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Oral history transcript, Robert Vincent Roosa, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the So much so that even before inauguration we were clear that in a sense Walter Heller and Jim Tobin particularly at the council ivere going to be pressing for domestic things, and I was going to have to be saying, despite the wish I might also have
Oral history transcript, William Lewis and Margaret Chase Smith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1975, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on to name this subcommittee, he looked up and down the rostrum of the members, and he named me and here I'd been on only a few weeks. Of course. it was a great surprise. The press made a great deal of it and called me the "Vice_ Admiral" because I
Oral history transcript, Mildred Portner, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in, because we didn't want to jar the place too much, was to look at informational materials and speeches and memoranda and press releases and get a feel for the office. Then we continued that and we thought that they had manpower problems, but as we got more
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 2 (II), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Judd -- II -- 21 up in Shansi [Shanxi] when he came in from Peking to see what was going on with these caravan trails and so on. And he gave this dinner for me and there were people there from the press and the civilians
Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I don't associate it with the Presidency or the Senate or the Majority Leadership. It is a personal characteristic. It was his dominant personal characteristic as I see it. G: Can you recall him applying this Johnson treatment in persuasion? J
Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • budget, which I have published for many years, which the National Planning Association has published for many years, which some other organizations have published--that is an example of what should be in the economic report as the integral starting point
Oral history transcript, Jack Hood Vaughn, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be written, the postcard could be written, but nothing would happen, because that has been the kind of immunization for us. Many more controversial and critical things occur weekly in the Peace Corps that we couldn't even sell to the press, but it's
Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Press and it had an editor named Mefo, at least that was [his byline]. He was really M. E. Foster, I think, but he wrote a column and he used to sign it Mefo. My parents were going through the Depression and money was pretty scarce. buy him a suit. L
Oral history transcript, Price Daniel, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was afraid that the Court might go off in a direction that would keep us from having an exception. And on the day that the California tidelands case was argued, I went up for the National Association of Attorneys General and made a short friend
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 10 (X), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • could get him to reconsider this decision, and the proclamation was just being signed and ready to be released. He was in the Cabinet Room with his key civil rights advisers--that's probably where McPherson was--and the members of the press
  • ; comparing executive agreements, treaties, and executive orders; the influence of OLC's and the attorney general's issued opinions; the attorney's general's rules for issuing opinions; opinions involving Federal National Mortgage Association obligations
Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . It did not enter into my own decision. TG: When was this proposal made? I associate it with Adlai Stevenson. AG: No, it was made before, and then typical of Lyndon--now I can call him Lyndon, he's dead; I always called him Mr. President although I
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wilbur Cohen -- II -- 11 during my secretaryship. One was Jules Sugarman who was head of the Head Start program, who I made associate chief
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Then I guess the third phase of my association began in the spring of 1939. F: You were president of the student body what year? C: I was president of the student body in 1938-39. I was elected in the spring of 1938, took office then and served until
  • ; LBJ's congressional work style; LBJ trying to get on the Appropriations Committee; LBJ's use of charm; LBJ forcing staff members to stretch their abilities; FDR's third term campaign; Connally's wedding; LBJ's 1940's senatorial campaign; press relations
Oral history transcript, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were in HEW at the time and how you were drawn into the task force. H: Well, I was associate general counsel of HEW, working only in part on matters related to what eventually came about in the Economic Opportunity Act. Mankiewicz. I think I got
Oral history transcript, Floyd E. Dominy, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and Senator Hayden were the closest kind of associates and personal friends of long standing, and I'm sure this had influence on the President's desire to get this behind him and give Carl Hayden some help in his declining years. And the President did. He
Oral history transcript, Lawrence Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that they can make a profit out of that operation, what specific things does your agency do for the businessman then? F: Well, we work with not only the individual firms but with the trade associations and other groups to acquaint them with our judgment
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in conservation. R: Over 50 years. I was a member of the old American Game Association, and I was on the Advisory Committee of the Biological Survey. I was on the Commis sion to buy refuges - -the National Migratory Bird Commission to buy refuges and pass
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was gone, MACV publicized--they had also been very secretive up to this time. The day I was up north they probably thought I was going to go find the press and tell them all about it. thing from my mind. Farthest The worst thing that could have happened
Oral history transcript, Oscar M. Laurel, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 4 (IV), 7/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to it ; and if you don't I'll just tear this little piece of paper up ." He said, "Oh, no, don't do that ." I said, "Ail right, then let's have a press release on it to seal our agreement .'" � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Whiteside he was always trying to do something for Dr. Evans. buttons to press, all I .:..:. 21 He knew which right~ G: What did he do for Dr. Evans? W: I don't know that he ever did
Oral history transcript, Eugene Williams and Helen Williams, interview 1 (I), 10/27/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • not really sure. MG: I was wondering, was there one point in your early association with him where he more or less convi.nced you that he was advancing ci vil rights? HW: No, the only time that I think I was really aware or him really advancing civil
Oral history transcript, Will Wilson, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • or eleven o'clock maybe, between eleven and twelve, and I went by Lyndon's hotel suite. Of course the press was all outside and they had a bunch of guards LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh his tent, but not wanting to be associated with a Johnson Administration enterprise particularly, and busy
Oral history transcript, Burke Marshall, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • talk to who could understand you. I mean, I'd been associated with him in a law suit in Mississippi in 1960 so that I had a professional kind of acquaintance with him. But that was tough and Alabama was tough, but we always found some people. There were
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Marine guards or some sort of uniformed people standing along the aisle keeping the people back. But the people wanted to press forward and we had to move very swiftly to get through and into the other ballroom and back again. As I recall then we danced
Oral history transcript, Wayne Aspinall, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . let you know in the morning." 14y son had associated with his children. So the next morning he said, "Sherry and I'd like to go." called Rex up, and he said, "That's fine." I That's the way that he went down in the latter part of 1961. Within two
Oral history transcript, Roland Bibolet, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on to the heights that he did, I know McFarland was extremely proud of the association, and when we went to Washington at the occasion of the Kennedy funeral, McFarland wanted very much to tell Lyndon personally � � LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 7 (VII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Cohen and had gotten one from Wilbur Cohen saying that this was a good thing, did vote with us at the full committee level. He was the only Republican who did. Congressman Edwards and Congressman Erlenborn nevertheless proceeded to press to a floor fight
Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , at that particular time in 1947 we had the same situation facing us that we have today as far as school financing. What happened was that the doggone schoolteachers did me in on that thing. Charlie Tennison [?] represented the Texas State Teacher's Association. F
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 1 (I), 3/9/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 3 (III), 3/11/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
Oral history transcript, M. J. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)
  • . [inaudible] When did you become involved, let's say, in politics to the point where it led to being associated with people like LBJ? A: It started really with Dr. Everett Givens back in about the 1940s, the early 1940s. Dr. Givens was a very personal
  • to get involved in political organizations; financial stability of UPO; negative press for LBJ; Anderson's visits to the Ranch; LBJ agreeing to be JFK's vice presidential running mate; LBJ's civil rights speeches; Mack Hatter's political work in Texas
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- II -- 19a *My memory failed me here. The Ludlow Amendment was rejected in 1937 before I went to Washington. Herbert Henderson, my roommate and constant associate, evidently described the events related to the matter so graphically that I thought I
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • into the offices of journalists, fellows sitting in green visors, and to the boys working the press, and talking quietly with people in small lunch groups. He was not as good as some of the other gentlemen standing at a podium talking to a thousand people
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that require exposure to the press, exposure to the people. A lot of foreign service work is not public work and doesn't necessarily produce people that do such work well. I think that they cross their fingers, no matter who gets that job, in hopes