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Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • primarily rather than official. K: It was truly social. the years. So that our relationship really grew stronger over Of course, knew him reasonably well at the time he ran for vice president because of the necessary association that had
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the motor carrier and railroad safety functions, so we decided not to press hard at that time on the car service functions. M: In general, from your point of view, was the passage of this act quick enough to be impressive to you? 0: It was the fastest
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • correct. P: And prior to that you were an associate and partner in a Washington, D.C., law firm. W: Yes. P: And since 1948. W: Yes, you do. P: Mr. Warnke, your predecessor in this office, Mr. John MacNaughton, also And I do have all correct
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Roberts -- II -- 2 R: No~ I was a housewife. was one of his NYA boys~ I was married to Herbert Ray Roberts~ who and met him of course because of his and Ray's friendship and past association. F
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on those occasions would indicate that they each regarded the other as a very close and good friend. B: In those days when you were on the. Truman White House staff there were associated with the White House a number of people who later became associated
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Baptist Association . Brooks Hays . He was president of the Southern Brooks Hays, a great storyteller . It was Brooks Hays that asked me that question . Mr . He was going to try Rayburn . I told him what the facts were . He was very close to So
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Easley was the Associated Press correspondent covering the House of Representatives for years and years. And he later worked for Bob Poage, but Tex Easley was a very prominent associate, AP writer. H: Okay, Bill and Judy Mickey, M-I-C-K-E-Y. Anything
Oral history transcript, Sam Fore, Oliver Bruck, Dan Quill, & William S. White, group interview 2 (II), 1/20/1965, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • was with the Associated Press. He was Kleberg's secretary then. By that time he had become very well known. He was the only employee in Congress I ever knew who was widely known. I mean beyond the employees, because the other members saw him and they knew he had something
Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • thousand, and the President carried by over a million. F: The people never associated the two? W: Never identified. They were anti-Goldwater. There was just no way Goldwater could carry California. I was concerned--the "big lie" technique--if we kept
  • and 3/31/68 speech; socializing with Ben Barnes; Jack Valenti becoming head of the Motion Picture Association of America; Robert Redford and Paul Newman; LBJ’s driving.
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 5 (V), 3/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was strong. The report he got was that when President Kennedy was ki 11 ed i.t might have been done by those connected with, or associ ated with, or in sympathy with the far right movement. Some reporter gave him that ~ LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • years that we had worked together. Mrs. Johnson made a little speech. And She said she had hoped the President would come; she was sure he had pressing business and couldn't get there. Just about three minutes later, in he walked. And I could tell
  • of HHH; JFK, LBJ and press attitudes; anti-Johnson campaign 1960-1969; contacts with President LBJ and Lady Bird;
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of respect for the military, but he really came from that old-time school that wanted the civilian to be looking down the throats of [the military]. G: Anything on his association with David Lilienthal? Did he have much contact with Lilienthal during
Oral history transcript, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT N. GINSBURGH INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: General Ginsburgh's residence, Chevy Chase, Maryland Tape 1 of 2 G: General Ginsburgh, would you begin by telling us how you came to be associated with the Policy Planning Council
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . And then it goes on to prescribe corrective measures, but they don't really make much sense. before. They are what they'd been saying For example, instead of, "We're going to win the war in the shortest possible time," which were the buzz words associated
  • activity through computer capability; CIA; Robert Komer and pacification; the Tet Offensive; Westmoreland press briefing after Tet; the media; infiltration; the importance of Cambodia; Sihanouk; problem of interpretation of intelligence; body counts; Sam
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • attorney, your own county judge, your own constables, school boards-F: He was a prisoner of the place, in a sense. .__ D: As much as he was di ctator and tyrant. F: Do you get the feeling from your long association with Texas He could be a tyrant
Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that even though they opposed, they had already known so many things, more or less by courtesy, that they didn't have quite the sting to attack. And I think that President Johnson was always-- of course he had quite a lot of association with Uncle Carl
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and it was a most satisfying joy to me that they liked, appreciated, respected each other so much. G: When Aunt Effie would visit for these extended periods, would she become part of the working family, the household? Would she be pressed into service to help
  • Taylor; LBJ's view of minorities in the 1930s and 1940s and some of his unpopular actions; LBJ's association with African-American education leaders; Bill Deason and the Johnsons' first victory garden; guests and friends; the changing morale regarding
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • associations with Governor Price Daniel and with President Johnson. In the spring of 1965 you joined the White House staff as Special Counsel to the President and served in that position until the spring of 1967. Could we begin by your telling me a little
  • Biographical information; working for Price Daniel; Jacobsen’s personal political philosophy; 1940’s and 1950’s political climate in Texas; LBJ’s reputation as a congressman; LBJ’s early advisers and associates; law suit involving the 1948 election
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • First duties and associates in Vietnam; III ARVN Corps; the problem of counterintelligence duty in Hawaii; early buildup of the Vietnam War; background of the war; the Oriental soldier; return to Vietnam in 1967; briefing preparation for McNamara
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Johnson saying something about General LeMay. C: Well, it actually dates back to an earlier time than the presidency; it goes back to when he was the vice president. G: That's fine. C: I had been associated with the Vice President about four or five
Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Weaver, Nabrit, a whole lot of people like that, Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young, Martin Luther King. It sends out no press releases. Now, he was so impressed that he thought what you do was to have the President here. So then I was responsible for working
  • Biographical information; problems of blacks in colleges in the 1940s; appointment to FTC; association with LBJ after U.S. judgeship appointment; meetings and activities following assassination of MLK and related disturbances; work on Federal Jury
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 2 (II), 8/14/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • -known journalists later on: Neil Sheehan from the New York Times, who was by then chief of the Associated Press in Saigon, and many of the very famous journalists who became well-known after the coup of Mr. Diem, [David] Halberstam, and so forth. G: D
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 4 (IV), 8/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to question Mr. Johnson's credibility on any issue from the time I first knew him until he left the White House--not once! He was telling the truth. I don't know what they meant by the credibility gap, because what he was saying to the press, to the public
Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of attention in the press; they proposed programs which--most of which have now become the law. I don't remember specifically what they were, but they were pretty active. B: They were generally on the liberal side. Bo: That's correct. Most of them. B
Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview S-1 (I), 3/26/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • rights, but not only that. We are beginning to come back today to some of the views that he had, that we have very serious economic and social problems in this society, some of which we don't know how to deal with, but all of which are pressing
Oral history transcript, A. Ross Eckler, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh I answered an interviewer a while back and I got quoted in the press that I would have to say, "No," if the President asked for a personal record. I said
  • First association with LBJ; Hobart Taylor, Jr.; 1965 Civil Rights Act; Richard Scammon; Andrew Brimmer; promotion of civil servants into appointed posts; referrals; special surveys; Congressional intervention; right of privacy issue; mailout
Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the departmental reception was dispensed with as the government grew. P: Can you tell me what your duties were at the CIA? F: Yes. Well, naturally, you would associate the work here with the graphic arts. And it would be, of course, of a classified nature
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • , is that the late Roy Miller, a man who was at one time the publisher of this newspaper and who was the representative in Washington for the Port of Corpus Christi, the Intercoastal Canal Association and a number of other things, had been active as a legislative
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • his telephone and went on strike for a few days. G: There was another occasion I guess where the President had to be flown to the Mayo Clinic I think with gallstones. T: Something. G: And didn't want it known to the press. Do you recall
  • Biographical information; association with Everett Looney; LBJ as a Congressman; relationship with LBJ; 1948 Senate race; investigation of voting irregularities in Alice, TX; collecting affidavits from Mexican-Americans to challenge voting
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • we're doing, of course, is just trying to fill in pieces here and there in the affair. We have your book on Alaska and its coming to statehood, and so I thought we'd just emphasize your association with Johnson in this. When did you first meet him? G
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • worthy of note that my boy was endorsed by the District of Columbia Bar Association. And I say he was, in my book, eminently qualified. He'd gone to St. Albans here in Washington, he'd gone to Williams College in Massachusetts, graduated, went
Oral history transcript, Ben W. Heineman, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with a plan, I don't think very much would have happened that anybody would have wanted to be associated with. On the other hand, we did have work sessions. up. They had ample opportunity to pass advisory resolutions. advisory resolutions. F: We did break
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 25 influenced. I felt fairly confident that because of my past associations that I would possibly that I would be received with favor by the people in the White House, but I was not in any sense a White
Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • accommodations section of it, I think it is called. B: Did he ever explain to you his reasoning for pressing it? S: No, he didn't. I believe that Lyndon Johnson had a sincere conviction that what he was doing was in the best interest of the country
Oral history transcript, Sidney P. Marland, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and my insistence upon good quality work from students had a good effect. To this day, I'm afraid, it is a source of dismay to my associates sometimes. I'll bounce materials back that came to me for signing and say, "Look, this can be better written
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 2 (II), 4/17/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • problems. Even though these people were not political associates of Senator Stennis or of the Stennis wing of the party, many were recognized community and state leaders of substance. I can't speak for what the Senator, how he may have reacted
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 24 (XXIV), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • right. G: Was that how dire it was? O: Yes, we were through. The last three weeks of the campaign would have been whatever the press reported. While Nixon had a tremendous media package in place for the last three weeks. He had started his media
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 5 (V), 9/9/1982-9/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the Johnson home or associate with them socially that you know of? R: Not that I remember. Mrs. Johnson I guess could tell you. If they wanted to have a little cocktail party on a Sunday or a Saturday afternoon and invite some of the Texas congressmen
Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • them from this capricious and unwise action. The second phase, if the first phase didn't succeed, was to go to the foreign press and complain 16 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • was still sufficiently junior upon the House Committee on Foreign Affairs that I was not often called to the White House for briefings upon any of those matters. My active participation and association with Mr. Johnson and the people in the White House