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Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 1 (I), 9/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

association. F: I don't know lowell Limpus. C: Lowell Limpus is now dead, but Lowell Limpus was night city editor and military expert of the News, and it is my opinion that out of that genesis came much of the Roosevelt Administration, at least press-wise
Biographical information; involvement with Roosevelt's administration; newspapers' importance to the government; summary of politics in New York State when Roosevelt was governor; genesis of the New Deal; Harvard graduates in FDR's administration

Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bolton -- I -- 3 with the Associated Press over the matter of wrongly identifying a picture, was also a special correspondent for the San Antonio Light and other newspapers. To do most

Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: JOHN E. LYLE, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Congressman Lyle's office, Houston, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: I want to begin by asking you to sketch very briefly your background and explain how you first came to be associated
First association with LBJ; recollections of James V. Allred; support of FDR; memories of Roy Miller; LBJ’s aptitude for acquiring information; views on LBJ; 1941 race; recollections of George Parr; circumstances of Lyle’s election to Congress

Oral history transcript, Florence Mahoney, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the state mental hospital there, and he told us what he saw. He was there working for the newspaper. In the morning he was there working on the newspaper. He'd been from New York. So he started writing about the horrors and even though it was a Republican

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

in reaching any uncision . He didn't shoot from the hip, so to speak . PB : hcw familiar are you or do you know about the early associations of Mr . Wirtz and Mr . Johnson? GB : Well, I think Mr . Wirtz knew Mr . Johnson's father . And he knew Lyndon
Biographical information; association with LBJ; LCRA; Alvin Wirtz; Charles Marsh; Jim West; Wesley West; social problems and reform; LBJ's heart attack; Brown & Root

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 5 (V), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of naturally put me in this area of activity and when Mrs. Johnson was contemplating some of the problems associated with the first wedding, I think she and Liz Carpenter and Bess Abell decided that there was going to be a lot of problems involved with gifts

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Thomas -- III -- 2 of a corporation whereas individual enterprise was taxed at a much lower rate. The company was operating as an individual

Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

, and he's now executive director of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, a very distinguished political scientist. Number three: Charles Schultze who was then director of the budget, has now resigned and is at the Brookings

Oral history transcript, Harold Howe II, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

discussed. I think perhaps I ought to say, just to make this record complete, that back in September and October of 1965, Frank Keppel had discussed with me at some length the possibility of becoming the Associate Commissioner of LBJ Presidential Library
Profession Development Act; Fine Affair; Equal Education Opportunity Survey; HEW/Labor rivalry; U.S. Employment Service; Higher Education Amendments of 1968; Vocational Amendments of 1968; 1967 Title III proposals; National Education Association; major policy

Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

newspapers. So He got the Tulsa Tribune to pay the same amount the Arkansas Gazette did. Then Liz, in the meantime, had started a little news bureau of her own, and she represented the Beaumont Journal. We later were to represent the Enterprise as well

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 31 (XXXI), 12/10/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of directors. Another company, Riker-Maxman, an electronics firm, was an initial client. This client list was included in the announcement of the organization of O'Brien Associates. The announcement appeared in several newspapers and I believeNewsweek magazine
Charles Colson; memos Richard Nixon's staff wrote and distributed attempting to hurt O'Brien's reputation, including one that suggested a conflict of interest between O'Brien as head of O'Brien Associates and Democratic National Committee (DNC

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 12 (XII), 8/19/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

carried Lyndon home. The nurse failed to come, so we left without her. She called in later in a huff. At home came more visitors: Ray [Roberts], Sam Houston [Johnson], Tex Goldschmidt, Bruce Catton of the NEA [Newspaper Enterprise Association] with John. I

Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 2 (II), 5/3/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the Motion Picture Association. I believe the retiring president was Eric Johnson. I was practicing law here in this firm and quite happy in New York, but as Arthur portrayed the job it had a lot of interesting aspects to it. Some of them I didn't like
Jack Valenti becoming President of the Motion Picture Association instead of Abram; MPA issues that concerned LBJ; integrationist vs. separationist civil rights movements; Berl Bernhard; A. Philip Randolph; problems at the White House Civil Rights

Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, of interpreting the agency to the people. He felt that we had been doing a bad job in really enlisting the support of private enterprise, of the cities, of the middle-class public. He indicated that it would be the hottest spot of its kind in Washington--except

Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

not aware that he did. G: Any others that were close to him then that gave him good publicity? L: r was trying to think of the fellow that was out at Kenedy, Texas. He had two local newspapers down there. What is his name? Curiously, it comes back

Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 1 (I), 6/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the leaders of the AMA [American Medical Association] and other medical groups sat down with President Johnson to, as he would call it, reason together on some of these health and medical problems. They advanced the point of view that the programs being

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

as something more than just another newspaperman. A: Well, I was born in South Carolina and grew up there, graduate of Clemson College--it's now Clemson University. I started working on newspapers in my hometown of Greenville and was a Nieman Fellow

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

enterprise system is the only way for it to work. At the time, I didn't agree with Johnson's position; I agreed with Truman that we should keep controls. But I really believe that the quicker we are able to really make free enterprise work, and do away

Oral history transcript, Boisfeuillet Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the department in many of the appearances that otherwise would have been made by Mr. Cohen, and perhaps others, rather than me. B: We've been using the phrase "organized medical groups." Actually it was the American Medical Association that was the major
, and Welfare (HEW); 1961 morale in the Kennedy administration; Jones' involvement in the introduction of Medicare; opposition to health program legislation; the introduction of Medicaid by the American Medical Association (AMA); JFK's meeting with members

