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Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • breakfast with Johnson the following morning. And I did. And he was interested in why I was going to support Kennedy. No; I'm out on this chronology. At that time, of course, I was supporting Lyndon Johnson. Then the convention occurred, and-- M
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , to give the South a chance to live with the new decision of the Supreme Court, I think Senator Russell would have been drafted for the presidency and would have been president. But I think that was the biggest political blunder in my lifetime, because
Oral history transcript, Robinson Risner, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • counted three hundred and forty bomb impacts on that bridge--those are seven hundred and fifty-pound bombs--and we still didn't destroy that bridge. Probably by the morning of the next day they had that bridge pretty well repaired, because they just
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • out because the crowd s were terrific. Suddenly Rayburn realized they don't all hate Catholics in Texas, and "this is a litt le better than I thought." He made some of the greatest speeches for John Kennedy, particularly in Dallas where we really
Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • days? J: Yes, we talked politics. F: This was when the New Deal is hot, and Jimmy Allred is-- J: Yes, and we had a lot of mutual friends. The next recollection I have was going down to my store which I had at the campus. was a campus shop
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • two men. And yet Morse would do the most outrageous things. Morse would deliberately save his roughest anti-Johnson speeches for Austin, Texas or for Dallas, or for places like that. But there were certain clinches where Morse would always come
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 7 (VII), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Clint Anderson of New Mexico. Do you have any kind of an account of what happened? G: Let's see. R: Well, it's irrelevant. That's easy enough to get. The important point was that while with those two amendments the important--all
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • father to son to Presidency of a bank today changes every four or five years, grandson. where they get new ideas and new people. Where do they come from? If you asked where the presidents of all the banks in Dallas come from, very few of them have
  • ; LBJ’s concern with absenteeism in shipyards during WWII; LBJ’s supervisory qualities and relations with staff members; Goldberg’s impression of Dallas as a Republican stronghold; LBJ’s lack of supporters in Dallas; LBJ as a friend.
Oral history transcript, Louis F. Walter, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • house which later became the St. Barbabas Church. Of cours~, there has been a new church erected on the same lot. F: Do you remember when the county seat was moved from Blanco to Johnson City? W: Yes. I was a small boy, I guess 14 or 15 about
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • good speaker. So he had his problems. He was adequately funded, and again I had to really scrap for money. But too I think my political judgment was a lot better than Blakley's. Lynn Landrum(?) of the Dallas News used to refer to me as the "li'l
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • a briefing at the State Department that started something like this. "There's a report in the Reuters News Agency this morning based on a monitored radio broadcast from Hanoi that the North Vietnamese foreign minister said, 'If the U.S. would do A and B
  • choice and phrasing; the new mission for the marines in 1965; government's right to withhold information; the press' ability to get the information it seeks; how McCloskey obtained information; McCloskey's "thought, word and deed" message on 1967 war
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • at the State Department that started something like this. "There's a report in the Reuters News Agency this morning based on a monitored radio broadcast from Hanoi that the North Vietnamese foreign minister said, 'If the U.S. would do A and B, there could
  • McCloskey’s work in foreign service and as State Department spokesman; reporters; Vietnam; credibility gap; coordinating briefings with the White House and the Pentagon; new mission of the marines in 1965; withholding information from the press
Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the real estate business, managing apartment houses in syndication in New York City. I had gotten into interpreting quite accidentally, at first for the Carnegie Foundation; subsequently the Young Women's Christian Association, the national board
Oral history transcript, William Narva, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • division as a dermatologist. So in November 1965, I was now the Chief of Dermatology with the reassignment of Dr. Anderson. I have no records with me today but I would guess as documented in the recent news releases when we reviewed all of the tissue
Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a home in Richardson, Texas. She taught in Richardson and I commuted each day into the Dallas office. Then about ten months later, I was out in New Mexico at New Mexico State University. One night at the motel I got a call from Cliff Carter asking me
Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1974 I NTERV I HJEE: NELSON ROCKEFELLER INTERVI E~IER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Oa 11 as, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: This is an interview with former Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York in the Sheraton Dallas Hotel in Dallas, Texas, on February
Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • bought all of her clothes at Neiman-Marcus, which then was the store. And I'm sure her father would have let her have a new car, but she drove an old Buick. And she behaved as though she didn't have much money, but I knew she had plenty. Lyndon had
  • [For interview 1 and 2] Biographical information; St. Mary’s in Dallas; classes; faculty; Aunt Effie; activities; Lady Bird’s family; Caddo Lake; University of Texas life; friends; leaving college; LBJ; Selden’s marriage.
