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Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 2 (II), 2/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

a significant change in Hanoi's position. I'm having trouble pulling out of the air now this particular change, but what it had to do with is the conditions under which Hanoi would negotiate, including the Four Points of the [National] Liberation Front

Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 2 (II), 2/23/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Allred's--Governor Allred at that time--who met President Roosevelt on one of his trips through Texas. He went fishing with him, and he talked to him about Lyndon and asked him to appoint him as National Youth administrator. arranged

Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

experience, I left the Saturday Evening Post returned to the Knight chain, this time as national correspondent based in Washington for all of the papers of the Knight was then and group, which about five or six newspapers . In the summer of 1965, I

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

interests are the same; we need price stability, anti-inflation, we believe in responsibility for both labor and business, urge you not to support this, not in your interest and not in the nation's to do this. I am determined to discharge my responsibility

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

Johnson took a liking to the young Sam Rayburn. He coached him and wanted to help him get the right committee assignments and there was then developed a good warm friendship. At the same time, the President used to go on to the floor with his father

Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Secretary of Commerce on the basis of qualification, because business is an important area of our whole national welfare. The business community on the whole generates most of the income we need to support the government. Most of the tax money comes from
[For interviews 1 and 2] LBJ and the business community; businessmen’s committee for LBJ in the 1964 campaign; money-raising; the SST; appointment as Secretary of Commerce; purpose of Cabinet meetings; Department of Commerce; 3/31 announcement

Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

- But he also said, "I'd rather have one line in Time magazine or in the New York Times than I would in all the other newspapers i~n the country. II He was fascinated with the national character of Time magazine. If you go back in that time

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

with which he hoped to come back and run Washington, and I came down as a political writer for the Reporter magazine to ask him if that story was true. It led to a story that he liked, interpreting Johnson and his attitude toward national politics. But I

Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

any question about that. arguments. They had lots of Kleberg would come back from these committees just shocked at the suggestions, but he finally voted for the AAA. G: That was the one I was thinking about. J: Yes. Lyndon and Roy f'liller
National Youth Administration (U.S.)
; LBJ’s work in Welly Hopkins’ campaign; National Youth Administration; LBJ’s interest in race-related issues; the 1937 Congressional campaign; Claude Wild; LBJ’s inability to make a formal speech.

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 4 (IV), 3/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to advertise in a national network radio program, he didn't have to buy every affiliate. As a mat- ter of fact, we suffered greatly by the fact that they didn't have to buy Austin; we were never a must-buy market in those days. So the philosophy, as I

Oral history transcript, Harfield Weedin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, Texas, and at that time. In addition to being an air person- ality on KTRH, I was also a salesman trying to get sales experience. So I called on Lee. He sponsored--on KTRH--a program called "VOx POp," which also became nationally known. He came up

Oral history transcript, William M. Capron, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the Job Corps. He wanted that. And he had the instinct. Johnson loved it, too, because that was--well, one. Johnson harked back to his NYA [National Youth Administration] experience and all that, but also that was something very identified and visible

Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

participate on the committee ." happened . It didn't work out . Well, I don't know what So the Venezuelans abstained and opposed . Then later, one of my predecessors, Ted Moskoso, arrived rather suddenly . He had been asked by the White House--I think

Oral history transcript, Otis Arnold Singletary, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

know the old cliche about, '~ou could send a boy to Harvard for what you could send him to the Job Corps for." F: Except you couldn't send this boy to Harvard! S: I once asked a committee up there--I said, "Fine. You can fill that stadium up

Oral history transcript, Gordon Bunshaft, interview 1 (I), 6/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to replace one of the planners, a woman named Cloethiel Smith, who was an architect--she was local--and appointed Mr . Walker of the National Gallery . or reappoint . Aline B . Saarinen and I, they didn't replace That was in an effort We just stayed

Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

committee was a peculiar Kennedy construction; it was not the National Security Council. It was in effect an ad hoc kind of subcommittee of the council. M: Actually created for that crisis, wasn't it? A: On the first day that he heard the Missiles were

Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, was chairman of the committee in the House. But I know that we were well down the road on the House side about the time of the assassination. And I believe one of the first things that President Johnson said to me, when I saw him face-to-face a day or two after

Oral history transcript, William Gorham, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

Security. And the second hardest was NIH [National Institutes of Health]. Both hard. Social Security was in some ways harder because it had its own research group, and they were kind of assigned to deal with us and we were very competitive. They viewed us

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview S-I, 8/1994, by Douglass Cater (Item)

there, there was a lot [of] antagonism, and enmity towards Johnson from the faculty at UT. Harry's big job, and he did it extremely well, was to make friends with the faculty and get them involved at the Library, and they went on committees. They're a little too academic

Oral history transcript, John M. Steadman, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with it a little bit. And whether it was a cabinet officer or someone at BOB--I suppose if I had had any ideas I could have thrown them out. G: It would have been-- How did the drafting committee get the product that they were drafting? LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 17 factor was. Le t me see if I remember. recommendation was this; appointed. The way the ABA committee had it for they put in a rule after Sarah Hughes got They got forced, they thought

