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Oral history transcript, Felipe Herrera, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; served under Eisenhower, JFK and LBJ; major growth of bank under LBJ; Punta del Estes 1967; Lincoln Gordon and Sol Linowitz; Dominican problems; Peru balance of payment problems; Bank important element in Inter-American…
Oral history transcript, Clinton P. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by T.H. Baker
Similarity between Anderson's and Johnson's early careers; Johnson as Whip and Majority leader; 1957 Civil Rights Bill; space program development; 1955 Johnson heart attack; Johnson as possible Presidential nominee; Ed Johnson; LBJ's emphasis on the…
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
[For interviews 1 - 4] Biographical information; Stewart Udall; The Quiet Crisis; Lady Bird; conservation and beautification; Committee for a More Beautiful Capital; East Wing; Lady Bird’s trips; White House Conference on Natural Beauty; Model…
Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell
Biographical information; JFK’s civil rights legislation appointments under LBJ; first meetings with LBJ; candidates for 1960; LBJ’s politics; civil rights: past and present; appointment to Puerto Rico Commission; Dominican Republic issue;…
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Use of the Cabinet; communication with White House legislative liaison; Wayne Aspinall; trips; recreation programs; Lower Colorado River water allocation problem; water problems and projects
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; early political contacts; early relationship with LBJ and John Connally; impressions of LBJ in the 1950s; 1960, 1962, 1964 campaigns; role of Locke in campaigns; Democratic State Chairman; political dinners with LBJ and JFK;…
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker
LBJ’s first heart attack (1955); Hurst’s relationship with the Johnsons; LBJ’s rehabilitation; LBJ’s personality; foreign trips with LBJ; LBJ’s wit; Kennedy’s assassination.
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker
How Wallace classified LBJ’s political stances from the Senate through Presidential periods; the 1960 Presidential campaign; the Birmingham demonstrations and Wallace’s discussion with Robert F. Kennedy regarding them; Wallace’s high regard for…
Oral history transcript, Jerry Voorhis, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb
First meeting LBJ; impressions of LBJ as a Congressman and Senator; LBJ's relationship with FDR and Rayburn; rural electrification; defeated in 1946 Senate race against Nixon; Cooperative League; meeting Lady Bird; assessment of LBJ's performance as…
Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; departed government in 1964 over policy in Vietnam; JFK, Harriman, Forrestal and Hilsman were all for a political approach while LBJ was for a military approach; LBJ: “It’s the only war we’ve got;” Rostow and…
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; CAB appointment; Northeastern Airlines decisions; air congestion and stacking over airports; role as the Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation; contact with Vice President Johnson; maritime strike; establishment of…
Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker
Evaluation of LBJ's Senate record; political background prior to election as Mayor of Atlanta in 1962; work with President Kennedy and request to testify on behalf of Civil Rights Bill; civil rights programs in Atlanta; support of mayors of America…
Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 2 (II), 5/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Decision-making regarding troops in Vietnam in 1968 and the deployment of reserve units; the perceived shift from seeking a military solution to a political solution in Vietnam in the late 1960s; an assessment of the U.S. Army in 1969; manpower…
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
40 trips; Discover America; LBJ’s trip to Senegal while VP; Cadillac diplomacy; JFK approved LBJ’s approach on trips; Ayub Khan told LBJ that Russians would be testing JFK in international area; Ayub Khan’s visit to the LBJ Ranch; camel-driver…
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Senator Bob Bartlett's Washington assignments and positions during periods of LBJ's service; statehood movement for Alaska and Hawaii and role of LBJ in the controversy; the Tennessee Plan for statehood acts; events of the day when statehood bill…
Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; JFK association; 1960 campaign; Civil Rights Act of 1957; work for appointments of blacks; LBJ during the vice presidency; liaison between the White House and civil rights people; RFK and LBJ; LBJ as…
Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker
Meeting LBJ in 1960; civil rights demonstrations in Atlanta and subsequent federal laws to override states’ discriminatory laws; Civil Rights Act of 1964; opinions of integration among Atlanta leadership; Ralph McGill; Martin Luther King, Sr. and…
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; contact with LBJ; LBJ’s decision to join the Navy; helping in Texas Congressional campaigns; 1948 Senate campaign; Weisl’s committees; LBJ’s interest in space; 1957 Civil Rights Act; 1960 and 1964 Presidential…
Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker
1960 Presidential campaign; supporting JFK; hunting with LBJ at the Ranch; the JFK assassination; the Civil Rights movement; Mrs. Johnson’s train trip in the South; Sanders’ political interactions with Richard Russell; Governors’ trip to…
Oral history transcript, Lester Maddox, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker
Support of Nixon and Goldwater; contact with LBJ; LBJ and civil rights; Pickrick Restaurant affair; Secretary Gardner; 1968 election; unseating Georgia delegation in 1968 convention; evaluation of LBJ as President; involvement in Vietnam
Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
McGiffert's career from 1953 to 1965; how McGiffert got into government work and promotion opportunities under Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara; meetings with LBJ, including one after the assassination of Martin Luther King; McGiffert's contact…
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
The Truth in Packaging bill; need for a means of easily comparing products; package sizes and shapes; Esther Peterson; the soap and detergent lobby; Herb Hollomon; compromising to pass the Truth in Packaging bill; the Revenue Act of 1968; a ten…
Oral history transcript, Frank Pace, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Meeting LBJ through Bob Hannegan; LBJ’s personality and character; changes in the function of the Bureau of the Budget interaction between LBJ’s Preparedness Subcommittee and Pace as Secretary of the Army; Don Cook; General Dynamics and the TFX…
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press;…
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 2 (II), 5/12/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; forest service background; establishment of BOR; Joe Penfold; Conservation Fund; legislation passed in 1968; Stewart Udall; Golden Eagle Passport; Corp of Engineers; cooperation with other agencies; Bureau of Reclamation;…
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb
[For interview 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; social security; Eleanor Roosevelt; 1939 amendment to Social Security Act; Congressional committee and chairmen; unemployment insurance; disability benefits; Kennedy administration; Medicare; LBJ…
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker
LBJ's Senate office; Defense Preparedness Subcommittee; Senate Aeronautical and Space Science Committee; National Aeronautics and Space Council; NASA; development of space program
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Biographical information; meeting LBJ in 1943; casual relationship with LBJ in House for six years; controversial 1948 election of LBJ over Coke Stevenson; LBJ’s reputation as a wheeler-dealer; insecure politically in Texas; dedication of Medical…
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb
Liaison with USIA; international education; PBS Act Corp.; CIA involvement with NSA; work with intellectual community; academic trips to gather ideas; impressions of Eric Goldman and The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson; Arts and Humanities Endowment;…
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker
Meeting LBJ in 1955; the 1956 Democratic National Convention; Abell's father-in-law Senator Earle Clement's career; LBJ trying to do favors for his colleagues; adjourning Congress for the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles;…
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker
[For interviews 1 and 2] Brief contacts with Senator Johnson during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations; Democratic Advisory Council establishment and opposition by LBJ and Sam Rayburn; Paul Butler; LBJ’s effectiveness as Senate majority…
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; 1957 Civil Rights Act; Presidency; LBJ's relations with the press; Eric Goldman; anti-communism; Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Outline of journalistic career; LBJ's unique handling of press during both Senate and White House years; Kennedy and Johnson humor; Jacqueline Kennedy's appreciation of LBJ; LBJ's swearing-in ceremony in Dallas; Kennedys thoughts of death and LBJ's…
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell
LBJ’s response to the Detroit riots and race problem; McNamara’s move from Defense Dept. to the World Banks; Robert Kennedy’s and the “doves” in the Senate; assessment of LBJ and conclusion that he was a bitter man; Kennedy’s decision to…
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 2 (II), 5/2/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
[For interviews 1 and 2] Biographical information; first meeting LBJ and Sam Rayburn at the 1956 Democratic convention in Chicago; made an honorary Texan; LBJ and statehood for Hawaii; LBJ and the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange between…
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell
Briefing Senator Robert Kennedy before his 1965 trip to Latin America; Peace Corps and OEO staffs’ opposition to Vietnam War, 1966- ; original purpose of U.S. intervention in Dominican Republic; Mankiewicz leaving the Peace Corps to become…
Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
1968 welcome to Senate phone call from LBJ; Hells Canyon power bill; description of how Senate business is conducted; LBJ's explanation of his role in nomination for VP in 1968; LBJ and Vietnam conflict; LBJ's capacity for generosity and his…