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Oral history transcript, Robert F. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . In almost every country there is some movement of translations of United States books into the foreign language . interests : One can go on to pick out concrete there are the transportation companies, the airlines coming into-M: Excuse me, these are all
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 upon Morse to help him out with the airline strike in 1966, and Morse did an excellent job for him. You know, Johnson really put
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to try to be honest with myself--were speaking with such overwhelming global terms about "the new world we're going to create, the new this and the new that. We've had enough of this and we've had enough of that." I think we scared the daylights out
Oral history transcript, L. Wade Lathram, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • for export, not import. Furthermore, it was a small port, very small and very crowded. The Americans came in, as usual, with all the men and all the equipment in the world, all to be imported. And the result was the port of Saigon was one horrendous mess
Oral history transcript, James E. Chudars, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • experience and they were wrapping up airplanes left and right. The insurance got so high that it was difficult to stay in the business, so a lot of it got into crop dusting and that type of thing. United Airlines was looking at it. We did a number
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • resources were involved. One of the real concerns, and a very strong argument was made by many people in the housing world, was that this would create distortions in the market; that you would find patterns of utilization of federally supported housing
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 24 (XXIV), 2/6/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Wham! Right on the line. That's how I became press secretary. G: Okay. Let's go back to some of these initial issues. In mid-December of 1963, you had the airline machinists' strike. R: Oh God, yes. G: Were you involved in the negotiations
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 20 (XX), 1/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that decision. After all, look at what that decision meant. Nobody wants to send fifty thousand American troops halfway around the world to a war where lots of them are going to be killed. We were riding high on the Great Society. We were very much aware
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was vice president and made his 1961 trip around the world that pointed that up for me. on his plane. We were There were about twenty-five, I believe, correspondents LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • company in the whole Southwest, maybe in the world--they were able to take care of most major fires with the oil industry. But as big as the state of Texas is, you've always got some fellow that's a farmer, they discover oil in his back yard, and he
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • or at least more responsive to national needs and national interests. P: Do you think this is a fair assessment? I think there's no question about it that he grew in terms of his knowledge and interest in national and world affairs after he became Vice
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • hundred dollars a month, which was a good bit less than I was making then from my job and from free-lancing, and several other things like this. I was grinning I suppose before he finished, because there was no way in the world I was going to work
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • targets for years from Franklin Delano Roosevelt on through to Johnson's time--substantial numbers of these were passed. Slum clearance, housing, the poverty programs, the interstate highway systems, airline and airport legislation, and the development
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the world. So [when I was] at the age of four, my mother, leaving my father temporarily, went to France, where we were educated by governesses in Paris. Then in the summers we would go to Switzerland. We had a very safe and I would say spoiled childhood
  • Engelhard’s family history; marriage to Fritz Mannheimer; leaving France for Spain to avoid testifying against Mr. Daladier and Mr. Reynaud; conditions and traveling during World War II; fleeing to Argentina and later returning to Europe; moving
Oral history transcript, Earl Howsam, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there--in fact I can remember Ed [Edwin] Johnson and I working on January 1, l949, because he had been, well, hurled, really, into the chairmanship of Interstate and Foreign Commerce. I had been flying for Continental Airlines, and he decided he needed a bill
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • world war, but I can't be certain. But, in any case, this became the symbol of fiscal irresponsibility and recklessness in the eyes of the Congressional conservatives--that a hundred billion added another digit to the size of the budget. This made
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 2 (II), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -hearted. I remember he sat there and he said, "Look here," and he had a map, and over here we were doing all around the world what--here the Soviet--he was already thinking ahead, and coming across looking were Europe and Italy, defending
  • to the threat of defeat; Judd's visit to China as a congressman; Judd's experience as the Japanese attacked Chungking; Judd's involvement in a dispute between Pan American and Northwest Airlines over an air route to Asia; US relations with China in the 1940s
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . I think under his administration America had an opportunity to mature--it didn't quite do it--as a world power. It can't avoid being a world power, but being a world power 17 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to build a nice motel over there on that piece of land." And I didn't say anything, but I just asked myself the question, "Well, how in the world does a person on the staff salary build a motel?" But I never heard any accusations about Bobby's
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • McNamara was testifying. They ultimately degenerated into Senator [Strom] Thurmond and one or two others, and a variety of Pentagon witnesses, pro and con, that they were calling from all over the world, and State Department witnesses, and one
