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Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • car." going to get my car. driver. He So he was LBJ said, "You see that fellow. He's my He's been the driver for the majority leader for many years, going back to Joe Robinson. II F: Joe Robinson from Arkansas. M: He said, liDo you know he
Oral history transcript, John J. (Lt. Gen.) Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • just a very brief biographical background on your career, so we can kind of get started. D: All right. Basically, I am an artilleryman in the Army--or was through World War II. I was an artilleryman in General Patton's Third Army in the European
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was a temperamental Irishman. F: I've never talked to any McCarthy enemies who didn't like him personally. G: I think that's true. I knew Joe before he ever came to Washington. I knew him when he came out of World War II and he used to come out to Arizona
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • World War II. I'd' been there actually a little less than a year when I was asked to head up this new board. The history of that was I had had a major part in setting up the arrangements under the National Security Council, under President Truman
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the words. F: I can go back before that because I was in the British Navy in World War II, and I know what they thought of him there as a politician. H: He could get along with people. He could get people in the room, and as I have often said I think
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . But the first opportunity, Mr. Roosevelt made it apply to all people who had a worthy project that was in the public interest and couldn't get financing locally at reasonable rates. He said go to the RFC and get it. You know when World War II started
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • responsibility for procurement. This involved the placing of a vast number of very large orders, and the reactivation of World War II plants that had been shut down--and various actions. Of course, we were in very close consultation with the Senate LBJ
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . And I won't run without you. II F: Do you think Jack Kennedy felt then that this was as good a Vice President as he could have gotten? W: Yes, he ~id. He had a very high respect, I'm sure, for the Vice President. LBJ Presidential Library http