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Oral history transcript, Elliot Richardson, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
First awareness and first meeting with LBJ; on staff of Senator Leverett Saltonstall; LBJ on the Senate floor and handling Senate affairs; Lister Hill; National Defense Education Act; partisanship; Felix Frankfurter's law clerk; LBJ's relationship…
Oral history transcript, Javier Baz Manero, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
Contact with LBJ; Miguel Aleman; visit to the LBJ Ranch; Johnson and Kennedy visits to Mexico; LBJ's funeral; the ranch at Chihuahua
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
Impressions of LBJ as VP; State Dinner invitations; dancing with LBJ; expansive personality; use of LBJ abroad; LBJ's relationship with RFK; trip to Texas in 1963; John Connally; aftermath of assassination; moving from the White House; chandelier…
Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz
How Ed Weisl, Sr. got Wasserman involved with LBJ’s campaign in the 1950’s; 1960 presidential campaign; political involvement of entertainment industry executives; Arthur Krim; the 1964 presidential campaign; the President’s Club; 1964…
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Shoumatoff, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1973, by Joe B. Frantz
How Shoumatoff became a presidential portrait painter; planning with Mrs. Johnson the portraits of FDR, LBJ and Mrs. Johnson for the White House; painting portraits of LBJ, Luci and Lynda Bird; process of painting: photographs, sketches, number and…
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 7 (VII), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz
Jack Valenti; Senator Thomas Dodd and the Mite Company; the staff's responsibility to behave honorably; Lloyd Cutler and automobile companies; anti-trust laws; getting podiatry included in Medicare; the staff's relationship with constituents and the…
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; first association with LBJ in Congress; LBJ’s chief motivation and goals; 1943 and 1948 elections; Sam Rayburn; Charlie Murphy; oil/gas industry; Bob Kerr; Natural Gas Act of 1938; Senator Francis Case; Area Basin…
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; assassination; blacks in the State Department; civil rights progress; White House staff; LBJ and civil rights; administrative agencies; other duties; obstacles; White House Conference on Civil Rights; surveys of…
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; first meeting LBJ at the Ranch; Lady Bird’s kindness; breaking the story of JFK’s assassination; transferred to Washington in 1964; contacts and conversation with LBJ; LBJ’s operation to remove a polyp on his vocal…
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz
Contact with LBJ; assassination; tax issues; Wilbur Mills; comparing JFK and LBJ; CEA; War on Poverty; committee on Economic Impact of Defense and Disarmament; procedures; agriculture issues; 1964 campaign; Walter Heller; Wright Patman; LBJ's…
Oral history transcript, Henry Hall Wilson, interview 1 (I), 4/11/1973, by Joe B. Frantz
Character of House liaison in the JFK years; a memo on Medicare on the night of the JFK assassination; LBJ-JFK relationship; the Bobby Baker affair; agendas for the weekly leadership meetings; LBJ-JFK staff relationships; LBJ seldom called…
Oral history transcript, Myron R. Blee, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
VISTA Training program; Lady Bird Johnson's visit and commencement address to the first VISTA class; Office of Emergency Planning
Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; initial contact with LBJ; desegregation plans; 1956 Democratic National Convention; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 Democratic National Convention; Collins' selection and role as chairman of the convention; minority…
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
Education-related legislation in the 1950s and 1960s; Huitt's involvement in civil rights programs and the civil rights office within HEW; White House staff members with whom Huitt worked; difficulty coordinating the work of separate government…
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; Judge Ben B. Lindsey; Harold Ickes; Alvin Wirtz; FDR; LBJ techniques; Harry Truman; tidelands; civil rights; 1960 Democratic convention; Chapman's health; national lawyer's group for Johnson-Humphrey in 1964; conservation…
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 2 (II), 09/10/1972, by David G. McComb
How Frantz joined the National Historical Publications Commission; LBJ’s practice of allowing other people to announce good news; Nixon administration’s trouble finding Frantz’s replacement; Marietta Brooks; assembling an advisory board for his…
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb
Inviting LBJ to speak and meeting him at the 1962 Texas Council of Social Studies at the University of Texas; W.W. [Bill] Heath; Ray E. Lee; the NYA; I.B. Hand; UT students’ political awareness when Frantz attended UT; LBJ’s 1937 Senate race; the…
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 6 (VI), 8/18/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
The Sequoia; LBJ's assessment of Nixon; LBJ's comments on Martin Luther King; working on a tax surcharge speech on the Sequoia; staff members wanting access to the Sequoia for personal use; Camp David; visiting the Ranch; LBJ's office at the Ranch;…
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
How he met LBJ in 1935; LBJ’s ambitions and absorption with politics; LBJ as a new Congressman and loss of the Appropriations Committee appointment to Albert Thomas; Sam Rayburn and the Board of Education; rural electrification; Civil Rights Act of…
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 2 (II), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
Duties as Secretary, LBJ’s Vice Presidential days, Trips with Johnson, Fehmer’s opinion of LBJ’s relationships with the Kennedys, JFK’s Assassination and aftermath.
