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Oral history transcript, Sam V. Stone, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • upon our representatives then as much as we are since that time, and there are a few little matters that concerned some of my friends--and some of our mutual friends that I would contact him about and he was always very willing to cooperate. PB: Do
Oral history transcript, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The details and specifics were not known to me at the outset. My initial concern and opposition to the nomination sprang from the fact that it had all the earmarks of a political maneuver; it looked as though the then-Chief Justice Earl Warren was cooperating
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • to it that the state highway department cooperated with us in every respect. Lyndon was very dynamic and you might say a real pusher in seeing that this program was put into effect. And even after he went to Congress he continued to have an interest in the National
Oral history transcript, Payne Rountree, interview 1 (I), undated, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • , if his parents would consent. You see, we needed someone to go along with us. It was pretty expensive. He cooperated and everything was all right. G: He was a pretty popular fellow with you all, wasn't he? R: Oh, yes. G: What did you like about him
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 3 (III), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on it. He would cooperate obviously on the business of the Tet truce, and 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, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with the Administration. He expected cooperation in return. I never remember an improper request for cooperation. anything that was even very major. He cooperated I never remember But he would expect little things. Often he would preface it by saying, "Now, I want
Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . live never found a better group of individuals, a better group of people to deal with than those senators. And it didn't make muchdifference whether they were Democrats or Republicans. were all very cooperative. They LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 And the utilities in my section of the country like TP&L, were very cooperative with rural electrification. Mr. Carpenter and Bill Lynch were the ones who were running
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 3 (III), 3/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • is typical of the Johnson pattern ever since the Eisenhower years. Mc: How do you mean? P: He made ever effort to be cooperative with Eisenhower. It's the con- sensus business, and I think he honestly felt--there is a great streak of fundamental
Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to answer that both ways. M: Yes and no? R: Yes and no. There's a strong degree of cooperation. Much of the steel mill is manned by people now that have gone through the university and who represent the dominant faith. all of its own. And it has
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • be a voluntary program where the industry would cooperate and that the secretary would then have to report back to the Congress within a year as to progress of the program. M: Same problem that you had with the auto safety. Boils down to the same. L: Right
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 10 (X), 5/13/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 1 -- 3 G: Kennedy introduced essentially a Medicare program that year that would be financed by an increase in Social Security taxes. Do you remember that? M: Well, I remember Johnson and [Robert] Kerr cooperating on some kind of a Medicare
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wilbur Mills -- Interview I -- 3 M: No. The Senate, I think, under Lyndon Johnson operated far more cooperatively
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • act up, you know. G: Did he have cooperation within the administration during the fifties? R: Oh, sure. He had plenty of cooperation. Political differences never stood in the way of cooperation as far as Johnson was concerned. If he could
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 27 (XXVII), 12/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . One rather bad deal was Hubert Humphrey. Hubert almost got euchred into [out of?] being the candidate out at Chicago. But Johnson was blowing hot and blowing cold on Hubert. I think Hubert could have made it with a little more cooperation. But he
Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of cooperation in return, and I know that President Johnson earned that respect and appreciation. G: Do you have any recollection of that train trip where LBJ met your father at Galveston and then rode back through Texas with him? R: No, I don't think I
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Rodney Borum, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that, as far as the rest of our programs are concerned . It's a matter, then, of extending an offer of cooperation with the other agencies and working with them, volunteering our input, rather than having to mandate it by legislative act . Obviously
Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • an army, on the assumption that the U .S . would never let Pakistan attack them . Since 1954 we had told them we never would allow them to . Every U .S . Ambassador--Allen, Cooper, Bunker, Galbraith and I--had assured them of this . I don't know why I
Oral history transcript, W. Evans Buchanan, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • service killing you . No matter what they do--I don't care who the President is--he still can't get his own wishes acted upon on a local level if he doesn't get cooperation . You can't fire the administrative assistant, three or four layers down
Oral history transcript, Jesse Curry, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and they contact you and you work out the parade route? C: Yes. Of course, after he was president, why then the Secret Service were res- p0nsible for all the security, and \lie would just cooperate "lith them and ., give them what they ask for and make helpful
