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Oral history transcript, Ernest W. McFarland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • slowed down because the New Nexico people wouldn't sell them the gas. They had to have a firm contract with the Federal Pm.;rer Commission. So anyway we had this bill up. Lyndon and I being on the Commerce Committee, the Interstate and Foreign
Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , the news traveled very fast and was shocking to 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • morning quarterbacks had a field day. They were like a bunch of chickens coming into a place and peck-peck-pecking at all the pieces that are left around after the party. And that still is true, right now. You've got the sociologists and the academicians
  • fully funded; Shriver trying to get Mrs. Johnson to sponsor Head Start as a new innovative program; the differences between Civilian Conservation Corps participants and Job Corps students; the urgent need for education as well as sociological
Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : We used to meet with the Secretary of Agriculture with a group of the top people in the department every morning at eight o'clock, which is an hour before the official start of business. The Secretary told us that the President wanted a task force
Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of a Westinghouse bid on a nuclear desalting plant, more sympathetic treatment within the IMF, the IRB, and the New York banks. Then there were certain political items that the Egyptians were very interested in. One, they asked that we help mediate their diffi
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • out and seeing what was actually happening in the countryside. And my report recommended a very radical overhaul of AID, with the creation of a new rural affairs division, but at the level of assistant to the director so that it took its authority
Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • thing on the question that the office sent on the problems of HEW, I have noticed that's in the news again. I believe even your predecessor Mr. Ribicoff said it should be dismembered when he left the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- I -- 3 there was some marvelous new operation that could be performed that would cure
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with the Achesons. And I remember at break£ast-- the first morning that we were there--Dean Acheson had a telephone call in the middle of breakfast and went out and then came back to the table. he said to me, "That was Senator Lyndon Johnson." And And he s a i d
Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with him when he was in the governor's office? He got in trouble over savings and loan in New Mexico. I can't think of his name to save my soul. Well I'll think about it in a minute. Well anyway, he was sitting out, and I said, "Do you want to have some fun
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was coming down from his communism and he was criticized. He had to defend himself. And he did in a speech in their party circles. Those secret speeches almost always leak. The Washington Post has got a long section this morning on something in the Justice
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 3 (III), 1/17/89, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was coming down from his communism and he was criticized. He had to defend himself. And he did in a speech in their party circles. Those secret speeches almost always leak. The Washington Post has got a long section this morning on something in the Justice
Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • political you must have been aware of him for a long time. C: Yes, I was aware of him quite well because of his Senate career particularly, congressional career, and his early days with the New Deal. I was just starting practicing law at that time, and I
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • session about once every other week and I got to know him then. He called me one day in New York and suggested that I come down and talk to him. I did. F: It must be quite a wrench, in a way, for a young lawyer who's just getting set up
Oral history transcript, Sim Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • "will you put me to work?" and they came in here all the way from New Jersey and Minnesota when they found out there were jobs avaiiable down here. money on a loan and grant basis. back at 4 per cent. So what LCRA did, it borrowed the The money that's
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • I was back as the general counsel to [W.] Averell Harriman in the Commerce Department, who had then succeeded Henry Wallace. They had made sort of a reasonably clean sweep of the top echelon of the Commerce Department, and I was one of Harriman's new
Oral history transcript, John E. Horne, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : Rather than waiting until it was through. H: Rather than waiting and being encouraged and prodded, as I felt sure I would be, to resign under the incoming administration. Moreover, I had no desire to be associated with the new administration. M
Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Germany have a national nuclear weapon. But I believe also the Navy was rather interested in the MLF because it would involve an expansion of the Navy and would provide a new type of naval nuclear weapons system in addition to the Polaris, because
Oral history transcript, Sidney "Sub" Pyland, interview 1 (I), 9/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Kercheville. As a matter of fact, since I've been here I delivered a new Cadillac to them over at the Cadillac house. That was a 1938 [?] model, delivered it to him right there next door to him. I drove in that night, and the next morning I went over when he
  • president; how A&O became the White Stars; why Pyland was never the captain of the football team; how new members were brought into the White Stars; making signs to support the football team; how Pyland met LBJ; LBJ's interest in sports; LBJ dating
Oral history transcript, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh DR. GEORGE DAVIS DOROTHY PIERCE MC SWEENY This interview is with Dr. George Davis, the minister of the National City Christian Church in Washington, D. C. Today is Thursday, February 13, 1969, and we are in his office this morning about
