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Oral history transcript, Eugene McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McCarthy -- I -- 6 talk about that. Or Public Works, there was nothing on Public Works that I was interested in or that he was interested in, I don't think. G: Or that Bob Kerr, who was on there, was concerned. With your

Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. G: How about BOB? What was their position throughout this . . . ? Y: Well, there wasn't a BOB position, there was a [Charles] Schultze[William] Capron position, and I think they were more inclined to be sympathetic with our notion of a program

Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

day coming back from the airplane from Los Angeles, "You know, Tom Kuchel is going to run for governor someday." He said, "Fine!" I thought he'd say, "The hell with him! He can't have my job!" But no. He said, "Gee, I hope he does. He'd make a fine

Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to Senator Kennedy, "Jack, you're awfully I'm sure you will be President some day, but I think you are too young to run now and I hope you don't." President Kennedy said, "Well, Phil, I'm sorry, but I'm running, and LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

minute named Gibson, from Amarillo I believe, who was a member of the Committee. He'd gone out to the restroom. M: Yes. S: At that time Bob Calvert, who is nOw Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, was the Chairman of the State Democratic

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 7 (VII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

force that the administration hoped for, would require more super grades. Each agency had around three hundred agents, maybe a little less than that. The total would have been somewhat less than six hundred, and the administration wanted to increase

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

--Okamoto being the boss--and one secretary. MG: Who were the others? Frank Wolfe, I suppose. G: Frank Wolfe, Bob Knudsen. At that time there was a specialist fourth class from the army, Kevin Smith was there, and myself. until I don't know exactly

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, one of the things we hoped the most for, was to get some unit of the armed forces stationed in Austin, because it would build the city then and later. What we seemed to have a chance for was an army air support 8 LBJ Presidential Library http
absence; Lady Bird Johnson's interest in buying a house in Washington, D.C.; dinner with Congressman and Mrs. Bob Poage; why Sam Rayburn wanted LBJ and other congressmen to return from military duty; Senator Alvin Wirtz's help with settling Uncle Claud

Oral history transcript, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ginsburgh --I --3 RG: Yes. Vietnam was the official responsibility, as I recall, of Bob [Robert
; influential national security staff members; Bob Komer; General Maxwell Taylor; the effect of U.S. involvement in Vietnam on the rest of the world; controversy over the order of battle in Vietnam; inaccurate body counts; intelligence regarding the Tet

Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

\'ias very good at accentuating the positive, and my wife and I had us off. ~aken our ten year old son, Bob, out there to see And when Johnson saw Bob, he met him and he says, IIBob, have you ever been to Texas?" "Ever ridden on a horse?" Bobby said

Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 5 (V), 10/30/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in 1955 and return to his position as majority leader, then on to the vice presidency and then to the presidency would, he hoped, be encouraging to many people who also had coronary disease. And I'm sure it was, because not only Eisenhower but Johnson's

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

raised a question that has to be asked. Why would you not join the ADA? G: Because when I was here in those days, Bob Nathan, who was one of the founders, and I were working on an organization called the American Veterans' Committee-"citizens first

Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

clung to that hope, and I clung to that hope for a long time, as my public statements will reveal. Even as late as 1966, I probably still thought there was a chance. And increasingly, I became more and more pessimistic and visited Vietnam in late

Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

Connally and among the other stockholders were, and the active workers at the station, were Bob Phinney, now Director of Internal Revenue, and J. J. "Jake" Pickle, who is now Congressman from the lOth District, and Ed Syers who was later head of the famous

Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

then in running for president? 0: No, I don't think that there was any . I suppose that his acceptance of the idea that a good voting record would be in his own best interest might reflect, you know, the hope . hope, but he had no expectation . I He probably

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

can still make it." Then I went to Lady Bird and she wasn't so sure that she wanted to do it. She still hoped but she also had this feeling that she didn't want him to leave Texas. She was terribly surrounded by the feeling of the Texans

Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

and of the sort we hoped for. What he said, in effect, as I recall, was that there was no serious obstacle holding it up, that it was time, he agreed, to get on with the job. He would proceed to appoint a committee to begin the study of the problem. Well, that's

Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

said, "lId like that job." And he told So we got busy and we got hold of Bob Jackson who was secretary--it was either Bob Jackson or Arthur Perry, I've forgotten which,that was secretary of Tom Connally; and then we got in touch with~retary

Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

submitted my letter of resignation. I told him I was going to do it. Bob McNamara suggested we call up the reserves, put our nation on a full war footing. I told the President, in front of Bob, who's an old friend of mine from the Kennedy days, "You do

Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (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 Sullivai1 -- I -- 5 S: Yes. I think, until either Dean Rusk, or Bob McNamara--or I

Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it be a coup or what, probably no more than half a dozen newsmen had a hint that change was coming. then, too. Now keep in mind, the press corps was very small There were no more than twelve or fifteen people. But I'm pretty sure Bob Shaplen knew something

Oral history transcript, Will Wilson, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

if that happened was to make an issue of it. - I didn't propose to take it lying down; I was going to make an issue of it. Johnson said at the time that he hoped Connally wouldn't make the governor's race, but that he had no control over it. I didn't LBJ

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

we had strong votes. We rather hoped that they would hold back, so if 28 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

Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

later said that I was a traitor to my country, by the way. Bob Sherrod was going out to Vietnam, I think it was about 1966 or so, and as a lot of people did he went and got briefed in the White House. Lyndon always wanted to know who was going out

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that the offshore lands belonged to the federal government and not to the state off whose shores they were. From then on for many years "tidelands" was a household word. G: We'll talk more about that I hope when we get to the 1950s. J: The Soviet build-up

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was a very direct fellow. You need not be concerned about Mike's attitude or position. If you asked what he thought the status or the hope or expectancy was, he would tell you. Now, there were times when that wasn't what you wanted to hear, and I think
relations office; Mike Mansfield bringing senators to O'Brien for briefings; Bobby Baker's talent for head counts and projected attendance counts; Bob Kerr; Jacqueline Kennedy's interest in congressional relations compared to that of Lady Bird Johnson

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

not been as productive as it should have been ; but whether there was that kind of minor mistake or not, you can't get away from the way this was . This was a very basic point because, as I think I said in our first go-round, the hope in May and June

Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

--and again, I'm just guessing, because I was not involved in that--that this was something that perhaps senator Bob Kerr might have workedout.He was very prominent in the whole space· area, as of course was Lyndon Johnson. But I don't know how that worked

Oral history transcript, Conrad L. Wirth, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on the advisory council of Director Bob. Feckner. director of the Service. Of course Albright remained the That's F-E-C-K-N-E-R, who was head of the Civilian Conservation Corps. The CCC worked not only on federal properties, but on state and metropolitan

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 3 (III), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the Budget people there, but I don't know who they were. I don't remember them at all now. You got any indication that Sam was there? Sam Hughes. G: Sam Hughes? I don't recall his name, but there were people detailed from BOB I guess: Ann Oppenheimer

Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 2 (II), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, in which there were discussions about [space]. But this was after Kennedy was in the White House, and Lyndon at that time was chairing a [space] committee, and he had Senator Bob Kerr there, I believe, and a couple of White House people, somebody from NASA

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Beaty at Interior with [Stewart] Udall and an associate of his, Bob McConnell, [who] worked with Beaty. Ken Birkhead, similarly with Orville Freeman.I think that was essential, as these were positions in the department or agency that were high

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to crop up regarding equal opportunity. [You had to] cope with it to the best of your ability, but hope that while you were there, because of your unique situation--your relationship with the White House and the President--you had an opportunity to launch

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, we never did get this Loop. Even today, there is a need for a well We'll have it; and when we do, I hope it will delineated loop. be called LBJ Drive or Loop, because he was really the originator of it over thirty years ago. When I was traveling

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to for the necessary financing to carry out my programs. But they were not to look to me as a source of financing. That was the same when I was national chairman and Bob Strauss was treasurer. Bob and I had an understanding. Bob's job was to raise the money to keep

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Yarmolinsky, and Adam Yarmolinsky was Bob McNamara's special assistant. Bob McNamara was my great friend, and so was Adam Yarmolinsky. In fact, when we thought about starting the Job Corps, I said that it seemed to me the best way to get that through Congress

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

speculation as to who would be Mr. Johnson's running mate, and of course for a time there Bob Kennedy's name was put forward. Then due to Mr. Johnson's announcement that no member of his cabinet would be in contention, this put a damper on this. Did you

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

forward to getting back to my law practice in St. Louis, because I had a wife and three children, whom I had sent back to live with her people in Boston during the time I was in the service. I was hoping that we could get our family together again and I

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

spot. At the very end he commented again on the fact that he hoped that he could have our support, and I informed him again that I was sure that Senator Symington was going to want it to go to a ballot. He wanted Senator Symington to withdraw prior

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