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Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE E. LEVINSON INTERVIEWER: Paige E. Mulhollan PLACE: Mr. Levinson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: The two legislative stories left are the Revenue Act of 1968 and the Truth in Packaging bill. Take your choice as to which one
Oral history transcript, Frank G. Wisner, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • commodities, new schoolrooms, dispensaries, the sorts of hard commodities that government delivers to improve the life of the people, and thereby generate some political support. That was the basic idea, and our role, while the budget was spent through
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 23 (XXIII), 3/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] McNamara for having no new weapons system--I told you the story about the Polaris [mentioned in Interview XX] and how we got the new name? [Bill] Moyers called me and said the President wanted to announce new weapons systems the next day. They were going
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 28 (XXVIII), 4/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . G: The New York Times piece by Bob Semple, why don't you give the background of that, because we never discussed that on tape. C: At some point in 1966, Semple, I think with prompting from Max Frankel, came to me and said, "We'd like to follow
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 51 (LI), 8/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • included is Senator [John] Sparkman's, who urged that the new guidelines, which were tougher in terms of desegregation, requiring that free-choice plans result in desegregation, be held up until after Tuesday, March 1, the primary filing date. The President
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 54 (LIV), 9/11/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of that sending out this memo which set tasks and dates for Boyd. (Interruption) You can see how weak the Commerce Department was thinking when you look at Boyd's memo of November 2, 1965, to establish the highway safety program. It's [saying], "Have a new
Oral history transcript, A. Ross Eckler, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . The news came while I was over there, and he was very happy and congratulated me on the fact that it had come through. B: Sir, you brought up an area that I think is of interest. If I may LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, John M. Steadman, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • participating, virtually all of them had been around here for the last couple of years; they knew each other, they knew I guess who was a real grabber of turf and who was a team player and all. But to me everybody was new, and it's remarkable how, looking down
Oral history transcript, John Harllee, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , and then two years overseas in New Guinea, New Britain, and the Philippines. Then, during the Korean War I served at the front, so to speak, on a cruiser. Mc: And rose from the rank--what did you start out as? H: I rose from the rank of midshipman
Oral history transcript, Sidney P. Marland, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to be. We early found that we had a new kind of relationship with children. The early measures on this, even after the first year or so, showed significant gains in the child's readiness for school. We didn't try to teach them to read at age three
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that ran the paper at that time were not pro-Johnson . I had a friend who was editor, but he died and a new regime came in over there in 1939 or 1940 and they didn't like Johnson's politics very much . G: On the other hand, I guess Mr . [Charles] Marsh
Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the Senate at the commencement of a new session of Congress to proceed with the consideration of new rules and not to be bound by the rules that had been adopted by the previous Senates in the past. This was an effort, of course, to modify Rule 22
Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Rayburn. B: You and he in those days shared interest--the New Deal in general-- H: That's right. B: Franklin Roosevelt's policies, the TVA. Did you ever get together on bills or legislation? H: The truth is by the time he got to the House, we had
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • any post-colonial country, as they evolved, including that obviously Diem was like Syngman Rhee, a man of one generation, and then a new generation would have come in at some time, just the normal problems of development. They never would have had
Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that Lyndon Johnson was more satisfied with what the commission was doing. If Lyndon Johnson hadn't been satisfied with the commission, he would have moved fast to get a new staff director. The fact that he would allow it to move ahead for two years
Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 1 (I), 6/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this funding would be provided and the fact that we would be in a negative position for a period of time, at least in the absence of new taxes. G: How did you learn of it? C: There was an in-house meeting of the economists representing nearly all
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • the University of Minnesota. you joined the United Press in Detroit. In 1948 And in 1949 you joined the Detroit Free Press and became a labor editor. You, at that time, also acted as a correspondent for the New York Times, Business Week, and Newsweek
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 2 (II), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • -in-chief of the whole newspaper, but ran the editorial page but supervised the news as well. And before Wiggins left, there was beginning to be doubts about the Vietnam policy at the Post. Not by him. G: Yes. Some of the younger reporters, perhaps. K
Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • then Congressman Sterling Cole and I authored, he in the House and I in the Senate, took a little different tack on this Atomic Energy situation. We rewrote, in fact, we wrote a new bill, that's exactly what it amounted to, and we opened the gate for cooperation
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Nurphy -- II -- 17 to get started early enough to do a workmanlike and respectable job, but not to get started too early to give people undue temptations to start serving the new administration while the old one is still here. B: It also must make a big
