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Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. Truman had in 1948 when he ran so well in the rural areas where he wasn't supposed to run well . They took a look at Mr . [Thomas] Dewey with his little mustache and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

Oral history transcript, Donald F. Hornig, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

: Did you have anything to do with the selection of a target in Japan? H: No. Absolutely none. M: Did you have anything to do with an attempt supposedly by the scientists involved to ask Truman to warn the Japanese what the consequences would be? H

Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

kind of pushed into it? P: Well, I'm from kind of a political family. My grandfather, S. L. Gorin, was-F: VIas that G-O-R-I-N? P: G-O-R-I-N--was a state senator back in the 1910-1918 period, somewhere in that area, here in Kentucky under Governor

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and always has been. M: Not in the sense of a s inki ng ship, waul d you say? L: No, it's just a leaking ship. He used to swear, the President--not in my presence, but I'm told--to the Secretary [of StateL "Damn it, why don't you find out who the leaks
President LBJ’s relations with the press and Louchheim’s efforts to improve such relations; Louchheims work in State Dept.’s Community Advisory Service 1964-1966; encouraging foreign service employees to go on domestic talk circuits; foreign talk

Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. on Harry Truman. I bet $1.00 on Lyndon Johnson, and I bet $1.00 And I thought this was a good time to stop while I was ahead, and I haven't bet on an election since. P: Are there any particular events that stand out in your mind--that come to mind

Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a military expert. of this Truman Committee. grew into this. The Air WaS sort of led You know, he finally got to be head He was sort of led into this; he sort of Force~ I think, had a lot to do with bringing him [in] because they were always taking him

Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and had, by happen stance, gotten into the position of sort of coordinating the opposition to the bill in the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee . At that time Oren Harris of Arkansas was chairman, and I think he was the principal sponsor

Oral history transcript, Janet Wofford Ingram, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

Jones, Bess Harris Jones, and--although Bess was in better shape than my sister and me, because my mother was teaching. Both--for one thing, each of them had a father, and in those days, just basically, women who had to support families just didn't have

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 8 (VIII), 7/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

just about the time the case was being argued in Justice [Hugo] Black's chambers, Harry Truman came through Texas campaigning. Do you remember that? J: Yes. G: Where were you? Did you meet the train? J: No, but President Johnson was on it. G

Oral history transcript, Leonard M. Elstad, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

have 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 visited Truman's, and it's

Oral history transcript, Thurgood Marshall, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

thought Sam Rayburn was calling the turn. Now whether that's true or not I don't know. But on our records he was not a liberal senator. B: Incidentally, did Mr. Johnson have any connection with your other Texas case in the '50's? M: None. B: Sweatt

Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that question, he wrote back to me that he had run because Sam Rayburn had said that if he didn't run, Dick Nixon would become president of the United States, and Dick ~ixon was the man who had called Harry Truman a traitor and the Democratic party the party

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

something different, and there would be utter chaos. So Hale said that he said to the President, "The only way to head this off ;s for you to name a blue ribbon commission that will make all these others keep hands off it. to it." There is no alternative

Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

an article two days after Kennedy's assassination, in which I said that I didn't think people ought to be fearful; that Truman had a fairly atrocious record as a senator, but that in fact it was Truman who began to open up, with the commission he appointed

Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

written, no. to others' arguments: Just to show you how he did not listen the war was going poorly, and we should have done at that pOint what Truman did. That was to raise enough taxes and put on enough controls, as Truman did during the Korean War

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that it wasn't, [that] there were different versions of communism, that they simply had to, on the face of it, attempt to resist any advance at all of any gains on the part of communism. Harry Truman essentially laid down the rules and said, "Here's a line

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

was and to see why I didn't come to help him. So I did and on August 14, 1934, I took my first paid position as his research assistant working in the Walker Johnson Building, 1734 New York Avenue, in the offices of Harry Hopkins, the Federal Emergency Relief

Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, say, in 1941 and 1947, a lot of them were gone. Old [Harry] Benge Crozier was a very dear friend of mine. F: Mine, too. B: And you had kind of a different type of newspaper reporter there. Of course, just this last week I was in Dallas and I

Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

We stopped in Austin to see the relief administration people; they're the people who were involved with the various organizations that were headed by Harry Hopkins. I'd rather like to have her tell thi s story because she was the one who wanted

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Truman sent General [Harry] Vaughn, if I recall right, as his personal representative. And the Longoria family, with money raised by Mexican-Areerican people and the infant American GI Forum, sent all the family over there. And this is how I got

