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Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Pike I -~ 7 up in New York City you are probably going to be a somewhat different kind of a person than if you
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 15 (XV), 8/30/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

could contribute more to the Judiciary Committee than Lehman could. Lehman was, with all due respect to New York, not 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John McCully, interview 1 (I), 10/26/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

splurge of publicity on the release of an annual report on the activities and successes of the committee, increased percentage of employment of minorities in government, et cetera, the New York Times, Peter Braestrup, I think it was, who I saw
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

season matter? C: I think that made us want to deal with it and the fact that it really did hurt, if you will, thinking, writing America. It was a bigger thing to the readers of the New York Times and the newspapers than it was to the average guy
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 60 (LX), 1/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

this. Yes, see, here's Staggers on the day after the President sends it up on May 5. Staggers reported in the [New York] Times of May 6, page 36. "Representative Staggers declined to give his views on the President's bill but said, yes, that he thought
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

why he would say such a thing, that 1 hadn't said that he got kicked in the head by a horse, it was Clare Booth Luce. didn't call him crazy, it was Clare Booth Luce." part in that news release, you see. to approve it. I I had to put that I didn't
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert A. Levine, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

. Levine, I'd like to begin by providing a little biographical background information that I have. Then if you feel there are any gaps, please feel free to fill in. Originally you're from Brooklyn, New York, as I understand it. You attended the Brooklyn
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

their friendship or their loyalties. Johnson and Clinton Anderson of New Mexico and Kerr and [Richard] Russell of Georgia really ran the Senate on the Democratic side along with the late Styles Bridges, [Everett] Dirksen and some of them on the Republican side. G
; LBJ's 1955 heart attack; LBJ and Kerr's dealings with Senator Joseph McCarthy; Reynolds' post-presidential visit to the LBJ Ranch with Bill Kerr; Eisenhower's responsibility for U.S. involvement in Vietnam; LBJ as vice president.
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

saw Thornberry and Thomas, Brooks, I think Gonzalez, but I can't be sure. They were there and we were all talking in hushed tones. I still had not seen the new President, didn't know where he was. We were sitting there some time when suddenly he
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Vei for an What were the contingency plans? There was an old Lang Vei camp that we'd been in before, and then they'd built a brand new one. The new one was completely underground; even the radio antennae we'd had spread underground
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

after 1960 South Vietnam might even be able to reduce its defense budget. But in 1964--and I'm referring again to the interview that you gave to the U. S. News and World Report-you said that when you left Vietnam in September of 1960
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James Adler, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

attitude about poverty, how it should be dealt with? A: Well, I guess the closest insight I had came about as a result of a series of articles written by a man named Homer Bigart in the New York Times. He wrote a series of articles about poverty
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 2 (II), 9/15/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, and there were s orne northerners comfng down that Di em was putti ng in essentially as self-contained units of northerners into new villages· that they would start. Tiley were just dotted in with the mountain peopl e. out they were permanent settl ers where
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

precious glass. She was a great companion, and I was so glad for every one of those trips she made. And we went to New York--well, I can't say that I know much about that. I do know that I took her to a play or concert. Another interesting thing I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

thrown together. I don't think there's a picture here right now, it's at home, but Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Clark christened boats together and submarines and one thing and another, and they went to New York quite often together; our children were friends
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

it was for Homer's benefit that he was giving me this going over because I had done what LBJ really wanted done. G: Oh, really. How did you find that out? H: Well, I got a couple of new shirts. He never would say he was sorry, but that's when you would get
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Fred Schmidt, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Convention. In fact, we literally did that. Our Dallas delegation, the year we won it, the Brownsville convention, we had some black delegates there and it was sort of a fearsome thing to anyone who's grown up in Texas. You know you're breaking new ground
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

became under secretary of agriculture in the new Kennedy Administration. M: That's right. B: How did you get that job? Did Mr. Freeman pick you or Mr. Kennedy? M: Mr. Freeman approved me, I guess. Well, if I may go back, before the election
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

with him.The President was pretty sore and I believe thought that Bill would end up in the Bobby Kennedy camp. Indeed I think Bill has been in several camps in New York--all over the lot--which is probably what any highly intelligent, famous, and ambitious

