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Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the earliest days, and Vice President Johnson had been interested, too, along the way. memoria 1 bust of Byrd done by Fel i x de Avenue of the Heroes. \~el He dedicated this don, and it I S on a new The plan was to have the statues of the great heroes
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, 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, 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, John A. Gronouski, interview 3 (III), 2/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • from the New York Times index. G: Yes. It's an article by [John Warren] Finney of the New York Times and then another one, a column by [James] Reston. Albert Gore is the sinner, I think, but we'll get into that. But that I think I might say
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • it up. I think also this was around Thanksgiving time, which gave it some special relevance in the press. Another category of letters for release would be the Vietnam mail. Some of these cases actually came to our attention through the news media. I
Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in on November 11, 1966. I came from Rochester, New York, where I had been for some time previous connected with the Xerox Corporation and a practicing lawyer. I was chairman of the Board of Xerox and had been General Counsel and Chairman of the Executive
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 6 (VI), 8/18/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1972 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE E. LEVINSON INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Mr. Levinson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 F: Tell us about the grand life on the presidential yacht, the Sequoia. L: Right. I was going to give you a summary
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that there was such a thing. Sometimes those only filtered to the West Wing and never touched me. F: The reason I ask--you know, it was news anywhere, and people just kept bringing up disclosures, particularly some of those that were critical of the President and some
Oral history transcript, Wayne Aspinall, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the northeastern part of the state, Larimer, Weld, Logan, Morgan, Sedgwick, and Phillips. F: You had to go out and develop a whole new constituency. A: I went from Julesburg, northeastern corner, down to Towaoc, the southwestern corner. F: That's bigger
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • any overtures toward you before this? E: I can't remember. Billy Lee was working for Ronnie Dugger on the Texas Observer, which was a very new, young little paper. Billy Lee was making such a small amount of money--he was doing really good work
Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of Staff of the United States Air Force. Among my many duties in this position was the handling of the political aspects of closing air force bases, which, as you know, is a very sensitive problem. On a Saturday morning during this period the Assistant
Oral history transcript, George A. Smathers, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were all a little nervous about it and we talked about it, because this guy, of course, was an indefatigable worker. He worked from early morning until late at night. I don't quite remember whether this was the year that I became acting whip. I think
Oral history transcript, Charles Timmes, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • didn't understand when they were talking to us, they were under the influence of this Confucian policy, so they wouldn't tell us bad news, because this was bad for us. This was a very primary difficulty, not having the language, being subjected or being
Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ? L: I can't remember. I appeared there so many times, but I'm sure I probably did. F: But you have no clear cut memory of his presiding? L: No. F: As a committee chairman? When 1961 came along you had of course a new team in Washington. Now
Oral history transcript, Roswell L. Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1982 INTERVIEWEE: ROSWELL GILPATRIC INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Gilpatric's office, Manhattan, New York Tape 1 of 1 TG: Mr. Gilpatric, can you recall the circumstances under which you were named to chair the task force on Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Phillip S. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in Washington, D.C. The date is March 7, 1969. The time is 10:08 in the morning and my name is David McComb. Let me find out something about your background first, Mr. Hughes. Where were you born and when? H: I was born in Chicago, Illinois, February 26
Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and he came And Wolf did a very fine job basically in that field and other agricultural developments, helping with the rubber and new plants and that sort of thing. But there was no [disagreement there]. They fought over other things later, because he
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1987 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: Let's start with some of the legislative developments in 1967. The Republicans gained forty-seven House
  • ; the rail strike settlement; funding proposals for rat control; William Manchester's book, The Death of a President; Doris Kearns' involvement in a 1967 New Republic article that was critical of LBJ; a July 1967 memo regarding Irish airlines' opposition
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was living in Japan, Dien and I began to hear and read about this place called and so I went down there for the Chicago Daily News what turned out to be the end of to the Viet Minh Dien Bien Phu fell Accords . it . and at the time of the Geneva
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 10 (X), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with the creation of new laws. Too many people think that laws come only from Congress. It's true that statutes come only from Congress, and then with presidential signature, or at least approval. But there is a very substantial body of what can properly be called
  • assassination; the occasional need to make sure the president understands the situation about which he is making a decision; the president's authority in lawmaking; interagency action; the 1967 New Town in Town program at Fort Lincoln in Washington, D.C
