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Oral history transcript, Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1967, by Mary Walton Livingston (Item)
  • the money from [Harold L.] Ickes' Public Works outfit. The first time ~on came to the Public Works outfit [Michael W.] Mike straus was at that time the press agent for Ickes and also head of the Reclamation Department, so he came to see Michael straus
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Oral history transcript, Ralph Flynt, interview S-I, 7/23/1968, by Jan Sofokidis (Item)
  • :!. n c ~:· '55 und 8:i:' Co:T;1:i.ss :i.oncr Drc-rmc 11; in 1962,, F~1 c1 ) reorga nizri.t :ion · 1 p1~:m r-:-... c arr5.ccl cut by a cor,L-:i' ttee f;:u1 ,. I chr:.. ired by Dr. Ho:·!1cr. Bs B?.bb:i.c!ge 1 Jr o, now Pre3:tcc;:nt Ii 1
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  • Flynt, Ralph C. M. (Ralph Comer Michael), 1904-1993
Oral history transcript, M. J. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)
  • it's pretty true today--people will try to go around you, but he never would let that happen. That's another thing about Lyndon Johnson. Lyndon Johnson would never let that happen either. In other words, "You go see M. J. Anderson" or "Andy
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  • Anderson, M. J.
  • Oral history transcript, M. J. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1984, by Roland B. Hayes
  • M. J. Anderson
Oral history transcript, Sarah (Mrs. T. J. .) Taylor, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: Mrs. T. J. TAYLOR, JR. INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mrs. Taylor's home in Jefferson, Texas Tape 1 of 1 M: This is an interview with Mrs. T. J. Taylor in Jefferson, Texas. T: Mrs. T. J. Taylor, Jr. M: Mrs. T. J. Taylor, Jr
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Oral history transcript, Robert J. Kleberg, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT KLEBERG, JR. INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: King Ranch Offic es, 2nd floor , Kleberg National Bank, King svill e, Texas. Tape 1 of l M: Mr. Kleberg, the first thing I would like to know is when you first met Lyndon
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  • Oral history transcript, Robert J. Kleberg, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb
  • Robert J. Kleberg, Jr.
Oral history transcript, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JAMES A. ELKINS, JR. INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: His offices in the First City National Bank Building, Houston, Texas. Tape 1 of 1 M: First of all, I'd like to know something about your background: where you were born, and when
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  • Elkins, James A., Jr.
  • Oral history transcript, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb
  • James A. Elkins, Jr.
Oral history transcript, Beryl A. (Mrs. Lloyd) Bentsen, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : I see. So he got in on the very last of the 8 0 t h . B: O f the 8 0 t h , yes. M: And then served his own full term in the 8 1 s t ? B: Yes. M: And your husband remained a Congressman then for how long? B: We were there six years, and he
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Oral history transcript, Frank Pace, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: FRANK PACE, JR. INTERVI EWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Pace's office, 545 Madison Avenue, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: You're Frank Pace, and your last full time government occupation was in 1953 \"lhen you retired as Secretary
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  • Oral history transcript, Frank Pace, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Frank Pace, Jr.
Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JAMES L. NOEL, JR. INTERVIEWER: David McComb PLACE: Noel's office, Federal Building, Houston, Texas Tape 1 of 1 M: First of all, I'd like to know something about your background. Starting at the beginning, where were you born and when
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  • Noel, James L., Jr.
Oral history transcript, Robert Taft, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT TAFT, JR. INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Congressman Taft's office, Cannon 315, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's just identify you, sir. You're Robert Taft, Jr., Republican from First District of Ohio in the current
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  • Taft, Robert, Jr.
  • Oral history transcript, Robert Taft, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Robert Taft, Jr.
Oral history transcript, Lester D. Johnson, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 M: I see. J: It is not a Presidential appointment as such. It does not require Senatorial
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  • Biographical information; 1961 meeting with LBJ; "One Stop Inspection System;" Phillips Nichols, Jr.; role of Customs Service in balance of payments problem; Organization for Economic Development; con lowering exemptions; James Stover's survey
Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • for that broadcast with those funds that I'd loaned the campaign. F: You had to use your own funds for that? M: Yes, and I probably borrowed them. F: that speech on the air, and later was repaid after '. the election. . I I can see now why they made him
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  • Mann, Gerald C., Jr.
  • Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Gerald C. Mann, Jr.
Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LUTHER E. JONES, JR. INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Judge Jones' Chambers in the Nueces County Courthouse, Corpus Christi, Texas Tape 1 of 1 M: First of all, I'd like to know a little bit about your background. Where were you born, where
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  • Jones, Luther Edward, Jr., 1914-1999
  • Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb
  • Luther E. Jones, Jr.
Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . SAM FORE, JR. : INTERV IEidER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mrs. Fore's home in Floresville, Texas Tape 1 of 1 M: This is an interview with Mrs. Sam Fore, Jr. spells first name for him): Elma . . • E-L-M-A. (To Mrs. Fore, who I believe your given name
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Oral history transcript, John T. Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOHN T. JONES, JR. INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Jones' office, Gulf Building, Houston, Texas Tape 1 of 1 M: First of all, lid like to know a little bit about your background. Where were you born and when and where did you get your
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Oral history transcript, Roger W. Jones, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOHN T. JONES, JR. INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Jones' office, Gulf Building, Houston, Texas Tape 1 of 1 M: First of all, lid like to know a little bit about your background. Where were you born and when and where did you get your
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Oral history transcript, Dan H. Fenn, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/18/1972, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and a little bit on pay rates, but not very much. M: Was President Kennedy using Johnson at all in the leyislative role? That was the public image, that he was to be useful with the Senate or useful with Congress in some ways. that aspect at all? Did you see
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  • Oral history transcript, Dan H. Fenn, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/18/1972, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Dan H. Fenn, Jr.
Oral history transcript, Emma Guffy Miller, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • be the last for the Democratic party--that the party would just fall apart. M: You see, what we were trying to do was to kill the Ku Klux Klan; and forty years later, we did put a resolution in. It still exists, of course, down in Georgia and, of course, I
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Oral history transcript, Warren Magnuson, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Was it over supplies or something like that? M: We were supposed to go up and see what was going on and mediate the thing. I don't know whether ~yndon went clear on out to Attu with me, but we spent some time in Dutch Harbor--the command
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Oral history transcript, Burke Marshall, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • possibilities are? M: Well, you see, in 1961 we had a great deal of interest; and certainly by that fall, you know, the recruiting from law schools--you recruit in December for the next spring or fall. Well, we missed that fall recruiting, but we found a lot
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Oral history transcript, Lowell K. Bridwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • correct . When the Department of Transportation was formed, I was one of the presidential nominees for presidential positions in the department, and as highway administrator . M: I see . Did you gain the title of administrator at that point in 1965
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Oral history transcript, William F. Billings, interview 1 (I), 5/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • gone that far and may still not go that far if a similar case were presented, you see . Although I think the Supreme Court decision would be adequate to base a different decision on it this time . M: In the handling of this case, was your contact
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  • Biographical information; Texas politics; LBJ's liberal tendencies; 1956 support of Shivers; Schwille case; JFK's assassination; A TEXAN LOOKS AT LYNDON; attorney for J. Evetts Haley, Jr.; statement on Johnson Presidency; Lady Bird Johnson; 3/31
Oral history transcript, Ben H. Powell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Pearl Harbor until the very end of 1945. M: Did you see Mary? P: During that period I saw Mary Rather from time to time. all during that period for Lyndon. She worked I would see Lyndon in the office every now and then when I would go to see Mary
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  • Powell, Ben H., Jr.
  • Oral history transcript, Ben H. Powell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by David G. McComb
  • Ben H. Powell, Jr.
Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . INTERVIEWER: THOMAS HARRISON BAKER June 18, 1969 B: This is the interview with Whitney M. Young, Jr. of the Urban League. Mr. Young, do you recall when you first met or knew anything about Lyndon Johnson? Y: I first met Mr. Johnson when he was in the Senate
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  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
  • Young, Whitney Moore, Jr., 1921-1971
  • Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker
  • Whitney M. Young, Jr.
