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Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and things of that nature . So to that extent, the answer would have to be yes, but this constant carping about trying to invade the Highway Trust Fund is, in Harry Truman's phrase, a real "red herring ." And I'm convinced that a lot of it comes from some
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  • Boyd, Alan S. (Alan Stephenson), 1922-
  • Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1969, by David G. McComb
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Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • HARRIS INTERVIEWER: STEVE GOODELL May 19, 1969 S: This is an interview with Patricia Roberts Harris, presently with the law school at Howard University. Today's date is May 19, 1969. I'd just like to begin this interview by asking you to state
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  • ; LBJ’s speech at Howard University; Moynihan Report; race problem; LBJ’s release of Kerner Commission Report; ambassador to Luxembourg; protocol incident; re-ranking of spouses; Harris ruling; ambassador’s staff and running of the position; position
  • Harris, Patricia, 1924-1985
  • Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell
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Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • to the appointment. G: Who contacted you? S: I think Lou Harris. He had done, you know, the polling work for the Kennedy people in 1960. to me about it first. I knew Lou, and I think he was the one that talked Yes. Then I think one or two of the people who
  • Biographical information; Bureau of the Census; Lou Harris; Luther Hodges; 1960 census; invasion of privacy; survey techniques; Select Commission on Western Hemisphere Immigration; President’s Commission on Registration and Voting Participation
Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • official involved, on the 6 S D F H & R X Q F L O and on the Marine Council. 6R I have to deal with problems dealing with the sea bed, with matters affecting space, but then primarily my work has been in the Russian field. To prepare I was told by Secretary
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of our colleges and in putting taxe s on- -for education. I think I favored ITlore of that than Harry Byrd did, but I was with his organization, and as I say, I was six years in the State Senate and at that time was known as a liberal. I was one
  • ; General Douglas MacArthur; Harry Byrd; conservation; Civil Rights Acts; major changes in U.S. government in 35 years; accomplishments of the American people
Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and go on myself. There was also a German correspondent in Vietnam at the time I arrived there. M: A West German? S: Yes. He had come in like ten days or two weeks before r was there. Then, as you probably know . . . What's his name? Harry
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • candidate for president? Because as you know he was a lot of Democrats' choice in 1948 over Harry Truman. -7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org H: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Well
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Kennedy people, and the man who told you to do that--Harry Truman--Iearned it the hard way." I don't care how loyal they are to their country, when they get in ajob their feelings run that job. And McNamara was to me to most dangerous man we've ever had
  • understanding of foreign affairs; Melasky's efforts to educate the public regarding Vietnam; LBJ's vice-presidency; LBJ's familiarity with military operations; John Tower; Ralph Yarborough; 1964 election and campaign; comparing the economy of 1960's to 1971
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 3 I can recall that I had to borrow thirty-five cents from my brother to pay for my dinner that night at Old Mexico. The purpose of the meeting was to get all of the President's friends in Harris County to write to everyone they knew in the Tenth
Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the train and rode through North Dakota with Harry Truman and openly endorsed him. Yes, he was a maverick. He was a maverick, of the old--what's that league?--Non-Partisan League out there, really a farm bloc. That's what it amounted to. He was another
  • and the Medicare bill; Kerr's involvement in hiring an assistant for Jim Webb of NASA; the Bricker Amendment; Harry Byrd's work on the Finance Committee; Kerr's meeting with the head of DuPont, Crawford Greenewalt; Kerr's opinions on Social Security and Medicare
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • --this isn't necessary anymore and it doesn't even work anymore." And then he reminisced with me about when Harry Truman came to Texas in 1948. How he was one of the only, I think the only Texas politician that dared to get on the train with him when he
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : I think it's a disingenuous book. I'm not disappointed because I kind of expected it, but also it doesn't read much like Lyndon Johnson. You read the Truman memoirs, and Harry Truman jumps out at you even when he's not telling the truth. Even
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  • Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • all, Harry Truman got the He followed an elegant figure, and he seemed much less up to it than Joh"nson did, and just as western or midwestern, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • secretary who was Harry McPherson who went over to the White House. Senator Fulbright got a copy of the policy recom,::len- dations of the draft and he had also apparently read other things of mine. We'd been on symposia together, public symposiums. M
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • place of friends and have lunch and things like that. F: On these Board of Education meetings, did they just sort of develop? P: They sort of developed. Say, Truman would some in--that's when Truman was President--he'd come over about 5 o'clock
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of his own party who didn't want him to run and so on and so on. Wilson went through hell when he was trying to establish a sensible world order after World War L Roosevelt went through severe criticism. Harry Truman was going to be impeached
Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • for John Kennedy, I thought Bob Kennedy a little shit. w~s We had almost had a couple of fist fights in the course of ten years, one being in 1960 when I wrote an article in the New Republic before the election saying, "Everybody's sitting around passing
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that the family homestead was acquired in 1852 in a little place called Venado, in Colusa County, California. F: Was his name Shuckman? B: His name was Shuckman, that is right, S-h-u-c-k-m-a-n, although some people spell is S-c-h-u-c-k-m-a-n, and he came from
