Discover Our Collections


Limit your search

Tag Contributor Date Subject Type Collection Series Specific Item Type Time Period

71 results

Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Administration as an assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture . One thing that comes up immediately after the first year there in March 1962, the breaking of the Billie Sol Estes affair . Bi : Were you involved in that? I was, as most of the people were
  • Crusade; Larry O'Brien; Clement J. Zablocki; 3/31 announcement; Citizens for Humphrey; Humphrey's campaign; Kennedy people's rivalry and friction after assassination; Bill Moyers; LBJ's knowledge of the Department of Agriculture; Department
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • been on Taiwan and who had been largely responsible for the success of the veterans' program in Taiwan. G: Was that part of AID? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
  • Vann; Wilfred Burchett; LBJ and advice on foreign affairs; 1966 elections in Vietnam; poor organization in American military in Vietnam; Francis 'Ted' Serong; the Tet offensive; 3/31/68 speech; El Salvador in 1982.
Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • became his public affairs officer; handled the press for him individually and for the visiting dignitaries that came to the U.S. while he was ¢hief of protocol; did a lot of travel, both domestically and internationally, the international portion that I
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • convention which first named Stevenson that you had that problem of the FEPC [Fair Employment Practices Commission] plank and your compromise on that, that the Labor Department would act by persuasion instead of compulsion in developing the FEPC. Did you ever
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a moment on one thing. Veteran newsmen have seen it all and presumably don't stampede easily. Was there a feeling among the White House press corps, widely expressed, that this may be the beginning of some sort of coup d'état or an attempted nationwide
  • Katzenbach as attorney general; presidents’ interaction with the State Department; May 1966 trip to Chicago; LBJ’s opinions of the U.S. role in Vietnam; LBJ’s assessment of his own staff; Tonkin Gulf resolution; Lindley Rule and press access to LBJ
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • details were requisite for him to callout the tha,c became a necess2.ry step, as it did. militar:;' area tvitil ,chich I ment of .Tus t~ familiar, but I 1,':'1S F: They morc the book' ::, \'laS not Depart- ::e
Oral history transcript, Patrick V. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the Department of Justice at the time, and I met a Mr. Pollak, who at the time was on the White House staff in District of Columbia affairs. He had for a year, approximately, been working on the legislation for reorganization of District government. The mayor
  • Biographical information; Mayor of Washington, DC Council and DC police force; recruitment; conflicting jurisdictions; coordination with government departments; intelligence unit; MLK assassination; Poor People's March and Resurrection City; 1968
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 1 (I), 1/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • [Department of Justice]. Let me outline here just very briefly your background, subject to additions and corrections. You were born in Chicago in 1928, bachelor's degree from Dartmouth, naval service in the early fifties, in 1956 a law degree from Yale
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • department and so on. And I think particularly within the last year we've developed a pretty good system of operation. The inaugural affair this year, I think was the proof that we were able to take care of a very dangerous situation. M: You mean
Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ~JER : Paige DATE January 6, 1969 IV[ : Nulhollan Let's identify you for the purpose of the transcriber here. You're George L-P I'Teaver, currently Assistant Se'cretary of Labor for International Affairs? W: That is correct. And you've been
  • ; campaigned in Texas in every election since 1954; 1957 Civil Rights Act; LBJ’s philosophy of the art of the possible; labor issues; 1960 support of Symington; Lady Bird; Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt; comparison of Labor Department under JFK and LBJ; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • rela tionship. The controversy \vhich seems to have been mOlIDting emotion- ally for many, many months now generally directed against the Department of Justice--if that doesn't sort of hamper your activities in Congressional affairs? C: There's
Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /oh 2 nomination. With a number of Kansas people I did take part, to some extent, in the campaign--which I can elaborate on later. B: I'll ask you later. S: Then in February 1961, after Secretary Freeman had been named to head this Department, I
  • to poverty programs and area development; inter-departmental activity; small family farms; Departments of Agriculture name change proposal; Trade Expansion Act of 1962
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of this whole affair in Vietnam. G: If I interpret you correctly, you're saying we gained eve\~ything we would ,have lost if we didn't fight? H: That's just about right. G: Did CIA help prepare the State Department White Paper on the North's role
Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . DOROTHY JACOBSON INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER April 23 ~ 1969 Tape 1 of 1 B: This is a continuation of the interview with Mrs. Jacobson. MaIm, you mentioned very briefly in the previous tape that early in your career at the Agriculture department
  • Food distribution; food stamp program; commodity support program; Billie Sol Estes; Charles Murphy; JFK assassination; LBJ and Freeman; appointment as Assistant Secretary for International Affairs
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • work did you do at the Department of Interior? W: Well, I started out as Adviser in Negro Affairs and also became a consultant to the Housing Division of PWA, which was the first part of government to get into low-rent public housing. In 1937 when
  • Biographical information; Adviser to Secretary Ickes on Negro affairs; National Committee on Industrial Recovery; Harvard thesis research; integration of cafeteria services at Department of the Interior; “The Black Cabinet;” duties at Department
Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • great knowledge of political affairs and things generally in the country. And then I remember a situation developed after he and Lady Bird had gone on back. I watched her taking a few notes and listening most intently while he was talking freely
  • Early relationship with LBJ; 1960 campaign; appointment as Secretary of Commerce; JFK leadership; Department of Commerce problems; JFK’s staff; LBJ and civil rights; LBJ and the Vice Presidency; JFK-LBJ friction; Business Advisory Council; relation
Report, re Oswald (Item)
  • in the Soviet authorized the Embassy to 13, 1962 the Embassy received Ministry for Foreign to Oswald and his wife, Prusakova. a questionnaire to the American Embassy on 18, 1961 the Department passport. of an exit 8 and executed expatriating He had
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that the bureau is the President's chief supervisory agency over the departments? S: Yes, particularly in the domestic area. Much less so, for all sorts of reasons, in the military-foreign affairs area, although it is to a lesser extent true there also
  • Biographical information; the Eisenhower, JFK and LBJ Administrations and the Council of Economic Advisers; new economics; Troika; tax cut; contact with Congress on economic matters; Appalachia program; SST; Agriculture Department budget
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: STEPHEN POLLAK INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: The National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 B: We're in time now to 1967 when you became the presidential advisor on National Capital Affairs. I think I
  • AActivities as presidential adviser on National Capital Affairs; reorganization to commission and council system; selection of Walter Washington as mayor; council members; evaluation of White House staff operation; Pollak’s nomination of assistant
Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and accomplishments would answer it. The Department of Urban Affairs, and the creation of additional facilities in transportation, and development of HEWand all of these were basically a need to meet the problems of the cities. HUD came about entirely during
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Atomic Energy Commission on this matter. I know that he took some actions which subsequently resulted in the creation of NASA, on the one hand, and a concentration of authority in Department of Defense, on the other. F: You had no personal relationship
Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • entertained Adenauer. very colorful affair. It was a There were, I guess, about a hundred guests. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Well, it was a rather difficult reception . . . ? I think, in the State Department, the responsibility for that problem had gone to the Bureau of Economic Affairs, and the attitude of the Assistant Secretary at the time was : we made one mistake
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on it was quite apparent that Rayburn had developed a kind of fatherly affection for Johnson. So had Vinson--Carl Vinson is who we are speaking of, the chairman of what was then the Naval Affairs Committee, later the Armed Services Committee. And that to them
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , let's go up and have lunch." The other thing that made it a notable occasion was that we went and had lunch in the second floor family dining room. And Ralph Dungan said to me after the lunch--it was a very friendly affair. He was very close
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ALEXANDER -- I -- 3 pages in more orderly succinct fashion and keep it moving. Also got into economic affairs to a certain extent. F: 14here were you at the time of the assassination? In Washington? A: I was on my way
