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Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 5 (V), 4/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEES: WILTON AND VIRGINIA WOODS (with comments by Wilton Woods, Jr.) INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: The Woods' residence, Seguin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Woods, I understand that you drove to Washington in 1939 with the Johnsons. W
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 52 (LII), 8/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1989 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: In the 1966 Minimum Wage Bill it appears that one of the first tasks-(Interruption) --it appears
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Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . H: That's right. But Johnson never was a captive of the southern bloc. He was trying to be a captain of them, rather than a captive. You see, being a Roosevelt New Dealer and being a protege of Sam Rayburn, he obviously couldn't be a real
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Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 6 (VI), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • L. Gillette PLACE: Kozy Korner Restaurant, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Why is the Mineral Wells speech--? B: Well, see, what was going on in this period in. . . . G: This was October, 1949; Halloween, almost. B
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  • Allen Duckworth selling a picture of LBJ and visiting the LBJ Ranch, Ted Dealey's statements regarding LBJ, visiting Hyannis Port with LBJ to see JFK, a flood at the LBJ Ranch during a Busby family visit
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 27 (XXVII), 12/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • getting into Washington [D.C.] early in the morning and calling Lillian. We were way up in northwest Washington. The riots never got that far. Lillian was telling me what a strange thing it was to go out of the house and walk down the street and see
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  • Reedy’s return to LBJ’s staff; preparations for 1968 campaign; March 31, 1968 speech, Washington riots; assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy; Reedy’s book on the presidency; maritime strike; Sam Houston; last year of LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 33 (XXXIII), 6/13/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Okay . . . C: --take over beautification. G: That's a good place to start. Do you remember
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 31 (XXXI), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR., with comments by Marcel Bryar INTERVIEWER: Michael Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: On the topic of poverty let's start from your perspective in the Defense
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 39 (XXXIX), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Generally, any insights on his attitude towards India? C: The President, at whatever point he got
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Oral history transcript, A. Ross Eckler, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • at that time he had with him Mr. Hobart Taylor [Jr.]. The Vice President, I think, impressed all of us with his sincere devotion to the cause of equal opportunity and civil rights. I was impressed with his directness and support of that program which
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  • First association with LBJ; Hobart Taylor, Jr.; 1965 Civil Rights Act; Richard Scammon; Andrew Brimmer; promotion of civil servants into appointed posts; referrals; special surveys; Congressional intervention; right of privacy issue; mailout
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • see, I didn't identify it as that. Yes. I was on my way back from Minnesota, the planes were stacked up over Washington due to congestion in the airport. It was a tight vote, and Majority Leader Johnson felt he needed my vote. He stalled the debate
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Yes. You were talking about the involvement of Wayne Morse. C: The President called him or told me
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 28 (XXVIII), 4/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR., with comments by Marcel Bryar INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: One question on Model Cities that I neglected-- C: Okay, go ahead
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 51 (LI), 8/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1989 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 C: In connection with the [Civil Rights Act] Title VI guidelines that were issued for the school year l966
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Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . But it seemed that somewhere along the line someone had taken the trouble to see what I had done in the reserve, and my background at Columbia University in history and political science, and they sent me out to the Army Intelligence School at Fort Riley
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Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [William McChesney, Jr.] Martin in which we agreed that because of the impending cost escalation for the Vietnam War, there should be an income tax surtax proposal, I advanced reasons for the necessity of such a proposal, as I recall it, at a cabinet
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 47 (XLVII), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1989 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: At some point I recommended and put in a presidential statement, either a signing statement
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Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 12 (XII), 4/25/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on that. George Brown was Do you have any recollection at all of that commission's work and whether or not it influenced LBJ's thinking? J: No, I don't, to be honest. G: Okay. Let's see who else was on it. William Paley, George Brown, Eric 2 LBJ
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Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was in the Senate, all the time he was vice president, and, neces­ sarily, I saw much less of him after he became president. But I did see him both professionally and personally at times when he was president. F: Let's bril!g your career on up to date and get
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 43 (XLIII), 3/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1989 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR., with comments by Marcel Bryar INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: As we were trying to draw to some kind of consensus, the President
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 23 (XXIII), 3/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: At some point in the 1964 campaign when [Barry] Goldwater was attacking Johnson and [Robert