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and a new life beginning. It was roughly divided between business school, which took up about five or six hours of the day [and the office]. I went to a very ordinary sort of a loft place and took typing and shorthand for about three hours and then studied
  • in the Washington, D.C., area; the news that Austin had been approved for a military installation; a petition campaign for LBJ to run for congressman again and support for a possible Senate race; LBJ's frustration with his work in the navy; LBJ's relationship
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • going to start at the White House Monday morning." at AID about it? that. Dave Bell?" And I said, "Do I need to ask anybody And they said, "Oh, we'll take care of You'll stay on their payroll for awhile." I didn't even go on the White House payroll
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Houston came to see us, and he seemed to be in good physical and psychological shape. G: He was in Dallas during part of this period? J: Yes. G: What was he doing there, do you know? J: I don't know. That was a new job; I don't know what it was. He
Oral history transcript, Francis C. Turner, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 12, 1968 M: First of all, Mr. Turner, I'd like to fill in your background. According to the information I have, you were born in Dallas, Texas, in 1908, educated at North Texas Agricultural College, got a degree
Oral history transcript, Norman M. Clapp, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • administrator in '61 with the Kennedy Administration. of the REA, this position, Could you describe how you got the job? C: Yes, it's an interesting story. guess in early December. I was in Madison one evening I At least it was at the time the new
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , and successively you have worked for the Wisconsin State Journal, the Milwaukee Journal, the United Press Association, Christian Science Monitor, the International News Service and as Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Record. You were co-author
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 5 (V), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to not make all the other appointments from the agency as though it was exactly the same thing simply with a new name. He wanted to make it different and as a consequence he brought in a number of people in the secretariat under Weaver. This made it awkward
Oral history transcript, Andrew Young, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . The Kennedy strategy in those days was to try to please everybody, so he would appoint a Thurgood Marshall in New York but also appoint a Cox in Mississippi. B: We might make it clear, that would be now Justice Marshall's appointment to the lower courts
Oral history transcript, Louise Hermey Stanford, interview 1 (I), 9/6/1989, by Sybil Jackson (Item)
  • a little bit about your background in civil rights, particularly how you became involved with SNCC [Student National (formerly Nonviolent) Coordinating Committee]. S: I was a college student at Drew University in New Jersey and was in the class of 1964
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 3 (III), 3/3/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • here from 1947. It says here that Mrs. Johnson's Aunt Effie died on New Year's night of 1947 and she was very depressed about that. Do you recall anything of that? W: Well, that aunt raised Lady Bird from the time she was five or six years old. She
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Leader. R: Majority Leader, that's right. M: That was in 1955. R: Well, when I gave him this advice he was President and I heard how he was working until 12: 00 and 1: 00 and then be up at 7: 00 the next morning, and going to all these formal
  • Biographical information; LBJ; heart attack; LBJ’s capacity for friendship; FDR New Deal program; support for LBJ in 1960; Sam Rayburn; lobbyist; Bobby Baker; JFK’s New Frontier program; civil rights; education; Vietnam; civilian control of military
Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of the New York Times and you have the State Department papers as well as the presidential public papers, you will find it replete with references to that. TG: Were you aware at the time that you took the appointment that the decisions to escalate had
Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Flynn -- I -- 2 force; the exodus of enlisted guys had finished; new guys were coming in, and we were starting to sort out other missions, useful missions. And then about the next event
Oral history transcript, Betty Furness Midgley, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the afternoon. in her office in the Executive Office Building, Room 100. We are My name is David McComb. To start off with your background, according to my information you were born in New York City in 1916 and educated in New York City and New York area
Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 2 (II), 9/29/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to come to work at nine in the morning and leave at five. Everything should be neat piles and neat decisions. But when you're running a program like OEO, you couldn't run it on an eight-hour day. You had to be seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • gives up~ he's Sometime between midnight and eight the next morning, he changed an estimated twenty-eight votes because we won by twenty-eight votes. G: Mr. Deason, could you describe a bit the difference between the Black Stars and the White Stars
Oral history transcript, Lewis W. Walt, interview 1 (I), 1/24/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • against us here in the United States. Unfortunately, many of our news media--some of them unwittingly, some of them to make headlines--have picked up this propaganda and promulgated it all over the country--all over the world! And people have believed
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • with Mr . Alan Boyd, former Secretary of the Department of Transportation . I am in his new offices at the Illinois Central The date is May 15, 1969 . Railroad in Chicago, Illinois, and my name is David McComb . There's one question I might throw
Oral history transcript, Roy Wilkins, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the New York state delegation--who voted for him in Los Angeles on the first ballot. I remember giving a newspaper an interview at the time which said that we shouldn't discount the effectiveness of Lyndon Johnson on the ticket because he brought enormous