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Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • it to them? You and Bob Poage?"--the ranking Democrat from Texas on the Agricultural Committee. I said, "That's quite an order, you know." And he said, "Oh, well, you talk to Bob about it." And I did. bill. We worked it o~t. So I ended up voting against
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • it recognizes that the real facts of the process do not exist, but in essence I would dare say people such as Governor [Richard] Hughes and people such as Bob Burkhardt and people such as Dave Wilentz of New Jersey, that there's never any question in their mind
Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . However, his first appointment was Bob Lovett who is a Republican and a much-respected person. I was the next, and so they decided that was an appointment they could really attack. Later, Senator Bridges became friendly with me and told me they knew
Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 1 (I), 1/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • on a couple of bills right at the end of the session--and some very important ones. But there were some that they didn't act on that he had hoped would pass, and we've never had the same kind of success. Although as far as HEW is concerned, I think
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • something like the Korean settlement, with a genuine demilitarized zone and the Communists on the North and the free Vietnamese on the South, with some guarantees of our troops remaining there. This, I think, was what he was hoping for, praying for, up
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . Most of them were friendly on most issues, the Indiana group-- a bright, bright group, John Brademas, Lee Hamilton, Andy Jacobs, that group--fine people, I hope they stay in Congress for thirty years. Mc: Do you think Mr. Johnson has sort of revealed
Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh WRIGHT -- I -- 26 W: Yes, I was there. F: Did you have any inkling that he was going to be offered the Vice Presidency? W: Yes, I wanted him to be offered the Vice Presidency and hoped he would be offered the Vice
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • came back. The next tweaking of the eagle's tail was just before Christmas when they blew up the Brink. That was that hotel Bob Hope said was coming in the other way when he was coming into town. deaths and so on, right in the heart of Saigon
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Lehan, interview 2 (II), 1/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • attention. See, Bob Nelson, who headed the program, is an economist; and his interest was in this economic experiment. All right. And he had been told "technology's no problem." So he didn't worry much about it. Okay. M: Well, now the initial train has run
Oral history transcript, George Silver, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1991, by Molly Malone Chesney (Item)
  • --in conjunction with the doctors organization, the black physicians organization, the National Medical Association-develop a variety of projects, one of which might be a group practice center and another of which we hoped might be a nursing home project. We had
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • This was contrary to the policy of the paper which at that time to keep the news and the editorial comments separate--I hope it's still that way today . F: That's almost old - fashioned now . B: It is! And they would make the editorial comments on the editorial
Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . invited? So I'd prepare that. Who should be Who should he recognize: the chairman, the ranking minority who had been helpful on the bill, the subcommittee chairman? So mention them by name. in speech writing in those days. I think Bob Hardesty
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • knew about his desire and, boy, did that price go up! were rather conventional emotions. Most of his emotions about it He liked to talk about three generations of Johnsons on the banks of the Pedernales and hoping there would be a fourth. cows. He
Oral history transcript, Ben H. Powell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . Scholar~ It He was elected from a district in Houston where the labor unions and liberal elements elected him time after time. They now have Bob Eckhardt. M: Again, this is a question that is sensitive, and it's the kind of question that comes up
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 41 (XLI), 1/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this. At that point in time there was general agreement that the first thing to do was to get the tax bill we had, pending the adjustment act, passed and out of Congress. Although Bob McNamara and David Ginsburg said if there was some way to quickly attach
Oral history transcript, Frank Ikard, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and a very important man, and as a freshman congressman I didn't want to get myself in a box where I would be--so I went over and visited with him, I never will forget, and explained to him at least my feeling that I would hope that we could work together
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 10 (X), 10/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , once with Allan Shivers and Bob Anderson. J: Why? G: That's what I wondered. J: Was there a state convention or something? G: I don't think so. He went again with Horace Busby later. Remember anything about that? J: No. Probably [when he
Oral history transcript, Solis Horwitz, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • remember Bob Brinkworth, the dispersing officer, [said], "Well, I wish he'd make up his mind what you're salary is going to be." day he could be very generous. staff. Because every He could be very abusive of his I may say this, I didn't quite get
Oral history transcript, Dwight A. Ink, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • did you overcome that? I: In part by bringing in a new personnel officer to head the personnel office. That's the most important step we took. M: And he had outside contacts then? I: He just knew how to operate. We also of course--Bob Wood
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • remained substantially the same, Remember this paint: This organization of the DEeD and its working party didn't get established until I guess it was 1961--it may even have been 1962. At that point in time Bob Roosa was undersecretary of the Treasury
