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Oral history transcript, Boisfeuillet Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Jones -- Interview I -- 10 to President Kennedy, whom I had never met, for this position. I told him I had obligations at Emory, I had a new
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there would be any advantage in going into all of them. But let's talk first of all about the technique of setting up these trips you made to New England, the trip up the Hudson, the trip to Big Bend, the trip to Padre, the trip in Utah and Wyoming
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • program of the new depot. I then went with the office of the Secretary of War in San Francisco as an inspector of civilian personnel programs. In 1946 I was called to Washington by the War Department to help organize and eventually become the director
Oral history transcript, Jule M. Sugarman, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency had put us in touch around several matters and I had done a number of chores for the two of them in various efforts to draft new legislation and new programs. So in the summer of '64 Dick called to ask if I would
Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • as a nation of antagonists and dissidents. I just think he's the past master of it. The difficulty with him, when he moved into the presidency, was that he obviously didn't have the new technique for building of massive public support for your programs. He
Oral history transcript, Conrad L. Wirth, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CONRAD L. WI RTH INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Wirth's office, RCA Building, New York City Tape 1 of 1 F: Mr. Wirth, tell us first briefly something of your own background and how you came to be looked upon as an outstanding
  • National Park Service, 1928-1964; CCC; New Deal; LBJ State Park; National Capital Planning Commission
Oral history transcript, Homer E. Dean, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • riding on the train back, sort of outlined some goals I wanted to achieve. That's been a habit of mine through the years. Amazing. Every five years I'd set new ones, and they've generally happened. One of them was I decided to get better acquainted
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 4 (IV), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1982 INTERVIEWEE: ARTHUR KRIM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Krim's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: You were saying that you met with the President a good deal during the period from April through June, [1968], I believe. K
Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , he would wait until the last moment before he would personally authorize the wheat shipments . As a result, the Indians found it very hard to maintain a rationing estimate, because they couldn't know what to count on . The American Embassy in New
Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that we were wordsmiths . The only instance I know of anybody our level having made a definite contribution to new policy was Jack McNulty, who through reading � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , "Just look out there at them, and imagine that they came from Dime Box or Rosebud." Those were two of the most country towns in our beloved 10th District, or so we used to say. M: Before that, I note here that you hosted a lunch for the wives of new
  • Lady Bird Johnson's first impressions of Fidel Castro; Hester Beall Provenson's public speaking course; the Johnsons' 30th Place home in 1959; early impressions of Jacqueline Kennedy; hosting a lunch for the wives of new senators; Sam Houston
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 3 (III), 7/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of a state like New York, but you go out to North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, there the question of public housing isn't nearly so important as it would be in the metropolitan center. But conversely you take New York again, where you have a consumer
Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 2 (II), 7/20/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , understand, I'm an Independent. M: All recent appearances to the contrary! F: That's right. In New York, I was a registered member of the Liberal party, and now I'm a 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to New York, I seem to recollect it had something to do with NATO. But the President called me in the afternoon, about two or three in the afternoon, and he said, would it be possible to do this." My attitude in working with President Johnson was always
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE BALL INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Ball's office in New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by identifying you, sir. You're George Ball, and during the Johnson Administration you served as under secretary [of state
Oral history transcript, Peter Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: PETER HURD INTERVIEWER: ELIZABETH KADERLI PLACE: His studio at Sentinel Ranch, San Patricio, New Mexico Tape 1 of 1 K: I have come here to talk to Mr. Hurd about a painting he did of President Johnson which caused a good deal of interest
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 2 (II), 1/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • administration because the problem was new, and it takes a little time for it to register, and there's no question but what there was concern about the balance of payments in 1959 and in 1960. All I'm saying is that there wasn't what you might call a program
Oral history transcript, Truman Fawcett and Wilma Green Fawcett, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to each other for two or three years and then we moved to another house further away. WF: The TF: We moved just a few blocks aVlay from the old house. WF: But Lyndon had lived out on the farm until he moved in at five years Fawcett~ built a new home
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • first trip to Washington. I was a new member, I met all of the Texas members, of whom there were twenty-one, including myself, at the time. them, probably, on the opening day of the session. I met all of I'm sure I did. That included Mr. Rayburn
