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Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Zorthian? Yes . it a little tough for him to do his job, doesn't it? Well, I had first known Alan Carter in New Delhi, seemed to be a pretty able guy . G: shall I say, That's another parallel, I think, India, too? He worked for Ken Galbraith
  • Cabot Lodge; the new regimes
Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of them--I'm sure I told Mr. [F. Edward] Hébert, "Oh, your New Orleans boys, I know them. met quite a number of them." And that Paris reminded a lot of the boys of New Orleans; we often talked about that. gentlemen was Mr. Mike Bradley. real sweet, funny
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3, Side 1 G: Some general items early in your tenure [as postmaster general]: first, one question regarding your
  • under O'Brien; how the Post Office Department dealt with mail fraud and obscenity; a threat to O'Brien's safety in New Jersey; the role of postal inspectors; the 1966 Chicago mail crisis; discrimination in the Post Office Department; changes in mail
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 3 (III), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • there. That's the first time that I had met him. I liked him very much. And then I replaced him; he had been gone a couple of months before I got there. I saw him in New York; we had dinner with him in New York before. Bill Benton gave me his apartment in New
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 3 (III), 4/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . As one secretary said, "It's very nice to have the administrators announce the bad news and let me announce the good news." a decentralized system. You can do this beautifully under Yesterday we announced that the Secretary had given final approval
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . The experimental college was an attempt to produce some new thinking in the whole field of education. I mention it because subsequently when I became the secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (although I had been somewhat an expert on social security
Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Short -- I -- 6 and forth. I had one movement at that time in which--I think it was the Polaris missile--we moved the missile case from some place in New York in here for heat treating. That was just dipping it in one
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • beaming in to us from telephone calls and from news accounts and messages all along the way. Daily Mrs. Johnson was in contact with the President and daily considered the option of our having to turn around and go back to Washington. Fortunately we did
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • towns and just get on the polls [phones] on election morning bright and early and just phone, phone, phone, phone. Just take page after page, introduce themselves briefly and courteously, and say, "I hope you're going to the polls today and vote. If you
Oral history transcript, James W. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a young man who was going to stay with the law practice, or was the feeling around the firm that this was just a kind of transient position, until he moved on to something else? W: Well, I was so green and new that I probably really didn't know much
Oral history transcript, Dwight A. Ink, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and Lyndon Johnson, not well, but I was with him from time to time. For example, I was in charge of Kennedy's trip out to New Mexico and Nevada on a defense inspection that he made some time after taking office. Lyndon Johnson was on that trip, so
Oral history transcript, Harold J. Russell, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh December 5, 1968 P: This interview is with Harold Russell, chairman of the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped. December 5, 1968; it's 10:00 in the morning. Today is Thursday, We are in the Executive
Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the country. And then on the closing day of the campaign, on Monday night before the election on Tuesday, he asked me to join him and two of his sisters in New Hampshire and Massachusetts for his closing speech in which we were glad to take part. And then I
Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Ribicoff and I sat through both meetings. The first mee ting was held with Northern leaders, and I think in that group were Soapy Williams, Dave Lawrence, Carmine DiSapio, Dick Daley, Pat Brmm, possibly Mike Pendergast from New York, myself, Ribicoff, John
Oral history transcript, Willy Brandt, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a number of good discussions. He stayed there that Saturday and Sunday; [he] left, as far as I can remember, very early Monday morning. We had met--by the way, if I may add that we had met years before that, during my first visit to the States, which
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 3 (III), 3/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and wife relationship. I am sure she was a constant counselor; she was present at times of great stress. I know for example the early morning hours when Senator Kennedy was shot and the following day when the announcement had been made of his death
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 3 (III), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a conservative from Arizona, [Paul Jones] Fannin, to [Jacob] Javits of New York. It ran the gamut. The first paragraph of the "minority views" said we voted for this bill. The second section said this is a hell of a way to run a railroad, pushing through a bill
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the Pacific area. So he doesn't concentrate on it with the intensity that the J-2 MACV [does], but, yes, I followed it very closely; we had morning briefings similar to what they had in Saigon. G: Now, if I have the chronology right, you went out
Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't know if this is on the record. One morning Price Daniel--he was governor then--invited me over there to a breakfast for Jack Kennedy. He was running for president you know. I wasn't going to go. I said, "Oh hell, that's just a lot of politicians
