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

teaching post, which was at Williams College, early in 1963. In the late fall of 1962, the directorship of the Agency for International Development became vacant. President Kennedy, after surveying the problems, decided that the right man to put

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 3 (III), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

is the beginning of Mr. Johnson's presidency. We had brought you over then to his offices following the news of the assassination. Did you take part at all in the reception of Mr. Johnson when he came in? Where did he go when he came in, did he get in any
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

[NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McGiffert -- I -- 6 McG: No. You remember they had had some trouble during the previous evening. The news of the assassination, I would guess, came
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

. So I started up the ramp--I guess it must have been half-time--looking for a friend. I met Lyndon coming down the ramp alone. F: Was he a congressman by then? Was he a new congressman? . C: He had just been sworn in. I guess one reason that I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

would assume you heard of the news of the assassina- tion over the radio, or did someone phone you? H: Oh no, I was in that planeload of cabinet officers going over the Pacific. You see there were seven of us who were members of that Japan-U.S. Trade
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

conservative man. thought probably he was more of a moderate than Dick Kleberg. I think he supported practically all of the Roosevelt New Deal program. I supported a good deal of it. too much. Relief spending got to be inefficient and The CCC camps, a good
Biographical information; LBJ; heart attack; LBJ’s capacity for friendship; FDR New Deal program; support for LBJ in 1960; Sam Rayburn; lobbyist; Bobby Baker; JFK’s New Frontier program; civil rights; education; Vietnam; civilian control of military

Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of him was] reading in the Dallas [Morning] News that he had been appointed NYA director for Texas. It surprised me a bit because a few weeks or a few days before I had read that a fellow from Port Arthur or Corpus [Christi] somewhere down there, had
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

survived that test. \Vhen we went into that series of conventions, we had control of the majority of the delegates. That was the convention in which Price Daniel took over as governor and his Executive Committee was elected. Some of the members of the new
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

until we had been there about a year. G: Anything about the operation of the Ranch when you moved there that you thought was significant? Was it in need of a new manager? M: Well, perhaps they didn't have the time or the money to spend on the cattle
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert Taft, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was fairly new still, and as we're finding out, I think, in the Nixon Administration, the liaison between Congress and the White LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jose Joaquin Trejos, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the new school of arts and sciences, call it Letras, from 1957 to 1960. In 1965, I was called Escuela de Ciencias y to be a candidate. I was proposed as a pre-candidate and then elected as the candidate for the Unification Party, which
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

owed to Hennan Welker would cease to exist when Herman Welker left the Senate. So it was .a whole new situation, a whole new ball game, one might say. Because it was between two men, Herman Welker and Wayne Morse; one of them had befriended me
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 2 (II), 9/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

off last time with Johnson coming into the White House and those early days, I don't suppose it made any great difference in your life in the Senate except that you did have a new President. And things were a bit torn up at that time. T: Well, when I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 6 (VI), 4/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

way or another to make it. So Janice, a kid that age, she wanted to go, and we didn't have time to say no. She went along and we just had to drive much faster than I like to drive. But it was a new Mercury and no problems, sailed right on. G
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

]--but who ever raised the price on New Year's Eve that year sent the President through the overhead, ruined my weekend. G: Is that right? C: Well, he was at the Ranch. We'll get to that. He was at the Ranch; he read it on the ticker and we went to war
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 31 (XXXI), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to build something called New Towns in Town here in Washington and this came late in the administration. 1968. Have you come across any of that? B: We came across it (inaudible). G: Yes. C: There's a book on that program I've got somewhere
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 3/8/1969, by Jack Valenti and Robert L. Hardesty (Item)

of the hanJ dutie• that were beiJls pre•eed down upon u• who were around the new Pre•ident. JOHNSON: What we wanted to do for the country i• what we did. It wa• that lim.ple. I r-lly wanted LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James E. Chudars, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? C: No. These were brand new. There was very little helicopter flying at that point. They had training classes, but there weren't any units. There were some R-4s that were sent out to China. They did some things, but they weren't too effective
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Harry Nachlin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

you, and it'd be too messy, so we'll give you a few minutes, and everybody go to the corner of So-and-So and So-and-So, or out to the high school, or whatever, and they'd circle, and everybody would dash for the new place, and then they’d land
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

presented by President Truman, but to no avail. He could not be persuaded. F: The Chief Justice didn't want to leave his post, I presume. 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Will Wilson, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

