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Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of renewal through supporting services to help the families, individuals and businesses located in or displaced by projects. In New Haven, Mayor Dick Lee and renewal chief Ed Logue had brought in Mike Sviridoff to start an effort of this kind under the Ford
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in educational television were all ready to call on the President to set up a task force to come up with a new initiative in this field. M: About what point in time is this? C: I cannot give you a precise date on that. I would suppose that was probably
Oral history transcript, Carl Hayden, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • any reasons--to particularly have any talks about it. He was for it and so was 1. You see when President Kennedy died and the Vice-President became President. I was President Pro-Tern of the Senate until there was a new election. I went down
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that Ambassador /Henry Cabot/ Lodge took under those instructions--which was, in effect, to go to the military and say if you want to start something new, we won't be against you--those had the effect of setting in motion all the thinking and so on that in turn
Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • House staff, and with Bob Kennedy. The March on Washington civil rights thing came on the scene very quickly after I left the government, and I became deeply involved in that. represented ~Ja Her I Reuther on the committee, both in New York
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 6 (VI), 10/31/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1995 INTERVIEWEE: J. WILLIS HURST INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: LBJ Library, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: You want to start with-- H: New Orleans. G: --with New Orleans. All right, sir, go ahead. He called you there on--I
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • for gotten precisely when I b egan briefing, but I believe it was in August. B: What exactly is a briefi ng officer, briefing whom on what? C: The press office has two briefings a day for reporters--two news conferences a day--at eleven and four, at which
Oral history transcript, Leo Gehrig, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Gehrig -- II -- 4 G: So you were the bearer of news--? LG: We were the bearers of the bad news. like it. I would say I never saw anything Obviously both
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • crisis was of course involved in that era. T: I might say that my first involvement with President Kennedy was as a result of the Bay of Pigs. I was in private life in New York at the time and was called down two days after the Cuban Brigade
Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to see was ~don B. Johnson. I think he was senator at that time. F: He was elected to the Senate in 1948. H: I think he'd just been elected senator. But even as a new senator he still had unusual influence in the Senate. As I slW, he
Oral history transcript, William Dayton Maclay, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • conversation indicated that perhaps it would be best if you would outline for us the circumstances of the creation of this agency, which I understand is a relatively new development. You were telling me before the tape was on about the creation of the general
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 5 (V), 5/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] very interesting political news. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Those things were happening all over the country
Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • on a political trip through New He had been somewhere just before, and he went somewhere And I met him at the airport, together with the Senators and Congressmen and the Governor and we had a calvacade, which was quite well known. This is the one that took him
  • House; dealt with Cater, McPherson or Middleton; Temple of Dendur; proposed Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars; some of best new members chosen by the President; most significant achievement was survival; controversial grants; successful programs
Oral history transcript, Claiborne Pell, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to always be rather surprised in a state such as Rhode Island that I would have led the ticket rather than vice versa. M: As a member of the New Frontier, as it was called, of those people entering during this election, did this help in committee
Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 2 (II), 3/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • to have it a viable, acceptable, legal entity, and for the first time in the history of the agency, we established a trustee­ ship . There were visits from delegations from Syracuse, and I remem­ ber very distinctly telling the new chairman
Oral history transcript, Sidney Dillon Ripley II, interview 1 (I), undated, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in January, 1963 when he came for the dedication of the new Museum of History and Technology of the Institution. I was then the elected Secretary, but didn't take my post until February. Mr. Johnson spoke at that speech about his personal interest
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 48 (XLVIII), 6/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • extending the executive order, or, as I said here, "presidential memo to the departments that would prohibit discrimination in all new housing, financed by any institution, supervised, regulated or insured by the federal government," which we figured would
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 52 (LII), 8/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • little success in doing anything about it. I think we talked about it in New Jersey; we tried to do something there to no avail. We also had going at the same--in these times--the labor part of it became very sensitive because we also had going
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • program of the new depot. I then went with the office of the Secretary of War in San Francisco as an inspector of civilian personnel programs. In 1946 I was called to Washington by the War Department to help organize and eventually become the director
Oral history transcript, Conrad L. Wirth, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CONRAD L. WI RTH INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Wirth's office, RCA Building, New York City Tape 1 of 1 F: Mr. Wirth, tell us first briefly something of your own background and how you came to be looked upon as an outstanding
  • National Park Service, 1928-1964; CCC; New Deal; LBJ State Park; National Capital Planning Commission
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 3 (III), 7/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of a state like New York, but you go out to North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, there the question of public housing isn't nearly so important as it would be in the metropolitan center. But conversely you take New York again, where you have a consumer
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 2 (II), 1/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • administration because the problem was new, and it takes a little time for it to register, and there's no question but what there was concern about the balance of payments in 1959 and in 1960. All I'm saying is that there wasn't what you might call a program
Oral history transcript, Elliot Richardson, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the contrast between the easygoing, relaxed, drawling Southwesterner and the somewhat up-tight Ohioan. I always thought that Bob Taft looked more like a New Englander than a New Englander; he could have posed for "American Gothic," and this was vivid
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was that instead of putting together a new program, we put together a lot of programs that had been around for a long time--proposed programs--and by putting them together and giving them a common label and dealing with the political problems in getting them
Oral history transcript, Anthony Partridge, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Partridge -- I -- 2 P: Oh, it was chaos, marvelous chaos. We were in the New Colonial Hotel up on 15th Street, and there were
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , as they call it? B: In 1952 of course we had a new preSident, and in his State of the Union Message he said that Hawaii should have statehood and he didn't mention Alaska. M: President Eisenhower? . B: Yes, President Eisenhower. So this started one
Oral history transcript, Abram V. Goodman, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1996, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the anecdotes about him that were bursting out all the time. He was very much sought after by Protestant preachers, and he had a keen wit and an amazing mind but somewhat unpolished. I remember, after I left Austin, reading on the front page of the New York
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • GOLDSCHMIDT (Tape #1) INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Goldschmidt's horne in New York City November 6, 1974 MG: Let's start from the beginning and the first time you met Lyndon Johnson. EG: Well, I met him in a very characteristic way
Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, on November 28, 1928 . I was brought up most of my life in Passaic, New Jersey ; went to public schools there and met my wife there . Then I did my undergraduate and graduate work both at Columbia in New York City
Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • is trying to keep from going to New Orleans. P: He said , "Ed, I want you to get hold of my good friends in the University of Texas and also get hold of Brown [George] and tell them how we can make the University of Texas as great as the University
Oral history transcript, Donald A. Williams, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • require a formal reappointment with each new administration? W: No, no, the appointment continues with the pleasure of the Secretary of Agriculture. B: All right. May I also as~ this is--again as I told you before the tape was on--so the future
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 20 (XX), 1/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in California, I got desperate calls. He wanted to announce some new weapons systems of one kind of another and we announced the over-the-horizon radar and one other weapon systems from the steps of the Capitol in Sacramento as I recall. Pat Brown and I got
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . We were not just finishing the New Deal agenda; we were coming in with a whole lot of new ideas, new roles for government. And that was the first couple of years. The last year or so we really were involved in the management of programs and it's
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the Operations Coordinating Board of the National Security Council, which was a new board. The purpose of it was to try to coordinate overseas opera- tions of the federal government. B: Were you formally disassociated from the Bureau of the Budget in those
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • commentary on the office operation, on the day we walked in--incidentally, we had to leave on very short notice, and we drove over the long New Year's Day weekend in a driving rain to get up here. The day we arrived here was the day the Congress began
Oral history transcript, William S. White and June White, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would compete with the people, say, in Tom Connally's it. office, to release announcements of new projects first. W: Yes, he did. G: Can you elaborate on that? W: Well, he was almost the scourge of the Texas delegation about that matter of getting
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 3 (III), 7/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , but we did change the one thing that could block legislation and had been blocking legislation since the New Deal days. M: Was this seen at that time as sort of a preparatory move to take on some of this legislation 3 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to have a meal with him or to have a talk with him. F: You didn't know him particularly well though before he became President? M: No. F: Relate the circumstances surrounding your receipt of the news of the assassination of President Kennedy. Where
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 2 (II), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1979 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT L. PHINNEY INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Phinney's residence, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: That's really germane. P: They were brand new. You say initially when the NYA moved in-They had nothing to start
Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and Lyndon Johnson heard about it, was in town, and personally came over to welcome me in my new job. Secondly, we had several meetings very early, just the two of us, and then with others around his responsibilities heading the President's Commission. I