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Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • existed with President Kennedy or with Bob. With President Kennedy I had only a few consultations; Bob Kennedy in the years since I've been here--on housing matters; Ted however has been a strong friendship and association since that time. Not a family
Oral history transcript, Val M. Keating, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • concerned with the efficiency of the operation and avoiding any scent of corruption, and very concerned with how much it cost to put a girl or boy to work. Was this a [concern]? K: Oh, that good management quality was there, as you would hope it would
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Corps. To some extent I at least, and I think he and I thought alike, reflected the thinking of Bob McNamara, with whom obviously I talked a good deal and who felt that the Job Corps was the best idea in the package. Now, some of the other ideas
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • quit Braniff I couldn't have won the fight. to American Airlines instead. So Red Mosier went Then they hired a fellow, Bob Smith, to be the man to watch out after Braniff's interests up there. All right, here comes Bill Deason up there in 1937
Oral history transcript, Lloyd N. Cutler, interview 1 (I), 4/12/1969, by William Helmer (Item)
  • , Bob Kennedy and Vice President Johnson, to act as a conscience of the legal profession in measures to guarantee civil rights to black people, and also to those engaged in trying to support the civil rights movement who found themselves arrested
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • sorts of miscellaneous civic leaders, PTA [Parent Teacher Association], BNBW[?], Civil Defense, a cross section of the country, farmers' wives from Grand Prairie and Cedar Hill, the sort of people whom we hoped would be our supporters. We were trying
  • stature; honorary degrees given to the Johnsons; Mrs. Johnson's friendship with Abigail McCarthy and Bethine Church; campaign-related trips around the country; Bob Waldron's work for LBJ and the generosity of other people who helped LBJ; meeting California
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was Richard Russell, and the other one was Bob Kerr. As a matter of fact, in 1950, they rather moved together to organize a group in the Senate that caused him to be the Whip of the Senate and caused Ernest McFarland to be the Majority Leader of the Senate. He
Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , somebody had neglected to clear it. Not that there would have been any clearance problem, but they just had neglected the protocol ,and I was told by our congressional people that they were quite put out about it. So that afternoon I went into see Bob
Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of figures that my shop had produced about the attrition of the Viet Cong side was really true. They were going downhill and they had to do something desperate; they did it at Tet. The Tet Offensive, they threw everything they had with the hope of creating
Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ever talk with you about this? Was he hopeful it could be done? H: I had an extraordinary experience. May I ask you, when will these tapes be opened? F: They will be opened at your convenience. We will send you a transcript, and you put whatever
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ) quote, "government"--at least preserve the existing government in the hopes that in the future we could encourage as much democracy as possible--and that would preserve the South intact as a country. as that, as I recall. It was about as general So we
Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . John Doar was the director of civil rights within the Department of Justice. John and Bob Owens really came down to Mississippi and paid us a visit. We complained to them about the years of these kinds of visits we'd had, and most of us considered
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the story of John Vann. I could tell stories about the man for hours, but I think there's no point in that, because soon we hope to have Neil's book, and that will outline Vann's involvement in everything from birth to death. (Interruption) LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • resigning as national chairman to take over a campaign for Wilbur Mills for president. I declined. At a later date, I was contacted directly by Wilbur. It coincided with a visit I made to Dallas to attend the wedding of one of Bob Strauss' children. Wilbur
Oral history transcript, Cameron McElroy and Lucille McElroy, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • native to the habitat around here. G: Did they eat the insects, too? M: I understand they ate enough insects to have effect. Or was it something--? They ate the insects and other foods, too. G: Did she campaign against Cousin Bob Hope--was that his
Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was getting from Lyndon Johnson on the areas where Everett Dirksen hoped to prevail was certainly worth the consideration he gave Lyndon on the areas where he was helping Lyndon to prevail. So many times they got together and talked matters over and agreed
Oral history transcript, James Robinson, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ; this was before things really fell apart in Vietnam, when there was still some hope that he and others would be able to do something [to] salvage the administration and go on to a second term in his own right. G: May I ask if you're a Democrat? R: Yes, you can
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • acting or was appointed on the one hand as an interim appointment, or somebody else became secretary. I said, "Bob, nothing happens on November 9," or whatever the day was. I said, "Nothing happens. Everything stays the way it is." Well, he was very
Oral history transcript, Stanley L. Greigg, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that we did. But I did not feel an enormous amount of pressure, and I think maybe one of the reasons I felt that was because I had made my views rather clear from the outset, and so I was not being bombarded by those who would have hoped that I would have
Oral history transcript, James H. Tate, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • National Municipal Association, which is now the National League of Cities. We had with us Mayor Daley of Chicago, Mayor Dilworth of Philadelphia, and Bob Wagner of New York was the mayor of New York at that time, to call on the then Democratic leader
