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  • in 1910 was four hundred. I introduced Senator Johnson during the campaign of 1960 in a speech in New York City, and be said the town had over six hundred people, he wanted to correct me. It may have been that the town gre\'l between 1910 and 1920
  • people who were not giving their best to the new Administration? R: It was not that they were not giving their best for the new Administration, but rather the way the Kennedy Administration had terminated. to be divided. This caused their sympathies
  • it, and I said, yes, I could. F: Later on he indicated he wanted me to go see the Pope. How far in advance of New Year's, roughly, did he first call you? How far ahead? R: Listen, I flew to Italy on Thanksgiving Day. F: And this was a little before
  • . Johnson greeted me at the door. You can imagine how pleased she must have been to have an intruder come in at that time. gracious. But she couldn't have been more And I remember she called me "Mr. Secretary." Well, I was a brand new Assistant
  • Contacts with LBJ; success of Eisenhower relationship with Congress in foreign policy; personal contact between Secretary Dulles and LBJ; AID bill; estimation of LBJ; formidable experience of talking to LBJ; Macomber never brought good news
  • the summer to places, Alabama or Chicago or New York? M: No. I never di d know of her goi ng to them. to Alabama. But I knew of her goi ng I think she was originally from there. (Interruption) G: Now, Mr. McElroy, you were talking about the effect
  • to have a meal with him or to have a talk with him. F: You didn't know him particularly well though before he became President? M: No. F: Relate the circumstances surrounding your receipt of the news of the assassination of President Kennedy. Where
  • in the afternoon. in her office in the Executive Office Building, Room 100. We are My name is David McComb. To start off with your background, according to my information you were born in New York City in 1916 and educated in New York City and New York area
  • , 1979 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT L. PHINNEY INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Phinney's residence, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: That's really germane. P: They were brand new. You say initially when the NYA moved in-They had nothing to start
  • the relations were not So when--and I think I've discussed this to some extent earlier--when Ted had corne in we had talked a little about 1968. Ted and John Criswell and I had a lunch discussing the forthcoming New Hampshire primary, and Ted was suggesting
  • , and Lyndon Johnson heard about it, was in town, and personally came over to welcome me in my new job. Secondly, we had several meetings very early, just the two of us, and then with others around his responsibilities heading the President's Commission. I
  • INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE E. LEVINSON INTERVIEWER: Paige E. Mulhollan PLACE: Mr. Levinson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: The two legislative stories left are the Revenue Act of 1968 and the Truth in Packaging bill. Take your choice as to which one
  • the war I went to work in New York City. 1 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
  • a conservative from Arizona, [Paul Jones] Fannin, to [Jacob] Javits of New York. It ran the gamut. The first paragraph of the "minority views" said we voted for this bill. The second section said this is a hell of a way to run a railroad, pushing through a bill
  • -- III -- 2 G: Would the representatives vary, or was it generally the same people every day? B: Both, and by that I mean the people would be absent and sometimes there would be somebody taking their place temporarily, or Sarge would bring in new
  • , "I'm working very closely with him on the new civil rights bill," which Acheson--somewhat to my surprise because I hadn't been aware of any particular interest of his in this--he evidenced an interest also. And he said when he came back that Senator
  • commodities, new schoolrooms, dispensaries, the sorts of hard commodities that government delivers to improve the life of the people, and thereby generate some political support. That was the basic idea, and our role, while the budget was spent through
  • know whether they ever made their ways into the Library or not. G: That's a new one on me. Let's see if I can find some. Was that the last year you were there? J: Probably so, because actually I was only there two years. G: Any other activities
  • ] McNamara for having no new weapons system--I told you the story about the Polaris [mentioned in Interview XX] and how we got the new name? [Bill] Moyers called me and said the President wanted to announce new weapons systems the next day. They were going
  • . G: The New York Times piece by Bob Semple, why don't you give the background of that, because we never discussed that on tape. C: At some point in 1966, Semple, I think with prompting from Max Frankel, came to me and said, "We'd like to follow
  • included is Senator [John] Sparkman's, who urged that the new guidelines, which were tougher in terms of desegregation, requiring that free-choice plans result in desegregation, be held up until after Tuesday, March 1, the primary filing date. The President
