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Oral history transcript, John E. Horne, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, President Kennedy had a very appealing style. M: I remember the campaign. I'm from Arkansas normally, and that was one of your states, I suppose. H: Yes. Once he could get into these states, and they coul d see hi s personality and hear him speak

Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

years that I knew him in the Congress. I'm sure he was quite active on the Arrned Services Committee in those days and confined most of his activity in terms of participation in debate to bi 11 s comi ng out of that committee. t4c: Did he appear

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the rumors. The only other thing, I do know that Russell had originally been opposed to any sort of intervention in Viet Nam, but here I'm going back to 1954 or in the late 1 1 55, at the time of Dien Bien Phu. 60 1 s--it must have been '66 or 1

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on the staff. There was no justification for having an agricultural economist as a member of the council, even though that had been the tradition under Eisenhower and Truman, I guess. F: Did the President ever voice the opinion that in one sense agriculture

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Virginia; O'Brien's work with Paul Douglas; temporary unemployment compensation legislation; O'Brien's contact with Harry Byrd and the Senate Finance Committee; the difference between a teller vote and a roll call; aid for dependent children; Medicare

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 6 (VI), 8/18/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that occupied one corner near his desk. He had the presidential papers in the bookcases surrounding--they were kind of built into the walls of the Oval Room, that is, the papers of Truman and Eisenhower and Kennedy. Now instead of the presidential papers

Oral history transcript, Sidney "Sub" Pyland, interview 1 (I), 9/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Whiteside, we'd sit up at night. Horace always had a little money and he could go buy some--I remember buying some sign cloth, ducking, strips of it, fifty foot long, like that, and we'd go down there and borrow my old friend Harry Wilcoxen's 9 LBJ

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Johnson, and I sat with their representatives in working out something like I think thirteen amendments which made it possible for them to endorse the bill. I got President Johnson's approval of those amendments; I went to see Mr. Oren Harris, who

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE SID DAVIS INTERVIEWER Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Davis office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 S: Election day was the third. Well, I believe we were in New Orleans on the weekend before election day in 1964, and the President

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Aubrey Williams a communist and a red, and here you're putting it right in his home town. s aid, "0 h, I did n 't know t hat. " I can't understand it." The n I s aid, "Well, the fir s t t hi ng you've got to do now is to go see the Mayor." mayor

Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was few B-26's. They can be gathered off of every junk pile around the world as a matter of fact. to be traced to the United States. They didn't want any of this thing That was our greatest fear that they find out the United States had been dabbling

Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

of the Democratic Party for a good many years. Mr. Kennedy, what is your present vocation? K: I am president and general manager of television station KZTV and [rad~o s ta t ion] KS I X• B: I should note that prior to establishing radio and television

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1b (I), 2/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

at all. have gone. It either had to be met there, or If it hadn't been met there at all, then Thailand would Laos would have long since followed, and I suspect the Communists would s till be in char ge in Djakarta. The negotiations, of course

Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

present at the Amarillo State Convention in 1952? That went for Eisenhower? H: No, I was not involved in that. F: Was Senator Johnson influential in your receiving the appointment as U. S. District Attorney? H: Yes, it was his recommendation

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Pakistan, they were talking of nothing else when he was here except his visit. It was page one every day. Kennedy is supposed to have said, and I believe this is in Schlesinger 1 s book, "I don 1 t know how Lyndon got away with that. If it had been me

Oral history transcript, Eugene B. Germany, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: Did you think that there was any national political pressure on the appeal of the injunction that Governor Stevenson had gott~n. In other words, did the Truman Administration come in to play so that Johnson--? G: At the time I thought so. I don't

Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://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 21 - quite a pilloring and purging in the early 1950's, when the Eisenhower

Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

committee. And right there, just at the moment I can't recall offhand whether he was in the Senate already at that time because very early in his Senate career he got into the preparedness committee that Truman had had. LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

for a job in August of 1946. I got here the week that Wilson Wyatt resigned as Administrator of the then Nat ional Hous ing Agency and the Truman housing pl;ogram bJ;'oke up under congressional attack. In some ways it's probably the most fortunate thing

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

about the luncheon in Kansas City was that Truman was unusually exuberant that day and full of the kind of conversation you don't have when ladies are present. I don't remember very much about Walla Walla, but that doesn't matter. There was no terribly

