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Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 2 (II), 10/3/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

the oil people vote for him? Who voted Did businessmen support him? W: Generally speaking, the oil people didn't. close to the New Deal. They thought he was too Of course, that was a Democratic campaign. LBJ Presidential Library http

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

is not exclusive with me, that Lyndon Johnson was going to amount to something in the nation's history. M: You didn't know him then? F: No. And [I had decided] that I might as well start thinking about doing something with him and with his career. But I made
the National Parks Advisory Board; Stewart Udall; meeting Mrs. Johnson at the White House to discuss Big Bend National Park; traveling to Big Bend with Mrs. Johnson; the press at Big Bend; Judith Axler Turner; instituting a White House historical program

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

, the problems of the world do change. NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] was coming into being, the long torturous steps of being proposed by [Harry] Truman and nations signing it, and then its having to go through both bodies. And foreign aid, both
of Texas; LBJ's continued interest in his local Texas supporters as he became senator and took on national interests; civil rights and the desegregation of the military; Alger Hiss and his sister, Anna Hiss; David Lilienthal; South Texas federal judgeships

Oral history transcript, Estelle Harbin, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. G: Were you able to see what Mr. Johnson's attitude toward the 1932 campaign was, and the Democratic National Convention and which candidates he favored? H: I wasn't up there then. G: I suppose you were back here then before he got word of FDR

Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

a radical like I was supposed to be, you know, very human. I shan't forget his basic 1958 speech. In fact I saved it, because I quoted and quoted and quoted from this, that this was in the tradition of the Democratic Party, and it helped a lot. I felt

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

on a biannual basis, because it was only state monies that made that college live and created it. When Dr. C. E. Evans was down there he \'Jas very active in support of his own causes. Vlhen I was in the senate on the appropriations committee he came up

Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of accidents. My previous governmental service after the war was not connected with Latin America. I spent the war on the staff of the War Production Board. Then for several months in 1946, 1 was on our delegation to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission

Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 2 (II), 1/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

English; they weren't Dutch, because there were rules against nationals of those countries holding gold. They ranged from French peasants to Canadians, to Swiss, to all sorts of people who sort of instinctively go into gold. Certain banks sold

Oral history transcript, John A. Hannah, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

counted because of race, religion, color or national origin. It was contentious back in 1958 as to what was the truth. Pretty early, after many months of argument among ourselves and prolonged sessions of continuous discussion in which we would begin

Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

really didn't have enough money in the budget to do the things that he thought were important. F: So he was very active as long as he was there, you know. Now, any congressional official who sits on a committee that oversees you is a person to think

Oral history transcript, William J. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

occasions, just as an example-- and this didn't occur in President Johnson's time, but I am sure if the same situation had occurred it would have resulted the same way-the matter of invitations to dinners by the [Democratic] National Committee

Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

relationship with the poverty program. I guess it must have been 1965--well, maybe by then it was 1966, I was then the assistant director of I think [it was] called the [Office of] National Councils and Organizations. But Shriver would use me generally

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. My close connection with John Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson led me to believe that while the presidency of the United States, when that mantle falls upon you, changes you from just an ordinary human being to somebody who looks at human and national
[For interview 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; social security; Eleanor Roosevelt; 1939 amendment to Social Security Act; Congressional committee and chairmen; unemployment insurance; disability benefits; Kennedy administration; Medicare; LBJ

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that came in on that landslide that passed legislation that will mean that this country will be a much better place to live as a result. The Democratic National Committee went into debt; a few oddballs were brought to Congress who shouldn't have been

Oral history transcript, Raul Castro, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the Democratic National Convention when President Johnson and President Kennedy, at that time, were in the midst of having selection made F: This was 1960, you mean. C: 1960. I remember giving a speech at this local park in Tucson and President Johnson, who

Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in that fight. They were our unions. I testified before a Senate committee in which this thing was being handled. I was deep in the middle of that with President Johnson, too. MU: That's the first time that he used this technique of calling some

Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the Capitol when he was Minority and Majority Leader. It was a more important office really when he was Minority Leader, because nobody else had an office in the Capitol. none of the Democrats. They all came up there when they wanted a little snort
for minorities; LBJ’s relationship with Senators and committee staff members; Johnson Treatment; great raconteur.

Oral history transcript, Mary Michelson Fish Johnson Haselton, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

which time I had worked for the state NYA [National Youth Administration] program, both in high school as an after-school project in the library and then as assistant to the secretary of the state administrator. [This was] after I had made a movie
; the 1956 and 1960 Democratic National Conventions; Haselton's work on LBJ's speech accepting the nomination as vice presidential candidate; LBJ's public speaking skills; how the U.S. Senate was born out of compromise; LBJ's ability to compromise and his

Oral history transcript, Emmett Shelton, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

democratic down there, the whole student body was democratic, and actually the fact that you belonged to the Black Stars didn't have a thing to do with your social attitude. In classes and everything else I think it was more or less organized on a basis

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

beautification committee had done in 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] 9

Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: DR. MELVILLE B. GROSVENOR INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: National Geographic Society offices, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 F: Mel, I suppose we may as well quit the formalities and be informal since live known you a long time through
Natural resources and national parks
Library; Alexander Graham Bell Association Medal for the Deaf; coronation of the King of Tonga; Redwoods National Park; Presidential Conference on Natural Beauty; biographical information

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XIX -- 11 known Truman when he was chairman of the Truman Committee before World War II. Well, Johnson just sort of gave him a generalized

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

at the National Geographic, Mrs. Patterson, who had something to do with a foundation that had trailers. We got the loan of these trailers, and this was a great boon, because the young people that came home with four and five kids couldn't afford to go

Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in it. 14: In the 1960 convention the Democratic Party of Nichigan had committed itself to two goals. First of all, we had a candidate, John Kennedy, whom we'd settled on after I decided that I was not going to be a favorite son candidate. form. Our
Meeting LBJ in 1936; the 1960 Democratic convention in Los Angeles; the role of the Michigan delegation in shaping the platform; LBJ's record on civil rights an impediment to nomination; Leonard Woodcock; LBJ as a candidate in Michigan; appointment

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

USIS cultural/ informational job and an advisory and psychological operations job. There was a so-called coordinating committee. That coordinating com- mittee, when it decided issues, which wasn't too often, did it by vote, and it wasn't even a vote

Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, I guess you 8ight call it the White House liaison with this organization. well and worked closely with him. I kneH t·;arvin l"Jatson very Of course, Marvin, at that time, was at the Democratic National Committee. F: Yes. S: Cliff Carter went

Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

wing of the Democratic Party. It's an interview worth tracking back because Arthur Schlesinger came back from Washington, where he had been invited to call on Senator Johnson, and gave a description of that interview at dinner--there must have been

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. Develop them," and what have you. "I'll have a State of the Union [Message], and if there's a Democratic administration after me, we'll be that far ahead." So we went forward and some of the elements of programs involved reorganizations, of which

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 8 (VIII), 9/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: No, I didn't. I had had very good training from [Robert] McNamara in connection with the supersonic transport in which we had cabinet members on that committee and in which he dealt very toughly with them. And I felt that I was doing what the President

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the schedule is set up and they have said, "Yes, I will go there," then nobody but the candidate can really blame. But if he got angry or didn't like where we were, well, then he blamed it on the advance men or the national committee for scheduling him

Oral history transcript, Philip N. Brownstein, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

available in the particular area then the distances are somewhat reduced . really happened rather casually . It My father was rather active politically in Indiana--Democratically--when in that little rural area there were very few Democrats as a matter

Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with Lyndon Johnson prior to 1960, in the fifties. T: Prior to 1960, no. M: What was your earliest acquaintance or contact with him? T: That's hard to recall. I saw him [when] I was at the Democratic convention in both 1956 and 1960. One milled around

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

of a committee to prepare a list of possible targets in case the decision to bomb the North became necessary." Now that to me was overwhelming, you see. M: Was this pressure from the military to go ahead and make this contingency plan that resulted in that? H

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there was no job description for it. Of course, I couldn't vote, nor could I serve on the committees, but a congressman's office is largely a service organization. He deals with his three hundred thousand or so constituents and tries to lead them by the hand
. Cecil Evans; Allred's Senate loss to W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel; time spent relaxing at the National Youth Administration building on Buchanan Dam; LBJ's fried egg breakfast being interrupted by telephone calls; the Johnsons' house at 4921 Thirtieth Place

Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. P: Mrs. Taylor, during his vice presidency--well, let me back this up--in 1960 during the campaign did you work in that campaign? T: I was with the Democratic Policy Committee then, of which he ,vas chairman. And of course I was with the girls

Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

had gotten involved in the poverty question in doing a paper for Senator Paul Douglas' Joint Economic Committee of the Congress on the question of low income population in the United States. It was a kind of response to John Kenneth Galbraith's book

Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

recollections of that. W: Oh, my gosh, I sat in that committee room. I covered the Fort Worth convention. to leave. Well, I just was scared I wasn't secure enough as a reporter, or comfortable enough with the situation, to allow myself to leave the room
1946 campaign; 1948 Senate campaign and the Fort Worth Democratic Convention; LBJ's relationship with Sam Rayburn; social gatherings at the Johnsons' Washington home; LBJ and the press; 1954 Senate campaign

Oral history transcript, Ross D. Davis, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that sprang out of the Korean war emergency. So I came down as a very junior lawyer into an agency, which technically was part of the Department of Commerce called the National Production Authority. Korean war. I was the WPB of the I planned to be down

Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

was the nature of the political connection? Can you recall over so long a time? C: I can't recall. It undoubtedly had something to do with the Democratic Party, and favorably so. B: What was there about Mr. Johnson that impressed you then? C: He was a man

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 8 (VIII), 9/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of Education. We didn't talk about that. R: You didn't record what I said then? The Board of Education was just a room that was maybe like a committee room but wasn't used by a committee. It was a good-sized rectangular room, I think. After you were here

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