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Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • down. "The Rotunda, he said, "is right past the tunnel, rightpa st the underpass. back of the Capitol you turn right." and tried to ff nd it, and I went 11 In I did go down New Jersey and ~trai - ght ahead and went and went. finally walked al
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 7 (VII), 1/18/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but Buzz was quite 1ate. They finally got a wire from him saying, 11 Snowbound. 11 The wire was sent from somewhere in Mississippi, where I don't think they'd had snow in a hundred years. G: (Laughter) Did Busby replace someone or was this a new position
  • Reminiscences of 1945 touching on the hiring of new staff, the Marshall Plan, 70-group air force; detailing LBJ’s decision to run for the Senate
Oral history transcript, Roger W. Jones, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • college education? J: All right. I was born in Dallas, Texas, December 2, 1917. r~y family moved to Houston while I was still more or less an infant. For all intents and purposes, I consider myself a Houstonian rather than a Dallasite. Certainly I
Oral history transcript, John T. Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • college education? J: All right. I was born in Dallas, Texas, December 2, 1917. r~y family moved to Houston while I was still more or less an infant. For all intents and purposes, I consider myself a Houstonian rather than a Dallasite. Certainly I
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 2 (II), 8/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , at quite an early age, like eighteen--how old would I have been then? Ten. He was sick, and he got what was diagnosed as TB [tuberculosis]. They decided the best thing for him to do was to go to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and he liked that idea. He had been out
  • ; attending Marshall High School; Mrs. Johnson's closest friends, including Carl, Gene, and Emma Boehringer and others from Marshall and St. Mary's Episcopal School for Girls in Dallas.
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the country and particularly the declining industries, like coal mining, where you were trying with the Area Rede­ velopment Administration to pump new skills into coal miners and the next generations. This was January. And I wrote a memo to the President
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 4 (IV), 7/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the chairmanship of Frederick Kappel, former chairman of AT&T, and he appointed three other members, and three members were appointed by the speaker, the Vice President, and the Chief Justice. That group submitted to the President recommendations for new salary
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Congressman Kleberg. Now those were the days--we were contempo- raries of a sort--where the young New Dealers around Washington congregated at all hours of the day and night, particularly at night. I came to Washington in 1933. F: You P
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason and Jeanne Deason, interview 6 (VI), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • out of the Naval Personnel Department. WD: Burea u of Personnel. JD: And he was going to New York to be shipped overseas. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • industry and the FPC as a dead letter. So when I got this invitation, I said to myself, that's one thing that won't be a dead letter when I get on board. I had no recommendation from any senator. In fact, I broke the news to both my senators, [Estes
  • , new technology, and the reduction of rates; FPC chairman Jerome Kuykendall; members of the FPC; Swidler's voting role as swing man and duties as chairman of the FPC as opposed to a commissioner; Swidler's goals as chairman; the benefits of the FPC
Oral history transcript, Walter T. Kerwin, interview 1 (I), 9/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • at me and said, "When can you be in Vietnam?" Well, that was a shock at about eight-ten in the morning, at that time. And I said, "General, I'm ADCSOPS; you've got me on all these joint programs; if you want a real transition, it would take me at least
Oral history transcript, M. J. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)
  • for Humphrey after President Johnson decided that he wasn't going to run. Then I went ahead and moved over and started working for Humphrey, and I handled for Humphrey I handled New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, of course, and I had Michigan, and out of those
Oral history transcript, Mylton Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the next morning. Now, this is getting late stories done, to avoid boilerplate material going into the paper that would have no real interest; it was getting all the news done possible. Occasionally some of the other fellows, such as Wilton Woods, Horace
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • understood it was [John] Kennedy; he understood it perfectly. Johnson never really understood how the party worked. He didn't like the bosses; he thought they were crooked, the big New York bosses or the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Lester Maddox, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that, you still had no response from the President or the White House staff? M: No, sir. [I] never received any response whatsoever. It was somewhat disturbing, knowing that every time you looked at the television and you read news reports about what
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you. G: Where were you when you received news of Pearl Harbor, do you remember? R: My cousin Ben Powell was in the army reserve; he was a graduate of VMI [Virginia Military Institute]. He was living down here in Austin and practicing law
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Here were people big in the oil And nevertheless, here was Clint Murchison writing to Johnson in 1952 that it may be that there is going to be a new party formed here and you should be a part of it, which Johnson didn't take. Johnson was sort
