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Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /oh 6 some shooting in Dallas near the President." I told that to Julian Goodman and we both jumped up and ran down here. I ran to the little news studio, which we had set up for emergencies and just walked in. The red light was on and I
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of this deal of telling my boss that I could go out there and really get a good story, maybe even an interview, was pretty big stuff for me. radio we had morning newscasts and noon newscast. new~casts Well, the noon news was approaching the Majority Leader
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, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the morning, the majority leader and the minority leader always are at their desks. and the press comes in, and they hold a very brief news conference. So you could see him every day without fa i1 that way. F: Did Johnson show that procl ivity for getting
  • Biographical information; 1960 “rump session;” Henry Cabot Lodge; campaign trips; Democratic ticket; Catholic issue; McCarthy censure; Watkins Committee; Vice Presidency; assassination; Connally-Yarborough feud; Dallas; funeral; Vietnam; press
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on a non-commercial basis. There were a substantial number of those already in existence, but they lacked substantial funds; could not enter into the FM spectrum, which was a new field that had just opened; they had poor equipment, and they certainly did
  • Biographical information; public educational broadcasting legislation; 1960 campaign; liaison with Eastern states; vice presidential nomination; media campaign; LBJ and JFK in New York; LBJ and television; Cuban Missile Crisis; USIA; Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Force One in Dallas on that day in November of 1963. Many times in his political career President Johnson was referred to by the news media as a political animal. Yes, President Johnson had been a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . . . . It was my habit every morning to come into the Speaker's lobby some time between 8 :00 and 8 :30 to read the news papers . It was a habit of Sam Rayburn's single morning . he did it every Just the two of us would be in that lobby together, and through
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
  • further about my status as the designee, or soon-to-be designated as the new military aide. Until one morning, one of the sergeants who worked on the White House logistics staff--mail handler and classified mail clerk, fellow named Duffy, fine man, just
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • practically wrote a layman's handbook. B: I did my best to, because I felt that was crucial. You had to keep them with you there. F: All right. Now then, the President was murdered down in Dallas and you have a new President. Did it ever occur to you
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the Secret Service on the new draft that would detail all of the agencies that they could command in the course of their task of protecting Presidential candidate or his family. And I was awakened at about 5 o'clock in the morning, the day that Robert
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • as quite a good one. Also you must admit that one of my major arguments with the news media people, with other people, is that I don't see how you can compare presidents without comparing the decades of which they were president. The fifties bear
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the task force: Ben Heineman, president of the Northwestern Railroad, and Senator Ribicoff. Charlie Haar and I then took off (that was on a Saturday) and met Ribicoff on Sunday morning at the Carlton Hotel in New York and chatted with him. I phone
Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the results. Do you remember? Q: Well, the Election Bureau in Dallas--I think they were getting what reports they could, but so many of the~ boxes in the country, you know, the judges take the boxes home with them and wait until Monday morning to deliver
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • first trip to Washington. I was a new member, I met all of the Texas members, of whom there were twenty-one, including myself, at the time. them, probably, on the opening day of the session. I met all of I'm sure I did. That included Mr. Rayburn
  • Center in San Antonio by JFK and subsequent trip to Dallas; LBJ’s "Great Society;" Vietnam demonstrations; Fisher’s opinions on LBJ’s effectiveness as President: ambitious and hardworking.
