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Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • convictions or wherever the interests of their states were involved, although I think he probably expected and hoped for a sense of personal loyalty and friendship and team relationship. F: Did he ever feel that any senator just downright played him false
Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • say they were compelled to undertake the fight. Well, they were compelled if they wanted to take South Vietnam, and that they had no hope of taking South Vietnam if they let the natural processes go. G: How were relations between Diem
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 5 (V), 5/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The most pathetic thing live ever had to go through is to go out and talk to those little kids. Or a bunch of Job Corps kids, really the toughest kind of delinquents, who had finally found some hope and spent eight months learning some skills, they had
Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . There was no major difficulty with respect to appropriations from the viewpoint of the White House or the Budget Bureau. In that one, we gener- ally had lesser difficulty with BOB that we did on many other things. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . And it had been the subject of discussions in late 1966 with Horsky and Philip S. Hughes, deputy director of the Bureau of the Budget, Harold Seidman and Bob Prestoman (?) of the Bureau of the Budget, Califano, and [Walter] Tobriner and Schuyler Lowe
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that Bob Kerr was Lyndon Johnson's biggest booster for this position. I think he wanted Lyndon Johnson to support him for the presidency, which he would have done, but Johnson was totally committed to Richard Russell in 1952, which was a safe position
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • would call him or when he was down would bring it up. our legislative branch: Then Jerry Persons was the head of it; the main man in the Senate was Jack Martin, who was Bob Taft's administrative assistant and knew Lyndon Johnson very well
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 8 (VIII), 9/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • while understanding him. And at the beginning--I hope I don't get 1941 and 1948 mixed up--we had an office in a large, old house downtown, like on 8th Street or 7th Street. Mr. Wild was the director of the campaign, and of course John Connally
Oral history transcript, Roy Elson, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in my book, and McCarthy deserved him. I mean, they deserved each other. Then I also remember Bob Kennedy being there, which I thought was sort of funny, because he never commits [inaudible]. But back to McCarthy. I think the way he used it, it didn't
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 2 (II), 1/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the market to maintain the price. But when people began to run into gold, the big central banks --the gold-pool countries--had only two options. One was to Continue to supply gold in the hopes that the speculative trend would break. This is the classic
Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • The House Ag. Committee then was chaired by Congressman Bob Poage of Waco. I retired last year. G: What year did you come to Washington? E: Reported to work for Associated Press on Monday morning, March 15, 1937. G: Okay. Did you know Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , "Français c'est moi Churchill," in which he pointed out that all was not lost; to have high hopes; that while things looked tough now, they were going to be all right; that Britain would never desert them. He ended his speech by saying, "So, Frenchmen
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : No, I don't think they preferred to disbelieve; I think they preferred to ignore it and hope that they could get by, but they couldn't. F: Did you get the feeling in your meetings with Senator Johnson that this was a political hot potato
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Drought I think was an attorney originally and a banker perhaps. He certainly didn't have LBJ's warmth and devotion. included some very fine people: General Bob Smith, engineer from Texas A&M; McNugh I?], I believe, who's now dead. competent professional
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • didn't really change the course of events, we were on the wrong side, as it turned out. So I didn't have any objection to coming down. I really wanted to, but I was pretty well tied up. In fact, But I went ahead and made the concession and, as Bob
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • between this and his apparent reluctance to commit himself on Taft-Hartley? M: Well, here again now, this is Bob Murphey speaking. I think if Coke Stevenson had been elected to the United States Senate that organized LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • nomination . Was this sort of a real peace gesture on his part, or was this newspaper talk? B: I have no recollection of his offering to support me for Vice President, I was always rather hopeful secretly that the President would select me as his Vice
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • concerned with the 1952 election and how well we did, etc . I had actually come over as the staff director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee . It was Mr . Johnson, I think, as much as anybody's hope to try to make the Senate Campaign
  • of Senate Democrats; John Sparkman; Paul Douglas; Paul Butler; Matt McCloskey; Americans for Democratic; Charlie Murphy; Albert and Mark Lasker Foundation; 750 Club; Ed Foley; Liz Carpenter; Ralph Hewitt; Bob Berry; Dave Lloyd; Jack Kennedy; Ted Sorenson
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • over. That's when he sent me the memo which says, "Are you out of your fucking mind?" I don't know if you've got that in the Library. I hope I can find it in these papers. But you've got the memo in which I proposed a compromise. If you get
Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • Kennedy's. I was very, very active in the 1960 convention; there were forty of us that would meet every morning at seven o'clock with Bob Kennedy to map out-K: Sort of acting as whips. G: --what each one of us would do. the day. That's right. What we
Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , Bob Jackson, who is now head of the Corpus Christi Caller Times, and Arthur Perry who at that time was secretary to Senator Tom Connally, walked together from the Capitol complex over to the Dodge. to eat. After washing' up we usually went together
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • in government I attribute to his starting me in it. I hope that whatever record I make will be a credit to him. PB: Well, that's commendable. NOW, what other campaign did you first take an active part in? CH: I took some part in the 1941 campaign when he
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was elected; nominated in the runoff primary and elected. I came up here in December, late December, and was here, of course, and have been here since that time. F: This is my thirty-eighth year in the House. Now Johnson was Bob Kleberg's secretary
Oral history transcript, Stanley Marcus, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . But by the use of the headline, '~at's Right with Dallas," I could say the same thing that I would have said the other way and received a terrific amount of public approval and approbation. I think it helped stimulate--I hope it did--a more objective look
Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at [his home]? I think they lived at Dr. Bob ~10ntgomery's at this point on San Pedro. Getting the NYA people together for weekends and going over regulations, things like that? r~: No, I don't remember anyth i ng abou t tha t. (Interruption) He were
Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • by--? B: In fact we were called in immediately when they sent the Oh no. first skeleton bill to the Hill. Bob Weaver had us all in and went through the thing point by point and asked for suggestions, and suggestions that were made by the mayors
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 8 (VIII), 9/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wanted me to do. I mean I was at all times, I hope, respectful but when they didn't want to do something the President wanted done and didn't have a good reason, I'd get them to do it. I always had difficulty dealing with Bill Wirtz. He was a nice
Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Brown -- I -- 1 2 about, A . C . Perry, and Bob Jackson, who was in'the Senator's office . Whenever there was an announcement of some new development in our district he was competing with them to be sure that the announcement came from Kleberg's office
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • some reasonable hope that I could go with the attorney general's department, frankly at considerably more money, I nevertheless agreed to go to work for him at $175 a month as his secretary in Washington, and did do so. We went up. I don't recall
Oral history transcript, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/8/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, William S. Gaud, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 20 M: What's the importance, as far as the impact of our programs are concerned, of our hopes that they will do this largely through private initiative in the recipient country as opposed to government initiative? G: Well, we all would like
  • Biographical information; Presidential impact on AID; comparison of JFK and LBJ; Presidential approval of specific loans; BOB and Treasury Department involvement in policy decision; White House and State Department involvement; B/P loans; AID
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with companies--potential advertisers. F: He was seeking national advertisers? W: Both local and national. Most national advertisers have local interests in the Texas area. F: And so he was hoping to work through the horne office to induce local people
Oral history transcript, Allan Shivers, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • no intention of not supporting the nominee--always had and hoped we always could. And the events which caused us not to support Stevenson occurred after the convention, not during the convention. F: You made that famous trip up to Illinois to see Governor
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. O'Connell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in this economic field in some fashion were people like Bob Jackson, who was then in the Department of Justice ; Bill Douglas, who was then chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission ; Leon Henderson, who was an ­ economist of note and who had been active
Oral history transcript, Roman Pucinski, interview 1 (I), 12/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in this country? And, frankly, could we have survived? I don't know. Well, it's easy enough to point to the rioting, but what about all the rioting that never did occur? And there were new hopes. So my feeling is that the trouble with history is that you never
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • health--I know that rumor keeps bobbing up. I mean, I know his doctors too well. One of his doctors in a sense is my doctor--Jim Cain, and I think that I know about as much about Mr. Johnson's health almost as he does. decided that the game wasn't
Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the tv.ro equations. F: Do you think that Johnson in a sense was mesmerized by Bob McNamara, and by Walt Rostow, or do you think that it just happened that in that one period h their lives that thei: views coincide with his? S: I don't think
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Phil ·. and Bob Esterbrook. Both of whom were obviously convinced that the ticket had to be Kennedy-Johnson, and were working on it that way, and they were saying to me, "Look, .we• ve just got to persuade Senator Johnson to take the second spot. 11