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Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and LBJ over a Llano bank; LBJ's smoking habit; attending the 1965 presidential inauguration; Winters' White House phone; LBJ's post-presidential relationship with the Secret Service; LBJ boating; LBJ as a horseman; roadwork in the 1920s; Sam Ealy Johnson
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Eugene B. Germany, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, this mid-forties post World War II [period], when the political base of Texas was shifting from agriculture to oil and gas and industry and resulting in a politically conservative trend. How was this affecting the various Democratic leaders in the state
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in the Post Office Department, which is just down from the White House a block or two. G: Were these paratroops, or do you recall? C: They were some paratroops, I believe, and some other infantry troops. We had quite a contingent of people. G: But never
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Flynn -- I -- 2 force; the exodus of enlisted guys had finished; new guys were coming in, and we were starting to sort out other missions, useful missions. And then about the next event
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, It was a navel thing in those days. Helicopters were quite new in 1948, and nobody had ever done that before. My own idea of it was that it was a stunt, but I don't know what anybody else thought about it, what Coke thought about it. G: You don't know
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Reversing it slightly, but when you were secretary of the interior and he was a relatively new senator, did you all have much opportunity for a professional relationship at that time? c: Yes, we did because the Department of Interior is a conglomerate
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 3 (III), 11/8/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

humor. I recall the day Lester Maddox was inaugurated governor here in Georgia, he called me at home in Atlanta and said, "I was just calling to congratulate you on your new governor. I've been looking at the TV. I was surprised"--or something like
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 11 (XI), 4/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with a bayonet, I believe. There al so were a whole series of investigations of military indoctri nation centers and how their programs worked, what their facilities were like, and just the processing of these new recruits. They were Fort Jackson, South
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 4 (IV), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the amount of money we could get. This is no news to me. We've been fighting this battle for a long, long time, and the people that have been fighting it and the people that are managing the program, and I think doing it well, are discredited in a significant
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, J. Waddy Bullion, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

was always as a tax adviser or attorney to the Johnsons. M: Then when President Kennedy was killed here in Dallas, apparently the new President, Lyndon Johnson, contacted you immediately. Is that correct? B: He endeavored to. I was in Shreveport
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Alfred T. "Boody" Johnson, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to get rebuttal on something. G: Now in the spring of 1928 LBJ was working with a group of students to improve Evans Field, to expand it and put a new fence around it. J: No, I don't know anything about that. G: I wonder how he got involved
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Dan H. Fenn, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/18/1972, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

STR, I think. F: Right. M: Yes. F: That's right. When he was deputy. technical side, And so we did a great deal of work for them on the ~nd were deeply involved in the whole effort to develop a new national dumping code and worked very
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Llewellyn B. Griffith, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/15/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was glad to help him. A few days after he had been fixed up, so to speak, his son. Lyndon Johnson, came to see me and asked me to have a talk with him about this new agency that he was going to be the head of, the NYA. It seems that the NYA was in some
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

margin, though, wasn't it? CH: Very, very narrow margin. As a matter of fact, as I remember, the election was on a Saturday, and the Sunday Dallas News came out with big headlines that Lyndon Johnson had been elected to the Senate. That was before

Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that he did. G: Did you ever get to meet him or visit with him? L: I don't remember him. G: How about his mother? L: I I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Kittie Clyde Leonard, interview 1 (I), 7/27/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

, that were more advanced than ours, so we learned things from them. we thought. It was quite interesting if we could learn something that they were doing. back to something like that in education right now. And dctually we're going It isn't new
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

proving that it would require more steel to reinforce a concrete pipeline than it would take to build an all steel pipeline. We had a very good MIT engineer, out of the organization of Standard Oil of New Jersey, who very effectively made that point
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

ty and we Ire goi ng to hang him and we mi ght as well get thi s trial over as quick as \'/e can. II So we got it over as qui ckly as vie could and we sentenced the man to death. The news got out. and people started calling Terrible nickname. me
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

cadre that I had been working with in the hamlet political attitudinal surveys. And they agreed. So I brought them up, put them on the agency's payroll, and they helped me write lesson plans for the instruction of the new RD cadre. Of course, we weren't
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Carl T. Curtis, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that I can recall was [Leverett] Saltonstall of Massachusetts, a very scholarly and distinguished and reserved New England gentleman. He made some changes in his family plans and came back and privately expressed his disgust at what had been done. G: I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