Oral history transcript, George Silver, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1991, by Molly Malone Chesney (Item)

-- I -- 25 S: Milbank Memorial Fund is a foundation in New York, very prestigious though relatively small. The president at the time was someone whom I had known as a student and whom I had been instrumental in getting involved with the foundation
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

." It was in the [New York] Times the next Monday; this was a Saturday, I recall because the following Monday was my birthday. The fourth of June was the day it appeared, if I remember right. But that handling of the speech was where the drama was in the agency. I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

came in as chairman and many new people came in to the National Committee . These were not people that were par ticularly well-known on the Hill . In the days of Mr . Truman, even at one time when you'd had one of the members of the Senate--[J . Howard
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 5 (V), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of the study group which again reconvened in New York with a good deal more perspective this time. Myers MacDougall, who had attended the beginning of the convention--professor of law at Yale--had attended the most recent meeting of the Afro-Asian bloc
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

himself or herself politically. G: Any recollections on that trip to New York? R: Very dull. Very routine. There wasn't anything to it. He went up and made a speech. Let's see, did he come back the next day? Yes. G: Later in June you flew to Los
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, but that was a pro forma exercise in all likelihood. So, as long as Idris was in charge in a very conservative monarchial government in Libya, it was really a separate account. That has all changed, of course, since the ouster of Idris and the advent of this new
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

wanted to ask you about that because, as I recall, there was a Washington Post and New York Times article about the role of Clark Clifford when he became secretary of defense. Was it Bobby's
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

stop him short on the first ballot, then on the second ballot, he would lose strength. And therefore, it would be a completely new convention. It turned out that the key states to hi~ winning on the first ballot were the states of Iowa and Kansas
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Julius Richmond, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

things about a new program is that it succeed and demonstrate successes." And I said, "If that means reducing the scope and size of the program, then that's what we'd better do." Well, it turned out we didn't have to do that because, again
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, New York, and Los Angeles, as well as Chicago, that night. 8 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
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

appeared in the Pentagon Papers that have been in the New York Times. (Laughter) So they pretty much outlined what we wanted to get from the Canadians: a willingness to have their representative on the ICC discuss with Hanoi and the officials in Hanoi
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

President, had asked to run for the Senate. Burnett Maybank was in many, many ways ideologically similar to Lyndon Johnson. He was basically a New Deal Democrat and a man of the people. He was a Charlestonian, and he had great difficulty speaking
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

several meetings with President Kennedy in 1962. The speech that he made to the Economic Club in New York City in December, 1962, spelled it out in more detail. I was in on the writing of that speech. F: Does the Keynesian economic theory work both ways
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, to give the South a chance to live with the new decision of the Supreme Court, I think Senator Russell would have been drafted for the presidency and would have been president. But I think that was the biggest political blunder in my lifetime, because
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in New York. As much as I could see, he was lambasting the Office of Education on busing, so that the ethnic minorities in his district would support him. M: In these education acts, did you have any conflict with the Labor Department, say, with 17
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

an assistant to the Governor of New York State, who at that time was Averell Harriman. From 1957 until 1962 you were an assistant to Senator Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania, and from 1963 until 1965 you \'/ere the
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

showing enough confidence to fly in our aircraft, it would help us and the overall industry. F: Bell didn't have a plant here then, in Texas? M: No, our plant was in Niagara Falls, New York. It was not too many years later that the decision was made
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City for a year. His thought was that when I finished that assignment that I would then stand a good chance to be accepted as a military member of the Policy Planning Council at the State Department. And that's
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, J. Roy White, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, in the construction of the new dining room and kitchen facilities, the addition of 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
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Rodney Borum, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

as manager of a conference at Crotonville, New York, dealing with a foreign policy problem of the U .S . This is something that Secretaries Fowler and Connor attended, G .E . hosted, and the Atlantic Council sponsored . The conference was on trade

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