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Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the morning, that noon he was over at our cormnission meeting saying, "Don't have the hearing in Mississippi, it will complicate our trial at Philadelphia." And we said, "Look, we've already been asked to call it off twice by this administration, once
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • the money you want." The very next morning in the early CBS news, Dan Schorr came on saying that John Gardner was preparing to resign. And I've never known--Dan has never told me how he got tipped off so quickly because Gardner must not have gotten back
Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1973 INTERVIEWEE: MRS. ANNA ROSENBERG HOFFMAN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mrs. Hoffman's office in New York City Tape 1 of 1 F: First of all, when did you first become aware of Lyndon Johnson? H: I'm very bad on dates. F: Yes. t'/ell
Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on it. And that night he called me in Baltimore and said, "Your papers are on the "'lay to Holabird. You can pick them up in the morning and report"--somewhere there in Maryland, I've forgotten where--"and be out of the army tomorrow." So that was the contact I had
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • o'clock in the morning with the Chief Inspector of the New York police. We'd attempted to reach the Mayor's office. This guy was being obstinate. I forget his name, but he was a typical old Irish New York cop who had risen to chief inspector, and we were
  • Laitin’s work related to the Pope’s visit to New York and meeting with LBJ; press coverage of LBJ’s meeting with the Pope; how LBJ liked to be positioned for photographs; Yoichi Okamoto; advancing trips to visit President Truman; how LBJ treated
Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . expected, so that cleared me. They knew over here that I was Then I had to go around the other way. F: It seemed kind of strange, I guess, having to identify your way in. T: Yes, but I'm glad they do it, because there are so many new policemen
Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to in this? C: He was talking to the Texas editors who were IneInbers of the ASNE. They were all Texans except Ine. B: Would there have been people there like Ted Dealey of the Dallas News? C: Oh, sure. And he cussed theIn all out. He said, "You're
Oral history transcript, Edgar L. Ball, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and this is statewide. We had the founding convention of the Harris County Democrats in March, as I remember, in 1953. set of bylaws. Set it up on a permanent basis with a At the same time, they were doing similar type things in Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio
Oral history transcript, Charles Fitz Baird, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh December 9, 1968 P: Today is Monday, December 9, 1968. Itls 10:30 in the morning. This interview will be with Charles F. Baird, Under Secretary of the Navy. We are in his offices in the Pentagon. This is Dorothy Pierce
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 14 (XIV), 9/11/1986, 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 2, Side 1 O: [The Higher Education Act of 1965] considerably broadened the areas of the involvement. For the first time
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and she gave money and plants to the City of New York. in evidence. To this day the beginnings she made are still Park Avenue and other places in New York, as a result of her work, are still beautified every year. As I said earlier, one of the things
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • associated with the New Yorker since, what, 1944 or thereabouts? R: That's right. ~1: And you are well-known as an author of numerous contemporary hi stor;cal type \;JOrks, Senator Joe McCarthy and The Genera 1 and the Presi dent, a fairly well-known list
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . If the press depends upon the press secretary as their source of news, that means the press secretary can decide pretty well what they're going to know and what they aren't. And of course it's not quite like that. The White House--it is impossible to have
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 2 (II), 5/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and the committee, but the new Nixon budget cut those in half and cut them back to what they had been. They didn't cut them below what they had been but just back to what they had been before. Now the funds don't amount to much because Mr. Rocke- feller puts
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 27 (XXVII), 12/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • getting into Washington [D.C.] early in the morning and calling Lillian. We were way up in northwest Washington. The riots never got that far. Lillian was telling me what a strange thing it was to go out of the house and walk down the street and see
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the number-two people both in the task force and early OEO years--they were involved in everything. My God, how many agencies had situations where every single day we met at eight o'clock in the morning, at nine o'clock in the morning, whatever? For an hour
  • the program; Shriver juggling poverty programs and Peace Corps; Ruth Atkins and New Yorkers concerned about their school.
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , I believe in December of 1960. Shortly after his having been named the secretary of labor-designate, he called me in Schenectady, New York. I had been the vice president of opera- tions of a fairly sizable corporation, which was then known
  • process; railroad strike in Florida, 1964; unemployment; Reynolds’ wife, Helen; 1965 New York City transit strike; National Association of Broadcast Employees and Army Signal Corps technicians dispute; problems with the building trade unions.
