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Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was that was the opening of the door. But then we met [on] New Year's Eve in Birmingham, Alabama, at the old 7 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, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and they were negotiating for new contracts. At least, I imagine that's it. I never went into the details of that because I wasn't called in on it, and consequently, l didnl·t become a, part of it. But we did have some word with reference to the fact
Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh February 7, 1970 This is an interview with the Honorable Sam Yorty, mayor of Los Angeles, in his office on Saturday morning, February 7, 1970. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mr. Mayor, let's talk at the beginning about
Oral history transcript, William McChesney Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • experience, too. Joe Fowler can tell you as much about that as I could. Joe Fowler and I went out to the hospital on a Saturday [Thursday?] morning. He had this throat problem. G: It was, I believe, November 1966 when he was out at Bethesda [for the throat
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • working either. There was another problem--not a problem, but we had a handicap in the office; I guess it would be a problem. Slowly we lost to the military all of the young men that worked there, and we were constantly getting new employees
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview S-XIII, 1/23/1987, by Nancy Smith (Item)
  • that I didn't under­ stand before. Lots of interesting womendid it, diplomats' wives, Senators• wives, and you just found yourself with a coterie of compan­ ions and learning a new skill. None of it really took away the unease and the scariness
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Everett Dirksen rang Ambassador Patterson, now on the Federal Maritime Commission, taking a new assignment on Subversive Activities Control Board--members of this board require a Senate confirmation." (Long pause) This is now the meeting of August 8
Oral history transcript, Joseph D. Keenan, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh KEENAN -- I -- 8 ~1: How soon after Kennedy' s assassination did you meet with the new President Johnson? K: Almost immediately
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to what in some ways seem like quaint days, in 1964--sometimes we forget how far we've come and how fast--James Farmer announced when he started a new integration drive that Chapel Hill would be his first target, and that's while you were still Governor
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • what she was worrying about. I didn't know at the time that her daddy had run for Congress and was defeated. her as a child. It was a stunning blow to If you read this letter that she wrote Lyndon the morning after he was elected, she was almost
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • --after the election of 1958 I was recovering in Florida and sat down one morning and wrote a long handwritten letter in which I pointed out that there was a strong liberal majority in Congress, and now was the time to have some action. B: To whom
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and the executive branch. F: Were you privy--you know Ernest McFarland lost in '52 and they needed a new leader for the Democrats, and after some backing and filling Senator Johnson became then the Minority Leader. Were you in on any of that talk with the Senator
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Here I was the new one from the outside, but I knew my state, I think. G: What was he like, Bobby Baker? P: Oh, a very sharp guy, very, very sharp guy. he was tough to work with. was very headstrong. I liked him. You know He was a great deal like
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • flight, and LBJ went to New York with the Glenns for a ticker-tape parade after that. Any recollections of that? R: Nothing that is of any great importance; it went off according to schedule. I think that's the main thing that I remember
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 4 (IV), 6/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • u k ind of ran a ge ne r al accoun tin g o ffice on t hat, too , and then illed them? C: The White House transportati on o i fi ce prorated the costs o f a ll o f th i s and j us t b il le d the news age ncy o r the news paper o r t e n etwo rk. r
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, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • their friendship or their loyalties. Johnson and Clinton Anderson of New Mexico and Kerr and [Richard] Russell of Georgia really ran the Senate on the Democratic side along with the late Styles Bridges, [Everett] Dirksen and some of them on the Republican side. G
Oral history transcript, Donnelly Bolton, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , we never moved out of Camp Shelby, Mississippi. G: You were going to be in the invasion force, should there be one? D: Yes, one of the new outfits. Then, luckily enough, I came out of the war a captain, which was a little bit lower than I had
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • fully meant. If it was implemented and carried forward administratively, you had a complete change in history in a major sector of our country. It was not just the South that was affected by this, this affected just as much the city of New York
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • late hours, cars floating all over Washington; it's amazing how well the secret was kept, given the fact that people were working for you at four or five o'clock in the morning all over town. B: But it was kept. You could not afford a leak
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • not, if I recall correctly, morning meetings such as I read in the paper that the Nixon ..l.drninistration White House has. F: There was nothing routine about these--every Tuesday or every second Tuesday or something like that? W: I think every once