  • Biographical information; assassination; blacks in the State Department; civil rights progress; White House staff; LBJ and civil rights; administrative agencies; other duties; obstacles; White House Conference on Civil Rights; surveys
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • by what he saw in Paul Kattenburg, who was the country director for Vietnamese affairs, who's presently a professor at the University of South Carolina, after early retirement from the department. G: What was he disturbed about? F: It was sort of ad
Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the security because they don't have the high efficiency that they probably will develop now in the local police department, especially where there is any indication of demonstrations--it's a military thing. But abroad, it was Scotland Yard for example
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • be done in extradition matters to get from them some idea of the quantum of proof necessary to maintain an extradition order. B: Engaging a local counsel in that case surely was not a hit-or-miss affair. Does the Department of Justice have standard
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , or Populist, as he was called in the press by many . I think he was just a hard-working human being very much interested in the affairs of people, and knowing our system . And so very few men in public life--and a small percentage in private life--even know
Folder, "Garrison Investigation, New Orleans, 1967-1968," Papers of John B. Connally, Box 324 (Item)
  • . John Mobley Executive Department Office of the Governor Austin, Texas 78711 ~~ Temple to the President RADIP REPORTS, -TV lNC. 41 EAST 42ND STREET, FOR NA1.f:tOHAL BROADCASTING COMPAN"f PROGRAM i'onight NEW YORK. STATION Show N. Y
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • into that a little bit if you want to. While I was in Washington serving in the General Counsel's office, then-Congressman Johnson asked me if I would like to serve on a staff of a subcommittee investigating certain affairs of the navy [Special Investigating
  • Biographical information; met LBJ in 1930s through Texas attorneys Harris Melasky and Martin Winfrey; 1943 subcommittee on naval affairs; 1948 Senate race and subsequent lawsuit; advice to LBJ regarding running for Senate Minority leader in 1952
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to move on them is quite another, even when you1ve got the President behind you on it. that was disappointing. And We made certain things that would be con- sidered important strides forward but-F: Are certain departments much more lily-white than
  • Biographical information; assassination; blacks in the State Department; civil rights progress; White House staff; LBJ and civil rights; administrative agencies; other duties; obstacles; White House Conference on Civil Rights; surveys
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh in the Rice Hotel, which I told him that I would do. He wanted to discuss that night's dinner, as well as the Austin affair. I rode
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and clean working conditions for labor, adequate aid to and care for veterans . He opposes the federal lecting production tax on our natural government controlling and colresources ." I mentioned to this group that that was about what I said and wrote
Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the responsibility of carrying it through, yes. r.,,: And you worked with the White House staff on thi s, or \'that? P: Well, ,yes, I worked with the White House staff, with primarily the people in the Department of Agriculture, but to whatever degree I needed
Folder, "Dr. King, Inves. of his Murder April 1968," Papers of Ramsey Clark, Box 66 (Item)
  • NAME,BUTWHETHER IT IS THERIGHT NAME REMAINSTO BE SEEN.• li/8--GE937A /_ UPI-21 (DRUGS) WASHINGTON--PRESIDENT JOHNSON'SPLANTO SET UP A NEWBUREAU OF NARCOTICS AND~ANGEROUS DRUGSIN THEJUSTICE DEPARTMENT 'WENT INTO EFFECTOFFICIALLYTODAY. THE NEWUNIT
  • Justice Department Office Files
Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , a part of the Secret Service. Narcotics is, or was at that time, a bureau of the It was one of the sister agencies of the Secret Treasury Department. Service--one of the Treasury law enforcement agencies. M: To clear up a public point in definition
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was useful in the media. was someone from NBC. It We got the testimony from that individual from NBC that their most successful general public affairs show was the "Today " show. What I asked them, after they had talked about this certain kind
  • Biographical information; assassination; blacks in the State Department; civil rights progress; White House staff; LBJ and civil rights; administrative agencies; other duties; obstacles; White House Conference on Civil Rights; surveys
Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • are made that can't be kept . Too frequently, the aid program has been in the hands of the country desks in the State Department, which have used it politically . Instead of striving for economic growth, the objective has been to quiet down this general