  • was periodically covering the White House for the [New York] Times--obviously we gave him a backgrounder story the next day, saying that we were going to make a major push in this area. G: Had the [William Randolph] Hearst [Jr.] series already come out? C: Well
  • of that sending out this memo which set tasks and dates for Boyd. (Interruption) You can see how weak the Commerce Department was thinking when you look at Boyd's memo of November 2, 1965, to establish the highway safety program. It's [saying], "Have a new
  • --on the first of March. And it's interesting, we had a--I guess it's worth spending just a minute. This was the best way to unfold a new program. It's not related just to highway safety, but the whole transportation program. The night before the message goes up
  • government asked him to do. M: That's what the Governor told you? H: Yes. M: Yes, I remember seeing a picture in an old newspaper of you in uniform taking over your new job. So you then spent the war years in Washington. H: In Washington
  • to kind of stay in the middle and keep both sides together. G: Russell gave an interview I think to U.S. News and declined to say whether he would support the Democratic ticket or would refuse to head a 5 LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Country in the spring. It'd been a long time since I'd been in the countryside repeatedly in February, April, May, June, and I saw it all unfold. And there's just nothing in the world as green, and as new, and as fresh, and as sure of the revival
  • to Mayo's for a checkup, and I went to New York on a city trip with Gene Boehringer Lasseter, and we did a lot of sight-seeing. She went to see a young man from East Texas who was destined to make quite a mark for himself in the world of music. He was Van
  • Closing up LBJ's Senate campaign headquarters after the 1941 loss; trip to New York City with Gene Boehringer Lasseter to see Van Cliburn; the political importance of postmasters; LBJ's involvement in the extension of Selective Service and the draft
  • for appointments, positions, being heard. And here he was, and he just drew a little circle around it and just worked away, beautiful work. I do want to talk about the new building at KTBC. Does that come along later? M: Yes it does. Here on the twenty-fourth
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] 'http://www.lbjlibrary.org February 19, 1971 F: This is an interview with Senator James Eastland in his office in the New Senate Office Building in Washington, D. C. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz, and the date is February
  • the editors of the conservative publications that were not sympathetic to Johnson anyway were not present at this thing--the Dallas [Morning] News was not there; maybe one editor was, but not the top people. They were dissatisfied by and large. They did
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 5 only at the present time--it's in effect at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York; at the San Antonio International Airport; and at Dulles Airport here
  • shall ever have. A few things become quickly apparent. This is a whole new ball game. If I am to continue on the debate team, my outside activities will be largely confined to after-school practice and visits to the city library in the search of arcane
  • . The news came while I was over there, and he was very happy and congratulated me on the fact that it had come through. B: Sir, you brought up an area that I think is of interest. If I may LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • , then I got there about the tenth of December. I got there about two weeks after the assassination. G: Okay. F: When I got back to Saigon I obviously had a lot of catching up to do because I was out of touch, you might say, with the members of the new
  • participating, virtually all of them had been around here for the last couple of years; they knew each other, they knew I guess who was a real grabber of turf and who was a team player and all. But to me everybody was new, and it's remarkable how, looking down
  • to it and others contributed, of course, but he is entitled to a lot of credit. F: When you were holding those hearings, was there a great deal of controversy or were you mainly just trying to figure out--you're into something new here. S: That's right, a new
  • went to Florida, I was responsible for the state of Florida. I went to New York and saw people in New Jersey and was in Washington some. M: So I worked around all [inaudible]. That must have been difficult for you. As I recall, Johnson wanted
  • , and then two years overseas in New Guinea, New Britain, and the Philippines. Then, during the Korean War I served at the front, so to speak, on a cruiser. Mc: And rose from the rank--what did you start out as? H: I rose from the rank of midshipman
  • your career in the newspaper business in Texas? H: I came to Texas in January, 1920, after having owned the Knobnoster Gem at Knobnoster, Missouri, and later the Boonville Republican and Boonville News at Boonville, Missouri. I purchased the Standard
  • should be given the chance as a new President to show what he could do. It was a highly personal pressure LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