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Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with incomes of over $200,000 who didn't pay any taxes at all. I don't think the American people are going to stand for this much longer." This was a great cause celebre, and it ran in the press and it ran allover the place--just ran and ran and ran. F
Biographical information; House Banking and Currency Commission; Sam Rayburn; Inter-American Bank; International Development Association; Hoover Commission; campaigns for Congress; Kennedy appointment to the Treasury; Chairman of the FDIC; May 1965

Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 2 (II), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Power Company--there is such a company--it was all the companies in New England, which had an association. They invited me to talk to them. As a matter of fact, that was the first major talk I made to the electric utilities, and I prepared

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with me, placed great emphasis on the need for helping the people as well as for destroying the Viet Cong. He wanted rural electrification programs in Vietnam; he kept pressing for a whole series of developmental initiatives. Well, out of all

Oral history transcript, Donald F. Hornig, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

to Brown University as an assistant professor. That was in '46. From there on, it's the fairly usual kind of story. M: At Brown, according to the information I have, you went from an assistant professor to associate, to full professor. H: I

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

and to the newspaper reporters to exploit any opportunity on the press or the television. And so when you dealt with Adam Clayton Powell, you never knew exactly in what capacity you were dealing with him. When I first met with him in 1961, he was extremely sympathetic

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

continuingly pleasant and fruitful association in his capacity as Vice President and leader of the Administration and in my capacity as an Undersecretary. M: I've heard that when he was Vice President that Johnson in Cabinet meetings would take a decidedly

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

or a--we were able to send a lot of senators to the association of parliamentarians [Interparliamentary Union]. It was sort of where senators and congressmen got together with their colleagues in England and France and Germany and Japan, and the wives

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

Association about ten days ago, and I had lost that card, so I went out to the back of my office where my father's trunk is . in his trunk . I felt I'd find another one of these cards What I wanted to emphasize to the Northeast Texas Bar Association

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

immediately began to show an interest in student politics, was elected president of the student association or whatever they call it, the student body . the president . He worked on the college paper . He worked for President Evans at that time

Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and that he had a letter of introduction from the Boston bar association to the president of the Saigon bar assocation. And I was thinking to myself, "Jesus Christ! This is going to be very, very interesting." But he was going to be their lawyer; he

Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 2 (II), 09/10/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)

Wardlaw, who'd been up there to see about getting some money from the National Historical Publications Commission. Frank Wardlaw is the director of the University of Texas Press. And nothing happened. I was on a take it or leave it basis. I had enough

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was younger and more energetic in those days. G: Now, in February of 1964 American Banker Association President William Kelly made a speech in New York deploring the lack of cooperation and the overlapping of the three federal agencies involved

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the process. Lyndon Johnson probably had more control over the press than any president since that time. He knew exactly who to call in on what issue and exactly how it would get leaked, and he knew when to delegate his leaking, too. Presidents leak to get
parents to a state dinner; negotiating the details of Paris peace talks with the North Vietnamese; Hubert Humphrey's lack of involvement in Vietnam peace talks; leaking information to the press; LBJ's secrecy; the issue of a ten per cent federal income

Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

this award. K: Each year at the Women's National Press Club, for many years an award has been given to an outstanding woman. On this particular occasion, President Johnson was to be the speaker. It's a dinner honoring Mrs. Roosevelt and the women who

Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to the White House." I said, "Why?" He said, "I can't tell you." So I was able to find a place for my wife and kids to stay at a motel, and the FBI got my suit pressed for me, got on the airplane, landed at Andrews Air Force Base, arrived at the White House

Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. This was a fact. So did Mary Lasker. And so Mrs. Roosevelt said, "Dorothy Schiff should never have attacked him on civil rights." Because she understood also -- she knew enough about it -- that he was doing his level best. F: But the liberal press

Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

report did provide estimates of what the cost would be under various circumstances. And these costs, the Farmers Home Administration, Lee Fryer, who was an associate administrator, I believe was his title at the time, worked as a task force

Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

a press conference down at the Driskill Hotel and became a candidate for the Senate. And, of course, all of us were working full time but we found several hours a day ..... some of the boys went into the campaign full time. I didn't, but that reminds me

