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Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 56, 15 November 1993," LBJ Library (Item)
  • Dunar, "Harry S. Truman: The Retirement Years"; Catherine Forslund, "Anna Chennault: China, Asia, and U.S. Foreign Policy, I 950-1985": William Gibbons, "The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War, Part V": Jill Jonnes, "A History of Illegal Drugs
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • supported Harry Truman when Strom Thurmond and Dewey \\'ere running, and I was a budding politician of Cumberland County. I supported him openly and to the dismay of the local Democratic leadership, and as a brash young man offered to debate the state
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the problems of the world do change. NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] was coming into being, the long torturous steps of being proposed by [Harry] Truman and nations signing it, and then its having to go through both bodies. And foreign aid, both
  • surplus and storage; programs that Harry Truman supported; Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson; tidelands; dispersal of surplus government facilities, such as the Austin magnesium plant, which became what is now the Pickle Research Campus at the University
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • distinguished guests, among them Harry Truman, William O. Douglas. Do you recall this event and the people who were there? J: I don't, actually, although I know every last one of those people and the roles they filled in our life. I've seen your list of them
  • death; Harry Truman receiving the news of FDR's death at Sam Rayburn's "board of education;" LBJ's relationship with FDR; Milo and Tharon Perkins; President Truman's friends; LBJ's level of conservatism, especially following FDR's death; KTBC sending
Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • not going to do it." And he was one of my greatest~,defenders after the hearing. Harry Truman was so impressed by this, and by the change in Cain, that he sent for Cain after the confirmation. Cain told him how he suddenly, as he said, "got religion
Reference File, "Whistle Stop -1964 ("Lady Bird Special," 10/6-9)" (Item)
  • ? But former President Harry Truman once told Johnson that a Jot ofrurai folk don't know where the airport is, but they know where the depot is. Go and find them. Her choice of transportation? A pull train of 19 cars complete with supporters and press and 15
Reference File, "Whistle Stop -1964 ("Lady Bird Special," 10/6-9)" (Item)
  • ? But former President Harry Truman once told Johnson that a Jot ofrurai folk don't know where the airport is, but they know where the depot is. Go and find them. Her choice of transportation? A pull train of 19 cars complete with supporters and press and 15
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 22, 15 May 1981," LBJ Library (Item)
  • . (For an account of the second symposium, see page 7 .) Titled "Energy Policy in Perspective. Solutions, Prob­ lems and Prospe ts,'' the conference drew representatives from every Administration from Harry Truman's through Jimmy Cart r's. Experts from industry
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/19/1966 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • c MEMORANDUM T u esd a y , July 19, 1966 THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON What a b le s s e d lu xu ry i s a fr e e m orningj P age 1 '• A fter b rea k fa st w ith Lyndon I w en t in and c u r le d up w ith L u ci in h er bed to do som e la s t ch
  • McKinley assassination; Lady Bird attends meeting on Truman balcony about Luci Johnson's wedding; Lady Bird bowls and has dinner with LBJ
Folder, "Presidential Decisions-Gulf of Tonkin Attacks of August 1964-Volume III, Tabs 34-41," National Security Council Histories Files, Box 39 (Item)
  • COPY LBJ LIBRARY / ^ / J j^ ^ ^7» ■----- S’«-4t f.v
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and it was such fun to ride up on the train. Then we were taken through that marvelous collection of early American china, furniture, art works with, fabulously enough, the company of Mr. Harry duPont himself. I remember Sara Clements was along, and Gladys Johnston
  • television; attending the Kentucky Derby; Carl Estes and Longview, Texas; a Senate ladies trip to Delaware and Winterthur; funerals for Wesley West's mother and Mary Rather's brother and sister-in-law; Mary Rather as a member of LBJ's staff; Senator Harry
Oral history transcript, Phillip S. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: PHILLIP S. HUGHES INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • See all online interviews with Phillip S. Hughes
  • Hughes, Phillip S. (Phillip Samuel), 1917-
  • Oral history transcript, Phillip S. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by David G. McComb
  • Phillip S. Hughes
Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • president, that I wasn't made to be stand-by equipment. I'd known Henry Wallace very well, and I know what he went through. knew Harry Truman when he was vice president. And I I've really known all the vice presidents, and they've all taken a terrible
  • Early contacts with LBJ as a Congressman; relationship with Sam Rayburn; service under Eisenhower and Truman; LBJ’s friendship and loyalty; comments on the office of VP; LBJ’s sensitivity; the role of governors; Rockefeller’s comments on John
