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Oral history transcript, Michael E. DeBakey, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, in the Department of Surgery as a full time member of the Department of Surgery at Tulane University with Dr. Alton Ochsner. M: And then where did you go from there? 0: I was there until 142-- M: You must have been in the Army. 0: --and then I went
Biographical information; time in New Orleans at Tulane University; studying in Europe; member of the Department of Surgery at Tulane; military service in 1942-1944 with the Surgeon General; post-war medical research program with the Veterans

Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Blundell. E: Jim Blundell--we would talk to them and then we would say, "Well, we'll see if they're in." Our little people that just walked in there had a time getting up there; they had to be pretty high on the list. But we had the drop-in people

Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Opportunity; the time is 2:30 on Wednesday, November 20, 1968. Mr. Harding, perhaps I should start out by asking how you first became acquainted with President Johnson. H: Well, the first personal contact that I had with President Johnson was in probably

Oral history transcript, Steve Martini, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to go up there and cut General Marshall's hair and General Arnold's ha i r and Secretary of War [Henry L.] Stimson, and Mr. Bundy, McGeorge Bundy's father, Mr. Ball, many of the big people who didn't have the time to come down to the regular barber shop

Oral history transcript, Clyde O. Martz, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

? M: That is correct. B: At any time in your career, have you had any direct political activity in the sense of open partisan campaigning? M: No active political activity. I have, of course, supported candidates LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

topic of interview: Date ___4_1_3_0_1_6_9______ Place ______________________ Length Tape I - 32 pages Tape index: Page or estimated time on tape Tape I - 1 Sub;ect(s) covered Biographical 2 Personal contact with Johnson; the Johnson technique 3

Oral history transcript, John Wildenthal, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

could have on it. G: Did you know anything about his friendship with LBJ then? W: Well, I had just picked up I don't know how much at the time. I found out at the law firm that Senator Wirtz was one of the strong people in carrying the ball

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 10 (X), 6/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

regional meetings that you held around the country in 1964. I think there were only half that many, perhaps, in 1960 when you traveled. You talked some about that assignment last time, but one thing I wanted you to elaborate on today. Was there a feeling
at regional campaign meetings, including the lack of campaign materials to distribute; speculation that O'Brien would replace John Bailey as chairman of the DNC; the likelihood that O'Brien would consider a Senate campaign of his own; O'Brien's time working

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Commission, I went to Washington, and I was a good friend of Charles Sparenberg. Sparenberg at that time was vice president of the university comptroller. A square-headed Dutchman if there ever was one. Great beer drinking, tough wonderful fellow. So terrible

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 B: Did you have the same sort of problems with Mr. Johnson's relations with the press during the campaign that you had before that that you were describing last time

Oral history transcript, Darrell Royal, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

on down through the years and still exists in some blacks’ minds today, and I was having a hard time convincing black student-athletes that we wanted them on the campus. And he said, “Well, let me call Mack Hannah, and let’s just meet out here 1 LBJ
at the White House; Bear Bryant; visiting the Ranch with Colonel Harold Byrd; LBJ’s death; LBJ’s leisure time; LBJ’s health; how Royal met LBJ.

Oral history transcript, Nelson M. Bortz, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

, Collegeville? B: Collegeville, Pennsylvania . M: In 1908, is that right? B: 1908 . I grew up in the town which at that time was slightly less than a thousand population, I guess . It derives its name from the fact that there is a small liberal arts

Oral history transcript, Lonnelle Aikman, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, does it? A: Oh yes, we have enormous photographic archives on everything, but there just were no pictures made of the White House because Presidents did not permit it. In fact, in the earlier times reporters had nothing. I can't remember right now

Oral history transcript, David W. Angevine, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

for the Kansas Association as its first employee; my title was assistant And I was also editor of l"iidwest r'junicipa1 Ut"ilities, the six-times-a-year publication. Then I worked also for a brief period of time, less than two years, for the U.S. Department

Oral history transcript, Edgar L. Ball, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- I -- 2 G: Who was involved, do you recall? B: Generally it was people like Sam Low, J. Edwin Smith, Chris Dixie, Bob Eckhardt, Arthur Combs. G: Was it largely Houston-based? B: Well, those are the ones I know and was working with at the time

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Cabinet approach--that this in terms of the modern realities is not the best use of the Cabinet either. I'm not faulting the Presidents I worked for not having the Eisenhower type Cabinet, because it seemed to me this was not efficient use of time. Yet

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Johnson when I was serving as law clerk for Justice [Hugo] Black on the Supreme Court. My parents were living in Washington at the time; my father was practicing law here. He had been a lifelong friend of Sam Rayburn's. B: Your father had been? W

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with many of those Jews and continued to be throughout his political career, while having a kind of amused, Texas view of Jews. I remember one time when I kept pushing Johnson to take up a bill that would achieve some immigration reform and let a lot

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the Pentagon to make sure everything was okay before I sent him over to, I think it was, Jack Valenti who ultimately interviewed him to give him the final okay. G: Let me ask you about the violence that summer. You talked about Watts last time but racial