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1978 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: The LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with your trip to New York in June 1934, I guess it was. J: Yes. My daddy gave me that as a graduation
  • Lady Bird Johnson's June 1934 trip to New York City with Cecille Harrison; receiving LBJ's name and contact information from Gene Boehringer; touring New York City; traveling from New York City to Washington, D.C.; Mrs. Johnson's impressions
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 2 (II), 12/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wouldn't come down to the office in the mornings much at all unless it was kind of an unusual day. He'd call early in the morning from home wanting to know what was in the mail and what we needed to do, and he would give us instructions by telephone
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , for instance, when I came in early in the morning--the major newspapers were there--was to go through these newspapers. Of course, these had also been delivered to the President, to the Mansion. I would go through these news- papers, read all
Oral history transcript, R. Conrad Cooper, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • publicly. And he phoned--I can't recall precisely. I haven't gone into great detail. M: That's okay. That's verifiable. C: But the first personal contact I had with him was when he phoned me one morning. My recollection is it would be either August
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was it? On the first of November, on Monday morning, the New York Times ran this story about LBJ is "sputtering mad," and he called me. Even at the time it was amusing; I had a hard time keeping a straight face. He was chewing my ass out, furious about this story. He
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 28 (XXVIII), 3/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • heads from San Antonio and Dallas. There was a regular list, whom I knew well in those days. To take the children to the circus was an annual deal. The Halloween party--odd what people set the most store by, but as in my own childhood, the Halloween
Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of Congress when I'm not out pounding the pavement looking for a job . I do my job hunting in the morning, and then I read the books in the afternoon . If there are any collateral ref­ erences, like a reference to another case or a law review article
Oral history transcript, Estelle Harbin, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh So I went down there and went to work and Mr. Driscoll died in late spring 1930. The Crash had come, but it didn't affect us; it affected New York more than us. We were just bewildered with Mr. Driscoll
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : STEWART UDALL INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ DATE: July 29, 1969 Tape 1 of 1 F: This is another interview with Stewart Udall in his office in Washington, on July 29, 1969, the interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Stu, let's talk a little bit this morning about
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /oh able to do that with the very limited advance warning we had and so on, was a shock within government and it obviously was a shock to LBJ. You know that front page of the Washington Post that next morning with the pictures of the brand-new
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • would take a trip into New England. and we made six stops that day. It would be a one-day trip, I recall it very vividly. We went into Hartford, Connecticut, and Providence, Rhode Island, and Burlington, Vermont, and Portland, Maine; Manchester, New
  • 1964 campaign structure/organization; Arthur Krim; one-day New England campaign trip; daisy commercial; Barry Goldwater; Mrs. Johnson’s campaign trip through the South; inner workings of the campaign; Ambassador John Bartlow Martin; campaign
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --at some point, either the night of Friday the thirteenth or early, early in the morning of Saturday the fourteenth, we got involved in the Watts riot. Lee White was in my office by 8:00 a.m. on the fourteenth; I must have been in the office before
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 45 (XLV), 5/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Financial writers on-- G: Does it indicate who you talked to? C: Well, obviously I gave Ed [Edwin] Dale the Times--I gave Bart Rowan a one-on-one and I gave Ed Dale of the New York Times a one-on-one, in the morning. And then I had Stanley Wilson, Al
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, 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, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • was in people's minds. I did go, and in San Francisco early in the morning, in a new city, I couldn't sleep and just wanted to get out and see things. I'd heard about Ghirardelli Square, which was an old chocolate factory that had been very charmingly
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ; with the new plant and equipment LBJ Presidential Library http://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 SCHULTZE
Oral history transcript, James Robinson, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to New York to see, on his next trip, what he could do. And his notes indicate one or more houses said that's an interesting idea, yes, there's a market for that that would make us a little money. But several in a row rejected it on what I call
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • publicity. G: The Dallas News used this to embarrass LBJ. J: Yes. G: Do you recall his reaction to this? J: It was just that the Dallas News was frequently harassing us. There were in those days, I'm sure there still are, all sorts of organizations
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and stay in the Waldorf­ Astoria Hotel in New York City"--how the Waldorf got into it I don't know! Well, he didn't think too much of it at the time, but later on after we returned to the United States we got an almost panicky cablegram from the American
Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • little they were paid. But you were given freedom to go into town and take part i.n things. So, I was such an enthusiastic New Dealer and such an admirer of Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that the President was going to give him the ambassadorship to Chile and that the President intended to make John Macy the new personnel man in the White House. Ralph asked John Macy to provide him with the names of seven, eight, or ten people whom he would pick
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CECIL STOUGHTON INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 - begi:ns at about 350 F: Okay, Cecil, this is the next morning, March 2nd now. S: Right, I've got a little time left. F: Yes. And we'll go on from