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Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

the Statehood party to participate in the plebiscite recommended by the status commission. Ferre wanted them to participate so he broke with his brother-in-law and formed a new party for the purpose of the plebiscite, and then ran again as governor

Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

A't/a rd; you kno\o'J, it was goi ng to be an every year type of thing. suit out of it. I don't think it was, but I got a new I don't know but what that suit made him do it, but I doubt it because he was always very interested in publicity. G: Why

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

an apPointee of President Truman's, I think he had been solicitor general, I'm not sure, and a man called Paul Ziffren, from California-M: Is that Z-- L: Z-I-F-F-R-E-N, who was then committeeman, or had become committeeman; and Camille Gravelle of New

Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, 1969 INTERVIHJEE: GEORGE L. MEHREN INTERVIEHER: T. H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. Mehren's office, The Agribusiness Council, Inc., Park Avenue, New York City Tape 1 of 2 B: This is an interview with Dr. George L. Mehren. Sir, let me summarize your

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Escapee Program in Nuremberg in the early fifties. I also had considerable experience in advertising and public relations. In early 1960 I decided to leave that world of advertising and public relations and return to Columbia University in New York City

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. I went into the large conference roonoff the center hall and found Horace Busby working at the long table with a yellow legal pad, and I must say my heart sank. Though seeing Buz in on speeches at the literal last moment was nothing at all new

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Then sometime early in 1949, Dave Better, has now passed away, had a cocktail party for the then-Senator Johnson to which he invited a number of correspondents; I was one of them. B: Is this a routine sort of thing to introduce the new Senator to the press? R

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and stay in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City"--how the Waldorf got into it I don't know! Well, he didn't think too much of it at the time, but later on after we returned to the United States we got an almost panicky cablegram from the American

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, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. [Oveta Culp] Hobby, I'm sure that Johnson would have been one of his strongest proponents. G: Politics makes strange bedfellows. There was an article by Elizabeth Donahue in The New Republic entitled "The Prosecution Rests," and the thrust

Oral history transcript, David E. Bell, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was but it had to do with an appropriation- -and V i c e President Johnson wanted to impress upon me as a new budget director the extraordinary importance, in his view, of being careful to inform and to work with and to be acquainted with the individual members

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of operation. There's nothing structured about it. The whole idea is to get from within government the ferment, the yeast, the new ideas that produce something with which the President can go to the Congress saying, "This is what I am going to do

Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

stop him short on the first ballot, then on the second ballot, he would lose strength. And therefore, it would be a completely new convention. It turned out that the key states to hi~ winning on the first ballot were the states of Iowa and Kansas

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
; Cissy McQuade; LBJ’s famous phone calls; Califano; LBJ’s staff; Punta del Este speech; Bill Roth; Kennedy Round; Maurice Stands; “The American Establishment;” Wilbur Cohen; impact of the Commerce Department; New England foreign trade zone; Secretary

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 Now, I didn't go to Australia and New Zealand, so I can't comment on those phases of the trip, but I do recall very vividly the Manila part of the trip and the President's performance

Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

thing that ought to be part of some record. Naturally you get curious about a new president, so I pulled the Lyndon Johnson file--Congressman and Senator Lyndon Johnson file--after he became president of the United States, or maybe even while he was vice
treatment of Gronouski, 1964 campaign and the Post Office, Bob Hardesty, Bobby Kennedy, news media’s treatment.

Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, but there was a senator running from New York State at the time, who, by the way, was defeated, who was supposedly getting all kinds of rumors that there were offensive weapons going into Cuba from refugees supposedly coming out of Cuba. The whole thing was we were unable

Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was to have a conference and call the party together when there was an issue on which they could, without any question, get together. There was one meeting, for instance, in which one of the issues was the contested election of Senator [Dennis] Chavez of New

Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

friendship continued. I felt I knew Luci and Lynda and their problems and had many visits with them. I spent much time with Mrs. Johnson and the entire personal staff, meeting new people, including Ashton Gonella, and continuing with the friendship with Bess

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

precious glass. She was a great companion, and I was so glad for every one of those trips she made. And we went to New York--well, I can't say that I know much about that. I do know that I took her to a play or concert. Another interesting thing I

Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, made a lot of new friends, and he soon became the Democratic Chairman. So during this period he was the Democratic Chairman. You remember the one before him--what was his name, he was a theater man up in Pennsylvania, I played poker with him. Mr. Frank

Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the staff. I never shall forget the neutrality session. Even though I lived at the Dodge and worked at what was then called the New House Office Building--I believe it's now the Longworth Building--and I walked right by that Capitol twice a day at least, we

Oral history transcript, Kenneth E. BeLieu, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

room, and a call came from New York from Eileen Galloway. She said, "Senator Johnson was talking on the plane about a staff director for the Space Committee, and I brought your name up and his eyes lit up and he said, 'That's it!'" I said, "Well, I'm up

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 3 (III), 5/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

accredited President Kennedy with. And I think that that's true. I think if one looks back, Bobby's whole carpet bagging to New York kind of issue was an interesting ploy. G: Do you think he realized that the wound was mortal at the time at the White House

Oral history transcript, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/8/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Kennedy seemed determined that there would be a big show about the thing. Therefore, he ordered troops from all over the United States, not all over the United States, but from New Jersey and from Kentucky and out of of fort Polk and places of that type

Oral history transcript, Georgia Cammack Edgeworth, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, the southwest corner of the square, and they did not build the new courthouse until 1916. I believe it was about September 1916 they moved into the new courthouse. G: I wonder if LBJ's father, Sam Ealy Johnson, had anything to do with the moving

Oral history transcript, Horace D. Godfrey, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to getting legislation passed. and ~t Cotton Here we had had a feed-grain, program for some years, from '61 in the case of feed-grains, and from '64 in the case of wheat, and these were working satisfactorily. We needed a new cotton program, and a wool

Oral history transcript, Estelle Harbin, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh So I went down there and went to work and Mr. Driscoll died in late spring 1930. The Crash had come, but it didn't affect us; it affected New York more than us. We were just bewildered with Mr. Driscoll

Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it was for Homer's benefit that he was giving me this going over because I had done what LBJ really wanted done. G: Oh, really. How did you find that out? H: Well, I got a couple of new shirts. He never would say he was sorry, but that's when you would get

Oral history transcript, Fred Schmidt, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Convention. In fact, we literally did that. Our Dallas delegation, the year we won it, the Brownsville convention, we had some black delegates there and it was sort of a fearsome thing to anyone who's grown up in Texas. You know you're breaking new ground

Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

would get out and walk up and down the street for two hours, see everybody he could see, and tell them to be there at 11 o'clock to meet the new congressman. sometimes they wouldn't. Sometimes they would have pretty good turnouts; The real problem

Oral history transcript, Samuel V. Merrick, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

were? M: Yes. I think there were seventeen cities or something like that. I can remember Chicago. New Haven worked fine because the Mayor of New Haven-G: Richard Lee, I think, wasn't it? M: Richard Lee and the people that subsequently got

Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

about that. M: I think that President Johnson--Senator Johnson--finally succumbed to the arguments and persuasion of my good friend Clint Anderson of New Mexico, and it was a personal vendetta with him. I think this was a shabby day in the Senate

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Murphey -- I -~ 13 that he thought Lyndon was an opportunist, that Lyndon was a New Dealer, whom Mr. Stevenson utterly

Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

became under secretary of agriculture in the new Kennedy Administration. M: That's right. B: How did you get that job? Did Mr. Freeman pick you or Mr. Kennedy? M: Mr. Freeman approved me, I guess. Well, if I may go back, before the election

Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in Vietnam I was in thorough accord with, this new addition I was not. the reasons for that. And I'll tell you It stemmed back to a conviction which I had reinforced often with other people and particularly with President Diem, that American combat forces

Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

I had linked up and was able to physically do that, although it was pretty--we had some problems, because Imbert, as soon as he was declared the new government, took his troops and swept the northern part of Santo Domingo, which was also some

Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for president and he was the nominee, so that made it the news, but even still it was ~ bill. But Kennedy didn't have anything to do with advancing it, Johnson did, and Johnson was very helpful in that. G: Another thing that you did, you forced a roll call

Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1980 INTERVIEWEE: ADAM YARMOLINSKY INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: I think we were just at the point of going into the question of Robert Kennedy's view of whether a new agency was needed

Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

wasn't an organizational matter, it was a matter of policy. When it came up then in the fall of 1965, when they were reviewing this task force and what was the new legislative program going to be, I think by then I sort of decided, "Well, the only way

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