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Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 21, 1968, Washington, D. C. B: Sir, to begin with, do you remember the first time you met Lyndon Johnson? K: Yes. I wrote something about that in a book I recently published [Memoirs: Sixty Years ~ the Firing

Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

very brief? F: Correct. Yes. Mc: Sir, have you ever participated in any other oral history project of this type? F: No, I have not. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Ed Gossett, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. I'm the oldest of nine We lived in poverty, I might While I claim to have been reared on a farm, I never enjoyed any part of it, because we were always poverty-stricken. I left home when I was sixteen years old, went to Nebraska, worked

Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to be governor. S: Well, I got into politics a long time before 1968. F: Yes, sir. S: My first venture into politics was in 1932, when I felt not an obligation, but felt that I wanted to help the Democratic candidate for governor at the time who was Henry

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. But we were looking for signs of hostility Of course, there was the Dallas Morning News of that morning, with a very unfriendly ad. IIYankee. Go Home" and so forth. mostly friendly. We saw signs like, But the crowd at the airport was Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

her before she fell off the cliff near her home. But what that document became was essentially an effort at an analytical document and as an indication of new directions to persuade the President of the character of the urban crisis. We were trying

Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

[Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding] of who was there. Wofford was there. Harris I think Frank Mankiewicz was there. It wasn't a very big meeting. G: Some sources place the meeting at Shriver's home. Y: No. That's wrong. That's wrong. Why do I

Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

coming. I think they could We talked of it a lot before we ever left Congress, that this was on its way. I don't think people back home or delegates to the convention felt this, or they might have picked somebody else to be our standard bearer

Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

from his own organization to come over here, look over some of the problems, and principally to design an automated system to control personnel files. I remember quite well the day that I found out that I'd been picked, because I was home in Cumberland

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 4 (IV), 4/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

for delinquents and dropouts and low potential kids from slum areas. to be a very expensive operation. And, as you know, it has proved You can argue about what the cost is, but the Neighborhood Youth Corps, which is a work study program right in the home

Oral history transcript, George Pazianos, interview 1 (I), 8/30/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

within the medical fraternity or within medical practice that the quicker you could return someone to the home atmosphere, or if you could keep them in the home atmosphere and treat them in that atmosphere, that your success rate would improve

Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, [and] had her, and he and Mrs. Johnson arrange that wedding. story white house in Austin. that wedding. He said that Mrs. Johnson would handle the It was in the Johnson home, that old twoAnd they handled every arrangement for They got the preacher

Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to Congressman George M. Rhodes of Reading, Pennsylvania, which is my home state. fourth term. He was a very able member who was then beginning his He was first elected to Congress in 1948, the Truman year. George was a former labor official, which fit in very

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was a young congressman, we'd meet in either his home or my home or Wirtz' home and talk about the topic of that particular day or week . Johnson would always say, "We've got a joint venture here that we don't ever want to be broken, because Wirtz is going

Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh PARTEN -- 11-- 15 F: He really wasn't running against Jake Pickle. He was running against the President. P: That's right. "Bring Lyndon Home"--that was his platform. was all over the Vi etnam War. He had an admiration

Oral history transcript, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ·.t. Griffin -- I -- 10 MG: Can you date that conversation? RG: As I said, I was driving home for the Fourth of July recess. Now other than that I can't give you a precise date, but it was right around the first of July

Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of Housing and Home Finance. In any event, the President in January after his election, January of 1965, had a $pecial address to the nation on-urban and domestic affairs [and] recommended the creation of the department and some things like that, if I'm