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Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

extent of the CCCs. Second, it was reminiscent of the Roosevelt era. Third, it was structured, and fourth, it was what I would call relatively easy to understand. It wasn't as if it were some new kind of a billiard ball, do you know what I mean? It fitted
fully funded; Shriver trying to get Mrs. Johnson to sponsor Head Start as a new innovative program; the differences between Civilian Conservation Corps participants and Job Corps students; the urgent need for education as well as sociological

Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

school people, some of the welfare agencies and other groups from each of the towns--there was Detroit, New Haven, Chicago, and Pittsburgh. We had them in here and we sat down for several days with each one, a couple days at least with each one, and we

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

it and trace it? M: I think the New York Times' version, which appeared a few days after Newsweek was published, is a better version, at least so far as I know. I saw Charles Roberts on the Friday before this piece was published for lunch. He had completed

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 5 (V), 5/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

cities like Philadelphia and New York and Chicago. The first indication we had that they planned to hold a Solidarity Day exercise came from the press. Progressively, as we had visits with their leaders about matters relating to Resurrection City

Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1975 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES P. NASH INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Nash's home in Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Nash, let's begin with a little of your background. You were born in Pennsylvania, I think, Philadelphia? N: Yes

Oral history transcript, Burke Marshall, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the freedom rides? M: Yes. We went to Congress with the budget--I can't remember what, but in the normal course of things it would have been in February before the House; John Rooney's [D-New 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a liking to Johnson as a young Congressman and wanted to make sure that he got broader acquaintanceship with people throughout the country, and he asked Hopkins to put him in touch with someone in New York who could introduce him around, and Hopkins picked
and 1964 campaigns; New Yorkers’ feelings about LBJ; Jack English; RFK’s Senatorial campaign in New York; effect of William Miller on Republican ticket; duties as Lands and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department; proposals for Indian problems

Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

account of what happened on that day, to keep the wire services happy and the radio and the TV news happy. That's where most of the daily newspaper lead story came from. And the communique many days was like a police blotter, you know, incidents here
Braestrup’s work as a journalist in Southeast Asia for the New York Times; New York Times coverage of Vietnam compared to Time magazine; how journalists covered Vietnam and the danger involved; how Braestrup became Washington Post Bureau Chief; Joe

Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, maybe a new curtain or properties around the stage, a 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, Richard A. Prindle, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

and got very interested in the activities there. I went ahead and had my internship at Columbia Presbyterian in New York City in surgery, again because I was somewhat interested in the possibility of going into surgery of heart deformtties and so forth

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at that meeting got up to make their responses, who all they had been able to enlist and to give their testimonials. The big news that happened while we were at Mayo's was about the helicopter. A bunch of Lyndon's friends, I would say led by Carl Phinney

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Ginsburg -- IV -- 5 of some sort, at least the commissioners, the staffs, should know what it is that the White House is trying to do. There was no discussion with me about concerns about the Mayor of New York and his ambitions, or about Fred Harris and his
in the National Guard; visiting Newark, New Jersey; proposed creation of jobs; prioritizing the areas of need; gun control; the decision for commissioners to stay out of the legislative process; "Harvest of Racism" report; the exclusion of representatives

Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in to Galveston from the sea and took a train across Texas. And James V. Allred, who knew Roosevelt at least casually, suggested that he ought to invite this young congressman aboard, with the result that Johnson, who is just a brand new congressman got to meet

Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 3 (III), 4/16/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

actually tried out new methods of bringing poor people into the operation of programs that we accomplished our most interesting work, and probably caused the biggest stir. There was a pattern to some of these;, there was a design. We weren't haphazard

Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

with 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 the new chairman of the House

Oral history transcript, Pat Adelman, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

the sales staff including myself make daily sales reports on who we called on and what new accounts had we put on and that sort of thing. We would talk, I'd say, a minimum of an hour, sometimes two hours L.D. M: Sounds like they were interested

Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

school at the end of the Eisenhower Administration. As a means to an end I signed on with the Park Service to work I knew not where, but I was assigned to what was then called the Custis-Lee Mansion, Arlington House. As a native of western New York State

Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for installations in the new Defense structure. Floete went to the Hill to testify from time to time on Defense Property matters. I was a back-up, supporting witness. So when he later--about 1954, I believe, or 1955--went to GSA as administrator, the Public

