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Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • election to Congress in 1937 in that special election, what was the significance of Texas to your father and to the New Deal at the time, politically? R: Well, of course, it was a very important state to have good contacts and good people with whom he
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • President, had asked to run for the Senate. Burnett Maybank was in many, many ways ideologically similar to Lyndon Johnson. He was basically a New Deal Democrat and a man of the people. He was a Charlestonian, and he had great difficulty speaking
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, III, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a Texan, I should add, in case that's necessary. [Laughter] But that far away, we were very much interested in the new mayor of Minneapolis, and, of course, it made him a national figure when he went to the Senate. Then you, of course, being young, moved
Oral history transcript, Daniel Garcia, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • on telling them what I knew. "Tell it to me and see what happens." She probably made a recording or just told him the whole [inaudible] tale. The following day they called me up and said if I was interested in visiting New York, "I've Got a Secret" program
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bunker -- III -- 7 remember I came back from Camp David with the President. He took me to my room at the White House, and the next morning I
Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for him. So we worked together in the fall of 1966. That was a very useful period for me because it gave me an opportunity in a more relaxed atmosphere than you have here in Washington to get acquainted with my new boss. We talked about a number
  • Biographical information; Senator Richard Russell; LBJ’s decreased popularity and its sources; civil rights; LBJ’s relationship with Russell; activating battleship New Jersey; Russell’s criticism of LBJ’s Administration; editorial cartoon; growth
Oral history transcript, Roland Bibolet, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • interested this ally how it happened . G: Sure . B: Okay . This was November, December . Let's in actu­ I don't know if you are or not . My recollection is that it was New Year's Eve, and Joe Duke, who was sergeant at arms of the Senate, called
Oral history transcript, William R. Desobry, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and the senior advisor came with him to escort him around the States. So they replaced him with somebody else, so I lost that job. So I went down to IV Corps later on. G: Were you given any special training, any special briefing for this new assignment? D
Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • as the top man, and of course, I was very anxious to do that. Senator Hunt, as you will recall, had an unfortunate end. He committed suicide in his office in 1953, and I was the one whose lot it was to find him that morning. Senator O'Mahoney then ran
Oral history transcript, Roy Elson, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Arizona, and went through the public schools out there, though I was born in Pennsylvania originally, the last of nine. [We] moved out to Arizona because of my mother's health; she had tuberculosis. In those days you either went west to Arizona or New
Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Vietnam? R: Yes, he talked at length about Vietnam. Something had happened that morning, a speech on the Senate floor by Morse and it distracted his attention from the purpose of our meeting. When we got back to the central purpose of the meeting
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the LendLease hearings with Elizabeth Rowe, and we listened to [James Bryant] Conant, the president of Harvard and to the bouncy little mayor of New York, [Fiorello] La Guardia. I remember [Wendell] Willkie passed me in the hall, one of the most vital, vivid men
Oral history transcript, Nell Colgin Miller, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to go to Mexico and use my Spanish; [I've] forgotten it now. But we'd work in the journalism school together, B Hall, and I worked for the Austin American and also for the [Waco] News-Tribune later. I wrote a weekly column for the--"University Life
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • /loh/oh 6 with operational detail, especially on issues which we couldn't affect on a day-to-day basis. Even so, the President is kept informed by his intelligence briefing in the morning, by those people down in the basement of the White House--you
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , which the next morning appeared in the New York Times, the two of us walking casually across. That afternoon I got a call from Joe saying that, "You really oughtn't to help Lindsay's presidential ambitions." I had no concept--I didn't regard Lindsay
  • in the National Guard; visiting Newark, New Jersey; proposed creation of jobs; prioritizing the areas of need; gun control; the decision for commissioners to stay out of the legislative process; "Harvest of Racism" report; the exclusion of representatives
Oral history transcript, Leverett Saltonstall, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 procurement of new capital costs, as I recall it, after several years now, was somewhere around sixteen
Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • days of the New Deal. I went down to Washington in the fall of 1936, just at the time of the second election of President Roosevelt. when it was, but I did meet him. I don't recall exactly I think he was on some coal com- mission or something
Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in to Galveston from the sea and took a train across Texas. And James V. Allred, who knew Roosevelt at least casually, suggested that he ought to invite this young congressman aboard, with the result that Johnson, who is just a brand new congressman got to meet
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the . F: No, I mean after the assassination and the coming of a new President . B: It was a smooth transition . State . . . Yes, we had the same Secretary of There was really little change in terms of operating procedures, and in terms of what we
Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • are getting pretty far from Johnson on this thing. M: Hell, no, I'll get back to it here. here. I'm not trying to preempt your material I was driving toward this--the growth of this sort of new agency in national security affairs, advisory staff
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- V -- 9 perhaps, or Birmingham? I don't remember which one, because from time to time she would find some new doctor or some new source of help. I think perhaps this may
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Jorden -- II -- 3 interviewing people, looking at documents, trying to find out as a reporter what the hell was going on here. G: Did you use the same techniques that you would have if you had been researching a story for the New York Times or--? J
Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and expenditures were made throughout New Mexico during his tenure on that particular committee. I think it's similar to Senator Kerr's capabilities within the committees which he headed up, wherein they established dams and lakes throughout Oklahoma
Oral history transcript, Otis Arnold Singletary, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . F: As Chancellor of--UNC, Greensboro. S: Right. I just got a call one morning that said, "Dr. Singletary, this is Sargent Shriver. I wonder if you'd mind coming up here and talking to me." I said, ''What about?" He said, "I don't want to tell
Oral history transcript, J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . always will. And I cherish his memory; Then Congressman Lyndon Johnson came into the office, and the Speaker asked him to sit down and he joined in the conversation. It was my concern, being a new member just starting out, should become embroiled
Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • the war years. As you would expect for a woman, part of it was giving out recipes. I really am not a specialist in home ec!! But I also gave the news and we had live music. K: And that was during the war period? G: That was during the mid-forties
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ] Johnson was on the phone to the Secretaries' room between the Oval Room and the Cabinet Room as we met ; and the time of day will be established by others, my recollection is night, And but I may be wrong--night, Washington time, early morning
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about LBJ and the press during this He seems to have been more sensitive to what he regarded as negative news stories than he had been before. R: Was this the case? To him a negative news story was one which did not begin "Sincere, positive
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • encouraged political activities. So I worked for Dad. I went into about twenty states for him. I didn't see Lyndon Johnson during my swing in the primaries. went to New Mexico; that was as close as I got to him. represented there by Sam Rayburn. I He
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, 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, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the infiltration thing. And I have no doubt that in the subsequent programs a new phase will pop up, or in his book a new phase will pop up. He spins off of this central core of the guerrilla strength and whether these odds and sods, as the British would call
Oral history transcript, John Michael Dunn, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . There was no evidence of that when I was there. I used to get up and have breakfast with him, because he would stay with Mr. Lodge. And Cabot wouldn't get up and have breakfast with the Pope at five o'clock in the morning, or five-thirty or whatever, but it was some
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • from time to time about whether he might draw upon himself another heart attack.He worked late at night, he worked early mornings, he took his evening reading to his bedside with him, and that kept him up frequently most of the time until one or two
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, 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, 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, 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, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • look on this whole organization and authority as being in a dynamic state . You get reorganization plans and new authorities, you go ` along, and as the need is manifested, you are able to educate people to the importance of the changes
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh August 6, 1969 M: Let me identify the tape first of all . Mr . George R . Brown . This is an interview with I am in the Lamar Hotel, in Suite 8F . date is August 6, 1969 . It is 9 :20 in the morning . The My name