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Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of fact at the airport--Governor Romney. Because apparently one of my staff, who was in charge of the airport arrangements and lining the people up to meet the President as he came off the plane, had naturally, since he was a good staff man, put me
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of that was that every governor except [George] Romney, who was the governor of Michigan, came aboard. It does remind me of something else which I want to mention LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the command of an army general, and everybody understood that loud and clear. F: As far as you could tell, was Governor [George] Wallace more practical than Governor Barnett? [Did he] have more sophistication with regard to what was going on? C: I think
Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Johnson personally ever get involved in any way in that? H: I don't believe they did on the Powell matter. hazy. My memory is a little I know they got involved on my running feud with George Romney. I thought if they'd stayed the hell out of it, that I
  • liability; press assassinated LBJ politically; JFK legislation; investigation of Adam Clayton Powell; Hays’ feud with Romney; briefing of Foreign Affairs Committee by Secretary of State; LBJ’s hostility toward Senate Foreign Relations Committee; advice
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 59 (LIX), 1/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • York] Times urging us for our-- (Long pause) George Romney chimes in. Somebody writes correctly that nobody wants--okay. All right. Then Johnson, on LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ;nt could do that wouldn't get so arcane and a reverse psyche (?)-B: Did you ever get any iF!pr2~j3ion of ,.;hom he would have preferred to run against? W: Our general feeling, as I rr;call, Nas that Romney would be difficult. This was before
  • LBJ and anti-war demonstrators; George W. Romney; New Hampshire campaign; getting ready for the 1968 election; writing for Hubert Humphrey; the Humphrey campaign and LBJ’s role in it; Moyers leaving the staff; becoming a full-fledged LBJ staff
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on the substance of it from the other Senators? V: He did indeed. We drafted the report, and it was circulated on very short notice to the members of the committee. When I say "we," it was a number of us: Solis Horwitz, George Reedy, Mr. Weisl, myself, Gerry
Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • it by taking pictures of George Washington and the others off the wall and putting up pictures of Frederick Douglas, black people who'd done things. He was loaned by the Board of Education to the Model Cities Program to develop the educational component
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that did not have rioting; changes in the inner cities from the 1960s to 1988; Daniel Patrick Moynihan's report on the Negro family; the Detroit riots and Governor George Romney; the Commission's involvement in urging Congress to pass legislation LBJ
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • House? No, no, to the contrary. against lying. George Christian takes a very firm position He's noncommittal on many occasions. He felt like he had not only the right but the duty to withhold, if he felt like this was in the best interest
  • Folklore of LBJ; statistics and the press; George Christian; 1968 campaign; Moyers
Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . You see, Cyrus had gone, for the President, out to Detroit to try to pull the [Governor George] Romney-Mayor [Jerome] LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 49 (XLIX), 7/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Chicago didn't come until [Martin Luther] King [Jr.] assassination. We had real riots in Detroit, didn't we, in 1967. We ought to have [George] Romney in Detroit. G: To some extent was it simply a question of wanting to force the issue in order
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 55 (LV), 9/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • by to tell me that auto sales are slipping. [Then George] Romney chimes in to say that the safety bill would hurt auto sales more. Our view incidentally on that, as I told Markley at the time, was you're making your own problem. Get the goddamn bill passed
Oral history transcript, Dwight A. Ink, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 another was Glenn Seaborg, then Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission; another was George Bundy. He asked us
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of people. But in September when--and President Johnson was also involved in the program by that time in the sense that McNamara or somebody had described it to Senator Russell and Mr. Vinson. included George Mahon. I don't know who else. Ordinarily
Oral history transcript, Henry Bellmon, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • call for suggestions or opinions from the governors present? B: I really don't know that I can answer . These meetings always were somewhat loaded with political dynamite because both Governor Romney and Governor Rockefeller were generally present
Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that so much I guess I don't know whether I had the feeling, or it's just been drummed into me. F: You and George Romney, you've been brainwashed? K: No, I think for one thing a lot of them were big Kennedy fans, and they looked on Johnson as something
  • First association with LBJ; 1948 election; Star-Telegram’s campaign support; Preston Smith; Byron Utecht; George Parr; covering 1952 and 1956 Texas state conventions; LBJ’s response to an article by Kinch; Frankie Randolph; Mrs. Bentsen; Byron
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about the riots or the cause of the riots, but he was worried about Reagan as an opponent. Reagan later beat him. And that was a political factor in all of this. It was nothing like the [Michigan Governor George] Romney-Johnson stuff, which we'll get
