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Oral history transcript, John Michael Dunn, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in the election of Wilso~--one week; and the next week in Baltimore which nominated Wilson over Champ Clark after 47-48 ballots, a deadlock. I came here from that convention, got a job on the Washington Post on the 4th of July and went to work here on the 4th
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • more. I talked to about three people, I really talked to I talked to Henry Hall Wilson, who is now the president of the Chicago Board of Trade and prior to that was administrative assistant to Mr. Johnson and to r~r. Kennedy. He was my assistant
  • Biographical information; 1960 campaign; 1960 Democratic National Convention; Luther Hodges; North Carolina politics; VP nomination; environmental health center; Henry Hall Wilson; smoking
Oral history transcript, John A. Hannah, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • back a little ways, you mentioned that you had a little contact with Senator Johnson when you were in the Defense Department. H: Was that ever close? No, Mr. C. E. Wilson, the Secretary of Defense, had a close personal relationship with Senator
Oral history transcript, Volkmar K. Wentzel, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , but with these three tall men, where was-- W: Wilson? F: Wilson. W: Yes, I should have mentioned him. slight Prime ~nister He was there, too. I'm not meaning to Wilson because I have great respect for the British. F: No, but he doesn't fit in the picture
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 41 (XLI), 1/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [Larry] O'Brien and [Henry Hall] Wilson up to see Wilbur. And they're seeing him on the unemployment compensation bill, but he's now got all the troops picking up anything they can about views on the economy and the tax thing. And he gets Mill's view
Oral history transcript, Gould Lincoln, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • have-- Taft, Wilson, Hoover, Coolidge-- L: Well, Woodrow Wilson, as I said in this piece, he was the first man who really had a press conference as of today. P: In other words, a press conference in calling the people in-- the news media in? L
Oral history transcript, Covey T. Oliver, interview 2 (II), 12/12/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • -saving machinery; Nacional Financiera; Hickenlooper Amendment; concern about executive-legislative relationships in field of foreign affairs; Woodrow Wilson; violence of revolutionary war; U.S. military assistance package; Camelot situation in Colombia
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)
  • me, as historians evaluate his presidency, where should they rank him in your view? M: I think he'd be in the top four or five in the twentieth century. I think he and FDR and [Woodrow] Wilson all belonged in the top three. I don't think there's
Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • flags, and he had gotten nowhere wfth the British. At one point I said to him, "Why do you ask me? You've talked to Wilson and Denis Healy and the Foreign Secretaryo asked them to send troops. 11 You've undoubtedly What sort of response do you get
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • diplomacy through Wilson to Kosygin . Now, the first was infinitely-­ M: That's the most confusing two-three weeks of the entire period . B: Oh, it's utterly, utterly confusing, but if you keep your eye on dates it gets clearer . Also, it included Baggs
Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . I I I didn't see De Gaulle on the visit. I went to London. I I saw, of course, both Prime Minister Wilson and Brown. Then I went to Morocoo at the request of Ambassador Tasca. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • see, we hadn't nominated a man from down in the South in some time, had we, to elect him. B: No, sir. I guess, if you want to stretch a point and call Woodrow Wilson a Southerner, that was probably about the last one. R: But you see he
  • Wilson; Lady Bird; LBJ as VP; LBJ and the Kennedy’s; Medicare Bill; LBJ as President; Johnson treatment; Alabama integration problems; evaluation of LBJ; Vietnam; ranking the presidents; Coolidge anecdote; Congress in the 1920s; National Defense Education
Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that the peace was lost by lack of vision in the United States Senate. I became imbued with the very deep conviction that Woodrow Wilson had been right and that his prophecy at This was 1937. gathering. Pueblo, Colorado was coming true. We could hear the war
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ones--the Littauer School at Harvard, the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, the Maxwell Graduate School at Syracuse, and the Graduate Schoo1 of Public 5 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1971 INTERVIE"VlEE : JONATHAN DANIELS INTER7IElfER : JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: His home at Hilton Head, South Carolina Tape 1 of 1 F: I·fr. Daniels, I suppose I should confess that I read :rour father's life of Hoodrow Wilson when I was in the fifth
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 12 (XII), 4/25/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Committee was considering the nomination of Charles Wilson, secretary of defense. The big issue over Wilson and one or two of his deputies was whether he should sell his GM stock. Do you remember that and Mr. Johnson's position on that issue? J: I
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
Oral history transcript, John L. Monahan, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • there that was not really existent in the Kennedy Administration on the staff level. B: These people that were working with Mr. O'Brien in the Kennedy years, people like Mike Manatos, Wilson, Feldman, White, are these the people--? M: I didn't know Mike too well. He
Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 2 (II), 3/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • by coming forward with negotiations. When the bombing was actually taken down for Tet in February of that year [1967], and it happened to coincide with Kosygin's visit to Wilson in England, the President was engaged on two tracks with correspondence to Ho
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • didn't have any illusions that I would be successful but Wilson was going to be in Moscow in early February. He was anxious to get some movement toward a conference; as you remember, the British and Russians were co-chairmen of the Geneva conference