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

have got such a majority it really doesn't matter. But in those days, it was so close. It was so close. Do you have any Let's talk about LBJ's relations with other senators. recollections of his association with Walter George, for example, who

Oral history transcript, William B. Dale, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

--and may still believe--that Swiss law requires him to buy gold whenever it's offered at his buying price by anybody, or at least by any Swiss resident private or public. So he couldn't associate himself with the communique that made him obligated

Oral history transcript, John W. Black, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

autographed, of course, and they appeared in the offices of all of our people around the world . Many of them were reproduced in the local travel press and sometimes in the public press of the countries in which they operated . This kind of a thing adds

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. But he got over that hump. Then Weaver held a press conference in which somebody asked him, "Do you want to be secretary of housing and urban development?" and Weaver said, "Yes," which created a whole raft of stories sometime in December. F: Did he? C

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

debated it for one entir e week, besides the prelim i narie s and the buildups and the inser tions in the Record and the debates in the public press . We starte d on Monday and I don't believ e we finish ed that bill until late Frida y night . I

Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, he and others tried to persuade the Democratic leadership, without success, that it should propose a Democratic alternative legislative program. So in late January 1957, eighty liberal House members--most of whom later were DSG leaders-associated

Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the same kind of John got it from talking to the press; he'd talk to Halberstam and Sheehan. I didn't make complaints. I was complaining--not complaining, I was telling him what was a fact, and he was shouting back at me so loud that they could hear him

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, by the National Association of Manufacturers. It was a puff, gut labor bill. They were trying to take advantage of the scandals in the Teamsters and other things that the McClellan Committee had dug up to really land some body blows on organized labor

Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

believe in a third term, and I appointed a campaign manager named Vincent Daley, and he was campaign manager--ostensibly the campaign manager. He was the front man, and he was the one who used to hold the press conferences every day, but I used to see

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

that is really productive long term but the effect is enormous. MG: You mentioned the whole range of projects. In some of your memos there is a theme there that you ought to present more of the successful programs to the President's attention and the press

Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

on Saturday morning with the other appointees and Mrs. Johnson. As we arrived the President was holding a press conference at which he announced our appointments and we spent the rest of the morning with the President, had lunch with him and Mrs. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Horace E. Richards, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

belonged to the Press Club. this column, "El Toro." that'd stack up. ~- 17 I was associate editor and I wrote You know they couldn't get rid of the newspapers Nobody wanted that College Star. Some of us got to writing things like that, you know

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

. M: Somebody picked up the information that you are associated with a firm called Peabody, Kaufman and Brewer. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? Was it evident at this point? J: I usually was pretty aware of who he knew beforehand. His letters, his stream of letters, were almost daily, and if I needed to do something, he could and did give me advice on how to do it. One of the most pressing things
with the press, specifically newspapers; LBJ's interest in Lady Bird Johnson's appearance; Lady Bird Johnson's efforts to get Tom Miller, Jr., into Officer Candidates School; time LBJ spent with Ed Weisl while in California in the navy; Lady Bird Johnson's

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, then know it was going to be surface-to-air missiles and all that it turned out to be . And we associated Kosygin's visit in early February, with sort of refo rmalizing good relations, good Communist-bloc relations, between Moscow and Hanoi . So

Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was afraid that to you any he finally think and he promoted you? Mr. Clark ever Johnson was aware of the kinds £!!B.have on this. in the press to his appointment, Did he ever indicate and I never complained. I think, in any-- Department rather

Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

proposals for the Job Corps was that it would be run primarily by the Defense Department, and that we would use the army to set up training camps and we would use military bulldozers and spades and shovels and drill presses and so on as the equipment, and we

Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

associated with that program. P: Does one of these stand out in your mind? F: Yes. It must have been in the spring of '67. The President the preceding fall had ordered a halt to new construction projects, not only in the Army's civil works program

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

is the same as a Cadillac now. Oaddy couldn't drive it, Mama couldn't, but they had to have a boy to drive it. His name is Guy Ames [?J. He drove Mama. you can call it a chauffeur if you want to. newspaper, you see. In other words, Also ran the press

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of their association, did Ralph Yarborough and the senior senator tend to get along fairly well? You've got a natural maverick in Ralph. J: I think they always got along together on the personal basis. Their personalities were such that they were never close

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