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Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

INTERVI EWEE: THOMAS G. HICKER INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Wickerls office, Washington Bureau, New York Times Tape 1 of 1 F: First of all, I know you came out of Hamlet, North Carolina, which I think is a very happy place to have been born
Biographical information; 1960 “rump session;” Henry Cabot Lodge; campaign trips; Democratic ticket; Catholic issue; McCarthy censure; Watkins Committee; Vice Presidency; assassination; Connally-Yarborough feud; Dallas; funeral; Vietnam; press

Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--although they fought like dogs most of the time--he got that same feeling toward Margaret Mayer of the Dallas Times Herald. Now, I know he has called Margaret Mayer a number of times, when he would be displeased over something. She is chief of bureau

Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, 1971 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES C. HAGERTY INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Dr. Frantz' office in Austin, Texas F: Mr. Hagerty, I think we might just start this off by asking whether you knew or had at any time in your newspaper career run into Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh -5- He was at this time Senate Majority Leader-- for a number of business people, mainly to acquaint the President better with the Dallas business community and then them with him, and he made little talks in the living room-- very

Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, 1970 INTERVIEWEE: HARRY ASHMORE INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Santa Barbara, California Tape 1 of 3 F: Mr. Ashmore, let's talk first chronologically. let's give a very brief resume of your life up to the time that you began to emerge

Folder, "[September 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)

fiscal policy. He named some of the crises he has faced in the last few months. He introduced the Members of the Cabinet and then called for questions from the audience. Jim Chambers of the Dallas Times Herald asked what the consensus of the Vietnam

Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh T . O'Neill--I-- 8 she was young . Herald . She later went to work for the Boston As a matter of fact, she's Mrs . John Finney now . John writes for the New York Times

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

time to all the Vietnamese, North and South. It is a sort of a combination of Christmas, New Year, and Easter. I've been told by Vietnamese or Southeast Asian experts that this period of family reunification or celebration hadn't been violated

Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

The President doesn't like your work, so for God sakes, be careful." I could, from time to time, sense a nervousness when Maggie Higgins was out there. She came out from the [New York Herald] Tribune and did a series of bizarre stories. She was only
Early contact with LBJ during 1960 campaign; going to Vietnam for the first time; learning about Vietnam and gaining the confidence of the people there; deciphering the motivation of the officers that spoke to him; Homer Bigart; John Vann; John

Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

covered him from time to time on journalistic events or happenings, for example I was at the 1960 convention, but always in a knot of reporters, and he didn't know my name from Adam's off ox. F: You weren't in Dallas when they had that famous spitting

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. 1970 INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES ROBERTS INTERVIEt1ER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Roberts office, Washington. D. C. I Tape 1 of 3 F: Mr. Roberts, you were in Dallas at the time of the assassination, November. 1963. R: Ri ght. F: Did you have any

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

thesis. That \'1as turned in in April, and that was about it for my senior year, really, except waiting around to take final orals. I had become friendly with Bill. At that time Bill had left the Vice President's staff, Mr. Johnson's staff, and gone

Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, one of those grey silk tuxedos with black lapels. F: What was the occasion, a party? H: It was a radio/television correspondents dinner. something about, I~very Senator Anderson said damned time you bring one of these rich Texans up here

Oral history transcript, Chris Dixie, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

about the state in the Johnson City Windmill bragging about his vote for the TaftHartley Act, and criticizing Coke Stevenson for accepting organized labor's endorsement. That would be the AFL endorsement at that time, the state AFL endorsement meeting

Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at that time, except kind of a good roads movement deal. F: They were just getting organized. P: That's right. F: I've done a little research in that and I know as late as 1921 when they built that Highway 75 from Dallas to Galveston, they still had

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

did you come to be appointed Postmaster? Q: Ivell, I got mixed up in politics in the campaign of Dick Kleberg, that's east of Dallas. Good farmland. the King Ranch, in a special election that he was running in for Congress representing

Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

months, I guess. E: About three months. B: I know I've left out a lot, but that's the rough outline. When in this time did you first know anything about Lyndon Johnson? E: Of course, I knew about Lyndon Johnson before I met Lyndon Johnson

Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

first trip to Washington. I was a new member, I met all of the Texas members, of whom there were twenty-one, including myself, at the time. them, probably, on the opening day of the session. I met all of I'm sure I did. That included Mr. Rayburn
Center in San Antonio by JFK and subsequent trip to Dallas; LBJ’s "Great Society;" Vietnam demonstrations; Fisher’s opinions on LBJ’s effectiveness as President: ambitious and hardworking.

Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

weapons used by North Hanoi and North Vietnam to prolong the war--between the time we had the first vote and the time it came back to the House and we had the last vote, the tragedy of Dallas had occurred. I remember very well Majority Leader Mansfield

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

experience, I did decide it was dreadful that a party like the Democratic party should be without funds. So I had served four years as treasurer of Marian County. I had assisted the state party and some gubernatorial campaigns and when it came time to look

Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, 1981 INTERVIEWEE: PAUL D. HARKINS INTERVIEWER: TED GITTINGER PLACE: General Harkins' residence, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 2 G: General Harkins, will you begin by giving us a brief sketch of your military career before your assignment to Vietnam

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

up at Tet. F: Yes, they got caught up in the Tet Offensive, but that was an extreme case. G: Was the Filipino--what was it called?--Operation Brotherhood, was that still extant at this time, or had that been terminated before your time? F: I

Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the Truman Administration. At that time, I don't recall exactly the position that senator Johnson-F: I'll refresh you on that. November '48. He was a new Senator; he had been elected in Then, after '50 when Ernest McFarland was defeated, he was named

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)

, how you happen to be where you are right now. C: Well, I guess lid have to go back to about 1943 when I came into the United States Air Force, or at that time the United States Army Air Corps, from my boyhood home in Alabama. raised in Andalusia

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

targets for years from Franklin Delano Roosevelt on through to Johnson's time--substantial numbers of these were passed. Slum clearance, housing, the poverty programs, the interstate highway systems, airline and airport legislation, and the development

Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

. Today's date is Ma rch 17, 1969. Last time I had asked you in the context of your discussion of your 1967 tour on a federal team to visit the states, and I think you visited thirty states, whether you had found in your discussions with public officials

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh October 19, 1968 W: I was born of southern parents in St. Louis, where they were residing at that time, briefly in 1923. We returned to the South. My mother and father were Tennesseean and Alabaman people with a long

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

physical exams out at Kelly My heartbeat was then at the maximum, but it had come down from Field . 172 to the time I took the physical exam which was about three weeks later- M: Was this due to being struck? B: Yes . M: Caused your heart

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh January 16, 1 9 7 0 F: This is the second interview with Mr. Joseph Barr in his office at American Security and Trust in Washington, D.C., on January 16, 1 9 7 0 . We were talking last time, Mr. Barr, about the problems

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of country for about two and a half weeks. I went from Rome back to Washington; as I mentioned earlier, I arrived there the day of the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas. Then I went back via the Far East, stopped off and saw our embassy

Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in August of 1964? M: Yes. At that time we were doing what we called peripheral reconnais- sance, and it was conducted by aircraft, by submarines, and by surface ships. This type of operation was not limited to Tonkin Gulf by any means; it took place

Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was unhappy about Dallas, and they urged him to use the bubble. My understanding, which was I think pretty accurate, was that the President didn't want it and said, "What are you going to do? Next time you're going to take me in town in a tank or something

Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, the Blackstone Hotel one time and he was in the elevator along with other folks. I shook his hand. But of course I'm sure he doesn't recall that because he shook hands with many people, and he was very prominent at that time. Evidently his suite

Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and saw something of the then-Senator Johnson at that time. The first time I recall talking with Senator Johnson was during the fall of 1956 when Senator Kefauver and I were campaigning throughout Texas with Senator Johnson. Senator Johnson led us
House press apparatus; Dean Acheson; Dean Rusk; Senator Aiken; Congressman Moss; Mr. Rooney; Mr. Katzenbach; Eugene Rostow; the press; Joe Alsop; Vietnam coverage; mail; lag time in making records available; Douglas Cater; transition; Lady Bird; trip

Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

not have enough funds to develop good programs. It occurred to me that the time had come for federal assistance in order to make this possible. bne Sunday afternoon I do remember I was visiting at the Johnson residence and I brought the subject up. I

Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Opportunity; the time is 2:30 on Wednesday, November 20, 1968. Mr. Harding, perhaps I should start out by asking how you first became acquainted with President Johnson. H: Well, the first personal contact that I had with President Johnson was in probably

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

to report to President Kennedy just after he came back from Dallas. Then it did report finally to President Johnson just before Christmas of '63--had a meeting with President Johnson in the White House. G: Was that the first time you had met President

Folder, "Meetings With the President -- 23 November 1963 - 27 December 1963," McCone Memoranda, Box 1 (Item)

. The President asked that any matters of urgent importance be brought to his attention at any time, day or night. He designated no inter mediary. 6. At 12:30 I went to the President• s office in the Executive Office Building to tell him of the information

Oral history transcript (conversation), Lyndon B. Johnson and Ted Sorensen, interview S-VIII, 6/3/1963 (Item)

1,1ork oefon" \ve send a message, one, and we can't do that unless we spend some time on the message. Two, I think we ought to exchange some viewpoints on what legislation we can get-Tape 2 of 2 LBJ - -wh:::n he talks, say, "Now, I don t want to come

Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

of the government since that time. I have been on one or two advisory committees of government agencies, but I don't regard that as important. I have in an unofficial way maintained rather continuous contacts and talked with people in the government, exchanged

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