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Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a southerner. He can't be for civil rights, and consequently he wouldn't be acceptable to the Northeast. II I made no dent on them. Then he didn't return to the area, and I thought he really had sort of given up the idea more or less, and he had so little

Oral history transcript, James Davis, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on, philosophied on that I assume--I forget now what he told me. on. II But I knew then not to--you know, say yes, sir and go head A lot of time I know it being just the opposite of what he would say, but I never argue with him because he was the type of guy

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 3 (III), 4/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

-- II I -- 5 been wisely used. If the secretary doesn't do this, he can get into the kind of problem General Electric did in the industrial world. They ended up paying many tens of millions of dollars because they were unaware of illegal practices

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh April II, 1969; Washington, D. C. F: This is an interview with Mr. Willard Deason, Commissioner of the Interstate Commerce Commission, in his office in Washington, D. C., on April 11, 1969, and the interviewer is Joe B

Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

question in your minds at all regarding the reality of the second attack? S: My own mind on that, I think, has to be colored by an experience I had myself in World War II where at Normandy we were in the picket line there just after we'd established

Oral history transcript, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, and I said, IINrs. Johnson is the First Lady of the Land. B: beforehand~ I knew I'd go. II Someone said that although probably nothing could have allowed Mr. Johnson to carry the Deep South in those years, in some places Mrs. Johnson was a rather

Oral history transcript, Antonio J. Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

[NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Taylor -- I -- 23 fly. IICoul d they go with US?II Douglas. SO that time I di dn' t ask Senator Despite my sister's warning not to pick up any strays

Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

II. T: That's right, and in the Reserve between the wars. M: Yes, sir. You married Miss Libbie Moody, is that correct, in 1918. And apparently the Marine Corps brought you to Galveston, and here you met under rather unusual circumstances

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. And I won't run without you. II F: Do you think Jack Kennedy felt then that this was as good a Vice President as he could have gotten? W: Yes, he ~id. He had a very high respect, I'm sure, for the Vice President. LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

received a letter from some man who had served with somebody named Ahmed in India during World War II and he wanted to know if it was the same Ahmed. So the White House was calling him, and Ahmed was quite the center of attraction for a while. Lyndon

Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of service here--that, "Sometime I'm going to have to sit down with you and tell you how we went about chOOSing the council. II there is a good source. M: Maybe that's a good question to ask him. H: Are you thinking of interviewing him? M: Oh, yes. H

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

. I said, "Harry, you don't want any part. Tyler and practice law and you'll be happy. this rat race. myself. Go on back to You don't want to get in I'm going to get out one of these days before long II Harry said he really wanted to at least try

Oral history transcript, Laurance Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas Royals, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

training programs per se, and I think that one of my personal goals is to offer this sort of ''How to Instruct" programs similar to what the government did during the War of Manpower days during World War II, when we offered that TWI series, Training Within

Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it was the perfect thing for her to say. a jeune fille thing for you to do!" She wrote, II Oh, Em il y, what Then I explained to her quickly that I did it because any daughter I was sure I would have could pledge it too if she wanted to, being a legacy meant you

Oral history transcript, Allan Shivers, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

a lot of Mike Force strikers, sixty, seventy killed, something like that, another greater number wounded. And finally the II [Field] Force V [Vietnam] corrmander acted, brought the 196th Infantry Brigade in, and by the time they finished, they had had

Oral history transcript, Anthony Solomon, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Kennedy's period. President Johnson carried through on that, and that was a very major furtherance of our post-World War II liberal trade policy. But LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library

Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of Congress at that time had not been participants in World War II for the reason that they were much older men. I think the average age of a congressman, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library

Oral history transcript, John P. (Gen.) McConnell, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, how you carne to be a Senator from Kentucky, and how you also carne to be a retired Senator from Kentucky. M: Responding to your first part of your question, I got back from World War II after spending fifty-one months in the Navy, most of it at sea

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

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. O'Connell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

the hump now and have reached the stage which the major carriers didn't reach until after World War II, because the major trunk areas were subsidized until 1948 or thereabouts . M: As Chairman of the CAB, were you interested at that time in aviation

Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

you have learned that the public works bill is alive again. The pro- posed new dam at Waco will be up for consideration, and [he should] get busy and be ready to support it. II Why he didn't pi ck up the phone and call Bob Poage across

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

at Princeton. I went to Princeton for two-and-a-half years, left for World War II, was in the war for three years in the 76th Infantry (ETO). I returned to Princeton-M: I might add you won a Bronze Star. W: Yes. I returned to Princeton, applied

Oral history transcript, Clement J. Zablocki, interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason and Jeanne Deason, interview 6 (VI), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)

War II, they were on their way. G: Let me ask Mrs. Deason, what was it like to have your husband working for the radio station in those days, or your sense of what the station was like as a place for him to work? JD: Well, I was home taking care

Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, "You kno1-1 , this is a real error. don't debate \

Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

military career as an enlisted man in the artillery, actually serving in your home state of Texas at Camp Bowie of all things. Right before my unit was scheduled to go to Europe in World War II, I got a telegram from Washington announcing that I was being

Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Milton P. Semer, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

provision would usually be Title I or II and wouldn't be that controversial. G: I hadn't realized all of that. Well, let me ask you about your involvement in the War on Poverty task force. S: I represented HUD [Department of Housing and Urban

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of what would happen to me when Kennedy returned. But the first consideration was that at our house, we had been listening to Ed Murrow-- This is London"--and were convinced that II a great future existed for electronic news, radio news then, since

Oral history transcript, Omar Burleson, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

II, and that by these contacts--by trade and by cultural contacts ; by trade intercourse being one of the generators of confidence and willingness to recognize that each of us exists and that neither we nor they can live in a peaceful world

Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Texas politics . B: Okay . Well, I started out as a reporter that was in 1941 in Tyler, Texas, but interrupted by World War II when I was in the air force . Right after I got out of the service in August of 1945, I went to work in Marshall, Texas

Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and price controls either during the Korean War or World War II or both. In my case I worked for a bit over a year with the Wage Stabilization Board during the Korean War. I was on a staff level at the time. But one thing that almost everybody who had