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Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

his influence, no. When he got in Washington, that's the first time the Greene name ever came up. In many, many things relating to himself, he just didn't talk to me or L. E. Jones about personal matters, or about official matters for that matter

Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

like you-- R: Well, it took me a long time. I had been trying to get off for quite some time and thinking about it and making real efforts for quite some time. I: Did you have any connection with Mr. Johnson at all prior to the time you joined

Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

no experience in this area at that time. However, I did graduate in personnel management and later went to the advanced business school at Harvard as pertains to finance and political problems that come in the advanced management program. So I assume

Oral history transcript, Harry Nachlin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and explained that Mr. Johnson was involved in this campaign, and he had been--he had lost time because he was in the hospital. I think he was up at the Mayo Clinic to have a gall bladder operation as I recall [It was a kidney stone operation.]. G: Right. N
for the campaign trip; the logistics and staff work involved in the helicopter-based campaign; costs associated with using the helicopter; public reaction to LBJ's speeches and the helicopter; LBJ shaking hands; typical flight times and experiences for pilot, Jim

Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

start until I came back to active duty. I was recalled to active duty at the time of the Korean War in September of 1950. My entire previous experience was in World War II, close to four years, and I was an infantry platoon and company commander

Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 2 (II), 7/9/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

not commit it to such a terrain. The result is that, as one reads the memoranda, it becomes clear that I was prepared at various times to concede things that had already been decided. This was tactically necessary if I were to have any credibility with my

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

was attorney general of Texas then. Oh, Bill Douglas and Fred Vinson were often there. Judge Marvin Jones and Bob Hannegan and Ed Clark and dear Albert Jackson from the Dallas Times Herald, and Bill Kittrell, who could tell some of the best stories of anybody I
for the University of Texas; Lady Bird Johnson's input on LBJ's decision-making; Dr. Everett Givens; Texas friends who kept LBJ updated on 10th District events and opinions; LBJ's efforts to balance his time in Texas and Washington, D.C., during his campaign; 1946

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 2 (II), 5/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: ARTHUR KRIM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Krim's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2 G: Mr. Krim, let's start with that weekend of August 6, [1965], the first time I believe that you went to Camp David. K: Yes. My wife and I
to the Ranch; press coverage of Krim’s time spent with LBJ; development of LBJ’s land in Texas; LBJ encouraging Krim to buy land near his Ranch; George Brown; A.W. Moursund; LBJ’s egalitarian nature; LBJ’s treatment of staff members and friends; LBJ teasing

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)

, how you happen to be where you are right now. C: Well, I guess lid have to go back to about 1943 when I came into the United States Air Force, or at that time the United States Army Air Corps, from my boyhood home in Alabama. raised in Andalusia

Oral history transcript, Manuel Cohen, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: There was no fight. M: It was a matter of simple passage? C: It was something that was worked out with the industry, and there was no fight. So that it was just a question of finding sufficient legislative time to consider the bill in the respective committees

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: CARL B. ALBERT INTERVIEWER: Dorothy Pierce McSweeny PLACE: Congressman Albert's office in the Capitol, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of I M: In our last session, we had come forward to a point of time in 1960. I'd like to continue

Oral history transcript, Reynaldo G. Garza, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

dedicate pieces to certain girls. He went out there with me, and I introduced him around to as many people as I knew out there in East Austin. used to help the church out there all the time. I I even introduced him there to the crowd

Oral history transcript, Clinton P. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

not? A: Yes, he was. B: Did you immediately become acquainted with him? A: I had met him earlier than that. In 1935 I was National Youth Administrator for New Mexico and he for Texas, and we got acquainted at that time; so that I knew him already

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and this came off some world traveling. He never seemed to be at ease. As time went on and he made this speech more often, he seemed to relax a little more. But from the outset you could detect that communication didn't come easy to him. Of course, he was put

Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

right, sir. Now, some general questions just to set the background. Did you have any knowledge of Mr. Johnson before his 1955 heart attack? H: Only indirectly. Of course, at that time I was in Washington. The President was majority 1 LBJ

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of rooms had a freshman named Penny Frisby. Every time my brother hit Penny, he had my name on the wall, and he just put a mark against it. Joe said I came down and too k one look and sav.i that my name had marks clear around five rooms and had started

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 5 (V), 12/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a War Department and a Navy Department. President Truman remarked one time that we could never go through another war with the archaic organization we had in the Second World War. Even though we finally won, it was despite the organization that we had

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

to the Paramount Theater, which was the old Majestic Theater at that time. All members of the legislature visited with me, and I was acquainted with them all. Lyndon started to work 't/ith Dick Kleberg when Kleberg went into Congress. I don't recall whose seat

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

picture at this time? V: Not to the degree that he later became involved. He was involved in the financial part of it, but I would say that it was later on that Arthur took a role with President Johnson that really superseded everyone else

Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

education. P: I was born in Taylor, Texas, which is only thirty miles from Austin, but my parents were living here at the time and I grew up here until we moved to West Texas. We moved a lot of places in the next few years, and I came back here in 1933

Oral history transcript, Marie Wilson, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/oh Wilson -- I -- 2 didn't even push the hold call. button~ I was so scared of losing that It was the first time I ever talked to a senator's wife. So I literally left the phone on the desk and went running down the hall to get Max Brooks

Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, was trying to get a promotion. F: Well, you and I were born about the same time, and I've got a cousin named Wilson. It's W. Wilson, so you can figure that. Half the kids I grew up with were either named Woodrow or Wilson. You can always date them. I
Biographical information; Bean's educational background and notable people Bean grew up with; the first time Bean met LBJ; Bean's political career in the early 1940s and after his return from WWII; Bean's work as a Texas state legislator; working

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

their actions last year when that bill was up because they got a big quid pro quo. They got what they wanted by way of spending limitations. Our members didn't get anything this time for supporting Nixon. That's one of the reasons why they didn't support Nixon

Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 2 (II), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

this occasion? B: We did have some review meetings, yes. I don't think we had very many, but we did have a fairly comprehensive review of the situation at the time in regard both to the military and pacification situation. I reported, I think, that the new

Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was, at the time, in London; I was the political- military affairs officer in the embassy in London. Actually the word came to me when I happened to be in Paris, going over for just a couple of days for some talks with the embassy there, and someone called me--I

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 4 (IV), 4/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Gordon -- IV -- 2 happy phrase. I didn't at the time. There \Vas just none better around and for SOme reason it was felt necessary to have a rubric

Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rather -- I -- 2 occupy, and that must have been 1946 or 1947. By the time I was in college and began to get really interested in public affairs, like a lot of other people, it certainly wasn't

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 3 (III), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

there in the [DB? R: Well, I didn't get there ahead of time. ·F: Were there a lot of people in the halls, or were people there that night? Was it pretty full? R: Yes. I don't know what was gOing on outside that suite. wasn't a crowd; there were no curiosity

Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

office now in Brookings The date is March 20, 1969 ; the time is 2 :50 in the afternoon ; and my name is David McComb . First of all, I'd like to know something about your background, where were you born, when, where did you get your education . 0: I

Oral history transcript, William Narva, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

several visits to see the President for some minor complaints at which time I accompanied Dr. Anderson and in the presence of the White House physician, Dr. [George] Burkley, met the President and assisted at some of these procedures, learning LBJ

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 46 (XLVI), 5/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, because New Jersey happened to be getting a lot of publicity because of the White House interest and because it was next to the New York Times which was covering it. But I noticed in these steno pads we had a problem in Wisconsin, and the issue came up

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

being a part of, the Naval Affairs Committee, with old Mr. [Carl] Vinson of Georgia, whom we called the Admiral, in charge since time began. (Interruption) A good many evenings and weekends out at our house, or down at the Capitol, were spent with fellow

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of effort, out of which some specific pictures emerge. There was one time that Lyndon got a movie star-G: Gene Autry. J: Gene Autry, whom somehow in the course of our--I guess it was in our work on radio we had come to know him. They liked each other

Oral history transcript, Truman Fawcett and Wilma Green Fawcett, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

you born, where, and where did you go to . school? TF: I was born in Johnson City on September 12, 1909. in Johnson City. I went to school At that time \'Je had, I believe, eleven grades and the school wasn't accredited. So if you intended to go

Oral history transcript, Douglass H. Hubbard, interview 1 (I), 6/4/69, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Patrol. Fromthere I went into the Navy for a couple of years and then was released into the National Park Service [which picked me up without loss of time from the Border Patrol]. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

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

: It is now. I was just indicating that--perhaps as useful background, even though it's in the Kennedy Administration--you were of course involved in Viet Nam from a very early time, and I'd like to get some indication as to how much Mr. Johnson as Vice

Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 2 (II), 4/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

parties. It was That's where At Christmas, the Christmas tree was in the log room. One time, at least one time, she gave a party for the help, the colored people who worked for her, and they came and brought their families and their children

Oral history transcript, Eugene R. Black, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, so for several months before he was killed I spent practically all of my time working on a report to him as to whether or not it would be advisable for the U. S. government to build a supersonic transport plane. During that time I visited with all

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 28 (XXVIII), 3/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. They were a big asset to our life and fortunately got along all right, more or less, with Zephyr [Wright]. Because we couldn't have done without Zephyr either. G: Did Helen do any cooking at all when Zephyr wasn't there? J: Yes. There was a time when

Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Allan Shivers for control of the state Democratic Party and chairmanship of it. S: Okay. What do you want to know? G: Well, just simply how the battle took shape from your point of view. You were down here in San Antonio at the time. S

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