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Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 2, 1968, in his office, New York City JBF: Mr. Farley, to begin, tell us something about your background, how you came to get into politics. F: Well, I was born and raised in a little community called Grassy Point
Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Goerge just looks different than anybody else. G: After the convention, as you said, you worked with the Johnson end of the campaign. Can you recall which trips you advanced? L: I can't remember too many of them. G: There was one in New York. L
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and all, he would put in a plug for Johnson to try to help him and so forth. But he did make some trips. Detroit and it seems to me to a Midwest meeting. Albuquerque I think to a New Mexico state meeting. He went to He went to He did some traveling
Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • political you must have been aware of him for a long time. C: Yes, I was aware of him quite well because of his Senate career particularly, congressional career, and his early days with the New Deal. I was just starting practicing law at that time, and I
Record copy, Senator Johnson Announces His Candidacy for U.S. President, Auditorium, New Senate Office Building, 7/5/60 (Item)
  • Presidency has been filled by men who had or quickly won great international prestige and influence. Now the Communists are moving the new Presidency as a world influence. in -- to kill off, downgrade. If they can destroy the world's trust in this office
  • Record copy, Senator Johnson Announces His Candidacy for U.S. President, Auditorium, New Senate Office Building, 7/5/60
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • papers are your columns carried in now, sir? T: Twenty-two. I only send columns to the papers that I send news to. M: How often do you write a column, as opposed to sending news dispatches? T: Until recently about three times a week; but right now
  • Biographical information; Dockrey Murder case; Garner of Texas vs. Snell of New York; Miller’s appointment of LBJ; Edward Jamison; first impressions of LBJ; three famous Texas political figures; LBJ’s interest in military affairs; rating LBJ
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: MARY LASKER (Mrs. Albert D. Lasker) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mrs. Lasker's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 1 F: Mrs. Lasker, let's start by talking a little bit about how you first became interested in health
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • going through the Mansion. Mrs. Kennedy did not know anyone else was with him, and just called out: "Jack, guess what I've found! I've found a new piece of the Lincoln china." So the way Mr. Wilkins related it to me, she was in a very excited mood
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, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . That was the helicopter campaign, and it cost me a new Chevy . F: B: 2 How come? Well, the helicopter was running about a 100 to 125 miles an hour and it was going across country . Texas roads weren't in those days what they are today and trying to make every stop
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • salaries and the House salaries. So this passed without much opposition. Remember, we kept it in trading position for a long time because I was insistent we were going to get nearly a billion dollars of new revenue out of the postal rate increase to pay
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : January 11, 1974 INTERVIEWEE : MRS . JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS INTERVIEWER : JOE B . FRANTZ PLACE : Her Manhattan apartment in New York City Tape 1 of 2 First part of tape missing (35 feet) F: Let's continue, then, our broken interview
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1982 INTERVIEWEE: DAVID HALBERSTAM INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Halberstam's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 2 G: You said that you had a Lyndon Johnson story. H: Yes. I was, in 1960, working for the Nashville Tennessean
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , in its ever-loving wisdom, had eliminated the appropriation for the domestic division of D.W.I. because they were angry because of a field survey, \~ich was that the representatives were interposing themselves between news sources and the government
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to widen his political spectrum and meet new young people to gain new allies, to add to his cadre of supporters in Houston. But I must say that I was not unattended by any doubts. B: You had some knowledge of Mr. Johnson before then? V: Yes, I had. My
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • President Kennedy LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] did, very candidly, was to get it a new euphonious name. Alliance for Progress. More on LBJ Library
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , those Then there were various conferences. I can't put my finger on a single one, but I'm sure that there must have been Some conferences when he was called down from New York and I was present in the conference. M: After Mr. Johnson became first
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • handle the news press, they would talk to the local politicians, but they actually ran the campaign . Completely innovative ; some- thing like that had never happened in American politics before . It worked tremendously . Well, we got to the convention
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • went to Florida, I was responsible for the state of Florida. I went to New York and saw people in New Jersey and was in Washington some. M: So I worked around all [inaudible]. That must have been difficult for you. As I recall, Johnson wanted
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in journals . B: At that time, I was considered one of the candidates . I went back to New York--oh I think in November of 1959,--and did a very poor job . meeting in New York, they had all of the candidates . At that It was the meeting of the National
Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • successful in the affairs of Washington and were successful in our district. Judge Mansfield was very old, and his friends appreciated the fact that I had not attempted to be elected in the new district. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh 9 office at Newsweek in New York, and Mrs. Johnson called up and suggested that I come and have a cozy evening, more or less alone, with them. F: This was while they were still living in the house? G: [It was] before they moved
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Holleman was a labor official at the time-- S: He was president of the AFofL-CIO, I believe; and Fred Schmidt was another one of the labor leaders; and of course Creekmore Fath was one of those people, too, that were somewhat suspicious of this new-- B
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and public meetings all over the country. Then I would grab my hat at noon and fly across the country to make the speech to some place in Alabama or New York City. Quite often, the only speaker I could get on short notice was myself. I became acquainted
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and did use someone like Hubert Humphrey. I think he always felt that--well, he did try to get New Dealers that he had known in effect to talk to the other senators and say, "This fellow is a good fellow," that kind of thing. body within range. He used
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • President Roosevelt's New"--what did he call it? G: New Deal. S: "New Deal ,",ould never have become effective." Jimmy Roosevelt spoke up and said, "I want to back up what Senator Sparkman has said. Without the support of the southern so-called
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • because when he first ran for the House of Representatives in 1937, he had--it was a special election--he had corne out for the President's Court Packing Plan. That instantly and forever identified him as a New Dealer in the minds of many people in Texas
  • Biographical information; first meeting LBJ; LBJ’s liberal and New Deal identification; Gerald Mann; President’s court packing plan; 1948 bitter campaign; Taft-Hartley Law; Horace; Busby; Roy Wade; Walter Jenkins; John Connally; Sam Houston Johnson
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • period. I was privileged to go with Mr. and Mrs. Johnson on the plane when we went directly from here to the convention and arrived. The Texas delegation had been delegated to a dreadful hotel called the New Clark. Governor [John] Burns
Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Tribune , went down to see his new home and said they had a bar in his home approxi­ mately twenty feet long or so . He called Jenk Jones, in my � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to Chicago and New York and the east wherever we had contacts with the Mexican-Americans. And of course I have a lot of close Negro friends and as soon as he became president, the Negroes--the blacks-also had accepted Johnson as a humanitarian and as a good
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , a businessman in New York, myself, Bob Nathan-we were all for Humphrey 100%. practical. We were I guess more idealistic than It was unlikely that Humphrey could get it, but we thought he could get it and it was a fun thing to try and do. I was in fact
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . 'that's what He wanted to do things for the betterment of mankind and we had that in common . reason I did like him, did like to be around him . because he always had new ideas . For that He was fine, He was a man full of ideas . A lot of them were
Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the country. And then on the closing day of the campaign, on Monday night before the election on Tuesday, he asked me to join him and two of his sisters in New Hampshire and Massachusetts for his closing speech in which we were glad to take part. And then I
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • had an opportunity to ride with him up to Hyannis Port. So I got on the plane. He had a man from Georgetown and he had [Allen] Duckworth from the Dallas [Morning] News. Most of the agencies preferred to have their people at the various points to make
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the news He was very friendly and very fine. Then I shanlt forget he told me to go over and have a press conference, which just terrified me. am I going to say?1I I thought, "What in the world Frankly it was at that press conference that I began to get
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • background and how I got started in Texas politics, I was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and came to Texas during World War II. As a relatively young man and with very little interest in politics, I met my wife in Austin, Texas and went to law school
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there for you. C: It would have been superfluous for me to have said anything. F: Right. Well, when you came down to 1960, did you consider going to the convention at all, or di d,You decide just to 1et the new crop have it? C: I didn't consider it at all
Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • them and everybody was waiting. Then one of the news- papermen saw Colonel Stephens and said to him they wanted me around LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • increased during the '60's. A new and junior Congressman is not very often called for consultaion to the White House, perhaps unfortunately. M: Did you feel that Mr. Johnson lost much of his party support with his cooperation with General Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , pretty weather . about 75° , and the sun was out . 17 It was a good San Antonio day ; it was Cantinflas would get up and say, "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year," and he would sit down . But this wowed the crowd and they loved to see him