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Oral history transcript, Robert Bennett, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to the Congress on American Indians by a President of the United States . F: Had you known the President previous to being named the commissioner? B: No, I had not known the President previous to being named commissioner, and my association with him has been
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ha 1dron -- II -- 11 And certainly in a farming area, where he had a background of knowledge of farming problems, he would appeal, just almost in a pleading way to these people
Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 21 of Title 44, United States Code, and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Shirley Cochrane, of Washington, D.C. and Charlotte, NC, do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh I also had the job of organizing the monthly or semi-monthly payment of wages to all the government employees and the soldiers and the day workers. Probably for the first
Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of his having read Michael Harrington's The Other America.] At any rate, Bill Cannon was on the receiving end for the report that came back from the CEA. The report was a laundry list of possible direct measures to increase the incomes of the poor. Cannon
Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • of William D. Carey, do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title, and interest in the transcripts and recordings of the personal interviews conducted with William D. Carey December 11, 1985, and January 16, 1986
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 2 (II), 10/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • rides around and if he'd see the fence that needed fixing, he'd, you know, figure out how much lumber he needed and wire or what have you. he really didn't have a foreman. At that time, that summer, He was without one. of farm hands, but he also
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • it was a great mess of things not very well identified as to what it was, difficult to follow, sometimes just clippings from the Congressional Record with great lengthy speeches that somebody maybe had made on the farm program which could have been useful
Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • prepared to be president of the United States as Lyndon Johnson." return, "I agree." And Henry Ford said in So that's how I really first got to know him. K: That left a lasting impression. CK: I think I would have met him a couple of times previously
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . It was selling people on the man, persuading them to become campaign workers and furnishing them with materials to use in campaigning. Then of course when he would come into the area, it was a combination of advance work as we know it now. F: To make sure
Oral history transcript, William M. Blackburn, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • worker and he demands hard work of you . I worked about seventy to seventy-five hours a week, I suppose, the first year and a half I was there, and helped Watson out a lot, as well as working some for the President directly . But a lot of the work I
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • off the conservation pictures, which ended up serving the Discover America program very well. We were discovering America long before there was a program on it. F: Were you conscious of the dollar-drain in this? C: We became conscious of it; we
  • 40 trips; Discover America; LBJ’s trip to Senegal while VP; Cadillac diplomacy; JFK approved LBJ’s approach on trips; Ayub Khan told LBJ that Russians would be testing JFK in international area; Ayub Khan’s visit to the LBJ Ranch; camel-driver
Oral history transcript, Abe Fortas, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was in charge and with his usual kindness and graciousness, he deferred to me and let me take the lead, making sure to keep me on the straight and narrow path. J: On something like this do you personally prepare the brief? Do you farm it out to one of your
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 11 Presidents of the United States. The President would say, "I want to make it clear that we don't want to spring
Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: BESS WHITEHEAD SCOTT INTERVIEWER: Christie L. Bourgeois PLACE: Mrs. Scott's apartment, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 B: I want to begin by asking you to talk about your own background for a moment. S: Well, I was born on a farm
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • better. Towering In fact, one man that That was Eugene Millikin of Colorado. But Millikin had no ambition whatsoever. Millikin was a man who was in the United States Senate because he thought it was a rather nice club. He joined the Senate the way
Oral history transcript, Warren Magnuson, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , that the defense of the United States almost dictated it. If they'd have followed our advice then, why, this thing that's going on on the floor right now on the Panama Canal Treaty might have been a different thing if we'd had a second canal. G: Did you indicate
  • Appointment to Naval Affairs Committee in 1936; how he met LBJ; trip to Central America to evaluate a second canal; war service; President Roosevelt and LBJ; LBJ as senate majority leader; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • called Mr. George Sokolsky, who then became very famous in the United States, where he was the main editorial columnist of the Sun. He also became an LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
