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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 47 (XLVII), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
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- some evidence that food programs for poor children had an impact above and beyond what the President felt from his own experience as a school teacher which were evidenced from poverty programs that were being run in Denver. G: In Denver, you say? C
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- , 1970 INTERVIEWEE: PALMER HOYT INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Hoyt's office at the Denver Post Building in Denver, Colorado Tape 1 of 1 M: This is an interview with Mr. Palmer Hoyt, the editor and publisher of the Denver Post. I might start
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- selection. But Mr. Johnson said, "Well, we have to go to Denver and we don't leave Denver until midnight tonight," I believe it was. was early in the morning. And he said, 11 This 1f Walter could be off today, he could drive me to Denver, and we could
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- was the managing director. Suhse~uently I was general counsel to the U.S. Post Office Department. G: Why don't you give us a summary of your rise in government service as you think it might be relevant to the [record]. M: I went to work in the government
- for LBJ; comparison of the White House social life of the Kennedys and the Johnsons; Kappel Commission and reorganization of the Post Office; defection of top level appointees regarding Vietnam policy; Larry O’Brien’s opposition to Vietnam policy
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- with Mrs. Johnson, correct? C: Yes, sir. The second trip, in the late summer of 1966. This trip also included a visit to Denver, where Mrs. Johnson planted a tree on the campus of Denver University. F: Why did she go back? C: I feel because of her
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- NTERV I EWEE: MYLTON L. KENNEDY INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Kennedy's residence, Denver, Colorado Tape of 1 G: Let's start with your first acquaintance with Lyndon Johnson. You indicated earlier that you arrived on the campus
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- the particular arguments that Lyndon Johnson used in that? H: No. No. I wasn't in on any of that. G: Sometime before the committee selection, Ed Johnson had given a telephone interview to Robert Lucas, I think with the Denver Post, and it said something
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- to Aubrey Williams . B: I was teaching school in Denver and was president of the Denver Class room Teachers Association and chairman of the convention committee for the big NEA that met there in July of 1935 . While I was working on this committee work
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Connally for opposing him on that, which is a little peculiar. I don't see why, as time went on the didn'tJ, but I know that he never forgave him because after I was out of the picture in the office, after I had quit . . I went to Denver, Colorado
- ; friction between LBJ and Senator Connally; LBJ and FDR; Parker’s move to Denver and return to Washington; Senator Connally and FDR; issuing press releases; circumstances of Connally’s support of LBJ in the 1942 Senate race; Connally and the appointment
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- that. It was in the Denver Post. was shot down in Australia. And the next thing was when he So the story was this counterpart--he represented Roosevelt and then they had a Frenchman and an Englishman; there were two or three of those people of equal rank, or maybe
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois
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- , and tried to use it. I was a reporter then on the Post, and it did help, but it had static in it like the first radios. The minute I could get away from my meeting or something, I'd take it off immediately because it just worried me to death. B: Did you
- Biographical information and family history; Scott's hearing and health problems; Scott's educational background; Scott's early work experience and how she became a newspaper reporter; Scott's work for the Houston Post and Hulsey Theatres; Scott's
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- by a larger vote than President Johnson carried my district. F: He rode your coattails. A: We11, I dontt know whether you'd call it riding coattails. It's pretty hard to say. F: Right. Well, you rode together. He came to Denver in October of 1964
- district of Denver; Boyhood Home legislation; role of Lady Bird with National Park Service Advisory Review Commission; appointment of son (Owen Aspinall) as governor of Samoa; island elections of governors; Saline Water Bill; National Park System and Wild
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh KILPATRICK -- I -- 3 F: Oid you ever actually interview him before you went with the. [Washington] Post? K: I don't believe I did before I went
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- INTERVIEWEE: OSCAR L. CHAPMAN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Chapman's office in the Penn Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: You started out in Denver, didn't you? C: Yes, I started my public service in Colorado as an assistant to Judge
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- are talking about. But after he was nominated in 1952 we were out in Denver, and the politicos came out, the Republican National Committee, campaign managers and everything. In the first meeting they had with Mr. Eisenhower, when they were arranging
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Antonio.” And I said, “Well, I don't know anything about a Post Office, and I've got a good job, and I don't know whether I'm interested in a thing like that.” He said, “That's the only good job I've got and you’re going to have to take it.” So, he said
- Johnson in Kleberg's office? K: No. He came to Texas after I worked at all these menial jobs around in different places in government departments, including the old Post Office Building. morning. And I had one job where I had to go to work real early
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- could think of, from the day laborers that were involved in maintaining the posts up to professionals in science and engineering, in research and development, and everything in between. So, as there comes at some point in any program
