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Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and did use someone like Hubert Humphrey. I think he always felt that--well, he did try to get New Dealers that he had known in effect to talk to the other senators and say, "This fellow is a good fellow," that kind of thing. body within range. He used
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • a syndicated colwmi.st. r thought I would just .begin by introducing you and then at the end of that, you can add whatever you'd like to it. You were born in 1924 in New York City. In 1947 you received a B.A. I from U.C.L.A. and in 1948 received a Master
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and which he held, as Hubert knew, adamantly. You didn't get the feeling that he was willing to rethink or negotiate. In negotiations of this sort one generally tries to find a new way to say something close to the disputed language that brings the parties
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 3 (III), 3/25/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with them very well and he was so low-key. George was just an old shoe, and he just went on and talked and didn't make speeches. Bill would make a speech any time he got a chance. George would just deliver the news and tell it. I thought George was a good
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Busby -- VII -- 6 resigned from the federal bench in New York to take it, as a matter of fact. And A. [Arthur] B. Culvahouse, who is the outgoing general counsel at the White
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • into urging a quickie tax cut. But it was at that time, I think, that he indicated that he was going to propose tax legislation in the new session of Congress--and, of course, this was the new Congress--beginning in January 1963. There were intensive
Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • back in the background. Is there any substance in that, or is that imagination? S: It's very difficult to analyze because with the tremendous amount of attention of the press to everything that everybody said, and the need to write a new story every
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • increased during the '60's. A new and junior Congressman is not very often called for consultaion to the White House, perhaps unfortunately. M: Did you feel that Mr. Johnson lost much of his party support with his cooperation with General Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • never really told him what I thought about it, which is very simple. The trouble with Johnson and Viet Nam was that he was too clever by half. He had 150,000 troops on the ground before the New York Times admitted we were in a major war, literally
Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • appeared in the Pentagon Papers that have been in the New York Times. (Laughter) So they pretty much outlined what we wanted to get from the Canadians: a willingness to have their representative on the ICC discuss with Hanoi and the officials in Hanoi
Oral history transcript, John P. (Gen.) McConnell, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • - We went around and visited some of his neighbor ranchers and went out and shot pistols at a target. He woke me up two mornings, served me orange juice and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that the right kind of gaso- line was in the town. This was all very new and the whole thing had to be improvised. And then, of course, we certainly didn't want Mr. Johnson to arrive at the destination in his helicopter without anyone being there. We had
Oral history transcript, Levette J. (Joe) Berry, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was a public school superintendent, and the first twelve years of my life we lived in small towns northeast and west of Dallas . Then we moved to San Marcos when I was twelve, and I went through high school and college there . was only twenty, After I
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • knowledge and this can be fed to him under cover story of some sort, although it may be shallow. He knows he must respect this confidence, but it will at least cause him to start looking in a new direction and reorienting his thinking as to how he shall
Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • officials. Now, just to give you an illustration of what I'm talking about, at one point the U.S. Customs and Immigrations had constructed a new office building at the border--a new U.S. Customs and Immigrations building there-F: This is at the bridge? T
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • an example of what I mean, on Medicaid. We were told by Bob [Meyers], the actuary, that the cost of Medicaid over Kerr-Mills in the first year would be $250 million, nationwide. It was $250 million in New York State alone. 4 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : Congratulations on your new degree of infallibility. It is richly deserved." He was promoted into two stars for this job. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that I still supported the broadcast, but indicated that I did have some kind of problems--the one that I was mentioning to Colonel Hawkins, whom I talked to this morning. G: Do you have any other problems with the broadcast? I mean-- A: I think--yes
Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • cadre that I had been working with in the hamlet political attitudinal surveys. And they agreed. So I brought them up, put them on the agency's payroll, and they helped me write lesson plans for the instruction of the new RD cadre. Of course, we weren't
Oral history transcript, John M. Cabot, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the catastrophic consequences of a withdrawal from Vietnam. Joe Alsop had a good column in the Post this morning. You may have seen it. And I'm afraid he's right. n If we scuttle from Vietnam, Heaven knows where the rot is going to stop! M: What I was driving
