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Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
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- ; shipbuilding operations; contractor, etc.; Bird as congressional liaison; Bird as naval aide to LBJ; LBJ and blacks; LBJ as VP; LBJ and Truman; Bay of Pigs; LBJ and Adenauer
- to see Johnson become Vice President? M: Yes, I was. I thought it was a very fortunate thing that we had put Johnson as Vice President on the ticket. Mc: Do you know if Harry Truman supported Johnson in 1960? M: In 1960, yes, he did. Mc: How so
- all, Harry Truman got the He followed an elegant figure, and he seemed much less up to it than Joh"nson did, and just as western or midwestern, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
- INTERVIEWEE: HARRY McPHERSON INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. McPherson's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 B: This is the interview with Harry McPherson. Mr. McPherson, very briefly, your background is this:born in Tyler, Texas in 1929; bachelor's
- See all online interviews with Harry C. McPherson
- McPherson, Harry C. (Harry Cummings), 1929-
- Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker
- Harry C. McPherson
- . And I voted to prevent the fight from coming to New York, because before I had become a member of the commission, they had voted not to let Dempsey fight in New York unless he defended his title against Harry Wells, who was a colored fellow
- Biographical information; 1928 convention; repeal of the 18th Amendment; Henry Wallace; Harry S. Truman; BEHIND THE BALLOTS and THE JIM FARLEY STORY; first meeting with LBJ; 1941 Johnson vs. O’Daniel campaign; Eisenhower; Kennedy-Kefauver fight
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton
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- DATE: August 1994 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: Harry Middleton PLACE: Martha's Vineyard Tape 1 of 2, Side 2 M: This is side one, Lady Bird Johnson oral history interview [covering] 1957. J: I can talk about [Estes] Kefauver
- Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
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- of. S: Yes. G: I wanted to start with your own commitment to alleviating poverty and what you feel the roots of that are. S: Yes. First of all, it's rather personal. To be most helpful to you, I ought to tell you something about
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
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- Ginsburg -- IV -- 5 of some sort, at least the commissioners, the staffs, should know what it is that the White House is trying to do. There was no discussion with me about concerns about the Mayor of New York and his ambitions, or about Fred Harris and his
- ; concern that the Commission's recommendations would compete with funding for the Vietnam War; Victor Palmieri; how Califano kept the Commission's work and report from being studied or implemented; Harry McPherson; Fred Harris; conflict between
- to every standard that I would ask for in a man. Never caught him cheating. He'll try to bluff the devil out of you--like Harry Truman in that respect. up. But he generally had something to back it I remember one night we were playing at Sid
- personal contact back in the early thirties. B: The first personal contact would have been in the postwar period, in the Truman Administration. W: This is the first one that I remember. B: Did you work with him often then? For example, in your
- that in 1947, Harry Truman received a report from similar commission. The only other national commission I know that has been named. Robert Carr, who was then secretary of Dartmouth College and since has become President of Oberlin College, was the executive
- arranged to have him informed on how the war was going from day to day. Harry Truman, the next day after he was sworn in, came up to have lunch with the Congressional Leaders and he hung on to me and the tears ran right down his cheek. He kept saying, "I am
- INTERVIEWEE: HARRY McPHERSON INTERVIEWER: T. H. Baker PLACE: Mr. McPherson's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 3 B: This is a continuation of the interview with Harry McPherson. Sir, we were talking last time about civil rights activities generally. To talk
- See all online interviews with Harry C. McPherson
- McPherson, Harry C. (Harry Cummings), 1929-
- Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker
- Harry C. McPherson
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , even in legislative initiatives. R: Oh, yes. But don't forget, a lot of the thoughts in Webb s book came 1 out of that study that Harry Burleigh ran for the reclamation service, which was a study that had really been launched by Johnson. not at all
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- then, but he was an old pro even as a young man. I didn't really have any further contact with President Johnson until--at a later period in Mr. Harriman's career, he was in charge of President Truman's anti-inflation program. Now President Truman's anti
- See all online interviews with Adrian S. Fisher
- Fisher, Adrian S.
- Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
- Adrian S. Fisher
- likeableness. President Johnson never had that chance. Now it's quite true there are men who also have little opportunity who display very likeable personal qualities. I think of Harry Truman, for example, of a man who will probably be more fondly
- ' neighbors. from it. Even my state of Arkansas suffered I was defeated in 1958 largely because of this dissident feeling of my opponent who said during the campaign, "Mr. Hays is a national Democrat and I am an Arkansas Democrat. Mr. Hays is a Harry
- subject, as in fact Hubert Humphrey can. But t'lorse was no Hubert Humphrey. There was something pompous about Morse that never comes off with Hubert in my estimation. I cannot go any further than that. It was obvio~s that in that period from 1952
- our ball game. What the Vice President was doing we really didn't know. !~: Di d it ever come the other way? saying, II Di d ca 11 s ever come from there Hey , I've got a good, loyal Democratic friend somewhere who needs a job."? F: Yes
- , including me, "If you want the real story, I'm going to come out of this convention as the deadlock choice." Harry Truman arrived in Chicago on Sunday morning and had a press conference in the Blackstone Hotel and announced his support for Averell Harriman
- secretary who was Harry McPherson who went over to the White House. Senator Fulbright got a copy of the policy recom,::len- dations of the draft and he had also apparently read other things of mine. We'd been on symposia together, public symposiums. M
- cited were, number one, having to defend the party's position . B: Right . G: Right . B: But he wasn't an errand The errand boy for the administration . times to Harry Truman voting . pick boy for the administration . and he was very much
- ultimately won by increas- ing the total number of miles in the interstate highway system. Eisenhower said we were budget busters and reckless and irresponsible. But because of the power of Senator [Robert S . ] Kerr and Mike Kirwan, Speaker Rayburn
- I NTERVI El-JEE: JOHN A. BAKER INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Baker1s home, Arlington, Virginia Tape 1 of 2 G: Let s continue today talking about your work with the [I,tar on Poverty] I task force. met. I want to ask you
- place of friends and have lunch and things like that. F: On these Board of Education meetings, did they just sort of develop? P: They sort of developed. Say, Truman would some in--that's when Truman was President--he'd come over about 5 o'clock
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- of his own party who didn't want him to run and so on and so on. Wilson went through hell when he was trying to establish a sensible world order after World War L Roosevelt went through severe criticism. Harry Truman was going to be impeached
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton
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- : Yes. I liked her, very much. She's interesting, assertive, with her own and very positive sense of values, and a great many of them were social. She was also quite capable of true friendships, and Harry Truman was one of them. (Interruption) In between
- African-American employees; Sunday meals at Senator Harry Byrd's home; Byrd's personality and interests; story of LBJ getting stopped for speeding on the way to the Byrd home; uses for the Sequoia; the Senate Ladies Club; decorating LBJ's office with items
- Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton
- by President Truman in 1946, right after I left the Navy. In those days the Wagner Act was the labor law of the land, and I was regarded as the conservative member of the three-man board. I had dissented a great many times with respect to what I regarded
- for John Kennedy, I thought Bob Kennedy a little shit. w~s We had almost had a couple of fist fights in the course of ten years, one being in 1960 when I wrote an article in the New Republic before the election saying, "Everybody's sitting around passing
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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- that the family homestead was acquired in 1852 in a little place called Venado, in Colusa County, California. F: Was his name Shuckman? B: His name was Shuckman, that is right, S-h-u-c-k-m-a-n, although some people spell is S-c-h-u-c-k-m-a-n, and he came from
- off by mentioning that Mr. Mort Stern is also in the room--that is M-O-R-T S-T-E-R-N, who has written a dissertation about Mr. Hoyt and the Post which gives a great deal of background information about this man. Hoyt and the Denver Post. The title
- MacArthur defied [Harry] Truman. Truman hated him because MacArthur said, "We've got to protect the whole line here," and he went over and visited Taiwan. I had something to do with getting him to do it. G: Oh, really. J: Oh sure. G: Tell me
- MacArthur defied [Harry] Truman. Truman hated him because MacArthur said, "We've got to protect the whole line here," and he went over and visited Taiwan. I had something to do with getting him to do it. G: Oh, really. J: Oh sure. G: Tell me
- and everybody panicked. But Orval was one of the old populist boys, and he fancied himself as being kind of the Rayburn style of politican and was quite in good favor with Harry Truman. He'd come along with Sid McMath, who was a great favorite of Truman's
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- Ashmore, Harry
- Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
- Harry Ashmore
- -In, and there Nago Alaniz told him that there was a man waiting inside his garage to kill him. That's why he had told him to come in a taxicab. So Jake had told his son, Jacob S. Floyd, Jr., that he was going to see a Parr man. So the boy, wanting to be with his
- into the Eisenhower period of the 1950's. You were going to tell me about your appoint- ment to the Civil Service Commission. M: Yes. This was an interesting series of events that related to the transition between the Truman and Eisenhower administrations. As I
- that name? G: M-E-L-A-S-K-Y. Harris A. Melasky. He'll be mentioned later. I then came to Dallas and became house counselor for the Murray Company, which company was engaged in the manufacture of cotton gins and sold in all the cotton-producing states
- Biographical information; met LBJ in 1930s through Texas attorneys Harris Melasky and Martin Winfrey; 1943 subcommittee on naval affairs; 1948 Senate race and subsequent lawsuit; advice to LBJ regarding running for Senate Minority leader in 1952
- with President Roosevelt. B: Still on into the 40's-- M: Oh, yes. B: Presumably his association with Mr. Truman, too. M: Yes, I think so, although he was never as closely identified in the public mind down there with Truman as he was with Roosevelt
- remember when President Roosevelt died; Harry Hopkins called the Cabinet together, and he said, I~e must all resign in..11ediately and insist on President Truman taking our resignation, because no matter what President Truman did, lve would always say
- , civil rights, and so on. I anticipate it will continue, I would think as an elder statesman whose advice is going to be sought, as Harry Truman's has been, rather than probably as somebody who attends all the conventions and things like