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Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • before and that was that a local photographer was riding in the White House car. We had picked up a Dallas Times [Herald] photographer in Washington and, because he had been with us all the time, he rode in our car rather than in the local still car
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES C. HAGERTY INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Dr. Frantz' office in Austin, Texas F: Mr. Hagerty, I think we might just start this off by asking whether you knew or had at any time in your newspaper career run into Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • background? Jackie Were you aware of anything that was going on in Do you remember the $: Yes. F: This was in Dallas. intei~view with him at that time? He came out to see me. I think they were having Stuart Symington day, weren't they? S: I think
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT BASKIN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as well go on there. Lyndon Johnson? B: Briefly, when
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , one of those grey silk tuxedos with black lapels. F: What was the occasion, a party? H: It was a radio/television correspondents dinner. something about, I~very Senator Anderson said damned time you bring one of these rich Texans up here
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • at that time, except kind of a good roads movement deal. F: They were just getting organized. P: That's right. F: I've done a little research in that and I know as late as 1921 when they built that Highway 75 from Dallas to Galveston, they still had
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Truman Administration. At that time, I don't recall exactly the position that senator Johnson-F: I'll refresh you on that. November '48. He was a new Senator; he had been elected in Then, after '50 when Ernest McFarland was defeated, he was named
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the maximum extent. At that time, we were talking about three miles beyond their border for Tidelands. Now we're talking about two hundred miles, and it looks very much like this is what the world's going to come to, and the reason being that the Japanese
Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: WILLIAM F. KNOW LAND INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Senator Knowland's office, Oakland Tribune Tower, Oakland, California Tape 1 of 2 F: Senator, to get this underway, let's talk briefly about your early career until the time you came
Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • no experience in this area at that time. However, I did graduate in personnel management and later went to the advanced business school at Harvard as pertains to finance and political problems that come in the advanced management program. So I assume
Oral history transcript, Clinton P. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • not? A: Yes, he was. B: Did you immediately become acquainted with him? A: I had met him earlier than that. In 1935 I was National Youth Administrator for New Mexico and he for Texas, and we got acquainted at that time; so that I knew him already
Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . M: Right. And let's get the date too, it's February 1, 1971. H: February 1, yes. M: Did you know Lyndon Johnson in any way prior to the time he became Vice president in 1961 from your work with the Civil Rights Commission after '57? H
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was. This was a very great challenge for NASA, but one which we were well prepared to meet. The financial status of NASA at the time that I became Acting Administrator was very sound indeed. had been conservative throughout in our programs. The financing We had
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • frequently in those Congressional days? W: Yes. I saw him--each time I carne to Washington I visited with him. And each time he carne to New York he stayed with us at my horne. F: Did he come frequently? W: Well, no, not very frequently. F: Did you
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Johnson before your appointment in 1968? P: No, the first time I talked to Lyndon Johnson was in connection with the appointment. B: Had you formed any opinions of him--for example, his attitude toward science generally and the space program
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in aeronautical engineering from the University of Texas, worked for Lockheed, [saw] World War II service in the navy, and in 1952 [received] a doctorate in psychology from the University of Texas. Then after a time at teaching and as a research psychologist
Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • several times. And my real contacts on what you might call almost a weekly basis really began when he was Majority Leader. Mu: You were working with him then on legislation of various kinds? Me: Yes. I had occasion to talk to him many times on our
Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Soviet Union being first to orbit a satellite. Then he told Lyndon Johnson that he thought I could help him with outer space hearings. Johnson at the time was chairman of the Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee. So then Lyndon Johnson called
Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • when he came to the Senate or even prior to that time, if you knew him as a Congressman. H: Well, I first knew him in early 1947 when I organized the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, as its first chairman, and he was a member of that Committee from
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that had been created. B: Was there any temptation at that time on the part of anyone in the Senate to indulge in a little recrimination against the Eisenhower Administration for political advantage? W: Yes, there was, but not by Mr. Johnson. Mr
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • very vividly because it's so belied by what has happened, even in recent days of the birth of Lynda Bird's daughter. It amuses me that--the girls are big and I remember the time he told us, when Lynda was about five, how he took her to Neiman-Marcus
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --the Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee--started because of the very panicky reaction throughout the country to the firing of the first Soviet space satellite, Sputnik I. At that time our space program was in its incipiency and it wasn't getting a great deal
Oral history transcript, Clifford P. Case, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : I'm not sure. I think the first time that I noticed him particularly and he noticed me, as far as I know, was fairly soon after I got to the House. I made a speech--my maiden remarks were rather early in the session when we were considering
  • Association with LBJ; Senate; McCarthyism; impressions of LBJ; Johnson leadership; relationship with William Knowland; techniques; timing; LBJ temper; space program; relations with Eisenhower; Nixon and Dirksen; Lewis Strauss nomination; 1957 civil
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • at that time was in the Treasury Department. So he invited me to join the Budget Bureau LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --the following people: Governor Stevenson, l"Ir. Rayburn, Grace Tully, the driver, and myself. And we drove to the Ranch in Johnson City. F: What was Grace Tully's role in this? M: She was, at the time, I think, one of LBJ's secretaries. had, of course
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Nixon's aspirations at that B : time, and how much help, if any, you received from the national party . Nixon, of course, flatly denied that he had any Presidential ambitions-that he intended to spend four years in Sacramento . But I hammered away from
Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • - tance with him before then? C: No, that was the first time that I had met him. B: What were the circumstances of your accepting that job, sir? That was as Special Counsel to the Special Investigating Subcommittee of the House Committee on Naval
Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • came a couple of months earlier, because he was elected while he was in the service and he didn't take office until about March. So I never let him forget that I'm his senior! F: Put him down every time you can! M: He's a great guy, and his wife
Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in 146? S: Well, it was 1947, and I had had my mind on things of this kind for a good while. The time to run for office in the South, especially in those days, was when there was a vacancy. run. The vacancy came and I decided to I had already made
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: BARRY GOLDWATER INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Senator Goldwater's office in the old Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Senator, you came to the Senate the same time as Lyndon Johnson, in 1948. G: No, I-- F: You
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ALAN L. DEAN INTERVIEWER: David G. McComb PLACE: Mr. Dean's office, Department of Transportation, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: Now, last time we were talking about the task force under Mr. Zwick in which you worked to set up the initial
Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in 1961 . I assume he was acting on the advice of other people because he had never met me before . The first time I ever saw him was in his office in February of 1961 and on that occasion he asked me to take over the job as Director of Defense
Oral history transcript, John J. (Lt. Gen.) Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • theater of World War II. After World War II, I also served in Korea as Division Artillery Commander in 1956-57 time frame. From then on--when I came back from Korea in '57--1 spent the next approximately ten years in intelligence as the Director