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Oral history transcript, Clyde O. Martz, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

at that particular date has to be established by an entirely different crew of appraisers. These birds have to go into the Archives to get their information, and they're terribly expensive. Then, finally, after evaluation is determined, we have a third phase

Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 2 (II), 3/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

there and what the whole thing was about. M: He's the Foreign Minister? R: No, he's the Prime Minister--a very powerful and tough little bird who had indicated considerable independence on the foreign side and runs a very tight dictatorship on the domestic

Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the locals are afraid that it's going to take land off the tax roll. They're suspicious of whether it really will bring in enough tourism trade to offset this; they'd rather have a bird in the hand than two in the bush; they'd LBJ Presidential Library

Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 2 (II), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. They didn't really become personal except in his vice-presidential years as a result of the friendship of Lynda Bird with my daughter, Ann, about which I think I told you last time, until the blackout and the report on it, when he got to know me and some

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 5 (V), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was primarily on bird life and in the last few months the focus has been on what effect this has on man himself. In this way it's sort of indicative of the whole sweep of the conservation movement and the fact that it's taken on new dimensions in the last few

Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Frank Ikard, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 5 (V), 12/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

by their shots. From this vantage point of overlooking the steps in the front of the Capitol, we had something of a bird's eye view of at least these people leaving the House side ofthe Capitol. I was impressed, of course, at that time with the way that when he

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

very vividly because it's so belied by what has happened, even in recent days of the birth of Lynda Bird's daughter. It amuses me that--the girls are big and I remember the time he told us, when Lynda was about five, how he took her to Neiman-Marcus

Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

remember any conversation about that at all. MG: Do you remember talking about meeting MacArthur? IG: Oh, if he did it was not anything that was important. I think he might have made a statement that "Bird ran the office very well while I was gone

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Boyd L. Rasmussen, Jerry O'Callaghan, and Irving Senzel, group interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the tag in, and in turn receives a fee. This is a part of the license that the state issues, Then in turn the state puts some of their money back into development of water holes, development of guzzlers for small birds, small animals, development of some

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was reacting to the broad-brush, general, bird's-eye view picture, whereas the press very often--and with the inherent nature of its business, looking for the negative--would focus on the specific, the individual incident, the individual situation

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

know when I was conducting the briefing, we would hand out something like forty press releases, which would just inundate them, including a press release from the National Park Service about some new species of birds that were seen in some National Park

Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

merchants out of business, and would make it almost impossible to raise certain crops profitably . go up . And one finds that at Interior that the voice may You know, ''Pesticides are killing our birds and spoiling our recreation areas . " And since

Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

White House receptions, and somewhat better because my daughter, Ann, and Lynda Bird were classmates at the Cathedral School, became good friends and did a little dating together. When the people in their class at school had parties, the parents were

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Donald F. Hornig, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Johns on, and pointed ou t that thes e g uy s might take anoth er look a t these birds down in history; that these Texans weren't all that b a d; th at they were go ing to b e mi ssed in Was hing ton. Th a t is probably a typical reaction to a ma n

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/show/loh/oh 2 eX2.,;~?l(;, held ho.nu the speech to Hrs. Johnson there in his bedroom and say; in effec t; F: "Bird, ",hat do you think about this?" Hm.J long in advance did he start that speech? You might say five years in advance, in one sense

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

best. Kansas Ci ty. Thanks for reminding me of the telegram I am to send to II That had to· do with a meeting I was runni ng, "Bird joins me in best wishes. Sincerely . . . " Well, he did appoint a woman. I really tried to find the best woman I

Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, he called me and authDrized me to notify the Howard community. But the President carne out accompanied by Mrs. Johnson and Lynda Bird, and he made a tremendous impression. The people were so in tune with what he was saying that the whole thing just

Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 2 (II), 4/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

it made it worth doing too l that he did take it seriously . M: How many hours a day would you work? 0: I never really kept a record . I'm not an early bird . I got into the office 9, or 10 after 9, but rarely left before 8 :30 p .m . ; often took

Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 2 (II), 11/9/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was godawful. That's what they thought they were going to do, you see, they thought, "We'll kill two birds with one stone. We'll re-establish the strategic reserve, not just for Vietnam but for the whole world, and for more important areas than Vietnam

Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

they always disclaimed that. I never heard anybody say he was leaving because of Viet Nam. But it was a part in Moyers and Goodwin and others getting out. And I had stayed. And across the hall from me was John Roche, an extremely intelligent bird, one

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, James M. Quigley, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

the responsibility, said, "Jim, you're going to have to bird-dog this. Then in 1963 when the Clean Air Act passed, this was the time when Tony Celebrezze was there, so he said, "You pursue the air pollution control as well." So I was involved in these programs

Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

TWA C-47 school which was a big transport back in those days, the old gooney bird. Went from there, made two trips down to South America with TWA, picked up a few flying hours, and we just floated around and for a while they just sent us from there out

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)