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Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

World War II convinced me to join a new outfit called the Central Intelligence Group. F: This is a piece of friendly exchange, when were you in Harvard Business School? K: After I got out of Harvard College. [I] started in '42 and finished my degree
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

could and when you had time? C: Oh, I re a d the available papers that were time l y. Of course, that was just the Washington p apers and the New York Time s an d the Sun and th e Wall Street Journal. Th ey we re the only one s that you coul d real
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Action is its flexibility. That is, it could be something different in New York, it would certainly be something different in Chicago where Dick Daley was in charge, and it would certainly be something different in Saginaw. And that was the point
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

years. he was thro.ugh the news· med ta and so forth, but Of course, I knew who r never had any persona 1 contact with him. B: Th.at would apply even to his acttvtties while he was vice president, . as chairman of the Equal .Opportun1ties
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

, and a new life beginning. It was roughly divided between business school, which took up about five or six hours of the day [and the office]. I went to a very ordinary sort of a loft place and took typing and shorthand for about three hours and then studied
in the Washington, D.C., area; the news that Austin had been approved for a military installation; a petition campaign for LBJ to run for congressman again and support for a possible Senate race; LBJ's frustration with his work in the navy; LBJ's relationship
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

know whether they ever made their ways into the Library or not. G: That's a new one on me. Let's see if I can find some. Was that the last year you were there? J: Probably so, because actually I was only there two years. G: Any other activities
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? But we never asked if something was not in the mill, say, to build a new post office in Cleveland. If it is already on the drawing board, we might be able to speed it up a little bit by a few months. If there was no plans for it within the department
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

and perhaps had been concluded with a firm of architects in New York and in Washington. A decision had been made by the regents to build a University building and a presidential library as part of the same architectural, and, I presume, construction contract
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Fred Korth, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to Gilpatric actually. the selection of a contractor for a VSTOL This was on plane--vertical short take- off and landing plane--in which Bell Aero-Systems was involved of Buffalo, New York. I had been a director of Bell Aerospace Corporation, of which
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/8/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: This is out of the chronology, but it's related to this. One of the first things you did after you became governor in 1964, I believe, was go to New York to talk to the officials of the television networks about what could be done to improve M ississippi's
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

twice with them to spend- well, we spent three or four days with Lady Bird and Lyndon in Ed Weisl--he lived in the Hampshire House in New York, which is a very fancy place . I do recall one evening we were there and Tom Clark--you remember Tom Clark
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

it arose myself through the New York Times and specifically through Mr. James Reston. I recall this instant quite well. It was early in the President's Administration. He was preparing to go before the United Nations, and Mr. Reston apparently in getting
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, interview S-IX, 8/12/1969, by William J. Jorden (Item)

, because it'll be in Thailand, it'll be in Indonesia, and it'll take ,-11 th,e rest of the area, and be b,,ck to Honolulu. Now, the New York Times in typical fashion, and other,; of liberal tendencies who disapprove,
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

made a. number of planning grants . Many communities were not prepared ; many, many communities did not have the sophistication or the resources that a city like New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, that could turn the wheels of their council of social
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

them, I'll take you out there and show you that there aren't"--well, anyway, he was livid with me. But Halberstam picked all this up and sat down there and made notes and then he wrote an article for the New York Times about-G: Did that have any
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to develop some hoarseness. On examination by physicians at the naval hospital and Dr. Wilbur J. Gould in New York, it was felt that the benign-looking lesion on the larynx should be looked at under a microscope. So as time goes on we've got two problems
of LBJ; LBJ’s post-presidential activities; Mrs. Johnson.
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Quang Duc. Tri Quang was-- for six weeks there I was not at my post. I had speeches to make about Vietnam at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and elsewhere, which were already laid on. I have to do with it? thing about it. So your
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in either of my last two elections; I ran completely without any contributions, without spending any money. But when I was spending money and raising money, lid raise it by soliciting most of it in the state, raising a little in New York and Chicago
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

goes on in the political life in the United States . And I unhesitatingly say the brand of politics being played in Texas, in all of my memory, is entirely different from that that's playing in Mississippi, in New York, in Pennsylvania, in Illinois
Biographical information; organized labor's view of Senator Johnson; initiatiing new labor view in Texas; CWA; local union; union at the nation level; 1968 Chicago telephon strike before convention; 1960 campaign/convention; LBJ's effectiveness
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

unanimous approval ; didn't So mine went right through . I had no In fact, the man who was chairing the subcom mittee was the fellow that Bobby Kennedy beat in New York . He was one of the finest men ; he was really a fine gentlemen, and he
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

relations with the government, gave up my apartment and town house in New York City and brought everything back down to Washington. the University. Got down for Christmas, and in January I started back at And I felt so good but the last of January
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

realized that he was being surrounded by men who shared the grief of the family. Then, much to our surprise, as we were getting ready to leave for Steve Smith to return to New York, he asked if it would be possible to go by the area where the President--we
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

