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Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • element that was present there that wasn't known yet was the decision also in North Vietnam to introduce into the guerilla cadres in the South a new family of weapons, the AK-47 family. and Czech weapons of a very high sophistication. probably in April
Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 15 of that. G: Others did. They would throw it in the news stories. Mr. Wild, as an experienced political manager, when you
Oral history transcript, Merrell Blackman, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • really never did understand what it was, There were a lot of them. Maybe thirty? It was supposed to be athletes who supported the athletic program and would help to get new athletes in to the school . G: I see . B: Yes, they could have
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 3 (III), 12/2/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . by no means unique in that attitude . Oral history is really fairly new, and we are just sort of relying on the intelligence of the future scholars to be well aware that that kind of circumstance does develop . And indeed I think perhaps the purpose
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Gibb Gilchrist, I believe, who was the state highway engineer at that time, and sold him on it . G: Lyndon sold him on it ; I sat there and listened . I gather that Gilchrist was the sort of guy that would naturally be resistant to a new proposal
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 6 (VI), 5/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to be in there, had that New Deal streak, didn't want to scare off Texas, didn't want to scare away the majority of Texans who were not big liberals, but wanted to kind of encourage people to move slightly toward the more progressive side, but without I suspect any
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 3 (III), 12/11/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • record on that. we can make peace have at a previous get anybody It's on their to talk period-- assessment to get out of Viet did. back then very hard to do and a new administration we simply take any direct today six months, a ago? K
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 25 (XXV), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • bugged [Martin Luther] King extensively. G: You had mentioned before this senator from New Hampshire who LBJ managed to arrange a quid pro quo so that the Senator wouldn't have to testify on a milk subsidy. This guy would support him on--was it [Thomas
Oral history transcript, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City for a year. His thought was that when I finished that assignment that I would then stand a good chance to be accepted as a military member of the Policy Planning Council at the State Department. And that's
Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and then we would have in January of 1964 a new term. Since my name had been submitted but since I had not taken office, and since there had been no confirmation, the appointment lapsed. President Johnson resubmitted my name in early January, and it was after
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 5 (V), 8/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • come from all over. Special trains had come in early that morning from Detroit and Chicago and New York, and so on. They demonstrated on the Capitol steps. them but they stood there chanting, 11 We were ordered to move 1 shall not, I shall
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 10/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it loose and built a new one and established a new one around the turn of the century, I think, in Johnson City. Anyhow, a very old but still moldering feud. But Lyndon managed to get the votes from both communities because, as he laughingly and very
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • they'll suffer from a Republican victory." Another kind of a thorn in Lyndon's side, as I remember, was that he wasn't really simpatico with the new head of the Democratic National Committee. I believe it was Steve Mitchell. They were just on different
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • probably confided to reporters that he did this in 1965-1966, and told them this, thinking that that would be a wellreceived piece of news. Instead they turned it on him and kind of derided him for it. M: Another area that was some of your responsibility
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 2 (II), 8/14/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • be the new government, and the name of Mr. Ngo Dinh Diem began to appear then. My relations with the Bao Dai group were--my personal relations, because I knew the Emperor before. My uncle was, of course, the emperor before, and he knew me well as a member
Oral history transcript, Charles Evers, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the country except New York and Michigan. F: Even the most rigid white politician has to pay some attention to that number of votes. 14 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
  • and Senator John Stennis; Evers as NAACP field director; work for education; housing; employment; Ramsey Clark; Lady Bird's Dixie tour; federal programs in Mississippi; friends Charles Percy of Illinois and Nelson Rockefeller of New York; SNCC; CORE; SCLC
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • he is. A: When we were sitting in the office, aides kept bringing him, as they did from time to time, these clippings off of the news machine, and there was Joe Rauh making a speech or some comment about the failure of the President to enforce
Oral history transcript, Birch Bayh, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the in-house decisions although he was Vice President. M: As far as a new Senator coming in was concerned, he was not applying the famous "Johnson treatment" on a regular basis? B: I didn't get the famous Johnson treatment on a regular basis even when he
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 5 (V), 5/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • cities like Philadelphia and New York and Chicago. The first indication we had that they planned to hold a Solidarity Day exercise came from the press. Progressively, as we had visits with their leaders about matters relating to Resurrection City
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 Committee. And I'm on a new Subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee, the Preparedness Subcommittee, which
Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be advantageous for the Senate to have one man in it that felt so deeply about some things that he didn't change, didn't turn with every new gust of wind. For then if we had one point that stayed constant, we could determine how far everyone else had strayed
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • really better sitting in Washington and watching a television monitor, and contacting their sources here about what's really going on. But the mystique of the news profession is that you've got to be at the scene of the crime and so on, whether
  • Selection of the team to go to Paris to negotiate with North Vietnam; Averell Harriman; Cyrus Vance; Philip Habib; organizing the trip to Paris; failure to make serious progress in Paris; debates regarding “the shape of the table”; portraying news
Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • member, some- thing of a leader of the faculty in connection with that, out of which they nominated me to be their first chancellor. That led later to becoming president of the university during the period of its greatest expansion in new campuses, one
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • World War II convinced me to join a new outfit called the Central Intelligence Group. F: This is a piece of friendly exchange, when were you in Harvard Business School? K: After I got out of Harvard College. [I] started in '42 and finished my degree
Oral history transcript, Edward R. Fried, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • primarily in the economic area, such things as statements on the Kennedy Round after its conclusion, on the messages to Congress, on the special drawing rights legislation, on the amendments to the fund, the rather dramatic New Year's Day balance of payments
Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to Chicago and New York and the east wherever we had contacts with the Mexican-Americans. And of course I have a lot of close Negro friends and as soon as he became president, the Negroes--the blacks-also had accepted Johnson as a humanitarian and as a good
Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • or political congressional news reporting with Lyndon Johnson? G: Yes. Not very much contact. I covered the Preparedness Subcommittee hearings when the President was chairman of that committee, and when Cy Vance, as a matter of fact, came down from Ne't
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • II and-- B: Last throes of the New Deal. Can you recall freshman Congressman Lyndon Johnson about 1937? H: Well, yes, I was conscious of his being here. It was later before I got closely acquainted with him. B: About when would that have been
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , a businessman in New York, myself, Bob Nathan-we were all for Humphrey 100%. practical. We were I guess more idealistic than It was unlikely that Humphrey could get it, but we thought he could get it and it was a fun thing to try and do. I was in fact
Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Settlement Commission and rewrite all the job descriptions. It was through Mr. Macy that I obtained some very fine new personnel. M: So he was probably the one who kept your name in the top of the pile as far as prospective talent for the various jobs
Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 who lived in New England--I'm not a New Englander by birth--but people with my more academic, intellectual heritage and so on, he didn't have easy
Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1984 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES M. ROWE INTERVIEWER: Ted Gitt i nger PLACE: Mr. Rowe's residence, Ingleside, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Rowe, would you begin by giving us a little background? When did you become involved in covering the news in Duval
  • Background of covering news in South Texas including Duval and Jim Wells Counties; impressions of Duval County and George Parr; vote controversy in the 1948 election; leaders in the South Texas counties; investigation by the Coke Stevenson people
Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • not too much attention to that election. lid read the paper every morning but I wasn't just carried away with all the news about it. I read the paper every morning now. live always read the paper every morning, just to see what's going on in the world
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Texas, in Belton, and lived there a good portion of my early life. I graduated from high school in the Depression years, when it was practically impossible to get any \vork. In 1933 I was offered a job as an employment service manager for a new U. S
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of January of the year after one's election. I was a candidate in 1934 in the new district, the Nineteenth District, that cut Marvin Jones' district about half in two. I ran along with--there were nine of us--no incumbent [who] ran for the position and I
  • How he met LBJ in 1935; LBJ’s ambitions and absorption with politics; LBJ as a new Congressman and loss of the Appropriations Committee appointment to Albert Thomas; Sam Rayburn and the Board of Education; rural electrification; Civil Rights Act
Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to wait a little while. So we advised And finally, then, on December 15th, as I recalled the dates he did recognize the new government. What I'm trying to say is that the death of President Kennedy actually delayed recognition of the Dominican
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Truman Administration. At that time, I don't recall exactly the position that senator Johnson-F: I'll refresh you on that. November '48. He was a new Senator; he had been elected in Then, after '50 when Ernest McFarland was defeated, he was named
Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and the final denouement of the MLF? M: The meeting was in the summer, and the final killing of the MLF --actually, Of course they dragged it through the ANF thing for another year. But I think in November or so of '64, was the news leak you mentioned, so
Oral history transcript, J. Roy White, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , in the construction of the new dining room and kitchen facilities, the addition of 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
Oral history transcript, June White, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • exchange . I'm sure that Lyndon Johnson must have been very exciting to Sam Rayburn . After all, he was younger, and he understood so instantly the legislative process, which was unusual for a new young man . G: Did it seem that Lyndon Johnson