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 34 (XXXIV), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 19, 1988 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR., with comments by Marcel Bryar INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Okay, let's start with the airline strike, [by the] machinists
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 41 (XLI), 1/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1989 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: --while it's in my head. When the President went on his trip to Southeast Asia on October 17, 1966
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Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Wild as a matter of fact. Claude Jr. and I were very good friends and my wife and I would see Mr. and Mrs. Wild [Sr.] periodically when we were in Austin. Mr. Johnson had wanted to speak to this group. Mr. Wild said Of course, the rumors were
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: What I must have done is called Vickie [McCammon McHugh Murphy] at some point that morning to ask him
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Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • about that time? T: Let me see--I don't recall when I first met Mr. Johnson. was sometime later. My guess--it I think probably I really didn't meet him until LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
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  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would like to meet him, but I've never met him." He said, "I'll arrange it, and he's here in December if you're interested." I got a call one day at my apartment, and Bill said, "The Congressman can see you"--I think in a day or two. I went down
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  • Weber, Otto, J., Jr., 7/12/1920-6/5/2010
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to see Grandmother was always a part of it. She lived in a very simple farmhouse, where actually she lived for more than eighty-five years, having four husbands, thirteen children, and watching twelve of them grow up. That was a matter of great interest
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  • Lady Bird Johnson's paternal grandmother; Mrs. Johnson's father, Thomas Jefferson Taylor, Jr., and his childhood; Mr. Taylor's move from Alabama to Texas and setting up his business; the Pattillo family and Mrs. Johnson's parents' marriage; Mrs
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 60 (LX), 1/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1990 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR., with comments by Marcel Bryar INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 C: I sent the President the cable of April 24, 1967, at 9:45 p.m
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: --I don't really know, unless you've got specific stuff. I think that's inaccurate. G: Okay
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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 23 indeed, but you can just look your best with a small enough effort. The effort to get Tom Miller, Jr., into OCS took me to see Jim Rowe and Tom Corcoran and just about everybody I could think of. Maybe next to Bergstrom it was one of the great
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  • with the press, specifically newspapers; LBJ's interest in Lady Bird Johnson's appearance; Lady Bird Johnson's efforts to get Tom Miller, Jr., into Officer Candidates School; time LBJ spent with Ed Weisl while in California in the navy; Lady Bird Johnson's
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • before this, there had been some kind of gas-filled balloon sent up in the sky, very high in orbit, on which there had been great advertising that you could see. Actually you could see that balloon across the sky. That night there had been a rumor
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  • that powerful politicians have of their staff; FDR's relationship with Raymond Moley; Leland Olds; Corcoran's work with LBJ through James H. Rowe, Jr.; Senator Theodore Green's advice to LBJ regarding LBJ giving up the majority leadership for the vice presidency
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1989 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR., with comments by Marcel Bryar INTERVIEWER: Mike Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: On July 18 [1966] at the meeting of the Labor-Management Advisory Committee
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1989 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR., with comments by Marcel Bryar INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: On May 21, I and Larry Levinson met with Jerry Grinstein who
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Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to that, I had some minor involvement in seeing to it and getting the assurance of the unions that they woul d not in any V,JaY interfere with the carri age of mi 1itary cargo, which they pledged and met that pledge. F: Now in July you had a railroad
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  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • did tell him I was Senator Kerr's manager . F: Did you see him after that? B: I saw him after that just on occasion . I would be with Senator Kerr while Senator Kerr was managing a bill or something and sit ting in the Senate or managing
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: Before the aluminum price increase in September [1965] as part of the annual budget process, I
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 21, 1988 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR., with comments by Marcel Bryar INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: We'll just get in the record, then we can go on. On July 20
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: JOE A. CALIFANO, JR., with comments by Marcel Bryar INTERVIEWER: Michael Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: After the report was issued, the management [of the airlines] accepted
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 17 (XVII), 1/5/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano’s office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: We might begin our discussion of the Selective Service situation by asking you of your involvement
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Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • there are some questions involved in there that are not answered, at least on the public record. Did you see anything then of Mr. Johnson during the years that he was Vice President? R: Yes, I saw him several times, I think a couple of times when delegations
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  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
  • the JFK assassination; Civil Rights Bill of 1964; campaigning for LBJ in 1964; organization of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; introducing Martin Luther King, Jr. to the concept of non-violence; a King-Powell episode regarding Rustin