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • early on in November. G: That was the around-the-world trip, is that right? C: No, that was the trip to Asia where he met with the Asian leaders [and Ferdinand] Marcos, and then they had a meeting of the SEATO treaty nations. I believe
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . That is very important to us. smack in the middle of the Pacific. We're It also has jurisdiction over the airways, flight,radio, etc., and telephonic corrnnunications to Hawaii is extremely important and airline contacts are most important, fisheries
  • disagreed with LBJ; the "Johnson treatment;" monthly visits with LBJ and the subjects discussed; the 1965 five-man Senate group world tour led by Senator Mansfield: Aiken, Muskie, Caleb Boggs and Inouye; comments on Vietnam; LBJ's legislative successes
Oral history transcript, Kittie Clyde Leonard, interview 1 (I), 7/27/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • or anything at that time. M: So then how did you get home again? L: As soon as we got to Washington, we started phoning the airlines for reservations. They said they didn't have anything out, but if we'd go to Baltimore, we could get reservations out
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of it as the world ; the three points formed by the con­ junction of the various curves remind some people of land, sea, and air . The triskelion itself, in a very abstract sense, with what I can identify after it was pointed out tome, looks sort of like a man
  • Biographical information; CAB appointment; Northeastern Airlines decisions; air congestion and stacking over airports; role as the Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation; contact with Vice President Johnson; maritime strike; establishment
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • is named for him, the Wirtz Dam. There was also an issue that year with regard to the establishment of air mail service between Houston and Brownsville and the rivalry among different airlines, Braniff versus Eastern. Do you recall LBJ supporting Braniff
  • ; relationship between Sam Rayburn and LBJ; Maury Maverick; minimum wage; LBJ’s friendship with FDR; securing appropriations; airline franchise; Naval Affairs Committee; Erich Leinsdorf; Huey Long; Dick Kleberg; war in Europe; other Washington experiences.
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about Vietnam; intervention in the Dominican Republic; civil rights; immigration reforms; airline machinists’ strike; Reedy’s departure from post of press secretary; LBJ’s staff.
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • per day. Even I got crank mail, and some obviously from psychotic people, completely detached from the world. Each time my name would appear in the newspaper linking me to the President, I could expect an avalanche of mail. It was always during those
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: NEWTON mNOW INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Minow's office, Chicago, Illinois Tape 1 of 1 F: Nr. f~inow, just to set the stage, let's identify you briefly--how you came to work into this world of national politics? M
Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in 1920-- M: Did you get involved in World War I? L: Well, I was involved in a left-handed manner . I entered the first Officers' Training Camp at Leon Springs in 1917 . But after ten days or so, on our first leave, we were all going into San
Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • by the name of Leon Gray, Colonel Leon Gray, and he was a Distinguished Service Cross winner in World War II, probably one of the top reconnaissance pilots in the business. In fact, he was. An incredible pilot, ex-airline pilot. And the First Fighter Group had
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • was dissatisfied and he did let you have his full temper, I presume he would have been the most surprised person in the world if you had quit at that point. There never was really any great consideration that he might fire you after you had gotten used
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it both ways, just like that interview there about this schoolteacher who [was asked] if the world was flat or round. He said, "I can teach it either way you want it." It's just according to how he was [inaudible]. She would sit there at home and cuss
Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /oh Hickman -- I -- 23 H: I think that he wanted to be president more than anything in the world, but I think he wanted to be sure that he was in a position where he would win. He didn't want to go into it feeling that he would be a loser, because
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 2 (II), 7/9/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • convinced, I think, that the real danger in American public opinion was the hawkish right wing, that they were all the time pushing him into things that he was doing his best to resist. The last thing in the world that he wanted was 4 LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it was part the romance, but also the great interest I had in foreign affairs. F: As an undergraduate, had you been interested in political science? D; Marginally. I was a Spanish and Portuguese major. South America and set the world on fire. I wanted
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Let me tell you Young man," he said then, "I was in World War I. thing happened. It's their dietary habits. This same So it will all pass. But you go back to Washington and make a big blast, I don't know what will LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the other places, I said something about India. r~hy r~y He made an interesting remark; he said, Bill, I wouldn't want to treat a friend like that." He said, Lord, you don't want to go to India, of all places in the world!" I mentioned Canada to him
Oral history transcript, Willard J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • served through World War II. Where was your duty then? S: My first duty was at sea in the Gulf of Mexico. flight training and became an aviator. Later I went on to During World War II, I served on both the west and east coast in anti-submarine
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • came straightaway as fast as I could. I think they knew that I was on a tight schedule, and I think the arrangements were made that they'd wait and get me. G: I see. How did you fly down from Nashville? M: I came down on American Airlines from
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 5 (V), 3/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of t he United States, he was in a sense t he most powerful man in the world, an d he wanted to do something. He di dn 't know what t o do except j ust ta l k and visit . I t hink alsb in his mind was th e real i za t ion that this was the first