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Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan

http://www.lbjf.org/txt/oh/oh-lbj/27500879-oh-abele-19700119-1-79-86.pdf
LBJ’s personal style and diplomacy in interviews and in informal public appearances; reactions of reporters to LBJ’s unpredictable schedules; Cuban Missile Crisis involvement; role as VP; personal enmity with Robert Kennedy; relations with press…

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker

http://www.lbjf.org/txt/oh/oh-lbj/27500879-oh-abellb-19690528-1-84-28.pdf
Early association of Johnson and Clement families; the Johnsons' wedding reception for Bess and Tyler Abell; Tyler Abell joins Johnson campaign; work at the DNC; joining Mrs. Johnson's staff; LBJ as Vice President; Mrs. Johnson as a wife and mother;…

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 2 (II), 6/13/1969, by T.H. Baker

http://www.lbjf.org/txt/oh/oh-lbj/27500879-oh-abellb-19690613-2-84-29.pdf
Mrs. Johnson as first lady; trips into poverty areas; Mrs. Johnson and speeches; Lynda and Luci during the presidency; 1964 campaign and train trip in the South; press on train trip flying Lady Bird Special; Mrs. Johnson's control and…

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker

http://www.lbjf.org/txt/oh/oh-lbj/27500879-oh-abellb-19690701-3-84-30.pdf
State dinners; various White House parties; work invovled in planning entertainment; Tyler Abell as chief of protocol; problems connected with Luci's wedding; guest lists; Festival of the Arts; entertainment at the White House; seating arrangements

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker

http://www.lbjf.org/txt/oh/oh-lbj/27500879-oh-abellt-19690508-1-00-23.pdf
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, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker

http://www.lbjf.org/txt/oh/oh-lbj/27500879-oh-abellt-19690529-2-00-24.pdf
Braestrup’s work as a journalist in Southeast Asia for the New York Times; New York Times coverage of Vietnam compared to Time magazine; how journalists covered Vietnam and the danger involved; how Braestrup became Washington Post Bureau Chief; Joe…

Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette

http://www.lbjf.org/txt/oh/oh-lbj/27500879-oh-abramm-19840320-1-94-5.pdf
Biographical information; how Abram met Richard Russell; Georgia’s county unit system; Russell and civil rights; Herman Talmadge; Charlie Bloch; Thurgood Marshall’s appt. to the Supreme Court; Supreme Court appointments; the Democratic…

Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 2 (II), 5/3/1984, by Michael L. Gillette

http://www.lbjf.org/txt/oh/oh-lbj/27500879-oh-abramm-19840503-2-94-6.pdf
Jack Valenti becoming President of the Motion Picture Association instead of Abram; MPA issues that concerned LBJ; integrationist vs. separationist civil rights movements; Berl Bernhard; A. Philip Randolph; problems at the White House Civil Rights…

Telephone conversation # 6872, sound recording, JUANITA ROBERTS and DEAN ACHESON, 2/24/1965, 11:47AM?

ACHESON ASKS IF LBJ, LADY BIRD JOHNSON WILL BE ABLE TO ATTEND MEMORIAL SERVICES AT JUSTICE FRANKFURTER'S APARTMENT; ROBERTS TELLS ACHESON THAT LBJ PLANS TO ATTEND; ACHESON ASKS ROBERTS TO CALL HIM TO CONFIRM LBJ'S PLANS SO HE CAN MAKE PROPER…

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz

http://www.lbjf.org/txt/oh/oh-lbj/27500879-oh-ackleyh-19730413-1-76-20.pdf
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, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz

http://www.lbjf.org/txt/oh/oh-lbj/27500879-oh-ackleyh-19740307-2-81-23.pdf
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, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)

http://www.lbjf.org/txt/oh/oh-lbj/27500879-oh-adaire-19690312-1-74-158.pdf
Biographical information; early impressions of LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Sam Rayburn; LBJ and foreign policy in the Eisenhower Administration; LBJ as majority leader; the 1960 election; the JFK legislative program; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution;…

Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz

http://www.lbjf.org/txt/oh/oh-lbj/27500879-oh-adamse-19700513-1-78-75.pdf
Start of involvement in politics with Democratic Party; entertaining in 1964 campaign; appearance with LBJ at Austin rally; suspicion that Hubert Humphrey's campaign was sabotaged; song selection for the different rallies; White House invitations;…

Telephone conversation # 6871, sound recording, JUANITA ROBERTS and EVA ADAMS, 2/24/1965, 10:57AM?

DISCUSSION OF COST AND SIZE OF MEDALS WITH PRESIDENTIAL SEAL; ROBERTS ORDERS MEDALS AND ASKS ADAMS TO SEND SOME MEDALS TO WH AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Ted Gittinger

http://www.lbjf.org/txt/oh/oh-lbj/27500879-oh-adamss-19850815-2-06-09.pdf
Adams' involvement in General William Westmoreland's libel suit against CBS following the airing of The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception; joint chiefs' awareness of order-of-battle inaccuracies; North Vietnamese use of mines and booby traps in…

Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger

http://www.lbjf.org/txt/oh/oh-lbj/27500879-oh-adamss-19840920-1-85-51.pdf
Adams' work for the CIA in Vietnam in 1965; identifying the enemy in Vietnam; self-defense and secret self-defense militiamen in Vietnam; Adams' involvement in Special National Intelligence Estimate 14.3-67: altered statistics reporting troop numbers…

Oral history transcript, Pat Adelman, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1971, by David G. McComb

http://www.lbjf.org/txt/oh/oh-lbj/27500879-oh-adelmanp-19710710-1-06-34.pdf
Adelman's educational background and former jobs; how Adelman got into the radio business; managing Kruger jewelry store; how Adelman became manager at KTBC radio; how Adelman met LBJ; LBJ's difficulty with public speaking; how Adelman brought KTBC…

Oral history transcript, James Adler, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette

http://www.lbjf.org/txt/oh/oh-lbj/27500879-oh-adlerj-19830223-1-99-01.pdf
Position in government during War on Poverty; Appalachian program; Kennedy

Oral history transcript, George D. Aiken, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan

http://www.lbjf.org/txt/oh/oh-lbj/27500879-oh-aikeng-19681010-1-74-67.pdf
First meeting with LBJ; the "Johnson treatment;" Johnson's leadership of the Senate; Johnson's relationship with Secretary Dulles; LBJ and foreign policy; bombing of North Vietnam; Gulf of Tonkin; Dominican Republic; coolness between Fulbright and…

Oral history transcript, Lonnelle Aikman, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz

http://www.lbjf.org/txt/oh/oh-lbj/27500879-oh-aikmanl-19690428-1-78-20.pdf
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…