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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 5 (V), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there was no way that she was ever going to avoid signing that petition once he had her on the phone. There was a rather lengthy conversation with all the pleas that Johnson could make and all the cajoling. But that was kind of effort the President of the United
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • DATE: September 5, 1981 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas Tape 1 of 4 J: So the last week of July 1948 found us--Lyndon, me, all his campaign workers--in the mood composed
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • found out a little bit how he operated. My view of why Mr. Johnson was so successful as a legislator is that he personally, and his staff, cultivated the everyday worker, the kind of the underlings in those departments. Because he knew, and I later
Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Delinquency under Dave Hackett in the development of the community action program. The typical program funded under the PCJD involved funds from Ford, sometimes from the National Institute of Mental Health, often from a unit of the Labor Department
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • gotten this idea from my studies while I was at the University of Michigan that grew out of my book of which I was coauthor, called Income and Welfare in the United States. And I had been studying during the late 1950s the relationship of income
Oral history transcript, William M. Capron, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • television sets around the town, socle of them were in the press offices of the White House. Hany figures of considerable prominence, both from the United States and foreign countries, have told me of watching television that night, how they had stayed
Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would be given five times X. I don't know how much a vote. dollars, you'd get twenty-five dollars. like if it was five Lyndon and some other people, there were several workers like Lyndon, were handing this money out. ~~e ~istaken, And also
Oral history transcript, Michael E. DeBakey, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • dedicated people. They were wonderful He had truly wonderful aides, dedi cated hard workers, extremely intelligent, and I was tremendously impressed with those people. M: Who was it in Congress that gave you the most aid? LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Skiles -- I -- 29 S: It seemed to work. The case workers, or whatever they called them in those days, apparently didn't have any problem of getting enough people to fill the jobs
Oral history transcript, Eugene McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for Then Pete [Harrison] Williams I think took it over in the Senate, and they began to do something about domestic migrants. I remember we used to say you're better off if you're an immigrant migrant worker than if you are a domestic. All we ask
Oral history transcript, Richard A. Prindle, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in those days and had been doing studies in the Division of Public Health r·1ethods on the number of physi ci ans and the number of health workers. We were, through these studies, quite conscious of the fact that we weren't turning out enough physicians
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • potentialities? V: Ever since I went to work for him, or at least not too long afterward, I had heard people discuss the possibility. I can remember even in going to the 1956 convention. I remember flying up on a plane with a group of campaign workers, John
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there had been several peace feelers from different foreign capitals, within the United States, and what have you. Lots of conversation about bombing pauses, quid pro quos, the whole business. So he was going to make his major address on the bombing pause
  • and stable; organizing advance operations; LBJ’s 1965 trip to Mexico; LBJ’s last-minute travel plans; LBJ’s around-the-world trip; Manila Conference; LBJ’s interest in Southeast Asia and Latin America; going to Adenauer’s funeral in Germany; domestic trips
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • Unit and told 7 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 Johnson -- XXXVI
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • twelve million, which was half the population of the United States, I presume, counting families. The future looked very bleak to everybody. Here is a guy that had in his mind visions of what could be done for the young people of the nation, and our
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to second the nomination. He was so pleased with that honor, he was one of the best workers Roosevelt ever had! F: It made a convert out of him. C: Oh, it made a convert out of Irim. he knew it. F: He was speaking for Roosevel t before It was just
Oral history transcript, Boisfeuillet Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • it to the Surgeon General, advocating a high level unit in the Public Health Service to be concerned about environmental health. The problems of all kinds of pollution which now, in 1970, are critical issues of national concern at that time were not given very much
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • guess on the organizational chart were outside of the realm of my responsibility, but I was there "Call Secretary Udall and talk to him about such-and-such when he said, a park. Find out what the details are of the gift of the Eisenhower farm
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • direction, and Bob was good at that, and as the years went on, Jack Kennedy never at any fleeting moment was other than president of the United States. His brother was the attorney general and his brother was his confidant and adviser, but the decision maker
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 2 (II), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • sort of at his pleasure? C: It was at his pleasure. The payroll at the very beginning was the payroll of the United States Senate. As president of the Senate he had a payroll there, and that's the first payroll that I was on. F: His staff
Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 2 (II), 4/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of displeasure coming from the President of the United States take on an added meaning . I think perhaps the sense in which he might have been hardest to work for was that it was very hard on many occasions to get him to react to � � LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it come from Brownsville. II See, 90 per cent of the traffic that came in from South America came in through Mexico, and it figured out that if it all goes to Brownsville it's going to end up East in New York. So Braniff didn't want another airline
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the United States. He was very active and maybe that \-/as the beginning of his political organization. He had people, he helped people throughout the state. G: Any other insights that Herbert Henderson had about the 1937 campaign? K: I think live
Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at that time, and it was really his proposal that we revamp the farm to market road system. I introduced a bill, and it would have required the counties to give up money, and substantial amounts of money, especially the bigger counties, out of the surplus
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , "At the start of this white paper, I stated that the goal is your re-election as president of the United States. I believe this goal is attainable and will be accomplished. We must not, however, lose any of the precious weeks and months that are needed to put
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Commander Gingrich actually, that I just did not want to stay in Washington too long, and I thought I had been there long enough in spite of the fact that I'd spent about ten months in Algiers and North Africa. He tried to encourage me to go to South America
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • specific issues at times? G: Not generally, I would try to do it on the man. tend to fade away. are." I'd say, "Look, issues Men resolve these things on the basis of what they You take any president of the United States in recent years and if you
Oral history transcript, Zephyr Wright, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • did he do for a living? W: He was a farmer. grandparents? He had a farm. It was quite comical, because I wanted to work in the fields picking cotton and things like that, but I was afraid of WOrr'lS, so I didn't do very much of that. I lived
Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Johnson doing things that would emphasize sometimes the distinction between him and Kennedy, that Kennedy was an easterner, a sophisticate, the son of a rich man. So Johnson would emphasize that he was rough-hewn; he was a rural man, a farm boy
Oral history transcript, Ardis C. Hopper, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Mildred Portner, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Portner -- I -- 21 when we got down to family portraits and farm groups there were some things we could identify. Then Mrs
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of a national policy revolution, namely, the conversion of the President of the United States--and the conversion of leading thinkers, limen of affairs," opinion makers--to these concepts. That revolution did not take place until the sixties, and nothing that Mr
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as to why he didn’t run. Have you ever heard that? A: I’d like to hear that. No. A: Well, I was a member of the White House staff mess, being the commander of the unit. I was the only one in my unit that had membership in there. So I frequently ate
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was It was a bust labor version that was adopted Jim Wright might not be majority leader today; he might very well, probably would be United States senator, but for that bill. Jim had intended to vote against the Griffin-Landrum bill and Craig Raupe, who's Jim's
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , who was an old Ferguson precinct. worker--thought he knew everything--wouldn't speak tome for two years after I beat him. But finally he came in my office and he said, "Listen, Dougherty, I know you know government because I read your reports back