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Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 8 (VIII), 4/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Deason -- VIII -- 4 blood oath that night to avenge as long as they lived the thing that happened in Dallas. They would avenge
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the public address systems, and he was most solicitous, most anxious to assist, to do anything he can to make sure this was a success. We were, that morning, about, oh, three hours away from presidential arrival, and he was saying, "We've got to have it right
  • other countries; LBJ speaking Spanish; Glassboro, New Jersey, meeting with Kosygin; trip around the US to visit military troops; communication problems aboard the USS Enterprise; LBJ’s response to a Williamsburg, Virginia, minister’s anti-war statements.
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 4 (IV), 8/8/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , how about taking it and meeting me up in Austin next week?" said, "Well, what are we going to do?" He said, "I've got a new job up there, and I may need you for a while. So see if you can't get your vacation and meet me up there Monday morning
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . G: You didn't notice any switch politically in LBJ after he went to Washington then, did you ever? W: No. The first time I had a long visit with him, I think he and Bill Deason and I went for a ride one Sunday morning in that little one-seated
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 24 (XXIV), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: Okay, one more question about Chicago. Did you make an effort there to have [Eugene] McCarthy support
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : It came about because the former un-dersecretary was named by Presiqent Johnson to be ambassador to New Zealand. F: That was who? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • -thirty in the morning and ten-thirty in the morning from his bedroom. He would think and be on the phone. I think that was his best decision-making time, as far as I can tell. F: I judge he made his decisions, in a sense, in the midst of a lot
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 3 (III), 12/2/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . by no means unique in that attitude . Oral history is really fairly new, and we are just sort of relying on the intelligence of the future scholars to be well aware that that kind of circumstance does develop . And indeed I think perhaps the purpose
Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • with LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh the new chairman of the House
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was in in high school, and, of course, the Longhorn Band in those days traveled by train to most of the football games we attended, but a cross-country trip, spending a couple of nights on the train--that's what it took then--was something new. I 3 LBJ
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • your own Department? U: Well, with my Department, and you know my Department is not one of the big major Departments in terms of its programs and responsibilities like HEW has been the entire 1960's. We were initiating a lot of new programs. I think
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 3 (III), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it, and I said, yes, I could. F: Later on he indicated he wanted me to go see the Pope. How far in advance of New Year's, roughly, did he first call you? How far ahead? R: Listen, I flew to Italy on Thanksgiving Day. F: And this was a little before
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 53 (LIII), 8/16/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the next day. The next morning--that's right--he called me, and we talked about the State of the Union, and I said something like, "Did you notice that the traffic safety thing was mentioned high up in all these stories?" And I see here the story you just
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 55 (LV), 9/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --on the first of March. And it's interesting, we had a--I guess it's worth spending just a minute. This was the best way to unfold a new program. It's not related just to highway safety, but the whole transportation program. The night before the message goes up
Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • during the first five years of the Kennedy-Johnson Administration when the rate of economic growth was twice as high as in the previous years. And we began to get the new and recent price inflation when the economy got into trouble again. There has
  • interest rates; Rexford Tug-well; Keyserling’s influence on the New Deal; lasting effects of New Deal reforms; military spending and the economy; Vietnam war; planning public spending; jobs and on-the-job training; evaluation of LBJ’s domestic policies; how
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 2 (II), 7/9/1971, 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: I think maybe a good thing at the beginning would be to put on [tape] that I've read through your file of memoranda, and your caution
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /oh Califano -- XVI -- 18 signing, but that was the picture on the front page, I believe, of the New York Times the morning after the signing. I was home and the President called me and said, "Why the hell"--it was not a good picture of him--"didn't
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 15 (XV), 1/4/1980-1/5/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as could be, just jumping at the news of the day. In fact, we had had long discussions about all of the situation with Japan the night before and that morning at breakfast before I drove to Billingsley. I remember, with appropriate dismay, how I had said
  • Closing up LBJ's Senate campaign headquarters after the 1941 loss; trip to New York City with Gene Boehringer Lasseter to see Van Cliburn; the political importance of postmasters; LBJ's involvement in the extension of Selective Service and the draft
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and the impact of the launching of Sputnik on our national security. Shortly after receiving that phone call one early morning, Ed Weisl asked me if I would join him and go down to Washington that morning to meet at noon with Senator Russell and Senator Johnson
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • McGeorge Bundy, like Larry O'Brien, and certain others of them like this boy from whom I just got the letter, Bernie Boutin, who tried to run the campaign in New Hampshire [tried]. That was a letter from Bernie this morning. I think King. That was a very
