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Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • graduated in '32, I took permanent work with the Forest Service. I worked for about 9 years in Arizona and New Mexico, Flagstaff and in Tucson, still in range experimental work and with a few details to Washington. Then I was transferred in '39
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and Jack Porter had more to do with my surfacing as a voice and as a leader in the party in the state than anybody else. F: I've been intrigued, looking at it strictly as an observer, with the new faces, new names-you're one of them, O'Donnell's one
Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • Symposium. As you said, it stems from a magazine that you were responsible for producing in New York many years ago. I am one of your fans who was there at the time. I was a young man in New York, and I remember quite well what a celebrity you were, and how
Oral history transcript, Raymond H. Lapin, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , and the time is 3:35 in the afternoon. We are in his office in the new Housing and Urban Development Building in Washington, D.C. Mr. Lapin, can you tell me something about your background, where you were born, when? L: I'm from California, and I was born
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the United States in 1959. D: Well, it was quite fascinating because I had been in Washington for only two days. I had been working in Ohio as a television reporter and news director at a television and radio station, and had applied for a job
Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the alter- nate elementary government section with Hubert Humphrey, he was the section man. I had not been in touch with Humphrey, however, at the time of my appointment. He and I had chatted briefly when he visited New Haven in the 1964 campaign
Oral history transcript, Louis F. Walter, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • house which later became the St. Barbabas Church. Of cours~, there has been a new church erected on the same lot. F: Do you remember when the county seat was moved from Blanco to Johnson City? W: Yes. I was a small boy, I guess 14 or 15 about
Oral history transcript, Laurance Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 5 August 1969 F: This is an interview with Mr. Laurance Rockefeller and Mr. Henry Diamond in Mr. Rockefeller's office in New York on August 5, 1969; the interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mr. Rockefeller, very briefly tell us how
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and I finished law school in 1934 when the New Deal was really getting under way. I came to Washington to be law clerk to Mr. Justice Holmes and stayed with him until his death in I think March, 1935. I had hoped to go back west to practice law
Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 1 (I), 1/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • with Dr. Howard Rusk at New York University as a fellow in physical medicine and rehabilitation. Then two years and a little bit more at the Mayo Foundation as a fellow in medicine, and returned then to New York University as an assistant professor
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of that meeting? Z: Some of it. I don't remember whether I've given you this before or not, but if not, it dealt with the press in Vietnam and the coverage we were getting. Leonard was there as director of USIA, John was there as the new director
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • for the reason that while the people from Roosevelt's home country of New York and New England who were in some sense identified with the financial community were not willing to back him in the great LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Robert Fleming, interview S-I, 11/8/1979, by David Culbert (Item)
  • , nI've got four names for you to consider and I can send yoLl over a memorandum detailing what background in each one of them was.'' of NBC News. It happens one was Bill Small~ who is now president One was Bill Monroe that runs "Meet the Press
  • Daily summaries of TV networks to LBJ; Bureau Chiefs set up TV control room at White House; Bill Moyers and Peter Benchley leaving the White House; Jack Valenti; monitored 11:00 to 1:00pm TV news shows for LBJ; LBJ believed Texans were resented
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: BARRY ZORTH IAN INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Zorthian's office in the Time-Life Building, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by identifying you. You're Barry Zorthian, and your main official position during the Johnson
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • room at the State Capitol in Austin. I was a second-man in a two-man bureau there for the International News Service, which is today the I in UPI, and had started the job the previous year in 1947, at the beginning of the year as a matter of fact
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 2 (II), 5/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ARTHUR KRIM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Krim's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2 G: Mr. Krim, let's start with that weekend of August 6, [1965], the first time I believe that you went to Camp David. K: Yes. My wife and I
Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • what he was going to do . He said, "Well, I've got two offers : one to go into the Attorney General's office under the new Attorney General, Gerald Mann, and the other to go to work for the congressman from the Austin district, Lyndon Johnson . " I
  • Biographical information; John Connally; 1941 Senate race; war years; 1960 presidential campaign; advancing; campaign trips; New York City; convention; Nixon; Texas politics; Alvin Wirtz; Johnson personality; Mrs. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • into how you got started as a protagonist for better health. G: Well, very simply, I started out to go into the academic field. I went to New York University, undergraduate and graduate, and studied under Henry Steele Commager. The Depression came along
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 2 (II), 6/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and his discussion with you as he was leaving the presidency. Do you want to recount what you can of that conversation? F: I may have mentioned when we talked before, that the day after the [Richard] Nixon election in 1968, when we were in New York
Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the fact that you represent a New Orleans district in the city in which District Attorney Garrison has been creating a good deal of furor about the assassination and the Warren Commission report created any awkwardness for you? Bo: No, because all of us
