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Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that was coincidental. News reports ranged from the totally pessimistic to--I can remember the quotes-- 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, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of the Select Committee on Small Business. In 1967, when so many new Republicans were elected to 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, Boyd L. Rasmussen, Jerry O'Callaghan, and Irving Senzel, group interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • transferability of skills from one area to the other, so that you didn't learn a new job in a sense when you came here. You just improved on what you already had. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on at the time. B: Where did the ideas come from or can you pin it down? W: The idea for legislation. B: No, the ideas in the bill. For example, one of the major things you set up was a brand new civilian agency taking over the old NACA. Was there LBJ
Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McCarthy -- I -- 4 G: How was the Job Corps organized? How was it planned? M: Well, the basis for the Job Corps was first of all the old CCCs [Civilian Conservation Corps] from the New Deal days. We had people from Interior
Oral history transcript, Robert B. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE : ROBERT B . ANDERSON INTERVIEWER PAIGE E . MULHOLLAN PLACE : Mr . Anderson's office, One Rockefeller Plaza, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: You don't have any connection with Arkansas? A: No . I had connections only
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Howard] Edmondson of Oklahoma, who was soundly defeated by the [Robert] Kerr forces, and the Mayor of New Orleans, who was just--Mayor deLesseps Morrison's support really was religious. He was a French Catholic who liked John Kennedy. have any lines
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 3 (III), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you put in new equipment. And the way they contrived it, it was new equipment in excess of the amount of depreciation that you were taking. So it was a very, very narrowly focused tax break. It was focused so narrowly that the average business guy
Oral history transcript, Eugene C. Patterson, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ; started out in the newspaper business as a reporter for the Temple paper and Macon paper; '48 to '56 with the United Press in South Carolina and New York and London; ,..th~n -. in '56 joined the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, first as Vice President
Oral history transcript, Andrew J. Goodpaster, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • hy adminiscracion spokesmen at each critical stage of this development. f: Without getting i nto personalities, and relying to a certain extent on the news •tories, have you perceived a cha nge in t he people who came from Congress to participate
Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , in which we sometimes get a historical coincidence. time in both parties. It happened about the same First of all, when I came to the Senate in 1945, the elections of 1946 made quite a turnover in the Senate on the Republican side. We had a lot of new
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Bailey and John Cris':vell, and Valenti "las in on it. I forget \.;ho ~vas Everybody was trying to do-- running the New Hampshire campaign, but you know, it \,Tas highly disorganized. President, didn T t go The candidate, the potential candidate
  • LBJ and anti-war demonstrators; George W. Romney; New Hampshire campaign; getting ready for the 1968 election; writing for Hubert Humphrey; the Humphrey campaign and LBJ’s role in it; Moyers leaving the staff; becoming a full-fledged LBJ staff
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . [Oveta Culp] Hobby, I'm sure that Johnson would have been one of his strongest proponents. G: Politics makes strange bedfellows. There was an article by Elizabeth Donahue in The New Republic entitled "The Prosecution Rests," and the thrust
Oral history transcript, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/8/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Kennedy seemed determined that there would be a big show about the thing. Therefore, he ordered troops from all over the United States, not all over the United States, but from New Jersey and from Kentucky and out of of fort Polk and places of that type
Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in Vietnam I was in thorough accord with, this new addition I was not. the reasons for that. And I'll tell you It stemmed back to a conviction which I had reinforced often with other people and particularly with President Diem, that American combat forces
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1980 INTERVIEWEE: ADAM YARMOLINSKY INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: I think we were just at the point of going into the question of Robert Kennedy's view of whether a new agency was needed
Oral history transcript, George Silver, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1991, by Molly Malone Chesney (Item)
  • inaugurated where every cabinet office is going to put up a certain amount of money and some new policy directive in order for Mississippi to become a model state of what could be done. I guess you must have that somewhere. C: Well, we have done a series
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of fact . F: By the time we get down to the end of the year--December of '63--Kennedy has been assassinated, and you have a new ball game in the sense that Johnson is President . And Unruh is on record as having backed you for the Vice Presidential
Oral history transcript, Philip N. Brownstein, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was going to do and what I wanted to do, and I told him that I hoped to study law . And he asked me where I was going to go to school, and I explained my problem to him . He said, "Well, they're hiring people in Washington now in many of these New Deal
Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEl~EE: DONALD C. COOK INTERVIEVJER: THOMAS PLACE: Mr. Cook's Office, 2 Broadway, New York. H. BAKER Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, if "Ie may begin at the beginning, I know that you first went to work for tk. Johnson in 1943. Did you have any acquain
