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Oral history transcript, Birch Bayh, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to be in because while he was Assistant Attorney General under Bob Kennedy, he had come up and testified in support of a different type of proposal--the Dirksen approach--the more loosely drawn less specific approach; and so he had to sort of change his mind and he
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . But that was my first. Then later, also, when he came out to Santa Fe to visit with Bob McKinney, who was publisher of the New Mexican, a group of people met with him. But essentially my background is newspapers, is journalism, and mostly I'd say in Oklahoma
Oral history transcript, James W. Smith, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • into con- flict with Lyndon there trying to elect Bob Slagle, who was the county judge of Grayson County and Sam Rayburn's campaign manager for years and years. Lyndon had a different candidate. G: Ray Roberts? S: Ray Roberts, the state senator, yes
Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of that group and came to the University for, I hoped, a full-time basis. It turned out to be part-time. G: How did you come into contact with Lyndon Johnson? L: He put out the word that he wanted an information officer. A friend pointed out
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 2 (II), 11/23/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on Katzenbach's various official ~ppointment§]" K: Well, I certainly hope that President Johnson would say of me that I've never been cowed into not giving him advice of what I felt on any occasion. I don't give them. I made an absolute point in this department
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 20 (XX), 1/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . And then it didn't say, "So we shouldn't bomb," which I hoped the next sentence would be, but what the next sentence was was, "So I think you should get a good lawyer like [Cyrus] Vance to build the case before we do it." So the mindset was still LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • mentioned including Mr. Truman, Senator Truman, and Lou [William 0.] Douglas, and there were several others. But those two were the ones who seemed to--names seemed to be mentioned most and apparently Bob Hannigan, state and national chairman, and Flynn
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • together to get this big job over with. I hope that after you have a very, very happy birthday that you will feel as good about it all as I do." "I had a great time in the district this summer."--this is a pretty good summary of how he feels about coming
Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Slayton. Slayton did not, however, clear it with his boss, HHFA [Housing and Home Finance Agency] Administrator Bob Weaver, with whom his relations were tense. Hackett and Boone once asked: "If we asked Bob Weaver to assign someone to work with us, would
Oral history transcript, Terrel Maverick Webb, interview 1 (I), 1/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • could, but she found she couldn't do very much with him because he was the type of person that he was. You know, he was a driver. that she could cope with it. somewhere along . . . If it I She just hoped She thanked me particularly. S It's
Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the Vandenburg period. On a number of issues it seemed to me that Johnson had no particular feeling one way or the other. But he wanted to hold the party together in the Senate and he wanted to be, as he often said, "responsible opposition"--not the Bob Taft
Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in tomorrow," and I did. letter was there. All right, my Russ Blandford who was afterwards executive of the Armed Services Committee--Bob Smart was at that time--worked on our committee; Russ is a retired Marine Corps major general now. The old man went
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • which he had nothing to do with and cited it as an instance of Lyndonls astuteness. I donlt know. Just what the occasion was It was either before or after the President wi.thdrew, but Pearson said, "My one-tirne partner Bob Allen and I wrote this. " I
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was attorney general of Texas then. Oh, Bill Douglas and Fred Vinson were often there. Judge Marvin Jones and Bob Hannegan and Ed Clark and dear Albert Jackson from the Dallas Times Herald, and Bill Kittrell, who could tell some of the best stories of anybody I
Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that he wanted eventually to leave the job. I found, by the way, that in the meantime other people were being considered. For example, Ray Sherer, of NBC; Bob Fleming of ABC; Carroll Kilpatrick of the Washington~. Just before Christmas, Carroll
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ; Estes Kefauver; Douglas Dillon; Pierce Salinger; Joseph Laitin; Horace Busby; George Reedy; Henry Fowler; Bill Moyers; Bob McCloskey; Frederick Deming; George Christian; relations with the White
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was honored that he asked me, in part at the suggestion of his son George, who had been the assistant secretary of labor and with whom I'd worked. Ambassador Lodge knew that I'd traveled in the Soviet Union with Bob Kennedy, who of course had defeated his
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • issues. And that whole Bob Hardesty effort, which was one you probably heard of, was a major piece of work which we geared up our people to support. Vietnam was, of course, a constant factor and generally it was not a discussion of pros and cons
Oral history transcript, Price Daniel, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • -of-the-Court argument. Attorney General Tom Clark had been contacted ahead of time by his brother Bob Clark at my request. I asked Bob to ask the Attorney General if he thought it would in any way prejudice Texas for me to represent the National Association
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Employment Service office to be opened in Belton and financed by the Texas Relief Comm"ission. I was to be the employment officer, so to speak, because we had hopes that we would be getting projects into the area that would be suitable for hiring some