  • interest in passage of legislation; RFK; 1964-1965 legislative success; Congressional briefings on Vietnam; compromise on seating of the Mississippi delegation; LBJ’s political speech in New Orleans; inactivity of the DNC; media image of LBJ; assessment
Oral history transcript, Volkmar K. Wentzel, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • interesting man I've met since the Pope." He was visibly impressed and apparently he had gotten a new slant on the situation in Europe or at least in that part of the world. F: Was he a publisher in Helsinki? W: In Helsinki. He was an old man then, and I
Oral history transcript, Cynthia Wilson, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • , and professional experience before you got to the White House and then we can focus in more directly on what you did in the White House with Mrs. Johnson. W: I grew up in Syracuse, New York. I went for undergraduate work to St. Lawrence University, which
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • an event would make news and therefore try to let me announce it in a way that was orderly. Example: Luci had studied to be a Catholic. There kept being rumors about it, but we stalled questions. Actually though, on the day Luci was going over
  • Luci and Lynda; Luci’s wedding; trips to Marshall to be with her father; Lady Bird’s encouragement for Lynda to leave U.T.; Warrie Lyn Smith; categories of news; commercialization of the White House; Luci’s job with optometrist; Lynda’s motive
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1983 INTERVIEWEE: ARTHUR KRIM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Krim's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: Mr. Krim, let's today discuss that period after the 1968 election but before the Nixon inauguration. K: All right
  • LBJ’s frustration at the end of his presidency, especially regarding the Soviet Union and Vietnam; LBJ’s attempt to meet with Nixon and Soviets; Urban League dinner in New York; LBJ’s concern over press coverage of anti-war, anti-LBJ picketing; sale
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Research Institute of America, again, one of these news services for big business executives like the Kiplinger Washington Letter. Toward the end of World War II, I went out to the Far East as a war correspondent for Reuters, the British news agency, and I
Oral history transcript, Edgar Cahn and Jean Camper Cahn, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that subsequently took place between the Ford Foundation, Mayor [Richard] Lee's administration in New Haven, and the federal government. [Those negotiations] led ultimately to the designation of New Haven as an appropriate site for both Ford and the federal
Oral history transcript, Antonio J. Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • J. TAYLOR INTERVIEWER: DAVID IvlcCOHB DATE: November 23, 1969 PLACE: ~lr. Taylor's office in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Tape 1 of 1 N: Let me identify the tape first of all. Anthony J. Taylor. This is an interview with lvlr. I think you
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , in Waco, up in his suite. He had some of the regulars, some of the top state political reporters in his suite, talking to them, stroking them. Felix McKnight was there, from the Dallas News. I'm not sure that Allen [Duckworth] wasn't there, too, but I
Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in geriatrics, would call in new freshmen congressmen and tell them some of the realities of life and say, lIyou have to be here at least six years, then they know who you are." And there's LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • graduated from college, and my first job in the real world was the office of Vice President Johnson, then located in the new Senate office building [the Dirksen Senate Office Building]. As far as my tasks go, just out of college I didn't have a great deal
Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that the President was going to give him the ambassadorship to Chile and that the President intended to make John Macy the new personnel man in the White House. Ralph asked John Macy to provide him with the names of seven, eight, or ten people whom he would pick
Oral history transcript, William J. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . With the death of President Kennedy, there was an under- standing that President Kennedy's files would be kept at the White House for a while, so they would be available to the new administration. On instructions from Mro Bundy, as I recall, we made arrange
Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: DAVID DUBINSKY INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Dubinsky's office, 201 West 52nd Street, New York City Tape 1 of 1 (Interview begins abruptly.) M: . . . Roosevelt. D: Hoover--Republicans too. M: Oh, Republicans too, yes! D
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • School in New Haven, Connecticut, from 1929 through 1932, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws Degree; returning on a so-called Sterling Fellowship for a year of graduate work in law which led to a doctorate degree, Doctor of Juridical Science
Oral history transcript, Warren Magnuson, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the New Orleans, a cruiser, which I was going to go to anyway to take active duty, and Lyndon to report to CINCPAC command. So when we got out to Pearl Harbor here was Nimitz, who was CINCPAC. Because the New Orleans got hit he finally let me go aboard
Oral history transcript, A. Phillip Randolph, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER Mr. Randolph's office, 217 West 125 Street, New York, October 29, 1968 B: This is the interview with A. Philip Randolph, International President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Do you recall when you first met Mr
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • what Johnson's personal position was, but the position of KTBC's news department was I'm afraid a little biased in favor of Rainey, not the political campaign, but all the other stuff leading up to the political campaign . Were there any particular
Oral history transcript, Howard Bertsch, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was in my home town, served on the staff at the state college there for a couple of years, then in 1934, when the New Deal's programs came along and the professional staffing for them was, let us say, in short supply, I went to work as field officer
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , l987 INTERVIEWEE: FRANK STANTON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Dr. Stanton's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Dr. Stanton, let's begin by asking you to recount your earliest association with the Johnson family and, if you
Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . Walker chose to edit the transcript of his oral history interview extensively, and he sent a new typed copy of the edited transcript to the Library when he returned his signed legal agreement covering the interview. The archives staff chose to make