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Oral history transcript, Robert F. McMahon and Mark T. Muller, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • corps officer, organized these young pilots just out of flying school, had them assemble the P-40s, taught them combat tactics, and I'll let Bob tell the rest of the story because he is a pilot, and I'm a signal corps officer. Mc: Well, when we
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and Rayburn told Bob Anderson, the secretary of the treasury, with whom he was very, very close, "Now, Bob, you'd better think long and hard before you do that because you start this kind of business, there's going to be all sorts of organizations all the way
Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • attention on Indochina, my main effort was to avoid the whole subject, to hope that it would go away, and to have contempt for those who thought it was worth M: o~r national time of day. Was it still possible in late 1963 to avoid g~tting involved
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 28 (XXVIII), 9/24/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the governors. Congressman [Charles] Diggs was named a vice chairman. Bob Wagner, the former mayor of New York, and Senator Mike Mansfield agreed to be vice chairmen. In each instance, it was necessary to ensure that these people were activists in the national
  • elections; O'Brien's desired role as spokesman for the Democratic Party during Richard Nixon's presidency; Bob Strauss' efforts to raise money for DNC programs and to pay off debt; going to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and networks to try
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Komer's office, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 F: Bob, let's talk about what we were talking about at the end last time. We were talking a bit about Libya, and I wanted to get Libya sort
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . President Kennedy, I think, was equally clear that the assassination of Diem and [Ngo Dinh] Nhu was a terrible thing, but I believe had tended to side with those who felt that there was reason for putting pressure on Diem and hoping for change, without
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • hard on the money raising that time, but of course we got it pretty much through labor groups. Hinkley and Earle Clements helped so much. the interview before. That's where Bob I think I put that in Yes, he did get it, but he did not bow to LBJ
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 6 (VI), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • if you want to. C: I hope I haven't said anything untoward. M: You have not; now you are about to, that's why I'm warning you. C: I am? (Laughter) M: You are about to presented with a question that you can either refuse to answer, or that you can
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . l You said, I think, Bob Vin [?], is that his n-ame? D: Bob Vin, of Miami read about my entry in the race in a Miami newspaper, flew to Texas and sold me on the idea of the talkathon. G: Had he worked in that [George] Smathers campaign? D
Oral history transcript, William Gorham, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • ] and the BOB [Bureau of the Budget]. So you had those two forces, but you really didn't have--and that was I think the creation and contribution of Rand, through Defense and then into other departments: people who tried to weigh the cost and the benefits
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , that he was being away from Washington an abnormal amount? M: Well, he was. I mean, so it seemed to me. I didn't know what normal was at the time. I figured maybe other senators were away that much, too. Bob Byrd is never away that much now. Mike
Oral history transcript, Joe Robertson, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the Hill placed on the department? As Whitten and [Bob] Pogue [Poage?] and I guess--? R: I wasn't--I can't remember any instances. These people--Jamie Whitten's a very sophisticated man. He was chairman of the full Appropriations Committee; he survived
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 22 (XXII), 6/19/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • House took place within a couple of days. I was then in business. G: Why don't you describe the campaign structure, the personnel and who was doing what? O: The obvious approach to a Bob Kennedy campaign would be the primary route. It would entail
Oral history transcript, Charles Fitz Baird, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in this job, Bob Baldwin, had suggested when we discussed coming down here that he was going to Viet Nam November 30 and he hoped that I could go with him. firsthand about our problems. It would be a fine way to learn And time went
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was very cagey about making any commitments along that line other than to say that he hoped we understood that our speeches were being read in Hanoi and being circulated in South Vietnam and that they would make it very difficult for the American position
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the people in Williamson County re- fused to accept the agreement that we made. They kept insisting that we build the dams where they wanted them built, and the result is they don't have a dam today. I'm hopeful that we will have in the next year or two
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  • Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz
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Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Novak -- I --2 M: What did he hope to accomplish in sessions like that, do you think? N: He thought I was antagonistic to him, and I think he was trying to wear me down. He was trying
  • ; Bob Strauss; Novak's ability to separate his friendship from his ability to write critically about politicians.
Oral history transcript, Clinton P. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , it was very clear. B: Then, sir, both you and Mr. Johnson entered the Senate at the same time, after the 1948 election. A: Yes, there were three of us that the so-called liberals marked out for slaughter--Bob Kerr from Oklahoma, Lyndon Johnson from Texas
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • cabinet, and he hoped that they would all stay on. Adlai Stevenson irritated me that day, by the way, and for this kind of a project I think I should make reference to it. M: Don't ever let me cut you off on anything. G: Adlai was sitting next to me
  • treatment of Gronouski, 1964 campaign and the Post Office, Bob Hardesty, Bobby Kennedy, news media’s treatment.
Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Truman was for Mr. Rayburn, too. So I went into Chicago hoping that perhaps we could get some steam up for Mr. Rayburn. I tried to get Mr. Rayburn to come up. We found that you almost have to be on the ground to get any support. He had an opponent
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • principal functions as ambassador was to deal with Thieu and Ky and to apprise them of our positions, to use, as Bob Komer would say, leverage on them to get them to do the things that we hoped they would do and things of this nature. Would that have
  • November 1967 report to LBJ by Bunker; Bob Komer and General Westmoreland; pacification progress and military situations; 1968 Tet offensive; Bunker's reputation that the U.S. had prior knowledge of the timing of the offensive; Bunker's impression
Oral history transcript, Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . G: What was his name? L: Hi s name was Robert Hope. gone to I;!orl d ~·.Ja r Cous i n Bob, vie called him. He had not I because he was necessary to the agri cul tura 1 economy of the area. His father had a large plantation and VJas a cotton
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with a loft?" I was later told that that is where people did sewing, this piece--you [would] get a very small sum for a garment, and some entrepreneur would rent a loft and get ten or twelve no doubt women, or children of, let us hope, age enough
  • , Bob, and Mamie; taking LBJ to meet her father, T. J. Taylor; her decision to marry LBJ; LBJ attending law school.
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , a businessman in New York, myself, Bob Nathan-we were all for Humphrey 100%. practical. We were I guess more idealistic than It was unlikely that Humphrey could get it, but we thought he could get it and it was a fun thing to try and do. I was in fact
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • really quite a short time to that important project. He went up, oh, I think maybe to about a three-day session and made calls on Senator [Tom] Connally, Senator [W. Lee] O'Daniel, I believe, and Bob Lovett, one of the undersecretaries. When he emerged
Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • encouraged only by Rayburn. Once a year when we'd have our dinner--we'd usually meet at Waco--Rayburn would show up and give us confidence and hope, et cetera. But we had people like Bob Slagle from up at Sherman and like Mrs. Randolph and Skelton. Skelton
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in this--Senator Bob Kerr, Speaker Rayburn, myself and Mr. Johnson. President Truman at that time sent Clark Clifford and myoId friend who just left the chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board not long ago, who was one of the attorneys at the White House
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ in Congress; LBJ’s chief motivation and goals; 1943 and 1948 elections; Sam Rayburn; Charlie Murphy; oil/gas industry; Bob Kerr; Natural Gas Act of 1938; Senator Francis Case; Area Basin decision
Oral history transcript, L. Wade Lathram, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • as acting AID director for the last three months. I think you do; I've already sent off the telegram, and I hope you have a good trip. My recommendation is you be political-economic advisor for the Middle East." Ooh! Very shortly after that he came back
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • assume. V: No. Again, I think that he acted on the recommendation of Bob McNamara, and Bob told me that the President had approved it. M: And you were just made Deputy Secretary without having a specific instruction or charge from the President. V
Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • people come in to help us with the malaria problem or anything like that, he always made it a point to invite them to lunch or supper, as sort of a protocol departure thing. He was very good about that. Big events were when Bob Hope would be there, and we
Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to a club or something. Bob Hope was there and we went over there one night to their--and I believe they were at Tres Vidas. I can't remember. If there 10 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • under President Kennedy's appointment and Bob Kennedy on several occasions conferred with me. One one occasion I saw Senator Kennedy and discus sed the situation. B: Did you tell them then your inclinations were toward Mr. Johnson? A: I told them
Oral history transcript, Donald Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with the IMF, and the other named the Bureau of International Business Operations, BIBO, which was headed by Mr. Edward Scriven. arrangement didn't work out as effectively as was hoped. This Dr. Behrman and his associates, with the consent of Secretary
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 2 (II), 7/9/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • at this time. M: One of your memoranda there mentioned, when you were arguing that the resumption of bombing should not occur, some initiatives that took place in Laos through Ambassador [William] Sullivan and Souvanna Phouma. Were these more hopeful than
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • real hopes of being a possible candidate of the party in 1960? M: Yes, and he always denied it, even to his intimate friends like Bill Blair and Bill Wirtz and me. But down deep I think he still hoped. He knew that this time it couldn't
  • Biographical information; meeting LBJ in 1955 on a visit to the Ranch; 1956 Democratic Convention; Stevenson/Kennedy campaign; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 convention and Stevenson’s hope for nomination; JFK’s consultation with Stevenson
Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 2 (II), 3/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Department feel like it got it adequately emphasized as compared to the strictly military side? R: Well, it had been upgraded in terms of bureaucratic attention, as you'll recall, by the creation of Bob Komer's office. I've forgotten what the date
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 2 (II), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and met with President Johnson at the White House there. Then General [William] Westmoreland and Bob Komer also came back, I believe a little bit later than you. The three of you I suppose had a series of review meetings with the President. Can you recall
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • have Bob in there, too, when he was in town and available, because they loved Bob. Sam Rayburn said he was the ablest man ever to come out of Texas. He told me that .. G: Did anybody in the Republican administration accuse Anderson of being too
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 4 (IV), 8/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • don't have recorded, he was very hopeful that we would have some substantial national monument designations. I think I was as surprised as anyone else peripherally involved with the situation when I read in the press the final size of the designations
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • over and was interviewed. Airlines, and she came onboard. She had been working at American And she left me at the time of the Humphrey campaign because one of the reasons why she came to work here was hoping to work on the President's campaign. So