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Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 2 (II), 10/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

) Then on New Year's Eve, the Johnsons arrived in Washington and we all met over at Scooter and Dale Miller's house--wait a minute, I beg your pardon; it was the Thornberrys' house, it was Homer and Eloise's house-for a New Year's Eve party. Scooter and Dale

Oral history transcript, Ann Oppenheimer Hamilton, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, in effect, but Shriver was an extremely active chairman of the board. He was always coming up with new people, new ideas. G: I gather the membership of the task force was to some degree fluid, and people would come and go, and submit ideas, and stay

Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for the Texas Power & Light Company as a salesman. University. In 1927 and 1928 I went to New York They laughed at me for going to that little old school LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Get him." So I went hunting for Joe Zimmerman. All I had was the name. Found him in New York. Got him on the phone. G: I show November 16 in my-- C: No, he came down for a meeting we had on the thirteenth, on a Saturday. G: I see, yes. C: I

Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

weren't in the mid-sixties all that far from those days. Thomas R. Marshall, Wilson's vice president, once said that the vice president had two jobs: one was to preside over the Senate and the other is to call the president every morning and ask how he
news to LBJ; Carl Rowan and event scheduling on trips; LBJ’s moodiness; LBJ’s sensitivity about his health; LBJ buying art; LBJ’s dietary requirements; LBJ ability to speak to foreign leaders and crowds.

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 4 (IV), 4/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, because they were having so many internal problems in the camp in the way of discipline, among other things, and the terrible rains that fell all during that period. One Sunday morning, at a point where conditions were so bad in the camp as a result
to force a confrontation over not applying for a permit; selecting the name "Resurrection City" and why the original name, "City of Hope," was not used; negotiating the terms of the permit and a bond; Solidarity Day June 19, 1968; a demonstration by New

Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

be stated more specifically. I was assistant regional price executive of the Dallas Regional Office from 1942 to '44, and then assistant deputy administrator for Rationing in the Washington office from 1944 until January, 1946. M: Then the Office

Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of comparison, New York City has about twenty-eight thousand policemen, so the thing that we have to remember is that law enforcement in this country is a matter of local initiative and local resources. The Safe Streets Act recognizes, however

Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

activities with that of Mr. Johnson and the events that occurred during his time. You began your news career with the Chicago Sun Times in 1948 and moved into broadcasting in 1950. You went with Station WNBQ, the NBC station in Chicago. From 1950 to 1965 you
on White House influence on news coverage, LBJ’s response to critical press coverage, preferential treatment to certain newsmen, LBJ’s decision on to run, 1968 convention, LBJ’s way of helping departing staff members, Vietnam, the effect of daily

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

was sick and that Bill Blair had intended to accompany Governor Stevenson on a trip the next morning to Texas. F: Now, who is Bill Blair? M: Bill Blair was one of our law partners. He subsequently was ambassador to Denmark and the Philippines

Oral history transcript, W. True Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh March 4, 1969 This is an interview with Mr. W. True Davis, Jr., who is a former Ambassador to Switzerland, and also a former Assistant Secretary in the Department of the Treasury. morning. The date is March 4, 1969; the time

Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

or the appointment of a new one. In a business way, though, I've bumped into him perhaps half a dozen times, not on Defense matters, but during the period that I was General Counsel of the Army and in charge of the civil works program. Do you know what the civil

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

it and trace it? M: I think the New York Times' version, which appeared a few days after Newsweek was published, is a better version, at least so far as I know. I saw Charles Roberts on the Friday before this piece was published for lunch. He had completed

Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of conflict and noise. And if we hit the front pages of the [New York] Times or the Washington Post, then Shriver was going to hear from the President in the morning after the President read his paper. When Shriver heard from the President, I would hear from

Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

into a world of communication, rather new, and quite strange to me, I a must ask you, Paul, to provide and a reasonable modicum of lot of caref~l guidance to·me deletion from the finished proauct -- lest this become a ,biographical sketch of a lniversity

Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh APRIL 23, 1969 To start your recollections--let's get it on here at the beginning. You are Chalmers Roberts and your current title is chief of the national news bureau of the Washington Post, is that correct

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

fields, the concept of working with news men who really are--there's only one way to put it--they're the best in the business. They're far a nd away above the average newspaperman, including myself a s a reporter. F: By and large they are, by nature

Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

was assistant district attorney of Dallas County and going to law school part-time contemporaneously with my service as assistant district attorney of Dallas County in the civil department. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 8 (VIII), 4/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was pleased, proud, a little haughty that he might go down there and represent this new administration at this bridge dedication. Well, I didn't say so out loud, of course, but I said, "Like heck you will. That's a volatile situation and you're going to fall

