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Oral history transcript, Gould Lincoln, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

issues. To the amazement of myself and I guess a good many others, he got through this Congress a new Civil Rights dealing with housing. Bill Nobody expected him to get it through, and he has gotten through an anticrime measure which nobody expected
with the Kennedys; press relations; criticism of LBJ; news media contributed to LBJ’s loss of popularity; previous Presidents’ handling of the press; Supreme Court Packing Bill; JFK’s formal format; impact of television on politics, campaigning and government

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 26 (XXVI), 4/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Philadelphia as we saw LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XXVI -- 7

Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of southern support, too, didn't he? S: He did. In fact one time, I think it was in the 1944 convention that was held in Philadelphia, I was on a program with Senator O'Mahoney and Jimmy Roosevelt. I don't remember whether there was a fourth one

Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

he is. A: When we were sitting in the office, aides kept bringing him, as they did from time to time, these clippings off of the news machine, and there was Joe Rauh making a speech or some comment about the failure of the President to enforce

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1985 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 4, Side 1 G: Let me start with a couple of general points that were raised by your papers. One, the problem
and Republican opposition to national Democratic Party policies; anti-Catholic sentiment in Louisiana that diminished JFK support; the role of Mayor Robert Wagner in New York City patronage; Democratic Party organization in Chicago and Philadelphia; judgeships

Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it In the meantime, Senator [Francis] Case of South Dakota had publicly revealed that an oil lobbyist offered him a bribe of twenty-five hundred dollars to vote for the bill . This was front page news all over the country, and as a result of that--the bill got

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was then at the [Democratic] National Committee. The two of us worked, always, very closely together. greater than mine, and through him we made others. His contacts were But there was an attempt to encourage the thought of creating new ideas for developing contact

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. Stew [Stewart] Hensley was the senior United Press correspondent. The foreign news agencies, Reuters and Agence France Presse, had Pat [John W.] Heffernan and Jean Lagrange respectively, both senior diplomatic reporters. The specials, that is, the daily
choice and phrasing; the new mission for the marines in 1965; government's right to withhold information; the press' ability to get the information it seeks; how McCloskey obtained information; McCloskey's "thought, word and deed" message on 1967 war

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 3 (III), 7/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in the Northeast. F: I can remember, parenthetically, living in New England in the late forties in which one thing that struck me, coming from the Southwest, was the fact that nobody ever discussed the problem of rain or water except as it was a nuisance, and now

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. Stew [Stewart] Hensley was the senior United Press correspondent. The foreign news agencies, Reuters and Agence France Presse, had Pat [John W.] Heffernan and Jean Lagrange respectively, both senior diplomatic reporters. The specials, that is, the daily
McCloskey’s work in foreign service and as State Department spokesman; reporters; Vietnam; credibility gap; coordinating briefings with the White House and the Pentagon; new mission of the marines in 1965; withholding information from the press

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

exactly vihat all the inner struggl es staff membfi' in the M: edj'llei~ fail~ly \.yC:I~e ff)l~ a years. You'r0 also perhaps in a position to answer a general question. In the sixties there was a great deal uf talk about the so-called new economics
Biographical information; the Eisenhower, JFK and LBJ Administrations and the Council of Economic Advisers; new economics; Troika; tax cut; contact with Congress on economic matters; Appalachia program; SST; Agriculture Department budget

Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

For example, we found great disparity in the cost of the same operation in one shipyard as against another. Same operation. Something new in the field of radar would come along, and you'd put it on all of the ships of a certain kind. In some, the man

Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. expected, so that cleared me. They knew over here that I was Then I had to go around the other way. F: It seemed kind of strange, I guess, having to identify your way in. T: Yes, but I'm glad they do it, because there are so many new policemen

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh with Edward Kennedy, as a matter of fact, on one of his campaign rounds through the state of Massachusetts, and spent a whole day and an evening until we landed in New Bedford about five o'clock

Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, I believe in December of 1960. Shortly after his having been named the secretary of labor-designate, he called me in Schenectady, New York. I had been the vice president of opera- tions of a fairly sizable corporation, which was then known
process; railroad strike in Florida, 1964; unemployment; Reynolds’ wife, Helen; 1965 New York City transit strike; National Association of Broadcast Employees and Army Signal Corps technicians dispute; problems with the building trade unions.

Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

starting their new programs, getting more up-to-date plants, particularly right around here because this is an old city and some of these plants were old- -a number of them had closed down. M: Incidentally, beautiful job. ject, B: this is my first

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

by stagecoach from Washington and Baltimore to Philadelphia. It would take two or three days. But as each new mode of transporta- tion came in, we moved up--sailing ships, and moved on up to crude woodburning engines and to--the Pony Express came

Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] 'http://www.lbjlibrary.org February 19, 1971 F: This is an interview with Senator James Eastland in his office in the New Senate Office Building in Washington, D. C. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz, and the date is February

Oral history transcript, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/8/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Kennedy seemed determined that there would be a big show about the thing. Therefore, he ordered troops from all over the United States, not all over the United States, but from New Jersey and from Kentucky and out of of fort Polk and places of that type

Oral history transcript, Stanley Marcus, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for clothes to be sent to Mrs. Johnson to Washington. We arranged to meet, and we delegated one member of our New York office staff to work with Mrs. Johnson, to take clothes to her to the hotel. We brought up clothes from manufacturers--samples--many
; 7th Avenue wholesalers; Dallas Morning News’ notorious advertisement; Bruce Alger; re-establishing Dallas as a good place to live and work; Bronze Abstract Wall commissioned by Dallas Public Library; problem with having an official designer; Adele

