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Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 5 (V), 8/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • during the course of a day, a regular day in his office, that he Hould average an hour to an hour-and-a-half each day doing some form of signing. That so-called signing table migh t be full in the morning, and when he had a fe't'; moments betHeen other
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 13 (XIII), 7/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • guess that he had, because he did read Webb 1 and probably talked to him, although I can't say that for sure. Because he did talk to him on occasion. G: In this connection, Joe Pool, when he was a state representative from Dallas, criticized LBJ
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • mixed up on dates at this point, but-­ G: The letter was 1957. R: It was 1957? The letter itself was actually written by Jim Rowe, but the concepts were Johnson's. I think that the letter leaked out to the [New York] Herald Tribune somehow. We
Oral history transcript, Price Daniel, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in this because you are the attorney g:!neral of Texas, and the Republicans want to place you, as well as Governor Shivers and some others on their ticket,which in my experience is something new in Texas history. Did that create any problem for you in this sort
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the country, testing the water. I had never been with him in a campaign for office in Texas. I had never campaigned with him. so it was a new experience to see how much he enjoyed it. He just had to reach the people, you know. The Secret Service had one
Oral history transcript, David S. Black, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • law with the law firm of Preston, Thorgrimson and Horwitz for about two and a half years at which time I was appointed an Assistant Attorney General with John J. O'Connell, who was the new Attorney � � � LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Ava Johnson Cox, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ," and we pushed it back now. We had five: Georgia Cammack [Edgeworth], Kittie Clyde [Ross Leonard], Lyndon and Margaret and I. Lyndon was the only boy. We pushed that thing back over there and the next morning, this old man called up my daddy. He said
Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that I was a senior. He was new and I was new. I got in his class. In other words, he hadn't been there the year previous to have a reputation. I think that is correct. G: How would you describe him as a debate teacher? J: Very enthusiastic, very
Oral history transcript, Logan Wilson, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a dilemma for the press if they regard a lot of this as legitimate news and something that people are entitled to know. But I think future historians may look back on some of the activism and see that the activists have been stimulated by the television
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • could get the nomination? No, no, I knew it. _I think he knew it. I can remember a conversation shortly before the Oregon primary where I said to him--we were talking on the phone on a Sunday morning, just kind of visiting--and I said, . . "Look, I
Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . For example, in those days the Vice President was chairman of the Space Council, a new organization created by Congress. The congressmen who created it didn't fully understand the relationship between the Vice President and the President. The Space Council
Oral history transcript, Roger Blough, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh July 29, 1971 F: This is an interview with Mr, Roger Blough in his office, 14 Wall Street, New York City, The interviewer is Joe B . Frantz, and the date is July 29, 1971. Mr, Blough, just to get started
Oral history transcript, Earl Howsam, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in that first day. G: When did you first become acquainted with Lyndon Johnson? Do you recall? H: I think it was soon after that, after we were in the Senate with all the new senators. I was over at the Committee of Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of your trust'?" Well, in that first week of February 1965 when he suddenly began the bombing of North Vietnam and the build-up of fighting troops, I was still co-chairman of SANE. I'd heard about this on that February morning from the SANE executives
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • had the pleasure Lyndon Johnson and his entire NYA state staff in establishing this new organization, working out their procedures, their accounting system and the whole works. We became fast friends in a hurry, because of our close working
Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and then Pete and I would get back together the next morning and compare notes and write up our reports. [Inaudible] G: What kind of criteria did you use to evaluate--? S: Well, let me get to that criteria. 6 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Eugene R. Black, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . This was a presidential committee, and it was headed by Mr. Perkins, the president of Cornell University, and we were supposed to advise the President from time to time on various aspects of foreign aid. M: This is a new committee? committee
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, 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, Walter Judd, interview 2 (II), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the cows and feed the cattle and feed the horses and so on. So, my father had that lumberyard, and every Sunday afternoon--just as regular--we went to church in the morning. We went after lunch--dinner, we called it--we got in a buggy, all of us, and drove
