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Oral history transcript, Stanley Marcus, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • period when we were enlarging the store. So I came into the store in Sept- ember 1926 and have been associated with the store all during that time. r became president of Neiman-Marcus in 1950, a position which I still hold. F: Where and under what
Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on two or three months to finish up some work I was doing and then came to the Urban Coalition. I donate my services here on a part-time basis. M: You are, of course, with the Texas nativity. in connection with Mr. Johnson is cronyism. The obvious
Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • its year and I was scheduled to make a brief address and give a paper at the conclusion. I did return to Washington and then ensued the various meetings incident to my assignment described by Mr. Halberstam. However, during that time I got
Oral history transcript, NYA Interview, group interview 1 (I), 1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • the Depression. I know Mr. Deason here was close to him, and I wondered, Mr. Deason, if you would tell us about your impressions of his general method of operation in an administrative job of that kind? D: Well, yes, he was at that time, Bill, I would say
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)
  • , mostly men, some few girls, but mostly young men. I would say that a surprising percentage of the people that I served with in the Congress at that time were products of the G.I. Bill of Rights, including myself. I went all the way through to a Ph.D
  • and Robert Kennedy; civil rights legislation debate; civility among legislators; the New York Times not running a story about Senator James Eastland referring to Anwar Sadat as a "nigger;" McGovern and Frank Church meeting with Hubert Humphrey about support
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • physical exams out at Kelly My heartbeat was then at the maximum, but it had come down from Field . 172 to the time I took the physical exam which was about three weeks later-­ M: Was this due to being struck? B: Yes . M: Caused your heart
Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and certainly that he would be sensitive to the growth of Houston. Anyway, East Texans just stick together. M: Did your husband support Franklin Roosevelt at that time? T: Oh. yes. M: Was that a problem in the campaign at all? T: No. I don't recall
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 17,1969 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES SYMINGTON INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Congressman Symington's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Jim, when we talked last time, we got through the election of 1960 and your memories of that, and so I thought
Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on the White House detail, I believe, Is that correct? R: No, on the White House detail I reported in 1939, around February. M: So you were through the Roosevelt times as well as-- R: From the Roosevelt times. I must have spent a total of approximately
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the President. Lyndon, on the other hand, got in and was very sympathetic with the President and supportive of the President. I've always felt he won the race on the basis. that the Tenth District, at that time, was strong for Roosevelt. Lyndon backed
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 3 (III), 5/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that they weren't getting information about government that they thought they should know because so much was about what was actually happening at that particular time. G: Besides the newspapers, did he require or urge you to read other periodicals? VW
Oral history transcript, Richard Spinn, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there and finished the seventh grade. At that time one of my teachers was M. H. Ehlert, who became county superintendent, and he was also a student and perhaps a graduate of San Marcos, then called Teachers College. I enrolled in September of 1922 in Brenham High
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • birthday. Another annual one was the Clark Thompsons' party, which this particular year took place early in February. The Speaker had such a busy time, one had to stand in line to help celebrate his birthday. Then a custom of those days was stag parties
  • Churchill; LBJ's opinion on the timing of trying to pass difficult legislation; the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); Lynda's fifth birthday.
Oral history transcript, Peter Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • it said, "Dear Lady Bird"--I remember he addressed her by her first name, and the gist of the letter was this: "When the time comes, as it must soon now, for you to choose a painter for the official portrait LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Stanley Marcus’ recommendation that Hurd paint the official portrait of LBJ to hang in the White House; Hurd’s request that LBJ pose for him; time spent working on the portrait; LBJ’s reaction to the partially finished portrait; LBJ’s inability
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 2 (II), 5/2/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • California was made a state it was not contiguous to the East. When other states such as Nevada, Montana, Wyoming became states, their population was much smaller than Hawaii's. But obviously, tne opponents had other deeper reasons. There was a time when
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Theis -- I -- 2 was about to leave he put his arm around my shoulder--we scarcely knew each other--and he said, "Bill, I spent the weekend up in New York with Dick Berlin." Well, Dick Berlin at that time
Oral history transcript, Horace D. Godfrey, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was with the original AAA. B: During that time, back in the thirties and on into the forties, did you have any contact with then Congressman Johnson? G: No, not any direct contact with him as Congressman Johnson, no. B: Did you have any sort of relationship
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Intelligence, not Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. When the agency was established by law under the National Security Act of 1947, the individual who held my job at that time was given the title of Director of Central Intelligence
Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • time, it was a special election, and I left in January. I was elected in '38. The truth of the business is my wife and I that summer of '37 went with General John J. Pershing and the Battle Monuments Commission over to France and Belgium, England
