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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, W. Sterling Cole, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
May 1945 Special Committee to study naval properties in the British Isles; Europe and North Africa; meeting with Eisenhower at "Little Red Schoolhouse;" Marshall Plan; North Africa; Munich; Dachau and Berchesgaden; relationship with LBJ
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's efforts to keep Goodfellow Field open in San Angelo, Texas; John Connally's Texas gubernatorial campaign in 1962; the parade celebrating John Glenn's orbiting of the earth in 1962; LBJ's involvement in the early space program; animosity between…
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 18 (XVIII), 12/18/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
A rush to get senators back to Washington D.C. to support a reorganization plan that transferred the Community Relations Service from the Commerce Department to the Justice Department; Mike Mansfield's reluctance to be aggressive in seeking support…
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 17 (XVII), 12/17/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
Russell Long's support for LBJ's programs and how Long compared to Harry Byrd, Sr., as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee; tax increases to help pay for the Vietnam War; Winston Prouty's and Vance Hartke's proposed amendments to change Social…
Oral history transcript, Edward Clark, interview S-I, 12/15/1986, by Robert Dallek
How Clark met LBJ; how Governor James Allred helped LBJ run for Congress in 1937; campaign costs in 1937; LBJ's support for FDR; fundraising for LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Brown and Root; W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel's victory over LBJ in 1941; Lady…
Oral history transcript, Stanley L. Greigg, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; Greigg's congressional campaign in 1964; the Feed-Grains program; Democratic Party support for Greigg's campaigns in 1964 and 1966; how Greigg gained a seat on the House Agriculture Committee; a vote involving whether to…
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 16 (XVI), 11/21/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
John Gronouski's appointment as ambassador to Poland after being U.S. postmaster general; the beautification stamp; a Post Office Department recruiting plan for college graduates; Civil Service regulations and hiring practices; a training program for…
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
O'Brien's swearing-in ceremony as a U.S. postmaster general in Hye, Texas; William Manchester's book Death of a President; Springfield, Massachusetts' O'Brien Day in November 1965; speculation that O'Brien would run for the Senate in Massachusetts…
Oral history transcript, Mamie Allison, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1986, by Christie L. Bourgeois
Personal relationship with LBJ; LBJ and his family; LBJ as a young boy and relationship with his parents; early relationship with Alvin Wirtz; Allison's first meeting with Lady Bird; memory of Lady Bird as very shy; days at the Ranch
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's and Reedy's assessment of Senator John Tower from Texas; Pakistan President Ayub Khan’s personality; LBJ's vice presidential trips to Berlin, to Sweden for Dag Hammarskjold's funeral, and to Paris; LBJ's lack of familiarity with other…
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
Excise tax reduction; raising the discount rate in 1965; Robert McNamara's and Charles Schultze's misrepresentations of defense expenditures; Barr's involvement in the opening of a bank in Vietnam; the effect of U.S. involvement in Vietnam on the…
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 14 (XIV), 9/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
The Higher Education Act of 1965; creating the Teacher Corps to address inequality in education; proposals for a loan guarantee program and tuition tax credit; separation of church and state as it relates to education legislation; O'Brien's opinion…
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 13 (XIII), 9/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
The Water Quality Act and Clean Air Act; the difference between passage of legislation and the administration of programs related to the legislation; the role of automobile makers toward improving air quality; whether clean air and water should be…
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 2 (II), 8/14/1986, by Ted Gittinger
The Elysee Accords in 1953; the North/South division of Vietnam and resulting changes in leadership; Ngo Dinh Diem's early work as the first president of South Vietnam; opposition to Diem by 1960; the Can Lao Party and Ngo Dinh Nhu; methods of…
Oral history transcript, Ruth Booker, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1986, by Christie L. Bourgeois
Biographical information; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Martin; school in Johnson City; childhood memories of LBJ; Rebekah Johnson's desire for LBJ to attend college; George Johnson; Sam Johnson; Booker's mother loaning LBJ $100; living in Houston with LBJ…
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 12 (XII), 7/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