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
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- Case as administrative assistant for years and a very brilliant man, a Jewish boy from--lives over across the border in Maryland. Sam Zagoria. Z-A-G-O-R-I-A. Zagoria. He is with the Washington Post. He is ombudsman on the Washington Post and a hell
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , S.D., May 27, 1911; student Denver Coll. Pharmacy, 1932-33; A.B., U. Minn., 1939; A.M., La State U., 1940; postgrad, U. Minn., 1940-41. Pharmacist with Humphrey Drug Co.; asst. instr. polit. sci. La. State U., 1939-40; U. Minn, 1940-41; mem. adminstrv
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- us to gird up the resources and to try to help and to get involved in it. And it paid off. But again, those problems were relatively more straightforward and easier to address in the Deep South than they were in Boston or Denver or Los Angeles
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- -- 4 of LBJ's for a long, long time . So Sherman got up there on the train from Fort Worth and Denver and got in about nine-thirty or ten o'clock that night . tie knew our office was in the radio building in Wichita Falls, up on the sixth floor
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- believe the chairman of the committee was the editor of the Kenedy paper [Denver Chestnutt], but other than that--and the names, if you would like, that we remembered were Sidney Robinson [?J, Dan Storm [?J, Marvin Pierce [?J and Prince [?J, I can't
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Horth and Denver and got in about nine-thirty or ten o'clock that night. He knew our office was in the radio building in Wichita Falls, up on the sixth floor. So he said when he got off the train and went over two blocks to the hotel he thought he
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- didn't do all that well, either. G: The bank was apparently borrowing from the Federal Reserve Bank in Denver and this is the way it came to Martin's attention. Is that-- B: That's correct. Bank had serious liquidity problems--couldn't meet its
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
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- was happening in the country and I hope we can find some of this when you go through the files. The kind of hope we were giving some people. A priest came to see me. I think he was from Denver. He fought for days to get in to see me. G: Really? C: And finally
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- : [Inaudible] (Laughter) K: When I got there, it was a 106 [degrees] or something in the shade, and I decided I didn't want to stay there anyhow. So I moved up to Denver, and I looked at Denver and I liked Denver too, but I couldn't see any job
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- those with Mr. Johnson. This was the heart attack in Denver. So far as you know did Senator Johnson call on him or do anything just beyond common courtesy at this period? E: Let me say that while the President was in the hospital in Denver courtesy
- , specifically, I think, the Denver boycotts, that these boycotts were originated by Republicans to embarrass the administration--local Republicans. P: I think that's probably true. I do remember the boycotts. I was trying to remember the circumstances. But I
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- that. C: We saw him a lot. Ed Weisl came out; we saw him a lot. The publisher of the Denver Post was Palmer Hoyt. We saw him, and I think he was also--I've forgotten who was publisher of the Portland Oregonian. It seems to me it was owned by the Denver
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- went in the Army. Army until after World l~ar I was in various posts in the II, and came home in December of '45. I went back in the Attorney General's Office for a brief spell when Grover Sellers was attorney general of Texas; then resigned to run
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- , and the second month seventy-five. And the third month I went on patronage in the House post office. G: Did LBJ run the Kleberg office? L: Well, for all practical purposes he was the congressman. Mr. Dick did attend most of the Agriculture Committee's
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- was on my way to Denver to speak to a national convention of the Young Republicans; Milton Young from North Dakota, a Republican, was attending Milton Young Day in some place in Northwestern North Dakota. F: Which is about as far away as you can get. M
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Stewart Udall -- Interview I -- 8 were offered a Cabinet post? U: Well, you see the 1960 campaign I was running for Congress. I was not involved in the national campaign. I was not an adviser of Kennedy's
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- a ruling [on] what bidding would the Post Office Department hold up. If you've bid zero, would that stand up? And Mr. Harllee Branch, the man that was going to approve, told me it would. So Eastern Airlines' contract came up, they bid zero, Braniff bid
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
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- Service Commission branch offices, which are also regional headquarters for the U.S. government civil service. I believe Dallas was one, Denver was one, Kansas City was one, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Jack Guinn, an artist with his hands as well as with words, later an editor on the Denver Post and the author of two novels--he died in 1968. Many others passed through, such as Mike Scully, who wrote a series of sketches on Mexico and central America
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- they fixed up that Jordan ranch for one of the security guards. They had fenced all the way around the Ranch and these security posts, cattle guard and security posts and these guards who were civilians, but they--one of those families moved into the Jordan
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 5 and I spent a day or so in Seattle. Francisco; on to Reno. Went on to Portland, Oregon; San From Reno to Cheyenne; Cheyenne to Denver; Denver to Omaha; Omaha to Kansas City
- . days. Wyoming had only one House seat, back I would certainly have been clobbered in those But meanwhile it did whet my interest in state-wide political matters and although I never held an official party post, I did attend party conventions--things
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)