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • off by mentioning that Mr. Mort Stern is also in the room--that is M-O-R-T S-T-E-R-N, who has written a dissertation about Mr. Hoyt and the Post which gives a great deal of background information about this man. Hoyt and the Denver Post. The title
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • MacArthur defied [Harry] Truman. Truman hated him because MacArthur said, "We've got to protect the whole line here," and he went over and visited Taiwan. I had something to do with getting him to do it. G: Oh, really. J: Oh sure. G: Tell me
Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and everybody panicked. But Orval was one of the old populist boys, and he fancied himself as being kind of the Rayburn style of politican and was quite in good favor with Harry Truman. He'd come along with Sid McMath, who was a great favorite of Truman's
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  • Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
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Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • remember when President Roosevelt died; Harry Hopkins called the Cabinet together, and he said, I~e must all resign in..11ediately and insist on President Truman taking our resignation, because no matter what President Truman did, lve would always say
Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : It goes back to '46. B: Back to politics. Harry Truman signed that bill in '46. In the election of '64, as we mentioned awhile back, Mrs. Johnson did campaign in Alabama in that one. The train LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • a grant for Oral History of Eisenhower and Stevenson, and he said it would be nice if you did something like that for Harry Truman, and a couple of years later we got a good application and did. in keeping his hands off of it and so did his staff. But he
Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : What year was that? G: I believe that was 1958, yes, 1958. He managed to substitute a much milder bill by Senator [Styles] Bridges. Do you remember how he did that? T: I don t recall the detail s on that but 1 know he never di d want to 1 affect
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is an interview with Milton S. Eisenhower, in his office in Baltimore, Maryland. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Dr. Eisenhower, very briefly, let's run through your career from the time you were
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  • Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz
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Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • " members of the Senate, and if memory serves me correctly, and I think it does, he voted with those of us who were in favor of overriding the Presidential veto. Truman vetoed it, we had to pass it over his veto, and he was among those who resisted
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • did have, sat down or s tood , I think, at the table of Marcos' desk and scribbled something out � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • it was that kind of a pride. S: Even in those days maybe like thinking of higher office? E: I don't think there was ever any question that Mr. Sam was always grooming Lyndon Johnson to go higher. question about it. I don't think there's any I think that came
  • ; Carl Sanders and Terry Sanford; John McKeithen of Louisiana; Paul Johnson of Mississippi; Ned Breathitt of Kentucky; being in the White House with LBJ; Watson White, Califano and McNamara; OEP and aluminum; Reynolds Aluminum; Cliff Alexander; Harry
Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
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Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • or briefing memo for the meeting often with specific suggestions or questions to ask Bill Martin. we were all equals in his eyes. But once we got with the President I would sometimes open the meeting by sayi ng, "We thought we ought to di scuss thi s
  • 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, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at Littauer in the Bureau of the Budget. My class had mostly gone to Washington. I worked for three years in the Budget Bureau through the transition, Truman to Eisenhower. M: That was about 1951 to 1954? W: That's 1951 to 1954. I got my early
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at Harry Truman's Diamond Jubilee, I guess they called it. Johnson spoke in Boston at the same time other Democratic leaders were speaking at other places all over the country. M: Did you then campaign for Kennedy and Johnson in 1960? P: Yes, I did
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • president taking office after the death of a president had ever been before. And I think this came about after Harry Truman's bad experience with that, because it had just been more institutionalized for the [vice] president to be kept informed. F
Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that question, he wrote back to me that he had run because Sam Rayburn had said that if he didn't run, Dick Nixon would become president of the United States, and Dick ~ixon was the man who had called Harry Truman a traitor and the Democratic party the party
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that it wasn't, [that] there were different versions of communism, that they simply had to, on the face of it, attempt to resist any advance at all of any gains on the part of communism. Harry Truman essentially laid down the rules and said, "Here's a line
Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , and I'll have 90 per cent of the house with me. This is a natural coincidence between what is economically and socially right and what is politically feasible. And the Democratic party from Andrew Jackson through Harry Truman took this position
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • proud of. He was a political appointee when Harry Truman appointed him to be our ambassador in the Argentine, and I guess from then on his service was as distinguished as anybody that we've ever had. He was in the same mold as David Bruce and Governor
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of years, the last two years of Truman's Administration. I just want you to know, for whatever it's worth to you, that those two years, in my book, were the worst two years that I've ever spent in my life." (Laughter) "So you have got that to look
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Massachusetts and went to Washington in 1944 as a correspondent for the Boston Herald, at which point I met President Roosevelt, who was simply wonderful to me. I met Harry Truman. Later Then I married Bill and stopped working. G: You became a housewife. W