Browse Items (568 total)
- HIDDEN-CSV name and creator is exactly "oh-1-11-17"
Sort by:
Oral history transcript, Andrew Young, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by T.H. Baker
Biographical information; feelings about LBJ; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; JFK’s administration; argument between RFK, MLK and Burke Marshall; intensity of civil rights movement; JFK’s judicial appointment to the South; non-violence;…
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 11 (XI), 2/27/1969, by T.H. Baker
The importance of maintaining a high moral standard; proposed revision of the Administrative Procedure Act; Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) strategies to delay or expedite action to accomplish their intended goals; how to get a viewpoint heard and…
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 10 (X), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker
Department of Justice history and its role as legal advisor to the president through the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC); laws created in the executive branch, such as through executive order, presidential proclamations and executive agreements;…
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 9 (IX), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker
the relationships between the federal government, state and local governments, and private enterprise; the changing role of states and the federal government in interstate compacts; federal participation in interstate compacts; air and water…
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 6 (VI), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker
a 1966 interdepartmental conference on proposed legislation to establish a fishery zone beyond the three-mile territorial seas limit; Bureau of the Budget's role in uniting the positions of various departments; the Department of the Navy, State…
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 5 (V), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker
Wozencraft's work on a study group related to the revision of international treaty laws; the 1968 United Nations (UN) Conference on the Law of Treaties negotiations over how treaties should be invalidated and terminated; concern that proposed…
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 4 (IV), 1/22/1969, by T.H. Baker
interagency committees; Wozencraft's involvement in the President's Commission of the Observance of Human Rights Year 1968 and related conferences; the difference between government- and non-government-employed commission members; the Panel on…
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker
The development of task forces such as the veterans task force composed of representatives from several government agencies; Wozencraft's proposal of a "one-stop shopping center" to inform veterans of programs, opportunities, and benefits available…
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 2 (II), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker
How the Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), and numerous other attorneys on the president's staff coordinate their services; the history of the Department of Justice; the role of the attorney general; the OLC staff's duty to learn the…
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker
The importance of maintaining a high moral standard; proposed revision of the Administrative Procedure Act; Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) strategies to delay or expedite action to accomplish their intended goals; how to get a viewpoint heard and…
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb
LBJ's relationship with John Connally; first statewide radio broadcast; LBJ on the stump; the idea of the helicopter; preparedness the key theme; LBJ's reputation as a Congressman; LBJ and minority groups; campaign appearances; close vote; Connally…
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1968, by Paul Bolton
Decision to go to work for LBJ in 1948; early days in Washington; LBJ’s decision to run for the Senate; episode of the kidney stone illness; trip to Mayo Clinic; 1948 campaign; advancing trips; use of helicopter for campaigning.
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 6 (VI), 4/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
The Woods' involvement in LBJ's 1948 Senate campaign against Coke Stevenson; organizing a women's tea in Seguin for Lady Bird Johnson and her auto accident with Marietta Moody Brooks on the way to the tea; the Weinert family's control over support…
Oral history transcript, Irwin Wolkstein, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
Studying health insurance issues in the 1950s and Wolkstein's plans to assist with related legislation in the early 1960s; JFK's support for health insurance legislation; Wilbur Mills' opposition to Medicare legislation; how Medicare legislation was…
Oral history transcript, Frank G. Wisner, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger
Wisner's career in the Foreign Service in the early 1960s; Wisner's duties in Vietnam upon his arrival in 1965; Agency for International Development [AID] work in Dinh Tuong province; organization of pacification efforts; Wisner's responsibilities as…
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 5 (V), 3/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger
John Connally's appointment as secretary of the navy; the 1961 Lucy B Convair crash near the LBJ Ranch; LBJ's restlessness as vice president; LBJ's relationship with Robert and John Kennedy; the Johnsons' Tennessee walking horse; Konrad Adenauer's…
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Ted Gittinger
LBJ's feelings about Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954; LBJ as a medical patient; a 1955 highway construction bill; LBJ's cousin, Margaret, and her family; LBJ's smoking habits after his 1955 heart attack; going on walks with LBJ; the LBJ Ranch…
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 3 (III), 3/3/1987, by Ted Gittinger
A.W. Moursund's 1946 district attorney campaign; the death of Mrs. Johnson's Aunt Effie Pattillo; LBJ supporting Dwight Eisenhower in the 1948 presidential election; LBJ's 1948 U.S. Senate campaign against Coke Stevenson; Winters' offer to shear…
