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Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • other prominent state officials were running for governor--they were actually running for the Democratic nomination, but that was the only race--before any of them announced. I guess he did this work in 1945 right after he had returned from the war. He
Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Weeks -- I -- 21 involved then in program issues was through the preparation of testi- mony before House and Senate committees and responding to questions that came out
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Security Agency. In the 1950s [you held] a number of government positions, including assistant counsel of the U.S. Senate Committee to Investigate Organized Crime; general counsel of the AntiTrust Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee; trade
Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that'? T: Well, I think I first really met him when he was administrator of the NYA I think, all the pages alike. So then you got through being a page; you outgrew that. [National Youth Administration], when he came here to be the adminis trator. F
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • campaign, particularly the convention in Los Never said a thing. Angeles? H: Oh yes, yes. F: Did you have any opinion about him about by then, either as a national news source or as a possible Presidential candidate? H: Yes, he was running seriously
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • before the House Foreign Relations Committee. R: Right. Foreign Affairs Committee. G: Yes. Foreign Affairs. Do you have any recollection of that testimony? R: I know what he said. The testimony was actually written by Carl Rowan, who punched
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 2 (II), 09/10/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . They finally decided on a list of three from Pennsylvania, and then they started a final check out on them. One of them turned out to be the chairman of the county Democratic committee, and the whole thing was a kind of a fiasco. Then they fell into a pot
  • How Frantz joined the National Historical Publications Commission; LBJ’s practice of allowing other people to announce good news; Nixon administration’s trouble finding Frantz’s replacement; Marietta Brooks; assembling an advisory board for his
Oral history transcript, Whitney Shoemaker, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , no one whose name is known generally, but someone who has done something, who has achieved something for the community or nationally. Those whom the President has known with some degree of personal association or friendship, why they frequently fall
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the National Defense Education Act back in 1958 [or] 1959. Jack Kennedy had reported the bill out of a labor committee. All the universities were hot for it to repeal it. And many of them were threatening to have nothing further to do with the NDEA as long
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Underwood was the biggest cotton broker in West Texas, one of the biggest in the United States. And he was in big supporter of the Democratic Party. Great friend of Rayburn and some of the rest of them. Archie Underwood's name on there. That wouldn't mean
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • signatures I took the whole list, photostats of it, in a wheelbarrow into the White House and presented them to [Dwight] Eisenhower, changed our name to Committee of a Million against admission of Communist China to the United Nations until she'll qualify
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a Democratic member of the legislature who ran for the Democratic senatorial nomination. B. Johnson. The incumbent was Lyndon I had won a contested primary election in 1952 to the 1egislature,and while I was in the legislature I introduced a drought relief
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • on the Council of Economic Advisers, put together the new JOBS program and the National Alliance of Businessmen. While the ideas for it had come out of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-II, 11/10/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • wanted to do about Vietnam, it might well have saved his presidency and saved the country an enormous amount of grief. B: You've got a deeper faith in the good results of a rational, nationally-conducted democratic policy than I'm going to sign onto
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 10 (X), 10/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? J: Sid Richardson, if I'm not mistaken, flew over there while he was No. The oil man. still in Europe to get him to run as a Democrat, try to get him to be the Democratic candidate. G: Anything on that trip noteworthy between LBJ and Dwight
  • Reminiscences from 1950-1952; LBJ’s Texas trips; Eisenhower; the gas bill; Donald Cook; Korea; the Preparedness Committee; election as Democratic whip; the Douglas MacArthur firing; Jenkins’ campaign for Congress; death of Alvin Wirtz; acquiring
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • they couldn't do much more than that. I pointed out that the Federal Republic of Germany might be excused for thinking that there were seventeen million Germans hostage in the German Democratic Republic, and nonetheless the West Germans sent us all kinds
Oral history transcript, Ben H. Powell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a group of directors and an operating committee for the first time in his company and offered me the job as a vice president and director and member of "the operating committee, if I would come down here to Houston and work full-time. At that time, I
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . In the second primary, first of all, Congress. . . . You see, at the 1948 Democratic National Committee [Convention] Truman in his aggressive, feisty acceptance speech said that he was going to [be] tarring and feathering the Republican Congress
Oral history transcript, Thurgood Marshall, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • said that the NAACP people in Texas were favorably inclined toward Mr. Johnson in those days? M: Solidly. So was the national office. B: Did they have any real basis for this? M: Yes. Well, they knew him. The Negroes down there, they know each
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be President Johnson himself. I think that most campaigns are an amalgam of the leader's desires and the peculiarities of the situation. The Democratic National Committee played practically no role at all in the campaign. The way the campaign structure
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
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Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -eight depressed counties that comprise Appalachian Ohio. national newspaper and magazine publicity. As a result, we received -Time magazine ran a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Jenkins -- I -- 8 held a very high staff position on a national magazine which is now defunct. It wasn't the Literary Digest--Today was the name of it, Today magazine
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • project, which he'd secured for Austin, one of the first in the nation. Did we go over this before? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library
  • ; relationship between Sam Rayburn and LBJ; Maury Maverick; minimum wage; LBJ’s friendship with FDR; securing appropriations; airline franchise; Naval Affairs Committee; Erich Leinsdorf; Huey Long; Dick Kleberg; war in Europe; other Washington experiences.
