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Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • lived at that time. A bit of history, immaterial possibly. I'm a product of Austin public schools, the University [of Texas] class of 1934. I studied journalism and also government, minor on municipal government. In the middle of the Depression I
Oral history transcript, Charles Fitz Baird, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in financial management and policy. Is this background information correct? B: That's correct. P: On what occasions have you met Hr. Johnson, both the first time and subsequent meetings? B: I did not know the President at the time I was appointed
Oral history transcript, Henry M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • from the Congressional Campaign Committee, [of] which he was then serving as chairman, the sum of two hundred dollars. That might not sound like a big contribution from a congressional cam­ paign committee today, but it was a lot at that time. It came
Oral history transcript, Oveta Culp Hobby, interview 1 (I), 7/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Were they good friends, do you think? H: Yes. I don't know how close, but I know that they were friends. M: Did Governor Hobby have any relationship with Lyndon Johnson that you know of? H: The first time that I can recall was when young Mr
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . GILLETTE PLACE: Casa Leonor, Acapulco, Mexico More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tape 1 of 1 J: Well, the really funny incident that time when he was in the hospital--at least it was funny to me; it sure
  • and the friends he made there, such as Carl Vinson and Warren Magnuson; LBJ's father, Sam Ealy Johnson, his declining health, and death; LBJ's time in his district when Congress wasn't in session; LBJ's role in his family after his father's death; Sam Ealy
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 2 (II), 8/14/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to start in the period of 1953 because 1953 was the period during which Mr. Diem prepared of his coming back to the country. I was at that time special assistant to Dr. [Phan Huy] Quat, who was minister of defense in the government of Prince Buu Loc
Oral history transcript, Ben W. Heineman, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Lyndon Johnson for the first time when he was in the United States Senate, I think, about 1956 or '7. F: Was this official or social? H: Social. I have forgotten really who introduced us. I think it was Senator Paul Douglas, but it was a very
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • got into that political race, and we had met many of the political figures of the state. I don't remember exactly when we met President Johnson, but it was sometimes in the 1930s. He was director of the NYA [National Youth Administration] at the time
Oral history transcript, John N. Luft, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • --selling automobiles in the retail trade and implements, employed by J. I. Case Company as a retail salesman, out of the Kansas City office for a couple of years. B: Is that the Case Farm Implements? L: J. I. Case, at that time was known as the J. I
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1, 8/14/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • and by other folks when we were still in Washington. And, basically, we've always talked about Lyndon Johnson because that's what it's all about at the Lyndon Johnson Library but Mike has said a time or two, well, he would like have in his file something about
Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 2 (II), 2/23/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • known Sam Houston since he was a young man. He has always been connected with Lyndon in almost everything that he's undertaken other than just when he was secretary to Congressman [Richard] Kleberg. At that time Lyndon was very alert, very
Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • paid a courtesy call on Senator McFarland, but went to Lyndon Johnson? D: I think that it WeS very evident that he was the mover in that duo. But, of course, we were controllers at the time. I think that Senator Johnson at that time
Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh October 29, 1968 M: The tape is now running, Mr. Finletter. Let's start in a very general way. Can you recall the first time in your career that you came into contact with President Johnson? F: I really can't. My
Oral history transcript, Harfield Weedin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Texas, and at that time. In addition to being an air person- ality on KTRH, I was also a salesman trying to get sales experience. So I called on Lee. He sponsored--on KTRH--a program called "VOx POp," which also became nationally known. He came up
Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LYMAN LEMNITZER INTERVIEWER: Ted Gitt i nger PLACE: General Lemnitzer's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: All right, sir, please go ahead. L: It was about that time that General [George C.] Marshall took over from Louis Johnson
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recall about that is that Mary Rather was his chief secretary at the time. Mayo Clinic. She was sending things to him at the She addressed a whole bunch of stuff to Rochester, New York that the Senator was most anxious to have and became quite
Oral history transcript, Burke Marshall, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in there. Do you happen to know if you might have been on Mr. John Macy's list of possibilities? M: Well, they had a talent hunt that was conducted by Sarge [Sargent] Shriver at that time. I don't know whether John had anything to do with it; I don't think he
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • around and see him from time to time, and he does make some avuncular comments about it, but he's not really engaged in the day-to-day operations of it. One of the reasons, I think, is because of Congressman [John S.] Rooney [D.-N.Y.], the Congressman
Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , Maryland, visiting my parents for the weekend. I got a phone call. My boss at that time was a guy named Frederick Stalfort, and he called me up and he said, "Coffey, where in the hell are you?" And I said, "I'm home." "Vlell," he said, "You're going
