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Oral history transcript, Abe Fortas, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Fortas -- 20 I know that, going back to the Truman era, that you had been a member of the Committee for National Health, working towards some kind of a national medical program which, of course, culminated during the Johnson
Oral history transcript, Logan Wilson, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , such as the Fund for the Republic, agencies of the Ford Foundation, Carnegie Foundation, various national education boards, and author of several books. W: That's all correct. M: Now I'd like to get into this section about your relationship with kYndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 3 (III), 8/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: WILLIAM J. JORDEN INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Ambassador Jorden's residence, McLean, Virginia Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: McGeorge Bundy was on the original public affairs committee that was dealing with Vietnam, I think
  • McGeorge Bundy and the public affairs committee; Bill Moyers; press coverage of Vietnam; Dan Duc Khoi; Bui Diem; improving methods for transmitting news; American journalists from other countries; Morley Safer and Mike Wallace; Vietnam Psychological
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 2 (II), 12/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Weber -- II -- 4 people in the House Office Building on that day. We got very quickly, because of Mr. Johnson being a member of a Naval Affairs Committee, the true story and extent of our
  • ; Colonel Sam Anderson; author Robert Caro's writings about LBJ; Sam Rayburn's campaign to call congressmen who were serving in the military back to Congress; LBJ's schedule after returning from war and his work on the House Naval Affairs Committee; Weber's
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the Kennedy-Johnson years to conduct an intelligent debate about fiscal policy from a national standpoint. I mean, there \A!as a lot of educational work done and less of a tendency to consider a deficit, per se, bad. [There was] more seemed to me
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 34 (XXXIV), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Ginsburg and Dick Neustadt thought that the Wirtz and Reynolds--and the guy that was the head of the National Mediation Board, a guy named Howard Gamser--none of three of those individuals liked the guideposts and wanted to get rid of them, and they both
Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • everybody at the national level their jobs that was of any 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
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the National Youth Administration in 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 Johnson
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 1 (I), April 1963, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • the Congressman’s attention to? K: Oh, yes, there were a number of them, especially in agriculture. In those days, Mr. Kleberg was on the House Agricultural Committee, headed by Marvin Jones. G: How about veterans legislation? K: That’s one of the bills that I
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
  • Meeting with LBJ as a debate coach in Houston; working for LBJ on Congressman Kleberg's staff; LBJ's influence on Kleberg; National Youth Administration; first campaign for Congress; contacts with FDR; LBJ's campaign techniques
Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 2 (II), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , that Johnson and other like you didn't goad the South [soJ that they pushed a little ahead of the rest of the nation in some ways, so that the remainder of the nation is playing catch-up. K: I suspect you may be right, and when you get into the situation
Oral history transcript, Jesse Curry, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ; they gave us a free hand. Now I've ~nstructed in numerous police schools throughout the nation. I \vas also chairman of the planninCl committee for the Law Enforcement Institute of the Southwest legal Foundation,which is conducted at SMU, and I've taught
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • President was involved during that period. R: Well, in the first place, he was kept fully informed about everything that was happening in Viet Nam.He attended the National Security Council meetings and Cabinet meetings, and he had a State Department
Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 2 (II), 5/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the reserves, when I say reserves I'm including the National Guard, I'm talking about reserves with a small "r," tend to attract in many areas a lot of college boys who go in as enlisted men and end up with their eyes open, doing jobs such as driving a truck
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 5 (V), 10/30/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • remember any of these mishaps that were reported? They had trouble with the fountain, apparently. (Interruption) (Apparently a question about the JFK assassination was asked at this point, off tape.) H: I recall my taxi coming from National Airport
Oral history transcript, Joseph Palmer II, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to try to make them more effective. M: Some of the critics of Hr. Johnson's foreign policy at the time you were appointed said that your appointment was a victory over those more active advocates of African nationalism. Do you think that was a fair
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • called them, who was one of the workers that kind of spoke for them, kind of a committee spokesman, a group spokesman . This girl, Preble Tadlock, I remember was such a person . When we found out Mrs . Roosevelt was coming down there, we wanted her
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
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Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • activities, I was the chairman of the committee that selected the Thayer Award recipient each year at West Point. And in that year I was chairman--I had been chairman the previous year, too--we selected General MacArthur as the recipient. On this trip I
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 45 (XLV), 5/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . And [Warren] Magnuson wanted to go with the bill and the transportation committee in the House--I guess it was [Chet] Holifield, I think--wanted to go with the bill. Bugas and Markley came in to see me with testimony that totally opposed the bill. And I said
Oral history transcript, Louise Hermey Stanford, interview 1 (I), 9/6/1989, by Sybil Jackson (Item)
  • a little bit about your background in civil rights, particularly how you became involved with SNCC [Student National (formerly Nonviolent) Coordinating Committee]. S: I was a college student at Drew University in New Jersey and was in the class of 1964
  • ; the joining of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to form the Council of Federated
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Shriver -- III -- 4 mine was something that came to the forefront of my head right away. Consequently, I saw the Job Corps as an opportunity to do nationally what I
Oral history transcript, A. Scheffer Lang, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in railroads? L: Yes, we do. M: Then what is your relationship to the National Transportation Safety Board? L: Well, our relationship to the Safety Board is essentially the same as LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • Biographical information; Robert C. Wood; HUD development; formation of DOT; urban mass transit; transportation safety; National Transportation Safety Board; role in relationship to railroads; threatened national railroad strike; poor communication
Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: DOUGLAS PIKE INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Pike's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Would you recount how you came to enter government service? P: I worked for the United Nations in Korea during the Korean War and then came
Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : INTERVIEWEE: MICHAEL FORRESTAL INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Forrestal's .office, Shearman and Sterling, 53 Wall Street, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: You're Michael Forrestal. You were a Far Eastern expert with the National Security
  • Chairman Intergovernmental Coordinating Committee on Vietnam in March 1964; his duty to brief VP on Far East; after T.G. massacre in 1961 had two jobs: to dredge information from Ambassador Averell Harriman and to brief Congress and VP; painful
Oral history transcript, James Cain, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the National Advisory Committee to the Selective Service, for the selection of doctors, dentists, and allied medical personnel. He did put me on that. M: Was this while he was President? C: I believe this was shortly after he became President. The previous
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • as a research assistant to Professor Clair Wilcox, an economist at Swarthmore, ,,,ho was doing a study for the Temporary National Economic Committee. I spent the whole year working on a monograph that was subsequently published by the Temporary National
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in particular . One other point about this . Where did the idea of the National Transportation Safety Board come in? B : The NTSB was a development in the course of the legislative process ; I'm not sure who came up with that particular name, but it became
  • of the Department of Transportation; Urban Mass Transit; Maritime Administration; National Transportation Safety Board; appointment as Secretary and confirmation; reflections on LBJ; domestic legislative achievements; international relations; effects of Vietnam War
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh were doing wrong and then getting out before anything else could happen. At any rate, Dick said there was that committee. But he also said there was this thing they were trying to put together. quite sure what
Oral history transcript, Robert A. Levine, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • guess dating back to 1965, RPP&E had been charged with construction of the so-called Five Year Plan or the National Anti-Poverty Plan and in the incorporation of the budget process within your division as well. L: No. Did these two have any relation
Oral history transcript, Leo Gehrig, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --chairperson for the advisory committee for the Peace Corps. While I did not have direct involvement with him, I know that he LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 4 (IV), 1/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • view of that? N: That is not my view. My view is that it is important that our military establishment be responsive to the will of the president and the national security council. In fact I can think of nothing more important than that the military
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 11 (XI), 2/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and also all concepts of really what good government called for. The District Committee tried to design the highway system, part of which would have had a throughway running underneath the C & O Canal along the Potomac, which would have been quite
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ] from the time Mr. Johnson took office until the summer of 1966. B: Until the end of September of 1966. M: Then you came back as ambassador to the United Nations for a very short period. B: A period of four months beginning--I thought
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it had a civil rights aspect to it as well. We were still struggling with manpower training. We really didn't come to the National Alliance for Businessmen until the following year, if I'm right. I don't remember, 1968. B: You launched it in 1968. C
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • over that period of time. While Vice President he followed foreign affairs very closely and traveled to foreign countries a great deal. He sat with us in the National Security Council and sat with us in the Cabinet, and I had many informal talks
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • through. I indicated what happened with the John Gardner task force. The child development task force of 1966, which was chaired by Dr. Joseph Hunt from the University of Illinois, had perhaps the top fifteen people in the nation in child development
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the Hous e when he was on the N: ~\ayy He never gave up. Watchdog Committee:? Well, he ?:.::: me to work on it. I was supposed to be a go-between between r.ci:::: and the investigators. for awhile. We worked down in the Navy It was understood
  • became staunch friends; Navy Watchdog Committee; LBJ never expressed a preference for a candidate before a primary.
Oral history transcript, Lester D. Johnson, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • --arise? J: Well, the Bureau of the Budget at the request of the President set up a committee composed of a representative of the Bureau of the Budget, Customs, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • on reorganization; O'Connell Committee survey on baggage handling problem; elimination of 53 political appointees in Customs
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , was how the effort was going to be financed. I very clearly recollect the discussions within the commission [the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders] as to what we were going to do about it. The best idea that arose, at least I thought so
  • Financing the recommendations of the National Advisory Commission of Civil Disorders with the fiscal dividend; the rush to release the Commission's report; communication between Ginsburg and Joe Califano; John Lindsay's political aspirations
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • on those interviews and came to certain insights which he passed along to the British about them. So that in a way the guerrilla warfare and vulnerability to it was part of the potential pathology of developing nations. I followed the work being done
  • ; the Quayle Report; North Vietnamese and South Vietnamese nationalism; the domino theory in Southeast Asia; Thailand's importance; the likelihood of China expanding into Southeast Asia in the early 1960's; Alexei Kosygin's 1965 trip to Hanoi; the major split
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 3 (III), 12/11/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , they of our nondiscriminatory the same ones. M: The African K: The Africans. And so I think policy go as far as, nations? doesn't South Africa, attribute on one we can do. the difference in Viet objectives. really States South Africa do
  • [Description is for all three Katzenbach interviews] LBJ's focus on military waste while on Preparedness Subcommittee; LBJ's concern with constitutional authority for his powers as vice president; LBJ and the PCEEO; Space Committee; JFK and LBJ