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

or relationship to narrator Accession Record Number HST;. GitiIL_Historv Proi ect AC74-170 General topic of interview : Discusses his knowledge of organized labor, and his association with Lyndon Johnson . Date March 4 . 19 69 Place Length 29 pages Tape

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. There is a possibility that Steve Mitchell was either Adlai Stevenson's law partner or they were closely associated, but I think there was a better rapport between Johnson and Rayburn and Mitchell than there was with Stevenson, because they were always skeptical what

Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

representative of that district. He was a I don't think he could have ever been shaken out of that district because he was doing the kind of job that a congressman really ought to do. Th.en the LCRA fight put him in the newspapers a great deal because

Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

instructor at the university, but he fancied he could farm. I got back to town as quickly as I could get a job in town doing the same sort of thing. That was in 1933, and I had sort of grown up in a newspaper office in Newton that belonged to my uncle. Got my

Oral history transcript, Robert M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

, is that the late Roy Miller, a man who was at one time the publisher of this newspaper and who was the representative in Washington for the Port of Corpus Christi, the Intercoastal Canal Association and a number of other things, had been active as a legislative
of popular magazines; LBJ a voracious reader of newspapers; LBJ-FDR agreement on policy; Rayburn-LBJ relationship; LBJ and the Texas delegation; LBJ gets NYA job; roadside parks; the "Little Congress;" LBJ drafts patronage agreement for Texas delegation.

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 13 (XIII), 9/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. So the manufacturers were not in a very good position to be selling their bill of goods. They had some buyers, but the buyers were people who were sympathetic to them or closely associated with them. G: Were there segments of American industry

Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in most of that activity. I was a I was heavily Close to Dr. Martin Luther King --closely associated with all the national civil rights leaders. B: What was your opinion of the Justice Department's, and the Kennedy Administration generally, handling

Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

association with him as a member from the House on the Joint Committee. M: I see. When Mr. Johnson became a Senate Leader, as Minority Leader and later as Majority Leader, how would you characterize his relationship with the Republican leadership, of which

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

. They were industrial workers, union workers, hourly wage-earners who worked for private enterprise instead of for the state, and they did pretty well. So all these people were lined up. We were told we were not allowed to talk to Khrushchev. Of course, I

Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

had a continuous association with the NBC network, during which time you worked as a news writer, general assignments reporter in the United States, and a foreign correspondent. Your first overseas assignment was in 1948 to Vienna. C: 1958. M

Oral history transcript, Richard A. Prindle, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the newspaper about the extent of the deaths as well as some of the readings of the chemicals and so forth that were present in the air, and around eleven o'clock we made the decision that I was go; ng to go to London. We called the State Department. LBJ

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Shivers, and whom I had known some while I was in the University, thought very highly of as I have ever since. This is a gratuitous side comment, but he was the smartest politician I've met, ever been associated with. He called me in to the Lieutenant

Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

budget, which I have published for many years, which the National Planning Association has published for many years, which some other organizations have published--that is an example of what should be in the economic report as the integral starting point

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

political science academies and associations, and you are a writer and a lecturer. If you would like to add anything to that, by all means please feel free. S: No, I think that just about covers it. G: I'd like to begin this interview if I can

Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] newspaper on the train, that kind of thing. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh I think some of those were associated

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

who, I believe, sort of took Sherman Adams' place ; and I talked to Dave Kendall, who was special counsel to the President ; and I talked to Romer McFee, who was Dave Kendall's assistant . And they wanted to know if I believed in the free enterprise

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

of the Hearst Newspaper Bureau, in May of 1968. So I came into this coverage of the presidency in what was the twilight of it. I covered the campaign, the Humphrey-Nixon campaign, and I covered Mr. Johnson as president during the 1964 presidential campaign

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 at Arnold and Porter named Jim Fitzpatrick, and in New York by a man named Anfuso (sp), whose father was a Congressman; and I ran a smaller group called the Associates Division
of the Democratic Party; Young Citizens for LBJ in 1964; Birch Bayh; ran Associates Division of President’s Club; McSurley case; 5th Amendment; Bill Moyers; importance of Jack Valenti; reason Katzenbach moved to State; comparison of Katzenbach and Clark; Task Force

Oral history transcript, Vasco Leitao da Cunha, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1973, by Dr. Richard Graham (Item)

and affectionately. G: At the time, some American newspapers suggested that this was a gauche kind of activity for him to undertake, that sophisticated diplomats accustomed to the pleasures of Paris would find the ranch in Texas less than pleasant. LBJ

Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

met President Johnson. Actually my first meeting with him was at a Gridiron Club dinner in March, 1963. I was there with Paul Miller, who is now head of the Associated Press and head of Gannett newspapers and there was a little party after
for the Performing Arts; relationship with the Kennedys; Bill Moyers; Tommy Thompson; Lincoln Gordon; the Dominican Republic crisis; Castro and Cuba; Free Trade Association meets in Montevideo; Central America foreign ministers meet in San José; Fernando Eleta

Oral history transcript, James A. Shannon, interview 1 (I), 4/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

continued as director of the Squibb Institute but also was on the board of directors and on their executive management committee. During the spring of 1949 I was invited to come to NIH as an associate director of the Heart Institute in order to develop

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