Oral history transcript, John McCully, interview 1 (I), 10/26/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • over.* G: The vice chairman was Arthur Goldberg, secretary of labor. M: Yes, Jerry was executive vice chairman. Hobart [Taylor, Jr.] was vice chairman. G: And [Holleman was] also in the Labor Department. Labor Department in this committee
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Paige E. Mulhollan PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: Mr. Johnson the man, what kind of boss did you find him to be over nearly four years of fairly close contact? C: I found
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Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 2 (II), 7/20/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to pick the leaders. If they had said to the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party, "Pick two of your members and we will seat them," but to say, "We will be glad to seat these two, was bound to go down the wrong way. M: I see. And those two would not have
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Oral history transcript, Oscar M. Laurel, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that has decent wages. So I got to see a lot of my friends, for example, join the Tree Army--they used to call it the eee. M: They called it Tree Army because of what? L: Because it had its aspect of conserving-- M: Planting trees? L: Well
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  • Laurel, Oscar M.
  • Oral history transcript, Oscar M. Laurel, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by David G. McComb
  • Oscar M. Laurel
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 1 a (I), 10/22/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh October 22, 1968 B: This is the interview with Fred M. Vinson, Jr., Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division, Department of Justice. Mr. Vinson, if we may begin with something not directly related to your present
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  • Vinson, Fred M., Jr.
  • Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 1 a (I), 10/22/1968, by T.H. Baker
  • Fred M. Vinson, Jr.
Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • think so because the way that I see it these children making their debuts have to just go so hard during the Christmas holidays, and people who'd like to entertain can't get all the parties in. M: Well, you grew up then in Galveston? MT: Yes. M
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Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . the Peddy vote I mean, they moved fast and they got a large share of support too. B: Was it Johnson himself who was working so hard? M: He did work very hard. Now, I think he talked to Peddy on the phone and then somebody else went to see him, as I
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Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the Senate--was more effective than was LBJ. F: Did you see any evidence of his direct relationship with President Eisenhower? M: I think they respected each other. They genuinely liked each other. There used to be an awful lot of banter between them
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  • Biographical information; assessment of LBJ in House and Senate; Geneva Summit Conference; Herbert Hoover, Jr.; Nixon; Senator Earle Clements; LBJ’s heart attack; LBJ’s support of Eisenhower’s policies; nomination of Lewis Strauss and Abe Fortas
Oral history transcript, Thomas C. Mann, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to be. Then the next time I had occasion to see him was when I was brought back from Mexico as Assistant Secretary of State. F: Did you feel that he played any role in your appointment to Mexico as Ambassador? M: I don't know. F: He didn't sound you out about
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Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • sold Hr. Fore real quick. He's got This is the way he operated. M: Was your wife there at the time? K: Were you home at the time when this took place? (speaking to his wife in the room, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Fore, Jr. of when she met
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Oral history transcript, Clyde O. Martz, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Precisely how did you get the position as Assistant Attorney General in the Land and Natural Resources Division? M: Ed Weisl [Jr.), my predecessor in the Division, was moved to the Civil Division in the fall of 1967, leaving a vacancy in Lands. I don't
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Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • at this for a year. R: Well, we'll try to do it as objectively as we can. M: Right. You're about my 110th interview. Let's get your identification on here, sir. You're Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., an attorney in Washington, D.C., and you've been associated
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  • Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Joseph L. Rauh, Jr.
Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh March 13, 1969 M: Let's begin, sir, by identifying you. You're Charles Diggs, a member of the House of Representatives from the State of Michigan, where you've served consecutively since 1955, I believe. D: Elected
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  • Diggs, Charles Coles, Jr., 1922-1998
Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Air- lines ever since they were formed . M: I see . B: Yes,sir . That's from 1929 to the present . I got on the first month's payroll,and they have never been able to get rid of me . M: (Laughter) It is in that connection that you ran
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Oral history transcript, Birch Bayh, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • vote wouldn't work. But after we held hearings for about a couple of months, I became convinced that I was wrong. M: I was going to say, [this time] you were the one who had to come back later-- B: So I had to eat my crow, and I still see
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 8 (VIII), 9/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Let me ask you first to just sketch the background of the steel negotiations, August 1965. C: You
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