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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 19 (XIX), 1/27/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be prepared with a whole host of new initiatives, controversial things that we wanted to get done that we could do only in the wake of a landslide. The kinds of things that we talked about were a major base closing program, get rid of excess bases; moving
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Sisco -- I -- 7 S: That's the warm-up period. And what happened was this-- this is new, this is not known, and theref ore, would be of intere st: Arthur Goldberg at that time felt very strong ly that the matter should
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • period. I was privileged to go with Mr. and Mrs. Johnson on the plane when we went directly from here to the convention and arrived. The Texas delegation had been delegated to a dreadful hotel called the New Clark. Governor [John] Burns
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to describe that President's Club dinner in New York at the Waldorf. J: Let me ask a question then. Were there two Waldorf dinners while I was there? G: There could easily have been. Could have had one each year. J: Yes. I don't think I went
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, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that in and out a" it. By lying to the bedroom every morning as I did, I came in contact ~1 with the speech because by-and-large the various drafts were went to the President as his night reading. When I would arrive there in the morning the speech would
Oral history transcript, Leslie H. Gelb, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • at all. The very few that he did write I believe we have, at least no one has told me to the contrary. What we didn't have is what he was saying to the President in the Friday morning breakfasts. But from everything I know, from the debriefs, he
  • ; staff who worked on study; study plan; lack of direction or certainty of what was expected reflections on the need for historians to do the study; role of Robert McNamara; speculation about the purpose of study; reaction to publication in the New York
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . respect. I never thought of Lyndon in that We've had some members who I hav~ thought of as populists, but I never really thought Lyndon was a populist. In those days we thought of him as a New Dealer and not the old term of populist, I guess. G: I
  • LBJ’s association with President Roosevelt; LBJ as a New Dealer compared to Maury Maverick as a populist; LBJ turning to Sam Rayburn for advice and support; LBJ urging Poage to run against O’Daniel for a Senate seat; the 1948 election; Poage’s
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • machines just go roaring across this rich, beautiful earth. And gosh, I wish I could come back and see it in planting time, and harvest time. And this is quite a phenomenon. And then, in October, especially, we would find ourselves in New England, and we'd
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • with the Senator when we were sweating out who was going to be the vice president that morning after the presidential nomination. Of course, we didn't get it. M: Did the Senator think that he was a possible choice? Z: Yes. I think he did. I mean, Clark
Oral history transcript, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a bringing together of a lot of highly charged people with a marvelous mission. G: Let me ask you to des cribe a typi ca 1 day in the War on Poverty Task Force? H: You would go to, say, the Peace Corps Building in the morning? Well, no. My typical day
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ." We only had two, so we called one of them the "old building" and one the "new building." M: Like the Senate does now. H: It was the East Building for housing members of Congress, their offices and so forth, and I was on the east side--a long ways
Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROGER HILSMAN INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Hilsman's office at Columbia University, New York Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by identifying you, sir. your last official You're Roger Hilsman, and position with the government
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 1 (I), April 1963, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • the way he worked in office? K: He was just like he is now. He pushed his staff hard but he pushed himself hard too. G: Do you remember when he showed up in the morning and when he went home at night? Do you remember any of these little details? K
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Shoumatoff, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1973 I NTERVI EloJEE: MADAME ELIZABETH SHOUMATOFF INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Her home on Long Island, Locust Valley, New York Tape 1 of 1 F: Suppose you tell me at the beginning how you got to be a president's portrait painter. S: You
Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • this kind of thing worked was very simple. Mr. Kennedy called me up in Chicago once about eight o'clock in the morning, and he said, "Say, the New York Times is after me, and the astronauts apparently have been offered free houses in Houston
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (TAPE =lF2) April 22, 1969 This is a second session with Mr. Henry H. Fowler, former Secretary of the Treasury. I am in his offices in New York City. The date is April 22, 1969, and my name is David McComb. Last time you
Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , in the Far Eastern Bureau? T: No. Certainly not, once I moved in with Hilsman in early summer of 1963; the Buddhist crisis with Diem had just taken place in May, as I recall. j~: Yes. T: We were moving to a new and difficult relationship in which we were
Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 2 (II), 3/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . On the first day in Glassboro, if I recall correctly, the morning was devoted to fairly tough, standard, boiler-plate positions by the Soviets, and there wasn't too much new that came into the discussion. The lunch I believe was devoted to ABM, strategic
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • --was there as president of the National Governors' Conference, and Governor [Richard] Hughes of New LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