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • with Paul Kilday and George Mahon--those in particular, I think. Mc: Did you become associated with Speaker Rayburn and the "Board of Education," as it is called? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 12 States Senator . I didn't want George Murphy, whom I'd known for years and thought was a first-class boob--which he has
Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the affairs of a small country twelve thousand miles away. M: I was thinking in terms of the [Governor George] Romney brainwashing business. You don't think there was any intentional effort on the part of the Americans particularly to prevent the White
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . G: You were a student at the University of Wisconsin in 1919-1923. You were an honor graduate of the United States Cavalry School in Fort Riley, Kansas. I guess that was 1922. You attended the University of Munich in Germ.any and George
Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to be not the case, and since that time I'm sure that many of us have had second thoughts about what really was happening over there. But that was the feeling at the time. Everybody on that tour, includ- ing George Romney who later said he was brainwashed
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 20 (XX), 4/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But it was there and was part of the climate. G: Were you involved at all in the Detroit problem and the communication between Governor [George] Romney and the President with regard to sending out troops? O: No. G: The riots, in the area of your involvement, the Post
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of State; Sylvester and Phil Goulding were in charge at DOD, and ·• both were subject, obviously, to the White House. But then there's always a question as to how much time Bill Moyers or George Christian. had to really exercise the kind of direction
Oral history transcript, Milton P. Semer, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • precedent, which led to Patricia Harris getting that job in the Carter Administration. Also, Governor [George] Romney, when he came in in 1969, regarded that department as one in which you could make huge strides toward equal opportunity for blacks, and I
  • bills; Semer's work in the Senate; George Aiken's views on Model Cities funding as governor of Vermont; getting enough support to pass Model Cities legislation.
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • President and [Mayor] Jerry Cavanaugh had been friendly, then had begun to fall out somewhat.They fell out a lot more later, but they were not as friendly at this point as they had been and, of course, [Governor George] Romney was a potential Republican
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to others. for him George Christian naturally spent an immense amount of time with him because the President very wisely felt that George ought to always have the flavor of his mood and his thought process, or else he couldn't communicate to the press
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • by the press, it would have been a period of great exultation. I think the press was absolutely fascinated by Lyndon Johnson, and I think that he handled the press very well. He had George Reedy up in the Senate press gallery, sort of keeping reporters
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the administration But I thought that was wrong. Hhen Detroit exploded and Jerry Cavanagh and George Romney were very deeply involved, did the President spare you that, or did he use you as a resource person on Michigan? W: No, he didn't. came off. I happened
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 7 (VII), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it domestically. Why are you doing it this way?" I would say that, of course, George [Christian] and Tom Johnson are a lot better qualified than I am to answer this. But to give you an idea, I came to Washington maybe six months after the Republicans had gotten
Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • really stayed with the man that did the most for their country, for their section. B: Does that apply to governors, too? E: Yes, sir. B: When you think of governors; you think of people like George Wallace I think wore of the governors than maybe
  • McPherson; George Reedy; Lee White; LBJ as VP under JFK; John Connally; Preston Smith; Bobby Baker; Lady Bird Special, 1964; NSC 1965; escalation in Vietnam; Tonkin Gulf Resolution; dissenting group in the White House; John Stennis; LBJ's decision not to run
Oral history transcript, Jerre Williams, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Pearl Hall. F: Right. W: I've got to go one step further on that. In addition, through Mary Pearl originally, I met Horace and Mary Virginia Busby. And I was instrumental with George Hoffman and Horace Busby in forming the local Foreign Policy Club
  • First meeting LBJ in 1958; forming the Austin Foreign Policy Club with George Hoffman and Horace Busby; a visit to the Ranch about 1958; refusing an appointment as general counsel to the army; surprise appointment as chairman of the Administrative
Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of that meeting the issue of whether or not to cormnit troops? Or, perhaps I should phrase that, I realize the request would have to come from Governor Romney. Was the question of whether or not Romney was going to ask for troops the point of contention
Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the first night. I think it was the first or second night when the question was whether the federal troops should be brought in. The White House was in a real bind on this for various reasons. Of course Romney was governor, and he had requested
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Ramsey Clark -- Interview IV -- 5 On the other hand, at Detroit I was first called a little after midnight the Sunday night that the riot got out of control. And Mayor Cavanagh called and he said Governor Romney was with him
Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jack Hood Vaughn, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)