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Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

years in virtual support of the foreign policies of Roosevelt and of Truman. So he was bound to clash with that wing of the party, and what we did was to take advantage of it. It was a deliberate strategy that was determined before the Congress

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

with Congress. So I got to know him fairly casually in those years. In 1955, when he had his heart attack, he was recuperating down on the ranch in Texas and a story appeared in the New York Times, written interestingly enough by William S. White, which said
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Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb
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Oral history transcript, Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. G: What was his name? L: Hi s name was Robert Hope. gone to I;!orl d ~·.Ja r Cous i n Bob, vie called him. He had not I because he was necessary to the agri cul tura 1 economy of the area. His father had a large plantation and VJas a cotton

Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

Harry Woodburn Chase, who left here and went on to be president of the University of Illinois and then the president of NYU. They brought here a collection of scholars, research and teaching personnel. I don't think they've been equaled again

Oral history transcript, Peter Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)

send them for us? I can't reveal the name of this man. Unfortunately, But, as I repeat, he's a man whose name is quite well known. Yours truly, - - - - - So I thought, tlGod, thi s sounds 1i ke a kook, probably, who won't even give his name. II

Oral history transcript, Ross D. Davis, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in the late 1940's--early 1940's, I guess, wasn't it? D: Well, no, except in the context of the Army. Why don't I give you a little history if that would be useful? M: That's fine. D: I'm a lawyer and now an administrator. graduated in the class of '41

Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

giving him a flat no. It was a more sustainable posture politically. s LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org M: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] You mentioned the dominance of the figure

Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

a Tyson’s Corner of policy and program edifices without working the traffic patterns and the underground utilities and the wiring and the infrastructure out, and set ourselves up for a reaction in the 1970's and for what has gone on since in terms

Oral history transcript, John Brooks Casparis, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- I ~~ 2 the Caspar;s Hotel was on ;s now part of the Capitol grounds of the United States Capitol in Washington. grounds; it's on Avenue A. you if you wanted it. It's now part of the Capitol I have a picture of the hotel I could show But when

Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

expect. Is this all military equipment that's being used? Gu: Of course, the aircraft are. This office has, at the President's direction, four 707's-Go: That's the President's own--? Gu: That's right. Go: Cabinet officers--? Gu: That's right

Oral history transcript, Warren Magnuson, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

where you thought it should be? M: We kind of thought Nicaragua was the best place in those days. Then when Lyndon became presi dent, hi s interest in the matter was great. He appointed a commission to take a second look. Of course, when we got

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 8 (VIII), 9/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? G: I wonder when Mr. Johnson first started going there. You've heard him tell the story of coming in right after Harry Truman had been told that Roosevelt had died. And that was in 1945. R: And that's where Truman was, in the Board

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

commitment to South Viet Nam. Every President since President Truman had come to the conclusion that the security of Southeast Asia was vital to 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was involved in. He was then on the House Naval Affairs Committee, studying at the knee of Uncle Carl Vinson, the chairman. At that point I believe he had been out in the Pacific and come back. But [thi s was] my fi rst experi ence of hi s persuas i ve abil

Oral history transcript, Donald A. Williams, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Administration. Now, SCS technical assistance and community planning and development was practically nonexistent 8 years ago. During the '60's, SCS has placed increasing emphasis on such assistance. In 1965, for example, we helped towns, townships, counties

Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

in Floresville. I came home and And I was married to Sam Fore, Jr. on July 27, 1911 at the home of my father, C. S. Teas, in Floresville. M: Where did you meet your husband? F: I met him in high school. 1-1: Here in Floresville? / LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

has been your home now since the middle 1930's? H: Yes. F: When did you first get to know President Johnson? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

by that time, I was probably assistant director of the Pub 1i c Ut il it i es Di vi s i on as I remember it. Johnson and Douglas had become very close friends, saw one another regularly. Douglas and his wife at that time, whose name was Mildred, were frequent

Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in, really, in the first place. I: Or even the earlier ones-- R: Or the ones under Truman that got us to be a major helper of the French, and you know, they all share the blame; this is not a unique error of Lyndon Johnson. He was the man that was holding

