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Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of his head, which ;s the part of Kennedy's skull that had been blown out, a.nd said, III can't tell YOU,ll and then unconsciously reached Up and indicated where he had been hit. wa.s much milling around. Then the press bus arrived. There Everybody
  • and successor General Creighton Abrams; 1968 campaign and transition; LBJ’ s relationship with black civil rights leaders; the organization of LBJ’s staff; LBJ’s credibility and faults; Roberts’ current activities.
Oral history transcript, John W. Gardner, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that it was in perhaps the late '50's or early '60's. Then you were with Carnegie for quite awhile, weren't you? When was that? He was interested in the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii and its possibility as a base for Pacific basin studies-you know
Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and produced several good academic texts that were used in college teaching of economics. He re-infected me with a desire for academic work in economics. At that period of time I was teaching, and in the great tradition of Harry Truman, also working
Oral history transcript, Donnelly Bolton, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • -- I -- 5 D: Yes, just about. And I wasn't in country all the time, but I went over with Louie Truman, who was a three-star type that retired up in Atlanta, and who was that time the deputy CONARC commander. And in those days we had a task force
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • years later. that ther~s really not an awful lot that I can add at this late date to what I said before. questions. I find Now, if you had some more specific LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ." The first polls had come out and showed 85 per cent approval, et cetera, for him. He said, "Well, I know what happened to Harry Truman. I watched the same thing take place when he became president, and it'll be a very short period of time before they turn
Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • is that he is a member of the National Security Council--that was an innovation of Harry Truman. Second, he is the chairman of the Space Council--that was an innovation of President Kennedy, who requested Congress to amend the Space Act very early during
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • started in December '63, so he has had that problem on his plate throughout his entire term. And, of course, it's still going on, although it has s±mmered down considerably. However, I, for one, would not be surprised if we had another flareup, because
Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in Paris on Governor [Averell] Harriman's staff from the summer of 1949 unti1 1950; then back with Harriman in Washington from 1950 to 1952, when he was special assistant to President Truman. In 1951, he became the director of the Office of Mutual Security
  • ; 1947-1949 Paris with Governor Harriman; with Harriman in DC in 1950; 1952 for Truman; London as Chief of AID; Minister of Economic Affairs in Embassy in 1952, 1955; Alliance for Progress; to Brazil in 1961; Dominican affair; OAS Charter; Assistant
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh Johnson -- III -- 2 Roosevelt, he would get to hurrying us up to help him. So then Roosevelt would say, "I've got a war over in the Pacific." Then he and Harry Hopkins would stay up all night drinking with Churchill. Then when he sent
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • work in the sense of the three branches of government and all the built-in frustrations. Harry Truman once commented that he spent all of his time as president begging, pleading, imploring, and doing his damnedest to get people to do the most 3 LBJ
Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • accommodating to me and to Time's [H. D. S.] Greenway. At Camp Evans, north of Hué, in the middle of Tet we sat in on the morning briefing and so on and so forth. The understanding was that 23 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • finally it fed all the way up the line to New York and then there was no place to go, you see--except New York banks were able to go to Europe. M: As Harry Truman used to say, the buck stopped there. C: The buck stopped there, that's right. M: So
Oral history transcript, John Sherman Cooper, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • because of the reaction after the war, you know, controls and such, but I won by a very good majority, about forty thousand. for two years. But I was only elected At the end of the two years, in the famous President Truman victory, and [because
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh May 27, 1969 S: This interview is with Mr. Jake Jacobsen, former Special Counsel to President Johnson during the years 1965-1967. Today is Tuesday, May 27, 1969, and it's approximately nine in the morning
  • Biographical information; working for Price Daniel; Jacobsen’s personal political philosophy; 1940’s and 1950’s political climate in Texas; LBJ’s reputation as a congressman; LBJ’s early advisers and associates; law suit involving the 1948 election
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a reception at the Carlton Hotel for Vice President and Mrs. Truman. F: At the Carlton here? s: Yes. During the reception someone, either Secretary Forrestal who was secretary of the Navy at that time, or Mrs. Forrestal, suggested that my wife and I come
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES S. MURPHY INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. Murphy's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, do you recall when you first met Lyndon Johnson or had any knowledge of him? M: No, I do not. I came to Washington about
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  • [For interviews 1 and 2] Brief contacts with Senator Johnson during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations; Democratic Advisory Council establishment and opposition by LBJ and Sam Rayburn; Paul Butler; LBJ’s effectiveness as Senate majority
  • Murphy, Charles S. (Charles Springs), 1909-1983
  • Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker
  • Charles S. Murphy
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 4 (IV), 6/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in '67; and the conference in El Sa lvado r , the Cent ral American Pre s idents and - · ~ . '68 . t h e sunnner of 1 r esident Johnson in 1 6 7, was it? 68. Al l of t ose meetings were, of course, planned well i we had ample t ime to send
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 6 (VI), 4/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • into action. F: I well remember Harry Truman's delightfully forthright statement when he took the atom bomb out of the military control and put it into civilian, he didn't want some dashing lieutenant colonel making a reputation out of pressing a button. So
  • McChesney Martin; advised LBJ on last State of the Union Message; continuing relationship between Truman and LBJ; LBJ after leaving office; wear-out factor in being head of a Cabinet; cabinet level relationships with White House staff.
Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . I have an Illinois My father came from down between Virden and Girard, and then a whole group of Frantzls have lived out at Sterling. So I'm not unfamiliar with how the state is set up politically. S: Well, I was in the campaign with Truman
Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be in 1960. Had yoct any particular acquaintance with Johnson prior to that time? S: I had known Johnson when he was Majority Leader, I'd known far better very close friends and supporters of his, esp2cially J[m Rowe and Phil Graham. At Jim Rowe's
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • years? S: I had been appointed deputy director of the Budget Bureau by President Truman in 1950 and had decided to go to Marshall Field and Company at the invitation of the president of the company, who had been a consultant to the Budget Bureau during
Oral history transcript, Allan Shivers, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • day." That stuck in my mind, you ran not too long after that and I started watching. S: Yes, I ran right after I finished law school. F: And you practiced law in Port Arthur and then served in the state Senate? S: That's correct. F: And became
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . In the meantime the story goe s that Wright Mor row personally guaranteed- -he's a man of considerable means--a national television broadcast for President Truman. By reason of that he, in a way, ingratiated himself with the people on the National Committee
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 6 (VI), 9/16/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 1 1 I guess so. and favorable, particularly because a lot of people were surprised at the position Mr. Johnson took. G: Let 1 s see, the Taft-Hartley was passed over Truman 1 s veto that year. J: That s what I was thinking, it had to be about
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • S. STRAUSS INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB DATE: May 22, 1969 PLACE: 2800 Republic National Bank Building, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 [vl: Let me identify this tape first of all. This is an intervie\>/ with Mr. Robert S. Strauss--S-T-R-A-U-S-S
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  • Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb
  • Robert S. Strauss
Oral history transcript, Anthony Buford, interview 1 (I), 6/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . You have a book that's inscribed by the various guests at a party that was given in 1944 for you and your wife. Harry Truman was there, Lyndon Johnson was there, Sam Rayburn. In fact, LBJ was really the host of the party. B: That's right, he and Mrs
Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . But the Kennedys presumably because I had one unique qualification--not only was I a northerner, a northern liberal who was very close to Rayburn, but I also was very close to Truman--the Kennedys, through Bobby, gave me three jobs which were incompatible . You
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh December 4, 1969 F: This is the second interview with George Christian, now in Austin, Texa s in his offic e , and the interviewer is Joe B. Frantz, and the date must be December 4, 1969. Okay, Ge orge . We we re t a lkin
Oral history transcript, Lindy Boggs, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- I -- 10 (Laughing) He wasn't above using us politically, either, but I felt that that was even more of a compliment than his asking me to take on the job, that he knew I could do. Then in the 1960 campaign, he went to see Mr. [Harry] Truman when he
  • presidential campaign; LBJ's interest in women's rights and putting women in leadership roles; LBJ's 1960 visit to Harry Truman while planning a whistlestop tour; women doing advance work in the 1960 presidential campaign; Lady Bird Johnson's 1964 whistlestop
Oral history transcript, Truman Fawcett and Wilma Green Fawcett, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: MR. and MRS. TRUMAN FAWCETT (Truman and Wilma Green Fawcett) INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: The Fawcett home in Johnson City, Texas Tape 1 of 1 M: Let me start off by asking you, Hr. Fawcett, something about your background. When were
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  • Oral history transcript, Truman Fawcett and Wilma Green Fawcett, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb
  • Truman Fawcett
Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CARL SANDERS INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: Governor Sanders' office in Atlanta, Georgia Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, do you recall if you met Mr. Johnson any time before the 1960s while he was still a senator? S: Oh, yes, I had met Mr
Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . S: Kuykendall, as I remember, was from Austin. those lawyers. G: And Truman Phel ps. I knew all those lawyers. I knew him, I knew all LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Interviewer: Thomas H. Baker Secretary Smith's Office, Department of Commerce, October 24, 1968 B: Do you recall when you first met Mr. Johnson? S: I don't remember the date; I don't even remember the year. Sam Rayburn was a friend of mine; I knew him
Oral history transcript, India Edwards, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • write Governor Harriman and suggest it to him," because I certainly couldn't suggest to him that he name me to the post. if you think it's something I can do." But I said, "Only So my darling Harry Truman wrote Governor Harriman, and he sent me a copy
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh F: You were seeing the world? N: Seeing the world! F: Did you have any kind of a New Year 1 s Eve on the train? N: No. F: It was a quiet trip? N: Yes. John Connally took Walter [Jenkins] and me the next night
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • Ewing had fairly close ties to Truman, didn't he? S: Yes. K: I mean, he had regular access to Truman, so-- S: Oh, yes. Sure. As far as access is concerned, you could get there, but it was not the same. You know, status is quite important
Oral history transcript, Edgar L. Ball, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the background was really the formation of what we call Loyal Democrats in 1948, when the party was divided. There were those that wanted to support Truman, and those that didn't, and this carried over into the November elections. At the 1948 national
  • Formation of Loyal Democrats and Dixiecrats; Harris County Democrats; Frankie Randolph; struggle for party control; Sam Rayburn; Johnson's role; precinct organization; race issue; committeeman/committeewoman controversy; 1956 Democratic National
Oral history transcript, William Lewis and Margaret Chase Smith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1975, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • work on the same committees in Congress, and later, when both were in the Senate together, they also served on precisely the same committees again together. S: So Lyndon Johnson [was] on the Democratic side and I on the Republican side, he just ahead