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Oral history transcript, Henry Bellmon, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bellmon -- I -- 1 0 obvious that the President of the United States should not resort to what I consider to be a misstatement of the fact
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , INTERVIEWEE: JAr4ES P. COLEMAN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Judge Coleman's office, United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Judicial District, Ackerman, Mississippi 1972 Tape 1 of 1 F: Judge, when did you first know Lyndon Johnson? C: I first met
Oral history transcript, Robert A. Levine, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • was to come from RPP&E, not from the Budget division which was stuck into the Office of Management. By late 1966 it became more convenient and more saving of personnel to unite the budget with the program budgeting function, even though this meant cutting
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • categories [of workers] from the bill. I remember the laundry workers, particularly, and maybe even the price tag. It might have been $1.25 to $1.15. Whatever it was, on the basis of our joint head count and our activities in the Speaker's office that day
  • Department, Wilbur Cohen of HEW, and Henry "Joe" Fowler of the Treasury as examples of the best congressional liaison workers; respect for elected officials who must be careful not to upset their constituents; willingness to compromise in the Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • not go would offer support to the fact that he was doing extremely well. B: For that same reason, do you hesitate somewhat to hospitalize the President of the United States? He was [hospitalized] in that case, as I recall. H: Well, I would not say
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in their states. Television at that time did not have the impact that it had in later years, but they need money for the organization within their states. At that time you could get a lot of volunteer workers that would work for free that you don't have today. Oh
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 5 (V), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • dead set against some of the things he did in creating public power and things like that. But Wirtz was a fellow that could sit down and talk on a level with the president of any power company in the United States and know what he was talking about
Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of goods in the United States, or buy American policies, these sorts of things. So we got more involved in the balance of payments because they would impinge back on responsibilities we had towards the budget. The whole SDR thing was pretty much some
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • in the history of the United States had the Congress treated the private colleges differently than they had treated the public colleges, going back to the Land-Grant College Act. The Land-Grant College Act, the Morrill Act, did not distinguish between the private
Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • made that the best policy for the United States was to make a new effort to get along LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . It hurt him, and it hurt Humphrey then, of course, when he ran to succeed him. And I think Johnson without the effects of the war would have definitely run again. He loved being president of the United States, don't think he didn't. And I think he realized
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that he did not want to see the United States involved in a world war. them he didn't think they would be in a war. but he didn't want war. He was trying to tell Our country might, Then he said, at one point, "If the day ..i.,6-p ever comes when I cast
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and the children of a president who by virtue of living in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue are public property, still are not elected by anybody. They just happen to be the wife of and the children of the President of the United States who is elected. F: Probably
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the United Nations to do that, and he worked on that. At more or less the same time, when Johnson was groping for something that could be peculiarly his, he carne upon this idea of a poverty program. Before Kennedy died, he had had a small group working
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • ; Arthur Godfrey's farm; Sam Houston Johnson's broken leg and his wife, Mary; LBJ's relationships with Bill Moyers and Sam Houston Johnson; Sam Houston Johnson's book My Brother Lyndon; LBJ's relationship with Senator John Pastore; the 1957 Civil Rights
Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or whatever it was that we had for supper, and he said, "One of these days I'm going to be big enough that I'm going to put electricity on every farm, every house in the state of Texas. Think what the number of years that would add to Illy mother if she had
Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and tanks there, one of those--was it CBs?--or whatever it was. G: Oh, yes. L: CBUs. It was a-- CBUs [cluster bomb units]. He was going to use those, and he said, "I think we can clean that area out enough where you can get out." there then. And so I
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . But the Michigan case is I had written a brief in the Supreme Court of Michigan--I worked on a brief in the Supreme Court of the United States. I had also been very active in public accommodations matters, and had been a guinea pig and established the right
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • every day taking my envelopes full of wallpaper samples and all sort of paint samples and Max Brooks' plans. Sometimes Max Brooks would go with me. We'd walk around all over the house with the carpenters and the workers here and there. Marcus Burg would
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the order became effective, the committee received thirty-two complaints on behalf of workers in the Marietta, Georgia facility of Lockheed Aircraft, 11 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert Q. Marston, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of Regional Medical Programs. Some had felt that it should be sort of an auto- nomous unit, some had felt that it shouJd be in one of the other bureaus, and there had been vigorous debate. I was told when I first came that the division would be set up so
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason and Jeanne Deason, interview 6 (VI), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • Deason -- VI -- 10 WD: I started to say I had a theory on that. He was a junior senator. He really was not wise in the ways and the operations and the nuances of the Senate of the United States. I think he found himself rather lost and largely ignored
Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recollection is that Aubrey Williams, a social worker by trade, who loved political manipulation, often went to the horse races and elsewhere with members of Congress. In the course of one of those episodes he was talked into appointing a fellow in Texas
Oral history transcript, Father Wunibald W. Schneider, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to Ireland, got my papers ready and the visa and everything to come to the United States. M: How come you came to Texas? S: That's another story. My desire was to be a priest and to go, well, almost anywhere, and so I found a friend of mine in Ireland
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, James Adler, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that was informally referred to as a land reform program that would enable poor farmers to buy land or a cooperative would buy a larger tract of land and then sell it to the poor farmers for farming. This was not included in the final act. Do you recall
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , was a passionate teacher. He loved his subject, and his subject was principally the history of South America and Mexico. He used to just really get mad that the histories of the United States were written as though they all began at Plymouth Rock and up
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . I worked with him not only in the House but to an even greater extent after he went to the United States Senate and became majority leader. F: Yes. Now then, when he became Senate majority leader your relations continued, in fact, if anything
Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be to acquire land, ranch land, farming land, because the nature of the farmer and rancher is such that he wouldn't sell to Jesus Christ for a quarter less than he could get from his neighbor. ain't no way. him. There just He always thinks it's worth more than
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there? M: Right. Everybody had a special job to do. Like the Wades and Mary Ann Burns worked at the house. James Burns worked on the ranching and farming end of it with Dale. Jockey was just sort of both places. He helped Mrs. Johnson whenever
Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of that American Airlines girl? G: Carleen Roberts? B: Carleen Roberts, yes . G: What sort of stories did he tell? B: Not off-color . G: But, I mean, were they Texas political--? B: No, not political, just Texas down-on-the-farm stories . G: Crider boy
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, III, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to Senator Wayne Morse's. He had a farm somewhere around Washington. I remember going out to Senator Morse's home, and I remember some of the people that Dad used to have over for dinner, and I don't recall whether Senator Johnson was one. We used to have
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 5 (V), 5/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there? That's if you start looking closely there, you will find an enormous impact pushed almost exclusively by the President. Manpower programs, when Johnson took office, were almost exclusively for white males: many programs for sons of union workers, people