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : No, not in the slightest. I came down first hoping to get back to Lin- coln Center, where I was trying to build buildings for the Performing Arts in New York; and deliberately set up a very tight schedule for the investigation of the Bay of Pigs So that within a month
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , Bill Moyers and Bob Waldron and Mary Margaret Valenti and Helen Williams, the maid, to the motel. As I got out of the car to take Mr. Johnson into his room in the motel, he said: Tyler, I hope these trucks aren't going to be going by here all night
Oral history transcript, Louise Hermey Stanford, interview 1 (I), 9/6/1989, by Sybil Jackson (Item)
  • a variety of things. J: What were the goals of the project? What did you all hope to accomplish that summer? S: Well, I think there were a number of things. One was to bring the nation's attention to the situation for blacks in the South using
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 4 (IV), 8/8/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as he could have hoped To make an analogy of it, as a secretary he was top ser- But he would have not gotten over into the officer class where he could go on to be general without making that step somewhere out of the staff work. G: He had to make
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 4 (IV), 4/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Mexican-American descent myself, philosophically, these people just could never get together. You know, there's a difference in religion; there's a difference in philosophy. I made this observation in my own mind, and I communicated it to Bob Owens one
  • to force a confrontation over not applying for a permit; selecting the name "Resurrection City" and why the original name, "City of Hope," was not used; negotiating the terms of the permit and a bond; Solidarity Day June 19, 1968; a demonstration by New
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh O'Brien -- Interview XIX -- 6 O: Yes. Bob Hardesty was on my staff at the Post Office Department, and he had a close association
  • Richard Daley about rising concerns about Vietnam; William Fulbright's opposition to U.S. involvement in Vietnam; Bob Hardesty's work providing congressmen with statements and material for their newsletters that were favorable to LBJ's legislative program
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 31 (XXXI), 12/10/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The memo is in the Nixon files. But what started with Safire, in which he stated, "Let's . . . keep O'Brien on the defensive," became a matter that involved the effort of several members of the White House staff. G: What did they hope to find specifically
Oral history transcript, David L. Hackett, interview 1 (I), 4/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • skip over anything, but I gather the next stage is BOB [Bureau of the Budget] requesting you to submit this general-- H: They were very simple memorandums really. They were two or three pages. I think BOB liked them--or accepted them--because
Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • million funny things. Bob Waldron, you know, was his secre- tary, borrowed from Congressman Homer Thornberry. Another secretary was Mary Margaret Valenti. Bob Waldron was then always impec- cably dressed, even as he is now. I'll never forget the day
Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • planning of the Job Corps camps or the logistical work that had to be done with the Departments of Defense or Labor. Bob McNamara and Pat Moynihan were both friends of mine from Harvard days, so in the ini tial meetings I took our small team over to talk
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . At least there was no open animosity between us. We were two guys trying to campaign together and win an election. Then Bob Kennedy came into Arizona. I spent time with him and urged him to have Senator Kennedy come in during the campaign, which he did
Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • certain about this, that he and Mrs. Johnson were married in about 1934. F: Right. J: They lived at 2808 San Pedro with Dr. and Mrs. Montgomery. F: The economist. I stopped and talked to Bob yesterday. J: The economist. I think that they had
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • for John Kennedy, I thought Bob Kennedy a little shit. w~s We had almost had a couple of fist fights in the course of ten years, one being in 1960 when I wrote an article in the New Republic before the election saying, "Everybody's sitting around passing
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • visits. He asked me to come in and said, "Bob, I hope you're going to stay on because you're one of the guys I. like." I think he called Ralph Dungan and myself in [at] the same time and had us to lunch on the second floor dining room, which
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 4 (IV), 1/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of that kind of opportunity which it is hoped everybody in our country, and really the world, will have. The result of all of this is sort of a burst of activity. Sometimes, as I indicated, you get in particular the public members anxious to do something
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 1 (I), 9/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in to a reelection year. "We've got to have you that year; leave the year after." Here I am. I never got away; I never got back. I'm still hoping to go. I don't know when, but I'm still hoping to get back to Alabama. Foots is dead now, too. Unfortunately you won't
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • the White House such as the Secret Service and so on. Gu: Is coordination pretty good? Cooperation, maybe, is a better word than coordination. is very good. Clint Hill. Cooperation I don't know if you have met Bob Taylor or not, or These gentlemen
  • Biographical information; administrative assistant to Jim Cross; duties at the White House; Bob Taylor; Clint Hill; Art Godfrey; overseas flights; Presidential trips to Vietnam; communication equipment on Air Force One; impact of jet age on office
Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McNeil -- I -- 9 M: He and Johnson and Sam were very close when Bob Anderson secretary of the treasury. wa
  • Biographical information; meeting LBJ while working for Congressman Kleberg; LBJ’s relationship with FDR, Ickes, and Alvin Wirtz; George Brown; Sid Richardson; Bob Anderson; LBJ as a congressman; LBJ’s press relations; Bobby Baker; LBJ and Coke
Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • appointed, who was Ted Achilles, who now runs the Atlantic Council of the United States. Ted had been our ambassador in Peru for several years before that. Bob [Robert M.] Sayre was also on the staff. He and I shared an office during the days I