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Oral history transcript, R.J. (Bob) Long, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • FOR THE RECORD It was recently discovered there is a misspelling in the oral history of R.J. (Bob) Long, Ac 84-55. The name "Kaiser" should be "Kinser" throughout. Please take this in to advisement when citing the oral history. Thank you. Laura Harmon Archives
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  • Oral history transcript, R.J. (Bob) Long, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
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Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT BASKIN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as well go on there. Lyndon Johnson? B: Briefly, when
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that the members, when you had people like Bob Kerr [D.-Okla.] and Richard Russell and Warren Magnuson [D.-Wash.] on the committee, while they were very close friends of Lyndon Johnson and his fellow whales in the Senate--part of the Establishment in the Senate
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 4 (IV), 8/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the bill. We could count the members, we knew what they would do. They wouldn't take the four and a half billion dollar limitation. We tried that, you know, and failed. We had hoped that they would take that, and we worked hard on trying to get the members
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 5 (V), 12/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • over the phone and said, "No one could make the Defense Department work under the present law;" and he wanted to go in and talk to President Truman about it and hoped that I might go in with him because we had worked so closely together. And the meeting
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in papers that have been left there, the School of Landscape Architecture in the Library. I hope it will be done sometime. It's an important part of history that ought to be filled in, and I think it would make a very good publication as well. Well, later
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • remember one time Bob Taft, speaking against federal aid for education, said, into it, it would cost $3, 000, 000, 000 a year. II II II If we get Well, we haven't been in it very long, and it's costing more than that right now, don't you see
Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • summer. B: I hate to keep interrupting you, but I think a question is appropriate here, and I hope it doesn't sound rude or disrespectful. So far as the public sees, you and Mr. Randolph worked together in an awful lot of things like
Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • dealings with David Hackett, who was Bob Kennedy's roommate, as you know, in school and a very close friend, in connection with what eventually became VISTA but was set up as the domestic service corps. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the crowd there and there's Bob Strauss who was working for me when I didn't have three friends in Dallas County, I guess'" knew. So he Dallas has never been really a good town for him, and I went to work here. M: Why was Dallas not ever a good town
Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • brother Bob Phinney, who resides in Austin and who is the Internal Revenue Director for the Southern District of Texas. Bob had been working with Mr. Johnson in the Youth Development Program before he went to Congress with Congressman Kleberg. After
  • Biographical information; family history; Sam Houston; Sam Johnson’s speech to Texas House of Representatives regarding Ku Klux Klan; Congressman Kleberg; Bob Phinney; Col. Ernest O. Thompson; LBJ’s use of a helicopter in 1948 campaign; labor’s
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • weren't; that we would have a long period of stalemate in which we would hope that we could build up the government of South Viet Nam, et cetera. But that really made Clifford quite skeptical of the value of large reinforcements. I believe he had been
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , telling them that the U.S. government very much hoped they would see fit to do something to help Vietnam. I made a few trips not only to Bangkok to see embassies for countries that didn't have embassies in Saigon, but also went out to Iran and Paris
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the closest friend LBJ had from the standpoint of legislation, as I look back on it, could well have been Bob Kerr, second to Russell, of course. Unfortunately both of them have passed away. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • could expect to happen what in fact did happen, or is happening. MG: Bob. . . . 20 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
  • of the 1960s to those of the 1980s and what Ginsburg would recommend in 1988; LBJ's contribution of hope to the black poverty problem in the United States; how the black inner city population changed and the situation deteriorated after 1967
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Washington so I did have a chance to see a good deal of President Johnson and to develop a fantastic admiration and affection for him. If it's appropriate to say it, and I hope it is--I'll say it anyway--as far as I was concerned, as I'd see more and more
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : They had seniority. H: Yes. My first impression of the Senate was that the people who ran it were the southerners or their allies. And I remember so well how Bob Taft always had a working relationship with Dick Russell on certain issues. Lyndon Johnson
  • Initial awareness of LBJ; Senate run by Southerners; Tidelands; political albatross; DC’s Southern atmosphere; Dick Russell; Harry Byrd; Eugene Milligan; Bob Taft; LBJ as a political operator; LBJ’s relationship with David Dubinsky; Walter George
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • they shouldn' t bunch up all of their investmen t plans into 1967 and hope that 1968 would bring a relief from the problem . The trade surplus was diminishi ng and had been diminishi ng steadily since 1964, when it was at about 6.4 billion. It had gone down
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the Mission's relations with the press. of that group. Arthur Sylvester was part Bob Manning was also there. He was then still assistant secretary of State for Public Affairs. in that group as the Saigon representative. I was included Colonel Bill
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for Humphrey's use. Do you recall the efforts to get that? O: Yes, I recall a good deal. I recall Bob Short and others being very exercised about it in their attempts to get the money released. I recall a lot of negative comments concerning the failure to act