Oral history transcript, Burke Marshall, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the freedom rides? M: Yes. We went to Congress with the budget--I can't remember what, but in the normal course of things it would have been in February before the House; John Rooney's [D-New 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Polk Shelton and Nell Shelton, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • just wasn't acquainted with After it was over, my wife and I and my daughter and mother decided we'd drive to New York to see the World's Fair and on the way up Judge Robinson had retired from the bench and was living in Washington. He was a good
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 2 (II), 2/28/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there, because I'm not sure my recollection is very good, but at any rate, she had lost six pounds and she was pleased with her progress. G: Did he adapt to this new diet reluctantly? V: I don't really recall. I remember Mrs. Johnson saying he was a man who
Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , he would wait until the last moment before he would personally authorize the wheat shipments . As a result, the Indians found it very hard to maintain a rationing estimate, because they couldn't know what to count on . The American Embassy in New
Oral history transcript, Morris Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • always been for it." Just pass it on off like that. [I] talked to Coke that morning and he said, "Fine, that's okay." Well, about eleven-thirty Ernest Boyett, who was Coke's right-hand 11 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and so on. And Heller I guess was in the airplane somewhere on the way to Hawaii. He turned around and came back, and he asked us to finish that night with what we were doing, and the next morning he laid that memorandum on the new President's desk
Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and Johnson about this? S: Many. M: And it all came to a focal point with this S: Well, this was certainly a focal point. experiences. fight in 1956? We had some unhappy We got over to the convention, I believe it was in Dallas, the state convention
Oral history transcript, Lawrence McQuade, interview 1 (I), 1/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • fond of him. I know just before he got his appointment they flew up to New England to talk to Governors and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
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Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh 9 office at Newsweek in New York, and Mrs. Johnson called up and suggested that I come and have a cozy evening, more or less alone, with them. F: This was while they were still living in the house? G: [It was] before they moved
Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This interview is with Dr . Harold Brown, Secretary of the Air Force . Today is Friday, January 17, 1969, and it is 10 :30 in the morning . We are in the Secretary's offices in the Pentagon . Dr . Brown, I would like to begin
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 4 (IV), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : One day I had gotten out of here to go to lunch over at the Georgetown Club-I've forgotten who was buying my lunch that day; and I got a phone call--no, it was before going out to lunch that the President called me in the morning and said, "Do you
Oral history transcript, Bart McDowell, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . were doing to him each day. He got what the press boys He'd get what they did yesterday every morning. And I guess it was about the time of this Rovaniemi incident and the New York Times man had made some reference to how this was not received well
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 49 (XLIX), 7/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Washington in the morning and the evening so people could go back and forth really had the economic sense to run a big route out to the Far East. And in short order, Braniff started morning and evening flights to and from--direct flights to and from--Austin
Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • two years of the program were spent in Oberammergau, Germany. Here we were in with a group of Russian émigrés, most of whom could speak two words of English, "Good morning," and that was it, with a heavy 4 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • drunk and had hallucinations about selling big stories and so on. But then we got worried about him. We went back down there, oh, two or three o'clock in the morning, and he was gone. We couldn't find him. Of course, Johnson City is not a very
Oral history transcript, Murrey Marder, interview 1 (I), 5/25/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • it was a typographical error in the Washington Post, which happens. So I went to look at the New York Times text and it also said fifteen hundred. Well, the chances of having the same typographical error in both papers were improbable. And then I checked the transcript
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with him.The President was pretty sore and I believe thought that Bill would end up in the Bobby Kennedy camp. Indeed I think Bill has been in several camps in New York--all over the lot--which is probably what any highly intelligent, famous, and ambitious
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on the recall of General MacArthur by President Truman. Our staff did the night work of processing every bit of the day's transcript and putting back on the desk of Senator Russell, in the morning, through Senator Johnson, questions for the next day's . session
Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in feeding the people and the WPA and the NYA and all of that New Deal of Roosevelt's. P: How did Mr. Maverick feel about Mr. Roosevelt? B: He was a very strong supporter of his. P: And when the Supreme Court packing issue came up at a later date, what
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • came in as chairman and many new people came in to the National Committee . These were not people that were par­ ticularly well-known on the Hill . In the days of Mr . Truman, even at one time when you'd had one of the members of the Senate--[J . Howard