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Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 5 (V), 5/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Solidarity Day, June 19, 1968; Solidarity Day chairmen Bayard Rustin and, later, Sterling Tucker; Dean Rusk's son, David Rusk, and his work on Solidarity Day; estimating the number of people expected for the Solidarity Day event; speeches by Ralph…
Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell
Biographical information; contact with LBJ; LBJ’s techniques; opinion of LBJ’s political stance; LBJ-Rayburn liaison; LBJ’s ego and the transition to national politician; LBJ as VP; operation of Congress after LBJ and Rayburn; JFK-LBJ…
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; 1960 visit with LBJ; Soviet wheat proposal; critic of U.S. involvement in Vietnam; 1965 meeting with LBJ; Senator Frank Church; cessation of communications between President and Senate critics; efforts to end the war; White…
Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker
First knowledge of LBJ; Dr. Robert Weaver and Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune enthusiastic regarding LBJ; Mrs. Bethune and the NYA; friendship with Stuart Symington; LBJ getting building for Huston-Tillotson College; relationship with LBJ; 1957 Civil…
Oral history transcript, Gerard C. Smith, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Relationship between Foster Dulles and LBJ; meeting LBJ; trying to establish trans-Atlantic nuclear force; going to the German government with a proposal for a MLF; LBJ’s understanding of, and congressional relations on, the trans-Atlantic nuclear…
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, Volkmar K. Wentzel, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
1963 Northern Europe trip; photo session with Lady Bird in Helsinki; talking about the Finnish War; LBJ's visit with Mrs. Seppala's father; estimate of LBJ as a subject for photographs; gentlemanly qualities and courteousness of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Bart McDowell, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Accompanying the Johnsons to Europe to take notes for a manuscript to be published under LBJ's name; LBJ's concern over the Bobby Baker episode; McDowell's impressions of each member of the Johnson family
Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Contact with LBJ; dedication of Richard Byrd Memorial Statue; award for the Hubbard Medal; Senator Byrd's garden party; Jane N. Smith Medal; building dedication; White House Historical Association; presidents book; The Living White House; LBJ…
Oral history transcript, Lonnelle Aikman, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Work with Mrs. Johnson on THE LIVING WHITE HOUSE; text/pictures formula; approval of final copy; criticism of the book; Mrs. Johnson's party when Melville Grosvenor presented the book to her; Liz Carpenter's relationship with Mrs. Johnson and…
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Biographical information; first association with LBJ; Board of Education meetings; Richard Russell; Will Rogers, Jr.; recollections of LBJ as congressman; Albert Thomas; 1948 election; Mike Mansfield; Robert Kerr; Mike Monroney; Clint Anderson;…
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 3 (III), 4/26/1969, by David G. McComb
Receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 as a recruiter of talented persons for government service; setting up the guidelines for executive branch presidential appointments; evaluating and recommending appointees; generating appointment…
Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; developing the Mekong project; Shriver tries to get Zwick into OEO; named assistant budget director; surmise that Vietnam would not last long; the task force to create the Department of Transportation; role of J. Califano;…
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 2 (II), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb
The role of Civil Service Comission in loyalty and security program; his work as president of Wesleyan College; becoming Chairman of the Civil Service Commission in the Kennedy administration, 1961; working with Vice-President Johnson on equal…
Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Chancellor’s career history; getting to know LBJ. Mrs. Johnson’s effect on LBJ; European view of LBJ; Relationship of LBJ with the Kennedys. Chancellor’s appointment to the Voice of America and the following aspects of VOA: national radio…
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 4 (IV), 4/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Congressional interest in, and reaction to, planning of the Resurrection City demonstration in the 1968 Poor People's Campaign; congressional hearings related to the demonstration; the issue of whether or not to issue a permit for Resurrection City;…
Oral history transcript, Najeeb E. Halaby, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; Federal Aviation Act; FAA; contact with LBJ; SST program; formation of Department of Transportation; Halaby’s departure from FAA; Henry Gonzales; impressions of LBJ.
Oral history transcript, Henry Bellmon, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Political biography; meetings with President Johnson; impressions of LBJ; development of Republican Party in Oklahoma; work as Nixon's national campaign manager in 1966 and 1967; impact of LBJ's administration on state of Oklahoma
Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
LBJ and his relations with the press
Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker
Food distribution; food stamp program; commodity support program; Billie Sol Estes; Charles Murphy; JFK assassination; LBJ and Freeman; appointment as Assistant Secretary for International Affairs
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker
JFK presidency; House Rules Committee 1961; Bobby Baker scandal; JFK legislative program; LBJ and John Connally; patronage appointments; Hale Boggs; agriculture bill; “Five O’clock Club;” Walter Jenkins; Bill Moyers; Democratic National…
Oral history transcript, Edward R. Fried, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; participation on Walt Rostow’s Policy Planning Council from 1962-1965; impressions of LBJ as a personal diplomat; characterization of LBJ as a person and as President; deGualle’s decision regarding the devaluation of the…
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1969, by David G. McComb
LBJ as VP; 1964 election; Secretary of the Treasury; LBJ as Chief Executive; assessment of LBJ’s personality; contact with Lady Bird; analysis of 3/31 announcement; LBJ’s faults and virtues; links with the business community; aluminum;…
Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker
How Tucker met LBJ; LBJ’s reputation in regard to civil rights; LBJ’s work as a Vice-President; Tucker’s involvement in the civil rights movement; Martin Luther King; the 1963 March on Washington; LBJ’s interest in civil rights early in his…
Oral history transcript, Robert Vincent Roosa, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; Federal Reserve Bank; new economics; Treasury Department; Organization for Economic Cooperation; Organization for European Cooperation and Development; working parties; Group of Ten; ring of swaps; London Gold Pool; Robert…
Oral history transcript, Robert Q. Marston, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell
Biographical and professional information; appointment as Associate Director of National Institute of Health and director of Division of Regional Medical Programs; problems of regional medical cooperation; 1967 decision to move Regional Medical…
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell
Educational and professional background; work with the 1964 Task Force on Poverty under leadership of Sargent Shriver; concept of community action; Shriver’s management style in Peace Corps, task force and OEO; funding of Community Action Agency;…
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, 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, Stewart L. Udall, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; Rayburn; JFK; 1960 Democratic campaign; LBJ’s vice presidency; Lady Bird; Interior; Job Corps; RFK and LBJ
Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 3 (III), 4/16/1969, by Stephen Goodell
Office of Economic Opportunity
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker
Urban disorders of 1966 and 1967; assassination of MLK
Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 2 (II), 4/15/1969, by David G. McComb
Okun’s background; work on the Council of Economic Advisors; how staff worked together to set up budgetary requests; comparison of Dillon’s and Heller’s views of budgetary items; “Okun’s Law”; 1964 tax reform; dealing with the Federal…
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
President LBJ’s relations with the press and Louchheim’s efforts to improve such relations; Louchheims work in State Dept.’s Community Advisory Service 1964-1966; encouraging foreign service employees to go on domestic talk circuits; foreign…
Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Biographical information; First meeting with LBJ; first impressions of LBJ; establishment of National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities; effects of Vietnam War; not close to LBJ; controversy over Meredith Wilson; no connection with the White…
Oral history transcript, Lloyd N. Cutler, interview 1 (I), 4/12/1969, by William Helmer
Biographical information; role of lawyers in government service; Tightrope Committee/Federal Aviation Administration; service with OEO; Business Leadership Advisory Council; Job Corps; Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; opinion of LBJ's…