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • -sawmill-farming community west of Jacksonville, which was where I grew up . I attended the public schools there, and I also attended the public schools in New York and Massachusetts . M: Your family must have moved some then? B: No, I had a lot
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD H. NELSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE· PLACE: Mr. Nelson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with your association with the Peace Corps. How did you get involved with that? N: I had met Bill Moyers and Sarge
  • and Kennedy’s staff; Diem’s assassination; Vietnam; trips to New York and Benelux region; LBJ as president; transition after assassination of JFK; the 1964 campaign; civil rights meeting with black leaders; LBJ’s ethics and relationship with staff; Walter
Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • should have his equal rights, and the responsibility is ours to take care of this thing. We'll see to it 1aw and order prevails." Well, that was something new coming out of Mississippi, but he did it. B: That would have been in 1965 or 1966? E
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of country for about two and a half weeks. I went from Rome back to Washington; as I mentioned earlier, I arrived there the day of the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas. Then I went back via the Far East, stopped off and saw our embassy
Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • we found to be of tremendous use. As a matter of fact, I recommended it to Walt Rostow yesterday to be continued in the new Administration. Every morning at about ten o'clock, we have a conference call between the White House, the Defense
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Boatner -- III -- 7 G: B: Did he listen in silence, or did he give his own commentaries on the news? He might have a pungent word or two to throw in if it was something that he
Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • circulation spillover into Texas at all? A: Not too much, a little bit around Texarkana and that corner. But we were the state newspaper; we went from border to border pretty much, and we considered the Dallas Morning News a competitor. We butted
Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1981 INTERVIEWEE: PAUL D. HARKINS INTERVIEWER: TED GITTINGER PLACE: General Harkins' residence, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 2 G: General Harkins, will you begin by giving us a brief sketch of your military career before your assignment to Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh NOVEMBER 7, 1968 Tape 1 P: This interview is with Frederick C . Belen, Deputy Postmaster General, of the U .S . Postal Services . I am Dorothy Pierce . Today is Thursday, November 7, 1968, 10 :30 in the morning, and we
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • as it was functioning, and consequently we proposed in 1967 that there be a significant change in the law to give it a different kind of a complexion. We had our last meeting in December of '67, which was the same month that we got our new amendments. I took
Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • special personal relationship with him at that time? Mundt: Yes, we served on committees together. At different times. We served on the Building Commission, for example. It built this new Senate Office Building in which we're transcribing
Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with the President, too? R: What happened was, they sent me out to Manila with the Secretary of State. The President headed for Pago Pago. We, came back on Sunday or Saturday night; the President left Monday morning for Hawaii and Pago Pago and Australia and New
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • put us out of the steel making business for eighteen months. With the help of Dallas bankers we went to New York to a big bank that could have made a $75,000,000 loan just like a peanut loan, and we couldn't get any attention from them at all
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • easy to be a Monday morning quarterback on events like this. I was at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked, and there's no shock greater from an individual to shift into a shooting war at the pop of your fingers. I don't give a damn who you
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ," I'd talk about "the economic-fiscal-financial group." It got to be such an awkward handle that I one time decided that if we had the Troika, which had already been named, the least I could do was get a new handle for this group of four. So I looked
  • Troika; Quadriad; Council of Economic Advisers; administration differences; details of tax cut; trade-offs with Congress on budget cuts; Wilbur Mills; Harry Byrd; origin of tax cut; Samuelson Task Force; “new economics;” tax increases; Vietnam’s
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • days. He had worked for the old New York World and the National Farmers Union. [He was] really an interesting guy and knew a tremendous amount about Congress and the way things were done, not the textbook kind of legislative process, but the way
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with the organization and to win its support and he did so very successfully. Many men who were determined to leave the next morning stayed on and served him very loyally and very well--and some to the end of his Administration. F: Did the sudden coming of a new
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • literally had to watch the gold markets day by day and hour by hour. The first thing we'd check in the Treasury every morning at 8 o'clock was how much gold had been sold in London and how much more did we have to get up. F: Did you get a feeling
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • time to all the Vietnamese, North and South. It is a sort of a combination of Christmas, New Year, and Easter. I've been told by Vietnamese or Southeast Asian experts that this period of family reunification or celebration hadn't been violated
Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Revenue, Mr. B. Frank White, the Regional Commissioner in Dallas who was a personal acquaintance of the then Vice President, and I called on the Vice President to discuss this particular problem with him and get his advice. G: And to what extent did Mr
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . From 1936 through 1963 you were associated with the Chattanooga Times as a reporter, then Washington correspondent, and finally editor of the News Focus service. This last period was from 1958 to 1963. In 1963 you became a columnist for the Chicago
  • Outline of journalistic career; LBJ's unique handling of press during both Senate and White House years; Kennedy and Johnson humor; Jacqueline Kennedy's appreciation of LBJ; LBJ's swearing-in ceremony in Dallas; Kennedys thoughts of death and LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ought to enter the twentieth century. Letrs get going with it. I felt that this was strong enough motivation for the simple reason that Wyoming has two Senators just like New York or California or Texas; and that therefore a new Senator LBJ
Oral history transcript, Robinson Risner, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • counted three hundred and forty bomb impacts on that bridge--those are seven hundred and fifty-pound bombs--and we still didn't destroy that bridge. Probably by the morning of the next day they had that bridge pretty well repaired, because they just
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • out because the crowd s were terrific. Suddenly Rayburn realized they don't all hate Catholics in Texas, and "this is a litt le better than I thought." He made some of the greatest speeches for John Kennedy, particularly in Dallas where we really
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . Eugene M. Locke. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh I am in his offices on the thirty-six floor of the Republic National Bank Tower in Dallas, Texas. The date is May 16, 1969, and my name is David McComb
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of a The problem there was that on the very day that we did this, we bombed the hell out of Haiphong, a new target in Haiphong. And while LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID