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Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and the Democrats quite well and faithfully--everyone from Truman forward as President. I wonder how you first came into contact with Lyndon Johnson. M: My first contact with Lyndon Johnson was in 1950 or 1951 when I was Under Secretary of the Air Force during
  • ; CIA role exaggerated by press; National Students Association; Watts and racial problems; Kerner Report; CIA relationship with other organizations in Vietnam; raw information provided for by the CIA
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to get unanimous agreement from the committee on every issue, from both Republicans and Democrats; and we succeeded in getting that. As a matter of fact, the Republicans accepted me as their adviser; I think that is one of the few times that a Democrat
  • Biographical information; contact with LBJ; LBJ’s decision to join the Navy; helping in Texas Congressional campaigns; 1948 Senate campaign; Weisl’s committees; LBJ’s interest in space; 1957 Civil Rights Act; 1960 and 1964 Presidential elections
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that the Democratic Advisory Committee was not favored by either Johnson or Rayburn. M: That's right. They thought that the place for the Democratic Party to set policy was in the Congress, and that the ~est politics was to go along with Eisenhower wherever
  • Biographical information; meeting LBJ in 1955 on a visit to the Ranch; 1956 Democratic Convention; Stevenson/Kennedy campaign; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 convention and Stevenson’s hope for nomination; JFK’s consultation with Stevenson
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of what he would or wouldn't do. He has there the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the National Security Council, plus the senators and congressmen who have the Foreign Relations Committees. I just can't say what I think Johnson thought. I hope he has written
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • are talking about. But after he was nominated in 1952 we were out in Denver, and the politicos came out, the Republican National Committee, campaign managers and everything. In the first meeting they had with Mr. Eisenhower, when they were arranging
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • commitment all the way through, no question about it. But Mr. Garner didn't like me because I ran against Black. You see, when I came here Black was on the Banking and Currency Committee. And traditionally if a Democrat beats a Democrat or a Republican
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
  • rights issue; Nixon’s inflation of economy; LBJ’s sound ideas regarding national economy; interest rates; history’s judgment of LBJ’s presidency.
Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to get it through. I recall, we went in to see President Kennedy one day with a set of our unnegotiable demands on civil rights, things we thought absolutely had to be done; one of them had to do with integrating the National Guard, which doesn't seem
  • House Conference on Civil Rights; Cliff Alexander; National Science Foundation Board; Jim Webb's acceptance of Administrator of NASA; campus unrest; Vietnam; Perkins Commission; Walt Rostow's Policy Planning Commission; Wise Men; role as Vatican
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • campaign, particularly the convention in Los Never said a thing. Angeles? H: Oh yes, yes. F: Did you have any opinion about him about by then, either as a national news source or as a possible Presidential candidate? H: Yes, he was running seriously
  • 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, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in that fight. They were our unions. I testified before a Senate committee in which this thing was being handled. I was deep in the middle of that with President Johnson, too. MU: That's the first time that he used this technique of calling some
Oral history transcript, John J. (Lt. Gen.) Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of Foreign Intelligence in the Department of the Army in the Pentagon, from about 1957 to about 1961. Then I was transferred to the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland, where I was the Director of Production from 1961 to 1965; and then back
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the Operations Coordinating Board of the National Security Council, which was a new board. The purpose of it was to try to coordinate overseas opera- tions of the federal government. B: Were you formally disassociated from the Bureau of the Budget in those