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Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Congress and the diplomatic corps. There's very little contact even yet, now, but it takes a long time to develop ways for people to get to know each other. I brought the five youngest Republicans and the five youngest Democrats and put them in the State
Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Committee Wilbur Mills might take the Great Society away, which Wilbur Mills in effect more or less told him. So there's this kind of chronic ambiguity in Johnson's approach to the war, and no decisive strategy. After the troop buildup, Westmoreland
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of lines of authority bet\Jeen you and Harry McPherson? T: No, not at all. Harry McPherson and I had been friends for a long time. I met Harry when I was in Washington in 1959. He was then, I guess, an attorney for the Senate Democratic Policy
Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a rather forceful speech before the house committee back when there were some problems developing. It's the same time that both Congressman [James] Buchanan and Congressman [Joseph] Mansfield appeared before that committee. He was able to marshal his
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 F: Who set up your schedule? T: This was set up by the Democratic National Committee. F: Any idea when the germ first sort of got planted for the settlement
Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ; Adlai Stevenson’s briefing on Dominican Republic; relationship between LBJ and Robert Kennedy; 1968 presidential campaign; LBJ’s control of 1968 Democratic convention; Hubert H. Humphrey’s campaign.
Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • you also use more computers? Y: Yes. This was mainly an outgrowth of the Warren Commission. have computers prior to the 1963 occurrence. We did not As a result of the Warren Commission and other committees, we now have a computerized protective
  • Secret Service car following him on the highway; paint throwing incident in Melbourne; death of Clarence Kretsch’s child at LBJ Ranch; nationally televised remarks to Secret Service personnel on the White House lawn
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . Okay. All of this was taking place within the context of the attempt to reach an agreement on a Special National Intelligence Estimate, is that correct, SNIE? A: That's right. National Intelligence Estimate 14.3-67. G: Which eventually got written
  • Adams' work for the CIA in Vietnam in 1965; identifying the enemy in Vietnam; self-defense and secret self-defense militiamen in Vietnam; Adams' involvement in Special National Intelligence Estimate 14.3-67: altered statistics reporting troop
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • ] committee to get the information operation over there going. George made a couple of comments then that raised some question about whether or not this would be the wise thing for me to do, to go over there. it. G: Again, I thought nothing at all about
Oral history transcript, William A. Knowlton, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . K: And ultimately, that job before I left it wound up really being the point of contact for the Democratic National Committee. I'm the only New Hampshire Republican, so honored I 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Father Wunibald W. Schneider, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ever say anything to you about the assassination of Kennedy and taking over office, all the troubles he had there? S: No, not in particular. Except that he would say, "There are problems in the Democratic Party." Yes. And, oh, of course
Oral history transcript, R.J. (Bob) Long, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Owen Donley, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • members of the Senate Labor and Welfare Committee and were not members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, but I would say that Senator McGovern's national interest was sparked by talking with those two senators and then moving on from there. G: Any
  • Biographical information; Senator George McGovern's interest in food programs; how McGovern's interest moved from international to domestic food issues; the Senate Agricultural Committee; Bob Choate and Ben Stong's involvement in the creation
Oral history transcript, Earl Howsam, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • amendments? Nothing there? Anything on the oil depletion allowance? H: No. I'm sure we were interested in that though. G: In 1953, Ed Johnson was appointed to the Democratic Policy Committee by, I guess, Lyndon Johnson, or was it the Steering Committee
  • Johnson's reference in a television appearance to the hydrogen bomb project; the Democratic Policy Committee; the Arthur Watkins Committee relating to the Joseph McCarthy censure; LBJ's effectiveness as majority leader.
Oral history transcript, Myer Feldman, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: MYER FELDMAN INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Feldman's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Feldman, let's start with your association with that select committee. How did you get involved with it? F: I was working
  • Feldman's involvement in a select committee that investigated the discharge of General Douglas MacArthur; Senator Richard Russell's role in that committee; the relationship between Russell and LBJ; Walter Jenkins.