Oral history transcript, Ronald Goldfarb, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: There again I think each individual who is working significantly in their field was dealing with the appropriate liaison people. I would think, for example, that Sundquist would have been dealing with the agricultural committee staff people and key

Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 2 (II), 3/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Germany have a national nuclear weapon. But I believe also the Navy was rather interested in the MLF because it would involve an expansion of the Navy and would provide a new type of naval nuclear weapons system in addition to the Polaris, because
; feeling of NATO countries; European Allies and Vietnam War; McNamara’s speech regarding the ABM system; Czechoslovakia crisis; German problem; LBJ’s relationship with Kissinger; LBJ as a personal diplomat; Most-Favored Nation treatment; East-West Trade

Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in 1962? H: Oh, my goodness, that starts back in 1922 when I joined the Boston National Guard just to learn how to ride a horse because I figured only soldiers and millionaires could ride horses on the weekends. And I ended up forty-two years later

Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was involved in. He was then on the House Naval Affairs Committee, studying at the knee of Uncle Carl Vinson, the chairman. At that point I believe he had been out in the Pacific and come back. But [thi s was] my fi rst experi ence of hi s persuas i ve abil

Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 2 (II), 11/9/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that meeting out in--I think it was Honolulu in that fall, 1967, and came to some agreement. G: They came to Saigon, too, I think, didn't they, in September? P: Yes, came to Saigon, and then Honolulu, and they also put out a Special National Estimate back

Oral history transcript, William G. Bowdler, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and it lends itself to this type of an experiment. F: Where do you think he got that idea? B: I think that this came from Marks, USIA. F: Leonard Marks. B: Leonard Marks. He had been very active in the Educational TV Committee in Washington. And we went

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

make that very, very clear, and the report of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to which I gather Draper had access, makes it very clear-and so did the dispatches of TadSzulc., who knew what he was doing. changed around the time that Mac Bundy

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

Committee when he died. He was a powerful Congressman, and Lyndon was filling the shoes of a fellow that was really apt. G: Is it correct that he attended Congressman Buchanan’s funeral and then went over to San Marcos to address the student body
National Youth Administration (U.S.)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

hundred fifty to seven hundred million in 1967. I got a note back from the President saying, "Joe, shouldn't we set goals, call in the congressional leaders, including the chairmen of committees, and sell one million if possible?" I then write a note

Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

ceremonies of al/ sorts are handled by the Inaugural Committee as opposed to people here at the White House handling it. And since the ceremonies were to be held here, it then became the responsibility of the Entertainments Office to assist with the obtaining

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

, and this was reasonable. F: Did he know McGeorge Bundy fairly well at that time? R: He knew him because r~r. Johnson was at the Whi te House frequently and of course was a member of the National Security Council. F: So there wasn't a great deal of break

Oral history transcript, Levette J. (Joe) Berry, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

In one of the first national articles about Lyndon, it was Time magazine, his ability to destroy the Black Stars was one of the major things that he talked about in that arti cle . So I think it meant a lot more to him, successfully destroying � LBJ

Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of helping the villagers organize the village and get it going again. This seemed to be making some sense, so we spread it down into the rest of Vietnam in 1965 and 1966 and then set up a national school at Vung Tau at about 1966 or 1967--I've forgotten where

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

should be pointed out. He felt pretty strongly about the control. G: Well, he must have gotten a lot of opposition to this from the Senate. B: Right to bear arms, part of the Constitution, National Rifle Association, sure. We were bombarded

Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

elections of Diem, which were in April of 1961, in which he got about 90 per cent of the votes. G: That's fairly usual in that part of the world, isn't it? N: Well, yes. Yes. I think-- But the charge which was leveled--these were United Nations

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that it wasn't passed on, at least in It's conceivable that he did phone the President; if' he did, the President later expressed complete mystery about it. M: It didn't come in writing to the National Security Council. C: It did not come in writing, because
Biographical information; McGeorge Bundy; William Bundy; Robert Komer; Vietnam; Bien Hoa; service on high-level review committee on Vietnam; Pleiku incident; Honolulu Conference; Ky; bombing halt; Harriman; Wilson; J. Blair Seaborn mission, 1964

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to me. We had been married I forget how long, I think Lyndon was in the NYA [National Youth Administration]. We still always saw a great deal of the people who had been close to us, and L. E. had been Lyndon's secretary, as you know. We were driving down
; the Johnsons' first apartment; LBJ being chosen to head the National Youth Administration (NYA) in Texas; LBJ's relationship with Congressman Richard Kleberg; early married life; snow in Washington, D.C.; Maury and Terrell Maverick; Bill White; Welly Hopkins

Oral history transcript, Robinson Risner, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

if they really felt that the war was [wrong] and they wanted to resist the war by writing articles and whatever, that he would defend them when they came back to the United states. He was there at a time when they had a committee--they called it a war crimes

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