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Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , the guys who covered the Congress were very much interested in technical virtuosity. This used to infuriate the liberal reformists, used to drive them out of their minds. [Senator Joseph] Joe Clark wanted the press to be interested in issues and things like
Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • , and I went back to Houston. I went back to Houston and went to work on the Houston Press. B: I see. S: I couldn't get on the Post, and I was on the Press when I interviewed Clark Gable, you were talking about. He came there with a stock company
  • 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, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to express my opinions on it. The President didn't hire me for that. He had [Joseph] Califano, who would express himself 18 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
  • of the war and the information and advice he was receiving; how LBJ obtained information; LBJ's secrecy and relationship with the press; LBJ's travel planning; LBJ's opinion of William McChesney Martin; Joseph Swidler as head of the Federal Power Commission
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1977 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH LAITIN INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Laitin's residence in Bethesda, Maryland Tape 1 of 2 L: We never got into the [subject of the] Pope in New York. G: Okay. Do you want to take that up? L: Yes
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  • Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Joseph Laitin
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • And of course Clark Clifford who I would in the saoe class with Fortas in terms of his legal acuity t~at but he was available and he had available.to him some he could call on--plus, as I say, the first-rate Justice Depari:=e~t:. F: When
  • of politics in the CAB; the Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific cases; Watts riots and Joseph A. Califano Jr., Leroy Collins, Governor Brown, and Ramsey Clark; LBJ's skill at using events like Selma and Watts to achieve legislative goals; LBJ uses civil rights
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview S-I, 6/30/1988, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • : And going to San Francisco and down to Los Angeles, and trying to find ways to speed production of aircraft and ships. C: Basically, we were there, we were running from San Diego to Seattle, attached to Forrestal's office with Dr. [Joseph] Barker, who
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Harriman. G: I guess Harriman especially had had a good deal of experience with the Soviet Union. I wonder if this was a factor. B: Well, any president, when they're looking for a personal envoy, will tend to go to the Averell Harrimans or the Clark
Oral history transcript, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/8/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Samuel V. Merrick, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of activities surrounding it, the programs surrounding it. The fact [is] that I got into the manpower business when I was working for the Senate, specifically Senator [Joseph] Clark, who was the first chairman of what was then the Subcommittee on Manpower
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • Post, whom we knew first as Mrs. Joseph Davies, and then, as far as I was concerned it seems fairly briefly, as Mrs. Herbert May. Wasn't that the name of her last husband? M: I don't know. 11 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh - 35 charged were mere outgrowths of the tax case. Katzenbach didn't necessarily want Bittman to prosecute the case. Ramsey Clark, who was Deputy Attorney General, felt he was in no position
Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Martin King, Ralph Abernathy, Whitney Young, Joseph Rauh. I can think of about fifty or sixty outstanding, nationally known civil rights leaders who were here, Roy Wilkins and all that gang. But the problem with the police came about after we had had
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • condemning [Joseph] McCarthy, and old man Hunt loved McCarthy. G: But I never brought it up. Do you recall his role in, say, the 1960 campaign as, let's say, a messenger between your brother and Hunt, and Hunt urging . • • ? I believe he urged your brother
Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • something, he did cultivate the people that could help him. CJD: Does that m.ake sense to you? Well I think there in the Interior with Tex and Abe and the rest of them- - VFD: And Clark Foreman. CJD: - -they were as enthusiastic about it as Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXIX -- 8 But back at home, oh, life was just full of interesting things going on. I'd go to the ballet and we went to dinner at Altavene Clark's. She was an old friend of Lyndon's
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • turned the freezer. His place was a mecca, a gathering place, for Texans It was a place where you were likely to see Sam Rayburn, where people were likely to bring their kids, where if there was anybody interesting in town--Ed Clark or anybody--he'd
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with Mr. Johnson--people like Clark Clifford and Averell Harriman. Do you know if Mr. Johnson became acquainted with them in those days? M: I don't have any actual personal knowledge. I am quite certain LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the House of Repre­ sentatives . He didn't work hard at his job . He was .getting a lot of publicity from his glamour [as a] senator . bloc . He was in the liberal-­ He voted with Senator [Joseph S .] Clark, Paul Douglas and what Johnson considered
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , understood that the Court fight was only the rationalization for a general revolt against what was considered by [Farley?] Wheeler and Garner and [Joseph] O'Mahoney to be a threat to their own power. F: This was the first thing you could get a grip
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • through, I think, Wisconsin, up in that area, that certainly did fuel Speaker Rayburn's anger. He endorsed [Joseph] McCarthy, and said they were engaged in the same purpose, seeking to purge the subversives and the disloyal from the government, and he
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • bother him, do you think? J: To some extent, yes. I remember that his relations with [Senator Joseph] Clark were not close. I do not think it disturbed his relations with [Senator Albert] Gore. Of course, he did run the Senate with a pretty dictatorial