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 57 (LVII), 12/12/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. As it turned out in this budget, because of the tax increase and everything else, we assumed the war would continue, for the first time. And that was creating a problem, and just the inability to predict what would happen in Vietnam, the lack of success of our

Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/12/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)

for four or five years we would find that at that time instead of deploying additional units, we merely change the units we deploy, take advantage of the research and development during that four-year period we would be deploying systems that were at least

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 4 (IV), 8/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. (Interruption) In answer to your question. In those final days in January, at the time the negotiations, I might say, were going on between Secretary Udall and the President--and I know DeVier Pierson was largely acting in the President's behalf in this matter

Oral history transcript, Jerry Voorhis, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

an outstanding job for young people. He was, with some of the rest of us, one of the strong supporters of many of the well-conceived New Deal measures that were at that time so vital, really, to the saving of the country, from our point of view at any rate

Oral history transcript, Ralph Moreland, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

and mother's guests for dinner. But I, must have been about eight or nine years old. thing to me except that there was company. at that time, It didn't mean any- (Laughter). I don't remember anything, really, about it. Mc: Well, then, when did you meet

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, 1969 INTERVIEWEE: STEPHEN POLLAK INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: The National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 B: We're in time now to 1967 when you became the presidential advisor on National Capital Affairs. I think I

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 4 (IV), 1/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

] Clifford's time it has had a chance to demonstrate how smoothly it could work and without being further changed. Mr. Clifford came in a year ago, and the transition was very smooth indeed, and the whole Department mobilized itself to his support; and I LBJ

Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

of Texas, attended the meeting and shook the then-Senator Johnson's hand. The meeting was very casual and he would have no reason to remember meeting me. The next time I shook Senator Johnson's hand was when he was a candidate for vice president

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Dick's father was living at the time that Dick Kleberg was elected to Congress. He was elected to fill an unexpired term in 1931 at the death of Harry M. Wurzbach, who happened to be a Republican, one of the few Republicans that Texas ever [elected

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

about the President going to the Pope. As I recall it, there was a bill that was signed on Bedloe's Island on which the Statue of Liberty is located, and that was the reason that the President, by happy coincidence, was in New York at the same time

Oral history transcript, Livingston Biddle, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1989, by Louann Temple (Item)

are continually pressing him to make appointments to the advisory council and to act on the Heckscher report, and he seems as if he doesn't respond at that time and that there is not an interest on his part at that time. And I know that in March of that year he

Oral history transcript, Albert C. Harzke, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: --graduating, say, in 1925. H: 1926. G: 1926. 'And Lyndon Johnson did not arrive I guess until 1927. you ever see him before then? Or did Do you recall the first time you saw him? H: No, I never did see him before then. The only time, like I mentioned

Oral history transcript, William Dayton Maclay, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

departments had, and they felt that this would give the research in the department a better stature than it had had heretofore. B: You were in the Agricultural Research Service at the time, were you not? M: Yes, sir. B: Did you participate in the work

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Wilcox, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

for the agricultural committees and members of Congress on agricultural matters. During that period of time, I had a leave of absence one year with the Food and Agricultural Organization in Chile, and I made two trips to Africa and one to Latin America on a leave

Oral history transcript, Merrell Blackman, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

I left school then I just paid Miss Pirtle--my wife and myself helped make money to pay up my room and board for that two years . Then my folks moved to San Marcos in 1927 and 'I lived with them. a boarding house that time . We ran That's when

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

be done. But in due time--I've forgotten the date, but it was May by then. Was it May 11? Do you know the date? G: Let's see, I've got it. R: Or May 21? G: Well, let's see. The opening campaign speech was on May 3, according to my notes. He 1

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 9 (IX), 7/14/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

back to me. But that was the year, wasn't it? Of course, that was his last year in the White House. G: 1968. Was it around Christmas time that he asked you? Or maybe before that? R: I think, if I remember correctly--and if you know more than I

Oral history transcript, Morris Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, stayed on good relationship with him the whole time, except that I was on the other side. So, there wasn't any doubt in my mind that the election was a grab-off deal down there in Alice, wasn't it? G: Do you remember how you arrived at that conclusion

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 3 (III), 12/11/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

agreement get that, that if we got it And that prior to that to be the most important point to the South Vietnamese. our election. circumstances time, that of comment on the timing at all, since right without a bit came to. on the advice

Oral history transcript, Harold Howe II, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

of a high school. I did some work at the University of Cincinnati during that time. M: You were teacher of history in 1940 to 1941 at Darrow School in New York. H: In New Lebanon, New York. M: And then shortly after that you must have gone

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 6 (VI), 8/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Sanders was one, is that UpO::1 at the time that Congress adjourned and took its Well, in fact it was the end of Congress. No action was taken. When the Congress reconvened in early January, during the last two or thr...: .:».3 of the Johnson
that Connally was secretly helping Nixon; LBJ briefing Nixon, Humphrey and Wallace; phone communication on airplanes; a cancelled trip to Russia; transition among the staff; Stuart Udall renaming D.C. Stadium to Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium; the time

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