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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

better. The main issues were, how involved we would get with federal troops or with federalizing the National Guard or with even sending anybody out there; 2) great concern about the judgment of the lieutenant governor, [Glenn M.] Anderson; 3) Pat Brown

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, we had one litmus test. I mean, we wanted qualified people, but we wanted people who would stand with us on civil rights. And in that connection we thought the ABA, American Bar Association, committee was by and large so tilted toward what you'd I

Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

, if I may inject this fact, I was in Corpus Christi on a brief vacation and received a wire from the President which said he had been named state director of the National Youth Administration and: me and with me in that organization? days." "Would you
National Youth Administration (U.S.)

Oral history transcript, Manuel Cohen, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: There was no fight. M: It was a matter of simple passage? C: It was something that was worked out with the industry, and there was no fight. So that it was just a question of finding sufficient legislative time to consider the bill in the respective committees

Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 2 (II), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

1968, I would say. He appointed Russ Wiggins, James Russell Wiggins, who was editor of the Post, ambassador to the United Nations, I think in the fall of 1968, wasn't it? G: I believe that's correct. K: And Wiggins had been really a tower

Oral history transcript, Ann Oppenheimer Hamilton, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in particular about the roles that any of them played. Norbert Schlei, for example, has been identified as a member of the drafting committee. H: Yes. Some of these people were much more actively involved than others as I perceived it. The big names here

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

events casting their shadow before, and that is a minimum wage bill was proposed. Texas was a conservative state. Lyndon voted to report the minimum wage out of committee. Minimum wage, incidentally, was twenty-five cents an hour at that time. There were
Washington, D.C. friendships with people such as Grace Tully, Tom Corcoran, Jim Rowe and Abe and Carol Fortas; arguments for building the dams on the lower Colorado River; LBJ's admiration for FDR; LBJ's appointment to the Naval Affairs Committee

Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of State--which was twice in '59 and '60 on the State Department Appropriation Bill. He was the chairman of the subcommittee of the Senate's Appropriation Committee, that handled that particular bill. that, as well as the Foreign Aid Bill. Those two

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 8 (VIII), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and we couldn't get through to get into Maryland because the National Guard had been called out and everything, every circle, every entrance was barricaded and blocked off. I finally showed them identification and said I worked up in the Senate and we

Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)

: No, it doesn't. P: Is it spelled the way it sounds? F: Yes, it is. I can supply you with some background informatio n on that if you wish. In fact, there is a fair amount of it in the standard testimonies before the various committees. P: How would 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, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the National Youth Administration for Texas, and LBJ told me later that after he got hi s appointment he went down to the dining room there in the house and C. N. Avery tapped him on the shoulder and said, "I've got a friend by the name of Tony Ziegler

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 12 (XII), 10/29/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

than we moved it in the House. We finally had it out of committee and maybe even out of the Senate at the time King was assassinated. We couldn't get it out of the Judiciary Committee. Manny Celler was the chairman of that committee. He had a district

Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in either time or place, and was it within the sphere of our national interests? R: I think we significantly underestimated the difficulty of what we were trying to do. We significantly underestimated the difficulty that arises from the fact

Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

thought as a manner of planning--to assist in planning--the faculty committees and the administration, location of buildings, maximum usage of the land--At that time we had the Brooks, Barr, Graeber, and White firm who were doing that. Both Mr. Brooks

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was concerned, lasted from the time he became president, when you were national security adviser, until you resigned in December of 1965 and left in what, February of 1966? B: The end of February, 1966. M: The end of February. One of the most frequent
giving LBJ advice that he did not like; Bundy's growing job fatigue by 1965; the work of national security advisers for JFK vs. LBJ; LBJ's diplomacy toward Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Charles de Gaulle; the importance of cabinet members vs. White House staff

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 7 (VII), 1/18/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Jenkins ---vII -- 3 foreign relations matters. He was not on that committee

Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in a lot of these difficulties we receive the assist~~ce pria~ions of the ?olice. This is in that testimony of one of the appro- hearings by one of the secretaries of the Dillon Committee, in LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, John Brooks Casparis, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or--I'd have to look at some of my records outside. But it was between 1948 and 1950, why, I had become interested in unionism and finally got to be a negotiator on the union's national bargaining committee that helped write the contract for Western

Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

could have more and more practice, and gets the editor of a local paper to contribute money--and this in the midst of a national depression--that in itself would defeat such a project unless it were conceived of and executed by Lyndon Johnson. So I put

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

is on the President's mind that day or that week, as to \vhether to take it for the President. If there is doubt in his mind as to whether or not to go directly to the President, and if for example this happens to be a week of a grave national security crisis

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

basis in 1954. M: How did you know Arthur Burns? P: Through professional contact. My thesis was published as a paper in one of the volumes that the National Bureau had published four or five years earlier. I had met him at meetings and so
Biographical information; Arthur Burns; Committee for Economic Development; Herbert Stein; Howard Myers; Ted Yntema; Walter Heller; Brookings Institute; relationship with LBJ; termination of consultantship; development of new economic theory; Paul

Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, and had a great interest of the problems of national security . Consequently, it's not surprising that a number of them should have come to Washington in positions of one kind or another . Of course, after the first one arrives he kind of invites

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to his wife, so it was a combination of patronage and nepotism, I guess. But I came back as Chief Counsel to the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress that Senator Monroney chaired and was there for two years until our bill passed the Senate
; LBJ’s efforts to get bills through Congress; Secretary Freeman and Secretary Udall resented staff arrangement; Udall’s proposal to use Antiquities Act to acquire land for national monuments; Secret Service protection legislation for Presidential

Oral history transcript, Willard J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

: Is that possible? Well, traditionally and for as long as I have been in the Coast Guard and I guess for almost all of its history the Coast Guard has become a part of the Navy in times of national emergency or when the President directs it. But the nature of our
; maintaining aids to navigation system; license all Merchant Marines Personnel; four programs of marine safety area; private recreational craft; Maritime Administration; investigating accidents; National Transportation Safety Board; LBJ’s personal interest

Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, brings into the gross national product. That is no measure to me of the importance of air transportation, because if we have a significant deterioration in the effectiveness of the system, the impact on the GNP [Gross National Product] will be far

Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for what he had done for the nation and for him, et cetera, over there . Did the President ever talk to you about the possibility of dropping Vice President Johnson? 0: No, never . wouldn't it? Sometimes that would be in the papers or something, I don't

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

was twenty-nine years of age. I have often thought. that as today in a federal agency it is essential to have a woman executive and a black executive, so in the National Youth Administration, it was essential to have a young executive. symbol of youth. I
National Youth Administration (U.S.)

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

not an Arkansan on that sort of thing, he's a national politician on that? A: He's a national politician. He brings along a lot of unsophisticated elements in his approach to these problems. But he's pretty savvy and obviously works very hard, and knows
Contact with LBJ; assassination; tax issues; Wilbur Mills; comparing JFK and LBJ; CEA; War on Poverty; committee on Economic Impact of Defense and Disarmament; procedures; agriculture issues; 1964 campaign; Walter Heller; Wright Patman; LBJ's

Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on the staff and I had worked with him a year or two before on the consumer message; Lampman was in on that. Lampman, of course, had the reputation of doing the poverty studies in the late fifties for the Senate committee. Or was it a joint committee? LBJ

Oral history transcript, Will R. Rogers, interview 1 (I), 10/9/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

fry. It ~JaS the whole entire Tenth Congressional District; it wasn't Bastrop at all; it was the whole entire district for Lyndon Johnson. hav2 the fishfry in And so we organized and decided to Bast~op. They made me chairman of the committee

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 39 (XXXIX), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: In any case, this was all in preparation for a meeting with the bipartisan [congressional] leadership and the heads of these committees. I'm not sure it was bipartisan. Let me just look here. Yes, it was. Johnson was also concerned that, I think, Congress

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

that add a card to use in this area? A: Well, you see, Congress is the one that has a great deal of power so far as trade is concerned. The Bulgarians were especially anxious to get the most-favored nation status which they were constantly wanting

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

Presidential message that included in it, among other things, the suggestion that a non-proliferation treaty be worked toward. I think this was in the 1964 Presidential message. F: I have it here. It's a message from President Johnson to the eighteen-nation
1964 Presidential message to 18 nation Disarmament Commission; Pastore resolution; William Foster; MFL; Walt Rostow; Aleksei A. Roshchin; George Bunn; Sam DePalma; Tsoraphin; Ambassador Swidbert Schnippenkoetter; Ambassador Knappstein; Mr. Gromyko

Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

a committee which was actually called the Trueheart 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

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--and Symington--Symington was on the CIA committee in the Senate, and I think Cooper was too. They were getting all kind of briefings about what was going on in Vietnam, and they would come back and tell me, and they said, "My God, this thing is a thousand times

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in connection with the Preparedness Subcommittee of which he was chairman. I testified before him on many occasions. I got to know him in that sense of the word, which was not particulary intimately, but I did see enough of his work in the field of national

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

can't exactly remember when, Herbert and his brother, Charles Henderson. I believe they go back to NYA [National Youth Administration] days. He had talent and artistry. He had everything except just ordinary stability. I mean, sometimes he went off
problems of the South; Clark Foreman; a new congressman's wife's duty to call on the wives of her husband's delegation, committee chair, cabinet and Court members; visiting Joseph Edward Davies at Tregaron; LBJ helping Jewish people from Germany in the late

Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 2 (II), 11/25/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

administered by this agency. G: So Mr. Goodell is not really an enemy at all. He would therefore find himself in opposition to the members of his own party and on that committee. H: Yes. G: Do you have any knowledge at all of the Shriver-Adam Clayton

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

Stabilization Conservation Service. The farmer committees system--came out of the triple A. I'll tell you another person I'd put on that list--the history of the whole thing with a lot of papers--was Wayne Rasmusen. Now have you met that man? G: Yes. We have

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