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Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 8 (VIII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. This is an interesting situation because it brings to bear almost every part, every major branch, of our federal government. Back in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the airlines were in considerable need of financial assistance to pay for the heavy new load of equipment
and passage of a bill supporting the CAB's view; the awarding of trans-Pacific routes to the scheduled airlines in 1968.

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. O'Connell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 19 Texas airline called Trans-Texas . were up to . They didn't quite understand what we We had instituted a proceeding . Trans-Texas
Meeting LBJ; public power; Renegotiation Act; Temporary National Economic Committee; tax policy; O’Connell’s resignation; being offered the chairmanship of the Civil Aeronautics Board; the temporarily certificate of Trans-Texas Airline; aviation

Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, Tennessee on a hillside farm nea r Knoxvi 11 e. G: ~Jhat brought you to Texas? S: Well, you won't believe it but I'll make it as interesting as I can. I was in the service in World War I, July, 1917 to December, 1918. [It was] the first time I had been
Braniff and Eastern Airlines over postal contracts and routes; grandfather clause in Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938; Texas National Aviation Defense Board; Lady Bird; soundness of the dollar; general impressions of LBJ

Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

to be in the airlines business. I'd flown during the war and I was getting along very well in a struggling little industry there. B: Pioneer Airlines. Now to back up just a little bit, Pioneer Airlines was the predecessor for Trans-Texas, was it not? W

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. The interagency committee had been in existence before President Kennedy so it wasn't a creation of the Kennedy world. It included people from HEW, from Justice, and most importantly from the Bureau of Narcotics within the Treasury Department. the strong man
LBJ's intellectual powers; his sources of advice; Abe Fortas; White's brief assignment as liaison in the counternarcotics effort; named special counsel in 1965; acting on the CAB's international air cases; the airlines' influence and the role

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

thought he should have been. But in this case, he's really taken a pretty bum rap, so I think he has cause for some legitimate complaint. The Trans-Pacific Route case is the largest international route case that has come before a president since World

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. KTBC--TBC stood for Texas Broadcasting Corporation, which came into existence subsequent to World War II. nally. I don't remember what the call letters were origi- Maybe they were KTBC. As I say, that was before my time. And as I told you in our

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

two girls for the workload; and at the beginning this was true. And I found the second girl through Warren Woodward--he's with American Airlines, used to work for the President, and someone else here to whom he had mentioned Cleo Stokan--and she came

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in 1943 in the riot of World War II, which was incidentally much more of a race riot than the riot of 1967, which was what Pat Moynihan would call an untermenschen riot--a real explosion of the ghetto against the ghetto with whites almost a secondary
Clark; pardons and paroles; LBJ’s relationship with Hoover; Omnibus Crime Act of 1968; Model Cities; Robert Weaver; Bob Wood; tariffs; press relations; overseas airline decision; 1968 LBJ campaign and decision not to run; political activities after the 3

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 43 (XLIII), 3/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Tillinghast?] of TWA [Trans World Airlines] on not opposing the investment tax credit. That was classic Johnson, having the guy regulating the industry start calling the industry to see how they felt about the President's program and if they could support

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Kong, the more mature, older, some of the World War II and Korean [War] vintage correspondents out of Hong Kong, Tokyo, Bangkok, points east and west who would come in periodically to cover. Even Time magazine's bureau chief at that time, a fellow

Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

pilots in transport. Which, for me, it probably was a good thing. I graduated in March of 1943 and of course they gave us a ten-day leave, ten-day delay en route from Mariana, Florida, to Miami, Florida. Went down TWA [Trans World Airlines], went through

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

for the White House--a highly improper activity. what in the world he was talking about. None of us knew So I walked by the ticker when Allott was testifying, and here it comes over the ticker that t:ley find that he had drafted the legislation
candidates; Fortas confirmation hearings; LBJ and RFK Commission on Vietnam; speech writing; legal work for President; Trans-Pacific Route Case

Oral history transcript, Peter Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)

newspaper clippings that it had been lost in Dallas. H: Yes, it was. It was someone at TTA, Trans Texas Airlines, [who] LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of commerce for transportation, to permit U.S. ship operators to buy foreign ships. airlines are free in this regard. The Any time they want they can buy a Caravel or a BAC 111, but in the maritime area a U.S. operator cannot buy a foreign ship without

Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

[Robert] Martin of U .S . News & World Report and I were taking a swim in the Erawan Hotel swimming pool, and we came out of the swimming pool, and Roger Tubby, who was the State Department spokesman at the time, was having a briefing, we discovered

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

that was translated into the specifics of economic policy. Let me modify that. War II we applied a lot of Keynesian economics. In World As a means of restraining purchasing power, we put in as many tax boosts as we could get through the Congress. of the war

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ginsburg -- I -- 3 Club, just sitting around, laughing, talking. He was then already vice president. We had a good time together--all of us. But your main interest today is the airline strike
-wage control in the airlines; the need for increased revenues without tax increases; Wilbur Mills' perceived opposition to taxation; International Association of Machinists (IAM) president Roy Siemiller's efforts to break the 3.2 per cent wage-price

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 34 (XXXIV), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

19, 1988 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR., with comments by Marcel Bryar INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Okay, let's start with the airline strike, [by the] machinists

Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and production of both civil and military aircraft. Today the major airlines of the world are largely flying airplanes that are made in the United States. To put it very simply, the building by corporations fnthis country of aircraft for sale abroad is simply

Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

transportation . at that time,-and for that matter, Because I'm still representing some of the major interests in air transportation, mainly American Airlines . 14 : Yes, and you were working with air transportation in the early 1930's? B: Yes . In fact, I
Relationship with LBJ in Congressman Kleberg's office in 1933; airline regulations; LBJ's election to Congress in 1937; Senate campaign in 1941 and 1948; 1956 Democratic Convention; 1960 campaign with JFK; influence of Lady Bird Johnson on LBJ's

Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

? C: Oh, I don't think there's any question about the fact that justice prevailed in that case. During World War II in the navy before I went overseas I had served with Bob Smith, the 6 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
with the CAB; efforts to relieve airport congestion; approving airline routes and passenger fares; the relationship between the CAB and the airlines; Crooker's resignation and the future of the CAB.

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Marshall asked me to help work on the Draft Act of 1940. Then I later worked with Mr. [Charles] Harding on eliminating German and Italian airlines in Latin America. I then subsequently worked with Nelson Rockefeller in the Office of the Coordinator of Inter
, such as disarmament, the development of weapons and relations with particular countries in the world; the changing nature of U.S. relations with Russia during JFK's administration.

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

say the rate of entertaining in the White House seemed to go up much more rapidly than our population explosion. In looking back on the records, not just during the Johnson Administration, but since the end of World War II, I went over the figures

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Relations, which had previously been called the Detroit Interracial Committee. It was established following the race riots during World War II. When I came back out of the army, after finishing my degree I went to work for that committee in 1947. So I worked

Oral history transcript, John W. Black, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

office to let people around the world know that we would like to have visitors . But when that idea was tacked with the balance of payments problem, it provided, I think, the push and the leverage that was needed to overcome what few objections there were

Oral history transcript, Eugene R. Black, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and then were his man, as far as our participation in the Asian Development Bank was concerned. Did you know Mr. Johnson though when you were president of the World Bank, B: when he was in the Senate, at all or very well? I knew Mr. Johnson very casually

Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

not frequently but once in a while during the war [World War II]. Army. I was here [Washington] about three and half years in the He went into the Navy for a tour of active duty. I saw him a few times during the war; saw him more often after the War, but my

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 5 (V), 5/3/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the world looks [at LBJ]. Recurrent themes, whether from a Dutch 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, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 3 (III), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

- tional airline business is we do make a bilateral treaty that we can make so many trips to Italy, and the Italian airline, which is a government airline, can make so many trips here. The Italians wanted more trips here and for some reason we refused

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the Northeast and we were in a world--we really, I guess, both felt responsible for everything that happened in the country, and felt we could do something about everything that happened. But it was just the President sort of blanketing it. Then we ordered

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

[research and development], accepted the realities of life regarding the unions. Then [we] organized national advertisers to do public service, selling zip code. Here you are, with a volume of mail equal the volume of the entire rest of the world, growing

Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

airline received a trans-Pacific , air route and that President Nixon rescinded it. lid like to get at is: Now then, the point does the President, can the President, exert any pressure for that sort of grounding, or is this a matter of cold economics
; the transition; the 1964 campaign; Walter Jenkins and the effect of his leaving the staff; LBJ’s staff and JFK’s staff relations; Bill Moyers; staff loyalty to LBJ and how it affected Sinclair’s family life; Lloyd Hand; relationship between airlines and politics

Oral history transcript, Najeeb E. Halaby, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

come out to Texas just before World War I, married my mother, who was the daughter of a Confederate soldier who had moved from Tennessee to Texas and had a small ranch down at Graham, Texas. They met while she was an art student at SMU [Southern

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the paper that Ike didn't know what he really was, was he a Democrat or was he a Republican, because he had been taken out of the ranks of the army military as an obscure colonel and made into the most popular military leader of World War II by his mentor

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 54 (LIV), 9/11/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- LIV -- 2 related to making trucking more competitive, making the airlines more competitive, what have you. Johnson loved it, as you can see. He wrote, "Hurray." I don't know how many memos he wrote, "hurray" on. I think

Oral history transcript, Lester D. Johnson, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

reason the airlines schedule San Antonio as the first stop in the United States. This is true with American Airlines, Eastern Airlines, and Mexicana, although Mexicana does have a flight to Dallas and there are some foreign flights going into Houston

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

beginning to get more and more of this expression of concern of people in their states, and they're thinking more about it. But who has the answer? Who has the answer? Again, it's the loneliest office in the world, the presidency of the United States
; the rail strike settlement; funding proposals for rat control; William Manchester's book, The Death of a President; Doris Kearns' involvement in a 1967 New Republic article that was critical of LBJ; a July 1967 memo regarding Irish airlines' opposition

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with NASA they'd be releasing stuff to the other services. The only commentary I would add is this. One of the things that happened to us was the same thing that happened to the Germans in World War II. That is, they started out with such an overwhelming
Ed Welsh and the adoption of a plan to land a man on the moon; early competition between military branches and their fear of releasing secrets to NASA; how U.S. dominance in air power during World War II led other countries to advance technology

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