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Oral history transcript, Thurgood Marshall, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

compromiser, but I've always thought that he had the compromise in his pocket when the thing started each time. He just waited for the right time to take it out. B: You mean he had already figured out what was going to happen? M: Sure. He always won. Well

Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, that was for it. And then Johnson had his remarkable election in 1964, and that was a campaign issue. I thought then the time had come to enact something, and he recommended that we take care of the hospital costs only of people over sixty-five under Social Security, in connection

Oral history transcript, Gordon Bunshaft, interview 1 (I), 6/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

guessed it either . M: The time's gone pretty fast, sometimes, they said . That's why I looked it up . Let's begin by identifying you, sir . You're Gordon Bunshaft, and you're an associate with an architectural firm in New York City . B: I'm

Oral history transcript, Emanuel Celler, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

came out of the Senate, that was the only bill that could have been passed? C: I think that's a good statement. B: Yes, of course, at that time. At that time. Was there much distress among the liberals at what had happened to the bill? C: No, I

Oral history transcript, William F. Billings, interview 1 (I), 5/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of $ 3 , 2 0 0 a year, and I jumped at the chance. time and it was like manna from Heaven. I had been married for a short So I went to Washington and Z H Q W through the training and was assigned and stayed with the FBI until I resigned in '51, while

Oral history transcript, Charles Timmes, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the advisory effort in Vietnam with the advisory effort in Korea? T: I was in Korea November 1956 to about March 1958. At that time, of course, South Korea was not at war. Of course, this makes the extreme difference. Also, Korean officers I thought were much

Oral history transcript, Emma Boehringer Tooley, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for their livelihood. As far as our family was concerned he ~as always so very gen erous and nice to us, because it was from his store that we bought our groceries. In that day and time people didn't buy just a little one-pound can of coffee or a pound of lard

Oral history transcript, Anita P. Winters, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, then? Older, younger? W: No, Lyndon was older than me. G: I see. By about how much? W: Oh, about maybe four years. G: I see. So you were probably in the same schoolhouse with him at one time or another. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 11/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

regarding the administration's commitment to help the [Penn Central] merger along. C: Saunders had talked to me on the phone and he (inaudible) to see me prior to that time. And I had asked Ramsey [Clark] his view--as had others like Marvin Watson, I guess

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

B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Komer's office, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 F: Bob, let's talk about what we were talking about at the end last time. We were talking a bit about Libya, and I wanted to get Libya sort
“pacification”; comparison of Ky and Thieu; differentiating between ambassadors in Vietnam; working with General William Westmoreland; Bill Moyers; problems with being the only full-time high-ranking government official workingon the Vietnam situation; who

Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Leisure, which was supposed to be sort of a cross betw"een Sports Illustrated and Esquire or something. Anyway, we almost t,vo years. twenty-seven. ~.,rere greatly underfinanced. This lasted for about I was very young at the time, I guess twenty-six

Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 3 (III), 2/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

this period of time that is of consequence, do you think? G: Well, I think there's only one instance that is worth dealing on at all, and that came in June of 1966 or 1967, but it's something that broke in the newspapers so it's easy to check. But the only

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 3 (III), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: They complicated it, but, interestingly enough, each one was based on totally different sets of things. I was assistant to Dean Acheson the whole time he was secretary of state. I was his personal assistant, and we were involved heavily with the Far East
at the time of Battle's departure; whether Nasser intended to start the Six-Day War with Israel; U.S. goals for Egypt; Battle's relationship with Anwar Sadat; Sadat's visit to the U.S. and rise to power.

Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

kept in the early years of the agency, which would include also whatever I had retained from task force days, because it wasn't that there was a clean beginning of OEO as such. Many of us, by the time the agency had gotten its authorization

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. That was his favorite alcoholic beverage. fifth, of course. He'd buy it by the Many a time, back when he was governor, and even after he was out of the governor's office and in that short period of time before he started actively campaigning for the Senate

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

on three and a half months in the Nixon Administration and am now out of office . M: You had been Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for ISA for some time prior to the assassination? B: Yes, I was appointed by President Kennedy at the very outset

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

never did take it out the whole time and did not intend to, because I hadn't met him, and I had plenty else to do. Cecille and I thought that to travel on a boat would be the most glamorous way in all the world to take this trip. In those days
of Washington, D.C. and the sites she visited; career plans; projects Mrs. Johnson planned at her father's Brick House; how Mrs. Johnson met LBJ for the first time in Austin; LBJ's marriage proposal and their brief courtship; meeting LBJ's family; Sam Ealy

Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on a part-time basis, which I eventually did. It took me some time to locate a job in the newly-burgeoning agencies of the Roosevelt Administration, but I managed to find a mail clerk's job and then got an endorsement from my congressman, Harold Cooley

Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

as was possible, so if I ask you things that you think you've written adequately about, say so and I'll just switch off. because we're not trytng to duplicate what Time-Life has printed or anybody else has printed. Let's identify. You're Hugh Sidey, and you
Sidey’s contact with LBJ during the Senate period; his work with Time magazine covering LBJ; 1957 Civil Rights Bill; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s relationship with other politicians; press coverage of LBJ in the Senate years; difference between Senate

Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

practicing law in El Paso, which was my home town, at that time. In 1926 Robert Ewing Thomason, who was later in Congress from that district, kind of revved me up to run for the legislature. There was a man, an incumbent, that he and his friends didn't

Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

" as they call it at those magazines, doing every department where someone else were unavailable, sick or on vacation . BA : What was the name of the book? BE : Time and a Ticket , it was called . BA : You may be too modest to mention this, but are you
Biographical information; TIME & A TICKET; LBJ's remarks regarding Vietnam; LBJ's reading and general knowledge; speech writing and the staff; "cussers/doubters/nervous-nellies;" consumer interest information; speech schedule put out on Fridays

Oral history transcript, John T. Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, 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

Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and how you happened to be in Europe at the time of LBJ's trip in May 1945. E: I was stationed at that time at the Rainbow Corner in Paris, and I had been there since about February of 1945. I had been in correspondence with the Johnsons, both Bird

Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

, and they 't'Tere probably worse in NYA. PB: In fact, you scarcely had time to eat back in those days, isn't that right? BP: That's about true. I guess as far as Nr. Johnson's con- cerned that ••••• I believe he must have eaten more ha~~urgers than any man

Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

views to the attention of the President. As I mentioned last time, the great difficulty involved the people surrounding the President. If you have a filter between a special assistant, like Esther Peterson, and the President, I don't think that he

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 7 (VII), 9/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to support price control, and he would vote against it. You know, there were times when a barrel of oil sold for thirty cents a barrel or even less, and my goodness, when it became five dollars a barrel it was amazing. It probably sells for thirty-five

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--at least it's easy to think of his time as a long, continuing honeymoon. It wasn't. There were rising tides of dissension and anger from a lot of groups, from the doctors, and the conservatives, and the people bent on peace, and the people bent

Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 3 (III), 1/21/70, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the most revealing would probably be the discussions, conversations, that took place between Robert Kennedy and the President during that period of time. I'm not sure within that given framework whether this included the time that Senator Robert Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 3 (III), 7/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

then it seems that time has caught up. C: Time has caught up. It wasn't that the problem with water that summer was unpredictable; it was just two things, I think. One, when you start to measure the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, J. Graham Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1968, by Monna Clark (Item)

. Graham Sullivan, who has served as Deputy Commissioner of &iucation since July 1966. MR. SULLIVAN: As I present my remarks, probably I will be shifting hats from time to time, for I will be reporting reactions as a local education agency officer

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

our garden, and so it remained because of the war. During that time nobody built anything and for several years after they couldn't get the materials. But by 1950, I think, houses were already going up back there. It was one of those houses

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

#2) INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. McCOMB May 8, 1969 M: This is the second session with Mr. Douglass Cater. Once again I'm in his office at the Brookings Institution. The date is May 8, 1969, and my name is David McComb. Last time you mentioned that you had

Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is an interview with Mr. Everett Hutchinson in his office in Washington, D. C. the evening of October 28, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz Mr. Hutchinson, you and I have somewhat similar backgrounds in time

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 2 (II), 6/1/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: MAXWELL D. TAYLOR INTERVIEWER: TED GITTINGER PLACE: General Taylor's residence, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: General Taylor, can you tell me the reasons for your trip to Vietnam in 1957? T: By that time, I was chief of staff

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

Miller and said that I wanted to go to Washington with Mr. Kleberg. He said, "All right, I'll see what I can do about it." In just a few days his secretary called and told me to go to Mr. Kleberg's house at such-and-such a time, that he wanted to see me

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in aeronautical engineering from the University of Texas, worked for Lockheed, [saw] World War II service in the navy, and in 1952 [received] a doctorate in psychology from the University of Texas. Then after a time at teaching and as a research psychologist

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 6 (VI), 8/18/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the White House, and she joined me on the dock. There we were, pulling up to the dock--we got there about the same time--and there was a naval officer, a CPO, very smartly dressed, giving the salute. We got on the yacht and [were] there just looking around

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the rumors. The only other thing, I do know that Russell had originally been opposed to any sort of intervention in Viet Nam, but here I'm going back to 1954 or in the late 1 1 55, at the time of Dien Bien Phu. 60 1 s--it must have been '66 or 1

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. You'll recall that one of the things that committee staff worked very hard on, and I spent a gre~t deal of · time on, was the investigation that was conducted jointly by the Senate Armed Services Corrmittee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

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

: Did you have any occasion during your time either in that job, or previously in the various capacities you were in, to come into contact with Mr. Johnson, either before he was President or after? C: No, I did not. The contacts that I've had have

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