Oral history transcript, Murrey Marder, interview 1 (I), 5/25/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • on an experimental basis with bureaus overseas, and I was our first full-time foreign correspondent from 1957 to 1960, based in London covering as much as one person could, Western Europe and into Eastern Europe. Thereafter, I've constantly been involved in reporting
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • time to all the Vietnamese, North and South. It is a sort of a combination of Christmas, New Year, and Easter. I've been told by Vietnamese or Southeast Asian experts that this period of family reunification or celebration hadn't been violated
Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • dead now. R: Oh, he is? I didn't know that. G: He was around for a long time. R: He came here in 1919. I used to like to have coffee with him and listen to him talk about what it was back in those days. I believe--well, I know it was Speaker Sam
Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of government. My first knowledge of the President came when he was running for the Senate, and at that time I was talking to many people like Dr. Robert Weaver and Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, all of whom said that it would be a great thing if Texas could
Oral history transcript, David E. Bell, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : July. At least, I left at the end of July. Previous to that you had been director of the Bureau of the Budget under the Kennedy administration, and that had been your only government service since the time of the Truman administration. Is that correct
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the situation. In 1941 Senator Morris Sheppard died and my brother ran for the vacancy. At that time the law said that the governor could name a successor up until an election was held and then the high man--it didn't take a majority, you see--would
Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • commander of the Fifth Special Forces? L: Yes, that's correct. from Hawaii. When the Tet attack started, I was on my way back I had been on R&R, and by the time I actually got back to Nha Trang, the attack on the city was well in progress, and the local
Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in on November 11, 1966. I came from Rochester, New York, where I had been for some time previous connected with the Xerox Corporation and a practicing lawyer. I was chairman of the Board of Xerox and had been General Counsel and Chairman of the Executive
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • there in 1952 and took command of the 25th Infantry Division. General Van Fleet, one of the best in our army was 8th Army commanding general. I stayed with that elite division and that assignment up until the time I left Korea, which was shortly after
Oral history transcript, Raul Castro, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a little difficulty getting a teaching job because of my ancestry. In those days it was not customary to hire people of Mexican background F: Your timing was wrong, wasn't it? C: That's right, the timing was wrong in those days. So what happened
Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • would misbehave, "Carrie, you ought to whip that child." But he never did. And so that's the kind of family that I grew up in. I was a loved child, and I had a happy childhood except that all that time I suffered with an ear infection and under many
  • marriage; Scott's work for the Houston Press; Scott's affiliation with Clark Gable; covering the 1928 Democratic Convention and attempting to interview FDR there; Scott's interview with Will Durant; meeting LBJ for the first time; LBJ's relationship
Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , it seems to me, of the delegation from Florida in 1952 . I don't believe I was invited in 1956 because I was involved in the campaign . F: Had you gotten to know Lyndon Johnson prior to this time? B: Only to see him as one of the people on the scene
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the time, was that we were going to finance the cost of the programs essentially from what we thought of as the fiscal dividend. What did we mean by the "fiscal dividend?" The fiscal dividend was simply the proceeds of taxes as they came in each year under
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 3 (III), 3/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Mulhollan PLACE: Mr. Bundy's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: This time the subjects I want to talk about--and for your time benefit I hope we can wind it up--are Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East, particularly. Suppose we begin with Latin
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Watson -- I -- 2 that I thought would best serve my home state and so worked in his behalf as a student in the city of Waco, Texas at that time. P: Did you meet him on your university
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Hardesty, interview 1 (I), 3/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to go to school at George Washington University in 1951. school with time out for the Army. It was almost night I spent almost ten years at George Washington in English literature and working on my master's. F: Why did you pick George Washington? H
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the most recent interview about the selection of an architect for the Johnson Library, and that's where we quit. Do you want to pick up the story there? H: Yes. We had the policy at the University at that time of having regular architects who did
Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Tennessee on a hillside farm nea r Knoxvi 11 e. G: ~Jhat brought you to Texas? S: Well, you won't believe it but I'll make it as interesting as I can. I was in the service in World War I, July, 1917 to December, 1918. [It was] the first time I had been
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • at that time, that is correct. viaS majority leader at that time? t~y particular area of responsibility was--well at that time I was working pretty LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that coverage by a group of younger reporters, good journalists, but young mavericks, rebels, young Turks, whatever label you want to put on them. David Halberstam of the New York Times, Malcolm Browne of the Associated Press, Neil Sheehan of UPI, Nick Turner
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , taken in order perhaps. Any of the party politics type activities? L: Our responsibility was largely in the area of substantive preparation of the program. From time to time, we engaged in trying to educate people in Congress about the various