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  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh CHARLES BOATNER (Tape #2) JOE B. FRANTZ 1969 This is the second interview with Charles Boatner in his office in the Department of Interior Building in Washington on May 21, 1969 . The interviewer is Joe B . Frantz . Charlie
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  • Robb, Lynda Bird, 1944-
  • Boatner, Charles K.
  • Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Charles K. Boatner
  • , serves to create a certain amount of tension between the two girls. P: Very normal. M: They can snap at each other just like any other sisters on occasion. P: Have you seen that? M: Oh, yes. P: To continue on with Lynda Johnson Robb, I believe
  • 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/exhibits/show/loh/oh MEMO FOR THE RECORD Mr. Charls E
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  • Walker, Charls E.
  • Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger
  • Charls E. Walker
  • � � � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE : CHARLES K . BOATNER (Tape #1) INTERVIEWER : JOE B. FRANTZ More on LBJ Library oral
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  • Robb, Lynda Bird, 1944-
  • Boatner, Charles K.
  • Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Charles K. Boatner
  • with when we came back up for the next appropriation. I appeared in the House and one of the great opponents of the war against poverty was a congressman named Charles Goodell of-- G: New York, I believe. S: --New York, you're right. He subsequently
  • Head Start; initial funding for Head Start; Charles Goodell’s support for Head Start; Shriver’s belief in doing his job without bothering the president and his belief that his employees should do their jobs without his interference; the impact of LBJ’s
  • of horror. It was rather well written, and I think that-­ F: It was a compelling book. C: It was a compelling book, and I can't say that we suffered too much from it. F: Let 1 s shift off that and talk a little bit more about trips. We 1 ve covered
  • , 1977 INTERVIEWEES: Lady Bird Johnson [CTJ] , O. B. Hardeman [OBH], Ralph Huitt [RH], Lindy Boggs [LB], J. J. Pickle [JJP], Lynda Robb [LR], Luci Nugent [LN], Dean Reid [DR], Patsy Steves CPS], Carl Albert rCA], Beryl Pickle [BP], Richard Neustadt [RN
  • Robb, Lynda Bird, 1944-
  • goodness, that there should be no worry about the printed word - that it will never, never disappear. TV didn't kill it when it magically appeared, he reminded us. Another great contributor was my friend Jerome S. Rubin, Chairman of the MIT [Massachusetts
  • of people came out--an aged granddaughter of U. S. Grant, who had married a White Russian and lived happily ever after in Washington. But the point is, we knocked ourselves out, and Geographic had knocked themselves out in this project. The next morning I
  • hi s temper--Ei senhower--it was 1i ke looking into the door of a Bessemer furnace. Your mouth would drop open. that much energy! Incredible! White-hot h@at. You couldn't imagine a human being had All right, he was president. Why was he
  • and then somewhere along the way as a paid worker. And to begin with, there was Charles Henderson, but he left before long for a bigger job, as I remember, I think in Senator [Tom] Connally's office. My place in the office had to emerge by doing, because
  • Patillo's estate; Senator Wirtz's and Charles Marsh's different opinions regarding whether or not LBJ should run for Senate; Aunt Effie Pattillo living with the Johnsons in Washington, D.C.; Lady Bird Johnson and her friends putting on plays; LBJ's two-week
  • . So the impression I got when I was a kid [was] that Grandmama didn't like boys, because she said Lyndon wouldn't mind her. See, that's just all it was. She'd ask him to do something and he was gone, and that's just about hi s character, too
  • , 1977 INTERVIEYlEE: STUART SYMINGTON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Senator Symington's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Now, you were going to tell me about the tin smelter? S: My mind is somewhat hazy about it. When I ran
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVlnlliE: CHARLES F. BAIRD INTERVIEWER: DOROTHY PIERCE More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
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  • Baird, Charles F. (Charles Fitz), 1922-
  • Oral history transcript, Charles Fitz Baird, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
  • Charles Fitz Baird
  • written to Chuck Percy and said that President Johnson's son-in-law, Captain Robb, had been in charge of a platoon that staged an even bigger massacre in Vietnam. I was not familiar with this story myself, but Johnson said that Percy, instead of calling
  • Pucinski's political career; Pucinski's relationship with Sam Rayburn; LBJ's support for Pucinski in a 1972 Senate race against Charles Percy; allegations of misconduct against Charles Robb in Vietnam; a trip to Chicago with Vice President Johnson