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Service Commission branch offices, which are also regional headquarters for the U.S. government civil service. I believe Dallas was one, Denver was one, Kansas City was one, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle

Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of Congressman Kleberg. Now those were the days--we were contempo- raries of a sort--where the young New Dealers around Washington congregated at all hours of the day and night, particularly at night. I came to Washington in 1933. F: You P

Oral history transcript, William M. Colmer, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

then, and we had gone up to Philadelphia for the Army-Navy game. It was one of those typical Army-Navy day games weather-wise, alternating between snow, sleet and rain. We were cold. And Mrs. Colmer never approved of my putting any alcohol in the radiator

Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

. They organized the metropolitan blacks, largely through the ministers in the black churches. In places like New York and Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and Chicago, and, by that time, see--during World War II a great many blacks moved from the South to the North
; higher education for African Americans; Morehead's work for Southern Education Reporting Service and Southern School News; negative press coverage of the South; school integration and racial violence in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957; the legal

Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to Philadelphia, got my early education there, and then went to Groton School where my grandfather was headmaster. He was also the headmaster of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and he was still headmaster throughout the time that I was there. FDR was President

Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 2 (II), 7/20/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, understand, I'm an Independent. M: All recent appearances to the contrary! F: That's right. In New York, I was a registered member of the Liberal party, and now I'm a 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon

Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

for years. Between my sophomore year and my junior year in undergraduate college. my father moved to New Orleans to become professor of pediatrics at Louisiana State University's School of Medicine. So I went along with the family, finished my junior year

Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and then they changed that title . Incidentally that job paid a new sum of $1800 . F: Oh, you got a big raise . M: So I got a raise . here . That was during the time that Mr . Johnson was Lyndon was here and he and Lady Bird were the office forces around here

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

DATE: January 9-10, 1982 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas Tape 1 of 2 J: The winter and spring of 1950 began a new thing in my life and that is carpooling. Lynda, at six

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Committee with him were an absolutely outstanding group of senators. It was because of their prestige and their power and their impression with the news media that we were able to start a space. program. Jack Kennedy never did understand what space
acceptance of the vice-presidential nomination; whistle stop train trip through the South; Bart Lytton; helicopter incident in Rocky Bottom, South Carolina; New Orleans

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 2 (II), 6/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

would just move into a town and stay for two or three weeks. B: Who were these women? A: One was Judith Moyers, Bill Moyers' wife. She ended up in New Orleans. I think that Lindy Boggs, Mrs. Hale Boggs--the congressman's wife from Louisiana--went

Oral history transcript, Joe Robertson, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

an interview with him. R: You've interviewed him. G: Yes. [Interruption] G: You were saying when Henry Wallace and New Deal agriculture people started the committee-- 6 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT

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

to a movie, but sometimes I would go with women. There was a lot of intellectual fodder for us in those days. G: You mentioned reading books. Did you read many magazines in this period? J: There were weekly news magazines and sometimes to put myself

Oral history transcript, Kathy Teague and Weeze Pollei Shumate, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

on the payroll. G: Just brand new then. I see. What had his background been? What was his professional experience? T: Whose? G: Mr. Teague's. T: He flew for Herman Heap here. G: Herman Heap? I see. T: And Continental Gas Pipeline in Houston, quite
(then) belonging to Emil Hartmann; the search for the plane; waiting for news of the wreck at the Teague home; events leading up to the plane's departure from Austin; Harold Teague's conversation with Homer Thornberry regarding the flight; the layout of the plane's

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 37 (XXXVII), 11/14/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

opposed the Penn-Central merger. (Long pause) In 1964 it would appear that the President had a meeting--this would be July of 1964--with Saunders and [Alfred E.] Perlman who was the other major businessman involved in this. G: President of the New York

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 4 (IV), 12/4/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1985 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3, Side 1 G: Let me start with one note that I have from last time that you were going to talk about
O'Brien's discussion with Joseph Kennedy about the New Frontier program; leadership in the House of Representatives before and after Sam Rayburn's death; the Trade Expansion Act of 1962; a private-sector public-relations operation led by Howard

Oral history transcript, Francis C. Turner, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

in Washington, D.C. area, a subway; same in Newark, New Jersey, and Philadelphia, and Chicago, and San Francisco, and Los Angeles, New York, places like that. But the Highway Trust Fund was a solemn covenant, in my opinion. It was made between the people

Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in the South didn't have the financial base in the early days to support it. So I got Reverend Kilgore involved, who was up at the Friendship Baptist Church in New York; Gardiner Taylor in Brooklyn; and others, so that this thing had some financial base

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: ARTHUR KRIM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Krim's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 G: Shall we start with that October weekend at the Ranch? K: Yes. I guess a day or two after the President returned to the Ranch following
Morrissey nomination; LBJ’s staff; 1965 bombing halt in Vietnam; intelligence gathering in Latin America by the CIA and FBI; New York politics; dinner for Princess Margaret, including a guest with a criminal record; a ride in August Busch’s plane; buying out

Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the service and started as a news correspondent here at the National Press Building. That was June 12, 1944. F: That was right at D-Day in Normandy, wasn't it? M: That's right, that's right. She was nine days old when I started working here in the Press

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