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 2 (II), 2/25/1987, by Ted Gittinger
Boating with LBJ and the Secret Service; how LBJ was offered the job working for Congressman Richard Kleberg through James Cage; Winters' work for Lower Colorado River Authority Board to neutralize conflict between LCRA and the Pedernales Electric…
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger
How Winters and LBJ met; Guy Maddox; LBJ's work for Winters' construction company; education as LBJ's priority; LBJ playing dominoes; hunting with LBJ; the construction of dams in the Hill Country area; Camp Wolters; how Winters supported LBJ's…
Oral history transcript, Anita P. Winters, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger
LBJ's relationship with Sam Houston Johnson; LBJ's Christmas and birthday gift-giving; LBJ's boyhood home and Winters' work there; LBJ's 1969 will; LBJ's March 1970 hospitalization and 1972 heart attack; LBJ's exercise, smoking, and dietary habits;…
Oral history transcript, Anita P. Winters, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger
Biographical information; Winters' childhood association with LBJ and his siblings; LBJ playing baseball; LBJ's parents; the Johnson family car; dances and fights between young men; LBJ's personality as a young man; LBJ breaking his leg; LBJ's…
Oral history transcript, Cynthia Wilson, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1985, by Lewis Gould
Wilson's work with the First Lady's Committee for a More Beautiful Capital; difficulties keeping committee projects on track; Mary Lasker; Laurance Rockefeller; Stewart Udall; the White House Conference on Natural Beauty; highway beautification;…
Oral history transcript, Cynthia Wilson, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould
Biographical information; first impressions of Mrs. Johnson; how Wilson was hired to be on Mrs. Johnson’s staff answering letters; the organization of Mrs. Johnson’s staff; how Mrs. Johnson interacted with her staff; Liz Carpenter; Sharon…
Oral history transcript, Roy Wilkins, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by T.H. Baker
Contacts with LBJ; Rule 22; 1957 Civil Rights Act; JFK’s civil rights stand; LBJ as VP selection; NAACP; LBJ’s interest in civil rights as VP; impressions about the Senegal trip; assessment of JFK’s actions on civil rights legislation; 1963…
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Criticism of LBJ’s domestic programs and Vietnam War credibility gap; polls; DNC; Vietnam settlement; appraisal of LBJ; relationship with Lady Bird.
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
First impressions of LBJ; LBJ as a Senator; Civil Rights Bill; White’s special access to LBJ; LBJ’s humor; White’s books; LBJ as VP; criticism of LBJ’s domestic programs and Vietnam War.
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 5 (V), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
The appointment of Robert Weaver to HUD; acting as gift adviser to CTJ and Clark Clifford, drawing up guidelines for wedding gifts; CTJ responds to the Jenkins incident; LBJ's insistence that staff be on call; LBJ's blocks the transfer of Perry…
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
FPC concerns: pollution, future energy requirements, nuclear power generation; cooperation between the FPC and the AEC; the changing role of the NEA; the 1965 NYC power failure ("brown-out"); LBJ summons the FPC to action, the beginning of the…
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
LBJ's intellectual powers; his sources of advice; Abe Fortas; White's brief assignment as liaison in the counternarcotics effort; named special counsel in 1965; acting on the CAB's international air cases; the airlines' influence and the role of…
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 2 (II), 2/18/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
LBJ's awareness of the importance of symbols, weighs whether Lynda should continue to live in an all-white dormitory at UT; LBJ considers inviting civil rights leaders to the Ranch; LBJ-staff relationship; Jack Valenti; George Reedy; Walter Jenkins;…
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
LBJ as majority leader; LBJ's management of committee assignments (the "Johnson Rule"); LBJ's single-mindedness in pursuing legislative goals; LBJ as vice president inadvertently left out of discussions on occasion; RFK-LBJ relationship; Plans for…
Oral history transcript, Tom and Betty Weinheimer, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1987, by Ted Gittinger
How the Weinheimer and Johnson families knew each other; meeting LBJ and Lady Bird; LBJ’s 1954 campaign; the Weinheimers being Democrats; the history of party allegiances in Gillespie County, Texas; the impression LBJ made on local citizens by…
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 2 (II), 12/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's 1941 U.S. Senate campaign loss; extension of the Selective Service Act; the bombing of Pearl Harbor; LBJ volunteering for active military duty; LBJ and John Connally in California; LBJ's contact with his congressional office while he served in…
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Weber's educational background and college work experience; how Weber met LBJ through Willard Deason in 1940 and went to work in LBJ's congressional office in 1941; Weber's work on patronage for LBJ; staff work schedules and salary; Weber's…
Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker
Biographical information; contact with LBJ; NASA; Space Science Board; aeronautical industry; VP’s role in the space program; presidential advisory groups; Webb-McNamara agreement; lunar voyage; Axis Concept; Albert Thomas; “Space Age…
Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz
How Ed Weisl, Sr. got Wasserman involved with LBJ’s campaign in the 1950’s; 1960 presidential campaign; political involvement of entertainment industry executives; Arthur Krim; the 1964 presidential campaign; the President’s Club; 1964…
Oral history transcript, Earl Warren, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; Senator William Knowland; Chief Justice confirmation; “Impeach Earl Warren and Lady Bird” signs in Texas; John Birch Society; appointments to Supreme Court; swearing in of four Presidents; White House comments on Court…