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 2 (II), 11/23/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • as that was concerned. He knew that I had had the confidence of civil rights groups and a good reputation with the bar, and I think he was just concerned about having to start all over again to some extent with a new Attorney General. M: Right in the middle
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Prior to that you had Prior to that you had been a New York Times State Department reporter. Does that pretty well get tbe last ten or fifteen years? J: It does except my last public service was as a member of the American delegation to the peace
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
  • ; high-speed train transportation between Washington, D.C., and New York City; the high-speed train system in Japan; research on short-takeoff and vertical-takeoff aircraft; NASA and FAA involvement in aircraft research; the Supersonic Transport program
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • care of all the administrative and technical and legal problems that his lawyers had prepared, and in part of the process of establishing the new department. And as Weaver saw it there were only two alternatives, nothing else possible. Either he became
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? F: No. The only difference was one in degree, not in kind. There was just as much discrimination in New York City as there was in Birmingham, Alabama, except Birmingham was more blatant and more widespread. It didn't matter. When you look
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , that may have gone up from 5,000 people at the time of the census to 50,000 people five years later, if they can get a capitation arrangement on rebate of money from the state with a new figure, of course they want to take it. I think it's fair to say
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • think of, except I had some ideas, and I generally used to get called down when there was trouble. I had breakfast, at his request, with John Kennedy that morning. He knew I was in town and did not want to question me about the Middle East. He wanted
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1982 INTERVIEWEE: DAVID HALBERSTAM INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Halberstam's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 2 G: You said that you had a Lyndon Johnson story. H: Yes. I was, in 1960, working for the Nashville Tennessean
Oral history transcript, George McArthur, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • can to make sure that it's right, but you know that that deadline is there. You want to produce it as best you can, but let's face it, spot news for a wire service; the only quality in there is the integrity of the news itself. They don't much care how
  • Lansdale's missions to Vietnam and his reputation in Vietnam; John Paul Vann; journalists Denis Warner and Wilfred Burchett; the battle of Ia Drang; Stanley Karnow; spies that worked for news agencies in Vietnam; Ward Just; Charles Mohr; Peter Braestrup
Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • years. he was thro.ugh the news· med ta and so forth, but Of course, I knew who r never had any persona 1 contact with him. B: Th.at would apply even to his acttvtties while he was vice president, . as chairman of the Equal .Opportun1ties
Oral history transcript, Dorothy V. Bush, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 5 weren't happy about it, and a lot of other people were very unhappy . In my opinion the new chairman of the national committee, Fred Harris, has named two new
Oral history transcript, Val M. Keating, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Texas since about 1929 When I say a story in itself, it's because of a personal thing that it reminds me of. When I was given the position of director of social services of the Texas Relief Commission the new board did not care to have me
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Service Commission branch offices, which are also regional headquarters for the U.S. government civil service. I believe Dallas was one, Denver was one, Kansas City was one, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh duties in the Pentagon matter involved setting up a communications network using Border Patrol equipment--automobiles with radios and people with walky-talkies in the crowd. I'll never forget the morning of the march coming
Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for greater publicity for the report. worldwide. Street. It was front-page news We released it on a Saturday morning out of respect to Wall That was the advice we got from--I forget where that came from but anyway, they asked us not to release it during
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Oberdorfer -­ 0: Well, I think it was late morning, thing, II -­ 7 perhaps
Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 2 (II), 10/3/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a lot in that Allred affair. They came in to see me one morning, and said, "We want you to manage Lyndon Johnson's campaign. II He had just announced the day before. I only knew him by newspaper accounts. I didn't know him personally. M; You had
Oral history transcript, Georgia Cammack Edgeworth, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on Sunday, or how would it work? E: No, they have always had a minister each Sunday, but he does not live there. Brother Akin drove from Austin every Sunday morning and spent the day and did the visiting that's necessary for a minister, and during
Oral history transcript, Mary Michelson Fish Johnson Haselton, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to their various towns or villages or cities, wherever they came from in the state. I happened to be the only one left in the Austin office. Early one morning the telephone rang, about nine o'clock. I answered it. The Senator was on the other end of the line. I had
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a commission on silver and put Wright Patman and a bunch of the congressional people on that thing to help us make the transition from the silver coins into the new clad coins. I'll never forget the day I had to take that coin over to show it to Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Marie Wilson, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • right. I'm from New York. the end of 1951. Wilson there. I left New York and went to Texas at I worked at Lackland Air Force Base and met Glen I married Glen Wilson in June of 1953. gets me to Austin. Okay, that I went to work for Max Brooks