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  • couldn't tell you. F: Were you at any time in there promised a Cabinet post? W: Well, yes and no. On the 26th of December of 1960, I was then the Vice Chairman of the Housing and Redevelopment Board of New York, which is the board that has to do
  • to LBJ Ranch regarding housing message; his impact on LBJ’s thinking; reason for resignation; prejudice; feeling that the new administration will attempt to make administrative reform
  • 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
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of the electorate in Texas and point out to me that in substance, Texas, because of the way in which it was settled was as big a melting pot as New York, and that particularly he had always been able to have the support of the Negro and the Mexicans. His problem
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • fit, so I gave it back to him. I made a fatal mistake, because I've never gotten paid for that bet. F: You'll have to remind him again some time. Q: Lady Bird was here and she had some reporters with her. One of these reporters,the New York
  • ; changes in Post Office in the last 35 years; Equal Opportunity Employment Act; Vietnam War veterans; LBJ Ranch visit; Dr. Frantz's additional notes
  • , 1973 I NTERVI EloJEE: MADAME ELIZABETH SHOUMATOFF INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Her home on Long Island, Locust Valley, New York Tape 1 of 1 F: Suppose you tell me at the beginning how you got to be a president's portrait painter. S: You
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to the Kennedy Administration to have any Admin~tration. contact with Mr. Johnson back in your news career or in private career? D: Only vaguely in my news career. However, in 1955 and 1956, I was on Capitol Hill associated with Senator Estes Kefauver
  • at dinner; and Aaron Schaffer was a man that I would normally consider a very kindly and gentle person, but an unreconstructed liberal out of the New Republic school. And after dinner, we got around to coffee. He turned to Miss Grace and he said, "After
  • their friendship or their loyalties. Johnson and Clinton Anderson of New Mexico and Kerr and [Richard] Russell of Georgia really ran the Senate on the Democratic side along with the late Styles Bridges, [Everett] Dirksen and some of them on the Republican side. G
  • ; LBJ's 1955 heart attack; LBJ and Kerr's dealings with Senator Joseph McCarthy; Reynolds' post-presidential visit to the LBJ Ranch with Bill Kerr; Eisenhower's responsibility for U.S. involvement in Vietnam; LBJ as vice president.
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • you. I told them I was going to be at Old Gun Factory Navy r·1ess for Thanksgiving Dinner. So 10 and behold, I get this call. and said, liThe White House is on the phone." A waiter came running Well, of course, this was big news in those days
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • so. He would look at those books and say, "There's not a damn thing in it. It's just a bunch of words. There's no new policy. reason for me to go. '1 There's nothing new. There's no new stateMent. There's no new So we tried to get the desk
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • from an important post returning to Washington would be received by the President. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , and I got the news and went back to the plane and told him. We had all the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . paper clippings of things. Dan ~'oody I think I still have some news- I had written in to the newspaper chiding for his actions and what he had been accusing Lyndon of and things like that. Mrs. Moody and I almost had a. . . . And Ed Clark took
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . probably no man a~ive There is today who knows our beloved President better than Otto Lindig of Stonewall. This is Norm Dietel, the publisher of the Radio-Post of Fredericksburg, Texas. I have known Mr. Lindig personally most of my life and I can well
  • COMMITTEES: ,_·,.y.~pcN B. JOHNSON NAVAL AFFAIRS I OT>, .T EXAS D1sTRlc:r SELECT CoMMITTH OH PoST-WAR MILITARY Pol.tc:T ctongress of t{Je llniteb ~tates . J,ouse of l\epresentatibes Ulasbington, ;9.
  • LBJ & Lady Bird to dedication of Housing & Urban Development building; LBJ gives a speech; Lady Bird swims and goes to hair salon; Good Housekeeping interview with Lady Bird about upcoming plans; office work; Washington Post interview