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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 50 (L), 7/19/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Louisiana, Beauregard, has submitted a plan with only a minor defect. I sent a provisional acceptance letter within twenty-four hours. I hope this will encourage others to submit plans." That's in response--we had no districts in Mississippi or Louisiana
Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • a reference to this in his book, The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson. That happened because he called me the week before Christmas, after the President had been elected [inaudible] and said, "Bob Goheen said for me to call you. He said you might have some ideas
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 3 (III), 5/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? Was there pretty general realization that it was a [fatal wound]? B: Early in the morning, when I first got in, I think that there was still some hope that maybe Kennedy would live. Again, listening to those people who had been around during Jack Kennedy's death
Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • time, and while you were poor, you didn't intend to be poor all your life and you had hope. But the word 'poor' applied to you right then, wouldn't really have described whether you were happy or unhappy, because you were probably as happy then as you
Oral history transcript, Richard A. Prindle, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • -D. These were fairly new drugs, or were quite new, and the hope was that instead of having to have extended hospita 1ization and long-term treatment, that the giving of these drugs would help at least many cases and, even more importantly, help cut
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 5 (V), 6/3/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • not on the merits, but politically he could see the very great pressures that had been built up in these areas. These were never any part of our affirmative program. Our affirmative program contained as its central element federal financing, and it was our hope
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • be ruination, and we went to the Star and talked to them about it, and the presentation we made was that we hoped every effort would be used on their part to be sure that they had the facts of the story because if they printed it one way and then it turned out
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that he was busily at work building a centrist coalition with which he hoped to come back to Washington and run things. The way the story was written it sounded as if it was more than centrist, it was going to be a kind of a southern conservative dominated
  • ; John Kenneth Galbraith recommends people to LBJ; "skinny dipping" in the White House pool; producing My Hope for America; the 1964 campaign; genesis of the task forces; Oscar Cox, Walter Lippman, and LBJ's interest in education; ESEA and the church
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the White House for the army and navy and met lots of admirals and generals and saw exotic Mrs. [James] Forrestal there. One of the interesting things that happened in those days was to go to dinner at the Bob Kintners, Bob and Jean. The conversation
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that involved the work of the Congress. Didn't involve anybody selling out his own viewpoint. But it was manifest then that Lyndon was a helluva guy to get a lot of things done. Now, I hope before you get through, you under- stand they undertake to compare
Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • set out to [get Johnson]? A: No, I don't think she could help herself, frankly. mean by the Georgetown group. I don't know whom you If you're talking about people who live in Georgetown and who are in the press, such as Rowlie Evans and Bob Novak
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . This was particularly on our mind because by this time, by December of 1965, we had gotten into the fight with Mayor [Richard J.] Daley and there was a hope that Howe would be a little more politically attuned than to pick the city of Chicago as the first place to cut
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the property in 1943 and purchased the United Press wire. At that time, of course, United Press had not acquired the International News Service. It is to be hoped that one day the Johnsons will record the details leading to their acquisition of KTBC
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • This meeting included the members of the board of directors of the association 7 and Melville Bell Grosvenor and two of his colleagues, Franc Shor and Bob Breeden. Inciden- tally, I was not then a member of the board of directors. At the time, I
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • into the details, and said, "I think that it has a lot of merit, and I hope you wouldn't have a lot 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, Joseph Laitin, interview 2 (II), 2/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there to protect me that would cost him anything. But when the President finally fired me, and he did, no question about that, that was the day when he announced the appointment of Bob Fleming--he was the bureau chief of the ABC network--as the deputy press
  • Advancing LBJ’s meeting with the Pope; Laitin’s falling out with LBJ; Bob Fleming as Deputy Press Secretary; trip to Mexico with LBJ; Christmas trip to Rome; Colonel James Swindal; trying to be anonymous in Rome while advancing LBJ’s arrival
Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to formulate a solution to a problem? M: I think Bob Shaplen did. G: Did he? M: Yes. G: Can M: you--? The only specific I can give you is not within my own experience, I simply read about it in Frank Snepp's book [Decent Interval]. In the closing days
  • ; sources; special privileges he received; Bob Shaplen and the military consulting with journalists; relationships between American journalists and those from other countries; Paul Harkins; William Westmoreland; laundering of intelligence estimates
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of having all Gay Friday, a working day, to get to wc-rk on Monday morning's speeches, and that of course was our priority--first things first. Now I'.ve skipped over a good deal here. similar system. for Jack Valenti. Bob Kintner had a In fact, I largely
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . A: There \'/as some, but there wasn t the ki nd of performance that one I would hope for, particularly when you had a President like this that was continually interspersing into what he had to say the importance of bringing equal opportunity to the blacks
