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Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 4 (IV), 8/25/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : What was that? The Biltmore? P: No, that was the New International Clark, a fourth or fifth rate hotel. I will not say it was a flophouse, to use polite terms, but J LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't you put it all down on paper for me and the President?" So that is exactly what I did. Then they made the decision that Clark Clifford should be consulted. I can remember here I needed a little bit of advice and counsel on my own hook, so I got J
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • been part of his thinking. G: Do you remember Clark Clifford's statement? Actually, there were several statements. He came out and accused the South Vietnamese government of balking at the last out of the ninth inning. K: Your notes refreshed my
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in collusion with parties like Walt Rostow, Clark Clifford, Dean Rusk; the President had his own small set of advisers looking over these drafts as they would be presented over the period of this six weeks. It was a particularly exhausting time, I recall
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • about ninety-five percent of that article through conversations with Secretary [of Defense Clark] Clifford and people who were around him in the Pentagon. He called me later that afternoon and said that my account did not square with theirs in a couple
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a center of activity. It was great big, screened on three sides, ceiling fan, lots of comfortable furniture. At some time there arrived in it, as a gift from Tom Clark, a great big double chaise lounge and we covered it full of pillows and everybody headed
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 3 (III), 2/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the three that voted against it. Joe Clark was named as the floor leader; Joe Clark always loses ten votes when he leads something on the floor; I think Fulbright named him for good reason. At any rate it lost forty-eight to thirty-seven, I believe
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a press conference. Now these were all his own traps. We were not having anything to do with it--there were people in and around the Johnson campaign, the only one I identified with it myself from what I saw was Bob Clark, Tom Clark's brother. They picked
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ; problems with Interior Department; shift to Civil Division; Pure and Union Oil; critical of Ramsey Clark as Attorney General; LBJ’s difficulties with Establishment press; missile/satellite program investigation; LBJ’s neglect of functions as leader
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Dallas? Was it Bill Clark-IG: Bill Clark and people like Fenton Baker, who had the Baker Hotel, and a fellow named Smith, who was the--oh, what was his name? about the head of the airlines. I'm not talking LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in this--Senator Bob Kerr, Speaker Rayburn, myself and Mr. Johnson. President Truman at that time sent Clark Clifford and myoId friend who just left the chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board not long ago, who was one of the attorneys at the White House
Oral history transcript, Carl Hayden, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Cannon was the Speaker. F: Had been. Champ Clark, I guess, was your first Speaker, wasn't he? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 3 (III), 4/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , sharp area. for the most part. These were positions also in the Executive Branch To some degree the office was involved in some of the judicial appointments--but only in a limited degree. The Attorneys General, Nicholas Katzenbach and Ramsey Clark
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • relations with Cabinet officers and their final invitations to, I think, luncheon parties for Mr. Johnson-- P: You mean Mc: Yes. P: Yes, I think I told you about my part with the very unfortunate pro- ~ luncheon party at Clark Clifford's? blems
  • to Clark Clifford’s luncheon for the President; personal political philosophy; LBJ’s theory of giving the same assignment to more than one person; Congressional relations; young men on LBJ’s staff; LBJ’s rapport with his staff; demanding boss; telephonitis
Oral history transcript, Will Wilson, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , when :hey reach,ed a crisis pciint, President Kennedy and Ted Sorensen would be involved. was a general efforC thr01.Jgh i::he South involved. governmen~ In 1963 there to get businessmen in ~he McNamara and Dillon and Clark Clifford and so
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . This was the paradox of it. But I saw so many instances where with my Cabinet colleagues I thought he would have strengthened his hand if he had made changes. He either didn't make changes or he made the wrong kind of changes. I personally feel, and I think the Clark
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • Beaumont, I remember; and Bob Clark, brother to Tom, family of lawyers, good people, you will remember Tom was the attorney general and finally on the Supreme Court; and Cliff Carter, always one of the best, and Cliff was from A&M; Sam D. W. Low from
Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • times. What's your impression about the Clark Clifford justification for his turn-around in the summer of 1968, that when he went out there they told him privately that LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 30 (XXX), 3/22/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of things that we had bought from the old lady. I went to Oetting's and worked with a Mr. Clark there, and I went to [Louis] Shanks, of course, and bought things for several of the rooms. The first thing for Lyndon was always a phone right by the bed, a good
