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

by the Central National Bank. The St. Angelus Hotel, which was a good hotel for those days, had a hundred and fifty rooms in a building seven stories high. the city. He painted a very good picture to me for the area and I had had several offers from other

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 19 (XIX), 1/27/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the opportunity to speak to him directly about the Pentagon budget. There was language in the National Security Act that indicated they had the right to go directly to the commander-in-chief and he always honored that. I'm not sure every president has. G

Oral history transcript, R. Conrad Cooper, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, chief labor negotiator for both your company and what they call the Group of Ten. C: Coordinating committee of the Steel companies. M: Right. Is that correct? Did you know Mr. Johnson at all before the time he became president? C: No. M: You

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

19, 1988 INTERVIEWEE: DAVID GINSBURG INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Ginsburg's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 MG: Mr. Ginsburg, let's start today with the formation of the Kerner Commission [National Advisory

Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, at that time, for congressional liaison, was seconded over to the Democratic committee; I worked through filr. Birkhead. B: He was, technically, then I think, with Rural Americans for JohnsonHumphrey? t1: Yes. B: What were the circumstances of your being

Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

I'd seen. I pretended I was just giving American opinion. That interview changed a very tiny element of history. Having returned to the United States earlier than I expected, I telephoned Henry Cabot Lodge, the American ambassador to the United Nations

Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it . At that time there was another guy there [who] worked for Commerce . He had worked for a committee of which Mr . Johnson was head when he was senator . Thereafter when the press secretaries would get together, as we did from time to time, to see if we had
National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Democratic convention

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. In 1935, I was going to Texas to meet my in-laws, whom I had not met, and on our way we stopped in every capital city to see the WPA people and othe rs, transient people that I was working with. stopped in Austin. So we The National Youth Administration
National Youth Administration (U.S.)

Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

campaign. Truman to the extent that he supported Truman in that He went out to Butte, Montana, and took a national broadcast for us on a national hookup and made a speech for President Truman. And he did that to everybody's surprise because he had been
measures under Eisenhower; relationship with LBJ; 1944 Democratic National Convention; Adlai Stevenson; Eisenhower; LBJ's leadership; McCarthy period; Johnson for President Committee, 1960; ethics; Johnson

Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the political pressure--not just of Senator Mansfield--but the entire Senate Democratic policy committees. I think he felt that he had to make this small gesture--because we took them back after Czechoslovakia, and they're still there. M: Right. A little

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

hit in the early '30's, late '20's, was that hard on the construction business? B: Yes, very severe on the construction business . M: How did you survive the depression then? B: Well, we had a good backer named R . M. Farar Union (?) National

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the issue of the Straits of Tiran should be faced. There were still several aspects under discussion: whether we convoyed a u.S. or ship of another nation through there, forced the blockade, convoyed an Israel ship. decided. Exactly how
Biographical information; contacts with Johnson; support of LBJ in 1960; Democratic Policy Commission; State Department informing Vice President's office; Potomac Marching Society; Kennedy Administration; working for Johnson; Advisory Committee

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

weeks before we found an apartment. M: How large was his staff in 1957? G: I guess ten, fifteen people. Of course, he was head of several commit- tees, so he had people on various committees. But the Senate staff was not too large--say ten people
Becoming personal secretary; LBJ’s personal interest in employees; Bobby Baker; characterizing Johnson family members; 1960 Democratic Convention; LBJ’s acceptance as VP; campaign; LBJ as VP; duties as Lady Bird’s secretary; traveling with Lady Bird

Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh - 2 B: That's going to come up later in the interview when we get into the area of personnel. Have you had in your career at any time any strictly political activity? R: No, I haven't. My wife, as an active Democrat

Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that. G: Let me ask you about Ted Berry. H: Yes. G: Why do you think he was selected to head Community Action? H: Oh, I think Ted had great credentials. He was black, he had been a national officer of the NAACP, been on the national committee, knew

Oral history transcript, Tommie W. Glick and Sarah Taylor, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

it would have meant an entirely different thing to you." Mc: Have you or your husband had any political connections with the Johnsons such as helping the campaign or consulting as an adviser on any committees or anything like that? G: No. Me: It's been

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

presented that to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, which approved the idea, reported it out, and our bill passed the Senate, but it got blocked in the House. And I remember Senator [George] Aiken--I had renamed those counties for various presidents

Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/loh/oh Lee -- II -- 8 L: Well, there you get into a question of the ,advisory committee. It's quite possible that the staff of the NYA would come in with some number of projects on a skeleton basis. The advisory committee could give a judgment--yes
National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Biographical information; NYA; publicity; personnel; visits from national office; Mrs. Roosevelt; project procedures; 1937 Congressional campaign.

Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, really. The American public and the press doesn't, I don't think. So therefore the public should learn much about it, what a war of national liberation is all about. That's a technique that the Soviets developed a long time ago. They've perfected

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

was not there, but the Cabinet Committee on Balance of Payments was; and I brought copies of this with me--I think Joe Califano presided over the meeting. was on this. And I told Joe in advance what my thinking So he said, "Bring the papers along." memo from Smith. And I had

Oral history transcript, Betty Furness Midgley, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

and at the end of his campaign, and everyone in his office thought it was tremendously effective and might have been really quite influential in his winning the election. So in '64 I contacted the Democratic National Committee and said, "I've got this trick I

Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to, but that may have been something in Washington. R: It might have been WPA wanting him to, or Washington. I never heard that rumor though. G: Now, he had an advisory committee. R: Yes. G: An advisory board. R: I knew Mr. [Alvin] Wirtz for several
National Youth Administration (U.S.)

