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Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to speak at Riverside also in 1928? W: No. G: Or Senator Wirtz coming to speak, Alvin Wirtz? W: No. G: Were you? W: I was at New York University. G: In the fall of 1928? W: Yes. G: Okay. I wasn't in school in 1928 down there. September

Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

I dated. This was not the first Every time I meet somebody new in the Marine Corps they will come up and say, "Is that true? We heard that story." LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 2 (II), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there in the Indian Ocean, and then into India, and over through New Delhi into Burma, and there we had an air force base and flew over the Hump, nineteen, twenty thousand feet to get over the Himalayan mountains, and they're usually covered with clouds and we didn't

Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

." One was 24-inch, and I think the other was 12-inch, if I recall. Came from Texas up to New York. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library

Oral history transcript, Lewis Mayhew, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

/oh Mayhew -- I -- 12 expansionist times, and there were a lot of people moving into positions of leadership where those positions hadn't been available ten years before. K: Yes. So that a new wave or new generation coming into power? M: Yes. A new

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and it included a lot of his own senators now in this new class of men who were elected in 1958. So there were two tremendously interesting years, one with a majority of two in the Senate, and one with a much larger one. I see Horace Busby's reflection

Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

when you enter a new administration, or did you think it was pretty much a continuation? M: No, I thought there would be a decided change. F: In what way? M: Well, I thought the two personalities were different. Their viewpoints were different

Oral history transcript, Rodney Borum, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

as manager of a conference at Crotonville, New York, dealing with a foreign policy problem of the U .S . This is something that Secretaries Fowler and Connor attended, G .E . hosted, and the Atlantic Council sponsored . The conference was on trade

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)

. 'that's what He wanted to do things for the betterment of mankind and we had that in common . reason I did like him, did like to be around him . because he always had new ideas . For that He was fine, He was a man full of ideas . A lot of them were

Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

into the suite . [He] walked directly to the television set, I think without greeting anyone, or certainly without any conversation, turned it on and focused on the set . It warmed up ; and then very briefly Senator Kennedy appeared, or a news commentator

Oral history transcript, Clifford P. Case, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

adoption of the House rules. Normally that's a routine matter but this time John Rankin had indicated that he was going to use that occasion to add, by a new rule, a special committee to investigate un-American activities, make it a permanent committee. I

Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

so. He would look at those books and say, "There's not a damn thing in it. It's just a bunch of words. There's no new policy. reason for me to go. '1 There's nothing new. There's no new stateMent. There's no new So we tried to get the desk

Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and passionate than in fact we are. The White House correspondent for NBC or the New York Times or the AP is ~xp~cted to do as conscientious a job as he can of reporting the activities of the president and the administration. The fact that he may not have

Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Adams -- I -- 9 thirtieth of January 1968, I sort of went back to my hole with my captured documents and POW reports and continued working on Viet Cong and NVA strength and found, incidentally, that there was an enormous number of new units popping up

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

friend instead of with their wife who doesn't know he ' s back in town yet. r never wi'll forget how shocked 01 d John was. Hhat did we learn in that year? One thing that I learned, that on the things that are completely new that an organization

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, to give the South a chance to live with the new decision of the Supreme Court, I think Senator Russell would have been drafted for the presidency and would have been president. But I think that was the biggest political blunder in my lifetime, because

Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

prior to this? B: The man who was the chairman of the Interior Committee in the House was a man, Mr. O'Brien, from upper New York State, which you'd think would be opposing vote. But he was dedicated to the fact that Alaska LBJ Presidential Library

Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

that Kennedy left for Dallas? T: Yes. And my husband went with him. M: And you stayed here? T: I was here with some guests from New York and Washington. I told him that I would join him the next night in Austin. I was going up by private plane with some

Oral history transcript, Tom and Betty Weinheimer, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Weinheimer -- I -- 7 Tom and I had to drive his new Lincoln home, which was very nerve-wracking for us, being very unfamiliar with fancy automobiles. Of course, I'm talking when we were much

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 2 (II), 11/23/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

as that was concerned. He knew that I had had the confidence of civil rights groups and a good reputation with the bar, and I think he was just concerned about having to start all over again to some extent with a new Attorney General. M: Right in the middle

