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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of effort, out of which some specific pictures emerge. There was one time that Lyndon got a movie star-G: Gene Autry. J: Gene Autry, whom somehow in the course of our--I guess it was in our work on radio we had come to know him. They liked each other
at KTBC; attending the State of the Union Message; 1947 legislative issues; Aunt Effie's estate; President Truman sending Herbert Hoover to Europe to study food and fuel shortages; Mrs. Johnson's pregnancy; the backyard and garden at the 30th Place house

Folder, "Ex PU 1 / FG 731 [Publications / President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity]," WHCF PU Subject Files, Box 23 (Item)

between the time the program was started in May, 1961, and January, 1963. The study combines the initial self-analysis report of these companies, filed at the time they joined,· and the latest progress report received from them -' December, 1963

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

we begin, because I think this is a time period central to our area of discussion. I have down here that in 1960 to 1962 that you were director of the Joint Staff organization within the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This would be here at the Pentagon. W

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 53, 1 July 1992," LBJ Library (Item)

and memorabilia of servicemen who the day before their deaths had been part of peace time America are among the most poignant items in the display. Visitors study a mock-up of desert tank action. 3 Lifesize figures add interest to the exhibit

Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 8, January 1 - February 28, 1965 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 2 [2 of 2] (Item)

am, and I think it ls simpler if he simply comes at Max Taylor's invitation ln tho same plane. Moreover, the quick departure which I suggest hardly gives time to get him out to the area ln any other way and, as I say. I am sure that there la no point

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 16, December 1 - 13, 1966 [1 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 11 [2 of 2] (Item)

ChiComs The General Council of the World Federation of Trade Unions (W FT U), meeting in Sofia last week, withdrew the right to speak from the Chinese Communist delegation. The ChiCom delegation leader had attacked the Soviets in violent terms and had

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 3 (III), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

there in the [DB? R: Well, I didn't get there ahead of time. ·F: Were there a lot of people in the halls, or were people there that night? Was it pretty full? R: Yes. I don't know what was gOing on outside that suite. wasn't a crowd; there were no curiosity

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

recall about that is that Mary Rather was his chief secretary at the time. Mayo Clinic. She was sending things to him at the She addressed a whole bunch of stuff to Rochester, New York that the Senator was most anxious to have and became quite

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

#2) INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. McCOMB May 8, 1969 M: This is the second session with Mr. Douglass Cater. Once again I'm in his office at the Brookings Institution. The date is May 8, 1969, and my name is David McComb. Last time you mentioned that you had

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

incidents that you remember taking place in Austin during the fifties or early sixties relating to civil rights, either regarding school integration or housing or--not only school integration but integration in other areas? L: Yes, we had quite a time

Folder, "Breakthrough - FBI Reports," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 14 (Item)

soldiers to fight and die against Communists fn Vietnam whi l~at one and the same time we conduct business as usual with the SOVIET UNION eve~ though it is the SOVIET UNION which is sp~arheading the ~orldwide propaganda offen~ive against our assistance ~o

Folder, "Bowles 11/3/63-1965 [1 of 4]," Files of Robert W. Komer, NSF, Box 13 (Item)

a• you too have recopized thia time. and in eubcoutinent. we pvlna moat sober attention mo•t unlikely NL _________ ~ ·1t 1ettin& top level Ae you have aeen, our intention is to move carefully Aa to food in particular. L\Uo aad concern• major

Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

it says something about being suspicious of labels, and I am. I am just now working on an autobiographical book in which I say even good labels are bad for you because they limit you. I guess I hope I defy all labels. There was a time when I used

Oral history transcript, Samuel V. Merrick, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on Unemployment Problems, which produced the standing subcommittee called Employment and Manpower in 1960, of which Senator Clark was the head. So I got in the manpower business at that time. That subcommittee dealt with a number of things which then much later

Oral history transcript, Clement J. Zablocki, interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

week, didn't you? I believe that's the same time that Mr. Johnson- Z: Was elected to the Senate, yes. M: Did you have, in those early years, the late forties and early fifties, any instances of direct contact? Z: Hardly any at all. Very, very

Folder, "[Visitors - Foreign] Adenauer, Konrad [April 1961] 2 of 2," LBJA, Subject Files, Box 90 (Item)

term as Chancellor. Under his second administration Ge:rmaey1s sovereignty and his country became a member of the North Atlantic the Western European Union. was re-established Treaty Organization and Since that time a new German arnzy-has been

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 3 (III), 12/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the Soviet Union and the United States, that we were behind? C: No particular insight. I remember the climate at that time, that we were behind. And I remember in 1957 when Sputnik went up, because Senator Hill and I were in Europe at the time. I think we

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 3 (III), 7/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

by this time, was U.N. ambassador, I'm not sure. If he wasn't U.N. ambassador it's even more sensitive. Clifford was a privately practicing lawyer. But they both had experience in this area; Goldberg had represented the steel unions at one point and Clark

President's Daily Diary entry, 10/21/1967 (Item)

with him for some sun. Both to the lounge chairs. President asked for his sunglasses — telling mjdr to be sure and have those glasses in the office at all times. President asked for a letter from the Nebraska Commiteemen - Marvin Watson said he had

President's Daily Diary entry, 7/29/1964 (Item)

grandfather. Mr James Patton National Farmers Union and Bill Moyers to discuss the pic made until OFF RECORD maximum contribution work his organization can make to election Ken O'Donnell until Senator Howard Cannon of Nevada until OFF RECORD Discussed

