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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, 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 4, Side 1 G: [I'd like to] have you focus on that list of the congressional liaison people and assess the value of each
  • and Appalachia; LBJ as a supporter of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and his deep commitment to helping people; Sargent Shriver's early leadership in the War on Poverty; Phil Landrum as a leader in supporting War on Poverty legislation; the poverty bill's referral
Oral history transcript, Dorothy V. Bush, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 5 weren't happy about it, and a lot of other people were very unhappy . In my opinion the new chairman of the national committee, Fred Harris, has named two new
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , as they call it? B: In 1952 of course we had a new preSident, and in his State of the Union Message he said that Hawaii should have statehood and he didn't mention Alaska. M: President Eisenhower? . B: Yes, President Eisenhower. So this started one
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 4 (IV), 10/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to one new wildlife refuge, two major additions, both of them happening to be in Alaska, and a recommendation that the President add over seven 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 2 (II), 12/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • reasonably soon, and I had given it no real thought up to that point in time as to what I would go into. The main thing that concerned all of us on that particular day, as I think you know, is attempting to get some news, and not much news got out. Even
Oral history transcript, Abram V. Goodman, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1996, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the anecdotes about him that were bursting out all the time. He was very much sought after by Protestant preachers, and he had a keen wit and an amazing mind but somewhat unpolished. I remember, after I left Austin, reading on the front page of the New York
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • together. G: You mentioned, I think, something about Henderson going to New York? K: Well, Lyndon told me what Herb was capable of. I don't remember how long before that had happened, but Herb had got on a binge and held gone off to New York and held
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 4 (IV), 8/8/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • around to it and they made San Antonio, Bexar County, maybe with one or two adjacent, a new district, Maury later became congressman from that district. it. Dick Kleberg no longer represented But I wanted to make sure there was no overlap, him helping
Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • budget. It was before he got into his new offices. He was over in the Vice President's office still and it was with Mr. Heller, Mr. Gordon and myself about the general shape of the budget. That's when I carne down very firmly that it had to be under
  • of payments; LBJ's relationship with JFK's people; appointment of new Secretary; Vietnam; role of Major General William Dupey
Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : Oh, yes, considering that I was new and green. I was the main political guy for Brown, so there was some value from their viewpoint. B: But it was pretty heady stuff. What was your impression then of Mr. Johnson's chance for the nomination? 0
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • yacht, which I guess is how New Englanders analyze character. anything. I didn't drive the boat into any rocks or But, more seriously, we talked about the mission and his plans, and I think it was largely just a question of being personally acceptable
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • GOLDSCHMIDT (Tape #1) INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Goldschmidt's horne in New York City November 6, 1974 MG: Let's start from the beginning and the first time you met Lyndon Johnson. EG: Well, I met him in a very characteristic way
Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the earliest days, and Vice President Johnson had been interested, too, along the way. memoria 1 bust of Byrd done by Fel i x de Avenue of the Heroes. \~el He dedicated this don, and it I S on a new The plan was to have the statues of the great heroes
Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at Paris, Bonham, up in there. many. Texarkana had so Didn't say a thing in the world about Lubbock. Well, I didn't know, but I found out as the deal progressed that he was comparing Texas with other states. youths and New Jersey had so many. New York
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ," I'd talk about "the economic-fiscal-financial group." It got to be such an awkward handle that I one time decided that if we had the Troika, which had already been named, the least I could do was get a new handle for this group of four. So I looked
  • Troika; Quadriad; Council of Economic Advisers; administration differences; details of tax cut; trade-offs with Congress on budget cuts; Wilbur Mills; Harry Byrd; origin of tax cut; Samuelson Task Force; “new economics;” tax increases; Vietnam’s
Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • yourself in a position to have a job in the new Administration? S: Yes. As 1960 moved on and I was chairman of this wheat task force--and wheat was in a kind of crisis situation with nearly a billion-and-a-half bushels stored up--a real surplus crisis
Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, on November 28, 1928 . I was brought up most of my life in Passaic, New Jersey ; went to public schools there and met my wife there . Then I did my undergraduate and graduate work both at Columbia in New York City
Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • is trying to keep from going to New Orleans. P: He said , "Ed, I want you to get hold of my good friends in the University of Texas and also get hold of Brown [George] and tell them how we can make the University of Texas as great as the University
Oral history transcript, Donald A. Williams, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • require a formal reappointment with each new administration? W: No, no, the appointment continues with the pleasure of the Secretary of Agriculture. B: All right. May I also as~ this is--again as I told you before the tape was on--so the future
