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Oral history transcript, James E. Chudars, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, James E. Chudars of Westport, Connecticut 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, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of federal rights from assault--we had seen so many civil rights workers murdered and otherwise assaulted, and the statutes 241 and 242, Title 18, were just hopelessly inadequate. And they imposed impossible trial burdens and the penalty is a year maximum
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • hereinafter set forth, I, HARRY MCPHERSON, 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 conducted on May 16
Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . And, by then--of course, as soon as Kennedy was elected, I more or less became the liaison man between some contrite religious leaders and the new Catholic President of the United States! And I did assist in setting up some interviews for some leaders, some religious
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Levinson -- II -- 5 such as health, education, or cities, or farming, and the like, in very simple form just
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 5 (V), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and he went on active duty and he got out somewhere, I think in South America, started firing machine guns from an airplane, and the brass said all right, that's enough of him, we'll just throw him out. So they were going to throw him out, and they got
Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the ladder, and how you came to be governor. RH: I have always been a New Jersey resident. Florence in Burlington County, New Jersey. I was born in I am a lawyer. I used to be an assistant United States attorney. F: When was this? RH: In 1939. I
Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , such as helping the Egyptians reschedule their debts. Only the United States, among the major western powers, refused to entertain this idea. request that we rollover our an answer on that one. There was a eec financing. We couldn't come up
Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • you were a state senator and in 1958 you were elected to the Eighty-fifth Congress in a special election. Since that time you have been a member of the United States House of Representatives. Your committee memberships--I have you for committees
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , renewals, et cetera. Our efforts to encourage European and · other nationals to visit the United States and spend their money in the U.S. as an offset were slow at best. They were hampered. The U.S. Travel Service was continually hampered by a severe
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were still looking at the United States Senate pretty much in Woodrow Wilson's terms. They were trying to do something that was physically impossible, and the difficulty was that they could be very embarrass­ ing about it. It was difficult to explain
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • farm programs. Truman moved quickly and hit that hard and identified it, and it had a great impact in the rural areas. That one thing, I think, accounted for the overwhelming majority with which Truman carried the Midwest as opposed to Dewey
  • and LBJ; rural-urban basis; White House involvement in agricultural programs; feed grain program problems; wheat referendum; Farm Bureau; relations with Congress; wheat program bill of McGovern; 1964 wheat-cotton program; debate regarding one price vs. two
Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • as fast as we could. Added a group or two, expanded the groups that existed, and tried to have an element in the Pacific, an element in Central and Latin America, an element in Europe, the Tenth, an element in general reserve at Fort Bragg. I believe we
Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • elsewhere it will go over the other wires, some of it elsewhere in the United States and occasionally world-wide." Fortunately for me, Texans at that point already were so prominent that lots of the stuff that I wrote saw the light all over the nation
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Albert In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 21 of Title 44, United States Code and subject to the terms and conditions herinafter set forth, I, Carl Albert of McAlester, Oklahoma, do hereby give, donate and convey to the Unted States of America
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 21 of Title 44, United States Code, and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Douglass Cater of Durham, North Carolina, do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • national distribution, which gave the independents something to be sorry of, that one political party group of workers would have done this. Which gave them some stimulus and some reason to vote for the Democratic ticket. We had many letters and phone calls
Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • for Congress 80uple of years and then decided in 1937 to succeed the late J. P. Buchanan, what was your job at that time? GF: At that time I was the newly-made managing editor of the Austin PB: Now~ America~, morning newspaper here in Austin
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • be a forwarding of a request from a foreign government for an agreement accepting the foreign government's nomination of an ambassador to Washington. Not once in the history of the United States have we refused to receive an ambassador nominated by another
Oral history transcript, Douglass H. Hubbard, interview 1 (I), 6/4/69, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • about there. B: Clean farming in the sense that he was not leaving piles of brush around? H: Sure. [And clean farming eliminates the small creatures.] B: One question arises here, that at that time the Johnson park was a state park. H: Yes. B
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ?" The invitations do go up. They go up much less in the case of the Johnsons, moving from majority leader to vice president, than they would for Agnew moving from governor of Maryland to vice president of the United States, so that she had had a taste of the world
Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 2 (II), 2/23/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • father, I understand, had some financial reversals during, I guess, the early twenties. He bought a lot of farm land and then set up some gins, and the price of cotton went down and had to sell it. J: Well, I don't know. I don't know about [that]. I
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • politics and the like, I associated myself with the so~called conservative wing of the delegation. It's not quite fair, I suppose, to call it a wing. We were united on many things, particularly.those relating to the welfare of Texas, but in the broad
Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, India Edwards, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and so forth with some frequency, speaking on various issues such as the Palestine-Syria problems, [The President's Health Plan and the Brannan Farm Plan]--we could list them at some length. Did you tend to do this as a party representative
Oral history transcript, M. J. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)
  • that I had taught, and there was a large number of them who had graduated, and that was after I came back from the service, and then we started building an organizational unit, and we did build probably one of the strongest political organizations
  • How Anderson got to know LBJ through Dr. Everett Givens; the establishment of the United Political Organization of Texas; recruiting members for the UPO; LBJ's interest in poor people; LBJ's contact with Anderson as president of UPO through Cliff
Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : Ted Gittinger PLACE: Justice Goldberg's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 TG: Let me get right to it. What prompted you to leave the Supreme Court and go to the United Nations? AG: I should like to make clear at the outset
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and judgments that will change the society. Now the private sector, particularly corporate' America, has not taken that step yet, despite that example. The government has backed off of that as an important issue, certainly, but the main thing
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, J. Waddy Bullion, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , and subject to the terms and conditions he~~inafter set forth, I, Wilma S. Bullion, do hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title, and interest in the tape recordings and transcript ofthe personal interview conducted
Oral history transcript, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • forth, I, James A. Elkins, Jr. of Houston, Texas 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 July 14, 1969 in Houston
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 3 (III), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /loh/oh Reynolds -- III -- 2 in terms of attempting to train them and retrain them for a useful place as economic units in our society. We had tried various methods of administering the program around the country, different segments of it. There were
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 20 (XX), 4/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Lawrence F. O'Brien of New York, New York, 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, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in Appalachia? Well, it's as old as the New Deal. The first study of Appalachia was done in 1936, by, interestingly enough, the United States Navy Surgeon, who somehow had been appalled by this degrading poverty he had seen and launched a study. It really
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . There was a lot of feeling of we, all of us in this together, America is a great country and we can and we will. And then there was also some undertow. G: You had a lot of German-Americans in your district, I suppose, and I know that President Johnson's father
  • LBJ's involvement with the Naval Affairs Committee in 1943 and efforts to stop absenteeism in navy jobs; food rationing in World War II; how life in the United States changed during WWII; attitudes toward military service; German-American
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rauh--I--12 done some research, the United Automobile Workers had paid for the research, and we found that we were not as smart as we thought we were. else
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . It was all reused water when it got to the Mexican border. F: You'd siphon it off as it came down. U: That's right. They'd have to take it. We'd use it and reuse it. Then they were farming cotton which requires good quality water. So here was an instance
Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • such It was a beautiful letter . As I say, I sure wish I had it now that he's the President of the United States, but I threw it away . But this was his reaction of course, and he did not contest it ; he was urged to do so on many fronts, but he didn't . the war
Oral history transcript, Albert W. Brisbin, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with it, to develop the project like Inks Dam project and others of that kind . We had a project with Prairie View [A & 11] College for the black youngsters . You could get them off the farms and the sharecropper shacks and everything and take them over to Prairie