Efforts to enlist the help of Katharine Graham and the Washington Post staff to get support for D.C. home rule; LBJ's support for House Rules Committee reform that would help the liberal members of the House; the regional medical centers program and…
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 11 (XI), 7/24/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
Optimism in the LBJ Administration going into the 89th Congress in 1964 with a large Democratic majority; Medicare and education as legislative priorities; the powerful alliance of Republicans and southern Democrats; O'Brien's awareness of elected…
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener
The Public Health Services Act; personal involvement of congressmen and senators; division of mental health and mental retardation provisions; procedures in drafting and revising a bill; OMB's involvement; various individuals involved; testifying of…
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 10 (X), 6/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
Lyndon Johnson's (LBJ) concern that the 1964 presidential campaign plan was not being carried out and insistence that O'Brien get involved; O'Brien's regional campaign status meetings; how LBJ's campaign compared to Barry Goldwater's; the power of…
Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
Vice President LBJ’s meeting with black cabinet, resulting in blacks helping with Democrats by distribution of literature through barber shops and beauty shops, use of radio, the press, and the influence of black ministers, especially Marshall…
Oral history transcript, Marjorie Lawson, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
Lawson's work for John F. Kennedy in 1958-1959; gaining support for JFK among African American delegates; Kennedy's announcement that LBJ would be the vice-presidential nominee; Mary McLeod Bethune's opinion of LBJ; Lawson's recommendation to Kennedy…
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
Barr's work with FDIC; bringing the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Reserve System and the FDIC together under one agency; James Saxon; controversy surrounding revenue bonds; Saxon's attempts to deregulate the banking system; problems with a San…
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener
Conversion of Federal Security Agency to HEW; observations on Eisenhower; biographical information; early recollections of FSA; the Hill Burton Act; reflections on working on legislation over the years; memories of working on Medicare; the…
Oral history transcript, Harold Fleming, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1986, by Michael Gillette
Daniel Patrick Moynihan's involvement in the White House "To Fulfill These Rights" conference; Moynihan's report "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action;" deciding who would be invited to speak at the conference; Fleming's career and how it…
Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
Involvement with Civil Rights Commission; assessment of individual members; aims and achievements of the Commission; impression of Clarence Mitchell; LBJ, the White House and the Commission; interaction with state civil rights commission; the quota…
Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
Origin of Task Force on Agriculture and Rural Life; LBJ's interest; Opportunity Homestead proposal and its objectives; extending War on Poverty into rural areas; Rural Community Development Service; problems of rural poor in cities; inadequacy of…
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 3 (III), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
Congressional relations with the Department of the Treasury during the Kennedy administration; Charls Walker; Barr's duties under the Department of the Treasury; Larry O'Brien; conflict between the Department of the Treasury and other departments;…
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 6 (VI), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ’s feelings about transition from majority leader to Vice President, LBJ’s call to Conrad Hilton to arrange for a hotel room for an African diplomat, his attitude toward travels as Vice President and his approach to diplomacy, search by the…
Oral history transcript, Berl Bernhard, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
Bernhard being asked to organize a White House conference on civil rights; problems with conference planning; Morris Abrams, William T. Coleman and Benjamin Heinemann as co-chairmen of the conference; planning session for the conference; LBJ's…
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
John F. Kennedy's (JFK) plans for the 1964 presidential campaign before his death; Barry Goldwater's visit to Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) after the 1964 Republican National Convention; O'Brien's involvement in LBJ's 1964 presidential campaign; October 1964…
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
Assessing the work of congressional liaison staff from various departments; the importance of department and agency heads in promoting the president's programs; the importance of congressional liaison work; Nicholas Katzenbach of the Justice…
Oral history transcript, William Gorham, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener
Biographical information and his work at the Department of Defense with the military pay system, the draft, and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW); problems in HEW management; Gorham's and his staff's duties; evaluation of HEW…