  • Biographical information; McGeorge Bundy; William Bundy; Robert Komer; Vietnam; Bien Hoa; service on high-level review committee on Vietnam; Pleiku incident; Honolulu Conference; Ky; bombing halt; Harriman; Wilson; J. Blair Seaborn mission, 1964
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh Baker -- IV -- 14 he sure as hell couldn't be elected, which turned out to be true, because Texas is sort of the bellwether state. I don't know how far you go back to see--I guess you go all the way back to, what, Woodrow Wilson's
Oral history transcript, Charles Timmes, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of ineffectiveness. I don't think that's valid. G: Did you know the Khanh coup was coming? T: No, not at all, had no idea about it. No idea. G: Did any American, that you know of? T: Not that I'm aware of. Yes, yes, his poor adviser was. G: Jasper Wilson, I
Oral history transcript, Carl Hayden, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • get two-thirds. And finally they nominated Woodrow Wilson. So I started in with Taft and I've served with ten Presidents now. F: That's better than a fourth of them. You were a major in the First World War? H: Yes. When the war broke out
Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • wrote one to Wilson Anyhow, this was the letter that in effect told us to get out, get out of France. He was getting rid of NATO in France, the NATO thing, and he wanted our forces out--which incidentally happened to be a violation of some bilateral
Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of all of this, and they were very anxious that I get out there in a hurry. Washington. So I don't remember spending too much time in They had a first-rate deputy chief of mission, Jim Wilson. He really was a crackerjack, so that as far as the general
  • to State Department; Sékou Touré; LBJ and African affairs; overview of the African situation; E. Korry; Jim Wilson; experiences as ambassador to the Philippines
Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the office on loan from Bob McNamara. When I first arrived, there were only Adam Yarmolinsky and Sargent Shriver, and another fellow who was, I think, a legislative liaison for the Peace Corps. G: Wilson McCarthy? A: Yes, Wilson McCarthy. around
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 29 (XXIX), 5/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • else. While we're not just sitting there waiting for the meeting, Johnson says to me, "Get [Larry] O'Brien. Rev up O'Brien, and [Mike] Manatos, and [Henry] Wilson. Get them calling congressmen. Get congressmen to make statements attacking the increase
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, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Wilson said that what's good for General Motors is good for the country and, Lyndon Johnson believes that what's good for Brown [and] Root Construction is good for the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • because it's headed by a five-star general of being very alert to national security needs, really isn't. It's not taking care of us as it should. Remember that in 1953 Charles Wilson of General Motors had come in as secretary of defense, and he said his
Oral history transcript, John Brooks Casparis, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • bootlegging--I can remember seeing Lyndon in the company of guys that were known to patronize bootleggers and get lit. Don Wilson was one of them. And I LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 43 (XLIII), 3/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • these senators what to say? C: Well, delicate, that's right, and also this was a tough bone to swallow. This was a very controversial piece of legislation. And the same thing from [Henry Hall] Wilson. The best (inaudible) House not in session is to persuade
Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • is not politically impossible. It is merely politically more difficult, but it isn't any more difficult than when Woodrow Wilson, a first-term minority President, when the Democratic Party was really a minority in the country, pushed through in two years
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • important dropping out at the last minute, I was invited to Mrs. Tydings' house for a small luncheon for Lady Astor. Mrs. [Woodrow] Wilson, the widow of the President, was there, a handsome woman, full-bosomed, feminine, likely to wear a big black velvet hat
  • broken leg; Lady Astor; Mrs. Woodrow Wilson; LBJ's subcommittee work in 1951; tension between Truman and General Douglas MacArthur; MacArthur's dismissal and his testimony before a joint committee hearing; the Johnsons' interest in starting a television
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 13 (XIII), 7/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : What about Will Wilson? There was some suggestion that he was-­ J: Yes, I always thought he would. G: Really? J: He was not a good friend. G: Was he more to the right of LBJ, or did they have simply different bases? Wilson was from Dallas; he
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the morning [Washington] Post and there was an article saying that Glen Wilson and Eilene Galloway have been appointed by Lyndon Johnson to new space jobs. I was appointed a special consult- ant, and Glen was appointed a coordinator of information
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • then--I think it was Mac McElroy and Wilson--that this would happen. And they were shrugged off and ignored, and no one realized what a traumatic event the launching of that Sputnik was. Of course, it turned out that most of these decisions were made
  • Humphrey; Charles Wilson; Neil McElroy; acceleration of ballistic missile program; Missile Gap controversy; operating procedure of Senate Subcommittee on Preparedness; Eisenhower as a President; importance of LBJ as Majority Leader; role of Weisl in 1960
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . P: That's right. H: Is this Steady? P: Steny Hoyer. H-O-Y-E-R. Steny Hoyer is now the Minority Leader of the Democrats. He's from Maryland. He's Gephardt and Steny Hoyer and Vic Fazio, and that is the way it is now. H: Frank Wilson
  • [?], William Underhill, Archie Underwood, Jim Valenti, Delores Veldo [?], Charles Venile, Bob Walker, Mary Wardon [?], Frank Waterson [?], Mark White, Charlie Whitley, Jamie Whitten, Frank Wilson, Walter and Ethel Woodul, Tori and Frank Wozencraft, Jim Wright
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Reedy -- V -- 15 district attorney for Nevada unless Pat was involved in it somehow. It would have been too stupid for him. G: Now, when the Armed Services Committee considered the nomination of Charles Wilson to be secretary of defense, do you