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Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , This is during the prohibition era, and we didn't have any local bootlegger right in Johnson City, but up around Stone\
Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wrapped in newspaper. We got down on our hands and knees and started unpacking some of these in this closet. Suddenly a couple of the moving men--actually they were from the White House carpenter shop, but they were moving in furniture--moving a small
Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • got anywhere. The significance of the Bane Committee Report, I think, was that one of the Board of Trustees of the American Medical Association was a member and the chairman of their Council on Medical Education was a member. So their endorsement
Oral history transcript, Julius Richmond, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • public health experience and large scale managerial experience, although I'd certainly been involved in managing enterprises within the academic environment, but I had been deeply interested in public health and public health issues. So when I suggested
Oral history transcript, Robert A. Levine, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • positions, as I have them recorded here, include research associate at Harvard Center for International Affairs from 1961 to '62. At that time I think you were on leave from RAND Corporation. You worked briefly as an economist for the Conference
Oral history transcript, Stanley Ruttenberg, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh February 25, 1969 M: This is an interview with Stanley H. Ruttenberg. He is the former Assistant Secretary for ManpoweT and Manpower Administration of the Department of Labor. He is now in Ruttenberg Associates, which
Oral history transcript, Ross D. Davis, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • called Development Finance of Private Enterprise. My principal concern had to do with development lending policies which govern the loans made by AID to foreign governments and private concerns as well. I did that until the end of 1963. At that time
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Lucas had a tough race because Dirksen had tremendous popular support, newspaper support, and Illinois was a state that could go either way, but Senator Myers' defeat was a big shock. Senator [Richard] Russell at this particular time had more votes
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • being available, so it is a quite serious problem. At that particular time--it was August of 1967, a couple of weeks after the Detroit riots--I was in Honolulu at the time. I had just finished speaking to the American Bar Association convention
  • Association's review of legal problems of the landlord-tenant relationship, building codes, housing codes, and the like; lack of action within HUD and Department of Health, Education, and Welfare following the conference report; the value of working in groups
Oral history transcript, Betty Furness Midgley, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • this. But the suburban housewife was used to the image of me standing beside a well-stocked refrigerator, and I think they thought that at least the image would be that I was involved with consuming, if not consumer problems, that people associated me in a kitchen
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • newspapers . Do you feel that in these early years Mr. Marsh was more important than Senator [Alvin] Wirtz? B: There's no way to compare the two of them . � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists, in New York City. It was called into existence in part because of the philosophic conceptions that were behind it, some of which came from Europe. It was like the Christian Democratic movement in Europe. There was a big
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the 1960s, when he was st ill a senator? W: No, sir, I had no personal association with him other than in 1956 I was delegate to the Democratic National Convention and was the platform representative from Alabama, and I got on the elevator at, I believe
Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • report did provide estimates of what the cost would be under various circumstances. And these costs, the Farmers Home Administration, Lee Fryer, who was an associate administrator, I believe was his title at the time, worked as a task force
Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • we call Long News Service which is an independent Capitol News Service. We correspond for eighteen daily newspapers in Texas. Among them the San Antonio Light, Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Beaumont Enterprise, EI Paso Herald-Post, Texarkana
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • because I'd just got back from the army. The first thing I did was to start buying newspapers and doing things, and I wasn't very much involved with political party activity. I don't remember having gone [but] to maybe one or two meetings, if we had
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the print, the editors and publishers of newspapers business? Z: How much he did it I honestly don't know. At that time, as you know, there were occasional flare-ups of Johnson. Wasn't it that period that he called the UPI desk here in Washington one
Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • 1965 to the present, you have been associated as a senior staff member of the Brookings Institute on government studies. I should also add, for the record, that you, in 1960 and again in 1968, \-.Jere the secretary to the platform committee
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. O'Connell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • if there were any problems connected with that project? Any special problems? 0: No, other than the sort of problems that were always associated with that type of project because it was a new type of endeavor, a new type of relationship . The federal
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the war for a year, and read the Dallas News, which was in those days a rather jingoistic newspaper, which announced with regularity that Texans were bombing Berlin and invading Italy and so on. Anyway, we came down here never supposing that the first
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • remember at a dinner with Harry McPherson, who was another old friend of his and of ours . And I used to see him at larger parties every now and then, but it was not an extensive association . But I think it's fair to say that he regarded me
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Washington. She just didn't swim very well in this particular Washington swimming pool; the Washington, governmental environment, I mean. It wasn't long before she checked out of the enterprise. We replaced her with Bennetta Washington, who was right here
