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Oral history transcript, Florence Mahoney, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to lower the budget and before Mr. Eisenhower came in the Trumans were--Mrs. [Bess] Truman is a great friend of mine and the President, of course. I knew all the people around him like Clark Clifford and everyone, so they finally raised the NIH [National

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 7 (VII), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

can remember seeing he signed his name in one of those— G: Okay, and then May [April?] 25 he went out to Kansas City to see Truman, and then on to New York to see “Advise and Consent.” V: I didn't see that though. It says here, I notice where

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 7 (VII), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

sure it had been used by other Presidents. I remember on two occasions, when I was working for President Truman, that he used me. One time it was for me to take a message to Secretary of the Treasury Snider that the President was not going to go along

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 3 (III), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Stettinius, and the President, even as a young congressman, I guess he was then, must have got a hell of a lot of unfavorable reaction out of Texas. F: Right. It was there, I can assure you. R: And the President kept moving, trying it, and then Truman

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 6 (VI), 4/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

) G: Anything else on 1956 that you can--? VW: I don't think so, I don't remember any. G: Was segregation at all an issue in that campaign here? VW: Not in this campaign. On the 1948 chronology, Truman's campaign stop in San Marcos, we attended

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of his presidency. One subject that we discussed at some length was the operation of the White House and the manner in which President Truman operated it and what we might have learned during the Truman years and how the operation in the White House

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 4 (IV), 1/28/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

don't recall it. G: All right. In early May he flew to Kansas City to visit with President Truman. Did you go on that trip? J: Yes. G: Let me ask you to recount anything you can on that. J: Again, I think it was on the way to the Ranch, wasn't

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 4 (IV), 1/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Mr. Truman, he had been General Counsel to Mr. Truman. Even before he became secretary of defense he used to, I think, normally be consulted by the President for two or three or sometimes as many as six hours a day. So that Mr. Clifford was one

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. C: As I stated, I think, in a previous interview, while President Johnson and I had been friends for a substantial number of years going back to the middle forties when I had come into government in the Truman Administration, we had not been

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. O'Connell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

with the Secretary's office . A year after, in July of '45, Mr . Morganthal resigned not long after Mr . Truman became President . He was succeeded by Judge Vinson who was LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 2 (II), 7/18/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

remember I was very happy about that. G: This was Head Start? W: Yes. A lot of events I don't remember because I wasn't focusing on them. G: He went out to meet with President Truman in Kansas City. W: I didn't go out there. But I remember President

Oral history transcript, Clement J. Zablocki, interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

a tendency to be forgotten. It'll be forgotten as Truman's letter to the music critic is forgotten. It's a little interesting sidelight, but the great enduring things that Truman did like aid to Greece and Turkey and NATO and the Marshall Plan, will stand

Oral history transcript, Morris Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

it." I said, "Well, okay." So I took it, and that's how he got me to serve on that board. G: Did you know Truman Phelps? R: Truman Phelps. I can't place him. G: He was an attorney that, I think, was working for the board at one point, but I'm

Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 2 (II), 5/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

information. And we were really barred by the new people from com- munication with them; there wasn't any dialogue. Now I've been through three changes of administrations in responsible positions--Truman to Eisenhower, Eisenhower to Kennedy, and Johnson

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

? Why? C: Well, because I have found something, and I think this was true of Lyndon just as it was true of Mr. Roosevelt, as it was true of Mr. Truman, with whom I also had my problems. I think, in a certain sense, a president gets into his mind

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 3 (III), 7/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, that's a very important element that you throw in. All my service to the government, responding to President Truman and President Kennedy and President Johnson were, you might say, requested or command performances. M: I did it because they asked me

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 5 (V), 3/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. G: Did he? W: He sure did. G: What did he think when Truman fired him? Did he talk about that? W: No. He wasn't for it by a whole lot, but he's had a whole lot of visibility [?]. G: Do you know if he agreed or disagreed with the firing

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wilbur Cohen -- II -- 14 Truman--"that not everything will change or modify just because as president of the United States you think it ought to change." And so in the role of the presidency, I think you ultimately find out

Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on the ballot in Alabama, he was precluded from being on the ballot as they said President Truman was in 1948. not the facts. The fact is we have a very easy requirement to get on the ballot in Alabama, probably too easy. parties in 1968. Now, those are We

Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

force under Truman. C: There's an intervening time when he had gallstones; maybe it was before or after. F: He had a history of them. C: Maybe it was before this second election. But let's go on--Symington was head of the air force. And the wife

Oral history transcript, Robert B. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of Defense under the Truman Administration, who had been privy to all of the strategic plans of the Joint Chiefs up until the end of the Truman Administration, to come in and review the current plans of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under the Eisenhower

Oral history transcript, Stewart J.O. Alsop, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

have invited extensive reaction by the American government. So there was never any "palliness" between the Eisenhower Administration and the bulk of the press. Truman, the same thing. God knows, Roosevelt was the same. But Johnson's case was unique

Oral history transcript, Najeeb E. Halaby, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. After a stint there, James Forrestal asked me to come on his staff as he had just become secretary of defense. So I spent from 1948 to 1953--the Truman Administration--doing work in the field of International Security Affairs for the Secretary

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Humphrey in his acceptance speech on the floor. Nobody ever mentioned his name. You talked about Roosevelt, Truman, but it was blank on Johnson until Humphrey mentioned it. G: Did he show a preference for Humphrey over Nixon during the campaign? R

Oral history transcript, Carl D. Perkins and Donald Baker, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

- That was really copied after the old workshops that were in existence during the Roosevelt days and Truman days just immediately prior to World War II. renewed. The law expired and it wasn't LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

always chairman of the Democratic Party. Did you know that? G: Oh, yes. R: Pauley was from Missouri, I think. It was probably the beginnings of Truman's ascendancy. There were two or three other rather important men from Missouri. Their names will come

Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and dropped in to see Mr. Johnson. Or we were right on the verge of winding down the war. No, it was over. Mr. Truman was then president. I walked in, and he was very cordial and said sit down, and we visited for a few minutes. He was talking about the radio

Oral history transcript, Oveta Culp Hobby, interview 1 (I), 7/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the Truman Administration or Eisenhower Administration with regard to national health insurance and what is today Medicare? H: I can't speak for Mr. Johnson. I had many conferences with the American Medical Association in an attempt to a) get

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 4 (IV), 8/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to the Hill--his representatives; he called members of Congress more in one week than the Nixon Administration does in a month, or the Eisenhower Administration, or the Truman Administration. It was his style. It's the only kind that will work. A more docile

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, but as the years went by, LBJ grew more and more dependent upon General Eisenhower and President Truman, part of it being nothing more than a very small fraternity of people who had served in the same spot, but also in the sense--and this sounds terrible to say

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of Washingtonians there: the Chief Justice; Fred Vinson, of course the Democratic leaders in Congress, several cabinet officers from Truman's cabinet. It was a showcase audience of a kind that it was quite unusual for a congressman to command that. In those days

Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 3 (III), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to think of all the other people and I can't give you any names. G: What about former President Truman? Did he come to the White House; was he called? C: I think there was a telephone call, but I don't think he came to the White House. I'm sure

Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, two years, under the Truman Administration. In '47 I was discharged at the end of Navy service and I was then employed by the Central Intelligence Agency, from time to time I would come back and assist here. But the need would arise when -- the social

Oral history transcript, Jessie (Mrs.) Hatcher, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

, let every man on earth be a liar, don't make no difference who it is. Truman would have never been elected, last minute. Why? that's what he did. says, they're Roose--President (interruption) the Because he made a nation of Israel, Put them

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 30 (XXX), 11/4/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

recognized he hadn't been proclaiming himself as a Democrat, that he wasn't reflecting on the Democrats of the past--the Roosevelts and the Trumans and Kennedys--that he was sort of an independent candidate for president. It was not what he wanted or intended

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, A. Scheffer Lang, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

in 1937, I think. The Truman administration, the Eisenhower Administration both devoted considerable attention to the possibilities for and the desirability of the creation of a department. The Kennedy Administration gave it considerable thought