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Lehan, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . They were really very helpful before we left and after we left and advising us and sort of steering us in appropriate directions. M: And the name of your new company is--? L: The new company we formed was Space Electronics Corporation. We built
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in journals . B: At that time, I was considered one of the candidates . I went back to New York--oh I think in November of 1959,--and did a very poor job . meeting in New York, they had all of the candidates . At that It was the meeting of the National
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 2 (II), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that the problems would deserve. Many things where we did not yet know exactly how he would view them. It wouldn't have been nearly as bad later on, and as it was, it was easier than if Mr. Clark had come in new. The fact that he had been there and that we'd worked
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . H: That's right. But Johnson never was a captive of the southern bloc. He was trying to be a captain of them, rather than a captive. You see, being a Roosevelt New Dealer and being a protege of Sam Rayburn, he obviously couldn't be a real
Oral history transcript, Herbert N. Blackman, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • were you born and when. B: I was born in Brooklyn, New York, in December 1913 and I was educated in the public schools in Brooklyn, and I have my undergraduate degree from Brooklyn College and a Master's degree from Columbia University. M: What
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: MARY LASKER (MRS. ALBERT D. LASKER) INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Lasker's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's talk about the genesis of that commission, Mrs. Lasker. You were saying that there was a reason
Oral history transcript, Floyd E. Dominy, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in connection with the Korean war; the President did announce that there would be no new (public works) project starts, and so the Eisenhower Administration was severely criticized for "no new starts." And I recall that the Kennedy Administration
  • Biographical information; Nelson Rockefeller; "no new start" policy under Eisenhower; 91st Congress authorized the most reclamation; Reclamation Fund; Newland
Oral history transcript, Robert Q. Marston, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • and then became dean of the new school of medicine in Jackson, fVJississippi, in 1961. During the time I was there I continued to have contact with NIH and was chairman of the postdoctoral fellowship review conmi ttee over a peri od of some years then. Duri ng
Oral history transcript, Robert F. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • an evidence of change which really is an extremely welcome change on the whole, and which indicates a new sense of being a person, of individuality, and of actually being a part of the community on the part of a great many people who heretofore have not been
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and it was overwhelming. There is no doubt about it. We had the mightiest air force on the whole globe, and the result was that because we had this heavy advantage, we did not explore a number of new directions that other nations did explore. The Russians, for example
Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1981 INTERVIEWEE: DONALD C. COOl( INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Cook's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2 By terms of the legal agreement, pages 1 through 10 will not be available during the lifetime of Robert McNamara. LBJ
Oral history transcript, John W. Black, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . He said to Lem, as we call him, "I want you to get in contact with Senator Magnuson and make sure that bill goes through, because I would like to make this program a part of the New Frontier ." I'll never forget the day Mr . Billings arrived
Oral history transcript, Jack Hood Vaughn, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , "What are your five-year projections?" And we say, ''How can we have five-year plans if we're responsive to the other fellow's priorities and changes; a new administration comes in and the program is varied." really can't make this kind of projection
Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 2 (II), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Corps volunteers in and see whether they can help do something." That kind of concept doesn't have any relevance to Harlem, New York where you obviously have an awful lot of people around there, there's no shortage of people, there's no shortage
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • security treaties all over the world would be brought into question. In Asia we have treaties with Korea, Japan, the Republic of China, the Philippines, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand. If those who would become our enemies made the judgment that our
Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a job that I thought would be constructive . Government Operations fitted that category . be done . It was available, it could They were putting some new members on it . The Republicans controlled the Congress, you understand, in January of '53
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was chairman of the Preparedness but only marginally one incident grounds, and slightly coffee, instead was in such great Ye;-,~ excess the news story supply did, We had that coffee in the Air Force tha~ New Mexico Air Force Base to sweep
Oral history transcript, Ronald Goldfarb, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • associated with the War on Poverty. I understand that you are originally from New York or New Jersey. Do you want to explain how you got involved in the administration? RG: Yes. I was working in the Department of Justice during the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 24 (XXIV), 2/6/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of meetings with members of the press. R: Oh, yes. G: Were they trying to get a perspective on Lyndon Johnson, a new President? Is this why they would come to you? R: Basically what they were up to, Mike--it's funny what a difference it makes
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • to pay him for his wages . went to Temple and bought some new mules, younger mules, and better equipment on credit from a friend of his named Thompson . began to get into all sorts of, varieties of dirt work . Then he Levees on rivers, railroad dumps