President's Daily Diary entry, 10/2/1964 (Item)

MacArthur pics OFF RECORD John To W Hayes Sheraton and Palmer Hoyt Park Hotel w/ Messrs Hayes and Hoyt arr to address the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union of North America. To Grand Ballroom where the President mounted

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Major Issues at the 21st UN General Assembly, 9/15/1966, Volume 4, Tab 46," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

with countries which might be involved and asserted that the Soviet demand is totally Unacceptable. He described how he had offered the Russians a chance to have joint tracking stations in the Soviet Union and the U.S. The Russians would not agree . He said

Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Greensboro, North Carolina, 10/7/1964" (Item)

common life which is education, it has been that lead. The evidence of this is impressive beyond dispute. Thie was the first state in all the Union to open the doors of a State University to the people. Here in Greensboro, learning has been encouraged

Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Dedication of Sam Rayburn Statue, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC, 1/6/1965" (Item)

st moment Sam Rayburn set eyes on this hill was a day in March of 1913. He arrived from Texas• Old Fourth District and stepped out of Union Station to see before him the breath-taking beauty of the glistening white Capitol dome. It was love at first

Folder, "Foreign Relations - [Japan]," 1962 Subject Files, VP Papers, Box 136 (Item)

this country. In the early stage of the Occupation regime in Japan, the United States joined hands with the Soviet Union to try to emasculate Japanese partriots, Also in tho~e days, the United States Government 1 with the late General George C. Marshall

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 47, 1 July 1990," LBJ Library (Item)

and commemorated in 1990, the 25th an niversary year of that event. It all culminated in a series of re unions and conferences that lit up the spring for alumni of the Great Society and members of the Friends of the LBJ Library. Men and women who served

Oral history transcript, Donald F. Hornig, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

grant and a Guggenheim grant, so I was spending the year in Oxford. At that time, I was asked to join the so-called Von Neumann Committee, which was the ballistic missiles committee. People had gotten alarmed at the intelligence about the Soviet Union

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

arranged to have a plane pick Elva and me up at Dallas and fly to Little Rock, where we transferred to a smaller plane to Wilbur's home town. He and I spent some time that day discussing his views on his candidacy. At that time, he didn't ask me
support to Democratic Party unity; Jimmy Carter's role in the 1972 presidential election; Edmund Muskie's campaign leading up to the 1972 election and how it was affected by attacks in the Manchester [New Hampshire] Union Leader; John Lindsay's 1972

President's Daily Diary entry, 5/3/1968 (Item)

,w V V WHITE HOUSE datee MAY 3, DENT LYNDO N B. JOHNSO N DIARY FRIDAY President began his day at (Place ) The Time Telephone 11 In Out Lo y (includ e visite d by ) and told operator to call him if he had any calls Walt ^ received 1:14am t

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

], and many times has said to me in conversation, that the labor union leadership was misleading the average workingman, that the unions were usurping the workingman's name and numbers to try to enhance themselves. Of course, he was an ultraconservative man

Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

a big bureaucracy on both and that's the way they're handled. But without making any predictions about the relationships, I said, well, I had been studying the Soviet Union for a long time but I am also keenly interested in China, and I think it would

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/10/1969 (Friday) (Item)

house, at times of ordinary duty and probably at times of outrageous inconvenience to them—besides a never ending general public, my own groups of friends from home, or friends from the campaign t r a i l , or from my trip s , or my Alabama cousins, a ll

Oral history transcript, Ben W. Heineman, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Lyndon Johnson for the first time when he was in the United States Senate, I think, about 1956 or '7. F: Was this official or social? H: Social. I have forgotten really who introduced us. I think it was Senator Paul Douglas, but it was a very

Folder, "Jamaica, Volume 1, 11/63 - 6/68 [2 of 3]," Country Files, NSF, Box 58 (Item)

boys", the parish councils, do the job since they are apparently a source of the Prime Minister's political strength. At times Bustamante has gone so far as to call for the complete elimination of the NW A and for the cancellation of the AID loan. 3

Oral history transcript, Marjorie Lawson, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the apprenticeship programs, and it was like a brick wall. Nothing really came about because there was no forcing the unions to do it until later. But with the tools that we had at that time, they just resisted. G: Were some government departments and agencies

Folder, "Bernard Quint," Office Files of Yoichi Okamoto, Box 1 (Item)

passage 0£ the civil rights bill . 0 .1i::_:\ .. ::·,.:::,, for which he £ought so long. We have talked long enough in this ..·}t· ~,:'.:,:._i-·~--~\~or more. It is time

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the first part of the Eisenhower Administration I think the efforts of both Eisenhower and Johnson for that matter were bent toward trying to calm things down. The nation needed a rest. It had been living at much too high a level for much too long a time

Oral history transcript, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

election for the first time in history. by about 97 or 98,000 votes. Goldwater carried the state Georgia was the last state in the Union to vote for a Republican candidate for president; prior to that time it never had. No amount of activity on anyone's

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Intelligence, not Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. When the agency was established by law under the National Security Act of 1947, the individual who held my job at that time was given the title of Director of Central Intelligence

Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to be governor. S: Well, I got into politics a long time before 1968. F: Yes, sir. S: My first venture into politics was in 1932, when I felt not an obligation, but felt that I wanted to help the Democratic candidate for governor at the time who was Henry

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