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Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • stood in all of those doors that read Look Magazine and New York Herald Tribune and a lot of publications that I was too intimidated to even go in. bureau for twenty-six dailies in Michigan. She had a news For twenty-five dollars a week I could
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • from New York--Brooklyn, who is the chairman of the Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee that deals with State Department appropriations, and consequently has to do with this program. Rooney calls Fulbright "half-bright" just as [Joseph
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was the turning point in those hearings for two reasons. One, he was a very incoherent witness and the record of the [John] Stennis hearings will show that. And number two, he slugged a reporter. He hit a reporter on the way out, from the Daily News. F: Who
Oral history transcript, India Edwards, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • expected to go and it wasn't until I was ready to make all my plans that my father said no. "You can't go to New York--a girl alone." F: It's a little bit bigger than Nashville. E: And that I could go to college some place near home. Chicago and got
Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • this, as Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division? R: I was Chief Counsel, thoroughly enjoying my job and working at it diligently. When Louis Oberdorfer resigned from office, since these two jobs have a great deal of daily contact, I was quite interested
Oral history transcript, Betty Furness Midgley, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the afternoon. in her office in the Executive Office Building, Room 100. We are My name is David McComb. To start off with your background, according to my information you were born in New York City in 1916 and educated in New York City and New York area
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , "I'm working very closely with him on the new civil rights bill," which Acheson--somewhat to my surprise because I hadn't been aware of any particular interest of his in this--he evidenced an interest also. And he said when he came back that Senator
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 41 (XLI), 1/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • clasp; he gave me cigarette lighters. And I ended up walking with my arms full of all these presents, to say goodbye to him. And he then proceeded--I'll have to look at the daily diaries, but [he] constantly called me and they were twelve hours
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • more and more on a daily basis. I think this was probably the point where [Robert] McNamara and Rusk had--I hate to use the words lost credibility with him, I think everybody had lost credibility with him at that point, or he felt that nobody
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that the New Deal and organized labor, which to most Texans was equivalent to the Politburo, were pouring money into Johnson's campaign here in Texas, and poor Texas people, honest Texas opposition couldn't stand up against this great plot that was hatched
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • liberal congressmen--well, the most liberal in Texas by far. But he ranked along with [Vito] Marcantonio of New York, kind of commie, communist. G: Of course Maury wasn't. With the tension between your brother and Mrs. Kleberg, did you have a hard time
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in Goliad, Texas, and I went to the University of Texas, B.A. degree in English in 1933; then two years of graduate work in history and government. Then I went to work as a newspaperman. I had been editor of the Daily Texan at the university and worked
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • would take a trip into New England. and we made six stops that day. It would be a one-day trip, I recall it very vividly. We went into Hartford, Connecticut, and Providence, Rhode Island, and Burlington, Vermont, and Portland, Maine; Manchester, New
  • 1964 campaign structure/organization; Arthur Krim; one-day New England campaign trip; daisy commercial; Barry Goldwater; Mrs. Johnson’s campaign trip through the South; inner workings of the campaign; Ambassador John Bartlow Martin; campaign
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and it was overwhelming. There is no doubt about it. We had the mightiest air force on the whole globe, and the result was that because we had this heavy advantage, we did not explore a number of new directions that other nations did explore. The Russians, for example
Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Defense College when a telephone call came through from the State Department asking me to return immediately to discuss a new assignment. what they had in mind. This was in December [1963]. I was not told The Imperial Defense College had not concluded
Oral history transcript, George G. (Admiral) Burkley, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , I had no call to be of any personal assistance to President Eisenhower . THB : Then, sir, after the election of John F . Kennedy as President, what was your status? B: The election of John F . Kennedy was general news and information to all of us
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • were sitting under the gun of the charges . New charges were forthcoming every day about this, that, and the other thing ; and about others down here at the Department that had gotten special benefits from Estes, or gotten gifts from him, and this kind
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (TAPE =lF2) April 22, 1969 This is a second session with Mr. Henry H. Fowler, former Secretary of the Treasury. I am in his offices in New York City. The date is April 22, 1969, and my name is David McComb. Last time you
Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Then the one that came in at twelve o'clock would be there until he left, which was eight or nine o'clock. G: W: G: I see. And that would rotate on a daily basis? Yes. Tell me what it was like in the White House after President Kennedy's assassination
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (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 "Rags" Ragsdale of the U.S. News [and World Report], who was a friend of his of many
Oral history transcript, Herbert N. Blackman, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • event, the negotiations with the Japanese went on almost continuously from July of '56 into January of a 1 57 and it was pretty much full-time operation with almost daily negotiations with the Japanese, with the industries preparing new pieces