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Construction before he died. Truman type politics when you say that. But that's Harry I don't say that they had him in his vest pocket, but if the McNamara Line had been completed in Vietnam--you remember McNamara wanted a Maginot Line fortification-just
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 7, 1 November 1975," LBJ Library (Item)
  • to 125 milliori nor what changes there would be in transportation The text of Harry S. Truman' last Fireside Chat, drhvered a few days before leavmg office, gives an msight mto his concept of Presidential responsibility and also int the unpretentiousness
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . He was one of those--President Truman would have 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org
  • ; the relationship between LBJ and Richard Russell; Robert Taft; tidelands controversy; Felix Longoria's burial; a letter from Herbert Hoover to Harry Truman regarding Hoover's public service; buying souvenir pieces of the White House during its renovation; Paul
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • for him arid found hi s off; ce, and came up to his office. Lindsey. He talked with me before he saw Judge The Judge was busy at the moment, so I took him in another room and had a good visit with him. I found out all about him, and found out who he
  • Biographical information; Judge Ben B. Lindsey; Harold Ickes; Alvin Wirtz; FDR; LBJ techniques; Harry Truman; tidelands; civil rights; 1960 Democratic convention; Chapman's health; national lawyer's group for Johnson-Humphrey in 1964; conservation
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 88, February 2007," LBJ Library (Item)
  • so many sc nari s going on at once. While Harry McPherson and oth rs were working on the c sation-of-the-bombing speech at midnight n turday the 30'1\ my faU1ergot a call at our resi­ dence in Maryland that the Presi­ dent would like him
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a reception at the Carlton Hotel for Vice President and Mrs. Truman. F: At the Carlton here? s: Yes. During the reception someone, either Secretary Forrestal who was secretary of the Navy at that time, or Mrs. Forrestal, suggested that my wife and I come
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it that the people that knew him best voted for him. So those are sort of four major guideposts as we launched into the long next month. Meanwhile, on the big front, all sorts of important things were happening. President [Harry] Truman signed executive orders ending
  • of state from certifying LBJ as the Democratic candidate; LBJ joining President Truman on his train trip through Texas; Hugo Black's ruling that Davidson did not have the authority to interfere with a state election; LBJ's relationship with Homer Thornberry
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 83, January 2004," LBJ Library (Item)
  • . and Development or Industry in Central America." Deputy Di.rector Tina Houston pre­ sented M . Warnock with a signed copy of LBJ: The White House Years, by for­ mer Library Director Harry Middleton, and a sample CD of President Johnson ·s telephone tape
Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was very hot for rural electrification, as a matter of fact Truman offered me the job as administrator of REA when he came in, and I wanted to get back to my typewriter. F: But I was very much interested in it. Did you get the feeling in those days
  • Administration; role of White House press secretary in 1945; impressions of other press secretaries; recollections of LBJ's early days in Washington and his race for Senate; support for Truman; Democratic Party allegiance; 1960 Democratic Party convention
Oral history transcript, Whitney Shoemaker, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the White House for Associated Press. Is this background information correct and complete? S: That is correct except from May of '63 until the late summer of '64 I was with the Motion Picture Association of America as assistant to the President, then Eric
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of our colleges and in putting taxe s on- -for education. I think I favored ITlore of that than Harry Byrd did, but I was with his organization, and as I say, I was six years in the State Senate and at that time was known as a liberal. I was one
  • ; General Douglas MacArthur; Harry Byrd; conservation; Civil Rights Acts; major changes in U.S. government in 35 years; accomplishments of the American people
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 76, October 2001," LBJ Library (Item)
  • Among Issue Number LXVI, October, 2001 Retiring LBJ Library and Museum Director Harry Middleton, with Incoming Director Betty Sue Flowers Story on page two Our Next Director Archivist of the United States John Carlin has named Betty Sue Flowers
Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • CIA. M: So, on Vietnam, to use Truman's old phrase, the buck really did stop at the President? S: He listened to the arguments and the presentations and the papers. And on occasion, out of that Tuesday lunch he'd go to the bigger group--the Security
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/10/1964 (Friday) (Item)
  • the and then Lyndon There t h e y in the Rose Garden them,____ _ ana Lyndon began s n o u t in g back and f o r t h to from a balcony the went into out on the Truman B a lc o n y . semi-press Sandburg^ in t r o d u c e d in Room and ha d some d e l i c i o