Oral history transcript, Harold J. Russell, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • this. This year marks the twenty-fourth observance of the National Employ the PhySically Handicapped Week in October? R: Yes. P: So it does make it all the way back to '48, and you have served on the committee for the entire time. R: Yes, I have. I've seen
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ; present relationship with LBJ; interest and work with handicap people; summary of advances in field of the handicapped; role of advisory committee and its effectiveness; assistance from Senator
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 23 (XXIII), 8/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't know. Unquestionably it was seen as one to at least boost his influence in the Senate, to have an important committee like that. For a freshman senator, it's quite a coup. I don't know if he was thinking in terms of national visibility. It's very
  • of producing a unanimous committee report; problems in the New England watch-making industry; Reedy's concern that committee staff were taking on investigations without appropriate jurisdiction or resources; problems with government bureaucracy; trying
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • were after. I suppose the committee's conception of this thing was somewhere between these two extremes. When I say broad-based, I mean it is not merely to be training for the national service; it's not merely to be training in a specific social science
  • ; Benjamin Wright; Harry Ransom choosing Livingston to chair the committee to plan the institute; deciding that the school would be broad-based and interdisciplinary; appointing planning committee members; architectural firms chosen to design the school
Oral history transcript, William Dayton Maclay, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and evaluation of the physical, biological, and social sciences, as well as the economic and forest research activities of the department, the maintenance and servicing of the Research Advisory Committee system of which the department had three national research
  • Biographical information; political involvement of career men; branches of Department of Agriculture; National Science Foundation; foundations; coordination among departments of government; financing of research activity; effect of President
Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 3 (III), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: RUSSELL B. LONG INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Senator Long's office, U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Let me ask you first of all about your appointment to the Finance Committee. Do you know why you were
  • Service on Senate Finance Committee; Civil Rights bill; Bobby Baker; Joe McCarthy
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • more knowledge of the physical planning of the city than I would have had from any other place. G· It led to things that followed, I suppose. R: That's right. G: Now what about the National Capital Planning Committee. I learned. He put you
  • The Washington D.C. Auditorium Committee/Commission; being asked to fill a Washington D.C. commissionership; Rowe’s work on the Beautification Committee
Oral history transcript, Omar Burleson, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • -Mass . ) I believe he has probably been the most vocal one on the Foreign Affairs Committee . M: It's been Democrats in the Senate more frequently . B: Well, that is true, but on the House side the opposition to the President's policy in Vietnam has
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • met him. He was talking I was impressed with his drive and his good looks. Now when you were in the Truman Cabinet he was on the Naval Affairs Committee in the Congress; did he take any active role in either pushing for or holding back from
  • Senate years, including initial contact with LBJ; House Naval Affairs Committee; biographical information; 1948 kidney stone attack; B52s, B70s, B36s; Senate Armed Services Committee; LBJ’s heart attack in 1955; NASA; impressions of LBJ and his
Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Surgeon General's report on smoking and health. When was that? EG: 1964. G: And your role in that whole initiative; how did you get involved, first of all? EG: My beginning in it occurred after the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee had been
  • 1964 cigarette warning label legislation; Surgeon General’s Advisory Committee; publication of report; Office of Smoking and Health; National Interagency Council of Smoking and Health; publicity; tobacco industry opposition; AMA and Medicare; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Robert Taft, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to breaking up the even split which existed insofar as some committee appointments were concerned. M: Well, you might relate that. T: I don't recall the entire detail of it. may have that. It may be that Jim Patterson That may be the memorandum that I
  • Biographical information; no personal knowledge of his father's relationship with LBJ; LBJ working with Taft Sr, on committee appointments; difference between JFK and LBJ's Administrations; 1964 Ohio race; 1968 election; Foreign Affairs Committee
Oral history transcript, Eugene R. Black, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Johnson, and as a result of that he appointed a committee headed by Secretary McNamara to decide to do what to do about the building of the super­ sonic plane . I served on that committee for several years . We had frequent meetings and finally decided
Oral history transcript, Wayne Aspinall, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and all of the Rocky Mountain area. F: Well, to a great extent, a national congressman. A: There is a great deal of the jurisdiction of the committee which is national in scope. There is a lot of work in the eastern part of the United States for our
  • Natural resources and national parks
  • Impressions of LBJ's early Senate years; Alaskan Statehood Bill; Kennedy-Johnson campaign; Wilderness Bill; Redwood National Park; Department of the Interior land control; University of Colorado honorary degree; LBJ's reaction to upscale black
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 6 (VI), 3/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of Taft-Hartley. As I remember--and again, you would have check [inaudible]--but as I remember it we probably voted to maintain the right-to-work law as is, being a right-to-work state. But as national chairman of the committee, which goes beyond the state
  • The origin of the National Defense Education Act (NDEA); education legislation and separation of church and state; student loan forgiveness for public and private school teachers; Senator Lister Hill's interest in education; working with Congressman
Oral history transcript, George Hartzog, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/20/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • this question some time ago by a legislative committee in the House as to what I foresaw as the dimension of the National Park System. As we have looked at the situation, it seems to us that you have about now identified all of the superlative scenic
  • Natural resources and national parks
  • Biographical information; National Park System; Robert C. Horn; National Capital Planning Commission; Preservation Commission; Grand Teton National Park; recreation; 1968 Land & Water Conservation Fund Act; Yellowstone National Park; tradition
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 3 (III), April 1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • --in our moving through, working with the committee staffs as the legislation evolved, I don't believe that our legislative proposal that we submitted was a good one in terms of how it 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • National Transportation Safety Day; Nader's influence on the development of auto safety legislation; Vehicle Equipment Safety Council; the effect on Congress of creating a new cabinet department; the Maritime Administration.