Oral history transcript, Dan H. Fenn, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/18/1972, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , and the Vice President was very firm and said that this was one which was very important, and he really needed thi.s by Thursday afternoon or whatever. But I always appreciated the way Walter handled that whole situation. Then after Dallas, Walter and I
Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , and it's ap- proximately eleven a. m. in the morning. We are in Nr. Goulding's Pentagon Offices and this is Dorothy Pierce. Nr. Goulding, you have had a long career as a newspaperman from 1947 to 1965 with the Cleveland Plain Dealer, of which a majority
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Califano really thought about the price-quote program. Bill [Blair] put it on the front page of the New York Times the next morning. G: What was LBJ's reaction to-that? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • -range payoff. There's not going to be an immediate payoff in my judgment, because the traffic is too thin in most parts of it. The traffic is much less in some areas in the East Coast, say, from New York and Boston down to Florida then for some
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, Oveta Culp Hobby, interview 1 (I), 7/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • government asked him to do. M: That's what the Governor told you? H: Yes. M: Yes, I remember seeing a picture in an old newspaper of you in uniform taking over your new job. So you then spent the war years in Washington. H: In Washington
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • for appointments, positions, being heard. And here he was, and he just drew a little circle around it and just worked away, beautiful work. I do want to talk about the new building at KTBC. Does that come along later? M: Yes it does. Here on the twenty-fourth
Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] 'http://www.lbjlibrary.org February 19, 1971 F: This is an interview with Senator James Eastland in his office in the New Senate Office Building in Washington, D. C. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz, and the date is February
Oral history transcript, Ben W. Heineman, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • should be given the chance as a new President to show what he could do. It was a highly personal pressure LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, John N. Luft, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the program to them. 40 counties, almost half of the state. We would have meetings morning, afternoon and evening with county committees explaining-B: I had about That's a lot of farmers to cover in a fairly brief time. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of dollars going out by competitive bids. We created a whole new procurement appeal system with one board LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] Tower as the new senator from Texas? R: Just swore him in. G: Yes. R: There were no-- G: He didn't comment on it later that day, nothing significant about Tower being--? R: No. Positively not. I think he just [says], "Here he is," so he swears
Oral history transcript, David E. Bell, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • think that was a n important objective and he made his speech to the Congress, whose culmination we have just seen this morning. A magnificent culmination, and in those days, incidentally, there was great skepticism expressed as to whether, even
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • McSweeny. Senator, I'd like to begin our discussion this morning centering around 1960. And I'd like to ask you first since I am already aware that you were one of the principal backers in the "Draft Stevenson" movement if you can tell M: me a little
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, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with whatever U. N. facilities, translators and so forth, which could be made available. And that, as I understand it, is the essence of what U Thant told Stevenson. Stevenson apparently did not write any of this down, and subsequently when I went up to New
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh January 15, 1969 Mr. Gaither, this is our second interview. Today is Wednesday, January 15, 1969; it's 11:30 in the morning, and we're in your office in the Executive Office Building
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on those two points--I think the question of supply of military equipment is a very difficult one indeed and would have been difficult in any measure. But we had at that time embraced rather strongly the new Nasser regime and at least they considered
Oral history transcript, Robert Bennett, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • either actual scholarship funds or in some cases trust funds to support a scholarship program for higher education. F: Has the introduction of new claims about reached its peak, or did you envisage a continuing group of claimants? B: The time
Oral history transcript, Alfred T. "Boody" Johnson, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • told him she thought I was going to [Texas] A & M. But anyway, I went up there one weekend and they were going to Johnson City, to Margaret's home. Friday afternoon. We went on to Johnson City that Then the next morning, why, we got up and she said
Oral history transcript, Kenneth Torp, interview 1 (I), 6/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • him out of bed in New York at eight o'clock in the morning; explained the situation to him. This was Pedersen who was at the UN at the time, and Goldberg. And he agreed, issued the appeal, and as I say, was immediately responded to by Athens
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • your chronology here gives the reason, is Johnson's resistance to the idea of tax cuts as an antirecession measure. He was for big spending in response to recession, and part of that I guess is just the classic New Deal and southwestern, midwestern
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , yes. G: --which was first mentioned in the State of the Union [Message]. M: I was never opposed to it. What I wanted to do was to see if we couldn't balance the budget. I didn't want that additional money to be spent for new things, because he