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Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh March 10, 1969 G: This is an interview with Mr. Herbert J. Kramer, formerly the Director of Public Affairs of the Office of Economic Opportunity, and presently consultant to OEO. Mr. Kramer was born in New York City in 1922
Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • director and the build-up was taking place, at that point we were having trouble with the totals. too large when you added them all up. The programs were There was still a great drive on the part of the President to continue new legislation, keep them
Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • believe, is suffering from a systemic sort of cancer, I think? N: Well, with the contaminant that's in Agent Orange, the dioxin that causes the trouble, it's not good at all, it's bad news. But I don't think that the problem is anything like it's exposed
Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • for the Chicago Defender. I stayed here a few months and then in June of the same year, 1936, I went to Detroit to help establish and edit and publish the new newspaper called the Michigan Chronicle, which I still retain some proprietary interest in. From
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was not unpopular. She was subject more to a bit of ridicule with her approach to the watermelon and all that kind of stuff. G: Late in the campaign there was an incident in Dallas at the Adolphus Hotel where a mob of Republican women confronted and were rather
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the Washington Post editorial, which said in view of the monumental problem, we weren't asking for enough money. And that was also the editorial position of the New York Times and many liberals. Secondly, the feeling that the bill was an instrument a) to help
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • presidential running mate and that in effect his family went to bed the night after Kennedy was nominated thinking that in the morning the family would have to decide if the father would go on as a Senator or would become a vice presidential candidate. Can you
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 2 (II), 09/10/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Publications Commission, and others recommended me to be the new appointee. There were two presidential appointments out of eleven members on the National Historical Publications Commission. No reason why Holmes should have, because he and I weren't close
  • How Frantz joined the National Historical Publications Commission; LBJ’s practice of allowing other people to announce good news; Nixon administration’s trouble finding Frantz’s replacement; Marietta Brooks; assembling an advisory board for his
Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • was president of Princeton, and he and I got to be very good friends because we were the new presidents in the AAU. We sat with each other and talked with each other about the extent and kind of federal aid, what should we be planning? And he reached down
Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • cent funded by state funds, really was placing too great a burden not only on Illinois. I had discussed this with Governor [Pat] Brown of California, Governor [Nelson] Rockefeller of New York and Governor [John B.] LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the CIO, the Congress of Industrial Organizations, and principal assistant to Walter Reuther, I maintained a suite in the old Congressional Hotel, that is now Congressional Annex Number One, a House office building . It just happened that one morning
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , in its ever-loving wisdom, had eliminated the appropriation for the domestic division of D.W.I. because they were angry because of a field survey, \~ich was that the representatives were interposing themselves between news sources and the government
Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 is a new adventure. I think perhaps it's the fact of dealing with human beings
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • in the Dodge Hotel . was a vacancy there . that . He wanted to know if there He said, I'll move there . Started right off like Turned out Mrs . Garner had given him. a ticket too . Of course, she had given them to the new young employees . G: What part
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- X -- 5 on a majority vote. But what he kept saying is the Senate can change its rules by a majority vote. can rise every morning. Of course they can change it by a majority vote; that's not the problem
Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the country and release them, one at a time, always timing his releases to get on that early morning, farm news broadcast, while the farmers were out there in the barn milking and long before the city folks have got their radios tuned in. And that was true
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 2 (II), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to his office. In the course of the conver- sation he informed me that the new administration was going to enlarge the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 30 (XXX), 11/4/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: One point on something we discussed yesterday: your continuing as national chairman. McGovern in his book
  • ; the McGovern campaign's relationship with the DNC and its new chair, Jean Westwood; organized labor support for McGovern; a meeting of congressmen and senators to discuss Democratic discontent related to party reforms; attempts to increase congressional
Oral history transcript, Lowell K. Bridwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bridwell -- I -- 2 owned newspaper in Columbus, Ohio, and went to Otterbein College . It's a morning newspaper, so I attended classes in the morning, worked in the afternoons and evenings
Oral history transcript, Ben Crider, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • not be correct--that Mrs. Johnson said that when she went in to wake him µp in the morning to get him ready for school that she never knew who would be in bed--probably one of the Crider boys. C: That is right. Usually, in fact every time, me. I have two
Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • county. Mr Ray Lee was at that time connected with the Austin-American. G: Pardon me, I tried to reach Mr. Lee this morning and they tell me he is in Puerto Rico. W: Is that correct? He is with the State Department somewhere. By the way, you don't