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Emergency Relief Mission and came back and briefly resumed the special assistant post while I broke in a new man when Joe Califano went to the White House. in John Cushman. I broke Then I became principal deputy assistant secre- tary of defense
Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • they were really thinking of him as a new day in Texas politics. I was so much convinced about what they had in mind that some time after he became the Minority Leader I asked Senator Stuart Symington if he would arrange a meeting for me. Senator Symington
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 4, Side 1 G: Yesterday we were talking about President Kennedy and the southern members of Congress. Let me ask you
Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 2 (II), 3/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • find ready response in the White House, or was there a major division there? R: No. It was a process which was agonized from beginning to end. Each new target list--the whole program was called Rolling Thunder. The military would come forward with X
Oral history transcript, Father Wunibald W. Schneider, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Joske's, yes. There was a pastor there [who] was very kind to me, and I got accustomed to everything. I was there for three months, and then I was changed to New Braunfels to another church. San Antonio St. Joseph's used to be a German parish, that's why I
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • there was not a strong and yet poorly articulated commitment. During the first many months of his Administration Johnson did nothing either very new or very definitive to try to reduce or indeed to increase our involvement. It was basically, from his point of view I
Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • by political philosophy or conviction? A: Yes, I would have looked on Mr. Johnson in those days as part of the New Deal, a young man that came up during the Roosevelt days that had been liberal and progressive in his thoughts. Of course he came from what
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • a little I believe it was three more meetings that you had with Mr. Johnson. A: Yes, I would like to. Last fall, I believe it was--must have been maybe fairly early in November--I had come to the conclusion that I really could not afford to stay in New
Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • starting their new programs, getting more up-to-date plants, particularly right around here because this is an old city and some of these plants were old- -a number of them had closed down. M: Incidentally, beautiful job. ject, B: this is my first
Oral history transcript, Helen Thomas, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1977, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • growing years, and went to college at Wayne University in Detroit. Detroit is really--I still consider it home even though I came to Washington in World War II, 1942, and got a job as copy girl for the old Washington Daily News. I then went to UP
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 5 (V), 9/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: MARY MARGARET VALENTI INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mrs. Valenti's residence, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: There was a New York Times story at the time he was in Mexico that he had received ten thousand
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 20 (XX), 1/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in California, I got desperate calls. He wanted to announce some new weapons systems of one kind of another and we announced the over-the-horizon radar and one other weapon systems from the steps of the Capitol in Sacramento as I recall. Pat Brown and I got
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . We were not just finishing the New Deal agenda; we were coming in with a whole lot of new ideas, new roles for government. And that was the first couple of years. The last year or so we really were involved in the management of programs and it's
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of what new things you're going to do. It's obviously more difficult to shut off something that's already going than it is to start something new, and you have a good argument for keeping what you have going rather than transferring grant money somewhere
Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Adolph Berle in New York--whom I knew not intimately, but in a casual way--saying that the President-elect had asked him to form a task force on policy toward Latin America. They wanted an economist and they thought I would be the best person. I tried
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • DATE: January 9-10, 1982 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas Tape 1 of 2 J: The winter and spring of 1950 began a new thing in my life and that is carpooling. Lynda, at six
Oral history transcript, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in New York City. I also have honorary degrees, one from my own alma mater, Doctor of Divinity, and one from Midwestern University in Wichita Falls, Texas, an L.L.D. My pastorates have been rather long for our denomination, and most of them--all of them
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , of course. A: Liz was during the campaign but, you see, Liz was going back to work with Les in the Carpenter News Bureau. She went back there before she joined the Vice President's staff the second time around. So really it was just me. Before that Grace
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that there was such a thing. Sometimes those only filtered to the West Wing and never touched me. F: The reason I ask--you know, it was news anywhere, and people just kept bringing up disclosures, particularly some of those that were critical of the President and some
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . There is a Texas Society still operating. K: They had monthly dances at the Mayflower. Somehow or other we would manage to rent a tux and go to those things. And of course there were a lot of things to see around W'ashington for people like us that were new
Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , I know that a great many of my friends, my historian friends, look on the period of the New Deal as a period of outstanding progress unequalled before or since. I lived through the years of the New Deal as an adult, teaching economics, involved