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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at the home of Evalyn Walsh McLean, a very famous hostess of those days. This was a one and only time for a young congressional couple like us. First thing, Lyndon didn't like to go to parties, as I've probably said a dozen times, and kept on turning things

Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

interview) Tapes 3 & 4 INTERVIEWER: Paige Mulhollan November 7, 1968 M: I listened to that small part of the second tape we did last time just to refresh me as to where we were, and you had just made sort of a general statement about the original

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

from that point forward until he went to the Senate, he had virtually no further friendly contact from the Truman White House. In 1946 Truman had several times included him on Potomac cruises on the yacht Williamsburg. I mean, Truman knew him--we've

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (TAPE iff 1) January 10, 1969 This is an interview with Mr. Henry Fowler, former Secretary of the Treasury. The interview is in the Main Treasury Building, in Washington, D. C. The date is January 10, 1969. The time is 10

Oral history transcript, Judge R.E. Thomason, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

against me and I received a unanimous vote for election both of which was unprecedented at that time. In 1927 I was elected Mayor of El Paso and re-elected for a second term without opposition. In 1930 I was elected to Congress where I spent 17 years. I

Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Seminar. The date is February 24; the time is 4:15 in the afternoon; and my name is David McComb. First of all, Dr. Halperin, I'd like to know something about your background--where you were born and when? H: I was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois

Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in time, I suspect." He said, "Well, I still would like to talk with you. someone." I've had a very good recommendation on you from He never told me who, and I don't know for sure to this day who it was that put in a word for me. So he said, "I want

Oral history transcript, Patrick V. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of the Department of Justice at the time, and I met a Mr. Pollak, who at the time was on the White House staff in District of Columbia affairs. He had for a year, approximately, been working on the legislation for reorganization of District government. The mayor

Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, just completely like that, he realized that I couldn't take it all the time, so three of uS were put on and we alte rnated weeks on the road, Mary Rather and I and Dorothy Plyler. What it amounted to was we got up at 5: 00 o'clock in the morning

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in collusion with parties like Walt Rostow, Clark Clifford, Dean Rusk; the President had his own small set of advisers looking over these drafts as they would be presented over the period of this six weeks. It was a particularly exhausting time, I recall

Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

there and went to the University of Texas in due time . B: We moved to Texas when I was five years old and I attended public school in Beaumont and completed my education, Joe, at Lamar College and the University of Texas . F: Then you got caught up

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

talk to Mr . Jones about it? B : No, I never did . G: I guess it wasn't successful . B: Mr . Jones was in Washington at the time and he theoretically had I don't remember the details . nothing to do with the editorial policy . The people

Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, yes. Absolutely. Sure. There's some minor errors in the Harper's article as to time and dates because I did it off the top of my head, but what I say now is probably going to be more accurate than the Harper's article. G: Okay. Since the context

Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of the Budget had responsibility for responding to, and I do not recall that he was actively interested in the budget factors that pertained to those committees. B: I might say that--I suspect this is not the appropriate time--but your work in that period

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

your checking out. Corson I believe is a management consultant, living in northern Virginia. G: John J. Corson. Sure. Let's start at the end and get the story on the last time LBJ saw Sam Rayburn alive. LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

was in college. And then I remember a couple of times when Mrs. Johnson and Lynda and Luci and Mother and I used to go over to Bethany Beach and things like that. B: Was the friendship between the Johnsons and the Clements a close personal friendship, as well

Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

at one time, just prior to your association with Mr. Johnson, the managing editor of the American or both papers? L: I had served on both papers, but in 1936 I was managing editor of the American when I terminated my connection down there. B: I

Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

sure would remember. But at any rate, when he went out on the road the first time I was assigned to go with him. On most of these trips out into the district he would leave early in the morning, make several towns and come back that night

Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Late fall, right after the Diem coup. Actually the date of my arrival in Saigon was early in January of 1964. We got to Hong Kong, as I recall--I don't remember the date--but some time before that, late in 1963. I think my first trip to Saigon

Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. At the time when I came back to the department with Ambassador [David] Bruce from Paris and he took over the job as under secretary of state and I became his assistant in that position, Luke Battle was one of the several staff assistants to the Secretary, who

Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES ZWICK INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Dr. Zwick's office, the Southeast Bancorporation, Inc., Miami, Florida Tape 1 of 1 M: The last time we had been talking about the budgetary process and how the budget worked. To pick that up

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 4 (IV), 3/8/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

generalizations on such things as foreign aid, and so on.Taking the Middle East first, that's a crisis that arises in a very short time frame. I've heard people say that the government, under any Administration perhaps, can't really deal effectively with two

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, who at that time was Secretary [Robert] Weaver, would become the acting secretary of housing and urban development. F: Why was that put in? C: I don't know. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (TAPE =lF2) April 22, 1969 This is a second session with Mr. Henry H. Fowler, former Secretary of the Treasury. I am in his offices in New York City. The date is April 22, 1969, and my name is David McComb. Last time you

Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Johnson wanting him to come down and see him before he went. Lyndon was trying to put the last screw into everybody, turn the ratchet one more time. So Sherrod was in a situation like that. He was a very good World War II correspondent, I think
Early contact with LBJ during 1960 campaign; going to Vietnam for the first time; learning about Vietnam and gaining the confidence of the people there; deciphering the motivation of the officers that spoke to him; Homer Bigart; John Vann; John

Oral history transcript, Homer E. Dean, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in the firm, and so they invited Clarence, who got out the same time I did in 1940, to come down here and be associated with them. I was not so fortunate, and as I told you at lunch today, I had spent a year in Austin with the Texas Employment Commission due

Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to be his newsboy; I delivered newspapers to his home. At that time he was an alderman. F: Right. M: As the years went on, I believe he and President Johnson became quite good friends. F: Yes. M: But at the outbreak of the war, or shortly before

Oral history transcript, James A. Shannon, interview 1 (I), 4/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

which we can then go into some of the material. S: Okay. Well, I was born and brought up in New York City and spent the bulk of my time there, except when I was away at school, until about 1946. I graduated from the College of the Holy Cross

Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

for the first time in thirty-five years. M: I was going to say, your career as a government slave goes back for some time. And now you're out of it. G: Yes. M: But you did serve in that position for-- G: Two years, a little over M: Two years

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 12 (XII), 8/19/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--the road was full of us in those days going to Washington--and went as far as Roanoke. This again is sort of typical of that time. We spent the night in a tourist home. There were lots of rather nice-looking old homes, usually Victorian with white

Oral history transcript, Ferd Kaufman, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Harvey] Oswald up and down the hall every time they moved him. But, you know, that's an unbelievable script. G: What are the memories that particularly stand out? K: Well, what really stands out now, after the fact, was--you know, the security

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1b (I), 4/29/1986, by Walter Richter (Item)

were not recognized at SWT [Southwest Texas] at that time but there was at least one other one there that reputed to be there, considerable campus group. And a bunch of us, I guess, who thought we LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

when he came to the Senate or even prior to that time, if you knew him as a Congressman. H: Well, I first knew him in early 1947 when I organized the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, as its first chairman, and he was a member of that Committee from

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

during prohibition. during prohibition times. what it was. Williamson, the Williamson House, that's Mrs. Williamson was a real good cook, and that's where we had our training table. one year. And then Mrs. Penn ran the training table Then back up

Oral history transcript, John McCully, interview 1 (I), 10/26/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McCully -- I -- 2 Jerry told him when labor was for Johnson, he [McCully] was for Johnson, which I say was not exactly true, because I was for Johnson at times when labor wasn't for him

Oral history transcript, Harvey O. Payne, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

have some kind of roof over them most of the time. They were just nice, neat, clean places for travelers to stop and relax and eat. PB: During the years between Mr. Johnson's election to Congress and his election to the United States Senate, did you

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 4 (IV), 10/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

papers and I attempted to summarize chronologically the events that happened, because I thought I might want to go back at some time and reconstruct it. So I'm talking today not having refreshed my memory since late January. Of course, a substantial part

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 61 (LXI), 1/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, didn't want to face this issue one more time. So we were able to hold our Senate people very well as I look at this stuff. Then the House, they started to toy with a proposal that would give the President the power to determine whether or not the final

Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

I joined the Armored Division because that was the thing to do for horse cavalrymen in those days. telephone call. time. I was on maneuvers in Louisiana and got a General Gay [?] had called, Colonel Gay at that He was with General Patton. He

Oral history transcript, Harold Fleming, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1986, by Michael Gillette (Item)

," by talking about the relationship between Daniel Patrick Moynihan and the conference. F: Well, Pat really did not play any role in the planning of the thing. What made him an important figure at that time was that the storm broke about his report

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