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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 31 (XXXI), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to America] volunteers inevitably ended up with poor people getting politically organized. We'd send LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library
Oral history transcript, Roswell L. Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , Roswell L. Gilpatric of New York City, do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recording and transcript of the personal interview conducted on November 2, 1982 at New York City
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , of propaganda, if you will. Sure, it was another demonstration of the fact that there were still a lot of people who were suffering from poverty in the United States, but it wasn't to make more people fit for the draft. It was not a [inaudible]. G: Do you
Oral history transcript, Carl Hayden, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • The Reclamation Act was passed in 1902. This Salt River Project was the first project in the United States undertaken under that law. They built a dam in the river that backed the water up and a canal system. in America. It is one of the most succes sful
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 12 (XII), 7/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for the significant role they play in promoting this area of the arts. To initiate that in the United States I thought was long overdue. This President recognized that [and] opened up a new area of governmental involvement in a very progressive and meaningful way
Oral history transcript, Emma S. Webb, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and convey to the United States of America all my t'ights, title and interest in the tape recording and transcript of the personal interview conducted on December 19, .1978 in Elgin, Texas and prepared for deposit in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Carl D. Perkins and Donald Baker, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recording and transcript of the personal interview conducted on May 12, 1983 at Washington, D.C. and prepared for deposit in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the provisions of Chapter 21 of Title 44, United States Code, and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Irina Krimer, ofReston, Virginia, do hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title, and interest
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 2 (II), 2/25/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of his NYA people to work, you know, the younger kids, when they would come out of the NYA? W: Yes, yes. I worked some of them. G: You worked some of them? W: Yes, sure did. Helped them all I could. G: Were they good workers on that? W: Oh, yes
  • ; LBJ joining the navy; construction contracts during World War II; construction work in Central America; the effect of World War II on Winters' business; LBJ's 1946 campaign against Hardy Hollers and 1948 campaign against Coke Stevenson; how A.W
Oral history transcript, Jule M. Sugarman, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • have some very brief background information on you which I shall state for the tape, and then I'd like to ask you if you could fill in where I've left off. You were at bne time with the United States Civil Service Commission; you were with the Bureau
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bolton -­ II -­ 8 G: These are just to jog your memory, and I realize that some going to be wide of the mark . of them are What about the strike [at KTBC] in 1946 by the IBEW workers, the communications [workers]? B: I
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • was claiming three leagues, about ten-and-a-half miles, out in the Gulf under their Treaty of Annexation to the United States, and the federal government in the 1930s decided that Texas didn't have any valid claim to it even though they had a treaty
  • Party in Texas; land scandal during Shivers' time as governor; Bascom Giles; a federal farm storage scandal involving Billie Sol Estes and Ralph Yarborough's alleged involvement; Texas Commissioner of Agriculture J.E. McDonald; insurance scandals during
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • political intelligence, his political judgment? B: No. That's a harsh, blunt answer to your question, but that's a truth- ful answer. I think Johnson, at this particular time, was very, very pro-military, very hawkish, very distrustful of the United
Oral history transcript, Joseph Palmer II, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • making clear our hope that the Consultative Committee of the OAU which has been active in this would be successful, and that it has the support of the United States. and accepted. It's not resented at all. This is understood They want our understanding
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • barnstorming for the United States Department of Agriculture -- across the nation for some years, meeting mature and deeply concerned groups of farmers. I had visited most of the states of the Union for these sessions. Otir farmers were suffering
Oral history transcript, Anthony Solomon, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : In the beginning of 1963 I headed a mission to Bolivia for the Bureau of the BU9get as a special consultant. Then, in the late spring of '63, I headed a mission for President Kennedy to the United States Trust Territory in the Pacific Islands, and that occupied
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXXI -- 2 He talked to his usual constituency like the Farm Home Administration about the programs on REA [Rural Electrification Administration
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was their prize baby. Because you look at what it did for Johnson's district, Roosevelt sunk more REA money in Johnson's district probably than any district in America, because of his friendship for him. You know, it showed you Johnson's genius for being
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the armory, they had partitions which were higher than one's head, and what the press merely did was to bring up chairs to the partition and look over the partition. everything that was going on. They could see I kicked one United Press reporter out
