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Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
Political career background; 1960 National Convention and presidential campaign; Cuban refugee problem in Florida; Bay of Pigs incident; 1964 Freedom Riders; Office of Emergency Planning; 1966 trip to Asia with LBJ
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
1964 campaign structure/organization; Arthur Krim; one-day New England campaign trip; daisy commercial; Barry Goldwater; Mrs. Johnson’s campaign trip through the South; inner workings of the campaign; Ambassador John Bartlow Martin; campaign…
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, Cecil Stoughton, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
Transition during LBJ’s first days in office; Stoughton’s continuing position as White House photographer; arrival of Mr. Okamoto to photograph behind the scenes activities and Stoughton’s subsequent alienation; Okamoto’s dismissal;…
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, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
Stoughton’s background and how he became involved in photography while serving in the Air Force in WWII; Stoughton’s newsreel camera business in the 1950’s; his work in the Army and as a space program photographer at Cape Canaveral; experiences…
Oral history transcript, James W. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; the firm of Powell, Wirtz, and Rauhut; Alvin Wirtz characterized; John Connally characterized; LBJ chews out Walter Jenkins; working on LBJ's Senate staff; the organization of the LBJ Senate staffs; Bobby Baker…
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 3 (III), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
The Walter Jenkins incident; Senator Barry Goldwater; LBJ choosing a running mate; Robert Kennedy; Marvin Watson; the 1964 convention.
Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
30 years in the Senate; first meeting with LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Senator Russell; LBJ as Minority Leader; Committee on Internal Security; McCarthy issue; tidelands issue; becoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee with the help 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, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
Reaction to William Manchester book; personal statement on Bill Manchester; Lady Bird’s trip to the University of Alabama; flap over Lady Bird’s property in Alabama; Lady Bird’s TV tour of Washington; criticism of Lady Bird for spending on…
Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker
Biographical information; first contact with LBJ; General Pershing; FDR and TVA Act; Muscle Shoals; LBJ’s ambition; civil rights; Richard Russell; George Wallace; integration; tidelands; Joe McCarthy; 1956 and 1960 Democratic conventions; Woodrow…
Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; received Medal of Freedom from LBJ; LBJ's use of Civil Rights Commission; JFK and civil rights; CRC's first meeting with LBJ; Commission hearings; John Gleason; LBJ's accomplishments in human opportunity/civil rights; White…
Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
State legislature and law school background; job for LBJ in his 1941 campaign; early days as a U.S. Congressman and as a part of a minority party;
Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Supporting Adlai Stevenson in the 1950’s and JFK in the early 1960’s; his work as a speech writer for LBJ in 1964 campaign; Vice President LBJ’s visit to Dominican Republic in early 1963; Dominican coup against President Juan Bosch in September…
Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; choice of LBJ as VP; LBJ as chairman of EEO Commission; operation of HEW; liaison with Presidential staff; first cabinet meeting; assessment of cabinet meetings; poverty bill/program; ESEA; LBJ's assistance in passing…
Oral history transcript, Jerre Williams, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
First meeting LBJ in 1958; forming the Austin Foreign Policy Club with George Hoffman and Horace Busby; a visit to the Ranch about 1958; refusing an appointment as general counsel to the army; surprise appointment as chairman of the Administrative…
Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Sam Ealy Johnson; getting to know LBJ when LBJ was NYA Administrator; LBJ’s involvement with local (Austin) issues as a senator; how LBJ helped Thornberry as a junior congressman; Rayburn’s 'Board of Education' sessions; the 1952 and 1956…
Oral history transcript, Reynaldo G. Garza, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; met LBJ while student at UT Law School; helped LBJ in first and second runs for Congress; introduced him to Mexican-Americans in East Austin; election to Brownsville school board in April 1941; LBJ through NTA; helped in…
Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; Business and Professional Women's Clubs; Sarah Hughes; Commission on Civil Disorders; Detroit riots; Kerner Commission Report; 1964 Democratic National Convention and campaign; Peden's Senate race; Doers Luncheon; Eartha…
Oral history transcript, Otis Arnold Singletary, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; selection as Job Corps Director; Job Corps Policy Planning; Civilian Conservation Corps; Bill Moyers; Job Corps racial issues; Gary Job Corps Center; John Connally; Women Job Corps Centers; recruitment; LBJ; Dr. F.A. Johnson
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Early family relationship between Birdwell and Johnson families; early organization of National Youth Administration Program in Texas; LBJ's first race for Congress (1937); early days in Washington as Secretary to Congressman Johnson; KVET and KTBC…
Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; what his jobs were for LBJ; how the staff decided which invitations LBJ would accept; Senator Dodd; advance work; Bobby Baker; working with the Kennedy staff; the JFK assassination and Sinclair’s work in the following…
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Interaction with LBJ, Sam Rayburn, and other politicians; LBJ’s senate race and maneuver to get on Texas ballot; conflict with oil industry because LBJ did not support mandatory oil increase; supporting Kennedy; Nixon’s Supreme Court argument;…
Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker
Sam Rayburn and LBJ; Senator Kerr; LBJ for President in 1956; Earle Clements; Senator from Kentucky; Wallace from Alabama; JFK; Al Gore; Frank Clement of Tennessee; Estes Kefauver; civil rights; Governor Faubus of Arkansas; Fulbright; Lester Maddox;…
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Civil service federal union third party mediation; the unique issues of a federal worker union; how Reynolds’ became Undersecretary of Labor, 1967; Reynolds’ work in a commission to examine certain U.S. foreign and domestic policies; involvement…
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, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker
Biographical information; murder of civil rights worker Andy Goodman in Mississippi; SCLC; James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss in 1962; assassination of Medgar Evers in 1963; funeral of MLK; JFK’s assassination; LBJ as President; Civil Rights Act of…
Oral history transcript, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/8/1970, by T.H. Baker
University of Mississippi crisis of 1962
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Contacts with LBJ; Chairman, AEC; NASA; Dr. Glenn Seaborg; CIA Director; test moratorium; Bay of Pigs; U.S. Intelligence Board; Senate lack of control power over CIA; Cuban Missile Crisis; Latin America; H.A.R. Philby, Burgess and McLean defections;…
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
RFK; support of McCarthy; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Libya and its effect on the Middle East crisis; Wheelus Air Force Base and U.S. military bases in Turkey; declining U.S. military presence in the Eastern Mediterranean; meeting with LBJ after the JFK assassination; writing a letter to Saudi Arabia…
Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; education; military service; first meeting with LBJ; Crooker's son's debate team defeated by the LBJ-coached team; 1948 Senate election; controversy and suit regarding the 1948 election and Crooker's involvement;…
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Circumstances of going to work for LBJ; recollections of people and events, 1939-1951, including the staff; WWII; LBJ and Jenkins’ campaigns
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 6 (VI), 8/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Interstate Commerce Commission problem with a railroad merger and Alan Boyd; Ramsey Clark’s appeal and LBJ’s view of the case; LBJ’s enthusiasm; changing LBJ’s mind; LBJ’s naps; trips with LBJ; advance work; stopping at Cam Ranh Bay;…
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 5 (V), 8/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
LBJ’s gift-giving; LBJ signing autographs; Bill Hopkins; how becoming President affected LBJ’s friendships; learning that Hanoi had accepted LBJ’s 3/31/68 initiative; Tuesday luncheon group; appointment of federal judges; Senator Richard…
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Temple’s view of the negotiations with Hanoi; LBJ signing autographs.