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 4 (IV), 3/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't remember the doves. G: How about George Ball? J: Yes, I hadn't thought of him. George Ball was pretty dovish. George Ball could have been influential, but he's so stilted and so New England-ish that he just didn't get his points across. He
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . early in the morning. We left It was hot and so I dressed in shorts and short-sleeved shirt. We finally got down towards this one big village at the tip of Ca Mau about dusk, and I'm seeing the village; you could see where some smoke
Oral history transcript, Ewing Hass, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . There was an existing canal bringing the river water over there, so it was not an entirely new project with them. So Kuchel was opposed to the Udall decision at that point that imposed it after all these years, and he did hold hearings on it. Incidentally, Warren
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 7 (VII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , or Illinois anyway. I think there was something like that involved. But once we thought we had Dirksen. Once we found for sure that we didn't have Dirksen, then it was a whole new ball game, 11 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • I was out on the campus on what's known as the "Rock Squad," in other words, I was helping to dig, or excavate, for a new cafeteria, so I didn't get too close to some of his duties, in that respect. PB: You were there on a baseball scholarship
Oral history transcript, Winston Taylor, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • sell their catches. He'd sell them fish [inaudible] New York [inaudible]-- G: He owned a lot of land, I gather. T: Yes. Each time he'd get a little bit ahead, he'd buy more land. G: Is that right? T: Yes. G: And what--how would he cultivate
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 6 (VI), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that they started looking for a new home. And he was living at Wardman Park, is that right? V: Yes. It was called something else by then, I forget now what it was—Sheraton? I can't remember. But yes, I do recall they lived there awhile. G: Why did they move from
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was down there and he had control over his time and what he could do, he was relaxed most of the time and would work in the morning or late at night. M: You haven't described any of the very widely, supposed at least, abuse that his staff received. Did
Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and said that Califano was developing a new legislative package in education for the next session of Congress. That was in the summer of '65, and would I write up the international education part? So I became a government consultant officially and worked
Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • an assistant to the Governor of New York State, who at that time was Averell Harriman. From 1957 until 1962 you were an assistant to Senator Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania, and from 1963 until 1965 you \'/ere the
Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh February 21, 1969 Mc: This interview is with Norman Stark Paul. Today is Friday, February 21, 1969, and it's approximately quarter-of-eleven in the morning. We are in Mr. Paul's offices in the Mills
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 2 (II), 3/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • straw, perhaps a crucial straw. S: I wasn't there when he got the news. In meetings when the subject would be brought up, I don't remember him making any particular comment about it. Now, this probably meant to me that if he had had some pretty
Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 2 (II), 9/15/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and there were s orne northerners comfng down that Di em was putti ng in essentially as self-contained units of northerners into new villages· that they would start. Tiley were just dotted in with the mountain peopl e. out they were permanent settl ers where
Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Goerge just looks different than anybody else. G: After the convention, as you said, you worked with the Johnson end of the campaign. Can you recall which trips you advanced? L: I can't remember too many of them. G: There was one in New York. L
Oral history transcript, Samuel V. Merrick, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were? M: Yes. I think there were seventeen cities or something like that. I can remember Chicago. New Haven worked fine because the Mayor of New Haven-G: Richard Lee, I think, wasn't it? M: Richard Lee and the people that subsequently got
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • became under secretary of agriculture in the new Kennedy Administration. M: That's right. B: How did you get that job? Did Mr. Freeman pick you or Mr. Kennedy? M: Mr. Freeman approved me, I guess. Well, if I may go back, before the election
Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for president and he was the nominee, so that made it the news, but even still it was ~ bill. But Kennedy didn't have anything to do with advancing it, Johnson did, and Johnson was very helpful in that. G: Another thing that you did, you forced a roll call
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, 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, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • been urged by others to get a new deputy. There was a general feeling that they ought to have a sort of a new leaf in Sai gon. G: Who had been his deputy before you? T: A man named Cunningham. I'm not suggesting there was anything unsatis