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • I think Kennedy trusted him to go and wanted him to test the waters and bring back a recommendation on what this new administration should be doing out there . I think the President trusted Johnson's political judg- ments and his ability to judge
Oral history transcript, William B. Dale, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Drawing Rights and other major issues related to the reform of the International Nonetary System. It now has its successor, or continuation, in what's called the "Volcker Group." M: This is the new man who holds Deming's position. D: That's right. M
Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Barker is alive? G: I doubt it . B: But we didn't see eye to eye, that's for sure . G: Did LBJ ever talk about his trip overseas? B: His trip overseas, you mean when--? G: He went to Australia and New Guinea . B: Yes . G: What did he say
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that of course all Presidents in some sense or another seek to "manage the news." That is to say, they seek understandably to have it reflect as well as possible on them and on their designs. They also seek understandably to have it reflect well on purely
Oral history transcript, Owen Donley, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Donley -- I -- 10 Javits of New York, I think, was the ranking Republican member. I know that Senator Mondale
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://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 the available foreign exchange; credit; the nature of their program to get new
Oral history transcript, Allen J. Ellender, interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • a southerner for the presidency. Even with this new turn of his in the civil rights field the opposition could have always turned back on what he said in previous years, and, of course, that's what I concluded when he first announced, that he had little
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be visible in the staff positions, the appointive positions, and reflected in the kind of humor that they use on both. sides. The President has his people, and of course Humphrey had his little set of people, and Bob had his, inherited and some new ones. I
Oral history transcript, Albert C. Harzke, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1979 INTERVIEWEE: ALBERT C. HARZKE INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Harzke's residence, New Dime Box, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's see, you indicated that you came to the sub-college and finished your high school there-- H: Right. G
Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the race because I just kept talking about it all the time and making fun of him. You know, the press had a tendency to let that statement die, but I tried--and two or three others in the House--to keep it alive and I think we succeeded in having a new go
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson's mind or in the President's mind related to the old New Deal era of beautifying with the NYA and the R: cee? Well, I hadn't thought of it that way, but I'm sure it must have been in the President's mind in the national program. something about
Oral history transcript, Merrell Blackman, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • really never did understand what it was, There were a lot of them. Maybe thirty? It was supposed to be athletes who supported the athletic program and would help to get new athletes in to the school . G: I see . B: Yes, they could have
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 6 (VI), 5/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to be in there, had that New Deal streak, didn't want to scare off Texas, didn't want to scare away the majority of Texans who were not big liberals, but wanted to kind of encourage people to move slightly toward the more progressive side, but without I suspect any
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 3 (III), 12/11/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • record on that. we can make peace have at a previous get anybody It's on their to talk period-- assessment to get out of Viet did. back then very hard to do and a new administration we simply take any direct today six months, a ago? K
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 25 (XXV), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • bugged [Martin Luther] King extensively. G: You had mentioned before this senator from New Hampshire who LBJ managed to arrange a quid pro quo so that the Senator wouldn't have to testify on a milk subsidy. This guy would support him on--was it [Thomas
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 2 (II), 8/14/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • be the new government, and the name of Mr. Ngo Dinh Diem began to appear then. My relations with the Bao Dai group were--my personal relations, because I knew the Emperor before. My uncle was, of course, the emperor before, and he knew me well as a member
Oral history transcript, Charles Evers, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the country except New York and Michigan. F: Even the most rigid white politician has to pay some attention to that number of votes. 14 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
  • and Senator John Stennis; Evers as NAACP field director; work for education; housing; employment; Ramsey Clark; Lady Bird's Dixie tour; federal programs in Mississippi; friends Charles Percy of Illinois and Nelson Rockefeller of New York; SNCC; CORE; SCLC
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • really better sitting in Washington and watching a television monitor, and contacting their sources here about what's really going on. But the mystique of the news profession is that you've got to be at the scene of the crime and so on, whether
  • Selection of the team to go to Paris to negotiate with North Vietnam; Averell Harriman; Cyrus Vance; Philip Habib; organizing the trip to Paris; failure to make serious progress in Paris; debates regarding “the shape of the table”; portraying news
Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to Chicago and New York and the east wherever we had contacts with the Mexican-Americans. And of course I have a lot of close Negro friends and as soon as he became president, the Negroes--the blacks-also had accepted Johnson as a humanitarian and as a good
Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Settlement Commission and rewrite all the job descriptions. It was through Mr. Macy that I obtained some very fine new personnel. M: So he was probably the one who kept your name in the top of the pile as far as prospective talent for the various jobs