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Oral history transcript, John Wildenthal, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; Alvin Wirtz; Senate office; Drew Pearson; excess profits tax; LBJ's techniques; Presidential ambitions; Preparedness Subcommittee; firing of Douglas MacArthur; racial issues; other Senate staffers
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
How Collier met LBJ at Sam Houston High School; Cliff Carter; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
Minnie Lee Pattillo Taylor, Lady Bird Johnson's mother; Mrs. Taylor's appearance and personality; the Brick House; Lady Bird Johnson's Aunt Effie; Lady Bird attending St. Mary's College in Dallas; the Taylor family when Lady Bird was very young; Mr.…
Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1975, by Elspeth D. Rostow
McNamara’s first contact with LBJ in 1960; assessment of Johnson’s personality and abilities; McNamara’s assessment of successes and failures of Defense Department while he was Secretary; relationship of Defense and State Departments; Congress…
Oral history transcript, Roman Pucinski, interview 1 (I), 12/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
Pucinski's political career; Pucinski's relationship with Sam Rayburn; LBJ's support for Pucinski in a 1972 Senate race against Charles Percy; allegations of misconduct against Charles Robb in Vietnam; a trip to Chicago with Vice President Johnson;…
Oral history transcript, Zephyr Wright, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; Wiley College; Dr. Melvin Tolson; CTJ and civil rights; LBJ is disappointed that Wright did not notice passage of the 1957 Civil Rights Act; LBJ complains that blacks are ungrateful to him; Robert Weaver, Roger Wilkins,…
Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
Jordan’s impressions/recollections of Senator Richard Russell; long hours worked by Senators Russell and LBJ; Jordan’s impression of LBJ as a 'very lofty' person; Senator Russell’s opposition to the 1957 Civil Rights Bill; Russell’s…
Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
Prokop's career history; LBJ's vice presidential staff and Prokop's duties; LBJ's dissatisfaction with his vice presidency; how President Kennedy's staff viewed LBJ and his staff; Kennedy staff's lack of appreciation for LBJ's talents; why Prokop…
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
First meeting with LBJ; NYA; Aubrey Williams; Congressional support for LBJ; Dillard Lasseter; John Carson; political apprenticeship of LBJ; Alvin Wirtz; Sam Rayburn; Abe Fortas; Helen Douglas; father figure to LBJ; Texas sort of expansiveness and…
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
1948 campaign; John Connally’s role; Lady Bird and LBJ as campaigners; fund raising; Senators Wirtz and Russell; FDR and his death; venison story; LBJ’s relationship with his employees; letter count; Glenn Stegall; Walter Jenkins; compassion for…
Oral history transcript, Paul H. Douglas and Emily Taft Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
Open conflicts between LBJ and Douglas; McCarthy censure; LBJ’s legislative skill; drafting the 1957 Civil Rights Bill; the influence HHH and LBJ had on each other; areas of cooperation between LBJ and Douglas; LBJ’s economic polices; truth in…
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
Tidelands legislation; admission of Alaska and Hawaii as states; East-West Center in Honolulu; space program; Senate committee assignments; Estes Kefauver, John Kennedy, and the Foreign Relations Committee; 1960 Democratic National Convention;…
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
Campaign contributions; Bobby Baker; labor leaders; Earle Clements; LBJ's campaign trail; Commission on the Status of Women; Eleanor Roosevelt; three consumer crises: advertisers, boycotts and truth in lending bill; Republican tricks; problems with…
Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; John Connally; 1941 Senate race; war years; 1960 presidential campaign; advancing; campaign trips; New York City; convention; Nixon; Texas politics; Alvin Wirtz; Johnson personality; Mrs. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 3 (III), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
Who LBJ called after Kennedy’s assassination, History of Doris Kearn and Johnson, 1964 campaign.
Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
JFK’s 1960 meeting with the greater Houston Ministerial Alliance; LBJ’s 1966 13-state campign trip for congressional candidates and its cancellation; President LBJ’s 1966 rally in Wilminton, Delaware; techniques of advancing a motorcade and a…
Oral history transcript, Eugene Williams and Helen Williams, interview 1 (I), 10/27/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
Observations of domestic life at the Ranch and in Washington; A. W. Moursund; Melvin Winters; Homer Thornberry; discrimination anecdotes; the Voting Rights Bill; Mack Hannah; Hobart Taylor, Dr. Givens, Bill Moyers; personalities of LBJ and CTJ; Ranch…
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
[For interviews 1 and 2] First impressions of LBJ; LBJ's visits to Kentucky Derby; the McCarthy censure; LBJ's powers of persuasion; LBJ's speaking engagements for Democratic candidates; 1960 campaign; how LBJ became VP candidate; Social Security…
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
Baker’s career in the Senate; LBJ as Senator; Taft-Hartley Act; Senator Russell; Senator Taft; Joe McCarthy; the Smith Amendment; Senator John Bricker; Senator Walter George; the Cloakroom
Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
Initial contact for appraisal work; earlier contacts with Johnsons; plan of approach to project; recommendations on donations of papers; values of papers of a president (LBJ’s specifically); procedure and technique; confidentiality; LBJ’s…
Oral history transcript, Wayne Aspinall, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
Impressions of LBJ's early Senate years; Alaskan Statehood Bill; Kennedy-Johnson campaign; Wilderness Bill; Redwood National Park; Department of the Interior land control; University of Colorado honorary degree; LBJ's reaction to upscale black…
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
Contacts with LBJ as Senator in 1958 while a budget officer for the State Department; LBJ's reactions to State Department's "guidance" for his foreign country visits as VP; LBJ's concern for good impressions by his party in foreign countries; LBJ's…
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
LBJ’s speech for Smithsonian celebration; International Education Act; world education; HEW; Civil Rights Act; Adam Clayton Powell; LBJ’s lifestyle after heart attack.
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
Met LBJ as a delegate when LBJ was Senate Majority Leader; October 1963 attack on JFK for sending helicopter pilots as advisers in Vietnam; deception practiced through; Gruening the first Senator to publicly oppose the War in Vietnam; Tonkin…
Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
Miller’s career history; choosing Cape Canaveral for space launches; work on space program with Vice President LBJ; space/aeronautics contracts to various businesses; thermal energy source; NASA and satellite communication; distance learning via…
Oral history transcript, Charles Evers, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
Evers' friendship with LBJ as VP and President; LBJ as Chairman of Equal Employment Commission for JFK; LBJ and Louis Martin at meeting of black leaders; Voters' Rights Bill signed into law; Bobby Kennedy's run for presidency; Senator James Eastland…
Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
The Civil Rights Commission; Storey’s work on a state commission to investigate the JFK assassination; interaction with the Warren Commission; Earl Warren investigating the site of the assassination; Jack Ruby’s sanity; Rudolph Hess’s sanity…
Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; LBJ’s 1948 congressional campaign; Mashman’s work as pilot of the helicopter provided by Bell Aircraft Corp.; impressions of LBJ; techniques in using the helicopter; visits to the Ranch and the White House; preparing…
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
First contacts with LBJ in 1953 in Texas campaigning; Johnson's role in Texas state politics in 1956; Sam Rayburn's selection of LBJ as favorite son in 1956; DOT (Democrats of Texas); contacts with LBJ in Senate; LBJ-Ralph Yarborough as senators;…
Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; Bean's educational background and notable people Bean grew up with; the first time Bean met LBJ; Bean's political career in the early 1940s and after his return from WWII; Bean's work as a Texas state legislator; working on…
Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
Meeting LBJ in 1936; the 1960 Democratic convention in Los Angeles; the role of the Michigan delegation in shaping the platform; LBJ's record on civil rights an impediment to nomination; Leonard Woodcock; LBJ as a candidate in Michigan; appointment…
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
Monetary policy, 1966-1968; tax increase discussions; Bill Martin; relationships of CEA with Federal Reserve System, Bureau of the Budget and Treasury; Wright Patman; Arthur Burns; LBJ's understanding of macro-economics; Vietnam; War on Poverty;…
Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
Early contacts with LBJ as a Congressman; relationship with Sam Rayburn; service under Eisenhower and Truman; LBJ’s friendship and loyalty; comments on the office of VP; LBJ’s sensitivity; the role of governors; Rockefeller’s comments on John…