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Oral history transcript, Alfred T. "Boody" Johnson, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with. the provisions of Chapter 21 of Title 44, United States Code and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, A. T. Johnson of Houston, Texas do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest
Oral history transcript, Sidney P. Marland, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with the provisions of Chapter 21 of. Title 44, United States Code and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth~ I~ Sidney P. Marland of New York City do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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 recording and transcript of the personal interview conducted on March 10, 1977 at Washington, D.C. and prepared for deposit
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Code and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, l~e, t~ilton and Virginia Woods of Seguin, Texas do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all our rights, title and interest in the tape recordings
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , typical southern senator I knew. Or we would go very occasionally to some--Senator and Mrs. Tom Connally would have a dinner. She was a beautiful woman, the only person I've ever known who was married to two United States senators. He and Lyndon were
Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • deal. G: It was very good. Do you think that any of the differences between your thinking and his thinking might have been traced to the differences in the two labor organizations, say the United Mine Workers under John L. Lewis as opposed to the UAW
Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and they would farm the lands out on either side of these canals, primarily. The strategic hamlet had--and I forget now, but there [were] four or five, maybe six criteria for a strategic hamlet. You had to have a fence around it, some sort of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Shipbuilders, in the sense of the workers in the shipyards, wanted a larger domestic shipbuilding program. One of the main policy contro- versies was generated by the proposal of the Commerce Department, under Alan Boyd's leadership as under secretary
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of finagling going on and Son'le of those counties. 0 There was ver just south of us in San Augustine I\;one of the press has ever printed that to ITly knowledge. G: Other Johnson caITlpaign workers in that cam.paign have indicated that they were counted
Oral history transcript, Marie Wilson, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • image. That was fashionable in the mid-fifties. So I went up to see Walter. I went in and was introduced, and he said, "Max Brooks says that you're the best secretary in the United States of America." I said, "Well, that's very kind of him." you, I
Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and those that got a lot were used again. Very often he deviated, naturally, from his speech and he'd get real folksy with them. This happened to be a group of farm people. Oh, and that afternoon we had gone out to a farm and we were out in a hog pen
Oral history transcript, Betty Furness Midgley, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the theory that if somebody else thinks I can do something I had better have a pretty good go at it. And if the President of the United States, or if someone close to him, thought that I could do this job, it seemed like certainly a worthwhile challenge
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the United States government start this, have open hearings on the CIA and the FBI and disclose all of our secrets to Russia? Like the Watergate thing. behind closed doors? The way down. Why couldn't they hold those hearings l~atergate destroyed America
Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the most dramatic and successful programs that the United States has ever fostered in the field of foreign affairs. Quite coincidentally, a friend of mine in New York was coming down as general counsel for the agency and asked me if I'd like to come down
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , special return to the United States and special discharge. So then they would be veterans who had served in combat, so they could approach the voters unassailably the following election year. (Laughter) It was really, of course, a political chara"de
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on, which primarily was getting more money for the dams and getting the lCRA organized the way he wanted it, and REA. Those were his main things right at that time, trying to get every farm and home electrified. A lot of days he would come into Austin
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and a city councilman, so I knew a little bit about what politics was all about. Lyndon, Wilton Woods and I worked for Welly Hopkins, who was elected state senator and later on became legal representative for the Mine Workers' union. I guess you know
Oral history transcript, Janet Wofford Ingram, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • to bother a United States senator over anything so trivial as a small-town housewife's telephone, but they can't--what do you do? B: Do you know how he did it? What did he do, just pick up the phone and call someone, or--? I: Probably. I asked him
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • with the provisions of Chapter 21 of Title 44, United States Code, I, Claudia Taylor Johnson of Austin, Texas, do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and internst in the tape recordings and transcripts of the personal
