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Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

into the MacArthur dis missal was dictated by all of the circumstances. was going to take a very subtle mind. Obviously this [It] also was going to take someone who did not have a reputation of being strongly pro-Truman or strongly pro-liberal, and who yet

Oral history transcript, Joe Robertson, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the greatest men I ever knew. Charlie Murphy was [Secretary of Defense Clark] Clifford's deputy. Clifford was everything for Harry Truman and then Charlie Murphy was everything for Harry Truman after Clifford retired. I remember when we got the message

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

for the American-Statesman. I started as a capitol correspondent for the Galveston N~s, and then the Trans-Radio Press; that was a news service. Then I picked up another paper--this was [as] capitol correspondent, [the] Wichita Falls Post, which is no longer

Oral history transcript, John Wildenthal, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: JOHN WILDENTHAL INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Wildenthal 's office, Houston, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Wildenthal, why don't we begin by tracing your background very briefly and telling how you went to work for Lyndon Johnson

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

before I came up here. G: Any first impressions? W: First impressions were kind of an impression of awe, that here was my first U. S. senator, and here was a very large man and a very strongacting man and, of course, was there for business. be my first

Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

executive officer of Diversa, Inc., 1962---. Interviewer ~~J~o~e;___B_.'---"F~r~a~n=t==z~~~~~~~~~~ Position or relationship to narrator ~~U~·--=T~.'---'O~r~a=l=-'H==i=s~t~o=rvy-=P~r~o~j~e=c=t=-~~~~~~~ Accession Record Number AC74-213 General topic

Oral history transcript, Sarah T. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

behind the car that we were on. We were going very slowly because the crowds were so large. And Liz Carpenter jumped out of the press car and ran into Harris', which is one of our big, big department stores where we turned to go down to the municipal

Oral history transcript, William H. Darden, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of good will in the Senate, not much partisanship or not much political wrangling. You had Senator Russell, and let's see who else: Senator Harry Byrd [Sr.], and Senator Johnson, Senator [John] Stennis and [Henry Styles] Bridges and [Leverett] Saltonstall
Truman; the work of the Preparedness Subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee; LBJ's changing personnel and payroll; the value of the Preparedness Subcommittee; military money-wasting; how the Armed Service Committee members got along; critical

Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to each other. I went to Herb Brownell, who was then the Attorney General, and explained the situation to him as I thought it was. I suggested to him that we ought to take parts of the message--rather the program--that President Truman had approved. Parts

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. (Interruption) Okay, well let's start with May. On May 3 the President flew to Kansas City to meet with President Truman. B: I was not with him. G: Anything on their relationship that you recall? B: I guess the only thing on their relationship
LBJ's relationship with Presidents Eisenhower, Truman, and Nixon; LBJ's 1968 speech to the Ladies Garment Workers in Atlantic City; LBJ's meeting with Australian Prime Minister John Gorton and U.S. relations with Australia; LBJ inviting Bonanno's

Oral history transcript, Fred Korth, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Administration. K: Actually November 1 of 1963, and January 4 of '62 was when I was sworn in as the Secretary of the Navy. M: In your career in Texas--your business career--between the time you were with the Truman Administration and when you came back

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 39 (XXXIX), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for President [Harry] Truman or [Franklin] Roosevelt, and maybe we should do something like that and have a more coherent way of dealing with this problem. We did not do that. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

into the thirties, into the forties, very little happened. All federal facilities were segregated as late as Harry Truman. Separate toilets, separate cafeterias. No racism? I mean, come on, open the blinkers, right? And Harry Truman abolished segregation

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

say that he can identify himself with Jack Kennedy and with President Eisenhower and Mr. Truman and Mr. Roosevelt and he identifies with Andrew Jackson, but he cannot identify with Woodrow Wilson. He has tried but he has no feeling of association. He

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: SENATOR A. S. (MIKE) MONRONEY INTERVIEWER: DOROTHY PIERCE McSWEENY More on LBJ Library oral
Biographical information; association with LBJ; Rayburn; Board of Education meetings; impression of LBJ; political reputation and closest associates; relationships of LBJ with FDR, Eisenhower and Truman; NYA; wartime price control legislation
Monroney, A. S. Mike (Almer Stillwell Mike), 1902-1980

Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: December 8, 1983 INTERVIEWEE : BO BYERS INTERVIEWER : Michael L . Gillette PLACE : U .S . Capitol, Washington, D .C . Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start, Mr . Byers, by asking you to briefly trace your background and how you came in a position of covering
activity; Truman train through Texas thoughts about the 1948 campaign

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 28 (XXVIII), 9/24/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

National Committee in dire straits financially but the schism of Chicago in 1968 was very much present. It clearly indicated there were great difficulties ahead. During the [Fred] Harris period, as a result of actions at the Chicago convention, commissions
' photographs of the meeting; O'Brien's speeches and travel during the 1970 congressional elections; O'Brien's stop in Chicago and Mayor Richard Daley's influence there; Hubert Humphrey as the titular head of the DNC rather than LBJ; LBJ's and Truman's interest

Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (TAPE 4frl) February 14, 1969 This is the interview with Orville Freeman. Sir, you've been in one way or another in Democratic politics since the 1940 1 s. in~olved Do you recall when you firsr met Lyndon Johnson? F