Oral history transcript, Florence Mahoney, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the state mental hospital there, and he told us what he saw. He was there working for the newspaper. In the morning he was there working on the newspaper. He'd been from New York. So he started writing about the horrors and even though it was a Republican

Oral history transcript, Thurgood Marshall, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

at the beckoning of one person. Secondly, it was a $4500 cut in salary. Third, the living expenses in Washington would be twice what I was paying in New York. So she said okay. We kept thinking about it, and the next day the phone rang. He was on the phone again. I

Oral history transcript, Solis Horwitz, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

for a year and was here every Friday. But full-time I'm very new, beginning around the middle of April. M: When did your first contact with Mr. Johnson take place, back when you worked for the Senate Armed Services Committee in the late 1940s? H

Oral history transcript, Roman Pucinski, interview 1 (I), 12/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in Texas. P: So Rayburn was telling me all about this, and so I figured, oh, I've got it made. I thanked him very nicely and left, had a very lovely chat with the Speaker. Next morning I'm in the well again and Mr. Rayburn--the ball came around to me

Oral history transcript, Helene Lindow Gordon, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. F: And wandered down to Washington at what late age in life? L: I was about seven or eight years old, I think. My father got a new job in Washington. F: Well, basically you are a Washingtonian, as far as you're concerned. L: I am

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on. The riots continued through about the fourteenth. Governor Brown was in Greece. Efforts were made to get him back, and he came into New York and down 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library

Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

think so. I think if you had good ideas around the White House, you didn't have too much difficulty in presenting those ideas. The problem was the consumer program was not viewed as a "new" idea and instead was viewed as a trouble spot. Now

Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

Anyhow, we became good friends and she [Bernstein] was a very fine lawyer. Later she became the Regional Attorney in New York, which did not have the same status, of course, but her husband [Bernard Bernstein], who had been in the service during the war

Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, although his early record in the Congress would indicate that as a young congressman he was quite liberal and supported all of President Roosevelt's programs, all the New Deal legislation. But by the time he came back to the Senate, I would say that he

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

departments would handle it, and whether there would be a new agency as opposed to having HEW--? B: Which period, is this pre-assassination or post-assassination? G: No, post-assassination. B: Post-assassination, the answer is yes to your question. G

Oral history transcript, Donald Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

"lciatit"ln with all of them. They each had the right tf"l terminate my (appointment). one was designated. I presented my offer to move on each time a new As a Foreign Service Reserve Officer, one l s appointment is theoretically good only for as long

Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, in the Mills Building, in Wash- ington, D. C.; the date is April 2,1969. The time is 11:15 in the morning and my name is David McComb. First of all, I'd like to know something about your background, where were you born, when, where did you get your education

Oral history transcript, Richard E. Neustadt, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, that the President knew what he was doing. Since the critical discussion would be with the new British government, and our government had 10 get itself in order on this issue after the election, I went down for about six weeks starting in the middle of October

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 3 (III), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

talk a little bit about her life. I remember her telling me the story about when Senator Johnson was born. He wasn't named for several weeks or months I guess it was. She one morning refused to get out of bed, told her husband she would not get out

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

said that morning. And as I say, it may be because I didn't. My impression of Secretary Clifford before he became Secretary was that he was essentially backing the fairly hard line on the war, and I personally was troubled by his appointment

Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

appeared in the t~all II I don't know. Street Journal on Tuesday another third of the picture. II Then another ~..,hich had When Wednesday morning's New York Times hit the street with the remaining portion of the bill, virtually

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE E. LEVINSON INTERVIEWER: Paige E. Mulhollan PLACE: Mr. Levinson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: I think most of the things about the staff we talked about on the first tape, but one thing we didn't mention was whether

Oral history transcript, Ebba Jansen and Alvin J. Jansen, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

into where there was a rain storm in the mountains. In Arizona they told us when we got into New Nexico the arroyos would have planks over it. But otherwise I'd drive the car and the other three girls would get down in the bottom of the gulley or the arroyo

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and he put me in a cab early in the morning and I cried all the way to La Guardia Airport because I really wasn't sure I wanted to do this and I didn't know what I was doing. I had a typical New York cabdriver. I had, in addition to my luggage, a tennis
from diplomacy in current politics; the riots in Washington, D.C., following the assassination of Martin Luther King; LBJ's confusion over the riots, their purpose and leadership; being in New York City for the ordination of Cardinal Terence Cooke

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 3 (III), 3/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

terms, but told Scotty Reston that same night, deliberately I'm sure, so as to get the decision out where it would stick. And it was on the front page of the [New York] Times the next morning at a time when most of the State Department didn't even know

Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

for a short time. B: Of course, the surpluses diminished, too. J: Yes, the surpluses diminished, only in part, however, because of the food shipments, but also because of the acreage restrictions--the philosophy had changed under the new administration

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