Oral history transcript, Felipe Herrera, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • here on board. M: Right. H: Since the beginning, and he has been very important from And has been since the beginning? that point of view because he represented the U. S. in the committee that negotiated the charter of the bank. And he
Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a great number of times. Even before I was stationed in Washington while I was commander of SAC, I went in to appear before congressional committees many times. This is a practice that I understand has fallen by the wayside and I think this is bad
Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recall? B: I can't recall a specific comment, but I think that we were pointing toward studies in constitutional law, for example, and this was a matter that absorbed him . out . He knew the legislative process inside He knew all the committees
  • LBJ's 1934 Georgetown Law School days; Dodge Hotel; Little Congress; Huey Long's address at Little Congress; LBJ's belief in loyalty - party, national, personal; constituents in his early career in Kleberg's office; LBJ's idea of professional
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . You whip up sentiment; you play on hate; you wave the flag; unconditional surrender, nothing is too good for our boys, this whole business. And it was no problem at all in turning a nation on into an uncontrolled war. But it is difficult
Oral history transcript, Edward J. Brenner, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in Wisconsin, I think, an independent voter and a registered Republican, and in Louisiana I was a registered Democrat, and in New Jersey I was a registered Republican, and I was really pretty much middle-of-the-road, and, to a large extent, it depended upon how
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 26 (XXVI), 4/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • maintenance organizations and prepaid care in the sixties. You know at that point in time HMOs were regarded as socialists. They were the most aggressive proponents for a national health insurance. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • not only would remember those moments and he would remember Johnson at that time, but I think he saw him several times recently. Of course, he has worked with him in those last three months when he was at the United Nations, so I certainly would see him
  • ; Russ Wiggins; 1960/1964 Democratic convention; meeting of JFK and Graham regarding the VP nomination; Home Rule; LBJ’s attitude toward the press; beautification; press relations; civil rights; assessment of LBJ’s presidency.
Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • say not after the 1964 election. Because I was still useful, and I was called up there in January of 1964. Dick Maguire was treasurer of the national Democratic commit- tee, and he and Blundell were real close. I'd met Dick on that LBJ
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : Graduate of MIT, Harvard Law School; active duty with the Army from 1961-63, served as a staff director of the President's Committee on Equal Opportunity in the Armed Forces; Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia; Deputy General
  • Biographical information; prosecuting White House sit-in demonstrators; Frank Reeves; Howard Reed; Ralph Roberts, clerk of the House, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; David Dellinger and the March on the Pentagon; "Murphy" confidence
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in Texas incidentally--in 1956 I was editor of two trade magazines in Stanford, Connecticut dealing with the inland commercial marine industry--tugboats, barges. Then in 1959 or '60, I guess, I started with a friend of mine a national magazine called
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • look for that. G: Who did he favor for president? W: Well, he was a Democrat; he wouldn't be for [HooverJ. G: Was he for Roosevelt at this point? Was he enthusiastic about Roosevelt? W: I don't think he'd even met him or heard of him
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • like pages of the National .Geographic. F: I had never seen anything like it before. Was the Vice President accepted as someone who came on equal footing-­ someone who was patronizing? C: In other words, what was his reception? His reception
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • thing way back in 1969--the Forest Service, National Forests, are located in the most poverty-stricken areas of America, the people just out the far side of the Forest Service boundaries. Because a lot of that land came into the Forest Service because
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the way. On rather frequent occasions I'd carry these matters to the President, and on one occasion President Johnson even put out a national security order--I doubt if that has ever been done perhaps in the history of the country--in which I
  • [For interviews 1, 2, and 3] LBJ as a liberal-conservative; LBJ record up to 1960; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 and 1964 conventions and elections; Freeman’s personal interest in the Vice-Presidency; JFK problems in Minnesota; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Democratic National Committee. They would enjoy some relaxing moments on the ship. G: Was there a vacuum in Washington, a political vacuum, after Roosevelt's death? J: There was a queer sort of a sense, as I said, of everything having come to a halt
  • on the Naval Affairs Committee; LBJ's interest in defense and the military; constituents staying in the Johnsons' home in Washington, D.C.; Lynda Bird Johnson's first birthday; African-American employees; LBJ's career aspirations; Bill Deason's marriage; FDR's