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 10 (X), 10/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The Armed Services CoITTTlittee gave him an allotment; I don't remember how much it was, but it came out of the Anned Services Committee authority. G: So he could then go out and hire new people? J: And did. G: Anybody in particular who's worth
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with the White House, you r;iean? F: This was discussion with the White House--this was a discussion with President Kennedy. We had a discussion about it first in New York from early in December of 1960. And it was considered for quite some time. On the one
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • getting a call from Walter Jenkins asking me if I would get on the plane and go down to the Ranch the next morning. M: That was when you were appointed? P: That was the day, but I had had no conversation before that except with Walter Heller
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 3 (III), 1/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • me all of the part of the prior draft which had not been included in the new draft. draft. I would staple pieces of the old draft onto the new I considered it my purpose to endeavor to include in the new draft all of the provisions that I piled
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • officials were waiting any changes effected by the new administration? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIHJEE: GEORGE L. MEHREN INTERVIEHER: T. H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. Mehren's office, The Agribusiness Council, Inc., Park Avenue, New York City Tape 1 of 2 B: This is an interview with Dr. George L. Mehren. Sir, let me summarize your
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the apologies were addressed? G: One would have been Senator [Arthur] Watkins of Utah, and the other--the name slips [from] me--was from New Jersey; it was a long name, I can't remember. He called Watkins a "handmaiden of communism," and the other one was just
Oral history transcript, Horace E. Richards, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was in such a bind him- self--he was the new superintendent--he said, "Just go in there and take charge." Those kids were about to tear the building down. I went in there and stayed seven years. (Laughter) G: Was it common for jobs to get passed along like
Oral history transcript, Julius Richmond, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a staff meeting early in the morning, three mornings a week. This fellow flipped through these LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ; God, it was effective. It was effective. G: His [October 9, 1964] speech in New Orleans was a very good-- R: The Johnson speech? G: Yes. R: Boy, that was great. G: Were you there for that? R: Goddamn right I was. I mean, the one--"nigger
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • after 1960 South Vietnam might even be able to reduce its defense budget. But in 1964--and I'm referring again to the interview that you gave to the U. S. News and World Report-you said that when you left Vietnam in September of 1960
Oral history transcript, Clement J. Zablocki, interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • there was some split. Or at least those who were supporting Johnson had first preferences. In New York this was quite evident; in California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania. And I wonder if the his- torians will not sometime give due attention
Oral history transcript, Omar Burleson, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh They frequently say that President Kennedy was going to Dallas to help patch up Texas factionalism
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Sandy" Keith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • drink a fifth of whiskey better than any man in America-F: Drinking coffee . . . K: --drank coffee morning, noon, and night, and smoked anything else that could be smoked. And I arrived--number one, my bride doesn't even know what a cup of coffee
Oral history transcript, Joseph Palmer II, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and means of being responsive to the challenge of development in Africa, and to have a good hard look at our aid programs, see whether they were responsive, to what extent they were responsive, and in what ways they could be improved--new approaches tried
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 21 something has been approved that someone omits or overlooks to report to a new President. In the case of the NSA business, Mr. Johnson was forewarned that this was corning over
Oral history transcript, L. Wade Lathram, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . And I've got a perfectly good career, and a perfectly good assignment in State. My career is State Department, Foreign Service, and that's where I want to stay." He said, "No, you haven't got an assignment. I called this morning and cancelled it. Dave Bell
  • the new name Civil Operations Revolutionary Development Support; the ability of the military to work well with civilian province chiefs; the Hamlet Evaluation System and its reliability; the lack of appropriate weapons and training for the Regional Forces
Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • member, some- thing of a leader of the faculty in connection with that, out of which they nominated me to be their first chancellor. That led later to becoming president of the university during the period of its greatest expansion in new campuses, one
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • World War II convinced me to join a new outfit called the Central Intelligence Group. F: This is a piece of friendly exchange, when were you in Harvard Business School? K: After I got out of Harvard College. [I] started in '42 and finished my degree
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