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 3 (III), 9/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

recall very well that upon McFarland s defeat Mr. Johnson, I 1 think, wanted to become the minority leader. He had been the assistant minority leader prior to that time, and he was probably one of only maybe two or three that were possible because

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 4 (IV), 10/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the lawyers, as a kind of board to do a critique. He invited Clark Clifford, Secretary of Defense who was there, and I wondered why Clark was there. It turned out, he invited him, which was fine, as a kind of general adviser. He'd served President Truman

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XXXVI -- 12 the whole mining industry." My father-in-law [William Paley] did a big Paley study for [Franklin] Roosevelt or [Harry] Truman. Was it Truman? G: That's great. Do you think he can read that? C: I put

Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Moss -- I -- 3 M: Yes. He didn't have a very cohesive party but it wasn't the factions so much that defeated us, just I guess the overwhelming sentiment that existed then in the country which came to a strong head in Utah. Truman

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of the society an exposure at the very top of government. The interns back in the '30's were placed at substantially lower levels in the government than the White House Fellows have been the last few years. Also we had a great distinction, and that was that we

Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

contest of his primary election in Texas? R: No. Actually, like most of the other young New Dealers around town, I met then-Congressman Lyndon Johnson in the early '40's, but it's not a clear recollection for me. I guess I remember him mostly as sort

Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: Emmette S. Redford (Tape 1) INTERVIEWER: David G. McComb DATE: M: More on LBJ Library oral
See all online interviews with Emmette S. Redford
Redford, Emmette S.
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb
Emmette S. Redford

Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

for about thirty years, and have been in the State Senate for twelve years, having been first elected in 1956. I am now nominee of the Democratic Party for re-election the fifth of November thi s year. PB: Running for re-election in 1968. Now, I happen

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

is the basic background of this. Then I know that they--this again was before my time--had to work very closely on such things as the Tidelands Bill and the Natural Gas Bill, the Kerr Natural Gas Bill, the Harris Natural Gas Bill, although it would

Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the time now when I Now before that I had been in London as the head of the United States' mission for the Marshall Plan. And then after I came back I was asked by President Truman to head up a commission on air power. That was in 1947-1948, the last

Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: GOVERNOR LUTHER HODGES INTERVIEWER: T. HARRI BAKER More on LBJ Library oral histories: http

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a very long-range effect upon Johnson•s political fortunes, too. He had always had a strong following in the Jewish section of the United States, but I think this solidified it. Then he also played quite a role during the era when Eisenhower decided

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 4 (IV), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

acceptance speech long after the convention over at Constitution Hall, etc. Truman had gone; Eisenhower had gone; Roosevelt had not gone every LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

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

will be out in a few days, William O. Douglas, Rexford Guy Tugwell, Dr. [Harry] Carman. him. And Leon Keyserling was my classmate; I sat alongside of He was a high formative influence in the Roosevelt Administration through Senator [Robert] Wagner

Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

probably done a better job of staying out of politics and staying out of taking public positions than any man that has ever retired from the office of the presidency in the history.. came out and endorsed everybody in the country. Harry Truman Dwight

Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

hostilities did break out, the chief objection that I felt and spoke regarding the Truman action is that, number one, they had the Blair House conference. seniority to be included. Now I didn't at that point have sufficient I wasn't holding the chairmanship
Knowland’s career before entering the Senate in the 1940’s, his Senate career in relation to that of LBJ, his relationship with Senator Tom Connally, the relationship between Democrats and Republicans, Eisenhower’s election and his view

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 4 (IV), 1/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

years and back as far as the Truman and even Roosevelt years. Roosevelt usually, though, called his people into the White House and got it done right there. He didn't bother naming them to any commission. Eisenhower had a few fairly major ones, perhaps
as head of the Civil Service Commission; Wozencraft's regard for Macy; Wozencraft's and Harry McPherson's involvement in the Committee on the Interchange of Government; a program to allow private business employees to work temporarily in the federal

Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

grew almost out of proportion. He had one of the young black women who was a secretary in the White House with him, and he had Pat Harris, who had been one of the people involved in the election campaign. Anyway, this was a very great occasion
appointments; black attitudes toward LBJ; Hobart Taylor, Jr.; RFK, Truman, Humphrey and John Macy; Nabrit’s switch to Democratic Party in 1964; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party’s seating fight at 1964 Convention; advising President on civil rights

Oral history transcript, William M. Blackburn, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

was twelve years in the House, twelve i n the Senate, so he knows. M : s i t true that Johnson was a master at legislative work with the Congress? B: Oh, yes. M: You mean he really understood the workings? � � � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the point that he wasn't interested in his earlier career in foreign affairs at all. While you served President Truman, either in the White House or as Mutual Security Administrator, did Mr. Johnson ever take any interest in the foreign affairs aide? Did

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

know what it would be. some shuffling around on the staff. staff. I knew there had been Bill Moyers had just left the Harry McPherson was the first contact point I had, and I func- tioned initially as Harry's deputy or took over some of the chores

Oral history transcript, Marjorie Lawson, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity." And I had really prepared the files of that agency for--you know, I put it to bed. I worked out of the [Harry] Truman White House to put that agency to bed, to get it ready for archives. So I had a history of being

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