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 2 (II), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , Mr. Joseph Dodge, whom I had known at the Pentagon through his assistance to the Army in connection with the Japanese and Korean financial matters. As a result of that, we had been professionally associated. He called me, asked me to come over
Oral history transcript, Sidney P. Marland, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • had·,a telephone call in my office in Pittsburgh, and my secretary came in and said, "Mr. Joseph Califano wants to speak to you." said, "I think he's in Washington. I said, "Who is he?" And she It's a long distance call." I said, "Well, I guess I
Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 2 (II), 3/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : During that period somewhere there was a long memo from George Ball that got leaked to Joseph Alsop as I recall, where he expressed grave reservations about the whole business. Was there a clear strategic dissent in the Department as early as that period
Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Intelligence, and a very famous name happened to be my boss, Bruce Clark, Jr., the son of General Bruce Clark, who's a well known figure in the army and I believe his last position was head of army ground forces at Fort Monroe, something of that nature. Bruce
  • Hagerty’s military and intelligence background; 6/17/53 uprisings in East Germany; Joseph Stalin’s death and replacement by Nikita Khrushchev; the Russian Foreign Area Specialist Training program; estimating Russian intentions and capabilities while
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • up my wife and children and drive them cross-country to bring them back to Washington. When we were going through the city of Rapid City, South Dakota, Thursday, the 24th of August, and we stopped at a signal on St. Joseph Street. M: You must have
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a great friend of Ed Clark's, a great friend of Jake Pickle's and many other people, I got to know Mr. Johnson. He was looking for help then and he would take on most anybody. In my particular town of Longview, we had a newspaper that was edited by a man
Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and [Joseph] Clark took over chairmanship of the committee. G: Was he sympathetic? M: Yes, Clark was a patrician, you know. He was sympathetic as a part of his duty. Can I describe it that way? G: Who else on the Senate side? M: Oh, God, the Senate
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 7 (VII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the Department of Justice; why the bureaus were separate; whose idea it was to merge the bureaus under Justice; HEW's, Treasury's, and Justice's response to the proposal; why the bureaus were not merged under the FBI; Joseph Califano's expectation of support
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 9 (IX), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • role, in addition, that had started on February 10, 1967. On that day, I was called to [Joseph] Califano's office along with Wilfred Rommel, the assistant director of the Bureau of the Budget in charge of legislative reference. And we were told
Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to do this." At that time it was Ramsey Clark--the 'bull butterfly,' as Mr. Hoover used to call him. Ramsey next sent around a memorandum instructing us to put a wiretap on the South Vietnamese Embassy, and we did, following the President's instructions
Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . His name was Herald R. Clark, and he was dean of the College of Business. The first name is like the herald of the morn, and I think this is appropriate also, because he was that type of an influence in my life. Herald R. Clark was a very interesting
  • Califano, Joseph A., Jr., 1931-
Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Jersey hadn't committed at that time? RH: No. That was in 1959, and there was a great pull for Kennedy here through Ambassador Joseph Kennedy, who was very friendly with Mayor John V. Kenny. There was a sentimental attachment to John F. Kennedy
  • Meeting LBJ in 1959; Governor of New Jersey, 1961; LBJ and Kosygin held a meeting at Glassboro State College; Kosygin’s daughter, Dr. Gvishiana, joined Lady Bird, Lynda and Mrs. Hughes for lunch at Island Beach; Ramsey Clark; candidates, 1966-1968
  • Hughes, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1909-
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • with the Senator when we were sweating out who was going to be the vice president that morning after the presidential nomination. Of course, we didn't get it. M: Did the Senator think that he was a possible choice? Z: Yes. I think he did. I mean, Clark
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • members and things like that, the Speaker told me that he would throw in--the Speaker being behind him. If I start recalling the different instances--well, I will recall one: Tom Clark. Of course he was appointed head of the antitrust division
Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • an interesting point. H: This gets into something that's none of my business; but on the other hand you see I'm always in a terrible fix. since he was graduated from high school. I've known Ramsey Clark His father sent him to me when he graduated from high
  • Califano, Joseph A., Jr., 1931-
  • Contacts with LBJ; LBJ’s role in Selective Service Acts in 1940-1950; Presidential cooperation; draft card burning; Burke Marshall Commission; Ramsey and Tom Clark; Ann Arbor sit-in; problem over prosecution; Professor Shea; Joe Califano; Sherman
Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • as VP; Barefoot Sanders; Ramsey Clark; Mitchell liaison on White House staff; selecting African Americans for governmental positions; Samuel Jackson; LBJ as a victim of a kind of newspaper conspiracy; LBJ’s views of demonstrations; Floyd McKissick gate
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Senator Joseph Clark introduced a sense-of-the-Congress resolution to limit the air war over North Vietnam and also to limit the number of American troops. O: Yes, he used early on in that session an authorization or appropriation, I guess, to see if he
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • lived that he probably could have been a great force for Johnson in his bid for the In 1960, as you will recall, Governor [John Joseph] Hickey presidency. was a Johnson delegate but chairman of the Wyoming delegation. But on the first ballot in Los
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • swing with Athens and Frankston and Jacksonville, Rusk, Nacogdoches, Lufkin, and finishing in St. Augustine, that's Ed Clark's hometown, you know. I'm sure Ed was represented well there. Hemphill and Jasper and Woodville, Livingston, Huntsville. Whenever