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Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 2 (II), 9/13/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • situation in which the Soviets brutally have shot down a Korean airline--really murdering two hundred and sixty-nine people. You have to distinguish here between rhetoric as against action, and rhetorically the world has reacted with vehemence
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 49 (XLIX), 7/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1989 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: Harding Lawrence was the head of Braniff Airlines. And Lawrence wanted an international route going
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 3 (III), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and then we'll come back to this. Was Cairo a popular post? Was it a desirable posting in the diplomatic corps? B: It was considered an extremely desirable ambassadorial post. It was Class I, of which there were, what? Twelve or fifteen around the world
  • ; Nasser's ignorance of American government; Battle's relationship with the press; information leaks; the Arab understanding of breaking diplomatic relations; Nasser's goals for Egypt and his increased recognition among world leaders; the state of Egypt
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . We sold aluminum. We went to the steel people. He said we would not use the antitrust or tax laws against them but we would be aggressive in trying to get them to hold their prices and wages. And Fowler said that with Vietnam, unlike World War II
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • into a considerable amount of trouble. G: Can you recall a specific example? R: Well, the worst part was the airline strike of 1965. Sixty-six. That was a classic. That was a classic. In 1964, I guess, when the railroad strike came on, and I had advised him
  • Reedy’s role as policy advisor while LBJ was Senator; airline machinists’ strike of 1966; influencing LBJ’s decisions; writing memos to LBJ; Richard Russell; Eugene Millikin; Sam Rayburn; what makes a good Senator; Millard Tyding’s loss to Joseph
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: WARREN WOODWARD INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Woodward's offices at American Airlines, Dallas, Texas Tape l of l M: On the last tape, to pick up where you left off, you mentioned that Johnson had recovered from his kidney stones
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • there, and I wasn't quite sure, and so I said, "Seventy-seven." After we got through and finally after the nomination, we showed up, sure enough, with seventy-six. And all the press says, "My gosh, how in the world did you figure it that closely?" I never
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • the Second World War. I was in Korea and at various posts and stations around the world with the Marine Corps. I stayed in the Marine Corps until 31 July of this year, 1968, when I retired and then was retained here as a civilian. Go: Could you tell me
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
  • , Alabama. I was born and I was inducted, or about to be inducted, as a draftee in World War II and elected to go into the aviation cadet program. I was selected for that; went into the services; had my first assignment in Miami, Florida, for basic
  • on board presidential aircraft; maintenance and security for Air Force One; service as combat pilot in Vietnam; description of the 1967 round-the-world trip with LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lloyd N. Cutler, interview 1 (I), 4/12/1969, by William Helmer (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh CUTLER -- I -- 3 was to review the rules governing the disciplining of airline pilots and mechanics for violation of safety regulations; whether they had appropriate hearing procedures
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • would put heat on labor leaders to help end an airline strike--he would go outside the airlines industry to involve labor leaders, involve industrial leaders . He certainly knew how to do that . Ba : The reason I asked was, fairly recently of course
Oral history transcript, Janet Wofford Ingram, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • : Really? I: Yes. So that could have been-- B: She grew to appreciate it more. I: Yes. Living there in East Texas, as we have for the last thirty or forty years--it's a whole different--it's a different world from this part of the world. So she had
Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • elsewhere it will go over the other wires, some of it elsewhere in the United States and occasionally world-wide." Fortunately for me, Texans at that point already were so prominent that lots of the stuff that I wrote saw the light all over the nation
Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in effect the organization was an operational organization that operated seven days a week, twentyfour hours a day. The CAB, in addition to its regulatory functions in the economic operation of the airlines, also had the safety division. This was done
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : And also, if you were the president and you're in a steel negotiation or you're in a big airline or railroad problem, you talk to the Wirtzes and Connors and maybe the Goldbergs and the Wayne Morses of the world. I think the only way a guy like Simkin
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • him. But he made every use of the telephone tv/enty-four hours a day, no matter where he was in the world. One of the problems of the President, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [the fact that] he had been a minister to someplace before we had so many ambassadors. He was a man with a world view. Modest sort of fellow and such reputation as he had was mostly as a member of the bar. He's a good man worth looking into although he
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wanted is what all of us really want, is for someone to say "You're absolutely best, the most terrific thing in the world, and we need you and we can't live without you." Number one, that doesn't happen in real life, and number two, that wasn't something
Oral history transcript, James W. Gulick, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • house, goes simply to the point that, assulning Haritime had gone under DOT, you \vould have had in one agency the ship side; airlines which are nm.] under FAA safety regulations; the St. Lawrence Seaway, which is a small piece of the action
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Stabilization Board and other means, and his reputation was superb. I said, "Arthur, I understand thoroughly." I'm sure that there was an association with Adlai Stevenson, and that political world was something I didn't know too much about but respected, so I
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the equivalent of the banker's family, the first family of Johnson City . They were the ones who got all the way to Austin and saw the world, and consequently they were the style setters, and the girls were-­ F: And Mother Johnson had a sense of their style
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the maximum extent. At that time, we were talking about three miles beyond their border for Tidelands. Now we're talking about two hundred miles, and it looks very much like this is what the world's going to come to, and the reason being that the Japanese
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of an obsession. That obsession was that Communism, China and Russia, were a monolithic combination determined to Bolshevize the world and that we had to stop them and that if we didn't stop them in Southeast Asia this would spread. If Vietnam fell then Laos
Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • William Murphy, and she was well-traveled and knew a lot about the world and the country. I found her quite fascinating, and shortly after that we were married. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and we worried lest both the kids and the faculties were becoming lethargic. F: Yes, I remember that complacent generation. It worried me as a history professor. M: After World War II, we always blamed it on World War II because you had a double
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Committee, a significant debt. We had been able to scurry around to pay current obligations, the ones that you had to pay. That was primarily media. But as far as the other debt, travel, airlines, telephone, all of that added up to several million dollars
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- IV -- 15 secretaries. He would. of any man in the world. Mr. Kleberg had the most wonderful vocabulary You couldn't find it in the dictionary, any of them, but he knew what
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 3 (III), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • I think should be continued. It expands the reach of the Presidency rather dramatically in terms of the great talents in the country in the academic world, business and labor, and all of the professions and other interested people. It also is a very
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 52 (LII), 8/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , apparently, for not succeeding. C: Well, I mean, you know, the hardest thing in the world is to look at yourself. I mean, it was just--the mood was not right. We tried for two years to get 14(b) [repealed]. And they had another bill they wanted which we
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 55 (LV), 9/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the record," and what have you. And we did the press briefing for the White House press corps. Then we talked to some transportation experts. In today's world they'd all be at the same briefing. They'd just add to the White House press corps
Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • experience; I also think that his m.other m.ust have been a very superior person. of the world's great ladies. And I know that Mrs. Johnson is one I believe he refers to both of these influences when he talks of his awareness of the talents of wom.en
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 2 (II), 2/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of my service to LBJ, I probably became the world's foremost authority in an area of expertise for which there is very little demand, and that is arranging meetings between the President of the United States and the Pope. By, I'm sure, sheer coincidence
Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Carleen Roberts [?], and Carleen [had] lived next door to me in Oklahoma City and I'd been sort of a beau of hers when we were going to school together . She became vice president of American Airlines--she was the only woman executive--and Lyndon sort
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 60 (LX), 1/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • these things that Morse would periodically say if we're really at war we ought to get with labor, get them to make an agreement, the way they did in World War II, to end these strikes. Then on the third, I guess, we met with Morse, Mansfield, [Nicholas
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Lehan, interview 2 (II), 1/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the morning. The interview is in his office in the Department of Transportation, and my name is David McComb. Last time, Mr. Lehan, you spoke about a problem of communication between the scientific community and what you might call the outside world-- L
Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • all he had with him, was a carpetbag . He apparently went up there in the early 1900's and joined the Army from there . F: He made a place for himself . B: Oh, sure he did . He was an officer in World War I . Now to be black and be an officer
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • apparent that the aviation people, I think primarily airline, and aviation-oriented people in the Congress, and primarily Senator Monroney, would not accept a structure which permitted the Secretary to have control over accident investigations, even though
  • Biographical information; CAB appointment; Northeastern Airlines decisions; air congestion and stacking over airports; role as the Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation; contact with Vice President Johnson; maritime strike; establishment
Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • --at that point it was considered absolutely annihilation in the political world in the South to testify on behalf of civil rights--but that if it would pass the bill or help in passing it, I would do whatever the President requested. Subsequently, the President
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • house." He said, "Why?" She said, "Well, I've got furniture that dates from World War I, old furniture. It suits me, it suits Harry. But I don't want anybody taking pictures of it, I don't want anybody making fun of it. We're not going to have it. You
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of Johnson's best speeches. He talked about the need for racial equality and he also talked about the world situation. He tied the two together, saying that he was trying to save the world from nuclear war and at the same time he wanted to save our country from