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Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on the force now. This man told me he came in Truman's time, so he didn't see anything of me, except if I went to the White House. F: Well, we'll get started then. When did you first meet the Johnsons? T: I've been trying to think of that. when I was up

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

substantial gaps. He got through all of 1961 and 1962, as I recall, except that we did not tell much of the story of the tax cut, which is a very vital part of both the Kennedy and Johnson economic programs. At that time we didn't go through the wage-price

Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

how you remember little things. Johnson's office to meet him for the first time. I went down to We shook hands, moved closer just almost nose to nose, and straightened himself up. to be sure he was about a half inch taller than I was. don't know why

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, except that I would like to ask you this same sort of question in regard to relations with Communist China, perhaps not in terms of relations, but developments over the same period of time since 1960. N: My mind was going back earlier than 1960. P

Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: RAY S. CLINE INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Dr. Cline's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 C: Well, lim sure you recollect the timing and the formal definitions of the Mongoose operation better than I do, but as I recall

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to move on it. So what happened was the next day, as I recall, the New York Times had two announcements on its front page. One, the American initiative about extending the DMZ in an effort to de-escalate the thing, and the other that we'd bombed a new

Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 2 (II), 5/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the bill, saw to it that the language got incorporated into the act, against the wishes of the Bureau of Public Roads at that time. So in that back-hand, off the record matter, it seems to me that we did have something to do with that aspect

Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. At that time he was a young 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 Bartlett -- I

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Pickle was one ; Harvie Yoe was one ; Ben Crider was one ; and I believe Harvey Payne was the other one at that time . They were told, as they worked their particular area within my ten-county district, to cultivate them, and they did . So Lyndon

Oral history transcript, William M. Blackburn, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in January of 1964 . I went into the Army . M: Were you in the Judge Advocates Corps? B: No, no, I was in the Adjutant Generals Corps because at that par ticular time it only required two years active duty as opposed to three for a JAG, and so I chose

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

. This was in 1944, and at that particular time it was extremely difficult for blacks to get into engineering schools. As an example, even Drexel University had many, many subtle barriers. Purdue University had the lowest tuition of any first-rate engineering school

Oral history transcript, Birch Bayh, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: Did you have any association with Lyndon Johnson prior to the time you came to the United States Senate? B: No. M: None at all? R: None. M: When you got here, he was Vice President for that first full year that you were in the Senate. Was he

Oral history transcript, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. So I came into the bank full time immediately thereafter and have been here ever since. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] M: You didn't get caught

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, 1969 INTERVIEHEE: KERMIT GORDON INTERVIEHER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Gordon's office, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: We can start at the top of the list here and take up where we left off the last time. I'd like to know

Oral history transcript, Houston Harte, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

company for San Angelo. newspapers. Many times, utility companies have been the owners of In the case of the Standard, the Standard was the owner of the utility company! It became quite a business, and although Murphy and Guthrie had established

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

know there was an alternative. My grandfather Tower grew up in Louisiana during the reconstruction period, and so he influenced me quite a bit. It occurred to me at some point in time after I had completed a good part of my college education

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and Scooter Miller at the Women's National Democratic Club. Lyndon and I also went to a reception honoring Margaret Chase Smith at the F Street Club. She was an important figure in that time, and, to a considerable extent, a friend of ours. There were

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 12 (XII), 10/29/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

I got, but going through these papers on the conference-- G: This whole period almost seems to have been a time when the President was trying to garner affirmation of his civil rights programs and was a time when some of the civil rights leadership

Oral history transcript, Lindy Boggs, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

be completely and totally immersed just in the political scene, where to shop. We consulted about pediatricians and things of that sort. Of course, at that time, Lady Bird did not have children. G: Do you remember your first impression of LBJ? B: Of course

Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a number of times in Washington while he was a congressman. F: You were on the Civil Rights Commission. Of course that started under Eisenhower and continued under Kennedy, but Johnson as vice president had some concern with that. Did you work with him

Oral history transcript, John Ben Shepperd, interview 1 (I), 12/30/1968, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)

it if you would give me a brief resume of your activities in politics in Texas from about 1941 to about 1964, and anything beyond that that you might consider pertinent. Now I believe that this started about the time you finished law school at Texas

Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with General Curtis LeMay who made his home in Newport Beach, California. just to get started. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. with Mr. Johnson? General, Incidentally, I'm a World War II veteran so I have been following you for a long time. L: More

Oral history transcript, Bart McDowell, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

as a writing tablet. So that's essentially the approach we had. I had a fair amount of time, not perhaps as much as I'd have liked, with all three of them. Of course Mrs. Johnson and Lynda Bird were more accessible because they had less substantive work to do

Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

because the economy was operat ing at full steam, and there was a strong capital investment program going on within industry and more than full employ ment, according to measures at that time. And unless some steam was taken out of the economy

Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 1 (I), 9/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and subsequently became chief of the Economic Bureau for President Truman. F: We've interviewed Mr. Keyserling, incidentally. C: At that time I worked at tha [New York] Daily News during one summer only, and there met Lowell Limpus. This resulted in a lifetime

Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

arrived in Poland on November 30, 1965. M: You stayed in that post then until when this year? G: I stayed in that post until May 3l, 1968 at which time I resigned with the approval of the President in order to participate in Hubert Humphrey's political

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins and Alice Hopkins, interview 4 (IV), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the first time you met Lyndon Johnson? A: It must have been with Welly Hopkins. I don't remember where. (Laughter) W: He used to come to Austin occasionally when I was in the [state] senate. We would visit around. A: I think we had a meal or two

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in excess of two hundred thousand jobs were found for disadvantaged kids that summer at no cost to the government, and some one hundred and fifty thousand full-time jobs for the hard-core unemployed. What makes it really remarkable is that the whole

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

who felt that he was overstepping and overplaying his hand. Once again, Goodwin was exiled, this time to the Peace Corps, where he became a speech writer for Sargent Shriver. It was in this kind of obscure post which someone said is as far as you can

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

, the Blackstone Hotel one time and he was in the elevator along with other folks. I shook his hand. But of course I'm sure he doesn't recall that because he shook hands with many people, and he was very prominent at that time. Evidently his suite

Oral history transcript, Elmer Graham, interview 1 (I), 4/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

was several years older than he was. for some five years and then gone back. I had dropped out of school As I recall it, at the time of our debating together, I was a senior and he was about a sophomore. So I was several years older than he was. I: You

Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: BRUCE PALMER INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: The Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: General Palmer, would you describe a little of your professional background in the late fifties, leading up to the time that you took over

Oral history transcript, Thomas C. Mann, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

back to Washington and stayed for a time here. Then I was sent to Caracas. Walter Donnelly was Ambassador there. I stayed there for awhile as political officer and petroleum attache. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, L. Wade Lathram, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to Washington as assistant secretary, and at that time I had decided to stay on with AID for a few months to help them out, because they had an appropriation before the Hill. So the first thing he did was call me and say, "Why aren't you over here?" I said

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in this pre-assassination period. I d o n ' t know whether [Adam] Yarmolinsky was in on i t at that time. It seems to me like [Richard] Goodwin was in on it. It was fairly low key and there wasn't a n y feeling of great urgency or "hurry up and get

Oral history transcript, Robert J. Kleberg, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

was then teaching public speaking in Sam Houston High School in Houston, hav ing graduated from Southwest Texas State Teachers• College at San Marcos the year before. He \'las twenty-three at the time. His appoint ment to the secretarial position was announced

Oral history transcript, Mollie Parnis, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

really needed help. secretary. Bess Abell was her Bess called me the first time and asked me to come to their apartment at the Carlyle and help Mrs. Johnson with some clothes. That was 1964, and after that, on an average of once a month or every six

Oral history transcript, C.W. Price, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

told you. P: So when he got this, I mean he had about ten names in this last two All right. hundred names, and so we made an effort to contact these people that they said had voted. The ironic thing was that from the time that the last person

Oral history transcript, Robert M. White, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

administrator this agency has ever had. W: That's right. M: You began with it. Is that correct? Prior to that, you were the chief of the National Weather Bureau. W: United States Weather Bureau. M: United States Weather Bureau--from what time, sir? W

Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

left that under unhappy cir- cumstances in the end of August, beginning of September, 1964 [and] spent time from September to June more or less sitting in the White House doing nothing. Then I went down to the Dominican Republic as chief of the U.S