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Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

about LBJ and the press during this He seems to have been more sensitive to what he regarded as negative news stories than he had been before. R: Was this the case? To him a negative news story was one which did not begin "Sincere, positive
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

contribution I could have made was going to some of the more populous states and maybe securing some of the secretaries' of state support. In Texas of course secretary of state is appointive and it's a fairly weak office, but in New York, Illinois, California
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Roy Elson, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to me that he was doing a lot of illegal things that were against the law. The financial transactions were very complicated. They involved great banks and ships and European bank accounts and New York bank accounts and [were] just very complicated. G
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence McQuade, interview 1 (I), 1/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

fond of him. I know just before he got his appointment they flew up to New England to talk to Governors and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
; Cissy McQuade; LBJ’s famous phone calls; Califano; LBJ’s staff; Punta del Este speech; Bill Roth; Kennedy Round; Maurice Stands; “The American Establishment;” Wilbur Cohen; impact of the Commerce Department; New England foreign trade zone; Secretary

Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and economic and social orientation. But he had not through all those years communicated that to the liberals or to the people like me at all; that was a new awakening. B: Back in the 'SO's, the late 'SO's, you were close to Rubert Humphrey who was also
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

parallel to the British regimental system of picking their new officers. M: Perhaps. 16 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 2 (II), 2/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

. there. And Actually the rent, I roomed with She had a little house; it's still standing down It's on the northwest corner of the intersection where the Methodist Church is there, right close to where the bank and the post office and all that is now. But she had
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

correspondents, had been on the wire services, had worked for papers like the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, would come through our office anywhere from one to any number a day. They just wanted to work for just something to eat for that day

Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. And, by then--of course, as soon as Kennedy was elected, I more or less became the liaison man between some contrite religious leaders and the new Catholic President of the United States! And I did assist in setting up some interviews for some leaders, some religious
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

down at the Derby. And then she went to New York, with the fight between the Vanderbilts and the Astors over who was going to take over society there, and she said, "I'm a Desha from Kentucky [inaudible]." She did, you see. I'm trying to say that's
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

such that Now there may have been one or two dissenters, but I don't remember that they made it known. F: There was some talk of a floor fight by some of the people who opposed Senator Johnson. T: That's right. F: Did you do any ,york with other
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

under James Eastland. S: Right. F: And I forget who you've got in the House, but undoubtedly-- S: Manny Geller from New York. F: You didn't have any problem as far as the committee in the-- S: In the House. F: What do you do to jack it out
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 4 (IV), 3/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the President--call from New York. It would be something that wasn't within the United Nations at all, and he would just push his opinion off on Johnson. He felt like he had a lot to say, and it needed to be heard. G: What about White House staff members? Were
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, A.M. "Sandy" Keith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

by that it was something that could be put on the air. B: You broke the news to the President of Walter Jenkins' arrest, didn't you? R: I think I did, but I'm not altogether certain. 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 7 (VII), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

he was supposed to campaign for Jim Murray, and boy, Murray was in trouble, bad trouble. There was--what the devil was his name? He had been a reporter for the New York Times and he had gone over to the far, far right wing of the Republican Party
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Bill. Well, why? I owned 50 per cent interest in Padre Island at that time, in the property, with a Connecticut Yankee partner I had out of Connecticut. I call him my Connecticut Yankee partner. We had bought the property from a lawyer in New York who
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview S-I, 7/18/1968, by John Singerhoff (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -----~---- DEPAR'n1ENT OF EALTH, EDUCATION AiID WELF ARE Was hing ton, D.C. . Inte rvie w of I FRANCIS KEPPEL . I I by John Sing erho ff New York City Jcl.y 18, 1968

Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

, and of thing . lot on And it was an important post to him because he relied a people . M: lines . The organization of the state was along congressional B: Correct . M: And you were assigned here . B: district, and then in turn He had one man assigned

