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Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Commission. I don't want you to go into your background; I want to save that for a subsequent session. C: For some other time, yes. Well, I was at the White House with Brooks Hays, who had been a very dear friend of Berl Bernhard, and we were even really

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

such impact. I recall that he had some input into some problem--whether it was an oil problem or a steel price problem, I'm not sure; but I was not personally involved, and I was not aware of his involvement in other economic problems up to that time. F

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 5 (V), 5/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Rusk's son [David], who at that time was quite active in civil rights matters, was involved. He worked with Sterling Tucker, who is now the vice chairman of the District of Columbia City Council, and he sat in on the meeting with us and was our principal

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

: We were college students at San Marcos, Southwest State Teachers College. We both entered in what was at that time called the spring term. It was a short term that no longer exists but about the first of April or something like that. My first

Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

sketch your background, education? H: Ny home town All the time. "laS Mi nera 1 We 11 s. But when I got into NY A I had been in Lubbock, going to school at Texas Tech and had finished out there and was out looking for something to do right

Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 2 (II), 4/17/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of time. I also spent a considerable amount of time with Bill Spell and Bo Statham of Senator [John] Stennis' office staff, trying to neutralize some of the more blatant things that were going on. To a lesser extent, Congressman [Jamie L.] Whitten

Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 2 (II), 11/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, 1985 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT M. MONTAGUE INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: General Montague's office, Washington, D.C. Tape l of 2, Side 1 G: What was Hop Tac, where were you, and what was your role in that operation? M: Well, at the time of Hop

Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

all this time I saved my money because I was determined that I was going to school. So three years later I entered Southern Methodist University in Dallas, in February 1958, as a full-time student. Prior to this time at night I had taken about twelve

Oral history transcript, Kenneth Torp, interview 1 (I), 6/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

independence to union with Greece--which had been at one time the acceptable Hellenic goal--for his own interest. He wanted to, and we think he continues to want to be the president of the independent republic, of a full UN member state. So we think his

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, 1969 INTERVIEWEE: KERMIT GORDON INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Gordon's office, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: Last time, Dr. Gordon, we were talking about the transition to Lyndon Johnson after the death

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

in the days when I was in the Defense Department, and had met him socially a few times, we were not close personal friends. I raised the question with him after we offered our resignations and there had been no action for some time, suggesting that with all

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-time resident and valued its parks and its beauty, but I didn't realize what LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: FRANK MANKIE'"wICZ INTERVIEWER: STEPHEN GOODELL PLACE: Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 G: I think last time we were talking about 1967 and the last topic we discussed was your urging Senator Kennedy in 1967 to run in 1968. M: Well, I think

Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or to get started in some productive way~ who were also unemployed or unable to go to school because they . lacked the simple basic requirements of clothes and foodo At that time Lyndon was the secretary of a congressman in Washington, D.C., and as I

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, to work with her in redesigning the garden. I saw the East Garden was in 1961. The first time I thought it was a rather shabby garden, quite unworthy of the dignity of the White House. It was very plain, very vanilla-ish and I'm delighted that Mrs

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 3 (III), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

#3) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ November 1, 1971 F: This is interview number three with Senator John G. Tower in his office in the Old Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Senator, we were talking last time

Oral history transcript, Cynthia Wilson, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)

to write on a typewriter during that period, which is very valuable at that. Anyway, I finished in June of 1964 and worked that summer on the Waco newspaper, which is the Waco-G: Times Herald, I think. W: --Times Herald. Well, they're both owned

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

. (Interruption) Mrs. Johnson the last time we talked about this, we went right into the campaigning season without talking about your father's death. Why don't we go back into it and have you record what you remember of that painful experience. J: It became

Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, largely from students of North Texas State. thing. That was the beginning of the It seems to me like there was a man named McDonald Leech [?] who was the state president at the time. If you will recall the history of the Young Democrats, the primary

Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh October 5, 1968 M: The machine is now on. You can lean back and it will pick you up from the back of your chair. Your career, as you have no doubt realized from time to time, is in many ways parallel