Oral history transcript, Victor Ferrari, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was living in Philadelphia I was examined at the recruiting station; low and behold, they passed me. You know, once I was in the air force I didn't experi- ence trouble with blood pressure--passed it on every subsequent occasion. I joined the service

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

working either. There was another problem--not a problem, but we had a handicap in the office; I guess it would be a problem. Slowly we lost to the military all of the young men that worked there, and we were constantly getting new employees

Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in the morning, that noon he was over at our cormnission meeting saying, "Don't have the hearing in Mississippi, it will complicate our trial at Philadelphia." And we said, "Look, we've already been asked to call it off twice by this administration, once

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Ford several times. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -2- As a matter of fact, I sat next to his wife at a Yale alumni law banquet in New Haven a few years ago. I was at that time vice president

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3, Side 1 O: The Oregon primary was hotly contested. [Eugene] McCarthy showed a better organization than he had shown
Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) loss to Eugene McCarthy in the Oregon primary; support for RFK going into the New York primary; concerns going into the California primary and memories of 1960 California problems with Edmund "Pat" Brown; the RFK/McCarthy

Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

days. He had worked for the old New York World and the National Farmers Union. [He was] really an interesting guy and knew a tremendous amount about Congress and the way things were done, not the textbook kind of legislative process, but the way

Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in Philadelphia, drove there with a couple of cousins and watched the nomination of Harry Truman. F: Were you still waiting up at three in the morniog when he came in from that train on the siding to get the nomination? D: I thought he was in an alley waiting

Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

forth. I think that was a good learning point for the girls there in the Texas office. G: You indicated earlier that you had met Mrs. Johnson before you met LBJ. H: Yes. She gave a luncheon for the new girl s on the staff. She always made us feel

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

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the establishment of a new executive department. 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
in legislation; urban mass transit situation; problems of highway beautification program; rapid rail transit to New York; the SST program; employee transportation; miscellaneous organization problems; Nixon transition

Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, the Sheep Meadow, was in the bandstand, the platform from which the speeches were made, and I heard a reporter for a major New York paper, the New York Daily News, call in, and I may not have the figures exactly right, but I think I even have the figures

Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

1946. After getting out of the service and going to Xavier University--there was a strong chapter of NAACP in New Orleans, there was a strong NAACP-type group activity that existed between the student bodies of Tulane, Loyola, and Xavier
of 1964; Voting Rights Act of 1965; work on minimum wage; the Neshoba County deaths; Council of Federated Organizations movement; FBI opens new office in Mississippi; RFK, Hoover and LBJ told FBI to get on the job in Mississippi; Freedom Democratic Party

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 18 (XVIII), 12/18/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: [In 1966 you] had a reorganization plan that transferred the Community Relations Service from the Commerce
with Joe Califano and remaining in daily contact with the White House.

Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

counties on the coast to make a new district, and Dick Kleberg ran and was elected . My best recollection is that he came to Congress January 1, 1933 . G: No, it was earlier than that . Lyndon Johnson went up there I guess the first time in December

Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and said that Califano was developing a new legislative package in education for the next session of Congress. That was in the summer of '65, and would I write up the international education part? So I became a government consultant officially and worked

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, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 3 (III), 1/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, 1969 INTERVI EWEE: STEPHEN POLLAK INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: The National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 B: Were you involved in the prosecution of the Liuzzo case and the case of the Philadelphia, Mississippi, murders

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 3 (III), 11/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there were eighteen new Democratic senators and he [LBJ] had looked in the paper and none of us had realized it, but at breakfast Sunday morning he announced that twelve of them were Catholics and that he wanted to find out something about the Catholic

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 22 (XXII), 6/19/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 O: I tendered my resignation directly to the President, as I recounted, on April 10 and that would

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and did use someone like Hubert Humphrey. I think he always felt that--well, he did try to get New Dealers that he had known in effect to talk to the other senators and say, "This fellow is a good fellow," that kind of thing. body within range. He used

Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

this young fellow could just go down to the White House almost any time he wanted to, figuratively having a key to the back door. So he did go down there a lot, because that's the way I'd get the news a lot on things happening. On the other hand, some

Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Adolph Berle in New York--whom I knew not intimately, but in a casual way--saying that the President-elect had asked him to form a task force on policy toward Latin America. They wanted an economist and they thought I would be the best person. I tried

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