Oral history transcript, Ava Johnson Cox, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that Uncle Sam worked with and worked hard. We were quite young, and we didn't have a daily newspaper. The San Antonio Express came out weekly, or semi-weekly is what it was called, and of course our mail service wasn't the best in the world, so we didn't
  • ethic; Sam and Rebekah's financial problems; Sam Houston Johnson; taking Sam Ealy Johnson's car; Cox getting into trouble with LBJ; LBJ studying the Bible; LBJ herding animals, working at a newspaper, and shining shoes; LBJ playing marbles and baseball
Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • plan for the pool. In getting an endorsement of the plan by her the newspapers are of course a marvelous form of contract. When you get all. those n~~spaper photographers and reporters standing there in the White House Rose Garden and they say
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that he could go directly to him for reasons, I guess, of just not knowing him that well personally. M: Did Mr. Johnson's, what the newspapers called his style--his provincial Texas background-- did this bother the sophisticated business leader
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that made a mark, as opposed to just a general impression from the newspapers, was by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. The year I cannot tell you, but it was a time, I would assume, when Senator Johnson was interested in getting more understanding from the liberal
Oral history transcript, Lawrence McQuade, interview 1 (I), 1/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • through the Secretary as what he wanted you to do and how he expected you to proceed? Mc: He did not. I had to go over and see Marvin Watson, on what was then played up in the newspapers as a harangue and Marvin--this is all, I take it candor is called
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to private enterprise. These are the themes that I think have been consistent and very strong with the President. I know less about his interest in foreign affairs. I'm not sure that I could draw conclusions, except that he was aware of them in a very
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 5 (V), 5/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ' attention. Was there a tendency to focus only on the Community Action Programs that created controversy? JG: Oh, absolutely. I mean, that was good news. the country a lot. Just read the newspaper. You travel around It's those wonderful exciting
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • road right in front of your house, with delivery service for newspapers and everything else. In addition to that, of course, one living there would have the benefit of the Waldorf-Astoria tenants because they would have a place to park and free air
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , And when that enterprise sort of collapsed, I went into book publishing with a partner, a guy whom I had knmro, ~.,rho financed a small book publishing company \vhich did very well, and which published, curiously, the first juvenile book about John
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the newspapers lit on him like a duck on a june bug, and he had rather a bad time of it, and emerged, I think, somewhat shaken. They also asked him over and over, how did he stand on the TaftHartley Act. He said "You'll have to check my record on that. It's plain
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , then know it was going to be surface-to-air missiles and all that it turned out to be . And we associated Kosygin's visit in early February, with sort of refo rmalizing good relations, good Communist-bloc relations, between Moscow and Hanoi . So
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was on July 7. Following Gray's earlier call, I was visited by two Secret Service agents in my suite at the Fountainbleu Hotel in Miami. We were in the midst of preparing then for the convention. One of the agents was Paul Rundell, associate director
  • and Howard Hughes; Drosnin's efforts to get O'Brien's associates to do interviews; Drosnin's criminal activity, including stealing files for his book, Citizen Hughes; an episode of 20/20 on Citizen Hughes; Geraldo Rivera's efforts to get O'Brien on the show
Oral history transcript, Elmer Graham, interview 1 (I), 4/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • : Through the year. No, that wasn't the only subject we debated bout that was the only intercollegiate subject we debated. set by the Association. The debate subject was LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 9 (IX), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the interrelation of the federal government with the state and local governments on the one hand and with private enterprises on the other. Both of these problems necessarily evolve from our federal system and our free enterprise system. Since we have no intention
  • the relationships between the federal government, state and local governments, and private enterprise; the changing role of states and the federal government in interstate compacts; federal participation in interstate compacts; air and water
Oral history transcript, Lewis Mayhew, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • : And then--also, you've done that--you were active--you were president of the American Association for Higher Education in 1967 to-- M: Some [inaudible]. K: --and you've been active in the AAUP, American Association of University Professors for many years. M
  • ; the conference participants, their association with educational reform and reputation for being liberal; the issue of federal support for higher education; the relationship between the National Education Association and the U.S. Office of Education; the caliber
Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • in 1921 and soon discovered that I had to make my way alone. Within a year I got into the newspaper work as a reporter, and went on through the University, then stayed with the Austin newspapers after graduating from the University in 1925. B: You were
Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to you about his presidential ambitions prior to the convention? H: Never did. F: Did you st~ out because of your United Nations' association, or simply because you didn't want to take a stand on that? H: The minute I became an international civil
Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • went back to the newspapering business, and I think it's probably the finest thing that ever happened to me. I've certainly enjoyed my fifty-plus years in journalism, and Mr. Johnson obviously enjoyed his many years that led eventually
  • Biographical information; association with Richard Kleberg; first meeting LBJ; Roy Miller; association as a newspaperman with LBJ; LBJ’s temper; Senate race; visits during the presidency; LBJ and press criticism; W. Lee O’Daniel; LBJ