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the Congressional records. But just to begin with, you were elected to the 76th Congress in 1939 as a Democrat from Oklahoma, and you were succeSSively reelected to the House through 1951. At that time you were elected as Senator and served in the Senate until

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 2 (II), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

last time about the election of 1946, and we'd just finished winning the Clay. box. '·' I thought we 1 d pick it up from there •. P: Well, that was just one of the experiences in the campaign of. 1946. It was the first time that the President

Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in May and we had to define each of NYA's programs, and establish the procedures for these programs by the time students came back in the fall. And these college and university presidents, fairly enough, wanted to know what the procedures would be well

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

every aspect of that statement. I don't think that the Arab world is yet in the Soviet camp. Soviet influence in the area has been increasing for quite a long time, but not allover the area. The Soviet influence is primarily in Algeria

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1979, by David Culbert (Item)

: Hello! CULBERT: Hello, George Christian? CHRISTIAN: CULBERT: Yes, sir. This is David Culbert calling from Baton Rouge. couple of questions? Now, is this a convenient time? May I ask you a I know that you are leaving the country tomorrow

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 7 (VII), 4/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

knew about him and my relation with him in college, and in the NYA [National Youth Administration] days and at different times in our lifetime. However, I have never talked much about the presidency and his inner feelings about things, which were

Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1968, by William S. White (Item)

was something of a secretary to Dick Kleberg. That's when I first met him. I had a great affection for Kleberg. He was a very interesting person. But the time came when a vacancy developed in Texas; and Lyndon Johnson went back, announced his candidacy

Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 3 (III), 1/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)

not aware that the information at this time indicates any defective planning or operations on the part of the navy. It is quite possible, however, that we may find that the loss of that sub was due to a malfunction of a particular component and in turn

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 3 (III), 7/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. As time went by you didn't hear much more talk like that. clich~ It seemed that the war was absorbing more and more of our re- sources, and more and more of the President's time and his Cabinet officials as well. Is that a correct impression or do you

Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 1 (I), 7/3/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)

-- 2 T: I knew President Johnson when he was on the staff of Congressman Dick Kleberg of Corpus Christi. At the time I represented the national cotton council and endeavored to activate beneficial legislation for the cotton interests of Texas

Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: I didn't know you were old enough for that. R: How's that? F: That goes back far enough. Does that go back far enough for you? You've weathered well. That wasn't the time when Jim Farley was there too? R: No, sir. I used to go down every

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 3 (III), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

him to inform He told Christian as soon as he talked with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Rowe said Dudman had called seven or eight times, and it was getting quite obvious that Rowe was ducking. And here's a transcript: Dudman: I'm calling about

Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: That would have been some time, I imagine, in the late 1930's after you had moved to New York with American Air Lines. Did you have any close personal contact with him then, either social or political? S: I could not claim I've been an intimate, that would

Oral history transcript, Milton R. Young, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a Republican." "That doesn't make a damn bit of difference," he said, "I want you to get some delegates." I think I did help get one. Another similar occasion happened when he was president. was easier to see. He I was over to the White House one time and had

Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Whitney Young -- Interview I -- 2 the statement many times that some of the best liberals

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

it and trace it? M: I think the New York Times' version, which appeared a few days after Newsweek was published, is a better version, at least so far as I know. I saw Charles Roberts on the Friday before this piece was published for lunch. He had completed

Oral history transcript, Cynthia Wilson, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)

, 1985 INTERVIEWEE: CYNTHIA WILSON INTERVIEWER: Lewis Gould PLACE: By telephone from the LBJ Library to Ms. Wilson's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: I think when we paused the last time we were just about getting to the point

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 53 (LIII), 8/16/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1989 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR., with comment by Marcel Bryar INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: Some time in either late 1965, probably early 1966, when we were

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

trip to Texas. Did we mention this last time at all? M: Yes, we did. F: Yes. I think I felt then that the press coverage was so extensive of the trip that there was no particular need to rehearse where we went or what we did. If I'm repeating, we

Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Council? · J: No, I di.d 'not nave personal contact.. Mr. The ftrst time I recall seei.ng Johnson was during the campaign, when he was running . . . with Jack ~ Kennedy for presi·dent.. , " They ran a special train thro_ugh the country, and he