home brew and you could get bootleg whiskey, but if you wanted it you had to go to New Braunfels to get it . G: Where the Germans were . B: Where the Germans were . whiskey was not bad . They made some very good home brew, and their I would hate
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Anita P. Winters, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Houston and Josefa and I. The car was sitting out in front of the house, and it was rather new. Mr. Johnson--Sam Houston had asked him if he could have the car, and he said no, that he didn't know how to drive it. So Mr. Johnson went in the bedroom and lay
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

office as. Secretary of State. The Planning Board had a representative in Washington, Colonel Paul Wakefield. Then, when he resigned that post, the Planning Board asked me to go to Washington. I had dealings with the Works Progress Administration

Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

days? J: Yes, we talked politics. F: This was when the New Deal is hot, and Jimmy Allred is-- J: Yes, and we had a lot of mutual friends. The next recollection I have was going down to my store which I had at the campus. was a campus shop
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 21 something has been approved that someone omits or overlooks to report to a new President. In the case of the NSA business, Mr. Johnson was forewarned that this was corning over
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and LBJ and some of the New Dealers were supporting Roosevelt. forces? Do you recall that issue, the stop-Roosevelt LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org L: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. He was pounding on the table and saying, "You men have got to realize that there is a new force sweeping this country." Whew! I could almost hear the knives being sharpened. He made one very bad mistake. This was in a closed hearing. I wasn't
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to establish the policy of new senators getting one good · major co11111ittee assignment before passing out other assignments to the older senators. G: He himself moved from Conunerce to Finance. S: Again, that would have been to block, probably
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was being moved routinely, and Johnson was not resisting. The State Department then selected, to be his successor and to do sort of a new job as foreign affairs aide with some substantive overtones-selected Eugene McAuliffe. Gene was somewhat senior to me
news to LBJ; Carl Rowan and event scheduling on trips; LBJ’s moodiness; LBJ’s sensitivity about his health; LBJ buying art; LBJ’s dietary requirements; LBJ ability to speak to foreign leaders and crowds.
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Donnelly Bolton, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, we never moved out of Camp Shelby, Mississippi. G: You were going to be in the invasion force, should there be one? D: Yes, one of the new outfits. Then, luckily enough, I came out of the war a captain, which was a little bit lower than I had
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, and getting out releases after he'd been on a trip. Tuen the late hours usually were ended up with Walter Jenkins who would be going over all the mail. And as he would sign it, I would fold and stuff it; and we usually ended up by getting it to the post

Oral history transcript, William Lewis and Margaret Chase Smith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1975, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

been~ast in each area that he could have been defeated. F: Of course now New Hampshire just has reemphasized it. S: Yes, I should say so. People don't realize how one vote makes the difference, and I think that Lyndon Johnson's election [in 1948
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John Sherman Cooper, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, I recall very well that Senator Johnson talked to him a great deal and became a great admirer of Senator Taft. came that Senator Taft had died. I'll never forget when the news The Senate was in session and someone was presiding and Senator Johnson
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Ava Johnson Cox, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. I started out, I guess you'd have to say, in something called the Chieu Hoi program, which had to do with getting defectors over on the government side. I did a study on that as my first move in this new role that I was playing, and then from
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh WOODWARD - I - 13 the Harte-Hanks group there at the Abilene Reporter-News, and so forth. We got to Lubbock and I remember one of my first lessons in being sure to keep a lot of dimes ready for the phone, because I didn't have

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 13 (XIII), 7/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Jenkins - XIII - 31 G: Well, apparently a lot of them were old New Deal supporters. That was an awfully close vote, though, one vote. J: It doesn•t say who he got
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James Cain, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

: January, I think this would be right. M: Right after the first of the year. C: January, I think this would be right. He was working awfully hard then, and he always has and pushes himself unmercifully. Again this is nothing new; he did this before he
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William S. Gaud, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in the In all of the countries where we have sizeable we have our own missions headed by a Mission Director just as the C. 1. A. will have its station and as the U. S.1. A. have its post of U. S. 1. S. many years, will It has been quite clear for a good

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