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Mulhollan PLACE: Mr. Bundy's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: I'm sure you have no reason to recall exactly what we covered in the last tape. B: None. You'll have to stop me. Just put your hand up if I've said it before. M: I'll do
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to see--I don't know where he picked it up--that there were some new engineering concepts on the way, directional broadcasting; maybe it was already up, I don't know how old a thing it was. Of course, I was not on the team at that time, so I don't know
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • any projects out of the air that we will saddle the next Administration with unfairly." Wilbur could smile and could smile and say "Yes, Hr. President," and go back to the Department and issue five more press releases on new projects-and I think
Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 2 (II), 2/23/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . paper clippings of things. Dan ~'oody I think I still have some news- I had written in to the newspaper chiding for his actions and what he had been accusing Lyndon of and things like that. Mrs. Moody and I almost had a. . . . And Ed Clark took
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 15 (XV), 6/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of that is the famous, or rather infamous, shape-up in which the stevedores come down in the morning and cluster around a hiring boss, ''I'll take you, you, you and you." Of course, what he always does is get kickbacks from everybody that he takes. It's a very messy
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 3 (III), 11/8/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • approach. I think that was an extremely important point because, at that time, I had much advice from all over that he couldn't possibly return to the active life of majority leader, which he worked at, as you well know, morning, noon and night. So I guess
Oral history transcript, Jessie (Mrs.) Hatcher, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • there, why Tom brought him some new clothes and fixed him all up and put him in his office. Of course, Tom was doing a magnificent business with all those actresses staying right there in Hollywood. And so, there's where Lyndon said, that, well, I'll just
Oral history transcript, Kittie Clyde Leonard, interview 1 (I), 7/27/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , that were more advanced than ours, so we learned things from them. we thought. It was quite interesting if we could learn something that they were doing. back to something like that in education right now. And dctually we're going It isn't new
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • by that it was something that could be put on the air. B: You broke the news to the President of Walter Jenkins' arrest, didn't you? R: I think I did, but I'm not altogether certain. 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to establish the policy of new senators getting one good · major co11111ittee assignment before passing out other assignments to the older senators. G: He himself moved from Conunerce to Finance. S: Again, that would have been to block, probably
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • it the way you I said, ''Well, yes, I could do that. He said, "How about tomorrow morning?" When will you need it?" I said, ''Well, I guess so, if you can get me a room here." He got me a room down at the Willard Hotel, and I worked on it all that night
Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • impressions that a new member makes upon not only the leadership but his colleagues. B: Did Mr. Johnson move into any of the groupings in the House? Could you as s ociate him with the Southerner s ? M: Oh, I would say he had friends everywhere. Even
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Sr., interview 1 (I), 1/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the legislature of Texas, owned my people in slavery time. I understand that he came from Attica, New York into Texas be- fore the Civil War. able to say. Where my people came from I don't know, I'm not But I do know that my grandfather Mr. Shoemaker
Oral history transcript, William Lewis and Margaret Chase Smith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1975, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • been~ast in each area that he could have been defeated. F: Of course now New Hampshire just has reemphasized it. S: Yes, I should say so. People don't realize how one vote makes the difference, and I think that Lyndon Johnson's election [in 1948
Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Washington. II 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 So at 3:30 that morning
Oral history transcript, John Sherman Cooper, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , I recall very well that Senator Johnson talked to him a great deal and became a great admirer of Senator Taft. came that Senator Taft had died. I'll never forget when the news The Senate was in session and someone was presiding and Senator Johnson
Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with that library they built particularly. We looked at some of their commercial buildings--one I believe in Lincoln Center in New York; looked at commercial buildings as well. I remember Connecticut General Life--we looked at their building, Mrs. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 1 (I), 9/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • cetera. C: Much of the New Deal was happenstance because the President [Roosevelt] liked personalities around him. He was absolutely enchanted by the new idea and to that extent was an Edwardian. It was said of the Edwardians that they were
  • Biographical information; involvement with Roosevelt's administration; newspapers' importance to the government; summary of politics in New York State when Roosevelt was governor; genesis of the New Deal; Harvard graduates in FDR's administration