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  • , donate, and to as convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therein by the authorities thereof, a transcript of a personal statement approved by me and in the Lyndon
  • with the provisions of Chapter 21 of Title 44, United States Code and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, John Sparkman of Washington, D. C. do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest
  • , as amend an4-re&~ations issued thereunder (41 CFR 101-10), , hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby gtve, convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therein
  • legislative representative for the AFL-CIO in the decade of the 1950s. P: I started off as representative for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. M: Do you remember Johnson from that far back? P: He was in the House then. ~·1: In 1948. P
  • remember that they ever applied. After all is said and done, the United States only grew, when I was active, I think it was 3 per cent of the rice consumed in the world. M: So you had the support of the farming group and the laborers, as well
  • : Because I think it was the first stop on the railroad outside the metropolitan area. Also, it was close enough to Washington that all the local press and the foreign press could come to be in rural America, is my impression of it. As you know, Culpeper
  • became more and more interested in politics. Daniel was obviously in politics and he ran for reelection as Attorney General. I helped a little bit in the campaigns. Senate. Then he ran for the United States Actually while he was running for the United
  • was the second youngest of eight children, and he was born in San Fran­ cisco . My grandfather was a gardener in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco . My maternal grandfather was a farmer who lived on his farm all his life--never left it, as a matter of fact
  • a supervisor in a cut-and-sew industry to be sure that the merchandise that had been assembled was ready to be moved to the market of the public of the United States. He had courage to insist on a 10 per cent surtax and worked hard to see that that went over
  • : d3.1:e at' the I delivery of this material into the physical custody 0:= ;:l-,~ Al.'c~:::' V"3t of the United States. 2. It is the donor's wish to make the materiel dcn&tzd '~o the -::nited Statas of America- by tenns of this ins"Crument :.lW
  • . But we had no problems with the United Kingdom during that period, at least, that were critical . There was always a discussion between the two governments about military affairs, about our respective participations in NATO and matters affecting
  • or five years old. He was very poor. It was depression down there. school wherever the ice trucks stopped in Miami. public high schools. [He] went to Miami He, then, went to the University of Florida. dropped out a year and ran his father's farm
  • , hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therein by the authorities thereof, a tape and transcript of a personal statement approved by me
  • would hate to see him President of the United States. I have a great respect for the man, his courage and his integrity, but I didn't think he was the kind of fellow-JBF: Wrong job for him. F: Yeah, the wrong job for him. I told him
  • set forth, I, Robert S. Strauss of Washington, D. C. do hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title, and interest in the tape recording and transcript of the personal interview conducted on May 22, 1969
  • that, I would see Congressman Johnson on visits to Washington. In 1948, when he undertook to make his race for the United States Senate, I had a call from Colonel Ernest O. Thompson, who said that he would like for me to handle Mr. Johnson's campaign
  • for Vice President, and if Johnson, knowing the situation as it is--and he must know it by now---if he allows his name to go to the convention, if he allows his name to be nominated and to be voted on for President of the United States at this convention
  • a real speech in the House. in the debates. I don't recall that he participated very much He apparently was a very steady worker. He was on the Naval Affairs Committee. M: Were you on that committee too? S: No, I was on the Military Affairs
  • on districts; we held back some votes from Kennedy because the 'stop Kennedy' people had gotten more votes into the districts and less statewide where we lost badly. We did hold three districts, two farm districts right beside Minnesota where Humphrey
  • worker--that was an impression I've had--all his life. It He was a very hard worker. He LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
  • such It was a beautiful letter . As I say, I sure wish I had it now that he's the President of the United States, but I threw it away . But this was his reaction of course, and he did not contest it ; he was urged to do so on many fronts, but he didn't . the war
  • . Then as an afterthought she said, "I wouldn't have had the stinking stuff either!" F: West was primarily a farming community, right? B: West is a community of Bohemians and farmers, sausage makers, bread bakers; it's a great place for sausage and salami. At this time
  • controlling vital oil and gas resources in this country. Furthermore you had in Texas hundreds of thousands of landowners who had a direct stake in the oil business through their leases, through some production. And then you had many people in Texas, workers
  • and take her to the Driskill to dinner . Because I was--I had the feeling--I didn't know Mr . Johnson would ever become President but I thought he was going to continue to be a great man in the United States government and I wanted to learn as much as I
  • : Well, I first became acquainted with Lyndon Johnson in the late 1940' s. I don't remember exactly when- -the exact date. But I had been in the foreign service in South America from 1942 until 1945. After I got back to Temple, Texas, where I
  • INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES (CHUCK) LIPSEN INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Lipsen's office in Washington, D.C. Tape of 1 L: Okay, I can start out by saying that I am from Mazomanie, Wisconsin, which is a town of about 800 people. I'm a farm boy
  • , INTERVIEWEE: JAr4ES P. COLEMAN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Judge Coleman's office, United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Judicial District, Ackerman, Mississippi 1972 Tape 1 of 1 F: Judge, when did you first know Lyndon Johnson? C: I first met
  • of the United States. (more) as of this moment, a candidate. nomination for the office of s - ............,, -· -· - 3 There presidency. are some observations A President's position of America all the evil dangers I want to make on the job
  • and recommended to your brother policy changes in Latin America. How have those been realized through the years? E: It's hard to change a policy! First, let me say that I think there were more changes in policy toward Latin America by the United States during
  • to the United States of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therein by the authorities thereof, a tape and transcript of a personal statement approved by me and prepared for the purpose of deposit
  • of that kind, and some in the far West. Neither, I felt, would be able to offer the full commitment of the United States on the non-sectional basis to handle the problems that I thought were there for us. So, for that reason, a few of us got together over
  • ? Is there any moment? S: I can't think of any great moment. Ft It's not like Saul on the road to Damascus. $: Not like the moment on the road to Damascus at all. Scott's campaign for the United States Senate. with IHm in any paid capacity. I managed Kerr
  • this. There are several points about this that I'd like to ask you about. In the first place it says you were born in Mexico, and I'd like to know when you came to the United States. G: Well, Mr. McComb, I came to the United States when I was only about three and a half
  • talked to him about the small towns in America where the level of teaching was mediocre and certainly not competitive with the big cities, and how, if we had television stations serving those towns, films by acknowledged experts in the field could
  • nature, a rather open at that time approach to problems, and one who was willing to chat with a relative newcomer to the Congress of the United States. M: Do you recall subsequent meetings where you got to know Mr. Johnson better--what they were
  • doing civil rights-wise in America Mr. Johnson would always ask them to come and see me in Dallas. So, since Texas was his native state and all, that added to the challenge. So, he took a real personal interest and his staff likewise did
  • . That was a particularly moving campaign because if you'll recall in 1960, it wasn't just the race issue in places like Tennessee, it was the religious issue. There really is a belt in America that starts in sort of southern Indiana, and is like a cone expanding, like
  • nothing to gain. I didn't want any appointment and I didn't want anybody appointed either. And you might say, "How come you got appointed to the United States Information Agency Commission?" Well, that came about in this way. He called me up one night
  • to the United States Information Agency Advisory Commission; LBJ’s decision to not run in 1968; Vietnam propagandist and censor Barry Zorthian; Hoyt’s trip to Vietnam; John Vann; LBJ’s “credibility gap”; LBJ’s press secretaries; LBJ’s personality
  • to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recording and transcript of the personal interview conducted on May 27, 1969 in Fort Worth, Texas, and prepared for deposit in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library . This assignment
  • ) and regulations issued thereunder (41 CFR 101-10), I, , hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therein