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; Judge Ben B. Lindsey; Harold Ickes; Alvin Wirtz; FDR; LBJ techniques; Harry Truman; tidelands; civil rights; 1960 Democratic convention; Chapman's health; national lawyer's group for Johnson-Humphrey in 1964; conservation…
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
LBJ’s civil rights interest; Sam E. Johnson; Ku Klux Klan issue in Texas legislature; farm to market roads; LBJ as secretary to Dick Kleberg; rural electrification; Russell Chaney; NYA; discussion with Rayburn regarding LBJ running for Senate in…
Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
Washington career background from 1951; contacts with LBJ when Senator; LBJ's relationship with Washington and White House press corps; LBJ's control and selection of Lady Bird's wardrobe; early days in Washington as correspondent; impressions of…
Oral history transcript, Dan H. Fenn, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/18/1972, by Paige E. Mulhollan
1960 Democratic National Convention; circumstances of working with JFK; duties; appointment and LBJ; impressions of Walter Jenkins; relations between JFK and LBJ's staffs; work with Tariff Commission during the LBJ Administration; LBJ's early meeting…
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
Richard Goodwin; Great Society speech; initiation of Great Society programs; major legislative acts; Everett Dirksen; Bill Moyers and his use of power; Horace Busby; Walter Jenkins; Valenti’s 'I sleep better because Lyndon Johnson is in the White…
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; how Huitt came to know LBJ in 1954; Huitt working under George Reedy; LBJ's work as Senate Minority Leader and effort to pull the Democratic Party together; argument between Senator William Knowland and LBJ regarding who…
Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
Candidacy for the Senate; first acquaintance with LBJ; Minority Leadership; Senate Club; FEPC and Tidelands; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
Early involvement with Senator Robert Kerr; first contact with LBJ; Sam Rayburn and Kerr; managing Kerr campaigns; Kerr's early interest in LBJ for president; LBJ's work for Oklahoma; organizing Oklahoma for LBJ; 1960 Democratic National Convention;…
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
Starting work for Marvin Watson; Jones’ work responsibilities; logging White House calls; LBJ cutting expenses; turning off the lights at the White House; reviewing FBI reports on prospective hires/appointees; LBJ’s desire to appear honest and…
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
How he came to Washington; LBJ and Little Congress; LBJ as House doorman when Secretary to Congressman Kelberg; “Fishbait” as Miller’s nickname; dedication of the Sam Rayburn Library in Bonham, Texas; Sam Rayburn and his relationship with LBJ;…
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
Foreign service career assignments: 1936 in the Pacific and later in Latin America; effect of Alliance for Progress in Ecuador; effect of Kennedy assassination on the Alliance; assignment as Ambassador to Venezuela; fishing agreement (12 mile limit)…
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
First meeting with LBJ in Washington, 1935 at Little Congress; closely associated in Democratic convention in 1952 and after; Mississippi vote for LBJ and presidential nomination in 1956; Kennedy-Kefauver race at 1956 convention; Adlai Stevenson…