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Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to be close, why, we relied on them. M: Did they phone in results? W: They would phone in the results, or we would call them. Our campaign was over, so all the campaign workers came back into the headquarters there. And we would divide up into little 11

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to go back and read his speeches about what would happen, and everything they predicted has happened. The problem of most liberals in America is that they don't pay any attention to history. They never LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

sat down with a map and explained to the American people just what the hell was going on over there, why it was of interest to the United States--I've said that I think he would still be president. Because the American people would not have been

Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 come down in flood times and would put water up in the streets of Austin and below Austin would do an enormous amount of damage to towns and farms. The State had established

Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

container port on the West Coast and now one of the biggest in the United States. There's a good deal of industry in my district; it was the original home development of Caterpillar Tractor. But there weren't any people who were particularly interested

Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: When I was a young lawyer, I was appointed law clerk to the Chief Justice of the United States, Fred Vinson, in 1951 and 1952. Then I \"ent to work for Governor Adlai Stevenson as his administrative assistant in Springfield [and] was with him during

Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Yes, indeed. period. But as I say, the period of time was an interesting I learned to have a very high respect, which I still have, for a man who later became president of the United States. F: When did you first become aware of Mr. Johnson other

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 4 (IV), 8/25/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to be considered as the ablest and the strongest man in the United States · Congress. Now when you have that kind of reputat i on and there are no proven leaders for the nominee, you have to be one of the persons to be considered. But nobody really thought

Oral history transcript, Nell Colgin Miller, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

States Code, and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Nell Colgin Miller of Waco, 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

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and convey to the United States of America all our rights, title and interest in the tape recordings and transcripts of the personal interviews conducted on December 6, 1979 and April 20, May 4, and June 10, 1982 in Seguin, Texas and prepared for deposit

Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

appointment to that position? F: In 1962, perhaps, or 1963, the United States Advisory Commission for International Education and Cultural Affairs, which is a citizen's group but established under statute to advise the President and Congress, had said

Oral history transcript, Julius Richmond, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and we would team them up with a professional from a university. By that time we had established a bank of professionals--psychologists, social workers, early childhood educators, pediatricians who knew something about children in the substantive

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

when he felt like it, called them a bunch of damn Ku Kluxers. but Daddy never lost an election, you see. G: So really there were good times. Anyhow, So-- Were there also bad times, say, years when the crops were bad, where farm prices were bad

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

Middleton PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 J: My overall remembrance of the year 1960 is one of total confusion, travel all over the United States

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

controlling vital oil and gas resources in this country. Furthermore you had in Texas hundreds of thousands of landowners who had a direct stake in the oil business through their leases, through some production. And then you had many people in Texas, workers

Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the United States Senate when he was president. I'm not a letter writer of compliments, but I wrote him a letter, and said, "No president, not even Franklin Roosevelt, went as far as you did. I don't know what else you're going to do, Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Eugene B. Germany, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, r would like to have you tell me a little bit about your background, how you became interested in state politics and up to the point when you first met Lyndon Johnson. G: Well, as to my background, I'm a country boy from East Texas. on a farm

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the President of the United States. P; Sure, it is. Then you'll recall that the President invited sugges- tions from the city public for persons to go on the council. carried through for a period of time, That Many came in and I worked sorting through all

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and take her to the Driskill to dinner . Because I was--I had the feeling--I didn't know Mr . Johnson would ever become President but I thought he was going to continue to be a great man in the United States government and I wanted to learn as much as I

Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, this is a subject that's been hashed over endlessly and has raised an awful lot of smoke and that concerns the effectiveness of a number of methods used in pacification. There were Provincial Reconnaissance Units--or PRUs--People's Action Teams. The Marine Corps had

Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

to Texas many, many times on stories--enemy territory, you know--and come back. So finally one guy who was there--Max Fine [?] of United Press--said, "Creekmore, who was the best governor of Texas?" We knew who they all were from Ma [Miriam] Ferguson to Pa

Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Lyndon has always been a hard worker and a driver and he knew what it took to make the things tick . He did his ticking as far as the people were concerned and they kept sending him back and back and back . F: Then the first time he ran

Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a lot of people, but he had never really made an impact . So out of the delegation, if there were thirty in the delegation twenty-six of them would have been Lyndon Johnson people . F: Did Florida have the unit rule, or could you split the vote? B

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)

, how you happen to be where you are right now. C: Well, I guess lid have to go back to about 1943 when I came into the United States Air Force, or at that time the United States Army Air Corps, from my boyhood home in Alabama. raised in Andalusia

Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Mashman -- I -- 3 twisting of Amon Carter, when Bell was trying to decide what part of the United States to build [in]. F: Another superb arm-twister. M: That's right. We went ahead and took this helicopter, fairly new

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 6 (VI), 8/18/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

got to go. I'm going to get off here." The boat pulled into the Alexandria Navy Yard, and everybody said, "Mr. President, where are you going?" And he said, "I'm going to a birthday party"--of one of the Mine Workers officials who was living

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 15 (XV), 12/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? C: Well, he saw it as inflationary but he also saw it as inhibiting economic activity that would otherwise take place. His view was farms would close, small businesses couldn't make any money and it would have a depressing effect on the economy

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--described as a self-employed handicraft worker--and Carol Raymer, a twenty-four year old secretary who resided in New York. They were charged with selling three pounds of cocaine to undercover policemen at a Times Square hotel. I believe the exchange

Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

was there by at least nine every morning, and he was there until things were wound up that night. He has always been a very hard worker; he thrives on hard work. P: Does this lead to long and late hours? T: It always did. But again we didn't mind it; we were

Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: Well, I first became acquainted with Lyndon Johnson in the late 1940' s. I don't remember exactly when- -the exact date. But I had been in the foreign service in South America from 1942 until 1945. After I got back to Temple, Texas, where I

Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES (CHUCK) LIPSEN INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Lipsen's office in Washington, D.C. Tape of 1 L: Okay, I can start out by saying that I am from Mazomanie, Wisconsin, which is a town of about 800 people. I'm a farm boy

Oral history transcript, J. Roy White, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. like a farm building. believe~ I had to speak against it as strongly It did not have unpleasing lines. It looked It was being used for something else, I but it seemed to fit where it was. Another thing, if it were torn down, you'd get the view

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

chief of staff of the Korean army and I think later became an ambassador to the United States, though I'm not too LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

brought me into an understanding of the political process in America which again was quite significant in terms of my later role as a Cabinet officer. M: This was an M.A. [master of arts] thesis you were writing? C: Bachelor's thesis. I

Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. You're Arthur Goldschmidt and your current position is United States Representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. G: No, I resigned that with the change of administration. M: Oh, you're out of that. G: Yes, I'm a free man

Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. It is by and large a collection of very able men and also a collection of prima donnas. I ,never would have thought it was possible for any human being to do what Lyndon Johnson did with the United States Senate when he was majority leader. The way that he, by one

Oral history transcript, Sidney "Sub" Pyland, interview 1 (I), 9/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and religious folks trying to educate their children, the basis of America I guess. But I think it's real nice to look back to see what a 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

him the program. I'd get it briefed down and give him the program. But the rest of the messages, no, we did those. I say "we" did them; I don't mean I wrote them all. They were farmed out around to people in the White House. They did all come through

Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

backstopped them. We helped them, assisted, but the prime responsi- bility was theirs. G: I suppose, too, that one-agency could help out another if they [needed help]. 0: Oh, yes, like say a farm bill. Somebody in Commerce knew congressman so-and-so