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

as we would like to have it. Would you describe that as fully as you can? WH: That time I recall in detail because I was running for Democratic nomination for a place in the Texas Senate. It was the 19th Senatorial District, composed of six counties
National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Met LBJ as a student at a political meeting in Blanco, TX; Hopkins campaigned for Democratic party nomination to the Senate from 19th District, TX; Sam Johnson as a friend and supporter; Alvin Wirtz; Richard Kleberg's election to Congress, 1931; LBJ

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was then at the [Democratic] National Committee. The two of us worked, always, very closely together. greater than mine, and through him we made others. His contacts were But there was an attempt to encourage the thought of creating new ideas for developing contact

Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in views among the staff? C: Well, I guess it's a matter of the degree to which the commission would push its views in the national debate on the issues. Of course, the biggest issue as we came on was just how much we could do to assist in the enactment

Oral history transcript, Roswell L. Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in 1961? RG: Only that at a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the National Security Council the President announced that I was selected for that assignment. I assume that it was his own decision after recommendations from [Robert] McNamara and perhaps Mac

Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Magnuson, who was then ranking member on the Commerce Committee. That's roughly where it began and how it developed. G: During those early years, did he seem knowledgeable about the radio business? 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
'Easterners'; Stuart Symington; 1960 Democratic convention.

Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Schwartz, who now is at the National Security Council, came to work as Ed Sherman's junior. Lou was a foreign service officer, so he was con- versant with the international side of the foreign service group. Then you had Terry Scanlon doing the advisory

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

like that. I used to listen to him on the radio. At one time we had three Democrats from Wichita Falls, he being one of them, running for governor. And then after he won in the general election-his Republican opponent, Orville Bullington, was from

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Hampshire primary a little bit, I don't think he ever did anything affirmative to get in thereo I think that Johnson over-reacted by ordering Bobby to fire a fellow called Paul Corbin from the Democratic National Committee. Paul Corbin, C-O-R-B-I-N, had

Oral history transcript, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

at [the] State [Department]? RG: At the time that I was a student at the National War College, General Burchinal, Dave [David] Burchinal, who was at that time the deputy chief of staff for plans, programs, and operations of the air force, picked me to go
in Vietnam; intelligence input to the Policy Planning Council; the response of intelligence analysts when their advice was not used; Dean Rusk’s relationship with Robert McNamara; joining Rostow on the National Security Council staff in 1966; Ginsburgh’s work

Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

it. At that same time~ Fulbright and his committee got to me and wanted me to come down and talk to them. I was. a little reluctant to do it, but then decided that it was probably sort of the kind of thing you have to do in the national interest. talk to him

Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for the 1964 campaign. And so Wilson had offered six people full-time jobs at the Democratic National Committee as full-time advance men. That was the first time, really, that there had been full-time advance men; in the past it had been a part-time deal
Vietnam soldiers; handling crowds and the press during trips to the Philippines, Korea and Mexico; preparing for the 1966 State of the Union Address; Edmund Muskie; May Craig; landing Air Force One at National Airport; LBJ’s view of war/leaders; Pachios

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, it happened that this was mainly Democratic lawyers, but that wasn't entirely true. There were Republican lawyers as well in favor of the President's re-election. B: Was that confined to any particular area or was that a nationwide committee? W: I don't

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1, 8/14/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

be there Monday morning and I'll tell you the whole story." So I met him there Monday morning and he had been appointed state director of the National Youth Administration and was coming to Austin to set up and wanted me to work for him which I did and worked
in the National Youth Administration (NYA); Deason's marriage and move back to Texas; Deason's career in radio; an average day in Deason's childhood; the rural Baptist churches Deason attended as a child; other religious groups in the area around Stockdale during

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of the detail work in that area was my responsibility. We had some political liaison work with the governors primarily, and the [Democratic] National Committee, and the state chairmen of the various states. That was out of Marvin's office. There again I handled

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of Washingtonians there: the Chief Justice; Fred Vinson, of course the Democratic leaders in Congress, several cabinet officers from Truman's cabinet. It was a showcase audience of a kind that it was quite unusual for a congressman to command that. In those days

Oral history transcript, Andrew Young, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Andrew Young -- Interview I -- 9 B: of Goldwaterism? Y: Yes. B: You used the phrase "Goldwaterism" I gather you mean the national white blacklash

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

was working, as I remember, primarily in military and other fields at that time. F: So you wouldn't have had much- M: He wasn't on any of the committees in the Senate that I customarily appeared before during those years. I think the first serious private
: the Cuban missile crisis of 1962; service as under secretary of state for economic affairs; LBJ as a practitioner of foreign policy; the Peace Corps in Latin America; the CIA and the overthrow of Arbenz in Guatemala; the Bay of Pigs; Chile nationalizes

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

also had another political problem in Alaska in that proposed Rampart Dam on the upper Yukon. Was President Johnson sensitive on the political ramifications? I remember you lost your Democratic Congressman from there. I suppose this was part

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