Oral history transcript, M. J. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)

for Humphrey after President Johnson decided that he wasn't going to run. Then I went ahead and moved over and started working for Humphrey, and I handled for Humphrey I handled New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, of course, and I had Michigan, and out of those
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

that certain individuals right here in the Pentagon, at a very early date, leaked all the details of this to the New York Times, as you probably recall. This generated the usual reaction that you get here in the United States, generated by people who
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

election to Congress in 1937 in that special election, what was the significance of Texas to your father and to the New Deal at the time, politically? R: Well, of course, it was a very important state to have good contacts and good people with whom he
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

background and how I got started in Texas politics, I was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and came to Texas during World War II. As a relatively young man and with very little interest in politics, I met my wife in Austin, Texas and went to law school
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Walter T. Kerwin, interview 1 (I), 9/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

forth. And it finally was resolved after a while. G: Okay. Let's talk a little bit about Tet; that always strikes chords. What was your personal vantage point to observe the kickoff of that and the ensuing days? K: That was New Year's, Tet. I can
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

here that ,.,as at that time Powell, Rauhut, Maginnis, Reavlcy, and Lochridge. After having been in that law Eirm practicing law for some two-and-a-half years, when January 1963 carne around Governor Connally was looking for what he referred to as new
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a protracted period of tir_,;, but it seemed ltke a lengthy period of tin~e. I also recall that, at the time--i t seems to me that it w as prior to the response from Hanoi about the peace talks--and the Presidcnt got Cy Vance to come down from New York
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Sr., interview 1 (I), 1/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the legislature of Texas, owned my people in slavery time. I understand that he came from Attica, New York into Texas be- fore the Civil War. able to say. Where my people came from I don't know, I'm not But I do know that my grandfather Mr. Shoemaker
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

fully meant. If it was implemented and carried forward administratively, you had a complete change in history in a major sector of our country. It was not just the South that was affected by this, this affected just as much the city of New York
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

on up to New York. Went up to Hyde Park. M: Did you know Mr. Roosevelt? F: Sam had met him. We saw him make his acceptance speech that night out at Franklin Field. He had met him, yes. M: And he knew John Nance Garner, I suppose. F: Oh, he
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with that library they built particularly. We looked at some of their commercial buildings--one I believe in Lincoln Center in New York; looked at commercial buildings as well. I remember Connecticut General Life--we looked at their building, Mrs. Johnson
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

While I was on the honeymoon in New Orleans--we'd planned to have two weeks--he called me again and said, it short? 11 I did cut it short. 11 ! need you badly, can't you cut So we concluded our honeymoon and headed for Washington. F: It wasn't
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William R. Desobry, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, and the senior advisor came with him to escort him around the States. So they replaced him with somebody else, so I lost that job. So I went down to IV Corps later on. G: Were you given any special training, any special briefing for this new assignment? D
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robinson Risner, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

people are going to get hurt or killed. G: Did you have an opinion on the way that Hanoi was apparently able to convince some Americans that we were, in fact, bombing the civilians? Harrison Salisbury, I think, of the New York Times, was perhaps the best
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

arrived in Poland on November 30, 1965. M: You stayed in that post then until when this year? G: I stayed in that post until May 3l, 1968 at which time I resigned with the approval of the President in order to participate in Hubert Humphrey's political
treatment of Gronouski, 1964 campaign and the Post Office, Bob Hardesty, Bobby Kennedy, news media’s treatment.
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ernest May, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

you have any great difficulty persuading people to your point of view? M: Oh, yes. In this county it was impossible. Mc~ What was the difficulty here? M: This county had turned against Roosevelt--turned against the New Deal
Biographical information; Judge Frank Culver; Sam Rayburn; LBJ; George Petty; Coke Stevenson; Dan Moody; Carter vs. Tomlinson; FDR and the New Deal
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 5 (V), 5/3/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Joe Fowler's gallbladder was bothering him. One Sunday morning about six o'clock the White House phone rings next to the bed our Tiber Island house. "Yes, Mr. President." "Ernie, have you read the Washington Post this morning?" President. "No, Mr
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

. Gardner covered the Senate campaign But I'm positive and I believe he covered LBJ, is correct, and possibly Bob Johnson for the Houston Post , I believe those two . remember a specific people don't a UPI reporter being there . I am certain
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 3 (III), 11/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there were eighteen new Democratic senators and he [LBJ] had looked in the paper and none of us had realized it, but at breakfast Sunday morning he announced that twelve of them were Catholics and that he wanted to find out something about the Catholic
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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