Oral history transcript, Laurance Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • members of the committees would encourage each other to rise and take on some particular project. Of course Mrs. Lasker ended up by giving us a fountain which still doesn't work, but I'm sure that it will! The National Park Service of course did
  • Role and activities of the Citizens Committee on Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission; LBJ and Lady Bird's role in beautification; Mr. Henry Diamond was present and spoke during the interview
Oral history transcript, Judge R.E. Thomason, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • was able to put in a good word for her at the time of the organization of the WACs, of which she became the director and she made a distinguished record as such. (I was then a member of the Military Affairs Committee in Congress). Oveta is a very fine
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
  • Efforts to establish a historic site at Lady Bird Johnson's childhood home in Karnack, Texas; early planning for the National Wildflower Research Center; the first board of directors for the Center; Carlton Lees' assistance in writing the charter
Oral history transcript, John Ben Shepperd, interview 1 (I), 12/30/1968, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • Committee on Recreational and Natural Beauty, which is a national advisory council appointed by the President, of which Mr. Laurence Rockefeller of New York is the chairman, and moving light in it. I also serve as chairman of the Citizens Committee
  • Natural resources and national parks
  • Activities in Texas politics; Chamber of Commerce LBJ State Park Project; Citizens Advisory Committee on Recreational and Natural Beauty; Citizens Committee for the Guadalupe Mountains National Park; response to charges in Texas Overseer article
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a good many organizations in the country that had begun to flower into influence, as it were. There was the Parent and Teacher's Association, there's a National Education Association, and others, and they undertook to pitch rather vigorously for what
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. O'Connell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • dealings with Lyndon Johnson because basically the Treasury activity was more with the Ways and Means Committee and the Banking and Currency Committee than it was with Naval Affairs Committee, which is the one I believe that Lyndon was connected
  • Meeting LBJ; public power; Renegotiation Act; Temporary National Economic Committee; tax policy; O’Connell’s resignation; being offered the chairmanship of the Civil Aeronautics Board; the temporarily certificate of Trans-Texas Airline; aviation
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • say, for the White House Historical Association also donated $10,000 toward the project. The cost wasn't very much above that, maybe another three or four thousand dollars at most, and this we paid for out of our National Park Service appropriated
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Service to give equal consideration to the various resources of the national forests, recreation being one of them, water, timber, grazing, wildlife being the others, and to administer all of those on a sustained yield basis. The people who were interested
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • counsel. I participated actively in the work for the TVA involved in the congressional investigation of TVA by a special joint investigating committee. I did other litigation work in some of the condemnation proceedings and various miscellaneous work
Oral history transcript, Edward P. Cliff, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Works Committee on the Federal Aid Highway Bill. This was the time when the Interstate System was being proposed. Senator Gore was one of the principal. F: This was during the Eisenhower Administration. C: When President Johnson was the Majority
  • Meetings with LBJ; trips with Lady Bird; trip with Lynda Johnson; assessment of Lady Bird; Wilderness Act; pollution; recreation; East of the Mississippi; acreage use; Redwoods; Job Corps; wilderness areas; National Wild and Scenic Rivers Bill