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Oral history transcript, Paul H. Douglas and Emily Taft Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • facts of power pol itics and economic power. He wanted to get ahead, and he could not get ahead if he took an opposition poi nt of view to the big gas -oil-cattle-s ugar interests. So I, who believed in the more adequate system of taxation without any
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • than any other. B: Was that work in the early '60's in any way frustrating--more advisory than action? H: Yes. But again it has prepared me--see, the present commission on which I serve--of course this is a full time responsibility--but I'm trying
Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • about flying Harry Truman in later years on a visit to the Ranch. About three years prior to this particular tour which was in 1948; it was just before the end of the war when Truman was vice president; it was the day before he became President, due
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that he'd used to sign the bill. He gave Harry Truman the first one. And I didn't hear him, and Truman reached around and got hold of me and said, "The President's calling you!" (Laughter) So I finally went up to get it. But George Meany was there and I
Oral history transcript, Roy Elson, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and [Harry] Truman was going out. I was with him for seven months, until the middle of June of 1953, and all of a sudden I got called to active duty, going to the Korean War, which I always like to tell how valiantly I fought it over in Germany and France
Oral history transcript, Wayne Aspinall, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the United States senator. And Ed Johnson, of course, w a s pushed out of position almost immediately with the state convention at Durango when Kennedy came in and took over the delegates under the leadership of Byron White, nO\\l the Supreme Court justice
Oral history transcript, W. True Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , let's say, as a hobby or something of that type. But at that point President Truman was the PreSident, and Independence, Missouri, was in the Congressional district of where I lived in Missouri, and I was thinking about running for Congress
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and the Democrats quite well and faithfully--everyone from Truman forward as President. I wonder how you first came into contact with Lyndon Johnson. M: My first contact with Lyndon Johnson was in 1950 or 1951 when I was Under Secretary of the Air Force during
Oral history transcript, Archer Parr, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1984, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • many conflicting reports. Actually it wasn't really over-- F: Well, you know, Truman and others restored his civil rights. P: That's correct. They gave him a pardon. F: Now, why would the president of the United States worry about this? P: Well
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the feeling then that this decision was probably made on Sunday when Harry Truman arrived in town and came out for Averell Harriman as his candidate to head off Stevenson, and that Johnson may have decided then that this is going to be a wide-open free
Oral history transcript, Will Wilson, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEt~EE: WILL WILSON JOE B. FRANTZ His office at the Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. INJERVI U1ER: PLACE: Tape 1 of 1 F: Thi s ; s an ; ntervi ew with the Honorable ~li 11 W; 1son, Ass; stant Attorney General for the Criminal Division
Oral history transcript, Lewis Mayhew, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • book about the radical students of the 1960's. K: Yes. M: That was called Arrogance on Campus. Everybody who was doing anything had to write a book about students. And then I've written a good bit of [inaudible] stuff. K: Yes. And one of your
Oral history transcript, H.S. Hank Brown, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1970 INTERVIEWEE : H. S . INTERVIEWER : JOE B . FRANTZ PLACE : Mr . Brown's office in the AFL-CIO Building in Austin, Texas (HANK) BROWN Tape 1 of 1 F: Mr . Brown, let's go back and get you placed . How did you get to Austin in the first
Oral history transcript, Andrew J. Goodpaster, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Johnson a couple of times that Senator Johnson should be careful about any actions that would circumscribe or limit or damage or reduce the powers of the President because as he had told Senator Johnson, "It• s easily possible that you may be sit ting
Oral history transcript, James H. Tate, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • for the cities? T: I would say Larry O'Brien more than anybody else. good team. He had a pretty He worked very closely with the National League of Cities and U.S. Conference of Mayors. He also had Chuck Daley and Claude Desautel s who worked with him. I
Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: NORMAN S. PAUL (Tape iF!) INTERVIEWER: DOROTHY PIERCE Mc SWEENY More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • See all online interviews with Norman S. Paul
  • Paul, Norman S. (Norman Stark), 1919-1978
  • Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
  • Norman S. Paul
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 21 Me I believe it was in the early part of the '60's that the SST program or the question of developing it, first began to come up. Did you work on that at all? M: Yes, I worked on it a great deal
  • Monroney, A. S. Mike (Almer Stillwell Mike), 1902-1980
Oral history transcript, Omar Burleson, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • think is going to be wondered about by future historians is his role in Texas politics . It's sort of a jungle to an outsider . How did he fit into the faction- alism in the Democratic Party in the 1950's when he was in the Senate? B: Well, as I
  • Burleson, Omar Truman, 1906-1991
Oral history transcript, Kenneth E. BeLieu, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Services Committee. Senator [Richard] Russell was chairman. Styles Bridges was the senior Republican. Lyndon was number three on the committee on the Democratic side, Russell being the chairman and Harry Byrd, Sr. of Virginia, now deceased, the next in rank
Oral history transcript, Harold J. Russell, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the President reconstitued the committee and enlarged its scope and function. R: I might add, Dorothy, I was appointed originally to the committee as a member back in 1948 by President Harry Truman, so I've had a long history with the committee. P: I realize