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • on the Council of Economic Advisers, put together the new JOBS program and the National Alliance of Businessmen. While the ideas for it had come out of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • region. M: How did you happen to get that position? T: That came open as a result of the new Higher Education Facilities Act. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , but of course there were many, many new members coming in all the time in a body as large as the House that Johnson could have only the most casual acquaintance with if he knew them at all. But he had a lot of loyal friends from all over the country
Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • not before Congress as a platform for the Democratic party in '56 and again in '60. Most of the time I was governor of New York--a considerable part of the time I was. Then afterwards I still remained as a member because we were very much concerned
Oral history transcript, Elliot Richardson, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the contrast between the easygoing, relaxed, drawling Southwesterner and the somewhat up-tight Ohioan. I always thought that Bob Taft looked more like a New Englander than a New Englander; he could have posed for "American Gothic," and this was vivid
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 3 (III), 4/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in these appointments. Each state in the union has at least one appointee, with the leading states being the District of Columbia, New York, Maryland, and California, Virginia, and Texas." He was pleased to note for the Cabinet that Texas was in sixth place
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 14 (XIV), 9/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 O: [The Higher Education Act of 1965] considerably broadened the areas of the involvement. For the first time
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on those two points--I think the question of supply of military equipment is a very difficult one indeed and would have been difficult in any measure. But we had at that time embraced rather strongly the new Nasser regime and at least they considered
Oral history transcript, Robert Bennett, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • either actual scholarship funds or in some cases trust funds to support a scholarship program for higher education. F: Has the introduction of new claims about reached its peak, or did you envisage a continuing group of claimants? B: The time
Oral history transcript, William M. Blackburn, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • born, when, where did you get your education? B: Well, I was born in 1939, February 17, in Shreveport, Louisiana, and lived there through about the first or second grade . After spending about a year in New Mexico after that, I moved to Stamford
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to Washington from your home state in Texas, and you worked with them until 1945. From 1945 to 1958 you were with the New York Times and rose to the position of chief congressional correspondent. In 1958 you left to become nationally syndicated. Your column
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 59 (LIX), 1/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • attitude toward this type of development? C: Well, you'll recall in January of 1966 in the State of the Union Message he took a shot at [John] Lindsay and the transit strike in New York, indicating that he would propose some kind of legislation
Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEES: ARTHUR E. GOLDSCHMIDT and ELIZABETH WICKENDEN (Mrs. Goldschmidt) INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MULHOLLAN PLACE: The Goldschmidts' home, 544 East 86th~ New York City Tape 1 of 2 M: You don't have to talk into it [the recorder] or anything. pick you
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , [William] Langer and some of the others who might vote with him on certain things. J: Do you have any recollections here? Oh, of course, of course. Now, you take it up in New Hampshire. We never had a Democratic senator from there, but he [Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 2 (II), 10/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ) Then on New Year's Eve, the Johnsons arrived in Washington and we all met over at Scooter and Dale Miller's house--wait a minute, I beg your pardon; it was the Thornberrys' house, it was Homer and Eloise's house-for a New Year's Eve party. Scooter and Dale
Oral history transcript, Ann Oppenheimer Hamilton, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , in effect, but Shriver was an extremely active chairman of the board. He was always coming up with new people, new ideas. G: I gather the membership of the task force was to some degree fluid, and people would come and go, and submit ideas, and stay
Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • willing to assign that man. R: Well, yes, certainly, because there's a rapport there, and when a new man comes in it's an advantage because there's an understanding there and and it makes it much easier for us to present our problems to the extent
Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . As such, in a federal agency, particularly a temporary federal agency like the WPA was, a New Deal agency, I was pretty much on my own with no supervision. I was told what they expected, then I did it. The boss, the state administrator, was Harry P. Drought, a ranking
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was that instead of putting together a new program, we put together a lot of programs that had been around for a long time--proposed programs--and by putting them together and giving them a common label and dealing with the political problems in getting them
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Novak -- I --4 M: What they call the new journalism now, but it was being done fifteen years ago. N: That's right. So I did a lot of stuff on Johnson. It tended
Oral history transcript, Robert F. McMahon and Mark T. Muller, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Field, I had a total of fourteen hours in fighter aircraft, four of which were in a P-36, and none of them in the new P-40 E. But we did get them assembled, more or less, with the aid of some Aussies and the tutelage of a few sergeants that were destined
  • McMahon met LBJ; air combat in Papua New Guinea; McMahon meeting LBJ again after LBJ had become a U.S. senator.