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Oral history transcript, Janet Wofford Ingram, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

delay in some activity that was supposed to take place, and I think-- B: Yes. I think she was with Marietta Brooks. I cannot remember which campaign that was, either, but we'll look that up. Yes. I: Then when he ran for the Senate against Coke

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 30 (XXX), 3/22/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Brooks, a very nice little curve to it, winding out to the front gate under the master tree--one of the glorious trees of the yard. Lyndon picked up a stick and wrote in it, "Welcome. LBJ Ranch. August 1952." We soon established habits. We would buy eggs

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of more jobs for more men. He made sure the newspapers got that word through his good friends Gordon Fulcher, Charlie Green, I guess Buck Hood probably, and Raymond Brooks. How many jobs there would be, how much the power bill would be reduced. 2 LBJ

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, a character--he was a strong supporter of ours, I'm proud to say, because I had a lot of respect for him, and Beauford Jester, who was later to become governor. There was a women's division. Marietta Brooks headed it. Betty Long had a big part in it; I'm sure

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

legislation. Senator Brooke, Senator Percy, Senator Javits, worked very hard without any reservations, and were major factors. While people still think in terms of Dr. King's assassination as having made the passage of open housing possible, the fact

Oral history transcript, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Brooks Bldg. Austin. Texas 78701 Dear Mr. Hornaday: I do indeed appreciate the additional recollections which you sent in. Also. I Imow Dick Horehead ru:ld Jinmy DanIcs quite well and will be getting a.round to seeing them. Have fun in Virginia. I

Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

it's captured by black separatists~ and I think in those communities anything that was proposed would have been. What is needed is a means of keeping the pressure on the process to make it broaden out. Jim Sundquist of Brookings is writing a book

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was the defender of Emma Tenayuca [Brooks], a communist leader in San Antonio, I think in the pecan-shelling wage argument, organizing the workers in the pecan-shelling business. highly publicized trial. Antonio. There was a very He also defended Maury Maverick

Oral history transcript, Ronald Goldfarb, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

from more recent history that rural problems were neglected. I just finished writing a book about migrant farm workers, and in the course of writing my book I talked to Sundquist, then at Brookings, and asked him about how come we didn't do anything

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, 1969 INTERVIEHEE: KERMIT GORDON INTERVIEHER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Gordon's office, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: We can start at the top of the list here and take up where we left off the last time. I'd like to know

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 2 (II), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

by peopb at Brookings Institution. There had been a designation of a Transition Officer for the incoming Kennedy Administration. That was Clark Clifford. So there was a good deal of preparation in each and every department and agency. But, again

Oral history transcript, Warren Magnuson, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to navy things and naval prob 1ems. He didn't brook anybody on the corrnnittee that wasn't. We have a story that Lyndon tells and I like to tell, that in those days, the first year you were on the committee you could ask one question. And the second

Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: The automobile accident, but she didn't tell him. G: Oh, she didn't tell him? N: No. G: Well, can you recall what happened there? N: She and Marietta Brooks were driving and the automobile turned over, I think, and Bird was all bruised up. bruised up

Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

office now in Brookings The date is March 20, 1969 ; the time is 2 :50 in the afternoon ; and my name is David McComb . First of all, I'd like to know something about your background, where were you born, when, where did you get your education . 0: I

Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of Seguin or get Mrs. [Marietta] Brooks of Austin. anybody. Just don't have the controversy." Get He finished tying his tie and as he walked out the door said, "Well, I've got the votes." Vann Kennedy came up to me and said, "You're entirely right." He

Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

has reported correctly that Congressman Jack Brooks and Congressman Homer Thornberry went with Mr. Johnson to the airport before the rest of us. The rest of us didn't knm"l what we were to do, and we really just felt like we were just in the way

Oral history transcript, William Narva, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

loose. It was an exceedingly warm and pleasant experience. He told me what was happening with his skin down on the Ranch, his somewhat frustrating experience, he said, in trying to convey to "those fellows at Brooke Army [Medical Center] how he'd like

Oral history transcript, Marie Lindau Olson, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

go and actually live and learn homemaking and whatever. G: Glen Rose I guess was one of these, wasn't it? Do you remember that? O: Glen Rose, that would be one of them. And Effie Brooks was our expert that dealt with setting up this type

Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

, and he's now executive director of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, a very distinguished political scientist. Number three: Charles Schultze who was then director of the budget, has now resigned and is at the Brookings

Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

cetera. But it didn't destroy them at all, one of them is an ambassador now. M: One of them is director of the Arms Control Agency, too, as a matter of fact. S: Yes, that's right, and another one is at Brookings writing pieces for the press. One

Oral history transcript, George G. (Admiral) Burkley, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. to return to Texas . I feel that his plans are We have had the pleasure here at Bethesda of adding to his comfort and assurance medically . I have contacted the Surgeon General of the Army and the Brooke Army Hospital at San Antonio which I had checked

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

rooms, one of the most filled-with-history rooms in that vast Capitol, to my thinking. I just loved it. I was very proud to host anything there. It seems to me--was Marietta Brooks?--she is a natural clubwoman and I feel sure she must have been one

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

#1) INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. McCOMB April 29, 1969 M: Let me identify the tape first of all. This is an interview with Douglass Cater. I'm in his office in Brookings Institution. The date is April 29, and my name is David McComb. We might start off

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Her husband was such a tough, able man, and years later when he was ill, I'll always remember something that Jack Brooks said about him. And that is on his dying day he would be getting up, conducting a fight, which was a pretty good assessment

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a Brooks Brothers young man at the front desk with a three-piece suit. That three-piece suit, that caught Johnson's eye early on. I know in the late fifties, when he was majority leader, one of the assistants to Senator Joe Clark, who was a main line

Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

INTERVIEVJEE: JAMES L. SUNDQUIST INTERVIEHER: STEPHEN GOODELL PLACE: Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: This is an inte~v~2W with Mr. James L. Sundquist, who is presently at the Brookings institute in Washington, D.C. author of the book entitled

Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Jersey's affiliate called [ESSOSA] and specifically called the Esso Standard Oil Company of Puerto Rico. During 1964 in the month of March or April, I was sent by Jersey to a Brookings Institution seminar in Washington. It was a group of business

Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

investigations; Nathan Report from Brookings and its effect on efforts to overcome poverty in the U.S.; impressions of Sargent Shriver and Shriver’s work with OEO; LBJ’s attitude toward OEO; how Vietnam affected all programs; the role of loyalty to LBJ in getting

Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 10 (X), 10/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] x Jenkins of it. He had very fixed ideas of what he wanted to do~ 33 I believe he used [inaudible] Brooks and Barr

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

into the women's division and what it did and how it operated. J: Marietta Brooks was chairman. Mrs. Bob Long may have been vice chairman, at least she had an important role. She was always president of some woman's civic club. There was an elderly lady of very

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and had come and who was around then, J.J. Pickle and Jack Brooks and Sam Rayburn, and the things he had learned. I suppose for me being so young and wondering if at some day in my life I would be turning around and reflecting on those things, I think

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 3 (III), 5/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bonanno -- III -- 27 G: After the March 31 speech? B: Oh, sure. Jake Pickle, Jack Brooks, Homer Thornberry, the Krims. And again, I think it's fair to point out that everybody was very torn. On the one

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, he would then go and pick up the phone and call Frank Ikard or Homer Thornberry or Jake Pickle or Jack Brooks or any of his old colleagues to kind of go through what was happening and how things had changed since they had all been young. He had a very

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. Sam [Rayburn] never had this trouble. Jack Brooks doesn't have it. John Connally never had it. John Connally gets into trouble with people who don't like his particular opinion. What hooks the President is that he is an uncannily canny man, and candor

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

#2) INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. McCOMB May 8, 1969 M: This is the second session with Mr. Douglass Cater. Once again I'm in his office at the Brookings Institution. The date is May 8, 1969, and my name is David McComb. Last time you mentioned that you had

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 5 (V), 7/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

behind this'? 11 --because thev look at the names and numbers. ~hev They see Max Brooks, Jill Heath, George Christian. see all these people that they can identifv of being somehow connected with President Johnson. ~ave ~ell, half the oeople

Oral history transcript, Jack Howard, interview 1 (I), 10/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

didn't brook interference from OEO. The last year when I was his executive assistant, I can recall a call from [Joe] Califano to come over to the White House. He'd call us all over and say, "Goddamn you bureaucrats, I want a program for Chicago. Now

Oral history transcript, Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the woman's name who was [division]. r,\J •• Marietta Brooks. L: No. G: Julia-- L: Yes. G: GY',ydon? L: Yes, she was the he i} d k no ck e r . G: Was Claude Wild active in that? L: No. G: I see. L: Oh, he was the power behind the throne