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a rather strange turn in my military career. One of my superiors at OSS was Edward Mason, Professor Edward S. Mason of Harvard, an eminent economist, who had been one of my teachers at Harvard. Sometime in 1944 he moved over to the State Department
Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • might as well impeach the fellow as put this kind of thing in there." And then finally he said--the conversation went on a little bit; "Sam, just remember, we may have that Presidency one of these days. of that kind of s tuff cluttering up
Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • rounds of it--with Wilson, and with Truman, and the '30's, and now this round about Vietnam. I think by and large the majority of the country accepts our foreign policy with common sense, not very happily, but accepts it as inevitable. I think
Oral history transcript, Steve Martini, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , President Eisenhower's hair in his office. F: Up there in the Oval Office? M: Yes, up there in the Oval Office. This barber shop that we're sitting in now was over in the White House proper in the East Wing and it was put in by President Truman when
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 3 (III), 7/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , this was the correct interpretation." So I was gratified at that, so that I wouldn't start in with a controversy already on my hands. You talk about my relationship with Secretary Rusk. A word on that. I worked with Secretary Rusk back in the Truman Administration. I
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with Harris Melasky and with a law partner of mine who is since 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
Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to be a great Democratic rallying day. Mrs. Roosevelt was coming, Dean Acheson and all the celebrities. Lyndon was going to make one of the principal speeches. Harry Truman was going to make a principal speech. It was going to be held at the Armory, I think
Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Knott in government is excellence in office. -~ I ~- 11 You can look at"--and he pointed to pictures on the wall--"Truman, he was noted for being very forthright, very direct
Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the Democrats in the organization of the Senate. It wasn't generally known how he might be going to perform. Strom Thurmond--who had run against Harry Truman as a Dixiecrat, carried four states in 1948; not long before, Strom previously had been governor
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 5 (V), 3/14/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --and in this case some of the advocates [opponents?] of civil rights legislation--Russell Long--really read that signal right, because I think the time had come, I think because of World War II and [President Harry] Truman's order insofar as the armed forces. I
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 43 (XLIII), 3/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for tight money it's the Fed. However, we should keep in mind that at least six of the seven members of the Fed are Democrats, one appointed by Truman, two by Kennedy, and three by Johnson. . . . The policy that follows is no different than any Board would
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 60 (LX), 1/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] Mansfield said Morse was the key to what would happen in the Senate, and that we would have trouble with [Harley] Staggers. Staggers, Albert thought, would want the President to seize them, the railroads, as [Harry] Truman had seized the steel mills. And I
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , the election was about 75-25, or perhaps 66-33. F: He won overwhelmingly. One of the things that was to haunt him later also was his refusing to go along with President Truman on the Taft-Hartley Bill, or Truman s 1 veto of Taft-Hartley. Did he, as you
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Truman, you see, 1951. So then Barry came up to me. Here's a letter that he wrote Ted Dealey that owned the Dallas Morning News. "Dear Ted: Please accept this letter notifying you that I am resigning as of this date. Josephine and I will be in Dallas
Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • later, we heard from him in that fashion. My brother Truman died, and this same Don Brown married Truman's widow a year or so later. He was a professor of art at Centenary College. That's beside the point. Later, Tommy attended school at the University
Oral history transcript, Roger W. Jones, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that? J: 5idi-bou-zid? S-I-D-I- dash B-O-U- dash Z-I-0. The closest town of any size was 5beitla, S-B-E-I-T-L-A. M: This helps our typist. J: Good. I want to be of all assistance to the typist I can. I was captured there by a German Panzer division
  • Biographical information; BOB job; liquidation of war industries; use of BOB by Presidents Truman and Eisenhower; Major General Wilton Persons; Sherman Adams; Jack Martin; Bryce Harlow; McCarran-Walter Immigration Act; Hatch Act; problem of civil
Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on Internal Security when it was formed. Now I don't believe that Committee was formed until the early 1950' s if I recall correctly. F: Right. Well now of course the big issue in the next half-dozen years was the so-called McCarthy issue. Did Senator
Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • suspicion Did you know Mr. Johnson back in the old days very well--say, 1930s and '40s? Mc: I've known him since the early '40's but not that well. I first met him when I came up to join the War Production Board before Pearl Harbor. of fact, my first
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • up there . We were listening to the Speaker and he looked up at the clock and he said, "Well, it's five minutes to seven . tell you something . Fish, let me Now, I want you to know that old John W .'s going to come by here," speaking of Mr
Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • reflection of foreign policy even in the food disposal prograws. restrictio~s becaus~ And the Congress was constantly imposing political on the countries to whom we could send food, as it still does now. B: We had that problem with the extensions in '64