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Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : You practiced in Chicago? W: Yes. I first became an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago and served there for four years, and then became a Special Assistant Attorney General to prosecute a large mail robbery case in which a post office
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 12 (XII), 8/19/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of CLAUDIA TAYLOR JOHNSON In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 21 of Title 44, United States Code, I, Claudia Taylor Johnson of Austin, Texas, do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and internst
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recordings and transcripts of the personal interviews conducted in Washington, D.C. on September 16, 1969; August 16, 1972; and October 29, 1974
Oral history transcript, Albert C. Harzke, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Mrs. Albert C. Harzke of New Dime Box, Texas, 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
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , I, W . Sherman Birdwell, Jr . of Austin, Texas do hereby give, donate .and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recordings and transcripts of the personal interviews conducted on February 9 and 15, 1979
Oral history transcript, Richard Spinn, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Richard C. Spinn ill, of Waco, Texas, 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 with my
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the information got back to us immediately.Ordinarily in matters like that, the Justice Department is the primary source of information and gets it through United States 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • riots; Newark situation; contingency plans; Washington riots; Poor People’s Sit In in Lafayette Park; Resurrection City; fair housing law; liaison between LBJ and the Justice Department; textile workers union and J.P. Stephens; civil liberties; Ramsey
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Lyndon Johnson would have fired me if he had known that. But I missed the entire speech and sneaked out for two hours. My friends, the agents, covered for me. So I have no idea what went on that night. G: How about the Ladies Garment Workers Union
  • 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, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, Is George Mahon of Washington, D.C. do hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America all my rights s title, and interest in the tape recording and transcript of the personal
Oral history transcript, Clarence S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, David Redford, of Houston, Texas, 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
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , donate, and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title, and interest in the tape recordings and transcripts of the personal interviews conducted with my husband, Samuel A. Adams, on September 20, 1984, and August 15, 1985, and prepared
Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • activity was being carried on by main force, local force, you know, regularized units, and guerrilla incidents were practically--well, they were extremely rare. I shouldn't say practically nonexistent; every week you'd get maybe five or six guerrilla
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was fourteen, fifteen, sixteen years of age. As a result of that I took an interest in persons like Dorothy Day and an organization called the Catholic Worker Movement. It still exists; it's very small. That movement is dedicated to acceptance of a life
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the state of Texas and prior to that speaker ofthe [Texas] House of Representatives, and then had run for United States Senate in 1952 and was elected to that position. Then in 1956 he came back to run for governor in the state of Texas. The run-off election
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Executrix of the Estate of Walter Jenkins, do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title, and interest in the tape recordings and transcripts of the personal interviews conducted with my father, Walter Jenkins
Oral history transcript, H.S. Hank Brown, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of party it's always been, encompassing so many different kinds of folks from way conservative to way out liberal, farmers and workers and Negroes and small business and big business and conservatives and liberals and moderates can be absolutely poles apart
Oral history transcript, James M. Quigley, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • first term in Congress was that the then-president of the United States decided to buy a farm. Mr. Eisenhower selected Gettysburg as the site for his home and his farm, so he became my most distinguished constituent. This did not help my situation 3
Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • just never dreamed that the President of the United States was going to hand them a plaque or that that would ever be possible. But it was the kind of thing that he would do and could do. G: Your award I think was for reducing the operating costs
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • as the American Locomotive Company, and I had been in frequent professional contact with Mr. Goldberg through the years because some eight of our plants around the country were organized, for the most part, by the steel workers. Whenever there was any real
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 49 (XLIX), 7/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , they could fly on a King Air; they didn't have to fly on a JetStar. (Interruption) --routes that they [Braniff] wanted may have been [to] South America rather than the Far East. (Interruption) On April 19, the President talking to me--we must have been
Oral history transcript, Fred Korth, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Lyndon Johnson's campaign for the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate for Fort Worth and the surrounding area. I demurred somewhat to this because of the fact that I was struggling along practicing law there. I didn't see how I could
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . They had been given a loan by ARA and a grant by ARA, as I recall, and they had also procured a loan from a Kentucky insurance firm, and the United Mine Workers had advanced them money. working capital. Primarily this money was in the way of In late 1964
Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • cooperation of the White House was for him to be cooperative with President Johnson. President Johnson, on the other hand, knew of Mr. Hoover's image in the United States, particularly among the middle-of-the-road to conservative elements, and knew it was vast
  • with Martin Luther King, Jr. FBI role vs. Secret Service role; FBI jurisdiction in cases; FBI involvement in civil rights cases, especially the murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi and Viola Liuzzo murder.
Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . What about the farm problems? Would those have been-- In fact anything of a national interest, and foreign interests Maury was quite interested in. P: Can you think of some specifics? B: Well, when the depression was on naturally he was interested
Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 5 (V), 3/14/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Mary Cronin of Bethesda, Maryland, do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all rights, title, and interest in the tape recordings and transcripts of the personal interviews
Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • t1elinger In accordance with the provlslons of Chapter 21 of Title 44, United States Code, and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Alfred Melinger of Baytown, Texas, do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Johnson, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and the United States flag, Texas flag--well we all went out and said the pledge, and then they 'had a prayer, and it was a prayer that all the children repeated. It was just a generalized ··prayer, not the .Lord's Prayer, but it was just very much like children
Oral history transcript, William McChesney Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recording and transc ript of the personal interview conducted on May 8, 1987 in Washington, D.C. and prepared for deposit in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. This assignment
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the marshals. As it turned out, some National Guard units and finally General Billingsley and his people got there before there was any general assault that brought direct physical contact between the crowd and the marshals. B: Did you ever figure out
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of Culpeper, Virginia do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all our rights, title and interest in the tape recordings and transcripts of the personal interviews conducted on June 9, 1977 and December 1, 1977 at Culpeper, Virginia
Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on he came to the point where he felt they were quite valid . a distrust of social workers . G: Did he? I think that he had � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • Connally and among the other stockholders were, and the active workers at the station, were Bob Phinney, now Director of Internal Revenue, and J. J. "Jake" Pickle, who is now Congressman from the lOth District, and Ed Syers who was later head of the famous
Oral history transcript, Edgar Cahn and Jean Camper Cahn, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • success at the ABA. It went over with rousing success in the context of HEW social workers, advocates, community organizers. And furthermore, it's what I truly believe. mean, he didn't have problems with that. And it's what he did. When I called him
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • for mental retardation, university-affiliated clinical facilities for mental retardation, community mental retardation facilities, immunization for certain diseases like tuberculosis or some of the others, health care for migratory agricultural workers
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of us. Your words are exactly right. There was a lot of midnight oil burned, a lot of feeling that we can roll up our sleeves and remake America. It was a heady time to be alive and to be in government. G: This next question is something that we'll
  • Paul Bolton to cover the creation of the United Nations; Senator Tom Connally; LBJ's trip to Europe at the end of World War II; Mrs. Johnson's ruptured tubal, or ectopic, pregnancy; Lynda as a toddler; the Washington, D.C. celebration of Japan's
Oral history transcript, Alain C. Enthoven, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to the President, or that something in the field of atomic energy or aviation was not our business, Mr. McNamara would answer with the phrase, "I'm a cabinet office of the United States of America, and therefore I see my responsibilities as being to the President
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • worker--that was an impression I've had--all his life. It He was a very hard worker. He LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . But it will also be because he had Johnson, who was his opposition leader, but who believed that you had one President and one Secretary of State; and you play politics with them on the little things, but when America's national interests are at stake, you close
  • ; weakness of the United Nations; State Department’s reputation of representing foreigners rather than America.
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , of course, nor as the trip we made to Huntsville, Alabama. But Mrs. Johnson was very anxious to make Alabama a part of the United States and did so by a lot of letter writing to kinfolks, a small wave of phone calls, and then just simply refusing to turn