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • from one of your letters wondering, "what the deal is," and saying, "I hope it's not politics, because," you say, "I would hate for you to go into politics." Of course it was politics, but why did you feel this way about his going into politics
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • dumb. Kennedy never used this I'm sure that Eisenhower didn't. But LBJ frequently "Now, you know, you got me into this last time, Bob, but now what about this time?" Perhaps the most notable occasion of his forcing us to constantly revalidate
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /loh/oh 21 was my particular concern and its urban renewal program which was some of my concern. Bob Wagner, who was Mayor of New York then, called me and said that he understood that Jack Kennedy wanted to see me; that he was interested in talking
Oral history transcript, Allie T. Hughes and Lorena D. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • they do for fun? AH: Not much. They would walk over to the Bob Cat and drink a coke and sit and talk. The Bob Cat was sort of a local gathering place. A little cold drink fountain, just off the campus. Right at the campus entrance. There wasn't
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • but peonage. And it's nobody's fault, but it has got to be stopped. Old Senator Parr stood up for his friends, the Klebergs, over a road through to the Ki ng Ranch. And Bob Kl eberg was call ed and said, "You'll beat your friend Senator Parr if you tell
Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to me-- I'd known him a long time--and said, "Bob, where can we eat privately?" My wife and son had died not long before, and at that time I had an apartment in a high-rise apartment. cook. So I said, "That's easy. I have a It's a small apartment
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Sr., interview 1 (I), 1/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • any political opportunity for the Negro man had just closed down, hadn't it? T: It wasn't closed in Wharton. Now when he got to Wharton they had what was known as the Hope Adams killing. You had had this Jaybird and Peckerwood riot in Fort Bend
  • ; LBJ; Hobart Taylor, Jr.; Mrs. Hobart Taylor; LBJ's 1948 Senate race; LBJ and civil rights; Bob Eckhardt
Oral history transcript, W. Evans Buchanan, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . And my three daughters were there In fact, Hope was a classmate of Luci's and Mrs . Johnson and my wife got together in school work and Girl Scout work . But we were not close friends . M: Were you on any committees other than this one for A .I .D
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • working for her so I But we became good friends after that. I mean, as was the case--and I hope you won't think this is-K: I won't. (Laughter) S: --being a--what do you call it, a pig? K: A chauvinist? S: A chauvinist. At that time it was hard
Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it by any means. My predecessor, Bob Hill, had a very good relationship with Senator Johnson, and sort of opened the door for me; and I continued a relationship that existed, I did not create it. themsel ves . But of course the principals talked a lot
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 12 (XII), 8/19/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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 Johnson -- XII -- 9 patient. Then Bob and Frances
Oral history transcript, Chris Dixie, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that was at the county level, or was it at all statewide when you were involved? D: It was at the county level in the beginning. G: Was it? D: It was at the county level. G: Was it primarily labor or was it--? D: No, it was liberals, too. Okay. There was Bob
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and there. I think [Frank] Lausche of Ohio was in the Senate at that particular point and Lausche was way to the right of Bob Taft. You get sorne of the New England group such as Johnny Pastore, who was a liberal but certainly was not part of the liberal
Oral history transcript, Irwin Wolkstein, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • disability legislation was in effect relatively complete, coverage complete, there was kind of an agreement at one point--and a statement by Bob Ball was part of it and others too--that the next big issue in Social Security was going to be health insurance
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the General Services Administration which says, "We're still hopeful that [inaudible] arrangements finally worked out. We'll permit an annual disposal rate of at least four hundred thousand short tons. Johnson says this is a must." So that was going on. Even
Oral history transcript, Thomas C. Mann, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • tracts, up and down the river, that I'm hopeful can be settled too. The title to those is in dispute. They're not really different from the Chamizal. Occasioned by river changes and the juridical question is whether the changes were abrupt or whether
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • encounter some of the best conversation. They were two old New Dealers from the very beginning. Then there was a newspaper man named Bob Sherrod. Was he with Time? I forget. I think so. We'd go to his house for cocktails, and indeed, we went to a goodly
  • . in 1950; socializing in Washington, D.C.; club memberships; Senator Joseph McCarthy asserting that he had a list of Communists in the State Department; Rayburn's opinion of McCarthy; Stuart Long; Paul Bolton; dinner at the Bob Kerrs' house and his
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 28 (XXVIII), 3/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and that was--Sid Richardson was courting him, hoping for the Democratic Party. Many people were courting him, and it was unknown then whether he would really run at all or if so, which party he'd run on. One of the things that Lyndon always loved doing was going
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 7 (VII), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • to check in with my successor, four or five times [removed]. He used to be director of parks of the nation's capital, as you probably know. And Bob Stanton is, I think my fifth successor, something like that, my successor five times removed. I think I'll
  • hopes for the future of the Center; the Center's financial stability.
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 10/30/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to prior to the convention itself. The two states in which President Johnson had the strongest support were New Mexico and Arizona. There was a very strenuous struggle for both of those delegations, which is a very interesting development. I hope you get