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of a congressman who is following a project through the various stages that it has to go through in the cabinet department and agency and BOB, and so he's fairly well abreast of each stage. Is it possible for him to learn, just through keeping abreast
  • ) desire to be involved in the legislative process; the work Bob Hardesty and Jake Jacobsen did on legislative matters on LBJ's staff that had not previously been done for JFK; notifying legislators of news so they could be the first to make
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Katzenbach and Bob Kennedy all operated a very extensive network throughout the South. When you called John Doar about a problem that you had heard about in Meridian or in Selma, wherever, as sometimes happened--a lawyer or a judge or an elected official
  • Clark; pardons and paroles; LBJ’s relationship with Hoover; Omnibus Crime Act of 1968; Model Cities; Robert Weaver; Bob Wood; tariffs; press relations; overseas airline decision; 1968 LBJ campaign and decision not to run; political activities after the 3
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 2 (II), 6/1/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • about which we don't know very much. ray of hope. Secretary McNamara also included in this report a He said that a young man by the name of David Nes was about to organize the country team under Lodge and correct all of these ,faults. And about six
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the border back in the jungle, and when they deployed the Americans into our area, well, one of the first fights the 1st Cav got into was outside of Pleime because the NVA had entered the country and attacked Pleime, hoping to get the ARVN to come down from
Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and others. M: Robert Bowie. L: I'd always hoped that the SP would write a history of this thing because it was a rather constructive idea, but it was poorly handled in terms of congressional aspects and public relations and whatnot. Bob Schaetzel told
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • -- 3 were going and came back and talked with Earle about it. Johnson could make a big difference in Utah. touch with Bob He thought Then Earle put me in and we began to get little pieces together Hinkley~ of areas where we felt very definitely
Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ? C: Oh, I don't think there's any question about the fact that justice prevailed in that case. During World War II in the navy before I went overseas I had served with Bob Smith, the 6 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . But with Martin, there was far less communication on an intellectual level. I love the guy; and there is no question about his integrity--that just sticks out allover him. is, I hope and I really think, a thing of the past. But that situation Even the Nixon
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • the couch come first?" (Laughter) Which always made Luci furious. (Laughter) I would hope she'd find it amusing. I'm not sure she ever did. M: She probably would now. In passing, you said something about get[ting] something from your mother's 5 LBJ
  • from Lady Bird Johnson's mother's estate; Bob Waldron; the death of Mrs. Johnson's father, T. J. Taylor; the Johnsons' relationship with George Reedy; Strom Thurmond and his wife, Jean; Lady Bird Johnson's involvement in the Senate Ladies' Red Cross
Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • intimate about the relationship. P: Do anyone of these particular times stand out in your mind, or have any particular impact or importance to you? G: No, I think not. I was, in fact, a Bob Taft Republican most of my life, LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • went to Earle Clements with this information, "I hope that you'll say a good word for this plan." And I LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • again. about." I said, "Bob, I hope you understand what this was all He said in effect, "Sure I do, but let me tell you that on this one the Joint Chiefs are absolutely adamant." That's why I mentioned the chiefs. "They said no four-star general
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • that because I would have liked to have had him on and on and on. I don't know why. I just hope it was not anything, any lack on our 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • either the relationship with the Soviet Union or the peace process in Vietnam to the results he had hoped to achieve by the end of his presidency. We had many conversations about that. I remember that in November, probably during the Thanksgiving period
Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • one, that Johnson saw Bob Kennedy as a threat to his own supremacy in the party, and the President protected himself against what, I guess we could call, the Kennedy threat—in a very gingerly manner, but nonetheless he protected himself. I can't
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • how he oversimplified the role of the Federal Reserve Board. But, in mind, Bob Weaverls, obviously, and Thurgood Marshall 'S [another]; you're placing people in positions of real power and authority where they can make some substantive decisions
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and General Bob Smith of Dallas, had gotten a hundred former servicemen to put in some money to get a helicopter to put at Lyndon's disposal for a certain length of time, I think it was about a month. They had figured that it wouldn't cost any more than
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 3 (III), 3/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Mulhollan PLACE: Mr. Bundy's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: This time the subjects I want to talk about--and for your time benefit I hope we can wind it up--are Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East, particularly. Suppose we begin with Latin
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that Jack assigned his brother, Bob, who was to go up and visit with Governor G. Mennen Williams and Walter Reuther, and advise them of the decision. G: Was this at that early meeting that he asked his brother to--? O: Once it was determined that Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • got some very poor human beings in deep trouble ; we have the power to help them and give them some hope in the future . Shall we do it or shan't we?" And the whole room, including some pretty hard-boiled reactionary individuals who had never shown