Oral history transcript, Winston Taylor, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • why I went to the Ranch. Everybody did the best to have him cured. G: Was he a difficult patient? T: I don't think so. G: You think he was cooperative? T: Yes. G: You knew him before the heart attack and after the heart attack. How did
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 2 (II), 9/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in a sense you have two United States representations in Viet Nam, one military and one civilian, cause much of a problem as you can see? T: I don't think that it did. From what I could determine there was pretty good spirit of cooperation between
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 2 (II), 12/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • been first in Ankara and Athens that we should take the laboring oar, and that the others would assist in every way which was necessary. I must say that the cooperation between Rolz-Bennett, Mr. Brosio, and all of the others could not have been better
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 11 (XI), 2/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in these various departments, where they were surprised to hear from us and surprised to hear about our role, but they did a very good job of being cooperative with us. And in some instances, in order to achieve the President's mandate, we had to do something quite
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 28 (XXVIII), 4/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • far more cooperatively than had been anticipated and that that provided part of the rationale for the change in focus, the change in mission of the Community Relations Service. Was that an element in your thinking? C: No. I don't know what the papers
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 54 (LIV), 9/11/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- LIV -- 3 publicize our efforts until we have developed a cooperative program or failed in our attempt to do so." I had a transportation meeting as I had on all the other subjects, and as I reported in that memo to the President, I found out what
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of cooperation from different members. Some wouldn't. Some would always. We kept a careful record, a book, on every congressman's vote on every issue, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Lawrence McQuade, interview 1 (I), 1/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • ; the Green amendment; Har-You Act and CAP; OEO-White House cooperation; the Job Corps; SWAFCA; assessment of the agency and office
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 5 (V), 12/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and cooperated with him from that standpoint. But generally speaking the military dragged its feet on a lot of the reforms by Mr. McNamara. But during the year that I was there, having inherited McNamara people, who were very able, in a general way we went along
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the agriculture field? F: Yes. I talked to the chairman and some of the leading members of each of the committees, and they were luke wann to this proposal, to say the most. But they were reasonably cooperative; it was a new Administration, and they didn't
Oral history transcript, Daniel Garcia, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , he could recognize [from] when he was nineteen or twenty years old. And it was a thrilling, human story, real beautiful. A lot of people cooperated. We must have had about two or three thousand people, and there are less than two thousand people
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was younger and more energetic in those days. G: Now, in February of 1964 American Banker Association President William Kelly made a speech in New York deploring the lack of cooperation and the overlapping of the three federal agencies involved
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to call it than the administration position. Chester Cooper, who is now at the Institute for Defense Analysis, ran that. M: I just ran through a thing on the national security process that's a pretty good piece of work. B: Well, he could tell you
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the only way a Democrat can. F: Neither girl gave you any real trouble. C: No. Luci was infinitely more cooperative than Lynda. I don't like comparisons in that respect either, because both of them really, I think, showed that they had grown up
  • for auction; restoration of boyhood home; Secret Service rules on use of Ranch Road 1; LBJ’s judgment of people; Lady Bird’s relationship with Jackie Kennedy; Barbara Howar; transition; cooperation of Luci and Lynda; Lady Bird’s shopping for clothes; Women’s
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the middle of Marigold, such as the change of instructions to Chester Cooper in London when he had to withdraw the note to Wilson and so on? J: Cooper just exceeded his instructions, that's all. M: So these were not errors that were, in all cases, made
Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • basis, and-be bonded. We saw, too, the possibility for organizing cooperatives in this field. The business approach meets needs which are house-oriented rather than people-related. Where the work to be done is people-related, you can't come in, do
Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • that I was here. With the cooperation of the Management 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
Oral history transcript, Raymond H. Lapin, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : This is an independent operation? L: We used to when we were under an administered price basis; part of the reason it took so long to get price changes is that we had to have so many meetings to have changes. But we don~ But, you know, we did have good cooperation