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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • index : Page or estimated time on tape Subiect(s) covered 1 Biographical 2,3 Organized labor's view of Senator Johnson 4,5 Trying to put across a new labor view in Texas 6 Communication Workers of America 7 Local union 8 Union
  • Biographical information; organized labor's view of Senator Johnson; initiatiing new labor view in Texas; CWA; local union; union at the nation level; 1968 Chicago telephon strike before convention; 1960 campaign/convention; LBJ's effectiveness
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • large town. His car was there. We started searching for him and found him. He was passed out in a ditch, not partly, dirty and mud allover him and so on. I didn't know what to think about him. Dorothy was also rather new; she'd only been working
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, Daniel Boone Porter, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • level right on down to the troop level. I felt that we, in most cases, had very good support from our Vietnamese counterparts, although that wasn't necessarily always too obvious to the news people nor to visitors who came there, because the Vietnamese
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it. I think he preferred having Slick [Wilton "Jerry"] Persons in there because he knew how to deal with Slick. Sherman Adams was a little bit more difficult to deal with in some respects. You know, Sherman kind of had the New England conscience
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • know. I was·at the Harvard Business School, teaching at that time. But I remember coming down once, at the request of the Senator, to take a look again at a new draft of the Conciliation Service legislation for possible use in 1 59. It didn't get
Oral history transcript, George Silver, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1991, by Molly Malone Chesney (Item)
  • inaugurated where every cabinet office is going to put up a certain amount of money and some new policy directive in order for Mississippi to become a model state of what could be done. I guess you must have that somewhere. C: Well, we have done a series
Oral history transcript, Albert W. Brisbin, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had a favorite project or type of project? B: It's so hard to separate that sixteen or eighteen months that he was with NYA there while I was from the rest of it . very strong on our public relations activities : He really was getting the new
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of fact . F: By the time we get down to the end of the year--December of '63--Kennedy has been assassinated, and you have a new ball game in the sense that Johnson is President . And Unruh is on record as having backed you for the Vice Presidential
Oral history transcript, Philip N. Brownstein, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was going to do and what I wanted to do, and I told him that I hoped to study law . And he asked me where I was going to go to school, and I explained my problem to him . He said, "Well, they're hiring people in Washington now in many of these New Deal
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • publications, I did become fascinated with this issue: how close can these two so different countries be? They have the same ideology and then, as you recall, the political belief was very firmly held that there was a new bloc, a new axis, that was tightly
Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEl~EE: DONALD C. COOK INTERVIEVJER: THOMAS PLACE: Mr. Cook's Office, 2 Broadway, New York. H. BAKER Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, if "Ie may begin at the beginning, I know that you first went to work for tk. Johnson in 1943. Did you have any acquain
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • I think Kennedy trusted him to go and wanted him to test the waters and bring back a recommendation on what this new administration should be doing out there . I think the President trusted Johnson's political judg- ments and his ability to judge
Oral history transcript, William B. Dale, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Drawing Rights and other major issues related to the reform of the International Nonetary System. It now has its successor, or continuation, in what's called the "Volcker Group." M: This is the new man who holds Deming's position. D: That's right. M
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, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Tribune , went down to see his new home and said they had a bar in his home approxi­ mately twenty feet long or so . He called Jenk Jones, in my � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Barker is alive? G: I doubt it . B: But we didn't see eye to eye, that's for sure . G: Did LBJ ever talk about his trip overseas? B: His trip overseas, you mean when--? G: He went to Australia and New Guinea . B: Yes . G: What did he say
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
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Boatner -- III -- 7 G: B: Did he listen in silence, or did he give his own commentaries on the news? He might have a pungent word or two to throw in if it was something that he
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • years. M: What was your connection then with the Committee on Space and Aeronautics? V: It was decided by the leadership in the Senate, sparked as I recall by Senator Johnson, that it was necessary to create a new organization to handle
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that of course all Presidents in some sense or another seek to "manage the news." That is to say, they seek understandably to have it reflect as well as possible on them and on their designs. They also seek understandably to have it reflect well on purely
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 5 (V), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • following the cocktail party. It was at the first of these evening sessions that I attended that we made a motion to defer for a day or two the crucial vote on Article 50, an article which would have embodied the quite new and quite controversial doctrine
Oral history transcript, Douglass H. Hubbard, interview 1 (I), 6/4/69, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that people in a leisure situation don't like to be educated, so we found a new word. He have a list of taboo words such as 11lecture and "interpretation" activities 11 and 11tourist and things that we don't use, is one that we have sort of used to cover
  • birthplace; historian Jerry Rogers; the homey character of the Ranch and the hospitality of the Johnsons; anecdotes of LBJ guiding visitors about the Ranch and showing off the new State Park Visitor Center
Oral history transcript, Ralph Dungan, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ."'NDml RAINES ~ Jom;so~ More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh L[Bl{z\RY ORAL HISTORY COLLECTWN Narrator Ralph Anthony Dlmgan . . l'ririccton:> . New Biographical information: .Jersey__Q.~ State
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, 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, Ben Crider, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • I took the job over, it was like I said--! was broke, worse tban broke. Didn't have any clothes, and when we got to San Antonio, Lyndon took me over to Frank Brothers and bought me the best suit of clothes I guess I ever owned in my life and a new
Oral history transcript, Owen Donley, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
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Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 the available foreign exchange; credit; the nature of their program to get new
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 4 (IV), 6/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • u k ind of ran a ge ne r al accoun tin g o ffice on t hat, too , and then illed them? C: The White House transportati on o i fi ce prorated the costs o f a ll o f th i s and j us t b il le d the news age ncy o r the news paper o r t e n etwo rk. r
Oral history transcript, Val M. Keating, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Texas since about 1929 When I say a story in itself, it's because of a personal thing that it reminds me of. When I was given the position of director of social services of the Texas Relief Commission the new board did not care to have me
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it. (Laughter). And I said, "How does he get the support of the New Republic and H. R. Cullen LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Allen J. Ellender, interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • a southerner for the presidency. Even with this new turn of his in the civil rights field the opposition could have always turned back on what he said in previous years, and, of course, that's what I concluded when he first announced, that he had little
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the Anzacs [Australian-New Zealand Army Corps]? F: Yes, the Australians and New Zealanders both had first-rate medical programs and did very good things, and of course they also had troops there. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be visible in the staff positions, the appointive positions, and reflected in the kind of humor that they use on both. sides. The President has his people, and of course Humphrey had his little set of people, and Bob had his, inherited and some new ones. I
Oral history transcript, Albert C. Harzke, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1979 INTERVIEWEE: ALBERT C. HARZKE INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Harzke's residence, New Dime Box, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's see, you indicated that you came to the sub-college and finished your high school there-- H: Right. G
Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the race because I just kept talking about it all the time and making fun of him. You know, the press had a tendency to let that statement die, but I tried--and two or three others in the House--to keep it alive and I think we succeeded in having a new go
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson's mind or in the President's mind related to the old New Deal era of beautifying with the NYA and the R: cee? Well, I hadn't thought of it that way, but I'm sure it must have been in the President's mind in the national program. something about
Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and tell them, IIAll rightll--and he did do James Henry on the TV station the same way-"if you run one ad with him, you'll never run another ad in the Longview News and Journal." unpopular. Just such stuff as that. He was very In fact, I was trying