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Folder, "Garrison Investigation, New Orleans, 1967-1968," Papers of John B. Connally, Box 324 (Item)

It was reached persons: McNamara, Secretary Chief of the Secret tlme, who crune to tho Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense, Douglas J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the and Attoznay CIA; James Reilly, General, at that Robert Kennedy. ThG investigation

Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the street from Edgar Hoover, or almost across the street. So we went over there quite often, and they came around to our place some. Then when I moved, about '45, late '45, I moved down to 2101 Connecticut, I would 11 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 2 (II), 7/9/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was that he had that goddamned sewer J. Edgar Hoover flowing across his desk all through those five years. Like many extremely skillful politicians, he had a weakness for under-the-rug information. [German Chancellor Konrad] Adenauer was another great

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins and Alice Hopkins, interview 4 (IV), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 3 (III), 4/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

this idea of program budget come from? Did you bring this with you? F: Well, no, the whole concept of program budgeting goes back many years. the Hoover Commission started it back in the late '40s. agencies picked it up. Actually A number of the federal

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Estelle Harbin, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in there and sat on the steps. Mr. Hoover was the president; Mr. Garner was the speaker of the House, and there were some descendants there of George and Mary Washington. This was the twenty-second of February, honoring Washington's birthday. We just sat

Oral history transcript, George Hartzog, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/20/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

themselves. I forget how many transi- tions in administrations he has seen, but it dated back several administrations. F: He goes back at least to Hoover. S: I believe that's correct. F: About '28 or '29. S: He said, "This is the way we can do

Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

expensive as hell. for each of us. God knows what they cost Bird, but he had one He was a gadgeteer; he just loved gadgets. Like the windows that he had Hoover put in the White House so that he could lie in his bed and push a button and the windows would

Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Whiteside W: 24 I No, but at the time it was depression time and Hoover's era

Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Antonio Carrillo-Flores, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

position we were in on the Faubus-Kennedy thing. As a Texan, with Johnny Lyle pushing him- F: Who's Johnny Lyle? C: Johnny Lyle was the congressman from Corpus Christi, and he's a nice guy. But somewhere back in the desperate talking of the Hoover

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Omar Burleson, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and getting ready for this very formal dinner and they had made the arrest . Mr . J . Edgar Hoover called the President ; they had a talk ; the President then called Governor Sanders of Georgia and reported to him. called Senator Russell . He also

Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

started with Wilson, maybe started with Roosevelt, or with Hoover, we won't try to pin that down. But I'd be very interested in your idea of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

suppose this is subjective rather than factual--that J. Edgar Hoover did poison the well there? A: Yes, absolutely, there's no question about it. And it was sinful that he did. F: On purpose? A: I don't know. For whatever reason, he

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

state in America As long as Senator McCarren was alive, and he controlled J. Edgar Hoover, they didn't have any problem. But once McCarren died, they had a big problem about trying to close down their biggest industry, which was tourism

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with each other, backbiting and so forth, and he went down chronologically from Wilson to Coolidge to Harding to Hoover to Roosevelt to Truman; I don't guess Truman had a vice president, but he had problems with Henry Wallace in the cabinet, whom he finally

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

along ever since Hoover or somebody set it up--or divided it 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

Oral history transcript, Roger Blough, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of Lyndon Johnson is that, of all Presidents that I've known since Hoover, he understood the business problems better than anyone of the other Presidents. And I'm including President Roosevelt, President Truman, President Eisenhower, and President Kennedy

Folder, "Marsh, Charles E. - Special Writings [1947]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 29 (Item)

at1vely inoomo r4 90 b1llion. 4 .&.Hidl'N u ~ ad - i t did 111th Hoover 1D l? • fbcn came a "°0Se'9'elt in 132 ne;ublioan in · ~ • a -IRU'- But With 'bad t1•a iall der.locracy, give , in A Yff/:7 rough w...,u,IJI is 19 inc '1'1:1:nl8r

Folder, "Garrison [1967]," Justice Department Files, Papers of Ramsey Clark, Box 94 (Item)

was called down to the district attorney's office and asked to take a polygraph test on February 14, 19~7. He thereupon wrote Mr. Hoover (see FBI report dated Feb . 21, 1967) and asked for FBI intervention in the matter). On February 20 he was approached

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

force report was a thoughtful way; they just said there ought to be a department of transportation. The Hoover Commission had recommended it. Eisenhower in one message recommended it, as I recall. I then had a meeting with Charlie Schultze, and Secretary

Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 8/19/1969, by Harry Middleton (Item)

. I didn't spend ten minutes with him in my life. But I concluded that this was something that [J. Edgard] Hoover and the Massachusetts courts and the Texas courts could not handle. It was so much deeper in [the] affairs of men for the next several

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1952" (Item)

to the Interior Department have been abandoned. The transfer had been recommended by the Hoover Commission on Reorganization of the Executive Branch. 4/25 Mrs. Bob Bartley hosts a tea for Miss Lou Rayburn. Fagan Dickson, executive director of the Loyal Democrats

Folder, "Longoria, Felix [Correspondence] [1 of 2]," Pre-Presidential Confidential Files, Box 2 (Item)

Folder, "Population Control, 1965 - March, 1966," Files of Robert Komer, NSF, Box 48 (Item)

Folder, "Legislative Struggle - Vol. II [2 of 2]," Transportation Department, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 3 (Item)

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 109: Dec. 1‑9, 1968," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 43 (Item)

very little time on problems that remain -- three paragraphs at the end. 3 On January 16, be sent up his budget, estimating $80. 9 billion in expenditures and $82. 3 billion in receipts, giving a surplus of $1. 5 billion • • . l Addendum: Hoover

Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 16, October 15 - November 19, 1965 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 5 (Item)

Folder, "Travel – Foreign – Berlin (Pro) [August] [2 of 2]," 1961 Subject Files, VP Papers, Box 109 (Item)

Folder, "Longoria, Felix [Newspaper Articles] [1 of 2]," Pre-Presidential Confidential Files, Box 3 (Item)

Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

must have been doing a lot of thinking about the situation because he said, "You know, I feel very sorry for President Hoover when I think that he, as President, had to face these tides of government and the pressures of history when he just couldn't do

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 71: Apr. 6‑11, 1968 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 32 (Item)