  • to the United States and involvement in the microfilm business; New York Governor Alfred Smith; a plane crashing into the Empire State Building; marrying Charles Engelhard; Engelhard’s political career; Engelhard’s involvement in the gold business; race
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 3 (III), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • -executors (for the estate of Juanita Roberts , 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 personal interviews conducted en August 29 and October 17, 1969
Oral history transcript, Jack Howard, interview 1 (I), 10/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the House Committee on Government Operations. That was the so-called , [Congressman John L]" Moss committee, which was attempting to suppress secrecy around the world, but principally in the United States. The situation in San Francisco had become very
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • background is mixed. I am basically a professional in communications, who has worked in the media of neivspapers, television, government public information programs for the State Department in Germany where I was Mission Chief of the old United States
Oral history transcript, George A. Smathers, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • forth, I, John Smathers, of Arlington, Virginia, 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 father, George
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was translated in Hindi. And in this speech he said that this was not an unfamiliar thing to him at all, that as a young boy he had lived in a part of the United States where the average annual cash income was just about what the average annual cash income
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 2 (II), 09/10/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ; in fact, we barely knew each other, and the same way with Wayne Grover, who was archivist of the United States. But I rather wonder if they weren't looking for someone from Texas. With Johnson as president, they thought it might be advantageous and that I
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . As an example of that, Fred Bohen was really instrumental in putting together the omnibus Housing Act of 1968, which is really a landmark legislative achievement. It embodies a ten-year program to build twenty-six million housing units in this country
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 4 (IV), 1/28/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, 1, James R. Jones of Washington, D.C., 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
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, . James R. Dougherty III of aeeville, 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
Oral history transcript, Tommie W. Glick and Sarah Taylor, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Mrs. Tommy Wirtsbaugh. Glick of Great Neck, Long Island, New York 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, O.J. Weber, interview 2 (II), 12/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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 Austin, Texas on December 4, 1984, and in Austin, Texas on December 28, 1989
Oral history transcript, Edith H. Parker, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Edith H. Parker of Augusta, Georgia 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 on August 27
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: WELLY HOPKINS INTERVIEWER: ERIC F. GOLDr·1AN PLACE: Mr. Hopkins' office in the United Mine Workers Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 EG: Mr. Hopkins, your letter describes your first meeting with the President but it isn't as complete
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was a type of mentor? P: Well I suppose everybody felt close to Nr. Sam. And because of my associations in the 1936 presidential campaign, where I was directed to become the executive director of sixteen farm states-F: Yes. P: --by Henry i'Jallace
Oral history transcript, Ella SoRelle Porter and Mike Porter, interview 1 (I), 11/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [when] my parents though_t we shaul d go back to the farm wfLere we could be sure of food and that sort of thi ng. thr~ugh the elementary time--and t~e But wHh the exception of one year I went school-~the sub-college we called it at the college
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the United States Senate in modern days. about 1875. lt/ore boots and talked boots. He was a throwback to Well, he called me up at the White House in 1953 and said, "Harlow, Wel ker, which was his II manner. ately." I said, "Yes, Senator. II He said
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the United States because it's an efficient way to transport it. But if one wants to ship it overseas or the way it's manufactured overseas, it's in solid form . Most of us think of fertilizers coming in bags . is that the President knew all about how
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • saying we ought to all go back and live on the farm, at times. The net effect was that that was a tough (and the report shows it) report on which to get consensus. Wurster had died during the middle of it. Catherine Bauer I had the last letter from
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XX -- 9 G: Why did he want to return, do you know? R: You mean to the United States? G: Yes. R: The business was over, and the man had
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Glynn. But boy, what a bastard he could be. G: Any other events during the campaign that you remember? The trip to the International Ladies Garment Workers Union in New York? R: I don't remember that, for some reason. You know, during that whole
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recordings and transcripts of personal interviews conducted with Kermit Gordon on December 16, 1968 and January 9, March 21, and April 8, 1969