  • Biographical information; Douglas Dillon; Jack Connor; Henry Fowler; restructuring international finances; Work Party Three; Bob Roosa; Group of Ten; Denis Rickett; Frank Figures; Khrister Wichman; Ottmar Emminger; Rinaldo Ossola; Frank Schiff
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but Harriman Brothers in there. living. I have a feeling he's not Only would be based on something I think someone told me many years ago. MG: Let's hope it's exaggerated. IG: Of course. MG: He went to Europe in May, 1945, at the close of the war
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • think that Lyndon grabbed the ball just for Lyndon's sake or politics. I think he had enough friends in the academic field and in the manufacturing field that they pointed out to him the importance of space. No other man except Bob Kerr worked as hard
Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [position]. Bob Novak, I guess, have you interviewed his wife? G: No, but I hope to. How about Bill Brammer? He was on the staff then, wasn't he? H: Yes. Bill and Nadine. G: Did you know Brammer was doing a novel at the time? H: No. G: You may
Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think it I think it was rather thinking that maybe he wouldn't be here, and then maybe he would have another enemy. G: Do you know if they tried to discourage him from running.? I think Dr. Bob Montgomery might have tried to influence him there. R
Oral history transcript, Whitney Shoemaker, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the rural areas, the religious institutions, the churches, the schools, and just basically being a part of a community and knowing the community. G: Did you hope to reverse the out-migration from the rural areas and have people who were living in urban
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • with a certain prestige; and among these was the prestige with Dick Russell and leaders of the Senate. my senior Senator, was a very great friend of his. Bob Kerr, And other members of the Senate who had been a part of the Senate "establishment," shall we say
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 7 (VII), 2/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • (Laughter) G: Johnson's version seems to have stressed Bob Kennedy's disappointment, how disappointed he was, reportedly, that-- O: Well, if Lyndon Johnson had called him in that day and the conversation went, "Bobby, you may be surprised, because we've
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • blacks that mostly supported Bob Taft. They'd go to Republican conventions hoping that if they jumped on the right bandwagon they might get some plums out of it. But Clements, as a Kentuckian, could understand that. Further­ more, he was probably--he
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 9 (IX), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the answer here is coordination within the executive branch to be relayed to the representative on the commission. And this is done very frequently through the Bureau of the Budget [BOB] or independently by the departments involved. At the same time, it must
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . The military plane that we were most interested in was the C-5A that could move 750 fully equipped men, we hoped, when it was fully off the ground. I might say that became another issue, which we injected into the SST. When we started looking at it in 1964, we
Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : --a congressman. He said, “I've heard Daddy speak of you many times. He held you in great regard and valued your counsel and I hope I have the benefit of it.” Well, no one of consequence had ever said this to Mr. Talley in a long, long time. Just absolutely
  • and arranging to work for him in Texas; Faulk’s activities during the McCarthy period; Faulk emceeing Washington D.C. events; Sam Rayburn; Richard Nixon; O.P. “Bob” Bobbitt; a supposed lawsuit against Texas Broadcasting Corporation; dispute with LBJ regarding
Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • interest and big push in those first years was the innovative tax cut of what he had hoped would be early 1963 and which ended up being 1964, as the date of its beginning. But he was certainly well geared up in his own thinking to the things to do after
Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 2 (II), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] McNamara. G: Perrin? VIas it Bob Perri.n? W: Yes. Bob Perrin. Bob Perrin. And following him. it was a very talented black fellow from an education background. G: Was it Lisle Carter? W: Lisle Carter. Lisle Carter. Exactly. Both of whom were
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • wrapped up what you wanted to do? G: We were charting and talking about what we thought the legal relationships were, what we hoped they would be, what we could do and couldn't. F: Did you leave feeling sort of confident? G: I thought, as far
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . These traits have stayed completely as I knew him, if anything they've become more apparent. M: The same is true of things like goals, hopes so far as public--? L: Oh, yes, yes. In thinking about the chapter, it seemed to me that what I was trying to say
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 2 (II), 5/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you're going to find that he wants you to come into the administration." I said, "I hope he doesn't ask me," because that couldn't fit into what I was doing at that time. But it was a hint that the President was taking a look at whether I could play
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • deal I recall, to do with land tenure, but I'm not sure enough really comment on it too had a of myself to that . While we're on the subject of Ed Lansdale, well, I consider him a very good friend, and I hope it's mutual . But, you know, back
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . The ambassa­ dor there at that time was a man named Horace Smith, and he had a station chief named Henry Heckscher [?], and they disagreed very strongly . They both were very strong-minded men . I hope I have the details here right, but memory--I would
Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in those fields I hope is being covered somewhere in the historical record, if only one thinks 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library