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to be on if he could have been? J: I think he kind of always nourished the hope of someday being on Foreign Relations, but he felt a very lack of preparedness for it. He always felt that he was less well prepared to be on Foreign Relations than any field. G
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 2 (II), 6/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • going to be a continuing project, and I hope that every first lady will be equally interested in it. You may have one marvelous table, but that doesn't mean that sometime in the future one that's better isn't going to come along. B: Actually it's
Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the meeting! You know the usual milling around on a platform after a meeting suddenly adjourns. Al Thomas came up to me and said, "I hope you don't mind what Roger and I had to say, that's the way we hold our people." I thought it was a very, very
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of a man who was caught in a very deep-seated dilemma, I think hoping he'd get a last minute offer from Johnson. He didn't. G: Why was Johnson right? R: Johnson realized that the pressures upon Lausche would have been incredible if he had voted
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of pray and hope? S: You couldn't do that. You couldn't cut them off, and indeed shouldn't have tried, and I didn't. I had no qualms about his saying anything he wanted to say, except where he overreached, I think only this one time. I had Farmer come
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • conflict between them, the talent hunt objective and the patronage objective. In fact, I think there was some general consensus that we got fewer suggestions from the patronage side than we might even have hoped to have. M: What about the normal operations
Oral history transcript, William M. Colmer, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on that trip. I thought you might want to send it to his people." him I'd be happy to and he gave it to me. before a thatched roof. I told This man was standing Well, incidentally, and I hope this doesn't sound self-serving, I was so impressed
Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the President to testify on behalf of the Civil Rights Bill. And my reply to Marris at that time was that I would respond to any request that the President made on me, that I hoped he would explain to the President that it meant that I could not be re-elected
Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • hope to do would be to break even . if I've got only so much time to work and so many workers, then I'm So � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 3 (III), 9/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to him that if Alaska's bill passed, they could get by with their home states a little better with Hawaii being adopted. G: Well, I certainly do thank you for your time, and I hope we can continue. [End of Tape 1 of 1 and Interview III] 15 LBJ
Oral history transcript, George Pazianos, interview 1 (I), 8/30/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • education. Bob Barclay handled health. I'm trying to remember Bill's last name--but Senator [Joseph S.] Clark who handled the OEO [Office of Economic Opportunity] program. By specific design Senator [Pat] McNamara was designated to handle the entire
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • said, "among the pols that Bob has paid little attention to them, even though he's their senator. This is combined with their reading of Humphrey and McCarthy grass-roots sentiment and antagonisms toward RFK in various areas." Then I pointed out
  • articles on O'Brien; accepting a job as president of McDonnell and Company brokerage firm; Bob Maheu's work for Howard Hughes; Hughes' eccentricity; O'Brien and his wife visiting the Humphreys in Waverly, Minnesota; Walter "Fritz" Mondale and Fred Harris
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1986 INTERVIEWEE: SARGENT SHRIVER INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Shriver's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: In January 1968, BOB [Bureau of the Budget] reduced the Job Corps budget by about ten million dollars
Oral history transcript, Beryl A. (Mrs. Lloyd) Bentsen, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • e r Sam Rayburn; and sometimes S t e w a r t Symington would be there and sometimes Herbert Hoover, but there would generally be no more than six or eight of us. Kerr was there quite often. Bob I don't know why we wound up over there so regularly
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 48 (XLVIII), 6/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . People, whether they're white or brown or green or yellow or purple, have all got to live together and understand they have the same fears, the same hopes, the same anxieties, the same dreams for their kids." And that's a critical part of dealing
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh So I hope there'll be several biographies in the next few years. B: In anticipation of your biography, we'll try to concentrate in this on Johnson and we'll talk about [what
Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • are late. Then he burst out in a chuckle and he said, "Well, I guess I ought to relax." He said, "There was an old boy down near Ector named Billy Bob, and he was going to get married Saturday afternoon. So he picked cotton till noon, and then he went
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • assigned to brief the Vice President periodically? B: Yes, there were several people who w'orked with him during that early period. Bob Skiff was one who was with him for a short time. He was there for awhile; his job was not really to brief
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Walt W. Rostow -- Interview I -- 8 [James] Reston was saying that the old Kennedy people were going to leave, and Mac said, "President Johnson wanted me to tell you that he hopes that you would not leave and would stay at your
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were all concerned, with the so-called Vietnam plank. I remember working with Bill Welsh, Bill Connell, Bob Nathan, and others. We agreed on a domestic issues draft very quickly. By very quickly I mean within a week or ten days; we then came
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , when he first came to the government, was referred to by Bob McNamara as about the best man in the Ford Motor Company, and our experience with him certainly proved that out. But anyway, the President had launched the National Alliance of Businessmen