exchanging information . In every country the movie industry--the United States movie industry--is a very significant activity and influences the thinking of people a great deal

Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, came back in his uniform--first time I ever saw him, I was a reporter for the United Press at that time before I went with 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

--namely, the separation of powers. This was not pressed, and therefore, I think the committee was prevented from getting in a very short period of time, in a very easy and handy way, a good deal of information LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH SWIDLER INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Swidler's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Chairman Swidler, I wanted to begin by asking you to simply recall what you can of your knowledge of, and association

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

which, in normal protocol, "After you, Alphonse" terms, would have been hours and hours and hours . point . Well, time was absolutely pressing at this We wanted to bet the communique out, and this called for it to be redone, because obviously you

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)

be easiest to chronologically approach your association with the President, you spoke of advancing this one meeting in New York for the Ladies Garment Union. Do you recall any events? What did you have to do in the capacity of advance man? J: All I recall

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