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 5 (V), 3/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Eleanor Roosevelt than some of the other first ladies, like Mrs. Eisenhower and Mrs. Truman, who just kind [of] were in back. He always was pressing Mrs. Johnson to get into some thing that she would enjoy and take leadership in. Of course, she did select
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee; William Fulbright and his relationship with LBJ; writer William S. White's relationship with LBJ; Fulbright's opinion of minorities; LBJ's opinion of Head Start and Job Corps; the relationship between LBJ

Oral history transcript, Abe Fortas, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to enlist their support. J: Yes. F: Beyond that sort of citizen activity-- J: Not more than any good concerned layman.. F: That's right. J: You were active in the early '60's in the field of racial discrimination-- Did you ever, as far as you know

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for the WPA . Mr . Harry Drought was the WPA Administrator . To work out a cooperative program with the WPA, he spent a lot of time in San Antonio with Mr . Drought . Of course, he had to make many trips to Washington to training seminars and program

Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)

a decent sort. She more or less recommended it. I'd had an experience once with former President Harry Truman when I was program chairman of the then Mississippi Valley Historical Association, later the Organization of American Historians, in which
; the Supreme Court; Jake Pickle and John Connally’s connection with LBJ in the late 1930’s; connection between UT and LBJ through Pickle, the Connalys, and Lady Bird Johnson; Pappy O’Daniel; informing LBJ of J. Frank Dobie’s death; how Frantz joined

Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, and I'll have 90 per cent of the house with me. This is a natural coincidence between what is economically and socially right and what is politically feasible. And the Democratic party from Andrew Jackson through Harry Truman took this position

Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

been there since Truman's adminis- He had come there as a navy chief; worked under Truman, Eisen- hower, Kennedy and Johnson, and continued to work under Nixon up until, I think, just after Ford took over or just before Ford took over. Jack

Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

there was some ambiguity as to who was minding the store. [Robert] Komer, Bator, and so on, and Brom [Bromley] Smith. The State Department and other branches of the government began to send memos and foreign policy around through Moyers or Valenti or [Harry

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 13 (XIII), 7/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

one. G: Yes. Okay, anybody else? J: I can't think. G: Okay. Now, late in 1953 Herbert Brownell attacked Truman in the Harry Dexter White case. Do you remember that, Mr. Johnson's attitude toward it, reaction? J: His reaction

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

INTERVID~EE : GLEN P. vJILSON INTERVIEWER: T. HARRI BAKER PLACE: Dr. Wilson's office, Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, let me introduce you here briefly. You were born in Waco, have a bachelors

Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

: At Middleburg . George Brown, at the time had been on several commissions ; one, under President Truman, the [William S .] Paley Committee, I believe it was called, on the needs of this nation for raw materials for the next twenty or thirty years . Eisenhower

Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, Eisenhower had Sherman Adams, Harry Truman had General Vaughan, and Kennedy had Bobby Kennedy. These were their lightning rods. They were the bastards. The President was always the good guy, and when anything would happen, they would say, "Well, it's

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, with the comment that "you never want to give a man a gift while he's up, give it to him while he 1 s down." Is that a true story? R: It's true that he gave me an automobile. though. I don't recall the other part of it I've seen that story many times, which has

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

see. decision as to whether to run. I went to Washington then. It was the time for him to make a This time it was different. lost in 1941 he kept hi s congress i ona 1 seat. When he In 1948 the bi g question came up, if you filed for the Senate

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

proud of. He was a political appointee when Harry Truman appointed him to be our ambassador in the Argentine, and I guess from then on his service was as distinguished as anybody that we've ever had. He was in the same mold as David Bruce and Governor

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1977 INTERVIEWEE: D. B. HARDEMAN INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Maury Maverick, Jr.'s residence, San Antonio, Texas Tape 1 of 2 H: Okay, let me mention this now because I may never think about it again. A person that might have a little note

Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of years, the last two years of Truman's Administration. I just want you to know, for whatever it's worth to you, that those two years, in my book, were the worst two years that I've ever spent in my life." (Laughter) "So you have got that to look

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Massachusetts and went to Washington in 1944 as a correspondent for the Boston Herald, at which point I met President Roosevelt, who was simply wonderful to me. I met Harry Truman. Later Then I married Bill and stopped working. G: You became a housewife. W

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 2 (II), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and he was a soldier. He was never ever better. He loved combat. He was great. He was like a [General George S.] Patton, I used to always say, a Patton and an Eisenhower. Patton was a--he wanted to be with the troops. I don't think--he couldn't have

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

named Bill Rives, who later became their sports editor, very nice, attractive fellow who may be the one I'm thinking about, but I'm not sure--R-I-V-E-S. But Bill Rives' story said 16 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

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