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of television cameras and say, "I'm giving you what you want, am I not,tt (remembering I think the problems Truman had with McArthur). But by and large, if these guys were to--as I think [Adm. U. S. Grant] Sharp has already indicated, now that he has retired

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

~ or was it nationally based? Johnson~ I should say? L: David Lloyd was a director of the committee, and he had been an administrative assistant of President Truman's. You may remember him, I don't know. He was a highly intelligent person. He and I both felt

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to the job. F: Tell me a little bit about those years on the NYA; I'm not revealing any confidence when I say that I've talked to some of the current Negro leaders who told me that back in the middle 1930's, they didn't know Lyndon Johnson from Adam

Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

resistance was met both within the military and outside? R: One of the major decisions in the summer of 1965, at the time the decision was made to commit U. S. units to Vietnam, was the decision of whether to mobilize Some part of the reserves. And here

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. But during the interim period, between 1945 and 1950 when I was out, I joined a reserve organization, and for reasons that are not entirely clear to me I ended up as a regimental S-2 on the table of organization. This was not an organized reserve unit, so

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, "That's the dangdest situation I ever got. I get dog bit going in and eat raw meat for supper." never did forget that. (Laughter) He Two of hi s pet peeves. I was saying a little earlier about Governor Stevenson not being the best driver out

Oral history transcript, Tommie W. Glick and Sarah Taylor, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh GLICK -- I -- 5 G: S-A-I-N. And I remember Lyndon came home. We were all seated there in the living room. When he walked in the dog Little Beagle was sitting in his chair. At the sound of Lyndon's footsteps the dog

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, with Charlie Murphy and Dave Lloyd, who were Truman's top people. the Hill. He had a lot of good speech writers on It never worked, and I never could find out why it didn't work. My theory--I went traveling with Johnson several times to see what happened

Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to acknowledge that. I told you that he wanted so much to sign the Medicare Bill in Independence, went out there, and how pleased Truman---boy, he paid a lot of attention to Truman. I don't know if anyone ever asked Truman LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with Kennedy. Well, putting it another way, if you wanted to get something done in the early days of President Johns"On' s Admini stration ,and if you were on his White House staff and you couldn't get to see him yourself, which happened, then there were three

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 15 (XV), 6/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the vote took place. R: I don't remember this specifically, but it doesn't surprise me in the s 1 ightest. G: What was Johnson's position on the McClellan labor bill of rights? R: He was perfectly willing to accept it, as I recall, but with a number

Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

did a lot of thinking and a lot of contemphtion •. I don't know why other than that. just his nature not to be overlys or even normally~ It's· aggressive, probablys in politics or in campaigns. But to go on now, I said earlier s when the tape

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 3 (III), 1/2/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of sympathy with the pacification effort in such a way that made it difficult to make progress in that area? R: No. The military had a lot to learn about how you fight a guerrilla war. During the 1950's the South Vietnamese armed force

Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the field of communications. F: And you stayed with that then until the 1960's? M: Until the President appointed me as the Director of the United States Information Agency, I practiced in that field. F: Right. Did you get tq know Mr. Johnson during

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of surprise at Hyannis Port on election night, and that was the closeness of the election. I remember while flying to Hyannis election day recalling the Harris and Gallup polls and the others that showed Kennedy a winner a week before the election, which
of congressional relations for JFK; O'Brien's sense of duty as an American and his work ethic; Republican support for, and Sam Rayburn's help with, the Rules Committee changes; Judge Howard Smith; Senator Harry Byrd; JFK's popularity; lobbyist groups and cabinet

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. In the second primary, first of all, Congress. . . . You see, at the 1948 Democratic National Committee [Convention] Truman in his aggressive, feisty acceptance speech said that he was going to [be] tarring and feathering the Republican Congress

Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

then definitely succumbed to political pressure? M: Yes. I think that in that case he did. Of course, Senator Clint Ander- son is a persuasive person, and a very delightful person. Secretary of Agriculture under Mr. Truman. He was a man that had great

Oral history transcript, Thomas D. (Tom) Mills, interview 1 (I), 8/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

with Truman. It happened with Eisenhower, but I don't remember it happening with Kennedy, and it didn't happen with Johnson. There were only two times that I think that he conveyed impressions that stand in my memory that were not intended or were carried
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