went in the Army. Army until after World l~ar I was in various posts in the II, and came home in December of '45. I went back in the Attorney General's Office for a brief spell when Grover Sellers was attorney general of Texas; then resigned to run
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Edward Clark, interview S-I, 12/15/1986, by Robert Dallek (Item)

and Wirtz convinced FDR that the tax case was inspired by anti-New Dealers in Texas, that they were-(Interruption) C: He would hug up an enemy that didn't speak to him, shake hands, walk across the street. And a lot of them he won back were very much
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Georgia Cammack Edgeworth, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, the southwest corner of the square, and they did not build the new courthouse until 1916. I believe it was about September 1916 they moved into the new courthouse. G: I wonder if LBJ's father, Sam Ealy Johnson, had anything to do with the moving
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

large town. His car was there. We started searching for him and found him. He was passed out in a ditch, not partly, dirty and mud allover him and so on. I didn't know what to think about him. Dorothy was also rather new; she'd only been working
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William B. Dale, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Drawing Rights and other major issues related to the reform of the International Nonetary System. It now has its successor, or continuation, in what's called the "Volcker Group." M: This is the new man who holds Deming's position. D: That's right. M
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ralph Dungan, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

."'NDml RAINES ~ Jom;so~ More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh L[Bl{z\RY ORAL HISTORY COLLECTWN Narrator Ralph Anthony Dlmgan . . l'ririccton:> . New Biographical information: .Jersey__Q.~ State
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

down. "The Rotunda, he said, "is right past the tunnel, rightpa st the underpass. back of the Capitol you turn right." and tried to ff nd it, and I went 11 In I did go down New Jersey and ~trai - ght ahead and went and went. finally walked al
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

would take a trip into New England. and we made six stops that day. It would be a one-day trip, I recall it very vividly. We went into Hartford, Connecticut, and Providence, Rhode Island, and Burlington, Vermont, and Portland, Maine; Manchester, New
1964 campaign structure/organization; Arthur Krim; one-day New England campaign trip; daisy commercial; Barry Goldwater; Mrs. Johnson’s campaign trip through the South; inner workings of the campaign; Ambassador John Bartlow Martin; campaign
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Antonio Carrillo-Flores, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

said, "All right, Mr. Senator." I went there. That's when I met Lady Bird. It was a very interesting meeting, because at the end it developed into some kind of polemic about the policies of the new administration in Mexico regarding foreign
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://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 9 the available foreign exchange; credit; the nature of their program to get new
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Allen J. Ellender, interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

a southerner for the presidency. Even with this new turn of his in the civil rights field the opposition could have always turned back on what he said in previous years, and, of course, that's what I concluded when he first announced, that he had little
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

, 1979 INTERVIEWEE: ALBERT C. HARZKE INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Harzke's residence, New Dime Box, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's see, you indicated that you came to the sub-college and finished your high school there-- H: Right. G
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of the race because I just kept talking about it all the time and making fun of him. You know, the press had a tendency to let that statement die, but I tried--and two or three others in the House--to keep it alive and I think we succeeded in having a new go
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and tell them, IIAll rightll--and he did do James Henry on the TV station the same way-"if you run one ad with him, you'll never run another ad in the Longview News and Journal." unpopular. Just such stuff as that. He was very In fact, I was trying
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

really never did understand what it was, There were a lot of them. Maybe thirty? It was supposed to be athletes who supported the athletic program and would help to get new athletes in to the school . G: I see . B: Yes, they could have
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 3 (III), 12/2/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. by no means unique in that attitude . Oral history is really fairly new, and we are just sort of relying on the intelligence of the future scholars to be well aware that that kind of circumstance does develop . And indeed I think perhaps the purpose

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to Gibb Gilchrist, I believe, who was the state highway engineer at that time, and sold him on it . G: Lyndon sold him on it ; I sat there and listened . I gather that Gilchrist was the sort of guy that would naturally be resistant to a new proposal
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 6 (VI), 5/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to be in there, had that New Deal streak, didn't want to scare off Texas, didn't want to scare away the majority of Texans who were not big liberals, but wanted to kind of encourage people to move slightly toward the more progressive side, but without I suspect any
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

record on that. we can make peace have at a previous get anybody It's on their to talk period-- assessment to get out of Viet did. back then very hard to do and a new administration we simply take any direct today six months, a ago? K

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