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 15 (XV), 1/4/1980-1/5/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it was a queer, offbeat sort of existence. Much more fun for me than for Lyndon, I'm sure. One evening we went to the Tom Clark's and had dinner. That was the first time I remember seeing them. This was in Los Angeles. It took us forever to get there. I vowed I
Oral history transcript, William H. Darden, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Charles Evers, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with Ramsey Clark? E: Oh yes. Yes. Very close. Ramsey and I were very good friends. F: What did you think of him? E: I thought Ramsey was--I still think he's a wonderful man. I think Ramsey's about like Charles Evers. I mean, he's about ten years ahead
  • and Senator John Stennis; Evers as NAACP field director; work for education; housing; employment; Ramsey Clark; Lady Bird's Dixie tour; federal programs in Mississippi; friends Charles Percy of Illinois and Nelson Rockefeller of New York; SNCC; CORE; SCLC
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 2 (II), 5/3/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , just today in the paper I saw where my friend Dr. Kenneth Clark says that Moynihan was right then, he's right now, and since Pat was called a racist, he says, "If Pat is a racist"--he said this at the time--"so am I." But you see, that was the first
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cater -- III -- 20 called me and said that Senator--the Senator from Pennsylvania--Clark, who
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that I have the greatest regard and respect for Clark Clifford. I like Tim [Townsend] Hoopes very much. I regard both of them as friends s I think they regard me as a friend. So what I'm saying has no personal overtones whatever and is not intended
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , from time to time [Clark] Clifford He was then the chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. But he It/as also an advisor to the President on many other things. years. ~r. They have been friends for many From time to time
Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • know, in my position as under secretary I had a good deal to do with civil disturbance matters. I did see the President in his office last summer with Ramsey Clark and Joe Califano in connection with Mayor Daley's request for the dispatch of federal
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the Lewis and Clark Trail Commission. But unfortunately the President's Council didn't work out too well. Udall was the first chairman for two years, and then Freeman was. During LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • for these girls, just most unusual. I see them, and they all talk about it yet. Then I arranged for them to go and call on Attorney General Clark, and we went up to the Justice Department and were received there. Then Mr. Justice Tom Clark received us
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • there was Senator Joe Clark, who was a strong supporter. I worked very closely with the staff members on both sides--the committee staff members--Jack Forsythe and Charles Lee in the Senate. The name of the House man slips me at the moment. M: Can you estimate
  • -state issue, segregation, and the poverty impact formula; working with Adam Clayton Powell, Carl Perkins, Phil Landrum, Emanuel Celler, Wayne Morse, John Brademas, Hugh Cary, Edith Green, Joe Clark, Jack Forsyth and Charles Lee; lobbying the Congress
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was attorney general of Texas then. Oh, Bill Douglas and Fred Vinson were often there. Judge Marvin Jones and Bob Hannegan and Ed Clark and dear Albert Jackson from the Dallas Times Herald, and Bill Kittrell, who could tell some of the best stories of anybody I
Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 3 (III), 1/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • Nuclear/non-nuclear submarine and fleet vessels; developments in intelligence gathering; military-industrial complex; Office of Science and Technology; chemical warfare; Robert McNamara; Clark Clifford; Congress
Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://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 j ~. .~ 26 being mnde. The Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, for exanple
  • impatience; MLK and Resurrection City; Ramsey Clark and his relationship with LBJ; wire-tapping; J. Edgar Hoover; Robert Kennedy’s assassination; getting Secret Service protection for Presidential candidates; the Commission on Violence; Lloyd Cutler
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 5 (V), 8/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on the occasion of the retirement of Justice Tom Clark, and George Christian had taken me to the White House. The President, I later found out, was wanting to take a look at me to see if he Hanted to bring me to the Hhit e House, and he invited I . ouanne
  • attempt to get Judge Alexander appointed; LBJ/Richard Russell relationship; the Fortas-Thornberry nominations; Temple’s role in investigating federal judge nominees; Ramsey Clark slowing the nomination process; Senator Russell’s falling out with LBJ; Judge
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 6 (VI), 8/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Clark. At that time Ramsey openly voiced the view that the United State~ Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia had been incorrect--as had been the Interstate Commerce Commission--and that he ought to ~ake the case to the U. S. Supreme Court
Oral history transcript, Mack H. Hannah, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/26/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of Dr. [W. R.] Banks, Prairie View [A &M]. R. W. E. Jones, Grambling, and Felton Clark, [Texas] Southern University. These were in the days when naturally it wouldn't have done the President any good to announce that he'd been the house guest
Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , just sit around and talk? Then Clark Clifford came over, and we watched the game. was when Joe Namath C: The Super Bowl. F: Super Bowl. R: Yes, we watched that game. That That was that famous game when he-- We had a wonderful time, bowled