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • the University of Minnesota. you joined the United Press in Detroit. In 1948 And in 1949 you joined the Detroit Free Press and became a labor editor. You, at that time, also acted as a correspondent for the New York Times, Business Week, and Newsweek
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 29 (XXIX), 5/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the issue of whether the President should himself put out a statement. And once the President issued a statement in a situation like this it was our belief that we had to win whatever it took. G: The press suggests that this was the first time that Johnson
Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 2 (II), 9/15/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the mountai n people were essentially roving tribesmen at the time, migratory types. Wolf Ladejinsky did work with Diem on getting Vietnamese LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Zephyr Wright, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wright -- I -- 2 W: Well, part of the time. in Marshall. time. Most of th~ last part of her life she lived She remarried and lived in Louisiana
Oral history transcript, Horace E. Richards, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Marcos. a sub-college over there, the tenth and eleventh grade. I was They had I entered over there and had a pretty rough time because this was more or less of a country school that I'd been going to. But I finished the tenth grade and the eleventh
Oral history transcript, James Cain, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • think. At that time I had been in Austin and we were thinking of coming up here. I was thinking of applying for a fellowship here at the Mayo Clinic. Senator Wirtz suggested that I ought to go over and talk to the Congressman about this and have a visit
Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • older than I, he and I became friends. We were con- temporaries, we were both interested in public affairs, and we both knew the same type of people, such as Governor [James V.] Allred and most of the officials. I think that at that time Lyndon had
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • said, So I got a cup of coffee . We were sitting there drinking it, and about that time Lyndon walked in . At that time I didn't know that Jesse was there to meet Lyndon, and he didn't know that I was there to meet Lyndon . came in . Lyndon We
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • at that time. F: You hadn't declared? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 6 (VI), 3/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • where we really hammered out a draft of the National Defense Education Act. At that time it was limited to, and only to, engineering, the sciences. I don't remember in categories exactly how it was spelled out, but that's the way it was. This expansion
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • or to food's potential. As a matter of fact, I felt that up to the very end and said a number of times in my judgment we might very well have fdund Red China in Viet Nam by now if it hadn't been for their internal food prob­ lern, and the fact
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 6 (VI), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • there, her lifelong love affair with nature which began there. It occurred to me that it would be appropriate to suggest that her girlhood home might be established as an historic site. At that time no former first lady's home had been so recognized
Oral history transcript, Sim Gideon, interview 2 (II), 10/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • Angelo and Brownwood in 1906. I lived there and went through high school there and then came to the University of Texas. I received my law degree at the University of Texas in 1929. M: Did you get a B.A. degree before then? G: No. At that time I
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it was, and it extended on through his time. And Nixon actually asked us to reduce it to 5 per cent, you remember, at one point after he'd been in office, I believe. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1972 INTERVIEWEE: RALPH K. HUITT INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Dr. Huitt's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: The last time we talked about your experience with Johnson, and this time I thought we would get specifically
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • PLACE: Martha's Vineyard More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 M: When we left 1959, the Connallys were at the Ranch and they're still there. This must be either the first time, or one
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 5 (V), 6/3/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in late September of '66 to be under secretary of state. He remained as the Crime Commission chairman because the Crime Commission really had almost completed its work then. They were in, drafting of all the reports, the final reports. But the time that he
Oral history transcript, Louise Casparis Edwards, interview 1 (I), 1/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : It was church-type entertainment. We usually all went to the same church, and that depended on whether you had good strong leaders for young people in that church. At one time the Methodists were pro- moting a program that we all enjoyed, so everybody went
Oral history transcript, Henry Hirshberg, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and have been such since December 1954. P: That has been continuous since 1954? H: Since 1954. Prior to that time for a few years I was in private practice of law following a term as General Counsel for the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration
Oral history transcript, Otis Arnold Singletary, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • right down to any specifics. He wanted to see whether he was interested in you and whether you had any interest in what they were doing. I went back a second time. This must have been in bout October of '64. F: You were named on October 21
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : September 4, 1983 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas Tape 1 of 2 J: The spring of 1953 was a time when, on looking back through the lenses of the years, it seems that Lyndon's career