Oral history transcript, Joseph Bruno, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the Washington, D.C. area. My family's from New England, and I spent a few of my early years up there, but for the most part I've lived in this area. I attended Georgetown University and Catholic University here in Washington, and I have been associated
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 8 (VIII), 9/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the President also--that was when we brought [Arthur] Goldberg in because Goldberg was up in New York and Goldberg had as a lawyer, if my recollection is correct, represented the steelworkers, which gave him terrific lines into the steelworkers before he became
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1987 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: There was additional evidence concerning ITT that underscored the existing concern during the period when
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 43 (XLIII), 3/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that was fine. Said the market was headed for a new low this morning and it turned it around. 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, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 10/30/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • me up one Sunday morning and asked me if I'd read page 78 of the New York Times. I said, "No." It was down three flights of stairs from me. And he said, "Well, you go downstairs and get the newspaper, the New York Times." And I went down and got
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: FRANK STANTON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Dr. Stanton's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Moving to the next presidential election in 1964, was there any effort made to have a debate between President
  • the burning of a Vietnam village; television news coverage of Vietnam; Stanton's belief that the Vietnam war would have been shorter if there had been presidential debates in 1964; Walter Cronkite's effect on public opinion and LBJ's concern over Cronkite's
Oral history transcript, Harold H. Saunders, interview 1 (I), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . So you had the full range of expertise and senior-cabinet-level thought that-- G: Did you sit on the new committee? S: I did sit in with them, and I must say that wherever the notes are from those discussions-and they are probably in some of my
Oral history transcript, Fred Schmidt, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Convention. In fact, we literally did that. Our Dallas delegation, the year we won it, the Brownsville convention, we had some black delegates there and it was sort of a fearsome thing to anyone who's grown up in Texas. You know you're breaking new ground
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 18 (XVIII), 12/18/1986, 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 1, Side 1 G: [In 1966 you] had a reorganization plan that transferred the Community Relations Service from the Commerce
Oral history transcript, Richard A. Prindle, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in London, that people began to get worried. Now I had an exciting time going and being part of the 1962 activities in London. I was driving to work here in Washington about eight-thirty in the morning, and I heard the news on the radio
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -morning news conferences in the office, around his desk, not for television. But he was looking for those Sunday paper stories. And quite often he would invite reporters in for interviews, looking for a Sunday piece. In that sense, I think, his
Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 2 (II), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the matters that we found on our plate when we went to work in the morning, but also to anticipate the problems and to try to make recommendations to Congress on how these problems that required legislation could most easily be disposed of. 2 LBJ
  • suggestion that Securities and Exchange Commission powers over the utilities be transferred to the FPC; LBJ's influence on Swidler's work; Swidler's talk to New England power companies and the resulting efforts to integrate and coordinate systems without
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 4 (IV), 8/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • today, Wednesday, August 20, 1969. We are again in your offices, this morning at quarter of ten. We have, I think, very thoroughly covered your relations with the Johnsons and the developments and decisions relating to the beautification and conservation
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 4, Side 1 O: The 1968 tax surcharge battle evolved from the proposal that was made in 1967 by the President. He was anxious to deal
  • in running for president; Bernard Boutin being instructed to keep O'Brien out of involvement in the New Hampshire primary; LBJ's decision to not have a stand-in in the Massachusetts primary; O'Brien's February 1968 memo updating information on primaries
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 3 (III), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • by the fact that he was new and by the fact that he is extraordinarily good at getting along with people. And he has been able to reach accommodations on certain issues that were of major importance to the more powerful members of the Armed Services
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 6 (VI), 4/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • safety and your safety, we'll just send her for an overnight stay at the hospital and if she's okay in the morning, well, we'll release her." I don't know how she got from the doctor's office to the hospital, whether there was an ambulance or whether
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, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . The time is 10:45 in the morning, and my name is David McComb. To start off, Dr. Pechman, I'd like to know something about your background--where you were born, when, where did you get your education. P: I was born in New York City and went through
  • Biographical information; Arthur Burns; Committee for Economic Development; Herbert Stein; Howard Myers; Ted Yntema; Walter Heller; Brookings Institute; relationship with LBJ; termination of consultantship; development of new economic theory; Paul
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , that he got some money from Jewish contributors in New York. And Weisl, Balaban, and who knows who else communicated with Gerry Siegel and he provided Johnson with a lot of feeling for and understanding of the Jewish community's views on the Israeli
Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the Kennedy Administration, particularly the poverty program which was in the mill, so to speak, at that time, there was some concern over whether the new President would support it and push it in the manner that it was being pushed by the Kennedy