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Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

you recall the first time that you met Mr. Johnson? McG: I don't really, because I suspect it was at some kind of formal function or reception or otherwise. I think the first time I net him other than in such a group was in the Cabinet Room, probably

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

can recall, the circumstances under which you first met them. S: I can recall very clearly, the first time I met the Congressman was pre-World War II. In those days I was director of research at CBS, and any affiliation which was made

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

. This interview is in his home in Silver Spring, Maryland. The time is 3:30 and the date is December 8, 1968. My name is David McComb. Mr. Cohen, first of all, I would like to know something about your background--where you were born and when. C: I was born

Oral history transcript, Donnelly Bolton, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of things, and I became the assistant G-4 of the division, and stayed there for some time. Then right back to the Infantry School as an instructor. The first time I was there I was on the Infantry Board, testing weapons. [I] stayed there until the Korean War

Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that people did in those days. I did the usual I looked for any kind of a job that would help us pay for the groceries. My dad was working about two days a week and not making an awful lot of money in the mines at that time. The best I could do

Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

and career briefly and just tell me about that. M: Well, I got into the newspaper business out in Plainview High School when I was editor of the high school paper, and we printed it down at the local newspaper. I was working on a dairy at the time, and I

Oral history transcript, Earl Howsam, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and, as I recall, he was on that committee at that time. G: What were your impressions of him at the time? H: That he was a tall, outstanding Texan, and he seemed very impressive. I had heard about him before because we were interested

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 43 (XLIII), 1/23/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

be with him and for him every time his proposals were for the good of the country, as Lyndon believed, and be against the legislation if he thought it wasn't best for the country. He didn't have that option any more. And he liked, always, and respected

Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 2 (II), 6/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT FINCH INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Finch's office, Pasadena, California Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Last time when we concluded you were discussing President [Lyndon] Johnson's interest in finding a cure for cancer

Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)

in a crowd somewhere, but nothing that's worth recounting. The first time I ever met him was when I had the responsibility--this must have been in the fall of 1961 and the spring of 1962--for the keynote speaker each year of the state meeting of the Texas

Oral history transcript, Roger W. Jones, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

have lived here since I was about eighteen months or two years old. I'm a product of the Houston pub- lic schools starting in kindergarten at Montrose School, which was at that time, I think, a pilot kindergarten program. I completed elementary
; eras of BOB; role of BOB in times of economic stress; LBJ's personal interest in management efficiency; LBJ as the most management minded President in Jones' experience; LBJ was the first President to personal participate in incentive award ceremonies

Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

major campaigns were concerned. Now I realize that you were connected a good part of that time with the government and therefore could not take part in the campaigns, but you were a long-time friend, which Mr. [Eric] Goldman already has on record

Oral history transcript, Mylton Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in January, 1929, is that right? K: Right. G: And LBJ, at the time, was in Cotulla teaching. Do you recall the first time you met him? K: Not specifically, but it was undoubtedly at the end of his schoolteaching year and close to the end of the spring

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. But it was a terrible position for the President to be in, and I don't just mean in small political senses--I mean in terms of a distinct upset to the country just at a time when it needed to settle down and digest what had happened in the way of the election ; and he

Oral history transcript, Solis Horwitz, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

for a year and was here every Friday. But full-time I'm very new, beginning around the middle of April. M: When did your first contact with Mr. Johnson take place, back when you worked for the Senate Armed Services Committee in the late 1940s? H

Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

time, so I had a license to practice law at nineteen. I went to George Washington to pursue further study of law, feeling that I was a little young to undertake the practice, and chose George Washington largely because the dean of our law school

Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the main Treasury Building in Washington, D.C.; the date is January 7, 1969; the time is 11:40; and my name is David McComb. Mr. Deming, I'd like to know something about your background, where you were born, and when. D: I was born in Des Moines, Iowa

Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to the time you came into the Kennedy Administration? H: Had you ever had any contact? I had had some indirect contact with him when he was on Capitol Hill. I was chief of the Foreign Affairs Division of the Legislative Reference Service, and then I

Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh October 10, 1968 B: All right, sir, if we may start here, when did you first get acquainted with Mr. Johnson? H: I met Mr. Johnson some time in the forties. assignments--OPA, Agriculture, other things. I was in Washington

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 4 (IV), 7/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh July 21, 1969 Mc This is the fourth session with Mr. John W. Macy, Jr. offices in Washington, D.C. I am once again in his The date is July 21, 1969, and my name is David McComb. The last time we talked a great deal about

Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, and went to the Senate at the same time. Do you recall the first meeting or first contact that you had with Mr. Johnson? Mundt: Not precisely. I'm sure it was when we were both members of the same Congress back there about 30 years ago. And I presume

Oral history transcript, Ella SoRelle Porter and Mike Porter, interview 1 (I), 11/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

[when] my parents though_t we shaul d go back to the farm wfLere we could be sure of food and that sort of thi ng. thr~ugh the elementary time--and t~e But wHh the exception of one year I went school-~the sub-college we called it at the college

Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

for Dick Kleberg for Congressman--I mean Richard Kleberg for Congress, which included Bexar County at that time. P: This is 1931? B: Yes. He was elected for Congress, and he made an appointment of a young man by the name of Lyndon Johnson to be his

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and then lots of casual dinners for staff, newspaper friends, other senators. We began to branch out more in that year. The children's doctor was Dr. John Washington, who would come any time of day or night, if he felt that tone in your voice that said, "I'm

Oral history transcript, Guy S. Meloy III, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in the sense that it was the country's fire brigade. But of the nine battalions--eight battalions at that time they had in the division, I suspect five of those eight battalions were in combat at all times. We were, I think, from early March until late July

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 6 (VI), 9/16/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on foreign policy, either a colleague in the Senate or an adviser or someone like that? J: Let's see, who was chairman of Foreign Relations at the time? G: Wasn t Tom Connally still [chairman]? J: Yes, but he never really leaned on Tom Connally

Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 2 (II), 12/6/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-year cut-off. C: Well, it was one that labor had been so strong for. To me it was--being a party man, and I don't think there's many times in my life that I hadn't been considered a party man or felt that I was a party man. I was raised

Oral history transcript, William H. Darden, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, was it not? And they had quite a few things going before I started, and, of course, for a long time after I started down there, I was learning and I was not privy to a lot of the important things, things that were going on. G: Was there any significance in your move from

Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 2 (II), 5/3/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that no, the matter was no longer alive because the President of the United States had decided that [Jack] Valenti would have the job. Now, Valenti at that time had been serving in the White House, had married Johnson's secretary, I believe. G: Former secretary

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 7 (VII), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

to Washington in the family plane. As we were approaching National Airport, with Laurance, Brooke, and I engaged in a three-way conversation, Laurance said to me, "Nash, it's time to start thinking about a memorial to President Johnson." I said, "Well, Laurance

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

stage. This was after we got the act passed. The act attracted active support from key people in Congress. John Brademas took a particular interest in it. It got caught in a last-minute time squeeze, as frequently things do. We were able to get

Oral history transcript, Ardis C. Hopper, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and go to school, whi ch worked out about that way. G: So you arrived on campus in the fall of-- H: In the fall of 1926, yes. G: Do you recall the first time you met Lyndon Johnson? H: Well, yes. I can't remember the first time I ever saw him

Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

of the organization at that time. Perhaps we should explain that I was associated with you in the International News Service and other projects and that's why you use the tem "we. II K: I think you're a little too generous about my being the brains, but I

Oral history transcript, Victor Ferrari, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

what they call the black lung at the present time. used to call it, back then, miner's asthma. We My mother had eight children to raise during the Depression, and that was quite a challenge. Now as I reflect over some of the things in my early

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1b (I), 2/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, which was North Vietnam. We did not recommend it in 1961, hoping that we could settle the issue of aggression within the confines of South Vietnam without going to the North. However, by the time I got there as Ambassador, following a disastrous

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

family; and a fellow from up in the Wichita Falls area, [Bowie], not from Wichita Falls, named Paul Donald, who was an old-time country lawyer and a great orator. On the other side, the prosecution, Homer Thornberry was then the district attorney

Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 3 (III), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, too. W: You have to consider China, but fortunately the Chinese are still several years away from having a deliverable nuclear weapon. Not only that, but we have the capacity at the present time to develop and deploy an ABM system which would put

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

never heard of anything like this, and I doubt that it's true. I don't think that we were in any way organized at the time of Dien Bien Phu to have been assisting the French in any logistical way. G: Well, live asked a couple of military officers

Oral history transcript, Wroe Owens, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

had an office in the Littlefield Building at that time. I had been back practicing law for three years at that time. G: You had been in World War II? O: I was in the FBI from 1942 to 1945. I practiced law before that time here. G: Well, did

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

knocked around on the Hill for about four or five years just as Truth in Lending was knocked around and discussed heavily for four or five years. There came a time for Truth in Lending as there came a time for Truth in Packaging when the consumer wave

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