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Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

this because they thought it would be used as an instrument to slow it down. On the other hand, the radical holdouts, who at that point in history for every possible way to block desegregation, didn't like the prospect of having an agency that, as they saw

Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

name last night for another reason and now live got a mental block. But the general counsel and general manager of the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority was an attorney in San Marcos, and 1111 think of his name one of these days. G: Oh, Cape? B: Yes

Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

on it . In those days occasionally you would see--oh, I think at that time you began to see trees felled across the road at times, just to let you know that they were there, out there somewhere ; somebody had cut down a few trees to block the traffic until

Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

block as to what his name is because he caused some uncomfortable days . Ba : I'm sure I can track it down . Bi : What happened with the secretary? My remembrance is, and this he could tell you--I believe she later resigned . She was not fired, but I

Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 2 (II), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, CBS, were the biggest cable operator in North America, but not in the United States. I went to Canada because I was sure that the government here would not allow us to go into the business, and that's the way it turned out. They blocked the door as far

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

to try. So I left the Dillman house very much in a turmoil as you can imagine and went back down to Wooldridge where the rally was to be held. At the appointed time, the Johnson car pulled up on the south side of the block near the public library and Mr

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

big block of the voters whom you couldn't see or you couldn't identify. were, but obviously they were there. You never knew where they No one ever admitted he was for Pappy. 23 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

hound--you would hear his voice reverberating for blocks and blocks away. And until 5 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 3 (III), 1/17/89, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Union. That was supposed to please them. They must have laughed and said, "Those idiots in America." It's what saved the Communists. That's another whole story. They said they'd get out in six months but they didn't. They stayed there and blocked until

Oral history transcript, R.J. (Bob) Long, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. And on that corner was the old Burleson home. F: Yes. L: And back of that was old man Stark s home, who used to manage the 1 Driskill. They re all gone. 1 now. You see, the whole block's cleared off But he had his headquarters, and I'd go by there once

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

Oral history transcript, Frank Ikard, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, 6, 7 blocks and the courthouse is just a little off-center. As we came down to the then Kemp Hotel which is on the corner of 8th and Scott, we passed in front of the courthouse, and Price Daniel was speaking to a crowd on behalf of Eisenhower

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 10 (X), 10/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: His dealt with religion, is that right? J: Oh, that wasn't \.\!hat I meant though. He was very conservative, he would take off his coat and roll up his sleeves. three blocks [away]. You could hear him You'd take a microphone and put it way over

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, "but it's not the same city now that the war is on." How did your life change? J: I rode the bus more than I ever had, and rode it rather a lot. [I'd] walk or perhaps drive my car just two and a half blocks up from our dear home on Thirtieth Place

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or any need for them. But you just simply knew it was private and wouldn't go in. A road wound through a rather sylvan wood, must have occupied several blocks, and then a big, nice, comfortable house that was the Peruvian Embassy. I remember they had

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Thornberry, and little Lera Thomas. I forget what year the Thornberrys, with Lyndon's great nudging, bought that old house down on--I think it was Devonshire Place. Anyhow, it was within three or four blocks of us. Perhaps that comes later, anyhow, Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 3 (III), 7/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 5 (V), 12/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

stumbling block that we had was the Navy. The Army was willing to enter into a type of unification. They were willing to have the Air Force separated from the Army. They weren't anxious for it but they felt a better organization could be achieved

Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 2 (II), 7/20/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that we ought to get-- M: Most historians think that that block in the Communists' tactics in the '40's was what killed the American Communist party. F: It was. I think it was. And I felt that this would do the same for the civil rights movement

Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. If Mary Jones down the block had the same thing in four different colors, that really wasn't a concern. But her evening dresses, she really wanted to be one-of-a-kind. She didn't feel like that in the beginning, but one night when she was planning to wear

Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

remained very good. I always had the feeling that I could say anything to the President. M: He didn't block you out because he knew you were going to be unsympathetic? B: No. Let me say if I had found myself excluded from meetings as the Vice Pres ident

Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to them the reaction in the United States had they blocked the Paris agreements, the talks in Paris, or a meeting in Paris. We wouldn't be 13 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

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

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

have to make around Washington to- C: It went on for two months. She blocked out time to do it right. at sunrise to Mount Vernon because the sun's better then. She went even The cameramen all fell in love with her because she was the first person

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in getting the program going, and try to iron out differences that might block it. Therefore, on a program like this, we did do a great deal to make sure the program kept up and realized its potential. Other programs that did not present quite as many inter

Oral history transcript, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

south a couple of blocks in some building, whatever it was, and just had our offices. G: By then were you working during the daytime on this, or were these still evening--? H: I guess I must have been, yes. I hadn't thought of that. I guess

Oral history transcript, Peter Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)

president. impasse, an absolute block, in any communication. And again an So I just abandoned him and walked off and talked to some of the ladies present on this small yachting party, mostly Texans. I had no LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Dwight A. Ink, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

: Are there any major stumbling blocks or hindrances in recriuting of this nature such as wage scale, or salary scale? I: There was. Now the wage situation in my judgment is no longer a serious factor in the government service except at the very top levels

Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

, seven, eight years old--out the latch-key kids. on the street with tags around their necks reading: "I'm Susie Jones; if you see me more than so many blocks from home, tell me how to get home." This was shocking. And we found that only two per cent

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

have much, much more. If those few hundred trees gave so much joy, why not spread it around! Then Kenwood, the suburb of Washington, is so marvelous. It's about forty square blocks all planted in Yoshino cherries. So Mrs. Johnson did a very good

Oral history transcript, John J. (Lt. Gen.) Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Michael E. DeBakey, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

a losing battle to block this; therefore, they ought to come on in and help write the bill, you see. This is what really forced them to do it, because they never did really accept it. M: Did you play any role in the passage of the Medicare Bill? D

Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

guide was run through the other departments, not for a sign-off type of clearance where I could have been blocked by anybody's disagreement with the location of a commna, but for comment and recommendation. We tried to go back and forth and explain

Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Johnson and thei r Secret Servi ce detail. private si ght-seei ng. We followed Mr. and Mrs. They \'/anted to do some Vie follO\'Jed them at a respectful di stance and parked a half block behind them when they got out to look at something. But we wanted

Oral history transcript, Francis C. Turner, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)