--was there as president of the National Governors' Conference, and Governor [Richard] Hughes of New LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

. S: Jim left and went to Georgetown [UniversityJ as their Comptroller or finance officer, and then he went to the State University of New York as chancellor. Anyhow, I am sure he was there and we resolved some of the issues. Then in January right
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to Chicago and New York and the east wherever we had contacts with the Mexican-Americans. And of course I have a lot of close Negro friends and as soon as he became president, the Negroes--the blacks-also had accepted Johnson as a humanitarian and as a good
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

basic philosophical differences between me and, incidentally, Leon Jaworski. In terms of your pulling out research I think the New York Times carried a cover story on the front page about this which, as I read it, was not too inaccurate about some
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and passionate than in fact we are. The White House correspondent for NBC or the New York Times or the AP is ~xp~cted to do as conscientious a job as he can of reporting the activities of the president and the administration. The fact that he may not have
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

prior to this? B: The man who was the chairman of the Interior Committee in the House was a man, Mr. O'Brien, from upper New York State, which you'd think would be opposing vote. But he was dedicated to the fact that Alaska LBJ Presidential Library
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

bring you the greetin gs of the Pres·; dent of the United States . He knows where I am. He knows I'm in the Securi ty Council in New York City. 11 But I don't know whether Mr. Johnson ever heard the story that I got the bigges t mileage out of, involving
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

brief and yet curiously intense.I was marched across the well of the Senate by Gerry Siegel during a break in the proceedings and introduced to my new boss, and he said, "Glad to have you, do your best," somewhat abruptly but with full force. B: From
Civil Rights Bill; LBJ’s 1964 campaign speech in New Orleans; Johnson treatment; immense capacity to judge people; Johnson-Rayburn relationship; first signs of Presidential ambition; LBJ’s relationship with oil and gas industries; relationship

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

://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 "Rags" Ragsdale of the U.S. News [and World Report], who was a friend of his of many
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Sometimes he would rehearse those kinds of things, and I got in on it, but not this kind. He considered those more extemporaneous types of talks. (Interruption) We were traveling from Stewart Air Force Base in New York over to Ellenville, New York
other countries; LBJ speaking Spanish; Glassboro, New Jersey, meeting with Kosygin; trip around the US to visit military troops; communication problems aboard the USS Enterprise; LBJ’s response to a Williamsburg, Virginia, minister’s anti-war statements.
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

again. Even got mad at me for bring- I think that her boy [Phillip Bobbitt] wants to write her memoirs or something. G: Is that why you think she won't do it? J: She hasn't done anything yet. She's given out statements in New York, she's given
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Homer E. Dean, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, that their strength--because Duval County after all was a pretty small county as far as population goes--their strength lay in being able to produce a large bloc of votes, same kind of thing that made the Irish in New York and Poles in Chicago [powerful]. They didn't
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

members that would go around purposely . They were cashiers in a bank back home before they came here or they sold insurance, one . We had one from New York that was a cashier in a bank and he'd go by and make it his business to know everybody . Then we
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1b (I), 4/29/1986, by Walter Richter (Item)

to Austin and I've got a new job. I want you to help me get started." I said, "Well, tell me about it." He said, "I don't have LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

as it was functioning, and consequently we proposed in 1967 that there be a significant change in the law to give it a different kind of a complexion. We had our last meeting in December of '67, which was the same month that we got our new amendments. I took
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

; and New Year's Eve, as I think I mentioned previously, I spent up here calling around to tell everybody that the President was going to announce the next day that they were going to work right away. But some people apparently had told the President

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

agency in each of the cities in which these organizations had been set up. They were doing that by trying to give as illustrations of community action programs that might be done what ABeD \'ias doing in Boston, what HARYOU-Act was doing in New York
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

by taxpayers' money, and therefore you're using public money to take the student to school.. Well, I told the group, "I'll agree with you on that point, if you'll agree with me on this point." I go to New York quite frequently and I take the subway that goes
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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