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

saw to the mail; he took all the telephone calls for the Vice P r e s i d e n t He was the contact point for the vice president. People who knew Johnson realized that if they were talking to Walter that he would give Johnson an almost verbatim report

Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

much space in the cemetery. There was And the acceleration in the utilization of that space which took place in tne 1960's, some of it owing to the burial of President Kennedy there, but most of it just occurring because of the increase in the death

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 5 (V), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and what resulted from the Bay of Pigs is worthy of comparison in terms of leadership and the way you respond, having a firm grasp and totally accepting your responsibility.After all, that's not unique with presidents. Harry Truman is still recalled

Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that over a year we looked at the Truman Library and Eisenhower Library and other libraries--tried to-F: Was Wayne Grover often with you on this? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

relations together. We were in Washington together and other places. Also, I had seen him, not on any regular basis, but just very occasionally over the years. I had known the President, I guess, when I was doing work in Washington, oh, back in the 50's

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: What was wrong with us? Why couldn't we have a president? W: I don't know. But he had his doubts as to whether anybody from Texas would ever be elected. G: Yes. Here's a big meeting at the Ranch in October. López Mateos came to the Ranch, and Truman

Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to Congressman George M. Rhodes of Reading, Pennsylvania, which is my home state. fourth term. He was a very able member who was then beginning his He was first elected to Congress in 1948, the Truman year. George was a former labor official, which fit in very

Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

time I ever met him was through Stuart Symington, who became a close friend of hi s when the President was a member of Congress. I saw him only occasionally, and I want to stress throughout this that I've never been actually intimate

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

/loh/oh 7 liked me. It's an interesting story Cliff told me some years later. I was making a speech at Prairie View back in the early 1950's, and it was taped and re-broadcast over the educational station at Texas A & lYl. Cliff was driving down

Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

--5 T: He made s,uggestions as to people that I might see while I was traveling over the district. Judge Herman Jones was then my law partner, and he gave. him several suggestions about the helpful. campaign~ and they were very I am sure

Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and Matsu, and when we had just finished, of course, having stopped the Chinesesupported invasion of South Korea. Humphrey, by the way, supported that; he supported the commitment by Truman in 1950 of troops and forces to the defense of South Korea

Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 M: This was when it was first to be founded? B: When the investigation committee w~_:!.s determining it, and Lyndon Johnson

Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

a twenty-year, fifteen-year deadlock on the issue of federal aid to public elementary and secondary education, legislation was produced and passed. It did not resemble the legislation that was proposed during the Truman and Eisenhower years where

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the Pacific against the Japanese. In the spring of 1945 shortly after Vice President Truman became President, I was summoned to Washington by then President Truman's Naval Aide to assist in his office. He had been a former client of mine in St. Louis; his name
Biographical information; Naval career; Special Counsel to President Truman; formation of the Department of Defense; first association with LBJ; Taft-Hartley Act; member of the 1946 labor advisory group; 1948 campaign train; Truman’s relationship

Oral history transcript, Frank Pace, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

concentrated his attention were subordinated to the prime requirements of a very demanding war. With Mr. Truman, in the period when r was there which was prior to the Korean War, the management of government, the function of government, the activities

Oral history transcript, Myer Feldman, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. When Senator Russell formed the select committee composed of the Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees for the purpose of investigating the discharge of General [Douglas] MacArthur by President Truman, he asked Lyndon Johnson whether he could

Oral history transcript, Lonnelle Aikman, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that sort of thing. You don't need me to fill you in on that. I had a most pleasant and the longest interview with Mrs. Johnson on the so-called back porch, you know Truman's porch, looking toward the monument. I couldn't have had a happier setting

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 5 (V), 12/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

as Secretary. C: All right, sir. F: Which ought to be a full order. C: Yes, it is. But it's a fascinating story, and I believe it's not been told before. I came into the White House in the Truman Administration in the spring of 1945, perhaps just two

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 5 (V), 9/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of friction. It may have been naïveté on my part, but I saw nothing. G: On the way to Hyannis, you stopped in Kansas City and met with Truman. Do you remember that? V: No, I don't. G: Okay, and from Hyannis he went to Nashville to meet with southern

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