  • LBJ banters with reports from the Truman Balcony; Lady Bird works at The Elms; Lady Bird tours White House with Mr. & Mrs. Carl Sandburg and Mr. & Mrs. Edward Steichen; Carl Sandburg's books are mentioned; Lynda and Luci Johnson meet the guests
Folder, "Memos, [Cables, memos, reports, and other material, 11/63-5/67] Vol. XVI, 8/16 -31/64, 2 of 2," Country Files, Vietnam, NSF, Box 7 (Item)
  • SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE W A SH JNG T O N ■COtfFIDEtfflAL----- A ugust 2 4 , 1964 d e c l a s s if ie d By----- NARS, Date MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. MeGeorge Bundy ^ FROM: Mr« M ichael Vc F o r r e s ta l Ulp SUBJECT: Q
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 2 (II), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of unfair coverage in Vietnam, or unfair analysis? S: Oh, yes. Bill Moyers did, and Bob McNamara did. But that went with the turf. You know, Truman did, Eisenhower did. We did a debate with Khrushchev--no, not a debate; we did "Face the Nation
Folder, "Newspaper Clippings [1947]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 29 (Item)
  • , however, asserted olerance, con- that it was impossible under the law to pay displaced persons and 's declaration that profits,. If any, would be kept the following by Mr. Cohen "and his associates." Senator Brewster, according to existence of 1 aiainst
  • The donor(s) of these records transferred their copyright to the U.S. government and their writings are therefore in the public domain. This file may also contain materials from other sources that may retain copyright.
Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: MERRELL F. SMALL INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Small's residence, Sacramento, California Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: Let's start with your going to work for Senator [Thomas] Kuchel. S: Well, Eisenhower was elected in 1952
Folder, "Luci's Parties," Bess Abell Files, White House Social Files, Box 32 (Item)
  • Washington University. Se has a telephone which may be in the new book, or you can get through in­ formation, if you ever need some young man on the guest list. Jon's father used to be with Dept. of Justice under Tom Clark, and I guess it was Harry Truman who
Folder title list, Personal Papers, Papers of Ellsworth Bunker (Item)
  • sugar advisory committee during World War II, and his activities on the board of National Sugar. This series also describes Bunker's roles as Ambassador to Argentina and Italy under Harry S. Truman, President of the American Red Cross, Ambassador
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was saying, "Don't worry about that, we'll I don't know where I'll be." But he was pressing me. And then Lou Harris was a student at Chapel Hill when I was, I had known him-F: You're talking about the pollster? S: Yes. I'd kept in touch with him
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with the White House and with Mr. Truman in the 1948 campaign. Ba: This is when you were associate director of public relations for the National Committee? Bi: That's correct. That was the title which basically hid the fact that there were a group of us
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 41, September 11-14, 1967 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 22 [2 of 2] (Item)
  • am ready to hazard an opinion, to which I did not come easily or lightly, that Harry Truman will even­ tually win a place as President, if not as a hero, alongside Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt." For it was not as clear then as it is now
  • Details of restriction(s) may be found on the withdrawal sheet in the first folder of the file unit. Withdrawal sheets refer to file units and are not necessarily applicable to all individual folders.
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that Harry Truman admired Lyndon Johnson. F: You were very much involved in things like the Truman Doctrine and the Palestinean question and so on. Did Senator Johnson show much interest in that, or was he primarily interested in domestic affairs? P
Oral history transcript, Nelson M. Bortz, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at the University of North Dakota, I received a telegram from the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U . S . Department of Labor inquiring as to whether I was available as a statistical clerk, CAF-2, $1,440 per year . This was in the spring of 1935 . I replied
Folder title list, Reports on Enrolled Legislation, Reports on Public Laws (Item)
  • were prepared by the Office of Legislative Reference Assistant Directors Philip S. Hughes, Wilfred Rommel, and James M. Frey (acting assistant), take the form of a memo summarizing the purpose of the legislation, outlining agency recommendations
Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • all else in life - friendship. Working at speech-writing in Washington I had favorably caught the eye of the wonderful man, Eugene Meyer, owner of the Washington Post, father of the present owner, Katherine Graham. He was so close to Harry Truman
  • received worldwide as the founder of Flair; Cowles' work as a "personal ambassador" of President Dwight Eisenhower; Cowles' friendships with foreign dignitaries; how Cowles got involved with government work during President Harry Truman's administration
  • Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton