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Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

for eight hours or seven hours or whatever it was. So his background then, he started working in this field about 1954. And another person [who is] interesting I should put [in here], he had a fellow on his staff named Herbert J. Waters. Herb Waters

Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

order of battle, the official MACV order of battle disappeared. There's nobody left. This is reflected, and I now believe quite accurately, in Herbert Schandler's book called The Unmaking of a President. And I'm now going to paraphrase a quote which

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

of total amount. We had persuaded the Treasury that eleven or twel ve bill ion was far better than their two or three billion. What I'm really saying adds up to the proposition that the heads of economists were on the chopping block as never before

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1b (I), 4/29/1986, by Walter Richter (Item)

popular man on the campus I guess. R: Really? D: Yes. In the first place he was very handsome fellow and he was a very jolly fellow and he had the most infectious laugh. A great big laugh if anybody's tell a joke and if you were two blocks away you'd

Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 22 (XXII), 6/19/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

several thousand volunteers for the May 7 primary who would ring doorbells in key areas throughout the state to ensure maximum voting among potential Kennedy supporters. The bulk of this manpower, which would be extensive, would come from block captains
Robert F. Kennedy's (RFK) approach to his 1968 presidential campaign through primaries; seeking support for RFK before the Indiana primary; utilizing Matt Reese, block captains, and student volunteers in Indiana; receptions to thank local personnel

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

issued a statement late in the afternoon that he wasn't going to. . . . G: Cut back on the price? C: Cut back on the price. G: Everybody else, meaning U.S. Steel, Henry Kaiser. C: Well, we sent it to Henry Kaiser, U.S. Steel, Joe Block, the other

Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 2 (II), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to It was a program that was really coming on, so it was a successful enterprise. And I guess air pollution in all of this was probably the newest kid on the block in the programs. Radiological health, water had already been going and air was somewhat the new kid

Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 2 (II), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? It was a Johnson initiative to combine a lot of health programs in a block grant. Hell, it had a cute name too. And that made some sense, block grants on health. Before, there had been separate legislation for each disease and you might have something like measles

Oral history transcript, Jay Cutler, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1990 by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cutler -- II -- 18 Texas because--Yarborough was the chairman. I remember us flying down there to do a hearing on it. I'm blocking on the name of the city--it must have been Fort Worth. I bet I'm right now. The problem

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 7 (VII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it up to where when they took one last shot there'd be a much better chance of passage. And I think that worked. (Interruption) G: Any insights on the issue of whether to provide block grants to state education agencies or categorical grants

Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 2 (II), 3/31/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: No. When we first went to Johnson Ci.ty 'tn 1912, the post office was on the street downtown where the stores were located. the activity of the town was on that one block. r~ost of And the post office was one of the buildings in the series

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 9 (IX), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

a concept known as the "block grant." There have been other versions of this. Some people, for instance, have insisted that the state should automatically receive a portion of the federal tax revenues. The block grant does not go that far. It does apply
and state/local tax; the block grant as a way for states to gain access to federal funds; law enforcement as a local, not federal, government responsibility; the creation of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA); Congress' attention to LEAA

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 3 (III), 7/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, but we did change the one thing that could block legislation and had been blocking legislation since the New Deal days. M: Was this seen at that time as sort of a preparatory move to take on some of this legislation 3 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 8 (VIII), 4/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the left as we came out. This put Johnson on the curb side. Then that road that extended from that gate went on down, I mean went on, not the way we were going but it went on back that way and it was, I don't know, a block or two blocks away there were

Oral history transcript, Clarence S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

towns, but the big competition was between Blanco and Johnson City. M: I see. Well now, you were a childhood companion of Lyndon Johnson. What did you do to entertain yourselves? R: We usually found there was a--the block that our home

Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

as the Poverty Bill of 1964. M: Was there any problem over the idea of block grants in the education program? C: Well, we'd given a lot of thought to block grants, but you see the whole question of block grants depends on how big a block it is. There are small

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 60 (LX), 1/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

him to all those comments about Ford. The Lego blocks. Have we done Model Cities? Did I tell you about the Lego blocks? G: No. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 61 (LXI), 1/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- LXI -- 4 C: Well, this was crazy. It was just crazy for Staggers to continue to block

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 8 (VIII), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

dead, and [was a] senator announced against Senator Hill. After the fact Jim Allen got me to one side and told me after he was elected that he merely stepped in there to block other entries into the race, but that if Lister Hill had decided to run he

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 10 (X), 5/13/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to that day. The southerners were all ready for some kind of a trick deal where Johnson would suddenly introduce a bill or permit somebody to introduce a bill. What he did was to block the Stella School District bill and cause it to go to the calendar

Oral history transcript, Daniel Garcia, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

here; actually I was born here just about four or five blocks south of this place were we are making this recording, Dan's Furniture Store. I was born in 1914, September 1. I was raised about two or three blocks north of here, in the community here

Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, who I thought was extremely valuable to me, was Bernard Fall, who only blocks from my house and was almost a neighbor and asking for his assistance . lived a few I remember of mine . going to see him, telling him that I was going to Vietnam

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, "Well now, this isn't all. I want to show you some more land and sights." Walter drove him all around Anacostia. I guess this was the next day, because we spent a whole day, and I went along too, east of the river, just street after street, block after

Oral history transcript, Livingston Biddle, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1989, by Louann Temple (Item)

. Because he remembers, for instance, going to see the chairman of the Rules Committee when the legislation was being blocked in the House of Representatives in 1965 and gaining the support of old Judge [Howard W.] Smith, who was the chairman of the Rules

Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

in Washington, ~ •••• I have a mental block, can't think of his agency ..•.. PB: Federal BP: Ho, no. PB: Federal Trade Commission? BP: One of the large commissions and I'm sorry I can't think Co~unications of it right offhand. Agency? So we had

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 11 (XI), 7/24/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the Senate, too, but in the House it had greater impact. It was an alliance, really, of southern Democrats and the Republicans who [had] effectively blocked, over many years, social legislation, civil rights. So the numerical advantage of the Democratic Party

Oral history transcript, John Brooks Casparis, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or three blocks from town, and of course we lived out and we weren't allowed to go to town but once a week and that was on Saturday afternoon. G: But you did go to school, didn't you? You'd see him there. C: Oh, yes. G: Can you describe the school

Oral history transcript, James E. Chudars, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

completely cleaned and blocked and everything for the campaign. One of these hats was in this car that Harry Nachlin, my engineer, and his radio engineer were riding in. But they had so much stuff in that car that it was just packed, and Harry Nachlin had

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 5 (V), 6/3/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

dollars to have one police officer per city block in New York City. This is, you know, impossible. He also pointed out, and this is a consensus of a conference they'd had in which Howard Leary, the commissioner of police, and others had been present. He

Oral history transcript, Levette J. (Joe) Berry, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

all summer for four summers. G: What was the average order that you had to hoist on your shoulder? B: Oh, anywhere from twenty-five to a hundred pounds. And then you had to handle three hundred-pound cakes of ice, blocks of ice. And I could pick

Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. So he said when he got off the train and went over two blocks to the hotel he thought he'd locate the radio building, and he located the radio building . blocks from the hotel . so he came on up . It was just two He saw a lights up

Oral history transcript, Allie T. Hughes and Lorena D. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

less than half a block from where I lived then. I saw him several times a week and was well acquainted with him. EG: This apartment the President lived in--was it over the garage behind the college president's house? AH: Yes, over the garage

Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Horth and Denver and got in about nine-thirty or ten o'clock that night. He knew our office was in the radio building in Wichita Falls, up on the sixth floor. So he said when he got off the train and went over two blocks to the hotel he thought he

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 7 (VII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

for the executive branch because blocking action is necessary by the Senate or the House rather than affirmative action being necessary, and that is a good deal simpler problem from the standpoint of the administration. All they have to do is stave off the adverse

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview S-I, 8/1994, by Douglass Cater (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Carpenter -- Special Interview -- 10 Sam Houston, which Texans were never taught in school. We were taught about the [Texas] Revolution. But my God, there it is, this big block to make him president

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 4 (IV), 8/8/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that postmaster's job or getting some degree of permanence in that job, and the President [Johnson] helped block this, to keep them from doing that. Do you recall that? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

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