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Oral history transcript, William M. Colmer, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . So I started up the ramp--I guess it must have been half-time--looking for a friend. I met Lyndon coming down the ramp alone. F: Was he a congressman by then? Was he a new congressman? . C: He had just been sworn in. I guess one reason that I
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • by us is the highway system because we sure did get to work building one giant one across the United States. That was the spring, I think, that A.W. and Mary Alice Moursund and Melvin and Nita Winters came up to visit us, and we went to New York. We all
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , but that was a pro forma exercise in all likelihood. So, as long as Idris was in charge in a very conservative monarchial government in Libya, it was really a separate account. That has all changed, of course, since the ouster of Idris and the advent of this new
Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 2 (II), 11/9/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : They met in the Philippines at one point soon after this, didn't they? P: I don't know. G: I believe he mentions that he went out to the Philippines, and that's Does Westy cover that in his book? when he got the news from General Whee1er-P: That he
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was exercising a good deal of influence. B: That's right. Exactly. No, that's news to me. I had not known that. G: One question relates to your speechmaking function, and you evidently did travel around the country a good deal. To what extent were
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /loh/oh 2 K: Because he was new and Douglas knew that I didn't know him and he thought perhaps, I imagine he thought, that I could be of use to Johnson in his career and that Johnson would eventually be a man of influence that I should know because
Oral history transcript, Thomas J. Dunlap, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • high and that he will be considered one of the great presidents. Beyond question, I think that will be the fact, and that all of the new ground his administration has plowed--it has caused disturbance, it has caused controversy. But anything that's
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • I was talking about a rather obscure and insignificant little country and that it really didn't matter all that much. As a matter of fact I decided myself some weeks later with the death of President Kennedy, and a new President coming into power
Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • possible ever, simply by reading news dispatches and having a general 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
  • and the Texas delegation; Wright supports LBJ for vice president; Wright's campaign for the Senate; President LBJ and the Texas delegation; LBJ and the Highway Beautification Bill; persuasion vs. pressure from the White House; LBJ as a reformer; LBJ and news
Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Is that correct? c: Well I was appointed in January of '68, and actually came into the office early in February of '68. M: You came here, I believe, from private business with Goldman-Sachs of New York? C: Yes, I had been an economist for Goldman-Sachs. M
Oral history transcript, Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at Grady Memorial Hospital which is one of Emory University's teaching hospitals . In 1952, having completed my post-graduate training, I accepted an appointment as assistant professor of medicine at Yale University in New Haven. After two years
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 57 (LVII), 12/12/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- LVII -- 3 majority. And with the new House, as Henry Wilson's memo of November 22 indicates, we were faced with a continued
Oral history transcript, Vasco Leitao da Cunha, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1973, by Dr. Richard Graham (Item)
  • -- I -- 7 G: I see. Did you meet him in Honolulu and then accompany him? L: I went to fetch him in Honolulu and accompanied him all through the rest of the journey. And then, from Washington, he went to New York; from New York, [he] came back
Oral history transcript, Stanley L. Greigg, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • support from the administration for a new freshman coming in from northwest Iowa, I don't have all those details. MG: You don't have any indication of what the administration--of what the White House did, if anything, to assist that-- 6 LBJ
Oral history transcript, Manuel Cohen, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . For example, when Mr. [Robert] Haack became president of the New York Stock Exchange, I brought him in to introduce him. But I know that on occasion people associated with the Exchange would come to visit him just because they, one, liked to meet the president
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 3 (III), 8/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and when I went out, obviously, I talked to a lot of old friends and new friends in the press business, and that was a major gripe. My recollection is that they were sending it through the telegraph office. I don't know which one, whether it was IT&T
  • McGeorge Bundy and the public affairs committee; Bill Moyers; press coverage of Vietnam; Dan Duc Khoi; Bui Diem; improving methods for transmitting news; American journalists from other countries; Morley Safer and Mike Wallace; Vietnam Psychological
Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the administrative and programming problems, planning problems, that a new organization would obviously face--particularly one where these young people would not have had this kind of experience before. B: Did you have any kind of continuing contact with individuals
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 3 (III), 12/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • for. Subsequently in 1967 it became clear that the art had progressed to a point where you could design a new plane which could get for the navy what it wanted. By that time it was going to cost more, but that's what we're doing now--we're going down the route
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 7 (VII), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • can remember seeing he signed his name in one of those— G: Okay, and then May [April?] 25 he went out to Kansas City to see Truman, and then on to New York to see “Advise and Consent.” V: I didn't see that though. It says here, I notice where
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 3 (III), 1/21/70, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in history. F: You would say then that he lived up to the question of continuity of the New Frontier ideals? K: I felt so, very strongly in the domestic programs--commitment to these areas which had been a subject of the campaign of 1960, had been
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 61 (LXI), 1/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there any trades that you recall? C: No. It was just pure heat. I'm sure I talked to the [New York] Times editorial people, the [Washington] Post. It was a full-court press. G: Patriotism and-- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 4 (IV), 2/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of [John J.] Rooney, maybe from New York-- G: That's right. Brooklyn, I think. H: --was on the trip. Now, the reason President Johnson had asked him, at least as I 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and President [Richard] Nixon during LBJ's retirement. F: Well, obviously this ignores the striking earlier history between the two going back to the Eisenhower years, but Johnson made it a point with the [1968] election barely over--we were in New York
Oral history transcript, Jerry Voorhis, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • first taken office. I can remember very vividly the fact that my dear friend, Maury Maverick, who was then the congressman from Bexar County in the San Antonio district, introduced me to this young new Texan. As I recall it, Maury took him down
Oral history transcript, Will R. Rogers, interview 1 (I), 10/9/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • was ....• going to put in ..... had to. build a ·schoolhouse. You see, at that time, the school was under the supervision of the City, and the schoolhouse was about to fall down and we had to build a new schoolhouse. And then's when I think the first real
  • campaign style; New Deal System; summary
Oral history transcript, Emma Guffy Miller, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • on as the leader in the Senate. You know how close that was? Javits? We were in the gallery. The New York candidate--was it Javits was outside the gallery behind LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • explain it. I think there was a bit of an analogy there with, "Only Nixon could go to China." Only Nixon could take advantage of this imperative that had been apparent in the late sixties and do something dramatic, not so much in new programs
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 11 (XI), 2/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on the program. We scored a touchdown on this particular program on the last day of the Johnson Administration, by getting an executive order issued, which did create the commission, but which left the appointment of its members to the new president, so
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 50 (L), 7/19/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- L -- 5 new housing units or how many rent supplement units went in place. Are we going to deal with rent supplements? G: Yes. That's a good topic. C: And so, with that statement
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1984, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • , 1984 INTERVIEWEE: MARY LASKER (MRS. ALBERT LASKER) INTERVIEWER: Clarence Lasby PLACE: Mrs. Lasker's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 2 ML: [People aren't] interested in the subject of health unless they're sick themselves. And nobody ever
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1b (I), 2/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , represent a new development since last May. I personally think we made a mistake in showing overeagerness for LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 2 (II), 11/25/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of the Senator from New York, but I think his problem was that he had been attacking this agency and when Mr. Shriver very properly in his administrative capacity started a counterattack, Mr. Goodell and Mr. Quie didn't like it. There was nothing illegal about
Oral history transcript, Henry Hirshberg, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to help him in the campaign? H: I agreed to help him in the campaign because I knew he was a pro-Roosevelt man, pro-New Deal man, and because I knew--at least I had heard--that he was defending as best he could Roosevelt's proposal to increase the size
Oral history transcript, David E. Lilienthal, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and had come to be acquainted with the Prime Minister of that country--a Muslim--who was later assassinated along with a lot of other Nigerians. This Prime Minister came to New York and Washington on a good-will visit, as they say. Senator Johnson
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the New ~1exico senatorial election between Senator [Dennis] Chavez and [Patrick J.] Hurley? M: No, I don't. I know that of course Johnson would have been on Chavez ' side, not just for partisan reasons. G: What other reasons? M: Well, he liked
Oral history transcript, Robert A. Levine, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . Levine, I'd like to begin by providing a little biographical background information that I have. Then if you feel there are any gaps, please feel free to fill in. Originally you're from Brooklyn, New York, as I understand it. You attended the Brooklyn
Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • not exactly news. But to find them turning on CIA at that point, at a point when CIA was probably one of their strongest advocates within the American government. . . .But they were using it because they were dealing with the American government
Oral history transcript, Harold Fleming, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1986, by Michael Gillette (Item)
  • then-new and unprecedented, for a civil rights leader, public opposition to the Vietnam conflict. He was invited, he really had to be, but he had no role in it; he was not invited to say anything. He was just there for the ceremonial part of it. G: Do you
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 2 (II), 6/1/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : And helicopters. G: And helicopters. T: Well, I'd forgotten about the armored personnel carriers. And some armored personnel carriers, I think. In fact, I don't recall them. G: Well, I have seen in various reports--I'm not even sure where now-the new M-113
Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • battal ion; most local battalions have about three hundred and fifty people, so it's three hundred and fifty people," and so forth. But as they discovered new units, it suggested that the total number of Viet Cong was on the rise. Whereas when you