Oral history transcript, Antonio Carrillo-Flores, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • said, "All right, Mr. Senator." I went there. That's when I met Lady Bird. It was a very interesting meeting, because at the end it developed into some kind of polemic about the policies of the new administration in Mexico regarding foreign
Oral history transcript, Robert F. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • an evidence of change which really is an extremely welcome change on the whole, and which indicates a new sense of being a person, of individuality, and of actually being a part of the community on the part of a great many people who heretofore have not been
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • your chronology here gives the reason, is Johnson's resistance to the idea of tax cuts as an antirecession measure. He was for big spending in response to recession, and part of that I guess is just the classic New Deal and southwestern, midwestern
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 5, Side 1 G: Let me ask you first to review some of the episodes at the 1960 [Democratic National] Convention
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 6 (VI), 4/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of them here fortunately right away. Others were much slower than we anticipated because we couldn't get the transportation. So I asked that a new organization be set up. Space was provided. A new command center was created in the Pentagon. A general
Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • covering the city--the county seat, Newton, for the Hickory Daily Record, L. C. Gifford's paper. And then at eleven, I would sell insurance ‘til about four and at four-thirty I would be due up at the yarn mill, Clyde Fabrics, where I worked until two-thirty
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 3 (III), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • is the beginning of Mr. Johnson's presidency. We had brought you over then to his offices following the news of the assassination. Did you take part at all in the reception of Mr. Johnson when he came in? Where did he go when he came in, did he get in any
Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Clements was also impressed with your independence and helped get the money from a source in New York or some place, a liberal source. M: They did raise some outside money, and I never did know or pay much attention where it came from. The Committee
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • for yourself . Because you it as a journalist ; you go through the daily routine of reporting this story and reporting that story, and sort of face it and say, "All at the end of each of my visits and you rarely right, what does to Vietnam, sit down
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)
  • , and Mike Mansfield, the majority leader, came in and he said, "George, would you take over for Teddy? We've got some bad news there." I said, "Well, sure." As I remember it, as soon as I took the seat and Mansfield had told Teddy what had happened, he moved
  • and Robert Kennedy; civil rights legislation debate; civility among legislators; the New York Times not running a story about Senator James Eastland referring to Anwar Sadat as a "nigger;" McGovern and Frank Church meeting with Hubert Humphrey about support
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that would pass sometime in 1966 that would need at best a half a year's start-up money in that fiscal year. So the new legislation didn't have a lot of impact on the budget, even something as extraordinary as Model Cities. On drafting the message itself
Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Keyes Beech's view of the war, I think in the early years at least, coincided with that of the Chicago Daily News. I think that was coincidental. So with that one possible exception--and I don't think that's a significant one--no, I don't think
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a big part of his life and a big part of his companionship. He looked up to the old chairman, Carl Vinson from Georgia, with the greatest admiration and affection. And then he had a lot of other good friends on there, too: Sterling Cole I think of New
  • death; Harry Truman receiving the news of FDR's death at Sam Rayburn's "board of education;" LBJ's relationship with FDR; Milo and Tharon Perkins; President Truman's friends; LBJ's level of conservatism, especially following FDR's death; KTBC sending
Oral history transcript, Jack Hood Vaughn, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , "What are your five-year projections?" And we say, ''How can we have five-year plans if we're responsive to the other fellow's priorities and changes; a new administration comes in and the program is varied." really can't make this kind of projection
Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that was coincidental. News reports ranged from the totally pessimistic to--I can remember the quotes-- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, George McArthur, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . No, it wasn't the Majestic. But you could go in there and get information on anything that you wanted. You could go in there and get a helicopter; you could go in there and--you just name it, it was there. I've told you about Joe Fried, the New York Daily News
  • McArthur's work for the Associated Press; the difference between working for a wire service and a daily/weekly publication; Mrs. Eva Kim McArthur's work as Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker's secretary; Bunker's attitude toward McArthur's and Eva's
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • beaming in to us from telephone calls and from news accounts and messages all along the way. Daily Mrs. Johnson was in contact with the President and daily considered the option of our having to turn around and go back to Washington. Fortunately we did
Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of that was more than anything else a feeling that I liked to be involved in major new initiatives. come in. I had been involved in a lot of them since Kennedy had Not only the Peace Corps, but I had been involved in the task force that rewrote the foreign aid
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recall about that is that Mary Rather was his chief secretary at the time. Mayo Clinic. She was sending things to him at the She addressed a whole bunch of stuff to Rochester, New York that the Senator was most anxious to have and became quite