  • the basic commanders were not knowledgeable on the capabilities of air power at that time because of--a navy lieutenant by the name of Jimmy Robb, who was on the ship, and I--and we grew to be friends on the trip over as far as Hawaii--we 2 LBJ
  • we all sat in the Cabinet Room listening to tapes that the General had brought back from Chuck [Robb] to his father-in-law about what was going on in Vietnam. That was one of the things that General Westmoreland [would do]. He was probably the highest
  • of the Nonproliferation Treaty; LBJ's wish to improve the world for future generations; LBJ's reflective nature; recordings LBJ's son-in-law, Charles Robb, sent to LBJ discussing Vietnam; LBJ's concern over events in Vietnam; protocol surrounding the presentation
  • was doing certain things. M: Would he come up into the cockpit? C: Oh, yes. He came into the cockpit many times. The fact of the matter is, I [have hereJ,no, I gue$s it's at home, I've got a picture that he autographed for me where he's sitting
  • might get there and you could not cross the river. So ask Cousin Ava if you can't spend the night with her." Anyway, I got that all arranged. [see Lynda Johnson Robb's oral history for her memory of the flood] From then on, the day began to take over
  • : What year was that? G: I believe that was 1958, yes, 1958. He managed to substitute a much milder bill by Senator [Styles] Bridges. Do you remember how he did that? T: I don t recall the detail s on that but 1 know he never di d want to 1 affect
  • with the potentialities of my compromise approach to want to know how to deal with it on that basis. I had become, in other words, sort of a prop to his kind of moderation. I doubt that he was sendi ng r1ax Robb to anybody el se at the same time because thi s seemed
  • not? C: That r s correct. I '-las born and raised and got my formal education in the State of Utah. I have occupied most of the positions between Assistant Ranger and my present position as Chief. I have s~rved as forest supervisor, staff officer
  • Robb, Lynda Bird, 1944-
  • luck he happened to have pricked me on the one issue where I felt very, very strongly that John Foster Dulles had made a big policy mistake back in the middle '50's when we put our money on Pakistan instead of India. F: To a certain extent
  • there. This time Johnny's stepson, Charles, just out of architectural school, was there. My reason for going, other than just to have a good visit with Kay, was to look at the plans for the Blair House Garden which she has been developing with John Painter
  • out in the papers the list of people that were invited and that could not come on account of illness. One was Mrs. Robb's sister or aunt; she had something wrong with her hip or something. It didn't say that the President's brother couldn't come
  • : No, that was before I got here. G: That' s right. 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/exhibits/show/loh/oh
  • that during that period his price per picture went up astoundingly. B: The Johnsons seem obviously perfectly happy with Pat Nugent and Chuck Robb. A: Absolutely, they really are. B: You must have known then-Captain Robb before Lynda. A: Yes, I did
  • Bird was married, before luci had her second baby; there's just the first baby. The Robbs didn't have a baby. That was Christmas, 1967, you see. M: May I read the inscription? T: You certainly may. M: Mrs. Taylor has just shown me a picture
  • oxygen. But I don't recall the details of that. G: Okay. H: And the next time I was intimately involved was the twenty-third of March, 1972. He and Lady Bird were visiting Lynda and Chuck Robb in Charlottesville. Johnson had severe chest pains
  • : [Inaudible] George Herman Brown. [Inaudible] W: I think-- G: This was one--I think you're thinking about the first one in 1955. This one was in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was visiting the Robbs, I think. W: Yes. G: What did he say about that? You
  • was talking about that the other night in terms of the March 31 speech. She had just seen Chuck [Robb] off to Vietnam that day, and she came back and she knew she was pregnant. Chuck was gone and her life was destroyed. Then she walked in to discover that her
  • . There would be times when Lynda Robb would call me for some assistance on photo albums or prints and the type of matting and the type of framing and how many she wanted, then I would give them to different people to work on. We have various specialists here
  • decisions and encourage her to do the proper thing. She was unhappy at that time. This was after George [Hamilton], in between George and Chuck [Robb]. In other words, [they wanted] someone who was solace but yet who would be sure that things were done right
  • wives. They were very close at that time; they were very friendly. I had a daughter that was very close to Mrs. [Lynda Johnson] Robb, and they were friendly and all. But I often wondered why he had me there. G: Did he talk about the mood of the country