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Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE SID DAVIS INTERVIEWER Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Davis office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 S: Election day was the third. Well, I believe we were in New Orleans on the weekend before election day in 1964, and the President
  • LBJ's visit to New Orleans with Louisiana Governor John McKeithen; LBJ's relationships with Mexicans; White House press conferences and how they changed in the television era; LBJ's use of television; LBJ's response to civil rights-related violence
Oral history transcript, Dwight A. Ink, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and Lyndon Johnson, not well, but I was with him from time to time. For example, I was in charge of Kennedy's trip out to New Mexico and Nevada on a defense inspection that he made some time after taking office. Lyndon Johnson was on that trip, so
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Washington in May of 1942 from Pennsylvania, \"here I had been state m,anager of International News Service. ing to get back to being a reporter, I managed ~~ant­ to get transferred out of the administrative and back into the reporting business
Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . expected, so that cleared me. They knew over here that I was Then I had to go around the other way. F: It seemed kind of strange, I guess, having to identify your way in. T: Yes, but I'm glad they do it, because there are so many new policemen
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the witnesses were forced to espouse the Administration's position when they really didn't want to. F: To move ahead, you were quite active in New York politics, most particularly in city politics in New York, in the early 1960 ' s. Did Mr. Johnson as either
  • and 1964 campaigns; New Yorkers’ feelings about LBJ; Jack English; RFK’s Senatorial campaign in New York; effect of William Miller on Republican ticket; duties as Lands and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department; proposals for Indian problems
Oral history transcript, Harold J. Russell, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . Mr. Macy has done an amazing job in changing, easing whenever possible, or even writing new regulations which were instrumental in bringing many, many handicapped people into federal service. He has done an outstanding job. Mr. Driver
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XIX -- 3 R: Not really. He came back with a new story and a phrase that he always used in a speech, about this woman who had "a baby in her back, a baby in her belly, and three on the floor," and she wanted the same things
  • The Johnsons' residence as vice president, The Elms; Konrad Adenauer’s visit to the LBJ Ranch; LBJ's relationship with Texans of German descent; the Bay of Pigs invasion; LBJ's trip around the world in 1961, including stops at New York City
Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • into the retirement program . So, if you do it the way I provided for suggest, you will automatically get the new programs when 2 1/2 million federal employees, and you will not become a target each time improvements that you're bound to want come along ." Mr
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 9 (IX), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and the role of the cities became considerably different. Today we have, for instance, in the New York metropolitan area, as the most clear-cut example, situations where New York and Connecticut and New Jersey simply cannot act independently of each other
  • of Businessmen (NAB) and compensation of its members; how OLC helped NAB and a housing commission avoid a conflict-of-interest pay problem; subsidizing new businesses in low-income areas or offering tax incentives to business owners to involve the poor
Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 2 (II), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -3- Since I've left the government, I've been spending some time here in New York on same state matters, specifically looking at the data on the racial problems in the schools in the city of New York and the other big cities
Oral history transcript, Sarah (Mrs. T. J. .) Taylor, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • is nothing new with her? T: Oh, no, no. She just loved it. And Caddo, if you've ever been there, ever seen it, was perfectly beautiful and still is. Of course, she was born practically on the shores of it, you see, there at Karnack. M: Did you ever
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 3 (III), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Jack, we were discussing the last time the campaign of '64 and we shut off on the campaign swing through New England. Now then, as you know, along about that time when the President was up in New York we had the unfortunate episode of Walter Jenkins
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • as quite a good one. Also you must admit that one of my major arguments with the news media people, with other people, is that I don't see how you can compare presidents without comparing the decades of which they were president. The fifties bear
Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , with President Kennedy being President at the time. I spent most of the day with him. I met him at Stewart Air Force Base, which is -near Newburgh, New York, in the morning. the graduation ceremonies late that morning. He addressed He had lunch with us in my
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 5 (V), 11/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE E. LEVINSON INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Mr. Levinson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 F: Larry, we haven't in previous interviews said much on the personal side. We've been strictly programmatic, you might
  • White House staff deciding what to do after LBJ's presidency; LBJ asking Levinson to move to Texas rather than work for Gulf and Western; LBJ's expectation of long-term loyalty; final Cabinet meeting; Levinson's decision to move to New York; where
Oral history transcript, Emanuel Celler, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 the members from the State of New York, whence I come. B: The relationship between Mr. Johnson and Mr. Roosevelt--you said it was noticeable. Was this because of Mr. Johnson visiting the White
Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • as concerned national defense because we thought we had fought the war to end all wars, and now the proposition was to maintain the new infrastructure of government-cum-university cooperation in science that had been put into place during the war. We wanted
Oral history transcript, John A. Hannah, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the contentions about Civil Rights in Congress and elsewhere and, since some of us wanted to get off the Commission, maybe it would be a good thing if he would accept our resignations and name some new members to the Commission. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • associated with the New Yorker since, what, 1944 or thereabouts? R: That's right. ~1: And you are well-known as an author of numerous contemporary hi stor;cal type \;JOrks, Senator Joe McCarthy and The Genera 1 and the Presi dent, a fairly well-known list
Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think so. I think if you had good ideas around the White House, you didn't have too much difficulty in presenting those ideas. The problem was the consumer program was not viewed as a "new" idea and instead was viewed as a trouble spot. Now
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . If the press depends upon the press secretary as their source of news, that means the press secretary can decide pretty well what they're going to know and what they aren't. And of course it's not quite like that. The White House--it is impossible to have
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 2 (II), 5/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and the committee, but the new Nixon budget cut those in half and cut them back to what they had been. They didn't cut them below what they had been but just back to what they had been before. Now the funds don't amount to much because Mr. Rocke- feller puts
Oral history transcript, William Gorham, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • this new position to you? 3 LBJ 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 Gorham -- I
  • ; Gorham's work in White House task forces; Joe Califano's work with HEW; conflict in creating new social programs without increased funding; the creation of the Urban Institute (UI) and how Gorham moved to it; funding the UI and their first reports
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://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 -- X -- 2 characters of the New Deal: Secretary [Harold] Ickes; the new
  • Johnson's time spent sight-seeing and attending events at the Congressional Club or the 75th Club; visiting Bill White in New York City; Sam Rayburn, Wright Patman, Nat Patton, and other Texans in Washington, D.C.; visits with Aunt Effie Pattillo; summer
Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the Navy in the Maritime Service, elected again to Congress in 1946 from one of the New Orleans districts where you have served since; in 1956 named Deputy Whip and in 1959 Whip of the Democratic party. And, as I say, that is a very brief summary of a long
  • interest in passage of legislation; RFK; 1964-1965 legislative success; Congressional briefings on Vietnam; compromise on seating of the Mississippi delegation; LBJ’s political speech in New Orleans; inactivity of the DNC; media image of LBJ; assessment
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . F: Why? What were his reasons? C: He said the committee had an agreement among itself that [there would be] no new starts; that that was the only way that it could impose some budget control. And he said once a program is started, then we haven't
Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Visit a few minutes and go on. K: I remember one time right after he had had his kidney stone operation he came up there and spent about an hour looking around the place. F: Did the newsmen look on him as pretty good source of news, or is this just
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • only three lawyers in my class, one of whom was from Mississippi and another from New Mexico. At the same time there was a great shortage of lawyers due to drafting of lawyers in military service of the bar. Here I was with a relatively low average
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , because of your background, is with the method by which people of your type were recruited into the government. T: You were with Standard Oil--is that correct? That's correct. I was operating in the Caribbean area with Standard Oil Company of New
  • into the Department of Economic Affairs; Labor was 95% against the new Department; Labor-Management Advisory Committee studies merger and proposed that it not be done; personal contact with the President; White House staff; Cabinet meetings were basically
Oral history transcript, Gould Lincoln, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • issues. To the amazement of myself and I guess a good many others, he got through this Congress a new Civil Rights dealing with housing. Bill Nobody expected him to get it through, and he has gotten through an anticrime measure which nobody expected
  • with the Kennedys; press relations; criticism of LBJ; news media contributed to LBJ’s loss of popularity; previous Presidents’ handling of the press; Supreme Court Packing Bill; JFK’s formal format; impact of television on politics, campaigning and government
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as a kind of a buffer to take care of special problems that got created, because of my civil rights background and labor background. Well, one day evidently some angry folks from New Jersey came over from one of the local poverty programs over some
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • , and O'Daniel's--the gist of his speech was "Well, what we need is a whole new legislature," and this guy got beat, the guy that introduced him. B: It backfired on him. Well, in 1947, the Texas legislature enacted the so-called right-towork law. Do you remember
  • ; higher education for African Americans; Morehead's work for Southern Education Reporting Service and Southern School News; negative press coverage of the South; school integration and racial violence in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957; the legal
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 24 (XXIV), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: Okay, one more question about Chicago. Did you make an effort there to have [Eugene] McCarthy support
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 26 (XXVI), 4/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- XXVI -- 8 entire new cities. And that ultimately evolved among other things into the "new-town-intown" concept which I guess comes later somewhere. G: And the block grants as well. C: Well, we talked about block grants but I don't think anybody
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • experts at the White House either, which--you know, now there's a whole new school, a whole industry has grown up: media, television experts who pose the president and pick the spots for pictures. President Johnson didn't have that kind--he was the old
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • programs, their own mandates, their own areas of responsibility were suddenly being challenged, especially when you had an eager beaver like Shriver as the symbol of a new program. Then not only Shriver but many of us--I have to include myself, I have
  • the program; Shriver juggling poverty programs and Peace Corps; Ruth Atkins and New Yorkers concerned about their school.
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Prior to that you had Prior to that you had been a New York Times State Department reporter. Does that pretty well get tbe last ten or fifteen years? J: It does except my last public service was as a member of the American delegation to the peace
Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • articles for the New York Times for Bill Wirtz; there were pamphlets for the Labor Department--a whole host of things. G: What was understood by the word "poverty", if you can recall, at that time? Was it discussed simply in terms of an economic line
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Hardesty, interview 1 (I), 3/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ." And old Charlie Schultz, the Budget Director, used to accuse the speech writers anyway of spending half his budget. He said, "You guys have spent a hundred million dollars just getting a news lead for a speech." I said, "Well, that's just what the man
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Truman Democrat and I am an Orval Faubus Democrat." F: And never the twain shall meet! H: That experience~ of course, is beside the point, except that it brings us together in this matter of geography. F: I think New York City is beginning to get