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Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : professionally, politically, and certainly personally. B: In the times you've been associated with government, generally, have you found Mr. Johnson to be knowledgeable on agricultural affairs? M: Yes, he is. B: Even down into the technicalities? M: Yes
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh advisor to many of us and was well versed in the history of China at that time. [He] predicted pretty accurately what was about to happen
  • relations in South Africa; meeting LBJ for the first time; Sam Rayburn; Democratic National Conventions of 1956, 1960, and 1964; political social gatherings; visits to the Ranch; working with Mrs. Kennedy on the Fine Arts Committee; White House furnishings
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the President came as a congressman, and sometime subsequently, we met; I don't know when. M: There's a whole scale of subjective values that people have who've known another person over a long period of time. You're in a parti- cularly good position to make
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: IRVING L. GOLDBERG INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Judge Goldberg's office, Federal Courthouse, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 MG: Judge, President Johnson I guess had already been overseas--he went in 1942--by the time you went
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (Tape 4) June 2, 1969 M: You had gotten last time to the summer of 1966 with the decision to bomb the Haiphone POL, which came at the end of various efforts at peacemaking . The one question that occurred to me just as we
Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1989 INTERVIEWEE: JOHN HENRY FAULK INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Faulk’s residence, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 F: I was thinking the first time he [Lyndon Johnson] came over my horizon was in 1938. He had just assumed
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • all the time: he kept his options open. Even on some of the things that other people may look at as relatively insignificant, he still kept his options open and the decisions were his. You know, for a reporter or writer where he used to go out--and I
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • don't need this force very often. You'd have a large static force that would--if this were its training, and if this were its mission--they'd really have nothing to do most of the time. B: Obviously, the Pentagon and Washington itself, as you said
Oral history transcript, Roy Wilkins, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the New York state delegation--who voted for him in Los Angeles on the first ballot. I remember giving a newspaper an interview at the time which said that we shouldn't discount the effectiveness of Lyndon Johnson on the ticket because he brought enormous
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • have that background. B: I was working at McCall's magazine with Lynda Bird. She and I became good friends, and I came to Washington several times. I was in her wedding, and I got to know the family pretty well. One day her father called me
Oral history transcript, Floyd E. Dominy, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a political subject as between the Democratic and the Republican parites. I can't recall a time when either one of them had a plank to discredit reclamation or even to single it out that they were going to give it special attention because everybody takes
Oral history transcript, Norbert A. Schlei, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to be sent over there to work with Sargent Shriver and the other members of the task force at the time this proposal began to be put together. G: Who sent you over? Do you recall who approached you initially? S: What was the date? G: February, I think
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : During the time out there, any disputes between the politicians as to what was going to happen in the campaign, I had the sole decision to make . In other words, [being] from outside of the state, I knew none of the politicians . I told them where
Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Building in Washington, D.C. The date is December 2, 1968, and the time is 1:30 p.m. First of all, Dr. Stewart, I'd like to know something about your background. S: Where were you born and when? I was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 19, 1921, grew
Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /oh 3 B: Yes, sir. Did Lyndon Johnson give you any help as a, by then, an older hand? W: Lyndon was always helpful. Not only to me. third term, wouldn't it--my first term? pretty well in Congress by that time. he helped you anyway he could. Let
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Dick's father was living at the time that Dick Kleberg was elected to Congress. He was elected to fill an unexpired term in 1931 at the death of Harry M. Wurzbach, who happened to be a Republican, one of the few Republicans that Texas ever [elected
Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • for the first time in thirty-five years. M: I was going to say, your career as a government slave goes back for some time. And now you're out of it. G: Yes. M: But you did serve in that position for-- G: Two years, a little over M: Two years
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 4 (IV), 1/28/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Jones -- IV --2 G: Keeping the options open? J: Yes. It's sort of old-time politics; you always keep a door open that you can walk out of. G: What was Mrs. Johnson's view at the time, do
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 2 (II), 2/18/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • WHITE INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ February 18, 1971 Tape 1 of 1 F: This is a second interview with Mr. Lee C. White in his office in Washington, D.C. on February 18, 1971. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mr. 'White, last time we just got you
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • DATE: August 27, 1969 INTERVIEWEE: ELIZABETH CARPENTER INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mrs. Carpenter's home, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Liz, last time we just raised the subject of mistakes that might have been made, either wrong
Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 2 (II), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the legislation that went up? W: Well, there were a lot of different problems that were discussed during the task force, but because of the extremely limited time that was involved in putting together the program initially it was generally thought that a lot
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • piece of legislation passed under his-- C: I think he did in time, regard it, certainly. Yes, I agree with that. Also, what I'm looking at here is--we come back from the Voting Rights Act to a meeting on the drought in the Northeast, then to a meeting
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh December 19, 1968 B: This is a continuation of the interview with Mr. Goldstein of the White House staff. This, like all previous ones, is confidential until otherwise notified. Mr. Goldstein, you said last time that when
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- I -- 2 said that, why, they turned around to me and said, "ls it true? you know about it?" I said, "No, I didn't know about it. wouldn't be up here taking up your time or my time. Did If I did
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • settled," or whatever, what I considered to be an absurd amount of time. But if Mac said it, you did it. And [I] ended up movi ng d o ~ m to Washington, I remember quite well on July 11 since that happens to be Adele's and my anniver- sary. F
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Gillette PLACE: Kozy Korner Cafe, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 B: At the time of the first primary's results--I have no recollection at all of the number of votes cast in the first primary or the percentage distribution, except that Coke
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • on and so on. Z: Right. G: Khe Sanh was coming in for an awful lot of attention about this time, too, and there have been criticisms of that coverage. What was good or bad about the press coverage at Khe Sanh? Z: One, on the impact of Tet on public
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . 1970 INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES ROBERTS INTERVIEt1ER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Roberts office, Washington. D. C. I Tape 1 of 3 F: Mr. Roberts, you were in Dallas at the time of the assassination, November. 1963. R: Ri ght. F: Did you have any
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Convention, because they were having a problem with the r'~ississippi Freedom Democratic Party and that the President's, President Johnson, major concern at the convention was to keep that from blowing the convention apart. At that time and until
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in disagreement with the Kennedy Administration's sale of wheat to the Soviet Union. Did he ever talk about that? N: No. I don't [recall it]. G: HO\'J about on Vietnam at the time he was vice president? He went to Vietnam once. N: Yes, he did. the staff
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , 1968 INTERVIEWEE: NICHOLASKATZENBACH INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Katzenbach's office at the State Department, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: You joined that K: K: for the first time in 1961, I believe; is not correct
Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • it not been for the enormous cost of Vietnam. going to take a little time catching up. But I think we're I don't mean to say that we're not militarily superior to the Soviet Union--I'm sure we are--but looking down the road, I worry a little bit that we
Oral history transcript, William S. White and June White, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as [Richard] Kleberg's assistant at the time. W: They used to call it secretary, but, yes, it was the same thing. G: Do you recall the situation there in the office? W: Johnson was really in a real sense running the office. a very genial, nice man, but he
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • the rest trying to get this radio [station started]." He said, "You're it. You've got to go now. 11 I wasn't married at the time, I was working for Pioneer Airlines and it was a decision that [was difficult] because I've always wanted
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 4 (IV), 12/4/1985, 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 3, Side 1 G: Let me start with one note that I have from last time that you were going to talk about
  • separation of church and state; O'Brien's work with the timing of votes before the congressional session ended; 1962 welfare reform bill; the appointments of Byron White and Arthur Goldberg to the Supreme Court; Thurgood Marshall's appointment to the Second
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 5 (V), 11/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the chairman of the board of Gulf and Western, and see whether you like him. I sent him a nice letter about you and he said he'd be interested in meeting you." Well, I, among other things, did that. I went up to New York and I spent some time with Mr. Bluhdorn
  • during weekends and trips; a water shortage during Levinson's first days at the White House in 1965; the first time Levinson saw LBJ in person.
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to Washington from your home state in Texas, and you worked with them until 1945. From 1945 to 1958 you were with the New York Times and rose to the position of chief congressional correspondent. In 1958 you left to become nationally syndicated. Your column
Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . Nobody did, generally. Oh, some of my damn contem- poraries and classmates used to get mad because they were colonels, and again, I was by that time like a major general in equivalent rank in the State Department, and they would never paid any attention
Oral history transcript, Margaret (Mrs. Jack) Carter, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • enough about the issues which were acute at the time. The Great Depression came in 1929, and the first presidential election for which I was eligible LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about the President going to the Pope. As I recall it, there was a bill that was signed on Bedloe's Island on which the Statue of Liberty is located, and that was the reason that the President, by happy coincidence, was in New York at the same time