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . There is a Texas Society still operating. K: They had monthly dances at the Mayflower. Somehow or other we would manage to rent a tux and go to those things. And of course there were a lot of things to see around W'ashington for people like us that were new
Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , I know that a great many of my friends, my historian friends, look on the period of the New Deal as a period of outstanding progress unequalled before or since. I lived through the years of the New Deal as an adult, teaching economics, involved
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • President Kennedy LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] did, very candidly, was to get it a new euphonious name. Alliance for Progress. More on LBJ Library
Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: HARRISON SALISBURY INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MUu-iOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Salisbury's office, New York Times, NeVI York City Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by simply identifying you, sir. You're Harrison Salis- bury, and you've been with the New York Times
  • Working for the New York Times; Salisbury’s trip to the Far East in 1966; getting permission to go to Hanoi; a possible connection between Salisbury’s visit to Hanoi and the Marigold negotiations; trying to convince the Vietnamese
Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was sent down there the deal and it was just a possibility at that point, of three or four ministers in a closed TV studio. evolved down there, and of This was an entirely new format as it course~ they weren't on the scene and I was. Woodrow Seals
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • recently, Mr. Johnson was present in St. Francis Xavier Parish in Stonewall for the dedication of a new rectory. I also said a few words on that occasion and defended the policy of the Administration in Vietnam. During the LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 4 (IV), 3/8/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • be no new entity that had control of nuclear weapons. If the countries of Western Europe were to merge, if they were to create a unified Europe which had control of foreign and military policy, then that Europe would be nuclear by direct succession
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ackley -- II -- 3 tax but certainly it was some time in the latter part of increase~ 1965. The tax increase discussion was given a new urgency in December, when
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • government entering into some new kind of activity, there's a great ideological debate over it for a long time, but once it's done, then there's no question about it anymore. This happened with housing; it happened with federal intervention into the economy
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of Congress announcing this major breakthrough. I suppose the signing ceremony was probably something like ten o'clock in the morning, and he wanted those letters on his desk for his personal signature by the end of the day. So I would say probably about four
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 3 (III), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • answer to those that talked about giving the administration authority in both taxes without going to the Congress, or perhaps an amendment to that would be to invoke new taxes and if the Congress didn't disapprove them, they'd go into effect. But here
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • these faucets on and off. But first of all, the extent to which you can do this is sharply limited. I ."ouldn I t want to pull a figure out of the air. But we've got now a new budget concept which is approaching 200 billion dollars. Only a very, very tiny
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to the President. I was on a vacation on a fairly remote lake in New York State when one afternoon in July somehow the White House operators got through up there, and it was Joe Califano at the other end of the line asking me whether I would mind coming down
Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in the Cabinet Room. This was a meeting on the morning after Dr. [Martin Luther] King's assassination, to which the President had invited maybe ten or fifteen Negro leaders. The purpose of the meeting, I think, was to discuss with them what they saw as the likely
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was to illustrate the fact that Mr. Weisl, who is Johnson's long-time friend in New York and his lawyer, became his committeman in New York City. Yet he had met few members of the press. Mike O'Neill knew the President very well; if I gave the impresston otherwise
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • did learn, indirectly, that our names had been mentioned earlier. That had totally escaped my mind when the call came from the President--I was in New York at this judges conference--that [Lloyd] Hand had left and would I take his place
Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . morning. It is approximately 11:30 in the This is Dorothy Pierce, and the interview is being conducted in the Secretary's office in the Pentagon. Mr. Resor, you were nominated by President Johnson and confirmed by Congress as Secretary of the Army
Oral history transcript, William F. Jackson and Lucy Ginter Jackson, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Slocum, New York, at the time I was first approached by a member of Mr. Deegan's staff in New York City, Tom [Thomas] Deegan, and asked if I could come down to talk about an interview with Mr. Johnson, perhaps, after I had a chance to talk to him. I went
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of poor people, and he talked about that a lot. G: He talked about expanding the Social Security system as a way to avoid a budgetary increase. Any recollections of other ways to fit these new programs into your existing budget? C: No, but eventually
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 4 (IV), 12/4/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1985 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 me start with one note that I have from last time that you were going to talk about
  • O'Brien's discussion with Joseph Kennedy about the New Frontier program; leadership in the House of Representatives before and after Sam Rayburn's death; the Trade Expansion Act of 1962; a private-sector public-relations operation led by Howard