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and faith had led her to be married to the President of the United States and that your loves take a different shape-- in this case, an organizational shape. And she said, "My husband's life has led me to an organizational effort in beautification
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • a real speech in the House. in the debates. I don't recall that he participated very much He apparently was a very steady worker. He was on the Naval Affairs Committee. M: Were you on that committee too? S: No, I was on the Military Affairs
Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • me to become interested. So I began to participate in county - state pol itics on the county convention and state convention level at that time, not as a candidate myself for any public office. 1>1: This is as a worker for the Democratic Party? S
Oral history transcript, Harold H. Saunders, interview 1 (I), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • a unique kind of crisis--this wasn't a war or an oil embargo or something like that; it was a different kind of crisis. But the United States was being asked to supply something like ten million tons of grain in back-to-back years to India, to avert famine
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on districts; we held back some votes from Kennedy because the 'stop Kennedy' people had gotten more votes into the districts and less statewide where we lost badly. We did hold three districts, two farm districts right beside Minnesota where Humphrey
Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • building trades and communication workers, sometimes the machinists. United Automobile Workers. But it was not true of the They were dedicated supporters of Johnson and much help to all of us here in the campaigns. But there was always
Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the legislature in South Carolina had passed enabling legislation to allow local governmental units to build power plants. had an application with PWA. They, too, had When that lawsuit was solved in late 1938, it opened the door to allow local municipalities
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 7 (VII), 9/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the provi~ions of Chapter 21 ofTitleA4~United States Code, and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Nancy Kumpuris, of Little Rock, Arkansas, do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title
Oral history transcript, David L. Hackett, interview 1 (I), 4/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Opportunity Act of 1964]. We wrote Title II. We made the argument that what you needed to successfully mount or develop a process--and again, it was not a program that we recommended but a process--that you needed the president of the United States, you needed
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that a freshman Congressman six weeks in Washington had something so urgent that it required the ear of the President of the United States. Nevertheless they did tell President Roosevelt about the request and with his good humor, he suggested that he might
Oral history transcript, Daniel Boone Porter, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: DANIEL BOONE PORTER INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Colonel Boone's residence, Belton, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: The most important thing in the experience of America in the early sixties was the adviser relationship with the Vietnamese
Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of 1949. as amended (44 U.S. C. 397) and regulations issued thereunder (41 CFR 101-10). I. James O. Eastland,. hereinafter referred to as the donor. hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for deposit in the Lyndon Baines Johnson
Oral history transcript, Dorothy V. Bush, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 Young Democratic Clubs of America
Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , we got beat, but that shows you sort of the relationship that was among the people that helped one another. I would say when I was there, and I expect it's still the same way today, there's ten or twelve men running the United States Senate
  • ; cooperation among powerful senators; tension between Ezra Taft Benson, Kerr, and other senators regarding farm legislation and agriculture; LBJ's personality and treatment of employees; Carl Hayden and controversy surrounding plans to extend part
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I June White, of Madison, Connecticut, do hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title, and interest in the tape recording and transcript of a personal interview
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • us very briefly about who you are and how you came to be here. W: I'm presently Assistant Attorney General of the United States in charge of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice. My relationship with bhis government, I suppose, starts
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • rapidly what all you did up to the time that you came to Washington and the Interstate Commerce Commission. D: I was born in Stockdale, Texas, in Wilson County just east of San Antonio; lived on a farm until I was eighteen or twenty years old. I became
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to get on the radio, money that permits you to get on the television. It was the lack of any resources, human resources and material resources, that I think absolutely guaranteed failure in the campaign. Now, that's odd, because the United Mine Workers
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • -sawmill-farming community west of Jacksonville, which was where I grew up . I attended the public schools there, and I also attended the public schools in New York and Massachusetts . M: Your family must have moved some then? B: No, I had a lot
Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of Jewish WOlllen, Church Women United, the Y. W. C. A. , the Labor Groups, the Soroptilllists, the Altrusa, the Alllerican As sociation of University Women- -alllong LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 30 (XXX), 11/4/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • together a committee of labor leaders on our own, including Joe Beirne, head of the communication workers; John Keenan of the electrical workers, Floyd "Red" Smith of the machinists and Jerry Wurf of the federal, state, county and municipal employees