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of civil service have been in that interregnum after the new administration had been voted in but before it had taken over. C: So, that's Wirtz. F: Now, have you got time to go into Simkin? C: Simkin ran what now? F: Federal Mediation Board. C: I

Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

bring you the greetin gs of the Pres·; dent of the United States . He knows where I am. He knows I'm in the Securi ty Council in New York City. 11 But I don't know whether Mr. Johnson ever heard the story that I got the bigges t mileage out of, involving

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

several years in the U.S. Attorne y's office, and I must say it was a thorough ly enjoyab le experie nce--the work there. But my boss there, who was David Acheson , United States Attorne y, was appointe d to a new position in the Treasury departm ent which

Oral history transcript, R.J. (Bob) Long, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the door where he could get in, so he wouldn't have to touch the door. I don't know what his [trouble with Johnson was]. got in that. Of course, he Well, they were just anti-New Deal, first place, see. It wasn't Lyndon. Of course, it became personal

Oral history transcript, James A. Lovell, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

. Paine. I think Dr. Paine was alrea dy there . M: That could very well be . L: I'm just tryin g to remember. M: That was late 1968? L: Yes, that was close to the new admi nistr ation . I'm not too sure. I'm not certa in on that. Because

Oral history transcript, Annette Ludeman, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

pretty much grown when they'd built the house, so it was just like a brand~new house; They could have bought tlie other halfofthe block and this house for $10,000. (Laughter) That was in 1922. G: Well, $10,000 was- L: My father didn't want the land
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Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there was much chance of it passing in the Senate, and we were probably going to have to wait til next year. I immediately got on the phone with Bridges. He was up in New Hampshire at the time. He indicated that he would come back to Washington. I had an FBI

Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: That's correct. F: It must give you a certain trust in patience and persistency. D: Well, it's a testimony to the fact that an idea takes a long time in its incubation and its ultimate growth. I think Chauncey Depew, celebrated raconteur from New York

Oral history transcript, Berl Bernhard, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

don't know--you see, I think he always perceived Moynihan as a Kennedy person, you see-- G: Did he tie him to Robert Kennedy? B: Yes; New York, Bob Kennedy, all that kind of stuff because--the President chewed my head out at another time when I

Oral history transcript, Alain C. Enthoven, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis. In 1965, upon your confirmation, the Defense Department established this new office of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis which you presently occupy. Is this background

Oral history transcript, Leo Gehrig, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and served a full career with them. thoraci~ I have been trained and have my boards in general and surgery. After being chief of thoracic surgery in both our hospitals in New York and Seattle, I was brought into Washington at that time largely

Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

deal. Of course, the FBI was here, and they We examined various items and questioned where certain things happened and all that sort of thing. I'll get to Warren now. He had a very brilliant lawyer from New York that he was fond of, and he made him

Oral history transcript, O.B. Summy, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

is the next place on the route? S: The next from El Paso? We went up to Lordsburg, New Mexico. Went across over to Globe. G: Where’s Globe -- in New Mexico? S: Arizona. We crossed over the Hilo River and that was in Arizona. And it’s Sapira -that’s

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, Robert Taft, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was fairly new still, and as we're finding out, I think, in the Nixon Administration, the liaison between Congress and the White LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Jose Joaquin Trejos, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the new school of arts and sciences, call it Letras, from 1957 to 1960. In 1965, I was called Escuela de Ciencias y to be a candidate. I was proposed as a pre-candidate and then elected as the candidate for the Unification Party, which

Oral history transcript, Carl Vinson, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1970, by Frank Deaver (Item)

a lieutenant Although he served for only five months, he was awarded the Silver Star Medal for distinguished service while serving in New Guinea. He left active duty only because President Roosevelt ordered all members of Congress serving in the Armed Forces

Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 3 (III), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

by the fact that he was new and by the fact that he is extraordinarily good at getting along with people. And he has been able to reach accommodations on certain issues that were of major importance to the more powerful members of the Armed Services

Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in June of 1965 to succeed Stephen Ailes. Earlier in 1965 you had been appointed Under Secretary of the Army and prior to that you were an attorney in New York and also active in Republican politics. R: Substantially correct. Is this information