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • it was over, I went over and introduced myself--I had never met him, I had talked to him on the phone--and I think he asked me then if I'd come to another briefing at his house the next morning just before he left. And I said I would and I did. After
Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 2 (II), 4/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the store. P: No, the buggy. Mr. Taylor had a horse and buggy. When he'd leave early in the morning to go to the store, she would ride part way with him and then walk back through the dew. I remember how she looked as she came in because we were
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1973 INTERVIEWEE: CLIFFORD ALEXANDER INTERVI [VIER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Alexander's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: You're the new head of the EEOC. A: I found a number of things through various techniques that we use
Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Clements was also impressed with your independence and helped get the money from a source in New York or some place, a liberal source. M: They did raise some outside money, and I never did know or pay much attention where it came from. The Committee
Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Defense College when a telephone call came through from the State Department asking me to return immediately to discuss a new assignment. what they had in mind. This was in December [1963]. I was not told The Imperial Defense College had not concluded
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that would pass sometime in 1966 that would need at best a half a year's start-up money in that fiscal year. So the new legislation didn't have a lot of impact on the budget, even something as extraordinary as Model Cities. On drafting the message itself
Oral history transcript, Lawrence Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • provision for continuity. M: Is it weaker because of the varying attitudes of the individuals who hold the job, or because simply as new men, they--? F: Well, as new men it takes a while for them to appreciate the problems. The export expansion program
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • about more than the eighty-seven votes. There were 3,000 votes in East Texas that just had such a fishy look that I've never been satisfied that he didn't win that race, just as the Dallas News conceded it to him, I believe on Sunday--the race was held
Oral history transcript, Thomas Royals, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] '65, the new ~npower More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -6- Administration, Stanley Ruttenberg, placed me on his staff to get deeper involved
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • /oh or maybe it was Bowdoin [College] up in New England, and had had one summer as a copy boy at the New York Times and so on. He was a very active, very energetic Vietnamese whose family or wife ran a big English school. He understood the press
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • or less after the bill had passed the House and Senate. the bill signing ceremony. I committed myself to come before It was shortly after the bill was passed. I was called one morning about 11:00 o'clock by Sarge to come over and have lunch with him
Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • they were really thinking of him as a new day in Texas politics. I was so much convinced about what they had in mind that some time after he became the Minority Leader I asked Senator Stuart Symington if he would arrange a meeting for me. Senator Symington
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 5 (V), 8/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • come from all over. Special trains had come in early that morning from Detroit and Chicago and New York, and so on. They demonstrated on the Capitol steps. them but they stood there chanting, 11 We were ordered to move 1 shall not, I shall
Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh II 7 G: And what was your claim to number one? W: That I met Horace after that dance; the next morning, why, I met him in the library and I said, "Horace, we've got to get us a little organization
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh March 5, 1969 and March 18, 1969 M: This is an interview with Thomas W. Fletcher, who is the deputy mayor of the Washington, D.C. government. Building in Washington. the morning. And the interview
  • ; initiative for ordinances or legislation in D.C. government; Cloud 9 concept; new D.C. government; urban problems; D.C.'s preparation for marches; April riots after MLK assassination; Brookings study; prevention of riots; gun legislation; Resurrection City
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • regular press conference~~I one for the afternoon press~- held two a week, one for the morning press so I was in better communication but that also had its dangers. F: You're also more exposed. S: At any rate, he asked me first, "Is it true Luther
Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: DAVID DUBINSKY INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Dubinsky's office, 201 West 52nd Street, New York City Tape 1 of 1 (Interview begins abruptly.) M: . . . Roosevelt. D: Hoover--Republicans too. M: Oh, Republicans too, yes! D
Oral history transcript, Cecille Harrison Marshall, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • us our breakfast in the morning, and we ate out the rest of the time. now . We ate at a place called Wukasch's, which is not here It was 6n Guadalupe, on the Drag, about half a block from : where we roomed and we had meal tickets and ate lunch
  • Rooming with Lady Bird at the University of Texas in 1932; a Thanksgiving in Karnack; graduation trip to New York and Washington, D.C.; meeting LBJ; LBJ-Lady Bird wedding; Aunt Effie; a visit to the White House; Lady Bird evaluated
Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 2 (II), 7/20/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , understand, I'm an Independent. M: All recent appearances to the contrary! F: That's right. In New York, I was a registered member of the Liberal party, and now I'm a 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon