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Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of that was more than anything else a feeling that I liked to be involved in major new initiatives. come in. I had been involved in a lot of them since Kennedy had Not only the Peace Corps, but I had been involved in the task force that rewrote the foreign aid
Oral history transcript, John E. Stavast, interview 1 (I), 3/12/84, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , either via the boats in Haiphong harbor--and Haiphong harbor happened to be another one of those things. Mining Haiphong harbor was not a new plan; it had been there since day one, whenever they started actual activities against North Vietnam. G: Right
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . Johnson was taking her farewell trip Mrs. Cohen and I went with her to New Orleans. And she went on to Denver. And in the 5 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
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, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and now you've got someone else. Most of you have been very kind, and I know it's your duty to report the news as you see it. But I don't think that it's your duty just because someone says this and that [to say] that there's a credibility gap. I
Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and said that Califano was developing a new legislative package in education for the next session of Congress. That was in the summer of '65, and would I write up the international education part? So I became a government consultant officially and worked
Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • an assistant to the Governor of New York State, who at that time was Averell Harriman. From 1957 until 1962 you were an assistant to Senator Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania, and from 1963 until 1965 you \'/ere the
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Holleman was a labor official at the time-- S: He was president of the AFofL-CIO, I believe; and Fred Schmidt was another one of the labor leaders; and of course Creekmore Fath was one of those people, too, that were somewhat suspicious of this new-- B
Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 2 (II), 11/9/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : They met in the Philippines at one point soon after this, didn't they? P: I don't know. G: I believe he mentions that he went out to the Philippines, and that's Does Westy cover that in his book? when he got the news from General Whee1er-P: That he
Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • twenty years of government service which began in 1948 after completing your law degree and an association with a New York City law firm. From 1948 to 1955 you were associated with the Economic Cooperation Administration, and your last position
Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • this young congressman around who wants to become a senator. He started his election campaign late, but thinks he still has a chance. We're interested in helping him out because helicopters are new and if we get an important person such as a congressman
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to refresh my recollections. G: LBJ moved into that new office, the Capitol office, P-38. Let me ask you to just describe it and the circumstances around his acquiring that office. R: I'm not too sure of the circ1.111stances under which he acquired
Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of meetings with Ylvisaker and Mike Sviridoff, who was then at New Haven, Yale. And yes, as far as I could tell they were talking about something else. were really very superficial. The resemblances Now, I checked this out because I thought maybe I'd
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at that meeting got up to make their responses, who all they had been able to enlist and to give their testimonials. The big news that happened while we were at Mayo's was about the helicopter. A bunch of Lyndon's friends, I would say led by Carl Phinney
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 3 (III), 7/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • --or some of them might have. I did know, and it is entirely possible that the President knew, that there was some new thinking on the part of at least some of them. I knew that Dean Acheson and McGeorge Bundy were in the process of reevaluation; that Tet
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the Office of Management and Budget, not to the Executive Office Building, but to the Executive Office Building number two, the new one which had just been built, which was just a block away, and then spend the rest of the day there. At the end of the day, I
  • sources of information, such as the Office of Economic Opportunity and Tom Bradley; visiting Newark, New Jersey, to talk to citizens about rioting; John Lindsay's involvement with the Commission; the chain of command within the Commission; late night/early
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Ginsburg -- IV -- 5 of some sort, at least the commissioners, the staffs, should know what it is that the White House is trying to do. There was no discussion with me about concerns about the Mayor of New York and his ambitions, or about Fred Harris and his
  • in the National Guard; visiting Newark, New Jersey; proposed creation of jobs; prioritizing the areas of need; gun control; the decision for commissioners to stay out of the legislative process; "Harvest of Racism" report; the exclusion of representatives
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to contract with a New York company, and they provided us with a great number of teleprompters. Now, these were heavy, very heavy things to haul around. There are generally three things that looked like podiums that sat out in front of him and through a piece
  • to Mexico for LBJ to see a ranch, Las Pampas, he was thinking of buying; LBJ’s growing passion for secrecy; WHCA staff working as farmhands at the Ranch; LBJ’s resentment of Secret Service; LBJ’s radio system in Texas; the New York City blackout; gadgets
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was exercising a good deal of influence. B: That's right. Exactly. No, that's news to me. I had not known that. G: One question relates to your speechmaking function, and you evidently did travel around the country a good deal. To what extent were
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Mulhollan PLACE: Mr. Bundy's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by way of identification. You are McGeorge Bundy, currently president of the Ford Foundation. Your government service, insofar as President Johnson's administration
Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • visitors down there, including Scotty Reston of the New York Times, and John Connally and Willy West. G: Wesley West? W: Wesley West from Houston. And we went out and hunted deer. G: You hunted deer? W: Yes. And Pierre Salinger was down there. G
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • him home. Hoover wasn't there, but he sent a special message he couldn't come. Robert Trout. Have you ever heard of Robert Trout? G: No. J: That news commentator. G: Oh, yes, I have. J: He called me to fi nd out what the he 11 was goi ng
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /loh/oh 2 K: Because he was new and Douglas knew that I didn't know him and he thought perhaps, I imagine he thought, that I could be of use to Johnson in his career and that Johnson would eventually be a man of influence that I should know because
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of me to come in. I said, "Can I think about it?" And he said, "Of course, just let me know by tomorrow," which I did. M: And then you were appointed? D: I was nominated. I guess the news that I was to be appointed came just after Christmas; I've
Oral history transcript, Thomas J. Dunlap, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • high and that he will be considered one of the great presidents. Beyond question, I think that will be the fact, and that all of the new ground his administration has plowed--it has caused disturbance, it has caused controversy. But anything that's
Oral history transcript, Terrel Maverick Webb, interview 1 (I), 1/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that was one of the cutest things that ever happened. F: I want to get .it down. W: All right. Just before we were married, in December of 1961, I was in New York, about in November--October or November--at the same time Lyndon Johnson and many of his
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . various places. Just met them--met him, rather, at Of course, they didn't campaign together. They didn't go too many places together, but sometimes our paths would cross at airports. M: Were you in New York when they had that meeting
Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , the most talented people that they had to help set that up were my battalion people out there on temporary duty working for then-Brigadier General McChristian, who had been assigned out there to be [William] Westmoreland's new intelligence chief. During
Oral history transcript, Leverett Saltonstall, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 procurement of new capital costs, as I recall it, after several years now, was somewhere around sixteen
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • I was talking about a rather obscure and insignificant little country and that it really didn't matter all that much. As a matter of fact I decided myself some weeks later with the death of President Kennedy, and a new President coming into power
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and public meetings all over the country. Then I would grab my hat at noon and fly across the country to make the speech to some place in Alabama or New York City. Quite often, the only speaker I could get on short notice was myself. I became acquainted
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the summertime for the Humble Oil Company in Baytown, Texas, in the research department . I dropped out of the University of Texas, where I had been going to school . I stayed at Baytown, and during the course of my employment there the New Deal came along
Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • days of the New Deal. I went down to Washington in the fall of 1936, just at the time of the second election of President Roosevelt. when it was, but I did meet him. I don't recall exactly I think he was on some coal com- mission or something
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recall about that is that Mary Rather was his chief secretary at the time. Mayo Clinic. She was sending things to him at the She addressed a whole bunch of stuff to Rochester, New York that the Senator was most anxious to have and became quite
Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • possible ever, simply by reading news dispatches and having a general LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • and the Texas delegation; Wright supports LBJ for vice president; Wright's campaign for the Senate; President LBJ and the Texas delegation; LBJ and the Highway Beautification Bill; persuasion vs. pressure from the White House; LBJ as a reformer; LBJ and news
Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . I was of the opinion that he was a very effective leader in Congress ; that he was substantially more liberal than at least the average Minnesotan thinks a Southern leader is ; that he was a supporter of the New Deal and so on . I had enough
Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • could cite you examples of that. G: M: I Why don't you do that. think U.S. News & World Report reporters tended to report within the magazine's political-philosophical framework. I can't remember any newspaper reporters that did. In the case
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 10 (X), 6/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • around the country. I remember sitting with Tony in New York exchanging ideas by way of spots. If you remember, we were pretty hard-hitting, to the extent that they are still talking about the little girl with the daisy. You know, that is cited
Oral history transcript, Peter R. Rosenblatt, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • House, which was just after Labor Day in 1966, I had absolutely no background in Southeast Asia, in Asia, or any part of the Pacific. And I don't know if you want me to get into how I got there, but-- G: Certainly. R: I had come from New York
Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Is that correct? c: Well I was appointed in January of '68, and actually came into the office early in February of '68. M: You came here, I believe, from private business with Goldman-Sachs of New York? C: Yes, I had been an economist for Goldman-Sachs. M