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . Eugene M. Locke. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh I am in his offices on the thirty-six floor of the Republic National Bank Tower in Dallas, Texas. The date is May 16, 1969, and my name is David McComb
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 2 (II), 1/6/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Is that right? E: To discuss, I don't recall if it was a party or some new decoration or some new furniture that we were supposed to purchase for the White House. We had a quiet lunch, both of us upstairs in her small room off their bedroom, which
Oral history transcript, Ed Gossett, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: ED GOSSETT INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Judge Gossett's Chambers, Room 392, Dallas Courthouse, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 M: Well, first of all, I'd like a little background about you. Where were you born, and when? G: l
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ARTHUR KRIM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Krim's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 G: Shall we start with that October weekend at the Ranch? K: Yes. I guess a day or two after the President returned to the Ranch following
  • Morrissey nomination; LBJ’s staff; 1965 bombing halt in Vietnam; intelligence gathering in Latin America by the CIA and FBI; New York politics; dinner for Princess Margaret, including a guest with a criminal record; a ride in August Busch’s plane; buying out
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • discuss it with Mr. Webb? P: Yes. The appointment was set up the next morning, actually. I was leaving town the next afternoon, so I came over around nine-thirty or ten o'clock, I believe, and talked to Mr. Webb. We spent about an hour and a half, I
  • Act; transition to the new administration; Bob Seamans.
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 43 (XLIII), 1/23/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • didn't want him to. But I was not the fellow that was going to have to do the job, bear the burden. So I just really drew back from trying to influence anything. I did not know which was right. But this was so new and strange and such a break with much
  • /Johnson picketers at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas.
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • contact of the kind I had in Dallas with the majority leader during the campaign. I recall that I flew to New York to visit with friends of mine, to listen to the election returns, so I was in New York City on the night of the election. These friends
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 2 (II), 12/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • seeing something on page ten of the New York Times that morning--nothing on the front page--so that I was really quite surprised to hear from Nick that the situation was as serious as it appeared to be. As we talked further he indicated to me
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 2, 1968, in his office, New York City JBF: Mr. Farley, to begin, tell us something about your background, how you came to get into politics. F: Well, I was born and raised in a little community called Grassy Point
"LBJ as I Knew Him," by Mildred Stegall (Item)
  • administrative assistant. He was a real prankster in those days and Glynn was a good target as he had a tendency to believe everything anyone told him as being true. For example, Glynn had a brand new car and he was very proud of it as the country had just gone
  • LBJ's personality; how Stegall met LBJ; LBJ's prank on Glynn Stegall involving Glynn's new car; LBJ's involvement in the Little Congress; how the Stegalls went to work for LBJ; LBJ's efforts to make his staff work harder; LBJ's assistance when Glynn
Oral history transcript, Sarah (Mrs. T. J. .) Taylor, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . M: She's the one that goes to the University of Dallas? T: Yes. M: Okay. That's kind of awkward. Did you have children? And married. I think that maybe straightens it out. Tell me, for the sake of information, when did you get married? What
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 2 (II), 9/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • off last time with Johnson coming into the White House and those early days, I don't suppose it made any great difference in your life in the Senate except that you did have a new President. And things were a bit torn up at that time. T: Well, when I
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 29 (XXIX), 5/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 31, 1965. What I can't remember is whether the President called me first or whether Gardner Ackley called me first. Anyway, it was late in the afternoon. My day starts with, the first call I've got recorded here is the President at 8:45 in the morning
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was Wayne Morse. At the end of the day Pearson called me and said, "Didn't you read my column this morning?" I said, "Yes, I read it." He said, "Didn't you appreciate it?" I said, "Well, yes. But it really wasn't true. It was Morse that did that." He said
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 5 (V), 5/3/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • things he said to me, there were two which are relevant to what we're going to discuss this morning. he said to me, "I brought you over from Paris. First, I have no idea whether you are for or against General [Charles] de Gaulle, but we have one rule
Oral history transcript, Najeeb E. Halaby, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: NAJEEB HALABY INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Halaby's offices, Pan Am Building, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: This is an interview with Mr. Najeeb--to his friends known as Jeeb-Halaby. First of all, I'd like to know something about your
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • called Reston in the morning to talk about an editorial that had appeared in the New York Times. Generally, it was a continuing situation at the New York Times, which had a pretty steady anti-Kennedy bias, and it had been reflected in an editorial
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of a The problem there was that on the very day that we did this, we bombed the hell out of Haiphong, a new target in Haiphong. And while LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • together, and John would fly to New York, walk the streets and be back the next morning. I continue to marvel at those two men but especially John, because of what he was doing, physically, staying out until three or four o'clock in the morning, how he
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ARTHUR KRIM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Krim's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Krim, let me just begin by asking you to sketch the origin of your friendship with President Johnson. Do you recall the first time you
  • Meeting Vice President LBJ; Ed Weisl; birthday event for President Kennedy in 1962; occasions where Krim saw LBJ before he became President; Krim’s work producing films for President Kennedy and LBJ; New York fundraising for LBJ; history
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the authority to make available various supplies such as housing, food, and medical supplies. I recall that my public involvement with the I matter began with a Sunday morning meeting which I chaired here in the Deputy Attorney General's office at which I
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , an old patrician, delightful character, so far removed from Lyndon geographically and socially and in so many ways, but always very fond of Lyndon. And [he was] seconded also by [Dennis] Chavez of New Mexico. The fact that Chavez was Latin American
Oral history transcript, Leonard M. Elstad, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at the college in the Hall Memorial Building. The date is February 14, 1969. The time is 10 a.m. in the morning, and my name is David McComb. Dr. Elstad, can you tell me something about the background of the college? E: Yes, I'll be glad to. In 1857 a man