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Oral history transcript, Patrick V. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • impression that the White House tried to let the new D.C. government stand on its own feet without too much direct supervision from the White House? M: From what I could see of the operation of District government, certainly the mayor gave me a very free
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • losing the initiative in space to the Soviets. On September 16th, he went over to the White House to discuss with the President how best to handle the problem of continuity at NASA after the election and a new administration had taken over
  • Act; transition to the new administration; Bob Seamans.
Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and wondered if the Senator would object to his offering me a job as his secretary over in the House. Shortly after that Mr. Connally announced his candidacy for the Senate, and was elected. So I returned to the Senate with the new Senator from Texas. F
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVI EWEE: THOMAS G. HICKER INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Wickerls office, Washington Bureau, New York Times Tape 1 of 1 F: First of all, I know you came out of Hamlet, North Carolina, which I think is a very happy place to have been born
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 31 (XXXI), 12/10/1987, 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: Watergate has been part of our discussions throughout this oral history. At this point, it might be helpful
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /oh Shriver -- I -- 2 to working with poor people, you might say almost exclusively; third, to pacifism. I used to work from time to time in the office of the Catholic Worker, which was down in the Greenwich Village area of New York City. So
  • to that column; Shriver’s opinion of LBJ keeping Kennedy’s cabinet members; Shriver’s ideas for new vice presidential duties; Shriver’s conflicts with Secretary of Labor Wirtz; the Neighborhood Youth Corps; Shriver’s determination to solve problems without
Oral history transcript, Nelson M. Bortz, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • with that effort which really was very good in the sense that it was not a confining sort of job, but it permitted contacts with key people in a number of the New Deal agencies to get material to write a story explaining the Rural Electrification Program
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • -sawmill-farming community west of Jacksonville, which was where I grew up . I attended the public schools there, and I also attended the public schools in New York and Massachusetts . M: Your family must have moved some then? B: No, I had a lot
Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 3 (III), 7/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and the President said, "What's going on here?" He wanted us to find out. So Stu peeled off--he never did get to talk with the President--and he was on the phone the whole time trying to find out what had happened. It was the same story as the one in New York except
  • , or administrative law judge's, work in deciding the FPC's cases; Seymour Wenner; the questionnaire FPC distributed to obtain data from the gas producers; hearings in connection with Wenner's two-rate system for flowing gas and new gas; the expansion of natural gas
Oral history transcript, Don Hummel, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • is concerned~ I would say as to the Interior Department on the whole, there has been a rapid expansion really under Secretary Udall, first of the number of areas under the jurisdiction of the Interior Department in the establishment of new national parks, new
Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • me to New York to work at the United Nations and all those kinds of things. But that is how I got to know John Connally, whom Senator Connally wanted to run his re-election campaign. John Connally refused him. There was really very little doubt
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : I don't believe so. W: --went to Houston and made the tapes, and to Beaumont and to New York to meet with presidential nominee Kennedy and to appear on nationwide TV and then back to the Valley and on up to Corpus Christi and then into Austin
Oral history transcript, Milton P. Semer, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the fifties after the 1954 act, until you got to the 1959 act, which was passed with the new Congress brought in by the 1958 election and after two vetoes. But the content of the housing act of 1959 was again pasteup, cobbled together from stuff that hadn't
  • ; the problem of OEO potentially taking over issues for which other departments had been responsible; why a new agency was created for the War on Poverty; the accelerated public works program; criticism of Community Action Programs; opposition to public housing
Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • appointment to the Redevelopment Land Agency? H: I remember that I was driving back from New England and that I stopped in New York to see my wife's parents, Mr. and Mrs. N.A. Ross. We were on the beach in Long Island when I got a call to call the White
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • never gotten published) but which if the library wants, it can have. critical points in decision-making. It was my last effort to think out these new Following that, the Kennedy brain trust emerged and those details, I think I have set down on record
Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that Bill I really For the Dallas Morning News , I can't person with a particular candidate but probably like Allen Duckworth, who was of course I would say the prime political correspondent for the Dallas Morning News , probably Dawson Duncan to some
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . The time is 10:45 in the morning, and my name is David McComb. To start off, Dr. Pechman, I'd like to know something about your background--where you were born, when, where did you get your education. P: I was born in New York City and went through
  • Biographical information; Arthur Burns; Committee for Economic Development; Herbert Stein; Howard Myers; Ted Yntema; Walter Heller; Brookings Institute; relationship with LBJ; termination of consultantship; development of new economic theory; Paul
Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 8, 1968, in his part-time home in New Orleans, Louisiana B: I have the machine on now, so if we can go ahead and start. I'd think a logical starting place, sir, would be with when you first met Mr. Johnson. C
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , that he got some money from Jewish contributors in New York. And Weisl, Balaban, and who knows who else communicated with Gerry Siegel and he provided Johnson with a lot of feeling for and understanding of the Jewish community's views on the Israeli
Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • little they were paid. But you were given freedom to go into town and take part i.n things. So, I was such an enthusiastic New Dealer and such an admirer of Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • for that kind of a phone call was an upcoming Presidential speech and they want some new idea or initiative to put into it . M: Was the Policy Planning Council a frequent contributor to Mr . Johnson's speeches as President? 0: I think Walt contributed some
  • Contact with LBJ; Walt Rostow; Dean Acheson; Policy Planning Council; bureaucratic resistance to new ideas; multilateral force; non-proliferation treaty; Andrew Copkin; MLF; PPC's contacts in academic community; Vietnam policy; Bureau
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Wilcox, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • analysts weren't in agreement on some aspects and we needed to take another look at certain aspects of the data, I was asked to get them together and to come up with a new estimate that took into account the things that were discussed in that office
Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • from Time magazine because it would make me the first black correspondent working for a news magazine as well as the first black correspondent working in Washington for the mainstream media. It was an important event for black people to make this kind
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, 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 3, Side 1 G: Some general items early in your tenure [as postmaster general]: first, one question regarding your
  • under O'Brien; how the Post Office Department dealt with mail fraud and obscenity; a threat to O'Brien's safety in New Jersey; the role of postal inspectors; the 1966 Chicago mail crisis; discrimination in the Post Office Department; changes in mail
Oral history transcript, James M. Quigley, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • for politics. My father was always active in politics; he had been active as a Republican for the best part of his lifetime. But in the New Deal days, in the thirties, he became a Democrat. And as I thought my way through the process, I think I recognized
  • 1958 election to Congress; JFK's role in Quigley's 1960 congressional election defeat; how JFK's Catholicism was viewed by Pennsylvania voters; the new House Committee on Science and Astronautics and why Quigley was interested in it; Quigley's opinion
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of friendly senators: one in New York, the one in Massachusetts that you mentioned, one in Gaylord Nelson's state of Wisconsin, and 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT BASKIN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as well go on there. Lyndon Johnson? B: Briefly, when
Oral history transcript, Ross D. Davis, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • these things. At the end of the war--we're getting to about 1945 now, '46--1 returned to Columbia and graduated from their law school in the class of October '48. From there I went into private practice--a small firm in New York City located on Wall Street
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 12 (XII), 7/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: Let's start with this. I was asking you about Katharine Graham and the D.C. home rule. O: Well, this of course
Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • problem at that time, going back to the rheumatic fever bit, and I ended up with a series of five heart attacks in three days. And so my army career was finished just under ninety days. This was at a time when the new person going into the army wasn't
Oral history transcript, Erich Leinsdorf, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • time with them after the termination of my first season with the Metropolitan. Before I left New York to go to Virginia and to enjoy the country and the beautiful estate, I filed an application with the Immigration (Bureau) which was at that time, I
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 10/30/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to prior to the convention itself. The two states in which President Johnson had the strongest support were New Mexico and Arizona. There was a very strenuous struggle for both of those delegations, which is a very interesting development. I hope you get
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 2 (II), 11/13/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , was the one in New Hampshire. K: That's right. F: Did you work in that? K: No, I wasn't involved in that, actually. 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 5 (V), 6/3/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , which would make quite a difference in a few years in terms of professionalization and science and technology and new standards in salaries for police and things like that. Important elements of our bill were gun control legislation, the right to privacy
Oral history transcript, Donald Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • "lciatit"ln with all of them. They each had the right tf"l terminate my (appointment). one was designated. I presented my offer to move on each time a new As a Foreign Service Reserve Officer, one l s appointment is theoretically good only for as long
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • the President and yourself? Gu: Colonel Cross said, as I recall, I~r. President, this is a new man that I've brought in to be my administrative assistant. He's a Marine." The President said,"I understand from Cross that you can walk on water and replace
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 3 (III), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • these two objectives, one important one was in the Manpower Administration. deal of money involved. from growing pains. There was a great It was an administration which was suffering It was a whole new dimension in terms of the Labor Department's role
Oral history transcript, Robert M. White, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the Department of Commerce, revised in the White House before going down, of course, and we took this to be the general intentions of the President in regard to this new organization. M: Where did the inititative for the reorganization originate? W: It's hard
Oral history transcript, William Narva, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • division as a dermatologist. So in November 1965, I was now the Chief of Dermatology with the reassignment of Dr. Anderson. I have no records with me today but I would guess as documented in the recent news releases when we reviewed all of the tissue
Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • things he did was to send Dale out to buy a new herd bull, because they 3 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