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • of Title 44, United States de, and ject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, ~~~~~~~:;&..;.S?-.,....,---:--. of Aus tin, Texas do hereby give, donate and co vey t the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 4 (IV), 8/8/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recordings and transcripts of the personal interviews conducted on August 8 and lO~ 1978 at Austin~ Texas and prepared for deposit in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to the United St~tes of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recordings and tran~cripts of the personal interviews conducted with Mrs. E. L. (Bob) Bartlett on May 14 and May 22, 1969 in Washington, D. C. and prepared for deposit in the Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 2 (II), 3/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • they would carry the Head Start program into Mississippi, and Shriver funded it . Probably it was the greatest stimulus to Community Action in Mississippi, because when this group began to organize the parents and the resources for starting Head Start units
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 2 (II), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the . leading congressmen· in the United States; and yet they would take . . . . after him with a great deal of opposition and.vengeance in the dis­ trict. The accusation was not about his service, but "Had he made ·money?" I think rea'lly underlying
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Then as an afterthought she said, "I wouldn't have had the stinking stuff either!" F: West was primarily a farming community, right? B: West is a community of Bohemians and farmers, sausage makers, bread bakers; it's a great place for sausage and salami. At this time
Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had gotten involved in the poverty question in doing a paper for Senator Paul Douglas' Joint Economic Committee of the Congress on the question of low income population in the United States. It was a kind of response to John Kenneth Galbraith's book
Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , propaganda and persuasion they could show this weak puppet called Diem, this American stooge and that sort of thing, "It's not going to do you any good. all for the workers. We've got a feel for the workers. We're Workers of the world unite," slogan things
Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in 1937. R: Right. No, actually, I was probably not too close to the White House day-to-day functioning until about the summer of 1936. Then I went with my father down to South America and back, and at that time he asked me to come into the White House
  • Arthur Goldberg at the United Nations (UN); a UN resolution regarding the rights of individual countries to control their own natural resources; Roosevelt's experience working with the UN; Roosevelt's opinion of Lady Bird Johnson; the Watts Riots in 1965.
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : After I got out of college, within a year I went to South America, to Chile, and I was there about two years . During this time, Lyndon had graduated from San Marcos and had gone to Houston, one of the high schools, and was teaching debate, elocution
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 2 (II), 11/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Montague -- II -- 2 capital of Saigon, and it would be more for show than dealing the enemy some massive blow. There were not tremendously large numbers of enemy units close to Saigon, and the level of guerilla activity wasn't
Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to this man as Lyndon up until the time that he becomes president of the United States and thereafter I will try to refer President, which is the only proper thing to do. I did not know him when he was secretary to Congressman [Richard] Kleberg. after
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -temporary controls: remember being involved in it. Wage and price controls: I I don't I didnit. have anything much to do with that. . farm Bill: you know, your parenthetical there [ "(HHH gets help 6 LBJ Presidential Library http
  • LBJ’s unanimous consent policy; Allan Shivers; Knowland; the Bricker Amendment; Siegel’s involvement in a variety of legislative acts; Farm Bill; Walter George; LBJ’s power of persuasion; LBJ and partisanship; recommital of the Taft-Hartley
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . absolutely was a failure, a real failure. but very few. It Some of them got organized. You see, John L. Lewis was the head of that at the time, and of course he had these United Mine Workers in the South that had been there for a long time. For instance
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • for a welfare bill. I don't want you to talk to anybody about it, because if you start talking to those social workers, they'll find all sorts of reasons for not doing it," because services were going to be provided. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • was what you call the land reform scheme. S: This was a proposal to resettle some poor people with farm experience on land of their own. people. It wouldn't take care of very many But particularly in the South there is a lot of absentee ownership
Oral history transcript, Ebba Jansen and Alvin J. Jansen, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Mrs. Alvin J. Jansen of White Bear Lake, Minnesota do hereby -give, donate, and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title, and interest in -the tape -recording and transcript
Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to come in at night--like you get in after ten o'clock at night and write out a memo to President Johnson about what you're going to do the next day when sometimes the weather dictates [what you do]. I think farming is something that you do just sort
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • toward the southerners, but I did get exposed to, learned and liked, a lot of those from all over the United States. For instance, Mrs. Prescott Bush, from Connecticut, and Mrs. [Leverett] Saltonstall, who must have been from Massachusetts. I get a little
Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a convention. F: Well, then, your principal job, as a major Postmaster in the United States, would be just to see that the service was good and where possible, you took care of people who needed jobs? Q: Yes, and have an organization that felt kindly